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Photos: Kids Welcome New Babies During 'Farmyard Fun Day' at Gale Woods Farm
Baby lambs, farm-fresh pancakes, wool crafts and farm games kept kids outside and busy Tuesday morning.

E-mail: jay.corn@patch.com
Jay is formerly the Local Editor of the Lake Minnetonka Patch. Before coming to Patch, he spent five years as editor of the Kanabec County Times in Mora, MN.
Jay was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, and he moved to Minnesota about eight years ago to attend St. Cloud State University.
He has a daughter entering the second grade and enjoys the outdoors, music and baseball. In recent years, Jay has taken up golf, and he never turns down a get-together with buddies for a game of poker.
Politics:
Jay views himself as a conservative liberal. He believes in the right to bear arms, free market enterprise, gay rights and the death penalty. He opposes off-shore drilling, abortion and prayer in public schools.
Religion:
While he has issues with the church, Jay is a born and raised Catholic. He spent two weeks in Israel when he was 21 and says he learned a lot about himself. That said, he enjoys learning about other religions and civilly discussing faith with believers and non-believers alike.
Local hot button issues:
Jay concedes he has a lot to learn about the issues you care about and understands those issues differ between Orono, Wayzata, Deephaven, Excelsior and Mound-Westonka, the core towns of Lake Minnetonka Patch. But already, you'll see a mix of stories about local government, business, sports, the arts, education and, through it all, the people who make this area special. Look soon for stories on everything from development projects to the environment and local economy.
Jay pledges the news you read on the Lake Minnetonka Patch will be timely, built on fact and delivered through a lens of balance and objectivity.
Baby lambs, farm-fresh pancakes, wool crafts and farm games kept kids outside and busy Tuesday morning.

Kids can meet farm animals and their babies, get their hands dirty, taste a farm-fresh treat, make a wool craft and play farm games. (restricted to kids between two and nine)
More than $200,000 has been raised at annual fundraiser to to maintain and improve the quality of education offered by Orono Public Schools.
The City of Plymouth collaborates with the cities of Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo and Robbinsdale to present the remodeling fair.
Contest had been scheduled for April 20 with an April 27 "ice date," but conditions moved the Saturday contest indoors.
The City of Plymouth and the Recycling Association of Minnesota have teamed up to offer low-cost compost bins and rain barrels.
Pulling a prank on someone can be done easily with these five April Fools' Day tips.
Pulling a prank on someone can be done easily with these five April Fools' Day tips.
Autism is being diagnosed in 1 out of 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls. This makes it the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States.
Water main break is the latest in what has become a string of pipe problems on Bushaway Road/County Road 101.
Jack is a male miniature rat terrier. He was lost March 30 in Excelsior.
Residents with discolored water should let the outdoor water faucet run until the water is clear.
Sit down with their children and have a hands-on training about how to operate their smart phone in an emergency.
Information provided by the Plymouth Police Department.
Former estate belonged to convicted tax fraud conspirer Jeffery Wirth, former owner of the Grand Rios Hotel & Waterpark and the Grand Lodge Hotel & Waterpark of America.
Fire departments from throughout the Lake Minnetonka area were called to Thursday afternoon blaze.
Seventy-five percent of Minnesotans get their drinking water from groundwater, but some aquifers are on a long-term downward trend that is not sustainable.
As a sports reporter/anchor at WCCO-TV and the ringleader of “The Sports Show” on the CW, Mike Max is known as a local legend in the Twin Cities sports scene.
The students were accompanied by MWHS social studies/history teachers Marc Doepner-Hove and Robert Paul.