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Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • E1

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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VARIETY STARTRIBUNE.COM/VARIETY SECTION Advice: Trying to cope with bullying boss. E9 Theater: is headed to Broadway. E3 Star Tribune Features: Top 5 in the nation From the national Society for Features Journalism (2016) GAIL ROSENBLUM Planned Nikki Miller readied for high alert after the 2016 presidential election. The trusted health care provider was bracing for a massive fight against a new administration threatening to slash funding and limit access to health screenings and birth control for millions of low-income women. But Miller, director of volunteer engagement, anticipate another big challenge facing Planned Parenthood postelection: What to do with all those new volunteers? After the election, and Miller means right after the election, by Wednesday Planned Parenthood got an affirming boost that, six months out, shows no signs of waning.

Via phone calls and website visits, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has been swamped by new volunteer requests from people of all ages, eager to make phone calls and write letters to the editor, carry signs to the State Capitol or canvass door-to-door. Others, drawing on their professional capacities, are offering to devise business plans or crunch numbers. Planned Parenthood now rich in volunteers JOIN THE PARTY The globe will be unveiled at 11 a.m. Thursday in the first- floor lobby of the Star Tribune Building, 650 3rd Av. Mpls.

The dedication, which is free and open to the public, will be led by Star Tribune Executive Editor Rene Sanchez, Minnesota Newspaper Association President Lisa Hills, Blue Rhino Studio CEO Tim Quady and Minneapolis City Council President Barbara Johnson, who will proclaim May 25 Star Tribune Day in Minneapolis. As the world returns Out of sight for more than three decades, a fascinating and beloved Cold War-era relic is being returned to the public eye by the Star Tribune. Star Tribune file By LAINE BERGESON Special to the Star Tribune have a new one-stop shopping option in the Twin Cities area. Debut: Shop for Kindness is a pop-up store at the Mall of America featuring 14 cause-related brands that support philanthropic efforts worldwide. The temporary brick-and-mortar will be selling big-hearted goods on Level 1 of the new north wing until Sept.

10. Its options include Packs, which donates one backpack with each purchase to a child with a chronic illness; My Sister, an apparel company that donates a percentage of proceeds to nonprofit partners that work to prevent sex trafficking; House of Talents, which retails handmade artisan products made in West Africa to promote economic advancement in rural communities, and Humble Apparel, a purveyor of outdoorwear that donates 7 percent of profits to Boundary Waters Can MOA Kindness store change shopping for good? See ROSENBLUM on E4 See SHOPPING on E10 GLEN STUBBE Above: Artisans from Blue Rhino Studio in Eagan restored the globe after it spent years in a basement and then a barn. Now in the Star Tribune lobby, it debuted at the former Portland Avenue S. headquarters in 1951. By RICKNELSON rick.nelson@startribune.com In 1951, the Cowles family, owners of what is today the Star Tribune, made a remarkable investment.

They spent the contemporary equivalent of $170,000 and commissioned mapmakers Rand McNally to create and install a handmade globe 6 feet in diameter in the busy lobby of the downtown Minneapolis headquarters. It was called simply a jewel and a geography lesson wrapped up in a single, slowly rotating package. It sat, Hope Diamond-like, in dimly lit, near-operatic splendor, a magical magnet for schoolchildren, a calling card to mystical faraway places and an unforgettable salutation into the building that served as the news and communications hub of the Upper Midwest. For the Cowles family, the globe mere decoration it served a vital and practical Cold War-era purpose. that time, the whole reference point was flat said Steve Yaeger, the Star vice marketing officer.

were not in wide use in classrooms. So people could step up to the globe and get an understanding of the geospatial relationships that they were reading about in the morning Tribune and in the afternoon After 40-plus years of welcoming employees and enchanting and fascinating countless visitors the globe fell victim to changing tastes. Like some oversized household knickknack, it was relegated to the gloomy basement, where it sat, nearly forgotten and collecting dust, until the late 1990s. when the Cowles family sold the company and Fuller Cowles, son of former Star Tribune publisher John Cowles had the foresight to pack up the globe and store it on his property near Shafer, Minn. Fast-forward to April 24, 2015.

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