...Owners of the Playhouse Child Center in Brainerd and Little Falls made history recently. Photos Back | Next Back | Next Diane Mendel and Melody Peterson were named the Minnesota Small Business Persons of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration...

...residing. Commercial Holiday Station, 7,000 block of Excelsior Road, alterations, $19,500. Melody Peterson and Diane Mendel, 7,000 block of Fairview Road, alterations, $226,000. Kent D. and Monica Wentzel, 14,000 block of Golf...

...Rapids in 1991 to include six locations, 100 employees and $2 million in revenue. Co-owners are Melody Peterson and Diane Mendel, St. Cloud. Playhouse is known as Campus Playhouse at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. Playhouse also manages...

...Renee Richardson After 10 years at Central Lakes College, the child care center was looking for a new home. Owners Diane Mendel and Melody Peterson started their child care business in 1991 with a center in Sauk Rapids and later expanded. They...