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Division foes get another eyefulT W I N S 9 , TA M PA B AY 7 6:10 p.m. Tuesday at Cleveland (FSN)

Odorizzi, Buxton lift Twins to a series win over Rays.

By La VELLE E. NEAL III lneal@startribune.com

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. – The Twins have played only 14 games against Ameri-can League Central division opponents, but that is about to change.

And division opponents might not be happy about it.

The Twins have 16 games

this month within the division and enter the phase coming off a 9-7 win over Tampa Bay, a game in which they led 7-0 before the Rays scored five runs during a hair-raising sev-enth inning.

The Twins lead the division by 11½ games and visit Cleve-land and Detroit this week.

“It feels like it’s time,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “You play so many games against your division, you play all these teams, what, 19 times?

It’s time to start playing some of them.”

The Twins took three of the four games against the Rays, have won 10 of their past 12 games and 15 of 18. Mitch Garver was activated from the injured list and made an instant impact, going 1-for-3 with an RBI while guiding Jake

Odorizzi to his eighth win — one more than he had all of last season.

Meanwhile, Nelson Cruz went 1-for-3 for Class A Fort Myers during a minor league rehabilitation stint and is expected to be activated from the injured list in time to face the Indians on Tuesday. Luis Arraez was sent to Class AAA Rochester after Sunday’s game.

Not only will the 40-18 Twins arrive in Cleveland with

PAT R I C K R E U S S E

The frustration level among major col-lege baseball coaches located in a northern climate is such

that there are suggestions that two College World Series would make sense: one for teams in the east and north, and another for teams in the south and west.

John Anderson completed his 38th season with the Gophers a week ago when they went 3-2 in the Big Ten tournament to finish at 29-27. Baseball teams were banned from the ZygiDome in Feb-ruary and March because of preparations for the Final Four, meaning the Gophers’ non-conference schedule opened with 18 road games. Their first game at Siebert Field: against Augsburg on March 27.

The Gophers played mostly first-class opponents in that first month, and their record was 5-13. That meant the only options for reaching the NCAA tournament were to win the Big Ten’s regular sea-son in runaway fashion or win the conference tournament.

There’s a good chance that all those travels rein-forced Anderson’s belief that a North and South College World Series is an idea to strongly consider.

It’s also understandable that Anderson’s frustration level over the southern and western advantage — both in kicking off their schedules on home fields in the middle of February and luring recruits from the north (including Minnesota) — would be con-siderable:

He’s had many Big Ten titles and strong teams, but never a trip to Omaha for the College World Series as the head coach. A year ago, the Gophers won both the Big Ten regular season and tournament, won a first-ever regional at the new Siebert Field, and still had to go to Corvallis, to face eventual champion Oregon State in a super regional.

Don’t bring up the Gophers’ three national championships — with the namesake, Dick Siebert, as the coach in 1956, 1960 and 1964 — as examples it can be done. There were 30% as many competitive programs and not nearly the number of baseball edifices across the south and along the West Coast built to support winning programs. I mean, Maine used to go to the World Series.

The last team with a north-ern climate to win a CWS was Ohio State in 1966. The 1973 Gophers, with the great Dave Winfield on the mound,

Up north, schedule is cold comfort

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By JERRY ZGODA jerry.zgoda@startribune.com

On a splendid, sunny Sun-day afternoon when it had more than enough opportunity to win, Minnesota United’s undefeated beginning at Allianz Field ended when it was beaten by an oppos-ing defender who lived up to his surname.

Auston Trusty’s opportunistic, point-blank goal in the 86th min-

ute delivered Philadelphia not only the winning 3-2 result, but also its return to first place in the Eastern Conference.

It also ended United’s 3-0-3 start at Allianz Field since the $250 mil-lion stadium opened nearly two months ago.

Afterward, Loons coach Adrian Heath praised his players for pro-ducing 29 shots, a club record by seven shots. He also praised Phila-delphia defenders for blocking 15

of them — and backhandedly, for also knowing just when to slow the action after his team provided plenty all afternoon .

“I’m proud of the players,” Heath said. “I thought we were magnificent.”

And yet, they walked out into the evening without hearing the strains of “Wonderwall” sung in unison, after United had allowed only one goal in its previous five home games.

Until the Union’s winning goal, United battled back from deficits. Philadelphia scored twice before halftime on an efficient penalty kick and an exacting free kick, neither of them in the run of play.

When United second-half sub-stitute Kevin Molino tied the score in the 77th minute with his first goal on his long way back from a second torn ACL, Trusty put the game out of reach just when

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The Loons have a lot going for them. Minnesota United has a wonderfully intimate stadium, Allianz Field, which felt like the right

place to be on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Twin Cities.

The Loons are competitive, and until Sunday had not lost at Allianz.

After a season in which their defense was found lacking, they have generally become much tougher to score against, although Philadelphia solved them in its 3-2 victory over Minnesota on Sunday.

The Loons held their sixth

annual Pride Game, honoring the LGBTQ+ community. And while most professional sports leagues these days make similar nods, Major League Soccer actually advertises its inclusiveness with the slogan: All Fans Welcome.

The nature of the sport means that rosters are international. Brent Kallman, from Woodbury High, plays alongside Cuba, New Zealand, Ghana, Slovakia, Ecuador, Italy, France, Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Kenya, Colombia, Fin-land, Canada and even Wisconsin.

Sunday afternoon, the game itself belied the traditional Amer-ican criticism of the sport. It had five goals and dozens of quality chances, as the ball sped end to

Misdirected criticism falls on defense

LEILA NAVIDI • leila.navidi@startribune.comThe Loons, in Pride Game garb, celebrated a goal by Kevin Molino (7), his first of 2019. Trouble is, those the Loons expect to score didn’t.

Loons pile up chances before late lapse lets Philadelphia off hook

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SCOTT AUDETTE • Associated PressJake Odorizzi worked six scoreless innings against his former team, staked to a big lead that shrank after his departure.

Negotiations: Twins officials interesting in signing both Kimbrel and Keuchel. C5

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LEILA NAVIDI • leila.navidi@startribune.comMidfielder Miguel Ibarra and Minnesota United more often than not rose to the occasion, before Philadelphia scored a crushing game-winner.

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Apple previews changes in some software. D3

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More money isn’t needed as the initial $542 million allotted for it hasn’t been exhausted yet.

By CHRISTOPHER SNOWBECK csnowbeck@startribune.com

Lawmakers have agreed to con-tinue a state program for “reinsur-ance” that’s been credited with helping keep a lid on premiums in the state’s market where individuals buy health insurance.

The program extension won’t require additional money, state offi-cials said, since the initial $542 mil-lion appropriation hasn’t yet been exhausted.

Called the Minnesota Premium Security Plan, reinsurance provides a financial backstop for health insur-ers that happen to attract enrollees with unusually expensive health con-ditions by covering a large chunk of those medical bills.

“The legislation pushes back the date that unexpended state dollars would be returned to [a state health care fund] at the end of the program,” the state Commerce Department said in a statement. “If the Legislature had not acted to continue the reinsurance program, per current law, the dollars would have been transferred back to the [fund].”

The reinsurance program helps the Minnesota health insurance market where people under age 65 who are self-employed or lack job-based health benefits buy coverage. In 2017, about 149,000 Minnesotans were buying coverage in the market, which has been the focus of intense political debate following changes brought by the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The ACA outlawed health insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions in the individual market beginning in 2014. The law also created government-run

Minnesota to continue ‘reinsurance’ program

The deal combines workforce management tools with customer engagement software.

By EVAN RAMSTAD evan.ramstad@startribune.com

Calabrio Inc., a Minneapolis-based maker of customer-service software, said Monday it has acquired Teleopti, a Swedish developer of software for workplace management.

Terms were not disclosed.The deal is the second acquisi-

tion by Calabrio since the New York investment firm KKR took a control-ling stake in the company in August 2016. In April 2017, the company acquired Symmetrics, a Canadian software developer.

Calabrio has more than doubled its revenue under KKR and employs about 350 people in its North Loop office.

Calabrio makes software for busi-nesses to offer support to consumers over the phone or via electronic chats and other means. Its tools contain analytics capabilities for business to discover patterns in interactions with customers.

With Teleopti’s software, Calabrio aims to build on some of the work-force-management capabilities that are already in its tools. The combi-nation “provides companies around the world with an intelligent view of agent and customer interactions,” Tom Goodmanson, Calabrio’s chief executive, said in a statement.

Teleopti’s software helps busi-nesses determine when to schedule

KKR/Calabrio buys Swedish software firm Teleopti

The move will affect one Sears Outlet and 10 hometown stores throughout Minnesota.

By JOHN EWOLDT jewoldt@startribune.com

Sears’ new parent company, Transform Holdco LLC, is merging with the Sears Hometown and Out-let Stores.

Sears Hometown stores, which are independently owned and only stock hard lines, such as appliances and garden tools, spun off in 2012. The common ownership allows the company to move forward with its test of smaller-format stores.

The Sears Hometown locations are 10,000 to 15,000 square feet instead of the 160,000-square-foot department-store model.

“We believe that reuniting our Sears Hometown segment stores with Transform’s Sears full-line stores will result in a more consis-tent customer experience across Sears branded storefronts, generate higher total revenue and leverage efficiencies of scale to improve costs and margins, all of which could lead to improved profitability for Sears Hometown’s dealers and franchi-sees,” Will Powell, chief executive of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, said in a statement.

Jeff Skoglund, who owns the Sears

Hometown store in Brainerd, thinks it will be good to have the company under one umbrella again instead of having two separate companies with two websites.

“I hope it will make it easier to get Kenmore products,” he said. “We’re paying royalties now and I’m hoping that [we] won’t have to do that after the merger.”

Sears Hometown stores closed earlier this year in Forest Lake, Detroit Lakes and Austin, Minn.

Wendy Hamm, who owned the Forest Lake location, said her Cam-bridge store will remain open.

“I ended my contract in Forest Lake because I couldn’t find enough people for staffing,” she said.

The independently owned Sears Outlet in Coon Rapids is still in busi-ness along with 10 hometown stores throughout the state.

The company has 491 hometown stores and 126 outlet stores in 49 states.

Sears escaped bankruptcy in February, and some see the smaller stores as the company’s first attempt to find a new path. Nearly 500 stores are still operating. With the clos-ing of the Mall of America store in March, Sears has no full-line depart-ment stores left in the Twin Cities.

The transaction is expected to close later this year.

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Sears reclaims its hometown and outlet stores

GLEN STUBBE • gstubbe@startribune.comMinnesota companies saw modest growth in May, according to a regional index. Above, Daikin Applied in Faribault, which makes HVAC products.

Regional index finds trade, weather hurt manufacturing — but not in Minnesota.

By DEE DePASS dee.depass@startribune.com

Minnesota factories bucked a regional trend in May, seeing growth in a key manufacturing index while other central states showed slow-downs or economic losses as flood-ing and new trade woes took a toll, according to a Creighton University economic report released Monday.

Creighton’s nine-state Mid-America Business Conditions Index fell to 54.3 in May from 55.9 in April as exports, inventory levels and confidence levels declined across

nearly half of the region.Any index above 50 signals

growth, while figures below 50 show economic contraction.

Pounded by severe spring storms, flooding and in some cases tornadoes, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma recorded overall indexes that were below the “growth neutral” threshold of 50 for the month.

In contrast, Minnesota’s May index inched up to 55 from 54.5 in April amid a boost in new prod-uct orders and sales, especially for medical supplies, durable goods and nonfood products.

“The regional economy contin-ues to expand at a positive pace. However, tariffs and flooding across several states pulled the overall

index below growth neutral for four [of the nine] states [tracked],” said Ernie Goss, director of Creighton University’s Economic Forecast-ing Group.

The nine-state region, which also includes South Dakota, Mis-souri, Kansas and Arkansas, saw declines in new orders, production and inventories. The inventory decline came even as 24 percent of surveyed factory heads reported ordering extra inventory last month.

“I expect sinking inventories to weigh on both regional and U.S. growth for the second quarter 2019,” Goss said .

Several factories tried to mitigate the effect of rising trade wars the U.S. enacted against both China and

STATE ESCAPES SQUEEZEMID-AMERICA BUSINESSCONDITIONS INDEXA survey of supply managers in nine Midwest states produces an overall index that combines new orders, production, employment,inventories, delivery lead time and confidence levels.

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Delegation to Washington says Trump will hurt both countries, worsen border problems.

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO, LISA MASCARO and HOPE YEN Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Mexico launched a counteroffensive Monday against the threat of U.S. tariffs, warn-ing not only that it would hurt the economies of both countries but also would allow a quarter-million more Central Americans to migrate North.

A high-level delegation from the Mexican government held a news conference at the embassy in Wash-ington, making the case against the

threat by President Donald Trump of imposing a 5% tariff by June 10.

Trump is in London for a long-planned trip, leaving others to stem a potential trade crisis. It’s unclear what more Mexico can do — and what will be enough — to satisfy the president. Trump’s Republican allies warn that tariffs on Mexican imports will hit U.S. consumers and harm the economy.

“Mexico is sending a big delega-tion to talk about the Border,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Problem is, they’ve been ‘talking’ for 25 years. We want action, not talk.”

But Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard replied Monday that both countries working together is

Mexico warns U.S. against tariffs

ANDREW HARNIK • Associated PressMexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard spoke in Washington on Monday. Mexican Ambassador Martha Barcena is at left. See MEXICO on D4 Ø

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Minn. doctors group will study recreational pot. B3

8-year-old brought loaded gun to St. Paul school. B3Grand Prize, Public Service

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LEILA NAVIDI • Star Tribune A pedestrian along University Avenue in St. Paul was caught in Tuesday’s storm.

City cancels sessions on slavery, with black, white staffers in different rooms.

By ROCHELLE OLSON rochelle.olson@startribune.com

Fliers promoting a series of discussions for Minneapo-lis city staffers on the 400th anniversary of slavery in North America — the sessions to be segregated by race for black and white city workers — have been taken down at City Hall after officials decided to can-cel the events, at least for now.

The lunch-hour sessions, called sacred conversations, were scheduled to begin last Thursday, with “Black Bodied Staff” meeting in one build-ing and “White Bodied Staff” meeting in another.

City Coordinator Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde issued a statement indicating she had called off the sessions but that they would be rescheduled. It was unclear Tuesday when that would happen.

“It came to my attention ... that sessions had been pro-moted publicly in a way the city does not condone, as we cannot nor will we divide peo-ple based on race, ethnicity or any other protected class,” Rivera-Vandermyde wrote.

Others at City Hall dis-tanced themselves from the notion of segregated conver-sations, which were intended to help staffers “discuss how they relate to the enslavement, resistance, and continual push for liberation for African-American people.”

Asked whether he had planned to participate, Mayor

Mpls. set meetings separated by race

They cited concerns about mayor’s leadership and support of their work.

By EMMA NELSON emma.nelson@startribune.com

The top leaders of the civil-ian body that investigates St. Paul police misconduct resigned Tuesday, saying city officials — including Mayor Melvin Carter — did not sup-port their work.

Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission (PCIARC) Chairwoman Constance Tuck and Vice-Chairwoman Rachel Sullivan-Nightengale sent a joint resig-nation letter to city and police leaders Tuesday morning, according to Carter spokes-woman Liz Xiong.

“We have repeatedly seen evidence that the Mayor and the Mayor’s appointees are not serious about supporting the work of the PCIARC,” the

letter said. “By failing to ade-quately support the PCIARC’s mandate, the mayor and his appointees are denying St. Paul community members the opportunity to have meaning-ful participatory oversight of their police department.”

The resignations are the latest chapter in what has been a rocky few years for the commission, which is charged with investigating police mis-conduct complaints.

It’s also not the first time the

mayor has been criticized for his handling of police account-ability issues. A year into Cart-er’s first term, his director of community-first public safety initiatives resigned, alarming advocates and community leaders who said they were still waiting for Carter’s campaign promises on public safety to become a reality.

In their letter, Tuck and Sullivan-Nightengale said the mayor and his staff did not address “well-documented

workplace concerns that impede the PCIARC’s work” and “have failed to seek input from the PCIARC and refused to support funding necessary for the PCIARC to fulfill its mandate.”

“The Mayor has never sought the PCIARC’s input on community policing con-cerns observed in the course of the Commission’s work,” they wrote. “Similarly, the Mayor has consistently failed

Leaders quit St. Paul police board

Formula for local aid means nearly 100 Minn. cities don’t make the list.

By DAVID CHANEN david.chanen@startribune.com

U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips says the most common topic that came up on recent visits with municipal officials in his suburban congressional district was the lack of state funding to improve aging infrastructure.

So in an effort to bridge the gap left by cuts in state aid to local governments, Phillips,

a Democrat, is sponsoring a bill seeking federal funding for a suburban water treat-ment center.

Only eight of his district’s 36 cities this year received a cut of the $560 million Local Government Aid (LGA) fund-ing approved by the Legisla-ture. Most of the cities with goose eggs are in western Hennepin County.

“In my district, most of the cities aren’t near core cities and they aren’t rural. It’s a dis-tinct challenge,” said Phillips. “Moving bills through Con-gress is no easy task, but I’ve been in sales my entire life.

Selling legislation is very sim-ilar to building relationships.”

Federal funding in Phillips’ bill could help Dayton and several nearby cities consider construction of a $20 million regional water treatment center. While mayors and city administrators raised concerns about wastewater and stormwater treatment upgrades , they also told Phil-lips that transit issues were a priority, he said.

Cities that don’t qualify for LGA aren’t unique to Phillips’ district. Nearly 100 of the state’s 853 cities have to plan future budgets without LGA,

said Gary Carlson, a lobbyist for the League of Minnesota Cities. Those nonfunded cit-ies account for 20% of the state’s population.

In Phillips’ west metro district, LGA funding this year ranged from $31,000 for Loretto to $1.3 million for Brooklyn Park. Phillips said he laughed when Excelsior received just $300 in LGA last year, not enough to paint a crosswalk. In comparison, Minneapolis received $79 million.

The LGA formula hasn’t been significantly changed

Cities question receiving less aid from the state

By KATY READ • katy.read@startribune.com

As the HBO series “Game of Thrones” approached its finale last month, fans speculated wildly over the popular drama’s climactic question: Who would win the Iron Throne, the mas-sive metal chair signifying the new ruler of Westeros? Would it be nice guy Jon Snow? Dragon-riding mad queen Daenerys Targaryen?

Neither. It was Ken and Gail Janes of Richfield.Just kidding. Actually it was … well, just go watch the show your-

self if you weren’t among the 19 million who did. No spoilers here.But the Janeses, both 68 and retired, were chosen randomly

from among 65,000 entrants to win a life-size duplicate of the show’s fabled throne, fashioned in fiberglass and resin.

The $18,000 chair, 300 pounds and 7 feet tall but with a human-size seat, was a prize in a national contest sponsored by AT&T for its wire-service customers, promoting its recent acquisition of Time Warner Inc., HBO’s owner.

Gail saw the contest on the AT&T website and entered. “I thought it would be maybe a cup or a T-shirt,” she said.

Neighbors gathered Tuesday to watch the throne arrive at the Janeses’ Richfield house,

The crown jewel of lawn decor

Photos by BRIAN PETERSON • brian.peterson@startribune.comKen Janes of Richfield modeled the replica Iron Throne from the HBO show “Game of Thrones.” “It fits really good,” he said.

Moving crews on Tuesday set the throne in place near the firepit in the backyard of Ken and Gail Janes , both retired and big “Game of Thrones” fans.

“I thought maybe it would be a cup or a T-shirt.”Gail Janes, on the prize she assumed would be awarded in a “Game of Thrones” contest

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Dozens of flights were delayed in and out of MSP.

By KELLY SMITH kelly.smith@startribune.com

The first major thunder-storm of the season swept through the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota Tuesday night, flooding streets, snap-ping power lines and trees, and sending residents into their basements as tornado sirens wailed.

Hail as large as pingpong balls also pelted the region.

“Now we’re officially in summer,” said Brent Hewett , a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Chanhassen office .

After a historically cold and wet spring in Minnesota, Tuesday’s storm added more rainfall to already overflowing rivers and lakes.

Cities such as Lakeville were hit hard because of how quickly the rain fell, dropping

First major storm of the season pelts area

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Retired Richfield couple win sword-laden replica Iron Throne from “Game of Thrones.”

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Story by SHARYN JACKSON AND RICK NELSON • Photos by CARLOS GONZALEZ • Star Tribune

National Doughnut Day. It sounds almost too good to be true, right? Unlike the marketing drivel that drives most of these annual

promotions (see National Rotisserie Chicken Day), this honest-to-goodness event reaches back to 1938, when the Salvation Army set aside

the first Friday in June to pay tribute to the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. To celebrate this worthy

tradition, we’ve gathered plenty of deep-fried ideas — cake, raised, filled and glazed — from a dozen top Twin Cities doughnut purveyors.

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Cideries take one of two general approaches to their process: traditional or modern techniques.

By MICHAEL AGNEW Special to the Star Tribune

Minnesota cider is an industry in search of its identity. Barely five years old, the business is growing rapidly.

“We’ve added five or six new cideries in the last two years,” says Nate Watters, cidermaker at Keep-sake Cidery in Dundas, Minn., and president of the Minnesota Cider Guild.

From just a handful a few years

ago, the scene has grown to about 20 cideries across the state — a number that includes orchard-based cideries, urban cideries and wineries that are also making cider.

But what is it that differentiates cider in Minnesota from that in other regions?

“That’s actually something that, being part of the [Minnesota Cider] Guild, we’ve been discussing a lot lately,” explains guild member Val-erie Scott of Duluth Cider. All over Minnesota, cider makers are try-ing different approaches to figure that out.

Watters is enthusiastic. “Right now is a very exciting time to be part of the cider industry. Most of us are under five years old. We are

growing, but we’re still young and we’re still figuring out our identity. So it’s kind of a fun time to be part of that, not only as a cider maker, but as a cider consumer.”

Cideries can be roughly divided into two broad categories: tradi-tional and modern. Traditional cideries are focused on apple vari-eties and fermentation. Ciders are often built on blends of juice from heirloom cider apples that bring bitter, tart and sweet characteris-tics. Some traditional cideries are orchard-based. They grow and press their own apples. But there are also traditional urban cider-ies that source fruit from local or regional orchards.

Hard cider finds its niche locally COUNTER INTELLIGENCE

By SHARYN JACKSON • sharyn.jackson@startribune.com

Spring has sprung for restaurant concepts whose ideas were sown long before the thaw. Now, Twin Cities eaters reap the rewards, with dozens of recent restaurant openings — and many more to come. Here’s just a sample of the latest crop.

Minnesota Nice Cream (308 Chest-nut St. E., Stillwater, mnnicecream.com): Colorful, glitter-topped soft-serve ice cream has gone from a truck to a northeast Minneapolis brick and mortar. Last month, it expanded to Stillwater, in the former Wedge & Wheel.

H a m bu r g u e s a s e l G o rd o (1731 S. Robert St., West St. Paul, gordoburgers.com): After losing its lease in St. Paul, the famed Del Gordo

burger is back, along with tacos and hot dogs inspired by northern Mexico street vendors.

T-Rex Cookie (525 Diffley Road, Eagan, 612-345-5815, trexcookie.com): Displaced from its Minneapolis address due to redevelopment, Tina Rexing’s giant cookie bakery is now open in Eagan. She’s also building a food truck.

Jinx Tea (4503 France Av. S., Mpls.,

This summer’s newest eateries

Celebrating 50 yearsCovering the Minnesota food scene for a half century

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DOUGHNUTS ARE ALL TO SCALE1. Texas doughnut from Hans’ Bak-ery. 2. Glazed cherry fritter from YoYo Donuts. 3. Vegan, gluten-free dough-nut from Birchwood Cafe. 4. Chocolate cake doughnut from Bogart’s Dough-nut Co. 5. Cherry cheesecake “Outlaw” from Glam Doll Donuts. 6. Maple and bacon Long John from Mojo Monkey Donuts. 7. Cruller from Cardigan Donuts. 8. Samoa cookie doughnut from Thirsty Whale Bakery. 9. Cream cheese-fi lled doughnut with raspberry icing from Sleepy V’s. 10. Raised glazed doughnut from Mel-O-Glaze Bakery. 11. Sour-cream doughnut from Copper Cow. 12. Coconut-topped cake doughnut from Sarah Jane’s Bakery.

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Cabin Country: Government shutdown in 2011 helped launch a search. OW4

Tom McDowell, center, and company made their way down a waterlogged gravel road May 24 in southeastern Minnesota’s Driftless Area on the second day of a five-day bikepacking trip.

IN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA – We left the pavement early on the morning of Day 2, crossed the Root River and came face to face with a mile-long climb on a slurry of mud and gravel.

It was late May. Our group of five was a few miles south of Houston, Minn., and immersed in the Driftless Area, an ancient landscape of deep coulees and high ridges connected by long, snaking roads. Formed by 500 million years of wind, rain and snow melt, the region would define every aspect of our 230-mile ride from Winona to Lansing, Iowa, across the Mississippi River, and back through Wisconsin. We would feel every foot of elevation gain as we each hauled 30-plus pounds of bike-packing gear from valley floor to ridge top on a mix of gravel and paved roads. And we would experience more than the usual fare of that landscape-defining wind and rain.

But our immediate concern was the

climb. Before long, all of us, including Tom McDowell, the strongest, and Pablo Armas, the youngest, had dismounted to push our bikes toward the summit. For Nina Clark, who used her 28-mile round-trip commute as the base for her training, it was an opportunity to see more of the wildflowers lining the road. The rest of us raised our heads reluctantly and admitted they were pretty.

The summit offered a new challenge: a sudden, driving rain powered by wind gusts reaching 50 miles per hour. Kristen Paulsen, who toured extensively in the Appalachian Mountains with her husband before taking time off to raise a family, felt herself being blown toward the ditch. Tom showed early signs of hypothermia. We needed shelter and found it in a farm’s machine shed. At the far end, a section of sheet metal roofing lifted in the wind, then slammed hard on the rafters in a

Every hill and daleA bikepacking roll through the ancient landscape of the Driftless Area was punishing — and exhilarating.

Story by DOUG SHIDELL • Special to the Star Tribune • Photography by MARK VANCLEAVE • mark.vancleave@startribune.com

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Former Minneapolis mayor Fraser, who died June 2, is no exception.

Notices of the death Sunday of former Min-nesota U.S. Rep. and longtime Minneapolis

Mayor Don Fraser at age 95 necessarily emphasized his extensive political career and

public policy accomplish-ments, which were many.

Noted generally only in passing was his entangle-ment in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness con-flict of the late 1970s.

Yet that conflict, which ended in what many politicos call the “Minnesota Massa-cre” of the state’s DFL Party and its key leaders, including Fraser, introduced Fraser to the rough-and-tumble world of statewide politics, and in many ways helped define his

remaining years of public life.During the run-up to the

1978 enactment of the most recent federal BWCA leg-islation, I lived in Ely and edited the Ely Miner, one of the town’s two newspapers at the time. In that position, I saw firsthand on many occa-sions how various politicians attempted to leverage the Boundary Waters conflict — the hot-blooded, tempestu-ous nature of which Minne-sota has not seen since — to their advantage.

Some succeeded. Some didn’t.

The former included the late U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, who represented northeast Minnesota, and longtime northeast Minnesota state Sen. Doug “Dougie” Johnson, DFL-Cook. Both were abso-lute masters in the ways they represented their constitu-ents’ BWCA views.

In 1975, Oberstar had introduced a bill in Congress that attempted to address BWCA use and management

conflicts that arose after the 1 million-acre “semi-wilder-ness” was included in the 1964 Wilderness Act.

“Semi-wilderness” because, unlike other wilder-ness areas included in the law, snowmobile and motor-boat travel, and logging, were allowed to continue on a lim-ited basis in the BWCA.

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Hubert Humphrey, DFL, had pushed since the late 1950s for inclusion of the Bound-

BWCA conflict of late ’70s touched many with its wake

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Pablo Armas prepped his ultra-lightweight backpacking tent for a night of rain. Armas was one of five riders — self-proclaimed “The Drifters” — on a bikepack-ing trip over gravel and paved roads.

Star Tribune fileDon Fraser endorsed sweeping protection for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — and it cost him politi-cally.

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Read any good books lately?Seniors at Knollwood Place Apartments in St.

Louis Park certainly have. In May , residents browsed titles at a “Green

Books” book fair and picked nonfiction and fiction favorites to take with them. After they’re done, Green Books will recycle the other used books for the next round of book lovers.

Founder Robin White’s nonprofit is a version of a book mobile for seniors — and it’s free. She holds book fairs twice a week at senior communi-ties across the Twin Cities.

“I love it when I walk in and residents say, ‘ “The book lady is here,’ ” she said.

“I’ve been a big reader all my life,” said Knollwood

resident Francine Jerson , as she paged through an assortment of biographies. “There’s really a good mix of everything.”

That’s because White and her husband, Dave Alexander, haul close to 1,000 donated books to each book fair and give away several hundred.

“We want them to have as much variety as pos-sible — like a book store,” said White, who updates a computer spread sheet to keep track of donations.

“We’ve given away about 148,000 books so far.”The most popular genres are biographies of

Golden Age Hollywood movie stars, memoirs by political figures, World War II themed tales, romances and detective mysteries.

Like a book store, but free

RICHARD TSONG-TAATARII • richard.tsong-taatarii@startribune.com

R E A D , T H E N R E C Y C L ERobin White helped Stephen Spielberg, 84, browse through titles at Knollwood Place Apartments, courtesy of her nonprofit Green Books.

MINNSPIRATIONS

By KELLY SMITH • kelly.smith@startribune.com

Inside the cafeterias at major Twin Cit-ies corporations, trays of gourmet sand-wiches, fruit, pastas and other meals that employees didn’t devour were once des-tined for the trash.

Not anymore. From General Mills to Tar-get, a growing number of local companies are joining restaurants, hotels, schools, stadiums and caterers to send their leftover food to local soup kitchens and sites that feed people in need.

In the United States, about 30% of the food supply — or an estimated 133 billion pounds a year — ends up in landfills, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But there’s a growing movement to reduce food waste, not just by composting, but by saving or rework-ing food — from restaurants reusing scraps of food to organizations like Second Harvest Heartland “rescuing” surplus food from grow-ers, manufacturers and grocers . Now more local corporations are joining the movement.

“Right now, food waste is a really hot topic,” said Dianne Wortz , who helps run food rescue at Second Harvest Heartland, a food bank that provides food to food shelves, food pantries and other meal programs. “They are so happy there’s a safe and easy way to get that food to people that are hungry.”

The city of Minneapolis recently launched a new program working with local compa-nies and restaurants to box up leftovers and drop them off at nonprofits such as Pillsbury United Communities, which feeds people at their dining sites and food shelves. Nearby, the nonprofit Loaves & Fishes started a pilot program five years ago with Best Buy that’s grown to include 19 businesses — from big corporations like Medtronic to smaller ones like Wuollet Bakery — all of which donate surplus food to feed the hungry.

And across the metro, a new app is helping boost the number of companies able to find a home for extra food.

The free app, MealConnect, was developed

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A new app is helping corporations and caterers shrink food waste by matching unused meals to people in need.

At top, volunteer Tom Belting chatted with Dolores Schmeidel, left, and Mary Jo Mileski at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic

Church in Hopkins. Food donated that morning was served that evening, thanks to renewed efforts to rescue surplus food.

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EsperienzaEsperienza offers Italian language and culinary immersion experiences in Pennabilli, a medieval village in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.

Story and photos by CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER chrisr@startribune.com

As our eyes bounced nervously between the jagged cliffs and jostling ocean waves, our kayak guide Chuck pointed to one more natural wonder to make

us simultaneously marvel at our surroundings and ponder our mortality.

“Just steer straight into the cave, hang a hard left, and push off the rocks as needed,” he instructed loud enough for us to hear over the ocean.

Another smart-aleck middle-aged kayaker and I muttered the same fearful response : “What cave?”

Like the tight, hidden holes and inlets we paddled through , Channel Islands National Park seems to be hidden and puny from a distance.

Once you’re ashore, though, the 250,000-acre spread — the half of it that’s above water, that is — feels expansive and worlds away. Never mind that it’s just an hourlong ferry ride from the mainland.

A lot of tourists and even many Los Angeles residents don’t even know there’s a national park out there. The nearest and most visited of its five islands, Anacapa and Santa Cruz, are about 20 miles by boat from the harbor of Ventura, which is 70 miles by car northwest of the Hollywood sign. You can’t camp in many national parks that close to a major metropoli-tan area.

More people know about Santa Catalina

Island f arther to the south, which is officially part of the Channel Islands chain but not part of the national park.

Catalina has hotels, restaurants and people to carry your bags for you. Channel Islands National Park has only campsites, picnic tables and a subspecies of small, cute and relentlessly obnoxious foxes that’ll run off with your bags if you don’t keep a close watch.

The history of the park’s islands are uniquely Californian, involving American Indians, Span-ish settlers, ranchers, an environmental disaster and pioneering conservationists.

Those naturalists spearheaded the park’s creation after the aforementioned disaster: A blowout on a nearby oil rig spewed 200,000 black gallons around the islands in 1969. Dead dolphins, seals and an estimated 3,600 birds floated ashore.

A different ChannelBy kayak: Tours include excur-

sions into sea caves, and occasional encounters with harbor seals.

The outposts in Channel Islands National Park offer a wild, isolated experience not far from the wilds of L.A.

Minneapolis nonprofit offers language and cooking classes in Italy to draw visitors.

By KERRI WESTENBERG kerri.westenberg@startribune.com

Pennabilli helped Anna Bonavita recover. Now the Edina woman hopes to return the favor.

Bonavita was living in Italy and mourning the death of her husband, Italian-born Massimo Bonavita, when she first encountered the medieval hilltop town in the Emilia-Romagna region in 2017. A friend brought her there, hoping to renew her spirit.

“She wanted to show me there is much beauty in the world that can still be discovered,” Bonavita said.

The cobblestone streets, the crum-bling fortresses, the surrounding for-ests and fields, the trattorias serving traditional delights all worked their magic. But Bonavita noticed more than soothing beauty and hospital-ity in the town of 2,700 residents. She also saw that Pennabilli — like so many other Italian towns far from the tourist zones — was dying.

“The population is disappearing. There are no jobs for young people, so the young people leave,” Bonavita said, as she described sharing the narrow lanes with mainly older resi-dents. Yet, she feels this town with its unusual history and uncommon charm deserves to thrive.

So in the midst of her own recov-ery, she hatched a plan to help the vil-lage recover, too.

Bonavita believes that cooking and language lessons — especially with her distinct vision of pairing students with residents as part of the experience — could help revital-ize the economy and population and bring tourist attention to the hid-den gem. That idea grew into Espe-rienza, a nonprofit designed to save small Italian villages, beginning with Pennabilli, by drawing visitors with immersive language and culinary experiences.

The energetic Bonavita is not new to building an organization from scratch. She and her husband founded the Italian Cultural Center in Minneapolis in 2006. The duo first plotted an Italian film festival, and realized that they needed to fund

Saving town, one lesson at a time

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