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Last year, Edina Magazine asked members of the community to tell us their favorites in 50 categories for our readers’ choice survey. Check out this list of 2014’s winners and see how this year’s crop compares: you’ll find some repeat favorites and some newcomers.

Choosing Categories

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After Southdale Center was built in 1956, John Holt barely recognized the area around his home just south of the shopping mall. “Sometimes I lost my way at night because the streets were building up so fast,” he told the Minneapolis Star in 1960.

Asked to offer one piece of advice to first-time parents, new mom Carly Baker’s words are simple. “Seek out a community of moms; you’re in it together,” she says. And Baker did just that when her son Everett was born last spring.

Voting has come and gone for the 2015 Best of Edina.

One of the special things about this city is its heart for helping others. Countless Edina residents understand the value of giving back and how time spent caring for others strengthens the bonds of family, friendship and community connections.

Tim, Carrie, Sophie and Zoey Corsaro, all from Edina, bring a piece of home to Edina friends Kristina, Pat, Camille and Adeline Morton while on vacation in Paris.

Here's our handy guide to our Best of 2015 readers' choice surveys. Feel free to contact us with any further questions.

Why do I have to vote in so many categories?

Edina couples Matt and Sara McLenighan, Curt and Rachel Ruegemer, Tom and Nancy Bray and John and Kristen Karpinsky on spring break in Jamaica.

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