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ongtime Twin Cities wealth manager Josh Arnold is no longer a one-man band. After nearly 40 years of helping clients manage their assets, Josh was joined by his son Judd in February. Judd, a new father, returned from a nearly 20-year hiatus after stints in New York and Chicago, where he worked for three of the largest hedge funds in the industry.

Josh and Judd’s investment style reflects their combination of Wall Street and Main Street experience. Net of fees, their proprietary client portfolio has generated 2020 YTD returns of 63.2%, and 2019 returns of 46.9%. Since the start of 2018 and 2016, the proprietary client portfolio has generated cumulative net of fee returns of 142.1% / 245.4% vs. S&P 500 returns of 37.7% / 87.8% over the same time periods (refer to the disclosure for additional information, including potential risk of loss).

“We continue to see opportunities in the current market,” Judd says. “Big dislocating events typically create attractive investments for years.”

Josh and Judd are registered investment advisors, which are held to a fiduciary standard of client care.

“Clients come first,” Josh says. “The three generations of our family are the largest clients of the firm. We generate the majority of our income from the returns on our own assets as opposed to fees on our client’s assets. In addition to being fiduciaries, we believe this is the best form of client alignment.”

Josh and Judd regularly meet with clients to provide a first or second opinion.

“My 2-year-old daughter is our youngest client while our oldest is over 90,” Judd says. “Both are planning for the future.”

For help with your investment assets, including your IRA, 401K, 403(b), please call Josh and Judd at their Edina office.

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Disclaimer: The above should only be read with the disclosures included on the accompanying pages of the magazine.

Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Investing in public securities contains a multitude of risks – including risk of loss.

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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

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Use green alternatives to wrapping paper.

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“Yoga for Everyone”

Studio owner prides her business as being welcoming and inclusive.

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Watch Your Language

Don’t wing it when it comes to your holiday dinner.

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‘Tis the season for list making.

Whether you’re a pen-to-paper person (me!) or prefer to keep your life on track on your preferred electronic device, lists provide us a sense of order, self-motivation and gratification—à la, “Check that off the list.”

Baking, chores, cooking, donations, errands, gifts, groceries, menus, schedules (holiday school concerts, parties, travel and more), and the proverbial list goes on … But do you see “you” on the list?

Where do you fit in when it comes to the holiday season and any other time of the year?

Hasn’t 2020 taught us that self-care of mind, body and spirit is pivotal to survival on so many levels? Don’t wait until December turns to January and 2020 cedes its power to 2021. This issue provides impetuses to elevate your commitment to Follow us ! personal wellness.

See what we’re doing behind the On page 18, writer Madeline Kopiecki explores scenes and around town! the use of planners to keep health a priority. “I’ve plymouthmag.com forever been amazed by women and the things @plymouthmag that we do. And something I noticed is that it’s Plymouth Magazine @plymouth_mag really difficult for us as women to put aside all the obligations we carry in order to focus on our own wellness and our own energy,” says Lauren Adsem, therapist and founder of Self-Alchemist planners.

In the same article, Kopiecki highlights E Squared Health, “The prevailing mentality for physical health programs is that the scale is sole arbiter and judge of either success or failure. But Chris and Lauren Schultheis … want to dispel this misconception with their holistic approach to fitness, E Squared Health.”

In another piece on page 12, writer Nina Raemont explores yoga and mindfulness and notes, “For Nicole Christianson, instructor and owner of Live True Yoga, the practice of yoga and meditation is far simpler than the Instagram influencers make it seem, and, in the midst of a pandemic, there are many ways we can implement mindfulness in our lives through these practices—on and off the mat.”

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Continued: ‘Clients Come First’ for Father-Son Investment Firm CONTINUED…. …Josh and Judd regularly meet with clients to provide a first or second opinion.

“My 2-year-old daughter is our youngest client while our oldest is over 90,” Judd says. “Both are planning for the future.”

For help with your investment assets, including your IRA, 401K, 403(b), please call Josh and Judd at their Edina office.

DISCLAIMER: All written content is for discussion purposes only. Proprietary client portfolio (“PCP”) returns reflect the net returns of an actual client account with a median risk tolerance. Client’s with a lower risk tolerance will typically generate lower returns as compared to clients with a higher risk tolerance. Individual client returns will vary based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, risk tolerance, income tax considerations given gains/losses against their basis, client directed transactions, time of withdrawals or contributions and the duration a client has been invested in the PCP. The PCP is typically allocated to equities and fiat. PCP returns are benchmarked against the S&P 500 with reinvested dividends, while the PCP does not reinvest dividends – without the re-investment of dividends, S&P 500 returns would have been lower over the disclosed time periods. We believe the S&P 500 is an appropriate benchmark as the PCP is equity based, with larger capitalization holdings. However, when comparing the PCP to the S&P 500, ex-ante and ex-post volatility, GICS sector allocations, correlation and covariance to other securities and commodity markets, as well as BARRA style factor characteristics of the S&P 500 as compared to the PCP may not be analogous over any given time frame or in totality. Investors may benefit from comparing the returns of the PCP to additional benchmarks to further evaluate its past performance and ex-post risk, as well as evaluating if the ex-post risk is indicative of the prospective risk profile. Advisory services are offered by Josh Arnold Investment Consultant, LLC a Registered Investment Advisor in the State of Minnesota. Performance data is unaudited through Aug. 31st of 2020.

PCP outperformance, or underperformance, in any given period may be driven by the PCP having a higher, or lower, amount of actual risk vs. the benchmark as opposed to the realization of positive, or negative, alpha. Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Investing in public securities contains a multitude of risks – including risk of loss. The foregoing is not intended, nor considered, to be an offer of securities, specific performance or a guaranteed rate of return.

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Fleshing out family history, the novel explores themes of isolation and the remarkable resilience of the human heart.

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N OT E WO RT H Y GIVE

Local gifts are all about sweet eats and a good read.

Plymouth residents and businesses have you covered when it comes to unique hostess gifts, holiday presents or stocking stuffers. We culled a few unique items that will we think will score high on the gift satisfaction meter.

If any other month screams, “Cookies,” it’s December. With December 4 tagged as National Cookie Day, the month gets off to a sweet start. Plymouth resident Sue Kakuk created Kakookies, nutritious, grab ‘n’ go cookies made with whole grains, plant-based protein and superfood ingredients. Cookie flavors include: almond cranberry, Boundary Waters blueberry, cashew blondie (our editor’s favorite), dark chocolate cranberry and peanut butter chocolate chip.

“They are a perfect stocking stuffer for your favorite student, outdoors adventurer or busy young adult. We variety packs …” says Sarah Pritzker, brand manager. “Not only are they a super fun way to make your favorite holiday cookie exchange a little healthier,

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but they are perfect if you have someone participating with dietary restrictions,” All

macaron baking classes, which take place in your kitchen. “I have done classes from four people to [more than] 20, and it’s a great excuse to get together with friends and family and learn a new art form of making macarons while spending time

In other sweet pronunciation news,

hanging out,” she says. “And since the

of the cookies are vegan and gluten-free,

don’t confuse a macaron (mack-a-ROHN)

class is private, you can relax and maybe

and Boundary Waters blueberry variety is

with a macaroon (mack-a-ROON).

enjoy a few cocktails with your own crew.”

also nut free. —Renée Stewart-Hester

Simply, the first confection is made up of

The three-hour session (four

two cookies, sandwiching a gooey filling.

person minimum) includes a history

The other is generally a mounded cookie

lesson about the macaron, tips and

made with coconut and other ingredients

troubleshooting ideas. (“Most errors

and (sometimes) chocolate.

occur when baking,” she says.)

Nikkolette’s Macarons feature 16 types

Krumheuer lists the chocolate-orange

of gluten free goodness that go a long

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is like many things this time of year—a

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and more. Consider the macaron of the month, which includes three, five (one month free) or 10 (one month free) levels.

Owner Nikkolette Krumheuer, formerly of Plymouth, says a special holiday-flavor set will also be offered.

For shoppers interested in experiential gifts, Krumheuer fits the bill with private

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In addition to nikkolettesmacarons.com, macarons are available at Nikkolette’s Macarons, 3425 Highway 169 N. (Extended holiday hours are in place.) and other spots in the Twin Cities; 651.334.8821 @nikkolettesmacarons Nikkolette’s Macarons @nikkolettesmacs

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also offer a number of different gift and

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Adventure awaits—in a perfect gift.

Plymouth’s Julie Jo Severson penned Secret Twin Cities: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure, which unlocks some of the most intriguing and arcane attractions that will broaden your knowledge of local trivia.

“I picked the brains of everyone and anyone, from neighbors and old college friends to archivists and bartenders,” Severson says of researching her book.

“And most importantly, I got out and about and rediscovered my hometown.”

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makes for an entertaining armchair read loaded with rich, relevant backstories and deep local ties,” Severson says. “That was my compass as I made decisions about what to include.”

The book was released in mid-March, which unintentionally made it a great resource for outdoor social-distancing outings. Now that temperatures are

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That’s a Wrap Use green alternatives to wrapping paper.

BY RENÉE STEWARTHESTER

KEEPING A LID ON REFUSE OVER THE HOLIDAYS takes extra and cre-

ative efforts with the increased volume of mailing boxes, packaging and giftwrap. It’s easier than you think to come up with green alternatives to traditional giftwrap and boxes.

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BY TATE CARLSON

Reusing gift or mailing boxes is a no brainer, but have you thought of giving a second life to food containers? Tip: Cereal boxes, especially ones adorned with holiday themes, are ideal packages for kids’ gifts.

Don’t toss out outgrown or no-longerused holiday jammies or outfits. Wash and trim them down to reuse as wrapping for smaller items.

For gardening-theme gifts, tuck items inside a clay flower pot. Top it with the drain base, and festoon it with a holiday ribbon around the pot to secure the lid.

When giving cozy mittens/gloves/hats, wrap them up in a coordinating scarf.

Get the artists in your family to decorate paper grocery bags, and use them as wrapping paper. Tip: Decorate with holidaythemed riddles, poems, song lyrics or trivia.

Dish towels are cuter and cleverer than ever. Use them to wrap up cooking and baking tools for your favorite home cook.

Speaking of cooking, how about filling a large pasta or stock pot with pasta and ingredients for your favorite homemade

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The furoshiki method of wrapping items (gifts to groceries) is steeped in Japanese tradition. Use bandanas, bedsheets, cloth napkins, fabric scraps, tablecloths, tea towels and more to wrap gifts in a more economical and Earthy-friendly way.

pasta sauce? Tie repurposed cloth in a bow to keep it all together. Tip: Consider Marcella Hazen’s recipe. The butter will have to come later, but add in a bottle of red blend wine. A generous splash or two gives the sauce a deeper flavor, and the remaining wine is ready to serve at dinner.

If your fisherman’s tackle box or creel is getting a little too, well, fishy, buy a new one, and fill it with bobbers, fishing line, lures, a stringer and more. Tip: Don’t forget a little container of Bactine and bandages. It can get rough out there on the water or in the boat.

Remember maps?—You know, the kind that were improperly refolded and tucked (jammed) into cars’ glove or side door compartments. If your maps have been replaced by phone apps, give them new life as wrapping paper, especially for travelers, who no doubt, are chomping at the bit to get driving, flying or however they get going! Tip: Travel cubes aren’t just a trend; they’re a necessity for anyone on the go. Fill them with travel-size goodies, and use the map to wrap.

Who doesn’t love giftwrap with a purpose? Gather or print out coloring contest forms from local newspapers, businesses or towns. Wrap up a kid’s (or a kid a heart's) gift, and the wrap can be used later as an art project.

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On a similar note, grab the sport’s section of your favorite newspaper (or magazine!) to use for any athlete’s perfect present. Tip: Fold the paper into an envelope for a gift card to a local sporting goods store.

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"Yoga for Everyone"

BY NINA RAEMONT

WHEN YOGA COMES TO MIND, some might imagine a yogi balancing in a headstand on the tip of a mountain, intense daily regimens and 110 degree yoga studios determined to desiccate its devotees. For Nicole Christianson, instructor and owner of Live True Yoga, the practice of yoga and meditation is far simpler than the Instagram influencers make it seem, and, in the midst of a pandemic, there are many ways we can implement mindfulness in our lives through these practices— on and off the mat.

Christianson discovered her love for yoga back in 2007, finding strength in the practice allowed her to overcome her battle with an eating disorder. Eight years later, she founded Live True Yoga. With the core principle of her studio being “yoga for everyone,” Christianson prides her business as being welcoming and inclusive— no matter one’s experience level, body type or age.

With a new Plymouth location that opened in June,

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Live True Yoga offers an abundance of yoga, barre and Pilates fusion classes. Recently, it began offering virtual classes to its students through Zoom in tandem with its socially distanced, in-studio classes. Although the Zoom classes are “a different dynamic,” Christianson sees her students coming back for two primary reasons: the community connection and the sense of mindful clarity the practice provides.

“Yoga is meditation and a physical approach to keep us present,” Christianson says. “In a crazy time of the pandemic, people come to yoga to feel that community, that connection, but also to feel that presence.”

To maintain the presence that yoga provides, even after the class concludes, Christianson dispensed some pandemic-related suggestions to keep ourselves levelheaded and healthy during stressful times.

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After meditation, she drinks 16 ounces of lemon water, followed by a cup of coffee and a nutritional shake. Christianson is a fruit, veggie and protein proponent (“If you can grow it, I want to eat it.”) and avoids heavier and unnatural carbohydrates, including bread and pasta.

Christianson treats her own fitness routine in the same manner that she treats the classes she teaches: with comfort and accommodation. You won’t find any cross fit routines in her personal workouts in the same way that you won’t find any crazy yoga poses in her classes. “You aren’t going to come into the studio and start doing headstands,” she says.

“What yoga is about is that mind-body connection. Many of my students talk about what they thought yoga was, and it’s based on social media, and when they come in [to the studio], it isn’t what they thought it would be. I watch my students grow and transform on a personal level.

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THERE ARE A FEW holiday meal camps, including the Tried and Trues and the Let’s Do Something News.

(There’s no shame in sampling from both plates.) For those interested in traveling the culinary road not taken, we’ve collected some cooking vocabulary that can help clear the path to Destination Yum.

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Au gratin vs gratin dauphinoise:

Au gratin includes slices of precooked potatoes cooked in cream and topped with cheese; dauphinoise includes slices of uncooked potatoes cooked in cream. (Don’t go the boxed route for au gratin potatoes; fresh is best, especially for the holidays.)

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Braising: uses wet and dry heat with food sautéed or seared and finished in a covered pot in low temperature with a liquid Brine: a salt solution, typically featuring

fresh herbs and fruit, used to marinate turkey, for example, to provide for moist, flavor-infused meat (Trust us; it’s worth doing to give your turkey an extra trot to the table.)

Compote vs chutney vs coulis:

Compote features fresh or dried fruit slowly cooked in a sugar syrup; chutney is a combination of fruit, vinegar, sugar and spices; and coulis is simply a fruit (or veggie) puree.

Crimping: the technique of pleating or adding a ruffled edge to pie dough, along the upper edge of the pie plate (It’s all in the presentation, so mastering this is half the battle of making homemade crust.)

Crumble vs buckle vs betty: Crumble is typically stewed fruit, topped with a mix of butter, flour and sugar; buckle is fruit and cake with a streusel topping; and betty includes fruit layered between or on top of bread crumbs/cubes.

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Hasselback Potatoes

mashed potatoes, which are prepared, piped into decorative, individual swirls and browned (Impress the mother-inlaw with these numbers!)

Galette: a flat, round pastry or bread that holds a sweet or savory filling.

Giblets: liver, heart, gizzard (part of the

stomach) and neck of fowl (used to flavor

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gravy, stuffing and soup) Gremolata: made with chopped parsley,

garlic and lemon zest (accompanies a protein)

Hasselback potatoes: arrived thanks to the Hasselbacken Hotel’s restaurant in Sweden; spuds are sliced (not all the way through the potato) into thin slices (presentation grade: A+)

Kabocha squash: winter squash, also

known as a Japanese pumpkin

Minced meat: a finely chopped mixture of boiled meat, suet and apples with spices and raisins (Calm yourselves; not all versions include meat.)

Roux: typically equal parts fat (We like

butter!) and flour to start sauces or gravy.

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Sorghum: used by cooks as a sweetener

(Ask your Southern friends about it.) and can be ground into flour and used as substitute for wheat flour Spatchcocked vs butterfly: Same thing!

You just sound more “chefy” if you refer to splitting a chicken by removing the backbone to flatten it for better cooking as spatchcocking.

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Spoon bread (typically a soft cornbread served with—a spoon!) vs bread pudding (slices of bread baked with dried

fruit, sugar, spices and eggs)

Stock (made from bones) vs broth

(made from meat or veggies) So if you want to feed your skin, nails and hair, stick to stock—it’s full of collagen.

Stuffing vs dressing: Here’s where the

dinner table arguments begin. The ingredients for stuffing and dressing are basically the same. What’s different is how they’re cooked. Stuffing goes IN the bird; dressing hangs out in a casserole dish in the oven or a pot on the stove.

Tian: finely chopped vegetables that are

cooked in olive oil then baked au gratin.

Yam vs sweet potato: We’re betting 90 percent of us have been calling these holiday staples by the wrong name.

Often, an item labeled “yam” is actually a soft sweet potato (copper skin and orange flesh); items labeled “sweet potato” are firm sweet potatoes with golden skin and light flesh. Will the real yams please stand up? Real yams have black/brown skin and white, purple or reddish flesh. When in doubt, does it really matter?

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MIND AND BODY BUSINESSES HAVE FRESH TAKES ON HOW TO REACH 2021 WELLNESS GOALS. There’s something undeniably alluring about a new year. The future’s unwritten, and, often, you’re able to fill in the blanks.

But with that blank slate of 2021 on the horizon, it can be daunting to consider what improvements you want to make and which goals you plan to set. This year, instead of having another crack at that tired diet plan or biting off way more than you can chew in other wellness areas, consider trying a new approach to health—emotional and physical.

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“I’d say self-alchemy is this idea that selfactualization isn’t someplace we arrive.

It’s more this path we take to get there that becomes meaningful,” says Lauren Adsem, a therapist and founder of Self-Alchemist planners. “I’ve forever been amazed by women and the things that we do. And something I noticed is that it’s really difficult for us as women to put aside all the obligations we carry in order to focus on our own wellness and our own energy.”

Personal wellness and renewed energy are at the forefront of Adsem’s set of four planners, which combine the concept of a

daily planner with that of wellness-oriented daily devotionals. “There is a foundational set of four. I always suggest people start with the primer because it gets the user into the groove of ways to prioritize tasks throughout the week,” says Adsem, who grew up in Plymouth.

Each planner is a 30-day process, broken down by months, weeks and day by day. “I was looking for a planner that broke down a little more than the standard ones,” Jess Knutson says. “Like most people, I set these big goals, and I tend to jump in 100 percent right away, and if it doesn’t work out, I give up.”

Self-Alchemist sidesteps this tendency by allowing users to parcel out those monolithic goals day by day. “My hope, when starting this, was that others could use this one tool to deliberately appoint their attention to certain parts of their day,” Adsem says. This careful single-tasking mindset also applies to the users, ensuring they’ve carved out time to take care of themselves in restorative ways.

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And that’s when I start to notice my own self-care and wellness taking a backseat to everything else that’s going on.”

Although Adsem’s planners are geared toward women, that’s not to say there aren’t practices and habits that are universally beneficial for everyone. Adsem cautions against the occasional, grand “treat yourself” moment in favor of finding the small things that bring you joy throughout the day. It may be a cup of tea or a half an hour of reading time. What’s important is that even in our busy lives, we make the time to do the small daily things we enjoy without feeling guilty.

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“We believe weight is a symptom of health and not the be-all end-all,” says Lauren, who was previously a health coach with a major fitness club. This philosophy has driven the couple to develop a compre-

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“I’ve always been super inspired when Lauren would come home from work, and she would share stories about her clients,” says Chris, who worked on the operations side of the same fitness club before the duo started its own wellness studio.

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The couple says that traditional programming is designed to achieve a weight loss goal, not to educate or empower people in their health. “So, when people are done with a traditional program, they typically see things go backwards,” Chris says.

Personalized solutions mean personalized assessments, which saw E Squared Health move from a virtual model to an in-person site. “One of the things we noticed, as we began to assess and work with people, was that they wanted more from us,” Chris says. “So we moved to our new space in Plymouth this past April, and we

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This growth has also resulted in expansions in programming.

E Squared Health also offers lab diagnostics and staffs a chief medical officer to oversee complex care management. “We’ve created something that gives people a team approach to care, looking at their whole health verses, to Lauren’s point, just looking at the scale,” Chris says.

“With my history of disordered eating, so much of my motivation and anxiety was tied to my weight on the scale, which I didn’t want to repeat this time around,” says Brittany Travis, client. “[Staff ] happily embraced this request in favor of focusing on my positive gains in holistic health (increase in muscle mass, lowering of stress levels, etc.).

Being able to reframe and redefine what ‘success’ means beyond a number on the scale in favor of my holistic health has been a major contributor to my sustained motivation and has kept me from relapsing into disordered eating for the first time in over 15 years.”

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oncluding a year of uncertainty, the Old Fashioned Christmas event that the city of Plymouth knows and loves, like everything else, will not be as traditional as its name implies.

With COVID-related changes and restrictions set in place, the event that welcomes community attendees each year at the Plymouth Creek Park will be held from 2-5 p.m. December 5. In years prior, the event welcomed as many as 1,200 guests and featured special appearances from

holiday icons, like Santa Claus, his elves and reindeer, Mrs. Claus and more.

Sponsored by the City of Plymouth and the Plymouth Historical Society, this event, suitable for all ages, is free to the public and does not require registration to attend. Simply make your way to Plymouth Creek Park, savor some holiday delights, get crafty with Christmas handiwork and enjoy the most wonderful time of the year. —Nina Raemont

For more information and updates on this event, contact Jessie Koch recreation supervisor, at jkoch@plymouthmn.gov or go to plymouthmn.gov.

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Tired of the expenses for cable TV? Learn about the alternatives and technology tips with Ron Timm and find out how thousands of TV watchers have kicked cable to the curb. Ages 18 and up. $29 residents, $35 nonresidents; register online. 7–8:30 p.m. Plymouth Creek Activity Center, 14800 34th Ave. N.; 763.509.5280; plymouthmn.gov

DECEMBER AREA EVENTS

1–31 Gingerbread Wonderland DECEMBER 3 AND 10

Virtual December Snows Watercolor Classes Get creative with the help of Sonja Hutchinson. Bring snowy scenes to life from the warm comfort of your home with classes via Zoom. Ages 18 and up. $50, register online. 1–4 p.m. 763.509.5200; plymouthmn.gov

The sixth annual Gingerbread Wonderland returns to the Gallery at Norway House. From local bakeries and baking enthusiasts to families and first-time gingerbread makers, all are encouraged to enter their tasty cookiecreations. All ages. By appointment only. $10 general admission, $5 members, seniors and children, ages 4 and under free. Norway House, 913 E. Franklin Ave., Mpls.; 612.871.2211; norwayhouse.org

5–27 Free 30-Minute Mini Outdoor Photoshoot 3 Science Explorers

Follow the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca through its wetlands, lakes and bluffs. Instructor Stacy Spitzack will guide kids in the exploration of the nature and animals of Minnesota.

Ages 3–7. $19 residents, $23 nonresidents; register online. 9:30–11 a.m. Bass Lake Playfield, 5450 Northwest Blvd.; 763.509.5200; plymouthmn.gov

8 International Travel

Safety and preparedness is a priority with the Travel HEROES Safety Certification Course. Design a travel safety plan and learn about laws, customs, medical records translation and more. Study abroad students are encouraged to come with a parent or guardian. Ages 18 and up. $39 residents, $47 nonresidents, register online. 10–11 a.m. Plymouth Creek Activity Center, 14800 34th Ave. N.; 763.509.5280; plymouthmn.gov

Enjoy fresh air and social distancing while supporting local photographers with a free 30-minute photoshoot.

Sessions every Saturday and Sunday in December in various locations.

Select date, time and place that works best for you. All ages. Free.

Book sessions online. 9 a.m.–6 p.m.

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8 Virtual Teens Know Best

Be one of the first to read upcoming YA novels and discuss them with other teens online through the St. Paul Public

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13 Minnesota Reptile Show

Curious about reptiles? The ColdBlooded Expos presents a day full of exotic animals and quality reptiles, along with the opportunity to buy, sell and trade. Come see these creatures—you might just go home with one! All ages. $8 ages 11 and up, $3 ages 5–10, ages 4 and under free. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Double Tree Hotel, 7800 Normandale Blvd., Mpls.; 913.609.9343; coldbloodedexpos.com

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Take a break from being indoors, and enjoy a few hours of in-person time to connect and have fun in a sociallydistanced, small group setting. Build some robots, make seasonal art project, laugh and act like kids! Ages 5–12. $20. 5:30–8:30 p.m. Snapology of Minneapolis, 2649 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls.; 612.440.7627; minneapolis.snapology.com

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Spend your morning among the Como Zoo and Conservatory exhibits, and engage in activities designed for individuals on the autism spectrum and their families. See animals of all kinds on this sensory-friendly early-entry day.

All ages. Free, register early online.

9–10 a.m. Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, 1225 Estabrook Drive, St. Paul; 651.487.8201; comozooconservatory.org

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The countdown starts now—a month or more of eat, drink and be merry—with December holidays and New Year’s all in the mix. Speaking of mix, how about hosts gift themselves with big batch beverage recipes, which add extra cheer to any gathering?

Signature cocktails have become de rigueur at home events, and we’re not complaining. But standing post at the beverage cart or bar area can take the fun out of any party for the host. By offering big batch beverages, hosts can mix and mingle, rather than mix, serve and repeat.

John Farrell of Haskell’s Wine and Spirits offers beverage recipe recommendations to not only spice up the holiday season, but they also to save time and money.

MULLED WINE Here’s a perfect excuse get the slow cooker away from the entrée and into the beverage mix.

Mulling spices are available at most wine stores during the holiday season, but if you can’t find them, put star anise, cinnamon, cloves and allspice in a tied cheese cloth. Add a bottle or two of red wine to your crockpot or slow cooker of choice.

Add the mulling spices. Use the lowest setting, and warm the wine, making sure to not boil or cook the beverage. Serve in your favorite mugs.

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LAST GLANCE

Pecans aren’t just for pies.

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TRADITIONAL BAKED GOODS find themselves popping out of ovens in little bands of sweetness throughout the year, but December is arguably go-time for holiday baking. While home bakers hold dear their tried-and-true recipes, a new cookie is always welcome at holiday gatherings.

During this season, Sue Kakuk, owner of Kakookies (see page 8 for details on her business), prepares two or three holiday cookie varieties with the rest of her lineup filled with other traditional treats, including almond tarts, stollen, lefse and more.

Not only can Kakuk bake, she knows her way around the rest of the kitchen, too. She’s participated in a host of cooking contests, including the Pillsbury Bake Off (twice!), Newman’s Own/Good Housekeeping, Post

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Lucky for us, Kakuk shares one of her holiday-time favorites—pecan pie cookies. “I love pecan pie, but some of my family members don’t like the consistency of the pie,” she says. “By creating the same flavors in a cookie format, [it] keeps us all happy and satisfied with smaller portions and healthier ingredients.”a She recommends buying from local producers when possible. “I like St. Croix (Lakeland) brand vanilla extract, and be sure to use pure maple syrup, not pancake syrup made with high fructose corn syrup,” she says.

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