Week in Review: April 17 Edition

Here is a brief summary of what made news in Oakdale this past week:

• Fifth-graders at Oakdale’s Transfiguration Catholic School performed the Living Stations of the Cross to observe the upcoming Easter holiday. 
• An Oakdale man was found dead in a Lake Elmo park with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 
• On Tuesday, the Oakdale City Council directed staff to look at the possibility of lighting the Tanners Lake baseball field to help meet a request from the Oakdale Athletic Association for field lighting as well as to research what it would take to light fields on the east side of Skyview Community School. 
• The Oakdale City Council decided Tuesday to place a picnic shelter at the end of the parking lot cul-de-sac at the Oakdale Nature Preserve. 
• Oakdale will have to spend up to $800,000 replacing the city’s traffic signs to comply with a federal mandate. 
• Oakdale’s Hope Church is offering a free cinnamon roll delivery on Easter morning to the first 100 takers. 
• An Oakdale man was indicted last week in federal court for allegedly defrauding Medicaid. 
• Longtime Oakdale resident Kenneth Heuer is starting up a senior citizens’ coalition. 
• The City of Oakdale is working on a preliminary plan to construct a hotel on city property at Oak Marsh Golf Course.
• BriAnna Berrisford, a Tartan speech team member who qualified for the state competition, was last week’s Oakdale Patch Whiz Kid.
• The Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review tells the story of an Oakdale family that makes their own maple syrup.
• In Sports: Check out the latest Senior Spotlight article and our preview on Tartan’s boys golf team.