Week in Review: October 9 Edition

Here's a summary of the past week's Oakdale news:

• Investigators suspect it was murder-suicide that killed two Skyview Community School students and their father, all of whom were found dead in an RV in a parking lot at Grand Canyon National Park.
• A new Five Guys Burgers and Fries location is planned to open in Oakdale near Baja Sol Tortilla Grill.  
• A fire early Monday morning extensively damaged a home and destroyed a garage in the 700 block of Guthrie Avenue.
• Burglars somehow got away with a 40-inch television when they burglarized an Oakdale home during daytime hours Monday, Oct. 3.  
• The Oakdale Planning Commission voted Thursday to recommend changing city ordinance to allow 70-foot lights for public, recreational purposes—making it legal to install ball field lights at .
• An Inver Grove Heights man was sentenced in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex in Oakdale last year.  
• Keng Koua Thao pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated robbery in connection with the September 2010 murder of Youa Ty Lor. Oakdale resident Dao Xiong was convicted of first-degree murder in Lor’s death earier this year.
• Oakdale real-estate agent June Weiner will become president of the Minnesota Association of Realtors later this month.      
• In Sports: Tartan High School cross country runner Shaelyn Sorensen took first place at the Blaine Invitational Thursday. Tartan’s football team beat Henry Sibley 24-0 Thursday. Tartan’s girls soccer team also beat South St. Paul Tuesday.