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High school and college sweethearts Sydney Middleton and Andy Gerten can drive around Lake Minnetonka, point out landmarks and reminisce about the places that define their six-year courtship.

Bill Allen speaks of his Olympic gold medal like you or I would speak of a high school football game. It’s fair to say that for most, winning Olympic gold would be an unbeatable moment.

Last September, Excelsior’s Bob Williams received a Distinguished Service Award from the Minnetonka Alumni Association. “It was really very nice,” he says fondly. “It was really fun.” Williams exudes modesty, but his friends and family can’t say enough wonderful things about him.

Mound Westonka High School senior Alex Robbins was recently named a National Merit semifinalist, putting him in an elite national group in the running for scholarship funds.

Twlia Dang and Natalie Hagemo

We at Lake Minnetonka Magazine are proud to announce that Twila Dang and Natalie Hagemo, local bloggers and co-hosts of Pop Life on MyTalk 107.1, will be hosting the

Poised, astute and composed are three characteristics a photographer dreams of in a subject. Often these prove to be difficult to find. Not so for Victoria resident Deb Zeller.

While on a stroll with her husband along the Dakota Trail last autumn, Jeni Zimmer stopped along the beaten path to capture an often unseen angle of Gale Woods Farm.

Adam Hegg originally did not have plans for a career shift. Content in his teaching position at the FAIR school in Crystal and downtown Minneapolis  since 2001, applying for the position of Wayzata High School musical director seemed unnecessary.
 

Rachel Slavik of WCCO-TV

What was your favorite part of growing up in Mound?
It’s a small community, so it was really great knowing everyone in my grade at school. You feel like you know everyone from kindergarten through senior year.

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest honor a scout can achieve. Initiated in 1916, it recognizes the completion of a project that betters a Girl Scout’s community as well as the world at large.

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