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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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Blandin’s Intelligent Community: Hosted in Appleton

Blandin Foundation invites you to learn more about the Intelligent Community framework, the ICF benchmarking tool and the Intelligent Community of the Year competition. The benchmarking questionnaire can be used by any community, county or region

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June 2019 Newsletter

New Additions to UMVRDC Board            Chad Hoppe joined the board in March. Chad is representing Big Stone County Municipality as a city council member for the city of Graceville.  Chad works at Superior Industries in Morris where he has been

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National Park Service Community Assistance for Park/Trail Planning

The National Park Service announces that it is now taking applications for community assistance in planning park, trail and conservation projects through its Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program.  Apply by June 30th to receive technical

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