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COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS: Flint Hills Resources is celebrating summer with thousands of Minnesotans at local festivals and parades. Look for Flint Hills employees – along with their families and friends – as they show their hometown pride at many local celebrations, including Rosemount Leprechaun Days, Hastings Rivertown Days, Inver Grove Heights Days and Saint Paul’s Lowertown Sounds. For decades, Flint Hills Resources has supported programs, organizations and events that improve our quality of life in our communities. LEARN MORE: Community Partnerships (SPONSORED: Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery)
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NEXT MONTH: Via The Timberjay, VERBATIM: “The sixth annual Voyageurs Star Party will bring two nights of stargazing, storytelling, music, paddling, and family activities to Voyageurs National Park on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4i8RFZv
HOME-COOKED: MplsStPaul reports on Immigrant Kitchen, ticketed dinners home-cooked by immigrant chefs. The series from BIPOC Foodways Alliance was on hold during Operation Metro Surge, returning this summer. VERBATIM: “Viktoriia Panova of Donetsk, Ukraine, who owns the food truck Kozak Corner, kicked off the series with a July dinner of Ukrainian sausage, garlic potatoes, cabbage slaw, and caramel waffle rolls; LaToya Mbayu of Douala, Cameroon helmed the kitchen for an August 10 dinner featuring dishes of her childhood; and the series will continue from here. Each featured chef leads a four-course meal (with the help of BFA’s staff) and shares a story with diners as each plate is served.” READ/PHOTOS: https://fluence-media.co/4zigOXO
HONOR FLIGHTS: Via Valley News Live, VERBATIM: “A local event promoter hopes to donate a portion of proceeds from an upcoming concert to the Veterans Honor Flight of North Dakota and Minnesota. The announcement follows a theft that cost the nonprofit an estimated $30,000 in fundraising merchandise.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4g1xPN2
FARM ACCIDENT: Via Farm Progress, VERBATIM: “The benefits of living in a small, rural community are often apparent at the worst of times, and they were on full display the evening of July 30 on a vacant lot south of the East Chain Evangelical Free Church in rural Martin County, Minn. Actually, the lot wasn’t vacant that night. More than 300 bales of straw, alfalfa and grass had been brought in, waiting to be auctioned off to benefit the family of Leighton Hugoson, a young man who had died in a farm accident the week prior.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4wWmi95
SCHOOL SUPPLIES: Via Maple Grove-based TopLine, VERBATIM: “TopLine Financial Credit Union, a Twin Cities-based member-owned financial services cooperative, held their 23rd annual School Supply Drive that benefitted local non-profits, Avenues for Youth, Keystone Community Services, and YMCA of the North Youth and Family Services. TopLine members and employees generously donated a variety of school supplies including notebooks, folders, binders, pencils, backpacks and more to help youth in our communities get ready for the new school year.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4zj2M8s
HOUSING: Via Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, VERBATIM: “Clare Housing celebrated nearly 40 years of supportive housing for Minnesotans living with HIV on July 30, unveiling a $7 million renovation of Clare Northeast Apartments in northeast Minneapolis. Alaysia Lane reports that the project modernized all 32 apartments and updated common spaces. Executive Director Phoebe Trepp says roughly 70% of Minnesotans living with HIV will be older than 50 by 2030, and the nonprofit is seeking funding for housing built for older adults.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4wpRbBS
PETS: Via MPR, VERBATIM: “The average residential addiction treatment program can take 30 to 90 days. For people with pets, the inability to find a temporary home for their dogs or cats could be a barrier to getting help. A local animal rescue organization is helping people find a foster parent for their pet so they can be reunited after treatment. The Bond Between’s respite foster program has been around since 2024 and offers up to 90 days of free temporary foster care for people going through tough life circumstances such as domestic violence or addiction treatment. They recently partnered with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, an addiction treatment center, to help people seeking addiction treatment find pet care.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4xKDWwM
VETS: Via St. Louis Park-based Vehicles for Veterans, VERBATIM: “Car Donation Foundation (CDF), the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization behind Vehicles For Veterans, has surpassed $200 million in lifetime vehicle donations, marking one of the largest milestones achieved by any vehicle donation program in the United States. Through donated cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, RVs, and other vehicles, Vehicles For Veterans has helped generate critical funding for a nationwide network of veteran-focused nonprofit organizations, including Semper Fi & America’s Fund.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4cA3GU7
EXHIBIT: Via MinnPost, VERBATIM: “In her new exhibit, ‘Living Threads,’ St. Paul-based artist Hend Al-Mansour uses screen printing as a vehicle for understanding. It is part of an ongoing body of work exploring what it means to be an Arab woman, driven by an effort to show ‘that not only Arab women are powerful, but all women are powerful,’ she explained.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4cG30wx
EXHIBIT: Via MplsStPaul, VERBATIM: “Seemingly transfixed in space, three shawls with gently dangling ribbons can be seen through the window of the Bockley Gallery: ‘Ghostly,’ artist Maggie Thompson says. Each is constructed from a fabric made up of hundreds of small rectangles stitched together. The words ‘I Can’t Breathe’ appear in the center of each, repeating again and again. In response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Thompson collaborated with other local sewers to make and distribute face masks with ‘I Can’t Breathe’ screen printed across each.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4wuBidl
PROTEST ARCHIVE: Via MPR, VERBATIM: “Erica Helander never expected to work in archives or preservation. But stacks of posters and signs ranging in size and message told a different story. In April, they covered tables and leaned against walls in the living and dining rooms of the home she shares with her in-laws. These signs came from protests over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Operation Metro Surge. Helander began to put out calls to collect posters for The Rebel Loon Archive, an organization she started as she saw the vast amount of art being created during the months of protests and fear.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4xjgOWp
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