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September 2019 Newsletter

UMVRDC Welcomes New Board Member We are happy to announce our newest board member – Amanda Luepke. Amanda currently serves as the City Administrator for the city of Clarkfield.  Amanda is familiar with the UMVRDC through her position with the

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Are You Thinking About a Clean Energy Project in Your Community?

Are you thinking about a clean energy project in your community? Solar garden for your school or community building? LED street lighting in your town? Solar lighting for your parks or trails? LED lighting in your library or church or

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Blandin Workshops on Intelligent Community Framework

Is your community’s tech sophistication keeping pace with the world? You can find out by using the benchmarking tool of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) which measures six inter-related indicators of a community’s competitiveness in the digital

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RLF Spotlight: The Dryer Doctors

Leon Fokken, Joshua Bauman, and John Keller, owners of The Dryer Doctors, recently purchased a new piece of real estate in Montevideo to expand their business with the assistance of the UMVRDC’s RLF. The Dryer Doctors was established in 2017 with

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THE UMVRDC FY19 Annual Report is Now Available

Click on the link to view... https://umvrdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Annual-Report.pdf

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2019 UMVRDC Annual Tour || Big Stone County

The 2019 UMVRDC Annual Tour was another success! This year UMVRDC staff, board, and guests toured northern Big Stone County, visiting Clinton, Graceville, and Beardsley, seeing and hearing about projects staff have worked on throughout the years. We

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RLF Spotlight: Krave Wellness Studio

Grab your tennis shoes and head on down to the new wellness studio, Krave Wellness Studio, LLC, in Canby! Krystle Drietz is the owner of the studio and hopes to help others reach their goals through this workout, wellness, and tanning studio. The

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2019 UMVRDC Annual Tour

Each year the Commission, on the afternoon of our annual meeting, takes a tour in part of the region to see and learn about the work that our agency does. Our tour this year will gather at 12:30pm at the Graceville City Hall will feature a variety of

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