Finance + Legal Services

First Western Bank & Trust

Eden Prairie’s Commercial and Industrial Lender Article by David Scheller Vision. Ambition. Drive. A crackerjack of an idea for a new or expanded business. If you have these, then you need just one more thing before you can start changing the world for the better (especially whichever parts of it you happen to occupy). Capital “Commercial and industrial lending has been one of our bank’s main focuses since its foundation 61 years ago,” said David Thompson, market president of First Western...

Entertainment

Grease

Now Playing at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres Article by David Scheller It’s been a long time since greasers ruled the earth as its coolest cats. Ask kids to identify James Dean nowadays and they’ll tell you he was breakfast sausage. And yet Grease lives eternal, because it’s about so much more than greasers goosing screamers down the LA River and the beautiful women who love them. It’s about friendship. Rebellion. Finding your identity within the unrelenting pressures of society. It’s also...

Home Services

Clear Shores

Eco-Friendly Underwater Weeding and More Article by David Scheller The lake. Your lake. That flat placid sapphire all life revolves around. What a blessing it is, to live by it. But you’re not the only one who wants to be near the water. Your lakefront is under constant invasion by an untiring menace: botanical interlopers, which would reduce any private beach to virgin wilderness in a matter of months. And it only gets worse, because the foliaged vandals aren’t all terrestrial. I’m...

Life + Culture

Pet Evolution of Eden Prairie

Foods Just as Special as They Are Article by David Scheller You have enthusiastically volunteered to look after the world’s biggest and most lovable goofball: a creature so pure of heart that they have precisely zero clue how to take care of themself, and who does unpleasant things (and racks up the same kind of bills) when they’re ill. I’m not talking about your spouse. I am talking about your dog – and your cat, too, if you have one – whose well-being is well worth popping by Pet...