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HABITAT RESTORATION: Flint Hills Resources has earned Tandem Global WHC Gold Certification for habitat restoration at its Cottage Grove fuel terminal. The certification comes after two years of work in partnership with Friends of the Mississippi River to implement a restoration and monitoring plan to re-establish the 6.5-acre site’s natural prairie and savannah. Flint Hills has held gold certification for its work done with community partners over the past 25 years to restore more than 200 acres of the Pine Bend Bluffs, a critical natural area along the Mississippi River that is adjacent to Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery. This makes two Flint Hills gold certified sites in Minnesota and the first two gold-certified sites ever in the Twin Cities. LEARN MORE: Environmental Stewardship (SPONSORED: Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery)
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TOMORROW: Via Northern Gardener, VERBATIM: “Join Dream of Wild Health on Saturday, April 4, for a Seed Swap & Barter Event!” SEE: https://fluence-media.co/4vgWrsf
THIS MONTH: From Minneapolis Foundation via Instagram, VERBATIM: “Big news for nonprofits supporting small businesses in the Twin Cities! Starting April 15, the Minneapolis Foundation will open applications for our 2026 Economic Mobility grants. This year’s funding will focus on nonprofit organizations that provide small business support and play a vital role in strengthening entrepreneurship and the local economy.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/47DYhJx
APRIL 18: Via MplsStPaul, VERBATIM: “The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) announced the list of artists featured in The Auction, the school’s annual art auction. All proceeds go benefit student scholarships, helping cover financial support for the more than 97 percent of MCAD scholars receiving aid.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/47FG6mN
NEXT MONTH: Via CMT, VERBATIM: “Local Twin Cities resident Lynn Anne Groebner is walking to end the rare, incurable disease she lives with every day. On May 2, Lynne will lead the CMTA Minneapolis Walk 4 CMT in Bloomington and invites the Twin Cities to join her. CMT is an inheritable, progressive neuromuscular disease that affects about 135,000 people in the United States, including an estimated 1,500 people in the Twin Cities and 2,300 across Minnesota.” MORE: https://fluence-media.co/4bQSS4m
MUSIC: Via Minnesota Monthly, VERBATIM: “Diverse Emerging Music Organization (DEMO) has launched the Minnesota Music Archive, a digital collection of the state’s musical history across genres and generations. As of this week, more than 2,000 recordings are included in the online library, including everything from polka and Tejano to jazz and Indigenous music.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3NTDmeN
MORE MUSIC: Via Mankato Free Press, VERBATIM: “Like many other nonprofits, the Southern Minnesota School of Music has found itself in a position where money coming in isn’t keeping up with the cost of services they provide to fulfill the mission set forward nearly 50 years ago. At a meeting Monday night, board President Kimberley Greenwood shared details with about 25 people with hopes they can raise money to cover operations in the short term while plans are put in place for permanent remedies. She also introduced Riley Kolstad, the new executive director.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4cnKXur
LANGUAGE: Via MPR, VERBATIM: “Liz Zoongwegiizhigook Zinsli led a field trip to Porky’s Sugarbush Camp, a camp west of Minneapolis that specializes in maple tapping and processing. She is a teacher at Wicoie Nandagikendan, an early childhood immersion program that teaches its curriculum in the Ojibwe and Dakota languages . . . According to the University of Minnesota and language advocates, it’s estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 fluent Ojibwe speakers in Minnesota and far fewer Dakota first language speakers. The decline of Indigenous languages came with the boarding school era, when speaking the languages was discouraged and often punished.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4m9KL69
NEXTGEN: Via JA, VERBATIM: “Junior Achievement North is officially launching the JA Dream Accelerator, a new experiential learning program designed to help high school students uncover who they are, what they love and how that connects to career paths. The interactive experience will open at Junior Achievement North’s St. Paul facility and is expected to serve up to 12,000 students annually.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3QiqpvC
PETS: Via WCCO-TV, VERBATIM: “Even though the majority of federal ICE and Border Patrol agents have left Minnesota, the fears of many in local immigrant communities remain. Many families are in hiding, afraid to go to work or the grocery store, worried they could be arrested and possibly deported. Photojournalist John Blake shows how the North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center has grown and evolved to meet the needs of families and their pets.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/47AIM51
FIRST RESPONDERS: Via Northern News Now, VERBATIM: “Two of Duluth’s outstanding first responders were honored on Thursday. The Duluth Rotary Club held its annual Police Officer and Firefighter of the Year ceremony at the Kitchi Gammi Club.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/4c4aDfj
PUDGE: Via Minnesota Monthly, VERBATIM: “Walter Camp, the father of modern football, called him the ‘greatest football player of all time.’ On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of college football, Grantland Rice, the first celebrity sportswriter, echoed Camp’s sentiments and wrote some verse in his honor: ‘With frame of iron and steel, you’ve earned a nation’s cheers. You stand among the valiant few who’ve whipped the passing years, Pudge.’ The Pudge who merited Rice’s recitation was Minneapolis’ own William ‘Pudge’ Heffelfinger.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4c2RLxk
MEDIA: Via Lakeland PBS, VERBATIM: “Hubbard Broadcasting’s KB101, a country music station based in Bemidji, was recently named a recipient of the National Association of Broadcasters’ Crystal Award for its community service efforts.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/4e2gvYZ
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