Author: Joanna Werch Takes

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Joanna Werch Takes began her professional journalism career at a weekly community newspaper in Iowa. After moving to Minnesota, she spent several years as an editor at a magazine aimed at hobbyist woodworkers. Joanna and her family have lived in Eden Prairie for over 20 years. She is a former member and officer of the Eden Prairie Women of Today service group and a former Girl Scout leader in Eden Prairie. Contact Joanna at: joanna.takes@eplocalnews.org

Feel like going fishing? A pair of Eden Prairie brothers want to make it easy. Vick Tan, who is entering his junior year at Eden Prairie High School, and his brother William, an incoming freshman, started out repairing old fishing rods for friends and family in their garage a couple of years ago. Subsequently, Vick said, “I thought to myself, whenever I was going fishing, ‘Why aren’t there more kids who are doing this activity as well?’ And from there, that was the moment where the idea behind Fish Hut was born, which was to give access to fishing to…

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