Author: Jim Bayer

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Jim is a retired teacher currently keeping busy as a reserve teacher, tutor, and Eden Prairie High School softball coach. Jim’s career began as a journalist, photojournalist, and editor before working in healthcare public relations and later earning a master’s degree in special education. Jim and his wife, Sue, a registered nurse, have lived in Eden Prairie for more than 25 years. Their two children, Jen and Matt, graduated from EPHS and live in Eden Prairie. Jim and Sue have four grandchildren.

Two Eden Prairie women working as volunteers with a Canadian dog rescue organization are credited with helping rescue six beagles from a Texas animal research facility. Kathy Meyer and Jill Schumacher welcomed the arrival of six beagles on Oct. 10, rescued by the Beagle Alliance, a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based organization. The alliance’s executive director, Lori Cohen, the organization’s only paid employee, was on hand when a van arrived at Schumacher’s home from Houston, Texas, where the dogs were rescued. “We are only permitted to say that these beagles come from a lab in Houston, Texas,” Cohen said. She credited the three Minnesota-based…

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