South-West Review -News

A bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL - Inver Grove Heights) to create tough criminal penalties against e-mail spammers passed a final committee hurdle this week and was sent to the House floor to await a vote by the entire Minnesota House.

Gabriel Chang, a sixth-grader at Inver Grove Heights Middle School, recently earned a perfect score in the second meet of this year’s WordMasters Challenge - a national language arts competition entered by over 225,000 students annually.

Jerry and Catherine Linville of Longview, Texas, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lily Marlette Aguilar, to Stephen Edward Pedersen, son of Marcy Pedersen and the late Edward Pedersen of St. Paul, Minn.

Kelly Driscoll, formerly from Inver Grove Heights, and Kevin Metz, formally of Truman, Minn., would like to announce their engagement as of December 2005. Parents of Kelly Driscoll are Verna Hawkinson of Brainerd and Paul Driscoll of Inver Grove Heights.

Eighth-grader Adiv Paradise from Heritage Middle School (School District 197) competed in the Metro Area Spelling Bee on Thursday, March 23. The competition took place at the Science Museum of Minnesota in Downtown St. Paul.

Several finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards will take part in a panel discussion and read excerpts from their books at the Dakota County Wescott Library on Tuesday, April 25, at 7 p.m.

The books are in the “popular fiction” category and include:

Easter is here, effectively ending the war of the Peeps that took place in St. Paul’s city hall last month.

As anticipated, LeVander Estates is attracting prospective buyers from South St. Paul and surrounding neighborhoods, filling a demand for new life-cycle housing.

Being stalked by hungry polar bears and followed by more than a dozen friendly penguins?

It’s all in a day’s work for arctic explorer Ann Bancroft, who spoke to the student body at Salem Hills Elementary April 11.