March 2011

Summer Camps | Cate Fierro | Jerrid Sebesta

’Tis the season to begin slacking on your New Year’s resolution. The promise you made to yourself back in January to lose 20 pounds before summer, lasted for a few spin classes and countless meals consisting of only a zestless salad.

 

Warning: Jerrid Sebesta loves to talk.

 

The refrigerator was barren. The living room only had a leftover couch. They kids slept on donated beds.

 

If things had taken a different turn, you may have been reading this article in the Bottineau Prairie Magazine. Before Maple Grove adopted its name, the city’s location and surrounding area was referred to as Bottineau’s Prairie, after one of its early settlers, Pierre Bottineau

 

As the days grow longer and you can feel the warmth of sun on your cheek, anticipation builds for summer’s carefree hours. We’ve gathered a list of four local camps where youth of all ages can get a dose of nature, or exercise their creative mojo when school is but a memory.

 

Should I Stay or Should I Go could have been the theme song for Jim and Shari McGuire for years before they put their house on the market.

 

The best secrets last the longest. For those who have figured it out, clandestine comings and goings are required lest everyone discover the enormous contentment of a familiar place called Dehn’s Country Manor.

 

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut

Recommended by Lin Salisbury for adults

 

There are endless ways to help protect the environment, whether it’s recycling pop cans or using energy-efficient light bulbs around the house.

 
Former Crimson and Gopher player Brent Lawson, in action at the U.

Brent Lawson experienced his first NCAA men’s basketball tournament as a little kid in the Metrodome stands. He watched in awe, studying some of the top collegiate teams in the nation and dreaming he’d one day play for one.

 

Since its inception in the mid-1990s, the Youth Exchange Program run by the Maple Grove Rotary Club has allowed a handful of students to get a firsthand account of life in other countries.

 

If the frigid temperatures took a toll on your body this winter, consider sampling some of the skin-rejuvenating services offered at Angelic Skin Clinic.