Best Of Maple Grove 2012
While Taekwondo has only been a part of the Olympic Games since 2000, it’s been a part of Eui Lee for nearly his entire life. Lee began the Korean Martial Art at the age of 4 and has since gone on to become a seventh-degree black belt, 2002 U.S.
“I'm that girl that always has her camera on her whether it's in my purse, or I'm just carrying it around ready to shoot something,” says Brianna Fortin.
Don’t miss The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, opening July 11th. This multiple Tony Award winning musical comedy centers on a spelling bee in the fictitious Putnam Valley Middle School.
Jay Thompson’s mountain bike is technically black, but thanks to the Elm Creek Singletrack Trail, it often returns to his Maple Grove garage in a beige tint.
Kristina Swenson never met Mitch Chepokas but the compassion of the young boy who died of bone cancer in 2003 has clearly inspired a similar sense of compassion and commitment in fifteen-year-old Kristina, her ten-year-old brother Kyle and hundreds of other kids who gather each summer to particip
As soon as the “pool season” drew to a close last summer, Todd and Susan Goblish made plans to expand their outdoor living space, along with their ability to entertain friends.
For nearly ten years, Shari McGuire spent her days in Maple Grove working 50 to 70 hours a week for a large corporation. “I was missing out on so much of my son’s growing up,” says McGuire. So in 2010, she quit her job and came to a stunning realization—how to shrink her work week.
Jim and Donna Hawley have owned Maple Grove Pearle Vision for a year and a half, and apparently that’s all this locally-owned franchise needed to climb to the top of the national charts.
The newly opened Freeziac, at Dunkirk Lane and 95th Ave., has opened just in time to offer a pair of self-serve topping combos perfect for a dish of their frozen yogurt that will cool you off quick:
Local carnivores will love Dave and Misty Zapf’s new restaurant Z’s Smokin’ Bonez. Why? Meat is always on the menu. The Zapfs, the former owners of J.
Greg and Lori Bunce began full stage musical productions in their Maple Grove backyard during the summer of 2007. They both have a theatre background and wanted to give their kids, Sharayah and Trevor, a chance at hands-on theatrical experience.
The reasons for eliminating meat in the diet can be many, from health-related to environmental. But the options when dining out, if you stumble upon the wrong kind of place, can be painfully limited.
The Maple Grove Medallion goes missing once every year, and it’s up to you to find it. If you haven’t come out and participated in The Maple Grove Medallion Hunt, this might be your year. The process is simple but genius.
Sometimes heroes are in our midst and we don’t even know it. They are standing next to us in the grocery checkout line as we pick up our dinner fixin’s, sitting next to us in the theater while we watch the latest blockbuster, or cheering beside us as we root for our favorite team.
This year voters allow some winners to retain their top spots while others categories welcome new names and faces in the seventh annual readers online survey of the best services and places in Maple Grove. Catch all the great finalists who make our city truly extraordinary.
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