East Side People

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Anneliese Tatham ’21, West St. Paul, earned a University of Minnesota Morris Briggs Library Associates Art Award for her pieces Seed Stories and Nourish in the Juried Art Exhibition.

On Thursday, March 22, the Minnesota Public Health Association Leadership Committee announced that Rep. Ruth Richardson (DFL – Mendota Heights) was selected for the 2019 B. Robert Lewis Award, honoring her work for Health Equity.

St. Croix Lutheran high school principal Ric Gibson was named winner of the 2019 Minnesota Independent School Forum (MISF) Leadership Award.

Colleen Loney, 90, of West St. Paul passed away March 5. Loney served on Dakota County’s Housing Authority for 30 years. 

Two Inver Grove Heights residents will join Stages Theatre Company in its production of “Own Moon.”

U.S. Navy Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Corey Cox, from the East Side, torques a jet engine in the jet shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 15. The John C.

Bill Foussard, a member of the Board of Directors for Cerenity Senior Care, which has a center in Dayton’s Bluff, was recently named Board Trustee of the Year by LeadingAge Minnesota.

 NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) presented Inver Grove Heights resident Deborah Saxhaug with a Special Board Award at its annual conference, held in St. Paul on Nov. 3.

John Shaleen, safety director at Kane Transport in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, was presented the Safety Professional of the Year Award at the annual conference of the Minnesota Trucking Association (MTA) on Aug. 8.