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Arden Hills' former mayors: Where they are now (Part 11)
<br /> Arden Hills has had ten mayors since due to a job move out of the state.Little sary Golden Celebration this year.
<br /> its incorporation(then as a village)in else is known about him,but those Henry died in 1983.His memory is
<br /> 1951.Of our former nine mayors,five are active in village affairs recall later preserved in the naming of
<br /> still living.This is the second of two arti- reading of his death. Crepeau Nature Preserve on
<br /> cles,the first of which(April issue of Bob Nethercut,now a resi- Benton Way,off Harriet
<br /> Arden Hills Notes)was primarily about dent of Shoreview,was a Avenue west of Lexington.
<br /> Bob Woodburn(1981-1988)as the only Councilmember appointed to Charles Crichton was
<br /> former mayor still an Arden Hills resident. complete Kennedy's term as elected to succeed Crepeau in
<br /> Walter Cummings was one of the group mayor,following which he was reelected to 1981,but served only five months before
<br /> that organized the incorporation of Arden a regular term that would have been for the resigning due to moving out of Arden
<br /> Hills as a village that took place officially on years 1967 and 1968.However,he Hills.He now resides in Burnsville and is
<br /> February 14,1951,and was the first mayor. resigned at the end of 1967 due to his active in public affairs there as a member
<br /> He took office on March 15 of that year,was appointment to the planning staff of the of the city council.
<br /> reelected once,and served until his death in Metropolitan Council,which he felt might This brings us to Bob Woodburn,
<br /> February 1954 while in office.His memory represent a conflict of interest.Nethercut subject of the previous article,who was
<br /> is preserved in the name of one of our most retired from the Met Council in 1989 but first appointed to Crichton's unexpired
<br /> popular parks.Cummings Park,between has remained active in local public affairs, term and was subsequently elected three
<br /> Wyncrest Court and Lexington Avenue,is serving for several years as president of the times,the last of which followed the may-
<br /> second only to Peny Park in size,and Metropolitan Senior Federation,being oral term being changed to four years.
<br /> accommodates a wide variety of sports and president of the 100-member Kiwanis Club However,this was interrupted by his
<br /> other recreational activities. of North Suburban Golden K St.Paul for looming retirement from medical practice
<br /> Appointed to replace Cummings as 1994-95,and now president of the Ramsey and his 1987 purchase of a business in
<br /> mayor on March 30, 1954,was then- County Parks&Trails Association. Plymouth,Minnesota,prompting his res-
<br /> Council-member Bob Ashbach.He was Dr.Robert Bjorndahl was appointed ignation on December 12, 1988.
<br /> subsequently reelected to regular two-year to complete Nethercut's term and was sub- Tom Sather was appointed to succeed
<br /> terms four times and served until January sequently elected to a regular two-year Woodburn as of January 3, 1989.He was
<br /> 2, 1963.His son Dan and daughter-in-law term.However,he resigned after one year reelected for the regular term of 1991-
<br /> Laurie still live on Oak Avenue.Dan is due to moving to Grant,Minnesota,where 1994,but resigned in mid-1994 upon mov-
<br /> cochair of the Events Task Force that's he still resides.He continues to have a den- ing to Victoria,Minnesota,near Chaska.
<br /> planning Arden Hills' anniversary Golden tal practice on Como Avenue in St.Paul. He still lives there and is a self-employed
<br /> Celebration this year,and Laurie owns Henry Crepeau,Arden Hills' longest business consultant.It was while he was
<br /> the Vine and Branches art gallery/store in serving mayor thus far,was appointed to mayor that a plan to locate a new city hall
<br /> Arden Plaza.Mayor Ashbach was also replace Dr.Bjorndahl on January 12,1970, on a portion of the TCAAP(Arsenal)
<br /> well known later as a state representative and was subsequently elected or reelected property first surfaced in explicit terms.
<br /> (1963-66) and state senator(1967-1982) five times,serving until January 2, 1981. Sather's appointed successor for the
<br /> and as founder and president of the He was also a founding member of the remainder of 1994 was our present
<br /> Roseville State Bank(first located in Har Lake Johanna Improvement Society and of mayor,Dennis Probst,who had been a
<br /> Mar Mall and now part of the Firstar-U.S. the Arden Hills Island Beach Club,and Councilmember since 1992.Probst was
<br /> Bank merger).He died in 1990. was active in the Arden Hills Sportsman's subsequently reelected for the regular
<br /> D.F.Kennedy,attorney for an insur- Club.His daughter LoAnn still resides four-year terms of 1995-98 and 1999-
<br /> ance company in the Twin Cities,was with her family in the home on Siems 2002.The next mayoral election will thus
<br /> elected to succeed Ashbach and reelected Court,and is cochair of the Events Task be in the fall of 2002,for the four years
<br /> once,but resigned as of January 3, 1966, Force planning Arden Hills 50th anniver- beginning in January 2003.
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<br /> I •A Golden Celebration
<br /> n •Business Briefs
<br /> S •Maintenance in the City
<br /> POSTAL CUSTOMER
<br /> t •Recent Council Actions
<br /> d •Arden Hills'Former Mayors (Part II)
<br /> e • Stafford Resigns
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