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Community Partner Spotlight: Twin Cities Pets

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“Animals are the best people,” says Marea Hudoba, co-owner of Twin Cities Pets, a family-owned pet sitting and dog walking company based in St. Paul, MN. Since 2012, their experienced and reliable team of eight dedicated members has been providing exceptional pet care services, including dog walking, cat sitting,…

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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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