Laura Hotvet, new Executive Director of the South Lake-Excelsior Chamber of Commerce, outside the chamber offices Monday, Nov. 20, in downtown Excelsior.
Business was brisk along Water Street in Excelsior Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012
Water Street in downtown Excelsior is the central business corridor for the Lake Minnetonka community.
Excelsior Commons Park is large draw for visitors and locals to the Lake Minnetonka community.
Excelsior's waterfront attracts visitors with a variety of excursion cruises on Lake Minnetonka.
Customers board the Steamboat Minnehaha from Excelsior's city docks Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012.  The steamboat, built in 1906, was recovered after 50 years on the bottom of Lake Minnetonka.  The Minnehaha now operates on the lake as a nonprofit museum.
Mark Adamson, Minneapolis, begins to sort through his stringer full of freshly caught crappies, on the ground outside Maynard's restaurant in Excelsior, Saturday, April 21.  Adamson caught the gaggle of fish in the Narrows during the Lions Club Lake Minnetonka Crappie Fishing Contest.
Emcee and official Lions Club Crappie Fishing Contest weigh-in Grand Poobah Mark Schutz, left, of Full Throttle Fishing in Brooklyn Park, keeps the crowd outside Maynard's restaurant informed while volunteer Sam Bissen, 12, drop a fish onto the scale Saturday, April 21, in Excelsior.
Mark Meyer, Mound, displays the 3rd Place, .96-pound crappie he pulled out of Lafayette Bay on Lake Minnetonka during last Saturday's 2012 Lions Club Crappie Fishing Contest.  Meyer had just weighed his catch in a tent outside Maynard's restaurant in Excelsior.  The contest winner was Chad Carruthers, with a 1.13-pound lunker.
Laura Hotvet, new Executive Director of the South Lake-Excelsior Chamber of Commerce, outside the chamber offices Monday, Nov. 20, in downtown Excelsior.
Laura Hotvet, new Executive Director of the South Lake-Excelsior Chamber of Commerce, outside the chamber offices Monday, Nov. 20, in downtown Excelsior.
Laura Hotvet, new Executive Director of the South Lake-Excelsior Chamber of Commerce, outside the chamber offices Monday, Nov. 20, in downtown Excelsior.
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