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Silent Auction Items Wanted

Carver-on-the-Minnesota, Inc. Silent Auction Items Wanted

The nonprofit group Carver-on-the-Minnesota, Inc. will be holding a ‘Silent Auction’ in conjunction with the Carver Lions Pork Chop Dinner at the Carver Village Hall on Friday, April 25, 2014 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Auction items are now being solicited and can include such items as event tickets, dinner certificates, antiques, artwork, craftwork, household goods, services, novelty baskets, craft beers, lawn and garden items, sporting goods, liquors, etc. It’s a great opportunity to showcase and advertise businesses, products, and business locations, while at the same time benefiting the Carver area.

Donated items are tax deductible, and auction proceeds go directly to area benefit. Current focus is on historical markers and kiosks along trails, area heritage tourism, local economic development, and the rebuilding of the lost Victorian Pavilion in Riverside Park, destroyed in a 1925 tornado.

Donated items may be dropped off during normal business hours at Carver Country Flowers and Gifts at 109 Third Street East in downtown Carver. For questions or item pickups contact John at 952-361-3149 or Annette at 952-681-7582.

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Now Hiring School Bus Drivers

We are now hiring part-time school bus drivers for our Chaska Garage. This is an ideal opportunity for college students, retirees, stay-at-home parents, self employed individual, and people looking for second jobs or extra income.

$250 sign on bonus $500 sign on bonus (for fully licensed school bus drivers). Must be able to pass pre-employment drug test and dot physical. No DUIs or Felonies. No Experience necessary must be able to pass permits for class B License which consist of school bus, general knowledge, passenger, and air brake. We will train. $13.65 an hour to start / DOE. Training begins weekly.

Please apply in person at:
Positive Connections School Bus
460 N Hickory Street
Chaska, MN 55318 952-361-0899

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Artist Help Wanted

Nonprofit Carver-on-the-Minnesota, Inc., the Carver Heritage Preservation Commission, and the Carver Park and Recreation Commission are working together to create, fund, and build trail monuments around Carver that commemorate and promote its history. The brick and steel framework for the first of these monuments is already in place at the south end of Broadway near the tugboat, awaiting a double-sided graphics panel. One side of the panel will face northward on Broadway Street and feature historic photographs and text depicting Broadway’s architecture and history. The other side of the panel will face toward the Minnesota River with graphics, photos, and text to describe Carver’s founding and steamboat era. Hopefully the monument will be fully completed in April.

One key photo we are missing is that of Carver’s first building, a claim shanty/hotel built on the riverbank by Carver’s Norwegian founder, Axel Jorgenson, in the winter of 1851-1852. Called the Hotel Luksenborg by Jorgenson, it survives to the present at 309 Oak Street, having been moved to its present location around 1860 and incorporated into a stable in the 1880s. The claim shanty hotel also served as the first schoolhouse for Minnesota School District #1 until 1862. While there is no known photograph of the primitive building, we do have a good written description and its dimensions, which have helped us render a crude drawing of the building. We are looking for an artist to do a pro bono signed rendering of the simple building in pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, or oil painting. This rendering would appear in a future book on the history of Carver and, if approved by the three monument groups, would appear on one panel of the Broadway monument. If interested and able contact John von Walter at 952-361-3149 or by email at [email protected].

(Below is our primitive rendering of Jorgenson’s Hotel Luksenborg, and also one of our draft renderings for the Broadway trail monument, with photos not depicted as to quantity or scale.)

hotel_luksenborg

broadway_trail_draft

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Historic District Signage

John von Walter sent in the following announcement and pictures:

Through a long process the City of Carver became the first in the state to be allowed historic district directional signage on a major freeway by the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation.

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Villager Tower On Hiatus

Ricki Schultz sent me the following announcement:

There will not be a newsletter “VT” until broken arm is healed…the editor broke right arm is significant usage arm…unless someone willing to come and take dictation and help put it together?

Ricki Yvonne Schultz