Cymbet and Micro Control. Those are high tech, leading edge, and one firm's been that for years. And high quality jobs go with the turf, or we hope that more and more of them will arise from those ventures.
This is lower tech, but awarded, read the story here.
Anoka Area Chamber of Commerce awards to a winery and an investments consultancy.
Lest you think Napa Valley, award recipient Goose Lake Farm and Winery has one "white grape" wine, soon to come, "red grape." The specialty is fruit wines, you missed the special event or I did and you might have, but the directions presumably have not changed; and yes the question hanging fire all this time:
There is a tasting room. The home page says:
Goose Lake Farm and Winery was established in 2004. We are proud to be Anoka County's first winery. Our specialty is fruit wine with many of the fruit varieties grown here on the farm. They were developed specifically for Minnesota climates. Our goal is to utilize these fruits to make the wine truly Minnesotan!
Wine tasting is offered in our tasting room. Come out and enjoy the wine - tour the orchard and grounds. We are happy to have you! Pick up your "It Pays to Wine" Punch Card, Purchase 12 bottles of wine and receive 1 bottle of wine free!
Tasting Room is Open!
November 1st thru January 1st
Thursday thru Saturday -- 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday -- 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gift Cards now available in any denomination
And the winery's homepage gives retail outlets, including the Ramsey Town Center Coborn's store (where the dark forces are blowing a lot of litigious smoke and preventing opening of a Bank of Elk River branch adjacent to the pharmacy where the area is now used for storage, however, anticipating a proper litigation outcome soon, that impediment to decency might end at some foreseeable future time, let us hope).
2004 as opening date for the winery means the vines need to mature, but we can hope for a red wine, aged, beyond table wine. Hope for it.
Second award, Jim Steffen, a former Anoka Area Chamber top muck-a-muck, perhaps still so, (perhaps Ramsey Councilmember Jeffrey got his board seat); Trott Brook Financial is his firm, and he's still big on the Ramsey EDA board [Economic Development Authority].
Steffen and that Trott Brook firm also received a Chamber award (although not as interesting as a winery, no sir, ya betcha).
Not presently anywhere near Trott Brook, Trott Brook Financial is now housed for business at Jim Deal's plaza building diagonally across the street from the opulent new Ramsey City Hall, perhaps having taken over the space formerly advertised as held by that ubiquitous Town Center presence, "For Lease." Already home to Fountains of Ramsey, a first for the Town Center, the Deal building houses a law firm and court offices (or it did at one point). Engineering firm Bolton & Menk which designed routing of trunk sewer in Ramsey is also in the Deal building, diagonally across from City Hall, close to the cash cow for milking.
Steffen joins the site, and needs to see things at the Secretary of State website get updated to match his Anoka Chamber updating:
Well, when it comes to awards, Bruce Nedegaard got at least one, the report of it still being online. I have not been so awarded, but I am ahead of Nedegaard because I am still sucking air and he unfortunately is not. A felony conviction he got one of them too, and I have not been so awarded, so it is a second way to be better off.
Life goes on, until it stops. May the holidays be survived and the New Year good.