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LX Medical

It’s been lauded as “The New Soul of Healthcare” – LX Medical, which provides urgent and primary care wherever you need it. That’s right! LX Medical makes house calls!Your home. Your workplace. Their own medical clinic near Eden Prairie, in Edina. LX Medical makes it easy to receive routine and urgent care on your terms. Perfect if you’re living with a disability or reduced mobility, or just too busy with work, family or leisure to spend any time waiting at the doctor’s office.Comprehensive...

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Health + Wellness

Summit Orthopedics: Comprehensive Orthopedic Care in the Twin Cities

When you need orthopedic care in the Twin Cities, you don’t want a half measure. Your goal is to regain full mobility and fully escape from pain, which is why you want a comprehensive solution to orthopedic care.In fewer words, you want Summit Orthopedics. No other orthopedic clinic in the Twin Cities provides greater convenience, a higher standard of care, or a greater number of services than Summit Orthopedics: an independent, physician-led practice that was founded in St. Paul in 1986. Here’s...

Life + Culture

Helping Paws Tail Waggin' Dinner

A Night of Heroes Article by David Scheller Saturday, September 20th at the fabulous Radisson Blu in Bloomington: It’s the Tail Waggin' Dinner! Attend and support Eden Prairie’s very own Helping Paws on their mission to provide life-alteringly helpful service dogs to individuals with disabilities and veterans and first responders with PTSD! Helping Paws’ signature annual fundraising event will commence at 5:30pm. Sip a libation and snag hand-passed hors d’oeuvres while you try your hand...

Local Services

Pet Evolution

Bathing and Grooming Eden Prairie's Beautiful Kitty Cats Article by David Scheller Cool. Collected. Easy on the eyes. You couldn’t ask for a better cat than Moo Moo (pictured). But for all his blessings, Moo Moo has got one major design flaw. “He’s covered in such long hair!” explained Kirsten Barott, Moo Moo’s human. “And despite his best attempts at personal hygiene, he does have a certain … ‘distinctive’ funk at times. (Please don’t tell him I said so.)” Does Kirsten grit her teeth and...

Life + Culture

Eden Prairie Montessori

Full of Sprouts Article by David Scheller From nothing, something . It’s the original miracle; the big miracle, which echoes wherever one and one make three. As a parent, that miracle now resonates through you. What a cruel trick of nature that you must be apart from them at times. What a relief that you can place them in the care of Eden Prairie Montessori, where they’ll learn their first lesson on how the big miracle works. “They’re always amazed by how such tiny seeds can become such...

Entertainment

Schooner Days

More Beer. More Bingo. More Fun! Article by David Scheller | Photography by Gary Stevens When the Lions raise money That’s Schooner Days, honey The carnivale with it all Where the rides are a riot And nothing’s on your diet And you drink beer in good cheer And play bingo “It was a Schooner Days for the record books,” said Terry Eggan, Lion. “We welcomed around 17,500 fairgoers over the course of three days: the most in our 64 years of doing this.  “With so many guests, literally everything...

Education

Urban Speech & Occupational Therapy

Learning New Skills. Reaching New Milestones. Building New Relationships. Article by David Scheller Parents. Grandparents. Guardians. Teachers. No child can live and learn without the core members of their village. Some kids just happen to need help from one extra, more specialized villager if they’re to attain independence and happiness. Urban Speech & Occupational Therapy (USOT) plays a vital role in those children’s journeys. The team of seven speech-language pathologists (SLPs), three...

Professional Services

PowHER Up Networking Breakfast

Businessladies Becoming Businessmaties Article by David Scheller Do you like succeeding in business? Do you like meeting other entrepreneurs? Do you like breakfast? Then you will love the PowHER Up Networking Breakfast, presented four times a year by the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce Women’s Committee at The Original Pancake House! “Of all the events hosted by the chamber, PowHER Up is my favorite,” said Gina Pellegrini, owner of Bella Gina Boutique. “You’re guaranteed great conversation...

Wellness

Riley Crossing Senior Living

Intergenerational Programming: The Gift of Connection Article by David Scheller | Photography by Emily John It’s only fitting that two paths should meet at Riley Crossing. Residents of Chanhassen’s preeminent retirement community go on one. Babies, toddlers and preschoolers who attend that same community’s on-site daycare go on the other. This crossing is known as the Intergenerational Program. It’s based on a very sound notion: that seniors and babies and toddlers and preschoolers have a...

Local Services

Suburban Waste Services

Garbageman’s Best Friend Article by David Scheller It’s not easy being an elite guard dog like I am. I must keep my senses sharp. My teeth, pointy. My body, a well-oiled yipping machine.  I yip enthusiastically and often. Squirrels. Trees. Air molecules. The sound of my own yipping. They were all put on earth for one purpose: for me to yip at. But I am no brute. I never bite – and by “bite,” I mean “yip at” – the hand that feeds me. That is why I do not yip at the Suburban Waste...