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Reports of Staff Council Workshop August 1, 2016 Page 3 of 6 Silver View Plaza: They will be doing some minor parking lot patching this spring and they are still looking at their options for a new sign along County Road 10. Apple Tree Dental: Coordinator Beeman arranged a verbal agreement between Apple Tree Dental and the Wynnsong Theater for any additional employees added by the expansion of the dental office to be able to park in the movie theater’s parking lot along the north side of the building or along the walking trail. The new employees will be moving from Coon Rapids to Mounds View this fall. Another parking option is to park along Mounds View Drive. Dr. Helgeson said, “The availability of parking along the north side of the parking lot is terrific news. We just finished a 7 year lease for the space our leadership team is currently using in Coon Rapids and are now on a “month-to-month” extension. We plan to use the projected rent savings when we move out to finance new office equipment for the second floor at our Mounds View Center. That will likely happen late in the fall or early winter of this year. At that time, about a dozen administrative staff, (including me!) will move to the Mounds View Center. It would be terrific if we could park our cars along the north side of the parking lot and wa lk along the path to our office.” Empire House: The company was trying to build a new building in Mounds View and decided to stop any and all negotiations on the land north of Bio Life because the land owner has many shell companies and their attorneys were busy trying to determine who actually owned the property. Once it was determined who owned the property, the land owners decided that they wanted to sit on the land in case Bio Life needed it for future parking. As a result, Empire House has put the project on hold and may be leaving Mounds View to build their new building. Arepa Bite: There is a new Latin American food restaurant in Mounds View. Arepa Bite opened their doors April 26, 2016. Arepa Bite is a family restaurant that offers authentic Venezuelan food. They are open Monday –Friday 7:00 am-8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 8:00 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. www.arepabite.com. Arepa Bite is an independently owned family business and Mounds View is its first and only location. The owner, Vannessa Fazio, lives in Mounds View and wanted to have a business location that was near her home where she could spend more time with her family. Vannessa said she really likes her neighborhood and the Mound View people. So what is an Arepa? According to their website, the predecessor of the arepa was a staple of the Timoto- cuicas, an Amerindian group that lived in the northern Andes of Venezuela. Other Amerindian tribes in the region, such as the Arawaks and the Caribs, widely consumed a form known as casabe made from cassava (yuca). With the colonization by the Spanish, the food that would become the arepa was diffused into the rest of the region, known then as Viceroyalty of New Granada and later became La Gran Colombia (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama) at the time of Independence. The term arepa is pre-Columbian and most probably comes from the word arepa which means corn in the language of the Cumanagotos, indigenous people of Venezuela, whose descendants inhabit today the eastern regions of the country. Venezuelans prepare arepas depending on personal taste or preference and the region in which they are made. The stuffed arepas butter and cream cheese, assorted meats, chicken and avocado salad, eggs and beans are part of the typical breakfast of Venezuela. Vannessa said, the bread of the arepa is made of white corn bread and it is handmade each day, grilled, then placed in the oven to get the perfect texture. The bread is cut and filled with traditional or custom ingredients. There are eleven versions of the traditional arepa and customers may also request custom arepas. Their most popular arepa is the shredded beef and cheddar and the black beans with white cheddar cheese. They also serve sugar cane juice with lemon. They have a machine that will release a whole orange, cut it, and squeeze it to form fresh orange juice.