South Metro News Roundup

New Fungal Meningitis Cases Reported in Minnesota

In other news from around the region, Walmart opens its doors in Lakeville, Chick-fil-A wants to set up shop in Apple Valley, and Eagan's Nicholas Mrozinski advances on NBC's "The Voice."

  You can't be in front of your computer 24 hours a day, so each weekend, Patch reviews the past several days' top stories, which first appeared on this site or those of our neighbors throughout the region. Here's a look at recent news that may interest or have an impact on you. To read the full stories, click on the headline links.   Chick-fil-A Proposes Apple Valley Location Currently, there are three locations of the Georgia-based restaurant chain—best known for its breaded chicken sandwiches—in Minnesota. River Valley Pastor Pens Self-Help Book Rob Ketterling recently released a book called "Change Before You Have To: Discover a New Life of Abundance, Passion, & Satisfaction." Rosemount Woman Dies from Injuries Sustained in Motorcycle-…

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Mendota Heights Rabbis to Eat for $4.50 a Day in Food Stamp Challenge

Beth Jacob Congregation's seven rabbis will hold their personal food budgets to $31.50 for a week in November as part of a food poverty awareness campaign.

Rabbi Lynn Liberman, the director of educational programming at the Mendota Heights synagogue Beth Jacob Congregation, knows roughly how she’ll eat on a budget of $4.50 per day. As a rabbinic student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Liberman ate cheaply, she said, “eliminating to a large degree fresh fruits and vegetables, and finding foods that have a longer shelf life and are less expensive, like pasta and rice, and finding ways to have protein that are not the meats and fish and chicken.” Liberman will redeploy these collegiate grocery purchasing strategies next month, during the week of November 11, Liberman will join Beth Jacob’s six other rabbis in taking the Food Stamp challenge and keep her food and drink …

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