After the break watch a video, "Planting the Seeds of Hope," and see the story appearing on this week's Living in Eden Prairie page in the Eden Prairie News.

By Renee Stewart
“I felt like I knew those people,” she said. “As they got out of the car, I knew who I was looking at.”
If the sun shone brighter in Eden Prairie that July day, if her garden flowers stretched higher to the sky or if the world stood still, Fran Dohrmann probably didn’t notice.
There were other, more important details at hand. It was her chance – her first chance – to study in person the faces of her three sisters and brother.
“It was kind of emotional,” Fran said of the meeting.

He hopes to use the film to raise money for orphans in Uganda

By Forrest Adams

Orphans in Africa are the subject line of countless fundraisers, the images of many infomercials, the topics of many church missions. Alex Fournier, 30, of Eden Prairie decided to take a few steps further.

The former Chanhassen resident went to Uganda and experienced it himself. During several trips over one-and-a-half-year time period, he wrote a story and filmed a full-length feature film starring the orphans themselves.

Rea’s favorite Minnesota places
1. Eat Street, Minneapolis
2. District Del Sol, St. Paul
3. Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs National Park
4. Ely
5. Roseau
6. Lanesboro
7. The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis
8. Hinckley Fire Museum
9. The Minnesota River Valley
10. The Willmar-Spicer area

Eden Prairie author Amy Rea’s new comprehensive guidebook covers the state, both the well known and the obscure
By John Molene

Oak Point Principal Arnette Bell discusses the looping strategy at Oak Point Intermediate School. She mentions the School District Web site, which can be found here: www.edenpr.org.

Eden Prairie Lions are sponsors of a new virtual Lions club

By Karla Wennerstrom

By Shannon Fiecke

Finally tall enough to get on the big rides, Shelbi Setchell’s 12-year-old
son was looking forward to spending much of his summer at Valleyfair.

Getting a season pass is out of the question now though, due to
a change in how the Shakopee amusement park handles customers with
disabilities.

Eden Prairie Heritage Preservation Commission members planted a tree yesterday in honor of the city's Sesquicentennial. A plaque at the site will indicate that the burr oak was planted in 2008.
This is the 150th anniversary of Eden Prairie's first town meeting.

She has been called quirky, unforgettable, a scene stealer, and even “one of the great moms of American fiction,” but to Shannon Olson, she’s just Flo.

For four decades, Shannon and her mother Florence Olson have played their roles as daughter and mother to perfection. Most of the time, those roles were played out in real life, but occasionally, they have found their way to the pages of Shannon’s books.

“I’m a Minnesota Gopher,” pointed out David Waithaka of Nairobi, Kenya, as he visited Eden Prairie’s Noon Rotary Club on April 10.