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      <image:caption>Note: This chart was created by Rural Pathways using data from MN DEED Proposed Budget FY26-27. Data from other funding streams is not included.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staci Gilpin of Rural Pathways talks with Kayley Spencer, executive director of Lakeside Early Learning in Duluth, and Kate Nelson DeShaw, board member and parent. Recently, we facilitated a SWOT analysis with them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staci talks with Kayley Spencer, executive director of Lakeside Early Learning in Duluth, and Kate Nelson DeShaw, board member and parent.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Charity and Staci at Rural Pathways’ ribbon cutting hosted by the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce. Duluth’s historic aerial lift bridge is in the background (November 2024).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staci’s dad, Jay Sparks, feeding cattle (1976). “Sparks Family Farms” also raised feeder pigs and corn.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staci, taking a break a top a stack of hay bales on her family’s farm southeast of Moville, Iowa (1978).</image:caption>
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