Photos by Ann Marie Grocholski, AMG Photography
Becoming Lost
When you grow up in a town as small as Pelican Rapids, Minnesota (population 2502), everyone knows your name, your business, and pretty much everything else about you. Ben Hovland experienced this...
An environmentally friendly alternative to a classic American tradition.
What is a natural pool?
The natural swimming pool movement is widely considered to have begun with Gottfried Kern in Austria around 1954. He was the first to partition his pools, creating...
Change. It’s been synonymous with Covid. Here, five Hamel and Medina businesses share their stories of change to adjust to the new normal.
OAK Eatery adds staff due to increased business
Dawn Nelson, owner of OAK Eatery, reflects on how COVID-19...
The Halversons on Business, Homeschooling & Culture Over Color
Photo credit: Justin Cox Photography
It is said our hardest experiences are the best lessons in preparing us for life’s challenges. Significant highs and lows in business that most people never encounter...
COVID has changed everything. Into the garbage go my marketing books from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. In fact, most of the marketing books in my library are irrelevant because the old rules no longer apply. Creating a...
From the time Chuck Winkler of Ditter Cooling & Heating, Inc. was five years old, he has had a driven personality and been an outside the box thinker. As a mite hockey player in Libertyville, a suburb of Chicago,...
Photo credit: Michelle Schmidt, Michelle’s Portrait Design
In mid-March when COVID-19’s stay-at-home orders came down from Governor Tim Walz, a paradigm shift occurred that this generation had never before experienced. The streets were virtually empty. Restaurants and the majority of...
A Founder’s History
Mouli Vaidyanathan is the founder and president of SolarPod, an 11 year old Minnesota based solar company specializing in residential and commercial solar system design, engineering and installation. Mouli, pronounced Mau-Lee, immigrated to the United States in...
Forty years ago the original crew who put on the first Hamel Rodeo had no idea it would be just the beginning of a long and prosperous event that would generate over $2 million dollars, funding local non-profit organizations...
At first, beekeeping and a message of conservancy may seem inconsistent coming from a pest management company, but not when that company is Adam’s Pest Control.
Adam’s championed the ability to keep bees in Medina. Because of our interest, Medina’s...