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Minneapolis’ Sharmyn Phipps and Kanko Akapovi helped transform a vacant city lot into a welcoming garden aiming, in-part, to provide people food access. The Butterfly Grove Garden was funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Sahan Journal writes that “the garden will remain, but Akakpovi, [a] health and wellness regional director, and Phipps, [a] health and wellness community facilitator, lost their jobs on Friday. They are two of the 60 health and nutrition educators through the University of Minnesota Extension funded by the federal SNAP who were laid off on Aug. 22.”
The show must go on for a small-town Minnesota movie theater. MPR News says a family has been running the Cozy Theatre on Jefferson St. in Wadena for more than a century. It’s the family aspect and “local movie buffs [that] support the theater” that keep it going…