Jane Horn's Prior Lake gardens are featured on the "Better Homes and Gardens" Web site, the Internet home of the popular lifestyle magazine. The self-taught gardener offers tips on a range of issues, including plant choice and how to cultivate a luscious landscape.

The "Better Homes and Gardens" feature isn't the first time Horn, a Scott-Carver Master Gardener, has shared her yard space with the public. In July 2009 she hosted a public viewing of her garden, with proceeds going to support the Piper Breast Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

Prior Lake resident Brianna Larson, a seventh-grade student at Twin Oaks Middle School, packaged food at the Eagan headquarters of Feed My Starving Children, on Thursday, March 4. In just two hours, Larson and more than 50 of her peers packaged enough food to feed 68 children for an entire year. (Submitted photo)

Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9, through Twin Oaks Middle School, people can donate new and gently used books for Books 4 Kids, a program of the Junior League of Minneapolis.

Donations can be placed in a collection bin located in the main office of Twin Oaks through April 28. Books 4 Kids will accept books for children age 14 and under. All collected books will go directly to under-served children in the Minneapolis community.

By Meryn Fluker, Staff Writer

Drew Barrymore, Carrie Fisher and Charlie Sheen all came from families filled with successful actors. While her parents aren’t necessarily movie stars, 13-year-old Tori Thibodeaux is another young thespian who’s joining in the family tradition.

Dakotah! Ice Center is now home to the Dakotah! Figure Skating Club (DSF). The Dakotah! Figure Skating Club is a non-profit organization.

Established in mid-2009, the club currently has about 40 skaters and member parents. Community children, youth, and adults who train as figure skaters formed the club with DSF figure skating coach Trudy Oltmanns, who is a skating coach at the Dakotah! Ice Center which opened in November 2008.