9.2.B. PRSR 10 13 2004WHITE BEAR TOWNSHIP
Film--felt
will raise
_ __ _ _._
.funds for
dog park
Seven short movies
screened at event
BY MARY.BAUER
PioneerPress ;,,,
You could call them dogu-
mentaries, or Fido films. -
On Saturday, a group raising,: ",
money for a hew off-leash dog.~_
park in White Bear Township-^*
will hold a Cannes for canines,
showing films about dogs or
that were filmed from a dogs ;'
perspective.
The DogTober Film Fbst at°~
Bald Eagle/Otter Lakes Regional
Park will feature seven short;
films - seven minutes to half an -•-.
hour- in keeping with the tastes,m..
of the canines in the audience. -
'T)oga are like kids..:-: they ..,,
don't have much of ah attention _~
span," said Barb Heideman, co-=~u
founder and director of Respan-'
Bible Owners of Mannerly Pets,
or ROMP; a group that has
raised money and organized
support for dog parks in .the
Twin Cities.
The.. White Bear dog. park_.~
will be the fifth in Ramsey;;"
County: Its opening in October,:~•"
along_with_one_iu_Crystal in.~,~~
November, will give the metro,,..:
area 2ll dog parks, makjhgit one
of the most dog-friendly regions=^,
in the nation, Heideman said
The newest.park wlll be on.,
1o acres on the east side of Otter'm
Lake Road-dieestly-south -of
Otter Lake, with an entrance at
the-Otter Lakeboatlaunch .-..-._
Ramsey County owns the'
land,hut signage and fenc?ng on~•
the western and south bound-••
aries will cost about $15,000;:,
Heideman said.
The county and ROMP will V
split the costs, and ROMP needs
an additional $2,000, she said
There are plenty of money-
raising dog walks, so ROMP
decided on a fain ~stivaT. Memm==
hers approached Bob lleF'lores,
a film archivist, and Todds._
Hansen, director of festival pro-»
gramming for IEP Minneapo-
lis/St. Paul, which organizes the.~»
Central Standard Film Festival.
Hansen, who owns four cats;;
and DeFiores donated their„
time to ROMP, calling seven~+
films-from historical sources
and from the Central Standard
festival, which starts Oct: 16 ins
Minneapolis: °°
Here's a brief synopsis of the
DogTober highlights: ...•
^ `T)ogway Melody" is a clas-
sic 1930 spoof of MGM's'Broad-
way Melody" in which dogs play
all the parts, in costumes: The
evil Mr. Curr pursues Queenie; a »
showgirl, whose 'boyfriend;
Buster, saves theday- »
^ In "Seven Days," President
Richard Nixon plots the inva-
sion of Cambodia, but he can't ;
I get his dog King to lick his
hand. The film is shot from
Kings eye-level, but is told in ..
i Nixon's voice.'
^"Garpenfargle" tells an age- »
old story: Dces a dog answer his
masters commands; or -the call
of the trash? »
^ One of Nick Park's Wallace
and Gromit claymation film. •
. A Tex Avery cartoon, "Dog- _
gone Tired,"..and two episodes.. »
from a popular cable dog. show
round out the evening.
Heideman admits-she's .not »
sure how much the pups will get
out of the film. There is some
debate on whether dogs can see
detail ` on a two-dimensional
~ screen.
"Our focus is notso much on ;
the dogs as on the people with ;
dogs," she said. "So we're focus- '
ing on people:"
', Mary Bauer can be reached at
~~ mbanerQpianeerpress-eom or__. _ ____
651-228-5311.
ITEM B 9.2.B.
Park built by developer `a rolef model'
Tn constructing the Highland Wily Development Deparhnent.
Hills subdivisioh m Cottage Newland spent an estimated
Grove, Newland; Communities $750,000 on the park, more than
decided ft would develop a 6- double the estimated $300,000
.acre park complete with an the developer could have paid
activity lodge, playground, base- under a state law that allows
ball diamond and skating rink cities to either collect money
-and then give $ to the city for from a developer or ask for a
public use. portion of the land to be dedicat-
The developer-driven public
' ed for parks and open space.
park -which
will be turned Developer-driven public
over to the sty Oct. 23 -is a first parks are popping up across the
for Cottage Grove, and officials metro area, in part because
say it will set the standard for sties are making more of an
future projects. "It's a role effort to link new parks to exist-
model," said John Burbank, Ben- ing park systems.
for planner for the sty's COmmll- -Nancy Yang