Shops & Business

Now in its seventh year, the Skate with the Hornets event gives young fans a chance to meet their favorite Hornet hockey players. Truly a community event, this annual open skate offers an opportunity to give back.

Edina is home to many locally owned boutiques. Fashion forward retailers abound with unique items suited to shoppers of every style preference.

“Moans from homeowners who find snowdrifts deposited by snowplows in newly shoveled driveways can be silenced,” Popular Mechanics wrote in November 1962, about an invention created in the village of Edina, Minnesota.

December is the month to celebrate family and holiday cheer, but it’s also one of the busiest times of the year. Between dinner parties, the kids’ holiday concerts, baking cookies, and getting the house ready for guests, who has time to go gift-shopping?

Every weekday for more than 40 years, Edina’s Meals on Wheels program has been delivering hot meals to residents.

No skates? No problem. When she was in seventh grade, Edina resident Sarah Miller started a program in which old or unwanted ice skates are donated and distributed to Edina-area warming houses, so neighbors without skates can partake in the fun.

Holly Hastings, a Minneapolis artist who grew up in Edina, was living alone in an isolated northern cabin to work on her memoir. Feeling lonely, she travelled to Hibbing to adopt a cat from the animal shelter.

Between the scent of freshly baked bread and its tempting window display of cakes and cookies, Joyce’s Bakery lured customers inside its doors near 44th and France for almost five decades.

After a successful six years in northeast Minneapolis, Parc Boutique has expanded its “casual basics” to a shop near 50th and France in Edina.

Even on the most blustery days, Salvation Army bell ringers stationed by big red kettles can be found around Edina, from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve. Many of these volunteer bell ringers are your friends, family members and neighbors.

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