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Painting Happy in Eden Prairie: CertaPro Painters of SW Metro

A fresh coat of paint can do more than transform a room – it can completely change how you feel about your home. For Kelly and Sara Morlock, owners of CertaPro Painters of SW Metro, painting isn’t just a business; it’s a way to bring joy, comfort, and beauty into their neighbors’ homes throughout Eden Prairie and the surrounding communities.This year, their team was recognized with the “Best of BusinessRate 2025 – Eden Prairie” award for earning the highest number of Google reviews and...

Life + Culture

Impact Grants 2025

Nominate Your Favorite Nonprofit Organization to the Eden Prairie Community Foundation Article by David Scheller Do you know of a great nonprofit organization serving the needs of Eden Prairie residents? Do you believe that organization could do even better if it had more money ? Then this is your chance to make a big impact. The Eden Prairie Community Foundation is accepting applications for their 2025 Impact Grants from December 1st through the end of January! “It’s finally that time of...

Life + Culture

Best Christmas Ever

Saving the Spirit One Family at a Time Article by David Scheller Duluth – Christmas Eve, 2010. Don Liimatainen lay plastered against his sofa, gray and withered from the autoimmune disease that would soon claim one of his more important organs. He stared hopelessly at his tree. With its base bereft of toys, it was little more than a balefire crackling at the center of what would become his 3-year-old son’s worst Christmas ever. Suddenly, Don heard a knocking. Not Santa Claus, but that even...

Life + Culture

Climbing Clouds: An Immigrant’s American Story

Love, Computers, and How to Open a Can of Coke Article by David Scheller Brian Wilson: the smiling salt-and-pepper Eden Prairie resident pictured. He was born in a mountainous region of Southern India in 1964 to parents who knew no more of the Beach Boys than Queen Victoria did about Snoop Dogg. Brian grew up in a home without television. His mother cooked using the same recipes and wood-fired clay stoves that her ancestors had perfected millennia prior. The number to the telephone nearest to...

Education

AV8 Flight School’s Fifth Annual Helicopter Expo

Article by David Scheller They dream of slicing through the sky at triple-digit velocities, pausing to hover high over creation wherever they fancy. They aspire to become professional rotorheads, working prestigious jobs in exciting locales for high salaries. They are children, bespelled by colorful things with big spinning wings. They all attended AV8 Flight School’s Fifth Annual Helicopter Expo at Flying Cloud Airport on September 6th. This year’s expo welcomed 150 to 200 guests to get up...

Travel

Frank E. Nute, Certified Public Accountant

The Business Owner’s Magician Article by David Scheller Do you want to know what’s wrong with the world today? It’s simple. There are too few magicians . I yearn for a time when pointy-capped wizards roamed the countryside in search of orcs to toast. When circus tents boomed with oohs and aahs as long-mustached prestidigitators yanked entire wardens’ worth of rabbits out of hats. When 1 (800) 931-4003 still connected you directly to Miss Cleo, who could see anything coming with the...

Education

Eden Prairie Schools

Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders Article and Photography by “First and foremost, we’re just really grateful,” said Dr. Josh Swanson, superintendent of Eden Prairie Schools. “As we start a new school year and look to the future, it’s an exciting time to be in our district. All the time, generosity and support we receive from our community are making such great opportunities available to students. That community support, plus around 2,000 exceptional staff, are allowing us to keep class sizes small...

Food + Beverage

Winehaven Winery

A Family Buzzness Article by David Scheller The sun and the rain make the fruit. This is magic.  The bees make the honey. This is alchemy.  The Petersons make the wine. This is Winehaven. “Grandpa Ellsworth started producing raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, and honey here back during the ‘60s,” spoke Kyle Peterson, motioning to his family’s 50-acre emerald farmland, which the Creator surrounded with Chisago Lakes’ eponymous feature, and where every flower wiggles with determined...

Arts + Culture

Carlos Family Woodworks

It’s a Family Affair Article by David Scheller “I started lathing later in life,” said Jack Carlos, the central Carlos in Carlos Family Woodworks. “We were doing medical mission work in Africa around 25 years ago when I picked up woodworking as a hobby. That’s also when I was diagnosed with the neurological disease that would send me back home to Richfield." “I was fortunate to have found a hobby I could continue doing, even if I can no longer handle larger pieces. I soon settled into a good...

Auto + Marine

RipaLip

Essential Gear for Marine Electronics, Born in Eden Prairie Article by David Scheller “We were something straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.” Eden Prairie resident David Janiszewski describes his family – grandfather and father and brothers and sister – assembled along various shorelines to apprehend key ingredients for fish dinners. “The ponds on my grandpa’s farm were brimming with perch and bullhead, and when I was 5 my parents bought a lake cabin in the Upper Peninsula of...