People - Roseville Review

Roseville's Central Park is set to get a brand new playground and the city is hoping that community members — kids, parents, grandparents and whole families — will help make it happen.

Marie Oftelie wasn't really looking for something to do last May when she stopped by the Lyngblomsten volunteer display at Roseville City Hall after a talk sponsored by the Roseville ACT on Alzheimer's project.

But her sister-in-law had just moved to Lyngblomsten care center in St. Paul because of memory issues, and she was intrigued by the idea of helping out at one of the day programs staffed by volunteers for people with memory loss that Lyngblomsten supervises at nine Twin Cities area churches.

His duck will adorn hunting validation again, after two decades

A couple decades after Roseville resident and wildlife artist Ed DuRose first won the Department of Natural Resources' Minnesota Migratory Waterfowl Stamp contest, he's done it again for 2016.
The first time DuRose won was in 1994 with an image of a ring-necked duck. This time around his painting of an American wigeon did the trick.

Andrea Hamre from Roseville, Minnesota, a doctoral student in the Planning, Governance and Globalization program at Virginia Tech was awarded 2015 Eisenhower Fellowship.

The Grateful Table goes with the flow in Roseville
Just more than a month and a half after opening their bakery and cafe, The Grateful Table in Roseville, Christine and Mary Robideaux say they are taking cues from the neighborhood on what to do next.
Christine says people want their chocolates and desserts on rainy days, so they plan accordingly. It's tough to find a good boxed lunch in the area, she says, so they started selling them.

Boy Scouts Troop 150 honored seven new Eagle Scouts at a special Court of Honor at Falcon Heights United Church of Christ on July 13.

The fair runs deep into September because of a late Labor Day, spanning Aug. 27 to Sept. 7. There is one new feature that can help you dodge some lines.

As the school year nudges back onto students' and parents' collective radars — it begins Sept. 8 — school supplies and school clothes and other essentials need to be rounded up.

The Roseville Fire Department held a control burn exercise on Aug. 1 at 311 County Road B. on a more than 150-year-old house. The house was set to be demolished to make way for six new homes. (Linda E. Andersen/Review)

Families gathered at the Community Park in Falcon Heights to eat ice cream and listen to tunes on July 23 during the annual Falcon Heights Ice Cream Social. Games and a bunch of other fun activities were part of the event.  (photos by Linda E.