BLAINE-SPING LAKE PARK-COLUMBIA HEIGHTS-FRIDLEY LIFE FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2026 | 21
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Award Winners List 2026
Quality • Service • Detail • Care • Attention • Leader • Unrivaled • Finest • Outstanding Readers’ Choice Award winners are selected during a six-week voting period by print and online readers
Motorcycle / ATV Dealer Chopper Powersports( Chopper City Sports)
Place for Children’ s Party Urban Air Adventure Park
Place to Bowl Mermaid Entertainment & Event
Recreational Vehicle Dealer Hilltop Camper and RV
Waterpark New Brighton Community Center
Religion
Place of Worship Cross of Glory Lutheran Church
Religious Leader & Place of Worship Cassie Nault, Cross of Glory in Mounds View
Shopping & Services
Funeral Home Miller Funeral Home & Crematory
Kennel / Boarding Facility Core Pet Zone
Moving Company Manny’ s Piano Moving
Tattoo Parlor Scottish Rose Tattoo
Towing Company Schmit Towing
Veterinary Clinic Mounds View Animal Hospital
Style & Fashion
Baby / Infant Store 3 Pesky Penguins
Boutique Reverie Boutique
Children’ s Clothing Store 3 Pesky Penguins
Consignment Store Turnstyle Consignments
Dry Cleaners St Croix Cleaners- Arden Hills
Jewelry Store Innsbruck Jewelers
Antique Store Country Chic Antiques- Lino Lakes
Tailor / Alterations Tailoring & Alterations Plus
Thrift Store That Other Thrift Store
Women’ s Clothing Store Reverie Boutique
Voting for the 2027 Readers’ Choice Awards begins September 2026!
St. John the Baptist Catholic School is a place … Where every student is known, cared for, and respected. Where each student is a member of a community of faith, knowledge, and service. Where each child is given a foundation for life.
Thank you Mounds View & New Brighton readers for voting us Best!
Private School
· Personalized classroom instruction in preschool through eighth grade
· STEM, music and band, art, physical education and athletics, and Spanish
· High expectations and academic achievement
· Faith-filled environment and virtue-based character building
· A respectful, nurturing, and safe community
845 2nd Ave NW · New Brighton, MN 55112 · 651-633-1522 · www. stjohnnyb. org
LIVELIFE
Thanks for over 10 years of honors!
2026
READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS
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Readers in Blaine / Spring Lake Park, Columbia Heights / Fridley and Mounds View / New Brighton voted Crest View best assisted living, best retirement community and best senior apartments. Readers in Brooklyn Park selected Crest View best assisted living, memory care and best retirement community. Thank you!
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Blaine Campus 12016 Ulysses St. NE, Blaine Ph: 763.782.1601
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