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BUSINESS EXCELLENCE: Flint Hills Resources was just awarded the 2025 Large Business of the Year award from the Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce at their annual Business Excellence Awards celebration. The award celebrates the outstanding achievements of businesses that exemplify the thriving and growing spirit of Dakota County. The businesses honored make an impact and contribute to the continued success of our community. LEARN MORE: About the Pine Bend refinery. (SPONSORED: Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery)
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BASIC NEEDS
SURVEY: Via MPR, VERBATIM: “Food shelves across the country are seeing increased demand. And a new survey carried out by the University of Minnesota Extension and Minnesota-based nonprofit Foundation for Essential Needs provides a closer look at the need. Among the takeaways from the nearly 10,000 Minnesotans who responded this past spring: more than half say they got half or more of all their food from a food shelf.” LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4aRUJpf
MORE: Via Foundation for Essential Needs, the survey results. INFOGRAPHICS: https://fluence-media.co/3XTICR5
ST CLOUD: Via WJON-Radio, VERBATIM: “You can help a local nonprofit cook a traditional Christmas dinner. The Dream Center is seeking assistance with its Christmas Day Outreach Meal at noon on Thursday, December 25th.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4oZnWCd
CROSSLAKE: Via Echo Journal, VERBATIM: “The Initiative Foundation issued a round of rapid-response emerging needs grants to 20 central Minnesota nonprofits working to stabilize essential services — from food access and housing support to youth programming, safety services and mental health resources. The Crosslake Food Shelf received $5,000 to replace a failing freezer for safe food storage and continue service to 100-plus families twice monthly.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3XSCQz7
MORE: Via Initiative Foundation, the full list of recipients of grants. SEE: https://fluence-media.co/3XX3wie
UNHOUSED: Via Sahan Journal, VERBATIM: “On a windy November day, Anvis Aryavong set out to offer housing and addiction treatment services to the unhoused. Aryavong, program manager of street outreach at Agate Housing and Services, a Minneapolis nonprofit formed in 2021 from the merger of St. Stephen’s Human Services and House of Charity, gathered hygiene kits, bottled water, Narcan and pamphlets with information on housing services — standard items for an outreach day. As someone with lived experience of homelessness, Aryavong has an informed sense of what the city’s transient unsheltered population needs.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/48ELkjv
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
STREET JUSTICE: Via CCX Media, VERBATIM: “Kelly Kunz spends many of her days helping others. She started Street Justice Ministry, a nonprofit that she says ‘reaches the unreachable.’ ‘People walk over people every day and they have no idea their story,’ said Kunz. ‘They have no idea the abandonment, they don’t know the trauma, they don’t understand what they’re walking through, the addiction, what’s causing the addiction.’ Kunz purchased a bus to find people who need help. ‘We show up. We pop the window out. Like the dope dealers serve in the streets. But we do hope,’ said Kunz.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/49bLHlD
DULUTH: Via Duluth News Tribune, VERBATIM: “A new tool-lending library with the Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps is building its collection for DIY enthusiasts to use for their own projects. Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps is a Duluth nonprofit organization that focuses on historic preservation trades training for young adults and serving the community.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4aN1okA
BROOKLYN PARK: Via CCX Media, VERBATIM: “The city of Brooklyn Park honored a Park Center Senior High School counselor with her own day in late November. To the people who know her, ‘Emily Juaire Day’ is well-deserved recognition. Students that need a pick-me-up can step into Emily Juaire’s well-decorated office at Park Center. There, her so-called Pirate Pantry is stocked with necessities for those who need it most.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3KZPWYm
FRESH15: The latest season of Fresh15 includes interviews with new Minnesota House members. So far, five new members have shared their goals, background and fun facts before they take office in a historic session this January.
Rep. Kari Rehrauer
Rep. Wayne Johnson
Rep. Julie Greene
Rep. Keith Allen
Rep. Peter Johnson
Follow on your favorite podcast platform, or at www.TheDailyAgenda.com/Podcasts. (SPONSORED: Minnesota Telecom Alliance)
GOOD AROUND THE STATE
RED LAKE: Via MinnPost, VERBATIM: “Joshua Jones jokes that he spent his formative years not forming. The 40-year-old member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians used to be a motocross racer, a touring musician, a vineyard manager, a cattle ranch hand and a construction worker. These varied pursuits took him far from Red Lake Nation, but he discovered his passion by returning closer to home. His “light-bulb moment” happened in 2014 in a hydrology class at Bemidji State University, where he discovered a passion for environmental work. As a hydrologist with Red Lake Nation’s Department of Natural Resources, he’s now helping tribal youth find their forms through outdoor programming, which he said is taking a page from the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3N2eel2
DULUTH: Via Northern News Now, VERBATIM: “The ‘Power of Love’ campaign provided Duluth’s YMCA with a big funding boost on Monday. The ‘Power of Love’ campaign is a fundraiser hosted by accounting firm ‘RSM’. Every year the firm hosts the ‘RSM Classic’, a PGA golf tournament where money is raised to support charities that support the wellbeing of kids.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/4qbEkQS
GRAND RAPIDS: Via Herald Review, VERBATIM: “Let’s Plant Trees, a Minnesota based nonprofit dedicated to reforestation, announced that 4105 free native tree seedlings have already been pre-ordered by Grand Rapids area residents for the spring 2026 distribution event. Community participation is strong and the organization is encouraging more residents to sign up while supplies remain.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4j0He8U
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