Professional Services

The Money Was Already There

He put a sleepless couple's fears to rest — no script required. Article by Amanda Busby Codney | Photography by Ryan Siemers They had stopped sleeping. It wasn't one bad month. It was the slow kind of worry — the kind that shows up around two in the morning when you're pouring everything into building something new and, for now, more is going out than coming in. The balances were creeping the wrong way. And underneath all of it sat the bigger, quieter fear: that they'd fallen behind on the...

Wellness

Your Hair Is Telling On You

Twenty years behind a chair, and the question that sent her back to school Article by Antara Murdeshwar | Photography by Ryan Siemers Photography Weddings. Breakups. Babies. For twenty years, people told Tabitha Fredrichs everything from a styling chair. The only question she couldn't answer was the one they asked most: why is my hair doing this? Not because she didn't care. Because nobody had ever taught her the science behind what she was looking at. Then it happened to her. Her own hair...

Style + Beauty

Nobody Wakes You

Fourteen steps, ninety minutes, and brand new everything at Glo Nails & Spa. Article by Marilou Grondin | Photography by Ryan Siemers Photography Somewhere down the row at Glo Nails & Spa, someone is asleep behind a heated eye mask. There is always someone. Nobody wakes them. They've stopped watching the clock, and nobody's in a hurry to remind them what time it is. Getting a person into that condition takes fourteen steps. It's called a Japanese Head Spa, and that's four more steps than most...

Style + Beauty

Where Reindeer Stood

The Looneys spent forty years making that building matter. Then they picked Annette Hall to keep it that way. Article by Amanda Busby | Photography by Ryan Siemers Photography For twenty-eight Decembers, there was a man in that building who wasn’t a man at all — not to the kids in the line. He was Santa Claus. The same one, every year, with live reindeer on the lawn and a line that wrapped around a rustic north-woods lodge just south of Maple Grove Parkway. For twenty years, there was a Girls...

Style + Beauty

Find Your Signature Contrast

Every closet holds a vote each morning. The unanimous ones are the ones nobody remembers. Article by Amy Seeman | Photography by Provided Steve Jobs had the black turtleneck. Fashion icons like Iris Apfel became known for oversized glasses and bold jewelry. While most of us don't want to wear the exact same outfit every day, there's something to be said for having a recognizable point of view. The secret isn't creating a uniform-it's creating a formula. One of my favorite styling tricks is...

Local Services

The House on Bass Lake Road

One family. One house. One gift they never expected. Article by Jenny Floria | Photography by Provided Before they ever needed it, Jennie and Shane Swenson would pass the sign for Crescent Cove along Bass Lake Road. Shane, curious, looked it up online. It was Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids - a place where children receive respite care, and when needed, end-of-life care. "We had no idea that one day we would be one of those families who need Crescent Cove," he says. That was...

Health + Wellness

The Race That Starts Before Anyone Falls Apart

One race. One cause. One morning you won't regret. Article by Kristy Sellers Fair warning: the Thumbs Up 5K has been known to cause unexpected feelings of community spirit. Consult your calendar immediately. On September 19th, families across Maple Grove will lace up their shoes for a 5K that delivers on two things most events can only promise one of: a genuinely good time and a genuinely good cause. We’re talking kids crossing finish lines like they just qualified for the Olympics...

Wellness

Hoofbeats and Healing

How Gateway Meadows helps veterans — and kids — heal one session at a time. Article by Antara Murdeshwar | Photography by Julie Chappell Photography, Kiera Mount Horses are notoriously poor conversationalists. Yet for many veterans who arrive at Gateway Meadows in Dayton, they turn out to be surprisingly good listeners. What Gateway Meadows Is Twelve miles northwest of Maple Grove, tucked among rolling fields and far enough from the noise of everyday life that you can hear yourself think...

Finance + Legal Services

Your Car Payment Changed Someone's Day

How Magnifi Financial turns everyday banking into community impact Article by Lauren Dahl | Photography by Julie Chappell Photography Somewhere in Maple Grove right now, a kid is covered in glitter. This is not a crisis. This is Camp Arbor — five weeks, free of charge, held every summer at the Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, where children ages 4 through 12 spend their days doing arts, crafts, and games and come home looking like they lost a fight with a craft store. Magnifi Financial Credit Union...

Entertainment

The Slides Are Enormous. The Screaming Is Optional. (It Won't Be.)

Maple Grove's indoor action park is never not a good idea. Article by Kristi Sellers | Photography by Slick City There is a moment — and if you have been to Slick City Action Park, you know exactly the moment — where a grown adult stands at the top of a four-story dry slide, looks down, and has a very brief but very serious conversation with every decision that led them to this point. The kids behind them are not having this conversation. The kids behind them have already decided. What...