Author: Anders Rosdahl

No matter how frigid the weather, some individuals are determined to stick to their fitness routines. For the Eden Prairie-based Minnesota Snow Wolves Running Club, weekly running and walking are integral to their lives, even during winter. Whether outside at their “base” around Purgatory Creek and Staring Lake parks or indoors at domes around the west metro, the club remains committed to staying active. The Minnesota Snow Wolves Running Club was founded in 2013 by four Chinese Americans. Its goal is to foster friendship by encouraging a fun and healthy lifestyle. Since its inception, the club’s membership has increased, and…

Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie is hosting its annual Air Expo event this weekend. Organized by the Wings of the North (WOTN), Air Expo 22 is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 23, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 24. WOTN, a non-profit dedicated to inspiring the surrounding community to explore aviation and space through its history, heroes, and technology, hosted its first Air Expo back in 2000. Since then, the Air Expo has grown in popularity. It has attracted a great deal of local interest through its flight demonstrations, aircraft…

The Moms Demand Action chapter for the west metro region organized an hour-long meeting at the Edina Library on June 1 to engage communities and take concerted action to help prevent gun violence. As attendees filed into a library event room, every chair was soon occupied, and those who continued to stream into the room were forced to stand around the room’s periphery to make space for many more. Eventually, the event organizers decided to take the meeting outside onto the library’s lawn to accommodate the number of attendees. Clearly, the events in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, had struck…