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	<description>Since 1994: The Magazine for Growing Businesses in Southern Minnesota</description>
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		<title>Paul A. DeBriyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The years 1987-88 weren’t particularly rosy for Newt Gingrich look-alike Paul A. DeBriyn, then chief executive officer at the rural cooperative that would become AgStar Financial Services. Nationally in those years, many rural financial institutions like his—and many family farms—were becoming unhinged as a barn door kicked in by petulant cows.]]></description>
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		<title>Vault Denim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The example set for Brooke Linder while growing up in Cleveland, Minnesota, was a mother who worked five jobs. “She sacrificed everything she had for us kids,” said 26-year-old Linder in a telephone interview.]]></description>
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		<title>Java Lava</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owner Kay Prescher said in a telephone interview, “I was always the person that wanted to be around everyone and make them feel happy.” The 38-year-old Wells native’s business, Lava Java, opened within the last year in the downtown Mankato Mall.]]></description>
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		<title>Jiffy Lube</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new owner of Jiffy Lube franchises in Mankato and Rochester, Tony Chahine (pronounced Shuh-HEE-nee), was raised in a close-knit, middle-class family in Los Angeles where dad had a security-related job and mom stayed at home.]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Maciej</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlienne Frisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Maciej and his business, Lime Valley Advertising, are a study in contrasts. The company 47-year-old Maciej owns is located in a two-story French Second Empire home in Mankato. The 3,700 square feet of space provide an elegant setting for the 16 offices from which a staff of eleven provides integrated marketing for clients.]]></description>
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		<title>Jersey Mike&#8217;s Subs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I grew up everywhere,” said 58-year-old owner Kevin Bores in a telephone interview. “I was born in Anchorage into an Air Force family. I grew up primarily in the South and graduated from high school in Ohio.” ]]></description>
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