While many Iowa families gather through this weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving in traditional ways with food and family, thousands of people take to the streets in Des Moines 8th Annual Turkey Trot. Some 5,000 athletes from 38 states and three countries converge on Iowa s capital city on Thanksgiving morning to run in the Turkey Trot. Michael Zimmerman, director of Rip Roar Events and the Turkey Trot promoter, said Thanksgiving is the busiest running event of the year in the area, based on the number of participants who enter. .
For some Minnesota small businesses, it s been harder to fully recover from major events of the past two years. A state grant program has a new round of funding for capital improvements, and partners say the goal is to get the money to areas of high need. Minnesota is in its latest phase of the Main Street Economic Revitalization Program, established last year. .
The Northwest Minnesota Foundation has been awarded nearly $2,188,000 in funding from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development through its Main Street Economic Revitalization Program to fund eligible projects designed to address the greatest economic development and redevelopment needs that have arisen since March 15, 2020.