East Side People

Two Visitation School students have been recognized for their achievements in robotics by Target Women in Science and Technology (TWIST). Senior Abby Libbesmeier of West St.

Janet Lorenzo, of Inver Grove Heights, has been named a 2017 Minnesota Humanities Center Veterans’ Voices Award recipient.

Simley High School student Abby Guggisberg will be featured in Circus Juventas’ Nordsaga, July 28-Aug. 31 under the Big Top in St. Paul. 

Joleen Hartung Durken of Inver Grove Heights recently received the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Harold J. Fitterer Service Award from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The Minnesota Council on Economic Education honored Phalen Lake Hmong Studies Magnet Elementary School teacher See Vang at its annual “EconFest” celebration on Nov. 3 at 3M Corporate Headquarters in Maplewood.

There are three candidates in the biennial race for Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District, which includes Ramsey County, St. Paul and parts of Washington County out to the St. Croix River.

The Major League Baseball and Minnesota Twins Baseball Organizations chose Ramona Arreguin de Rosales of St.

The Athena Awards Committee asked St. Paul area schools to nominate their top female athlete for the award. The schools obliged, and 43 girls, representing city and suburban, public and private high schools were selected to receive the award.

The number of candidates far exceeded the expectations of many of the staff and board members of the Payne-Phalen District Five Planning Council at the April 26 annual meeting held at the Arlington Hills Community Center.

Ray Widstrand does not remember the night he was brutally and randomly attacked on the East Side.