City, school meetings, green home tour - "Sun Suburbs Today" webcast - Monday, Aug. 17, 2009

The Brooklyn Park City Council will meet tonight for its regular meeting at city hall at 7 p.m.

Anoka-Hennepin School Board meets with its facility use taskforce tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Education Services Center in Coon Rapids. The taskforce will present its recommendations for possible school closings for the 2010-2011 school year, but the board won't take any action on any proposals.

An estimated 800 Cooper High School alums showed up Aug. 14 at the school in New Hope to reminisce about a beloved retired District 281 football coach and drama teacher who died in a motorcycle accident in Otter Tail County Aug. 11.
Ertwin Jones-Hermerding, 62, was remembered by almost two dozen alums, many choking back tears, who stepped up to a microphone to relay funny stories about "Herm." A continuous slide show played in the lobby of the school as alumni filed in and signed a guestbook. The stage in the auditorium was adorned with a single large floral bouquet, bearing a card that said, "From your adoring students." Votive candles in the orange and blue school colors lined the edge of the stage.
A memorial service for Jones-Hermerding was Aug. 15 at his lake home in Ottertail, Minn. A second memorial service is 7 p.m. tomorrow in the auditorium at Cooper High School, 8230 47th Ave. N., New Hope.
Memorials to Jones-Hermerding are preferred to Children's Home Society of MN, Cooper High School Theater and Perham Community Theater.

Built by Hennepin Technical College students and owned by the city of Brooklyn Park a "green" home is for sale on Kyle Avenue in Brooklyn Park. Awaiting its Minnesota GreenStar rating, the home includes seven bedrooms, a porch, deck, three-car garage and more. Let's take tour with Marjorie Mangine who's with the city of Brooklyn Park in this first of a two part series.

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