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Students like to take ownership and and my
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research projects on display at

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a local Ramsey community college more on
the first ever Oscars event held this week

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plus several residents displaced after
an early morning apartment fire what

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authorities say is to blame but for me the
number one focus is driving and driving

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alone not the phone a state wide crackdown
on distracted driving that topsy turvy

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a news this Friday April fifteenth two
thousand and sixteen. Thanks for joining us

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it's one of the fastest growing dangers
on our roads and motorists texting while

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driving and if you aren't careful
you could be seeing the lights of

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a squad car in the rearview mirror. Joins
us now with more on the crackdown in

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Jordan. Stephen Karen more than three hundred
law enforcement agencies are working

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overtime to enforce Minnesota's
distracted driving law as a part of

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a statewide campaign to crack down on

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a growing problem he was texting bold we've
all seen it and many of us are guilty

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of doing it texting while driving they're
not paying attention or we've been in

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their lane they're crossing the center
line of the fog line and it is just like

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you're falling intoxicated driver the state's
current distracted driving in forcing

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campaign is driven by statistics law
enforcement officials saw sixty five percent

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increase in the number of distracted driving
citations issued from two thousand and

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fourteen to twenty fifteen you know I'm
stopping you to do it all texting typically

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takes your eyes off the road for four
point six seconds at fifty five miles per

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hour that's like driving an entire football
field blindfolded the consequences are

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tragic when you get these accidents or kill
people or you know change your life for

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every with a serious injury just because
someone's got there. Trying to read

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a text or send

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a text or email and they're trying to
drive your car according to the U.S.

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Government website for distracted driving
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approximately six hundred sixty thousand
drivers are using cell phones or

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manipulating electronic devices while
driving with related crashes killing nearly

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thirty two hundred people in the U.S.

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In two thousand and fourteen you are the
current campaign they have already known

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for texting while driving or distracted
driving law enforcement officials across

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Minnesota will be looking for distracted
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the dangers of texting while driving All
right Dr safety profile and we'll put it

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away bring your purse or sort of off until
you pull off the road or some Be safe OK

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All right. The Minnesota Department of
Public Safety wants to remind motorists that

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it is illegal for anyone under the age
of eighteen to use a cell phone in

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a car except to call nine. One one in
the case of an emergency now if you are

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caught texting while driving you are fifty
dollars fine for your first offense and

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two hundred seventy five dollars for
subsequent offenses. All right thank you

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Jordan occupants of four units at

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a Coon Rapids apartment building
had been displaced following

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a fire this week firefighters were called
to the Pine Point apartments on handsome

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Boulevard early Thursday morning after

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a tenant spotted the deck on fire the
flames made their way up the side of the

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building and into the roof causing structural
damage to four units Investigators

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say

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a discarded cigarette fell between the boards
of the deck and weather conditions including

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strong winds helped fan the flames.
Make sure you have your cigarettes.

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A metal container metal bucket with sand
to make sure you're with the sand and also

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it's important to clean up right once

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a week to where you have twenty thirty
cigarettes or that's way too many you need

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to get that. Out Fortunately nobody was
hurt but residents had to evacuate the

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building for several hours
damages estimate at a minimum of

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a quarter million dollars
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a month before occupants can return to the
affected units the damage has already

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been done but police continue to
investigate an apparent prank that caught

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employees of

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a Coon Rapids Burger King off guard employees
of the business proceeded to smash

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out the windows of the business on North
Pole of our Around one thirty Friday night

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after receiving

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a prank call the collar allegedly told the
manager they needed to break the windows

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to relieve the pressure of explosive gas
inside the business one employee suffered

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a minor cut while breaking the windows
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departments would never call

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a residence or business to ask them to take
action of any kind similar pranks have

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been told on other businesses around the
country police surveillance photos lead to

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the arrest of

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a man believed to be responsible for two
armed robberies in Coon Rapids the latest

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incident happened just after ten Monday
night at the Marathon Gas Station on

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crooked leg below. A man entered the gas
station pulled out the gun and demanded

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money he fled with the cash and

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a search of the area turned up empty
Investigators believe it's the same man

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responsible for an armed robbery at go for

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a gas on Easter Road that happened March
twenty fifth A reward is being offered

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with anyone for information is call Detective
Mike plank ors seven six three seven

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six seven six five five nine and Old Street
Mall the Coon Rapids Blaine border is

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getting

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a make over recently Cruz began tearing
down the space in Oak Park Plaza that used

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to house Jubilee foods and crest cleaners
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so they are making way for

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a new forty five thousand square foot
come food store which will be under

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construction by this summer no date has
been set for the stores opening trial and

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properties investing about twelve million
dollars to renovate the center which is

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currently almost seventy percent vacant
good news for pastry lovers in the north

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metro last Sunday hons bakery opened its
third location in the Twin Cities of

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Highway sixty five in one hundred fifth
Avenue in the city of Blaine the bakery is

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open seven days a week
from six A.M. To six P.M.

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Baker is brought back to life just over two
years ago when Kelly Olson brought the

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old bought the old building on Fifth
Avenue in a NO her second location opened

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a year later in or are now well years worth
of research projects were on display in

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Coon Rapids this week dozens of students
at an OK Ramsey community college showcase

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studies on wildlife food origins and
physical therapy methods in the first ever

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Oscar's event Seaton's Jo Nelson found out
what went into the work in the projects

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and how students shared them with the
public. The question I guess is where we

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usually came from my project was raising
money for the all timers association we

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accept poetry from all across the nation
for the first time Anelka Ramsey community

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college students from all the partment had

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a chance to present months if not years of
findings at the outstanding scholarship

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creative activities and research
symposium Wednesday last year we had

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a small. Symposium just specific to the
biology department but there are so many

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cool projects going on in other departments
that we need to take span in college

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why this year we're hoping it becomes an
annual event sixty five students messages

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were delivered through cardboard screens
and voices. I'm just so proud of

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our students here and all the work that
they've done and how professional they are

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the presentation of it for an ethics class
project ultra runner Andrew McGeary has

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decided to do

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a twelve hour run to raise awareness and
funds for all timers disease he saw his

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grandmother suffer through it eventually
losing her battle with the disease just

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because something seems impossible doesn't
just mean it is he says the result was

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seventy five miles ran an eight hundred
dollars raise for research second year

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student Tyler Lang says he appreciated the
chance to offer his findings on Wolf and

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coyote hybrids and it's really good to
have this kind of situation where students

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can just come around and ask questions
and to expose people just to science

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concepts or ideas or basic understanding
try to expand their horizons we see

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students that get engaged and that continue
on the semester when they first become

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involved that take on of

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a piece of ownership and continue that as
part of direct research or independent

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research at Oka Ramsey community
college join Nelson C.T.

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And news. The Oscars event features students
from seven different departments and

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hopes to grow the research showcase and
make it an annual event their students I

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don't know Qur'an Z.

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Are taking the stage for their spring
play this weekend. More. Students

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are performing the comedy the foreigner
this weekend and next it's written by

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American playwright
Larry Shu and is set in

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a fishing lodge in rule
Georgia The story centers on

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a pathologically shy young man overcome
by fear at the thought of making

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conversation with strangers so

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a friend of his tells everyone he's from
an exotic foreign country and speaks no

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English that's when the hilarity
ensues happen say if it's any threat

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a belief on night of entertainment but
it also be something that they will talk

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about in their car on the way home about
the serious side of it you can catch the

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foreigner tonight and Saturday night and
again April twenty first twenty second and

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twenty third at UNO Graham Z. The
show starts at seven thirty P.M.

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Tickets can be purchased in advance at the
college bookstore or at the door on the

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night of the performance the Coon Rapids
Ice Center is gearing up for an annual

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tradition that celebrates the accomplishments
of local skaters this year's ice

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fantasy show will run from April twenty
first through the twenty fourth the see the

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theme rather is skating through
Candyland the program features

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a variety of skating performances set
to music as well as the popular Father

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Daughter number skaters range in age from
four years to adult there will also be

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several guest performers tickets can
be purchased at the door prior to each

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performance for more information log on
to Coon Rapids Ice Center dot com Also

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coming up the green Expo which will take
place Saturday April twenty third from

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nine to two at the National Sports Center
the green Expo is designed to give the

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public

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a better understanding of what sustainability
really means and looks like local

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businesses environmental experts and others
will be on hand with information and

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resources there's also going to be some
use sports gear up for grabs admission is

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free that's

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a good time lots of stuff this time of
year and that is all right thanks for

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joining us we'll see you again next week.