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<br />lid supw.emetgeocY .as part of plowing experiment
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<br />"'~ . The blast was part of the first experi-
<br />,:":".' 'mental use of sirens to alert residents
<br />!18t;: '. that 8 snow emergency was being
<br />i2.~'~ . ..declared. The sirens: were previously
<br />Ii~ .,.:' ',used only in emergenc1~ such as tornado
<br />~~o:"/.".warnings or for civil de'ense tests.
<br />"~;...;. . The season's first snow emergency was
<br />u:..;':. ,Called. after a S.1nch snoWfall during rusb
<br />"I.: hour Monrlay rooming.
<br />: ~.;<: _ Abbott, who has lived in Sl Paul for
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<br />'OE ROSSI/PIONEER PRESS
<br />tI1t with son louie, 7, during a news confer-
<br />lis candidacy for governor. In the background
<br />5. Rep. T1m Penny, who Introduced Mondale.
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<br />en. Ted Mondale
<br />~ governor's race
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<br />13 years, is one of many residerits per-
<br />plexed by the sirens, which were sounded
<br />at both 5 and 6 p.m. by the Fire Depart-
<br />ment in southwest 81. Paul to alert resi.
<br />dents that night plow routes would. be
<br />cleared starting at 9 p.m.
<br />Day routes are scheduled for plowing
<br />at 8 a.m. today. Parking is p.rohibited
<br />until the snow has been plowed to the
<br />C".u'b, the St. Paul Public Works Depart-
<br />meDtsaid.
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<br />. . <~~'We.:hait" 1kee~;:~i!.'.dau91f...,:~tQ.:
<br />to see what was ... .iIo, "I, Tim But- . <
<br />ler, fire commwi1~tiODS~~ehief for tbe
<br />city. "I guess we have to do . better jotl
<br />of getting the message out 10 people-"
<br />About 40 resident.s, most from ttb,!
<br />Highland Park area, called thJe F'ir"
<br />Department's seven-digit emergemcJ
<br />Dumber, Butler said.
<br />Butler said several city agen-ciea,
<br />including the Fire and Public WTorlLs
<br />departments, will evaluate the impact ail
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<br />Downtown S1. Paul pioneers
<br />were left out of Lawson deal
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<br />. Longtime merchants
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<br />evicted, feel mistreated
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<br />Louise LeClaire knows precisely when
<br />she and ber partners opened their Blue.
<br />Ribbon Deli in downtown Sl Paul. It was
<br />the day she watched the tumbleweed .
<br />blow down Fifth street,
<br />"Honest to God, it was a tumbleweed,"
<br />she recalls. "I thought I'd gotten myself
<br />into a Clint Eastwood movie."
<br />What Louise and ber partners got
<br />themselves mto three years ago was a
<br />city in its doldrums, at its low point, a
<br />time when the mention of the words liSt
<br />Paul" evoked rude laughter.
<br />Louise bad gotten herself into a down-
<br />town that was a civic embarrassment,
<br />and adding insult to Injury, the Blue Rib-
<br />bon was slapped with more than S800 in .
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<br />parking tickets
<br />erroneously and
<br />insensitively issued
<br />to them in 1995
<br />while they used a
<br />loading zone just
<br />to open the restau-
<br />'ranl Welcome to
<br />Sl Paul.
<br />It was as if the
<br />gods were plottiDg
<br />agaiDst their suc-
<br />cess, Louise says.
<br />But now, three
<br />years later, the
<br />Blue Ribbon Deli on Fifth Street is a
<br />success, so muCh so that Louise and her
<br />partners are at last making 'a living at it,
<br />enough of a success so that tbe deli
<br />employs 18 and was CODSidertng an ice
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<br />past won't be good enough for the next
<br />century," the 4()...year...old Mondale said
<br />be would seek his party'S" endorsetnent
<br />but plans to nm in the September prima-
<br />ry, wbich wUI decide who beads the tick-
<br />et this year.
<br />Seated in the audience at the Capitol
<br />news conference were former Vice Pres-
<br />Ident Walter Mondale and Joan Mondale,
<br />who carefully remained out of the spot-
<br />light during their son's announcement.
<br />The former vice president and pres1den.
<br />Ua1 candidate would say on}J. "We are
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<br />Neighbors Oppose development plan
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<br />. Roseville dispute is
<br />a replay of old flap
<br />UNDA OWEN STAFf WRITER
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<br />T be Roseville Planning Commission
<br />will hear public comments Wednesday on
<br />a controversial reqllest to change the
<br />city's comprebensive plan for an office
<br />development nortb of the Ramsey County
<br />
<br />~~~wbUld-be deve)oper, Everest
<br />Development Ltd., has not made a spe-
<br />cific building proposal for the 3.2 resi-
<br />dential acres it owns on the east side of
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<br />Hamllne Avenue
<br />south of Minnesota
<br />36. But the
<br />Roseville firm bas Propoeed office
<br />submitted a "pre. campIex
<br />liminary, conceptual
<br />site p)an" for a three-story, 51,000-
<br />square-foot office building.
<br />Meanwhile, neighbors to the east of the
<br />proposed redeve)opment area have sub-
<br />mitted a petition asking the city not to
<br />change the designation of the property
<br />from medium..clensity residential to limit-
<br />ed business.
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