The Big Five|Healing Art
For Jack White, age 10, and his mother, Chris, a trip to the Eastman Nature Center was a scouting opportunity to receive his weather belt loop.
December 2012
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Looking for a fun, family-friendly way to ring in the New Year? Look no further. Maple Grove Community Center will hold its annual New Year’s Eve party once again this December 31. The event only lasts until 10 p.m., so bring the kids!
Our winters may be long and dark, but Minnesotans have a host of strategies to make it through with good cheer. One of the most gratifying of these is to plan the summer’s fun.
Every morning before rosy-fingered dawn tickles the community’s east-facing windows, a slew of tiny wheat berries are tossed into Maple Grove’s most recent (and likely only) stone mill to be ground into fine, velvety wheat flour.
The Maple Grove Office Depot has made huge strides toward improved energy-efficiency. As a result, the store earned an EPA Energy Star certification. The certification signifies that the Maple Grove location performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency.
There’s a new choir in town—the North Star Boys’ Choir. It’s new, but its roots are deep in the European boy choir tradition.
The arrival of Becker Furniture World to Maple Grove this past summer provides yet another wonderful location for shoppers that might be looking to update or accessorize their home furni
Having watched her older brother play hockey, Whitney Padgett took to the sport at the tender age of 5.
In the depth of winter’s chill, pull up a chair to a steaming pot pie or a piping hot slice of homemade bread at one of these cozy places near you. They’ll warm your stomach (and your heart) and send you on your way ready to take on whatever winter plans to blow your way.
Hospitals are for healing. But going to a hospital as a patient or visitor can sometimes induce feelings of fear or trepidation. Maple Grove Hospital was designed with this in mind.
A lot happens in the course of a year. With nearly 62,000* residents in Maple Grove’s 36 square miles, living everyday lives full of the mundane and the adventurous, it’s a revelation to see time in written form: the sum total of another year lived.
“Erin started singing when she started talking,” says her mother and manager, Lisa Jamieson. This might sound like the hyperbole of a doting parent, but when you listen to Erin Jamieson’s music, it’s easy to believe.
