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Community Partner Spotlight: Urban Growler

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Urban Growler is the first women-owned microbrewery in Minnesota. They brew delicious craft beer and offer a full food menu of thoughtfully sourced eats out of their taproom and beer garden. Our Recommendations: Urban Growler recently re-released the Jalapeno Cowbell Cream Ale, which adds a nice spicy kick to…

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Community Partner Spotlight: Tommie’s Pizza

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Pictured above Tommie Daye and daughter Tania Tommie’s Pizza serves authentic New York-style pizza just down the street from our Selby store. Open since 2018, they are are a local family owned business with an emphasis on great ingredients. They have top-notch pizza, and don’t forget an order of…

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Community Partner Spotlight: Elite Towing

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Elite Towing: Delivering Elite Service for Over a Decade For over a decade, Elite Towing has been building community by getting people back on the road and back to living their lives. This institution has been a helping hand for countless drivers across Minnesota. However, it is not just about…

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Community Partner Spotlight: Mosaic on a Stick

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Mosaic on a Stick is a Black-, Indigenous-, and woman-owned business providing a community art space by selling quality supplies, teaching mosaic classes, and creating commissions. In the St Paul art scene, owner Lori Greene is part of a vibrant community of artists building connections across differences. Mosaic on…

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Community Partner Spotlight: Flava Cafe

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Flava Cafe General Benefit Corporation is a social enterprise community cafe invested in offering quality coffee, food, service, and programming that eliminates disparities for young women of color and gender-expansive youth one latte at a time. Mississippi Market Member-Owners can show their member id card to get 10% off…

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Community Partner Spotlight: Lowertown Bike Shop

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By Madeline Summers, Community & Outreach Specialist Lowertown Bike Shop (LBS) is in the Head House of Union Depot station in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul. They offer a complete range of services from bike tune-ups to overhauls, custom builds to fittings. Flat fixes, adjustments,…

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Community Partner Spotlight: La Boulangerie Marguerite

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By Madeline Summers, Community & Outreach Specialist In 2017, when West African-born French pastry chef François Kiemde and his Midwestern-rooted wife, Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, purchased PJ Murphy’s Bakery, they understood their opportunity — and their responsibility — to steward the legacy of this neighborhood establishment forward. I stopped by…

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Community Partner Spotlight: The Wine Thief & Ale Jail

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The Wine Thief & Ale Jail is located on St. Claire Avenue in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood. This carefully curated, family-owned shop offers responsibly produced wines from around the world, including organic and vegan options; a wide variety of local craft beers and European imports; an extensive gluten-free beer and…

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Community Partner Profile: Lowertown Bike Shop

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Learn more about treasured local nonprofit Lowertown Bike Shop in this Q&A with Operations Manager Crystal Sursely. How long has Lowertown Bike Shop (LBS) been in business? Eleven years this May! Why did you decide to open a nonprofit cycling business? LBS became a nonprofit because we…

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