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I t. I I I f ' Hugo City Hall • 14669 Fitzgerald Avenue North • Hugo, Minnesota 55038 Construction Hugo Kidz 'n Biz Fest A Success Of Festival Foods "A wonderful,wonder- ful success,"is how Approved Hugo Mayor Fran Miron describes the first-ever Hugo Kidz `n — At its May 2,2005 g meeting,the Hugo City Biz Fest that was held aV Council approved a on Sunday,April 17 ' • • • final plat for the con- at the Hugo American - Legion Hall. The event o� struction of a 55,000- g • square-foot grocery was designed to bring store and a drive- together businesses and • through coffee shop residents of the City g p Forest Lake. at the Victor Gardens for an afternoon of Miron. Its something that I North development. alwafun. Without its own felt was lack- With the success of the Festival Foods and Chamber of Commerce, Kidz `n Biz Fest,he Hugo businesses often ing in our community; , Dunn Bros. Coffee are g adds,"We're starting to join Chambers in the we've never had that i expected to open at the see a relationship;this neighboring cities of cohesiveness within site in March or April g g the City,"notes Mayor event was a gratifying of 2006. For the past White Bear Lake or experience for me to four to five years,the KidVii Biz:See Page 3 City and Festival Foods "have had a very good working relationship A Cleaner, Better Judicial Ditch on this project,"states Hugo Community At a January 14,2005 joint meet- The RCWD agreed to perform an Development Director ing of the City of Hugo and the Rice initial ditch cleanout and the City of Bryan Bear. He con- Creek Watershed District(RCWD), Hugo agreed to assume maintenance tinues,"They have anew spirit of cooperation and a responsibility. "We agreed that the accommodated many positive attitude prevailed as the two City would be responsible for the _, . . of the City's requests in groups pledged, in a written agree- maintenance after we would do terms of architectural ment,to work together to create a this initial cleanout,"states RCWD design requirements on cleaner and more effective Judicial Administrator Steve Hobbs. He con- the grocery store itself Ditch#2 (JD2).The JD2,which tinues,"The RCWD will put aside and doing what they provides for 50 to 60 percent of $40,000 annually to pay for those canto fit in." Festival the City's drainage,spans 12 miles maintenance costs. The City can get Foods Executive � and flows north out of Rice Lake in out there more quickly than we can Vice President Laurie Hugo. It ultimately ends across the and they would be able to tap into Youngquist notes,"This City's border into Peltier Lake in that$40,000 that we've set aside will be the first Festival Lino Lakes. for cleanout." Hobbs notes that the Foods to have a Dunn RCWD has already performed the Bros. drive-through and At this meeting,the City of Hugo and initial cleanout and the site is drain- outdoor cafe seating." the RCWD agreed on a cooperative ing properly. effort to monitor the results of an Festival:See Page 3 ongoing ditch maintenance program. It was also agreed that in 18 months, Ditch:See Page 5