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6 unusual facts about Edina


2008 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

The 2008 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 63rd U.S. Women's Open, held June 26–29 at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis.

Doug Haining

Doug Haining is a saxophonist/clarinetist who currently resides in Edina, Minnesota.

Dutch Cemetery, Elmina

A plaque unveiled on 24 July 2006 by Dutch ambassador to Ghana Arie van der Wiel and Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem Municipal District Chief Executive George Frank Asmah remembers this renovation.

EDINA

Early holdings were the 1981 UK population census, and research data from the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde.

Robert E. Griswold

In 1972, he moved his family to Edina Minnesota Edina, Minnesota where he founded Effective Learning Systems, Inc.

U.S. Route 212

It runs for 949 miles (1,527 km) from Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota to Yellowstone National Park.


25495 Michaelroddy

It is named after Michael Roddy, an Astronomy and Physics overlord at Edina High School, and the Science Department Chair at Edina Public Schools in Edina, Minnesota.

American Higher Education Development

American Higher Education Development Corporation (AHED) is an owner of post-secondary educational institutions including East West College of Natural Medicine in Sarasota, Florida; Madison Media Institute in Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis Media Institute in Edina, Minnesota; Rockford Career College in Rockford, Illinois; Stautzenberger College in Maumee, Ohio and Brecksville, Ohio; and The Stautzenberger Institute in Allen Park, Michigan.

Chief Kweku Andoh

Upon the latter's expulsion to Sierra Leone Chief Andoh was appointed regent of Elmina in 1873 and later of Edina State, a position he held until his death in December 1898.

Fred Mecklenburg

He had a practice in Edina, Minnesota until relocating to the Washington, D. C. area in 1981, when his wife was appointed by Ronald Reagan to Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Jerry's

Jerry's Foods, owner of several grocery store chains, headquartered in Edina, Minnesota

KTWN

KTWN-FM, a radio station (96.3 FM) licensed to serve Edina, Minnesota, United States

Polly Peterson

Polly Suzanne Peterson Bowles (born January 22, 1959) is a beauty queen from Edina, Minnesota, who has held the Miss Minnesota USA title.

Southdale

Southdale Center, the first fully enclosed and completely climate-controlled shopping mall in the US, located in Edina, Minnesota

Sylvester Sanfilippo

Sylvester Sanfilippo (January 1, 1926 – May 2, 2013) was a pediatrician from Edina, MN, who first described a mucopolysaccharide storage disease which bears his name.

Waverley, New South Wales

Edina, a late Victorian mansion built on a grand scale in Birrell Street by Ebenezer Vickery for himself and his family, was completed around 1884.


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