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Photos by TONY DEJAK • Associated PressTwins second baseman Brian Dozier, who led off the game with a home run, chased down an infield single by Cleveland’s Michael Bourn in the seventh.

By PHIL MILLER phil.miller@startribune.com

CLEVELAND – With a three-hour bus ride to Detroit still ahead Sun-day evening, it would have been nice, Twins manager Paul Molitor said, to savor a sweep of the Indians as the turnpike scenery rolled by.

But Danny Salazar sabotaged their bandwagon.

Minnesota’s hot hitting came to a screeching halt Sunday the moment Salazar climbed onto the Progres-sive Field mound — or actually, about 90 seconds after that. Brian Dozier launched a leadoff home run,

but the Twins didn’t manage another run — correction: not another hit — off Salazar the rest of the day, and left for Michigan with an 8-2 loss to the Indians as baggage.

“You can’t really complain about how things went this weekend. It’s probably a good time to go back to Detroit and take on that challenge again,” Molitor said. “We’ve just got to put today behind us.”

Sure, because the Twins always hit so well in Comerica Park, right? They opened the season there on April 6, and didn’t score a run until April 9. That 22-1 embarrassment of

One blip and the rest? DazzlingDanny Salazar (left) was dominant after giving up a home run to Brian Dozier to start the game:• Retired the next 21 batters in 98 pitches.• Struck out 11, all on swinging third strikes.• Fanned every Twin at least once except for Torii Hunter.• Struck out the side in the fifth and sixth innings.• Surrendered only three outfield outs.

Salazar’s stuff brings hot-swinging Twins down to earth in finale

Three veteran voices have fueled unexpected success.

Even an unsightly loss on Sun-day in Cleveland shouldn’t obscure what the Twins have accomplished in the last month.

They’ve made themselves watchable thanks to three leaders who could have worked elsewhere but chose to honor their organiza-tional roots.

Paul Molitor is a St. Paul native who returned to the Twins near the end of his career and worked a variety of jobs in the organization

before becoming manager. Players have credited his calm voice with helping them overcome a 1-6 start and win 17 of 25 since .

Glen Perkins grew up and lives in Minnesota, and has twice signed with the Twins when he could have

made more money on the open market. He is the rare modern All-Star closer happy to record outs in the eighth inning.

Torii Hunter left the Twins after the 2007 season when the Twins were uninterested in re-signing him at a competitive rate. He returned this winter because he wanted to finish his career where he started and thought he saw the makings of a winner in need of a leader.

The 2015 Twins are waiting on their best prospects, are average

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Many hope this race and the Orioles help ease the city’s pain.

By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press

BALTIMORE – Looting, rioting and violence have left Baltimore rattled and in a state of repair. Officials hope a big sports week has a heal-ing effect on the beleaguered city.

Civil unrest remains an issue in Baltimore after two weeks of tension between residents and police. The return of the Orioles for an extended period and the running of the Preak-ness could help ease matters.

The Orioles expect to play before enthusiastic crowds throughout the week, and track officials say good weather could lead to record atten-dance numbers at Pimlico Race Course.

“We certainly recognize the role that we play in the community, and hope we would always be seen as a unifying experience,” said Greg Bader, vice president of marketing and communications for the Orioles.

The defending American League East champions begin a nine-game homestand at Camden Yards on Monday. That also marks the start of Preakness Week, the annual buildup at Pimlico to the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.

Baltimore was overrun by vio-lence and destruction April 27 after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of spinal cord injuries while in the custody of Balti-more police. The Orioles postponed two home games and, in an unprec-edented move, played a third with-out allowing fans to enter. Then they gave up three home games against the Rays on May 1-3 and played in St. Petersburg, Fla.

“It’s an unfortunate situation, but we’re trying to make the best of it,” Orioles first baseman Chris Davis said .

Monday’s game against Toronto will be the Orioles’ first in front of their fans since April 26. Much has changed in Baltimore while they were on the road.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday that the Justice Depart-ment will conduct a broad investiga-tion into the Baltimore police force to identify law enforcement prac-tices that are unconstitutional and violate civil rights.

With all that has happened, and what might still occur, a sense of uncertainty surrounds the city.

“The thing that would worry me a little bit is the Preakness will be the

Racing to restore order in Baltimore

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NAM Y. HUH • Associated PressCavs forward LeBron James, center, was mobbed by his teammates after they won 84-82 in Game 4.

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San Francisco investment firm has previously concentrated on properties on the coasts.

By KRISTEN LEIGH PAINTER kristen.painter@startribune.com

A San Francisco real estate firm chose Minneapolis as its first mid-America market with the purchase of three downtown office buildings from local developer Ned Abdul .

Spear Street Capital bought the properties — 510 Marquette Av. S., 123 N. 3rd St. and 300 1st Av. N. — for $87.5 million from Swervo Develop-ment Corp., Abdul’s Minneapolis

firm, on Friday.It’s the latest example of a tradi-

tionally coastal-centric real estate investor acquiring properties in inland cities like Minneapolis, Den-ver and Phoenix. “It’s an interest-ing story of where a local devel-oper meets national capital,” said Scott Pollock, executive director for Bloomington-based Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq, who bro-kered the deal.

A year ago, Spear learned of an “attractive opportunity” to buy the Tractor Works Building in Minne-apolis, a signature building in the city’s North Loop district that for-merly housed a John Deere factory.

And while that deal didn’t work for Spear, outcompeted by New York-based Goldman Sachs, the company was suddenly intrigued with Minne-sota’s largest city.

“They really came to like the mar-ket through that process, and it fits among the rest of its portfolio,” Pol-lock said. “An educated workforce, downtown activity, a large corporate presence and infrastructure invest-ments like the stadium. They felt it measured up to their other mar-kets,” like Austin, Texas, Boston and Toronto.

Meanwhile, Swervo was knee-deep in a massive renovation proj-

Spear Street jumps into Mpls. market

The purchase will double the Mendota Heights company’s veterinary supply business.

By DEE DePASS dee.depass@startribune.com

Patterson Companies Inc. said Monday that it will pay roughly $1.1 billion in cash for Animal Health International in a deal that will dou-ble Patterson’s veterinary business and give it extra heft in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

With Animal Health, the Mendota-based Patterson will gain an animal product distribution company with about $1.5 billion in sales and $68 mil-lion in annual profits. Animal Health sells products for pets, horses, beef and dairy cattle, poultry and pigs. It works with more than 1,000 manu-facturers.

The deal, expected to close dur-ing Patterson’s first fiscal quarter, will be financed via a loan and a separate revolving line of credit.

Patterson, which has about $4.3 bil-lion in annual revenue, plans to divest its $468 million medical/therapy equipment business in an effort to pay for the acquisition. It has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to explore the alternatives. If sold, proceeds will help pay down the debt for the new Animal Health purchase, officials said.

Patterson’s medical business pro-duces about $64 million a year in profits, but is “not a core part of the company’s long-term strategy,” offi-cials said in a statement.

Patterson plans to focus on the dental and veterinary supply busi-ness. It is the latest in a multiyear turnaround plan designed to boost growth and profits.

News of the Animal Health pur-

Patterson to buy animal health firm for $1.1B

Transmission lines will help ease wind energy bottleneck.

By DAVID SHAFFER david.shaffer@startribune.com

ST. CLOUD – The Minnesota elec-tric power industry is wrapping up its biggest transmission line expansion in four decades.

Executives of Xcel Energy Inc., Great River Energy and other utilities on Monday dedicated the two longest segments, spanning nearly 500 miles, of the cross-state power line project known as CapX2020.

It was cheered by a leader in the wind power industry who attended the ceremony at an Xcel substation near St. Cloud built for the new, 240-mile power line between Fargo and Monticello.

“Transmission was the glass ceil-ing — we couldn’t get enough trans-mission capacity for wind,” said Beth Soholt, executive director of St. Paul-based Wind on the Wires, an industry trade group.

She said the Fargo-Monticello transmission line and another between Brookings County, S.D., and Hampton, Minn., south of the Twin Cities, are helping prairie wind farms get power to customers.

The five separate CapX2020 trans-mission lines cost $2.1 billion in total. Two sections are still under construc-tion, although most of the Minnesota work is finished, except for a section

Utilities flip switch on $2.1B power line project

Allison O’Toole, deputy director, becomes interim CEO, the third person to hold title in two years.

By CHRISTOPHER SNOWBECK csnowbeck@startribune.com

Leadership at the top of MNsure is in flux with word Monday that Chief Executive Scott Leitz is resigning.

Unlike the crisis atmosphere that surrounded Leitz’s arrival in Decem-ber 2013, MNsure is now in a period of relative stability, Leitz told report-ers Monday.

He’s leaving for a job with a non-profit group that conducts research on health care cost trends, and will be replaced on an interim basis by

Allison O’Toole, MNsure’s deputy director for external affairs.

Republicans and DFLers at the State Capitol are set to begin nego-tiations this week over a health care spending bill that includes dra-matically different approaches to changes at MNsure, but Leitz said the uncertainty was not a factor in his decision.

Two members of the seven-per-son MNsure board see their terms expire Tuesday, with replacements not expected for weeks. Brian Beutner, the MNsure board chair-man, said O’Toole and the remain-ing board members will provide suf-ficient continuity.

“I don’t see any issues,” said

More change at top for MNsure

Never been to Mardi Gras. Doubt I will get to Burning Man. And Woodstock happened when I was 8 years old. But I now have taken in a Berkshire Hathaway annual share-holder meeting.

My feet have yet to fully recon-nect with the sidewalk.

The Berkshire Hathaway annual

meeting is the closest thing to a national celebration of common-sense American business as this country has. This year’s event was special, too, marking 50 years since Warren Buffett was put in charge.

In its early days, the Berkshire annual meeting was the kind of per-functory affair we’ve seen at other companies, but as Berkshire Hatha-way’s stock continued to surge, so did appreciation for the wit and wisdom of Berkshire’s chairman and chief executive.

Twenty-five years ago about 1,300 shareholders made their way into the Orpheum Theater in downtown Omaha for the meeting.

It went to the far larger Omaha Civic Auditorium and finally, in 2004, Buf-fett moved it to a sports arena now called CenturyLink Center.

The arena’s seating capacity is about 19,000 and that was eas-ily overwhelmed by the roughly 40,000 people who showed up on Saturday. The crowd spilled into adjacent ballrooms and even the Hilton’s ballrooms across the street.

That kind of interest means get-ting lodging in Omaha for Berkshire weekend is no longer a simple trick. A friend scored rooms at a Quality Inn well out of downtown. After eating like Warren — T-bones at Gorat’s Steak House on Friday night

— I set the alarm to 5:05 a.m. to be up for the next morning’s meeting.

By 6:10 a.m., I was standing in the nearby Ramada parking lot in time for the early shuttle. A half-hour later, I joined the line outside Cen-turyLink Center.

Thousands of people had beaten me there. When the doors opened and the shareholders surged in, one wrong turn put me in the third row of the upper deck section 217 — a long, long way from the main stage. Thousands more didn’t get into the arena at all.

What people are so eager to see is the question-and-answer session

Quest to hear Oracle of OmahaNATI HARNIK • Associated Press

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, left, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates played ping-pong Sunday as the Berkshire shareholder meeting wrapped up.

DAVID BREWSTER • Star TribuneSpear Street Capital bought 510 Marquette and two other down-town buildings for $87.5 million.

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ELIZABETH FLORES • eflores@startribune.comMNsure Board Chairman Brian Beutner, right, introduced new CEO Allison O’Toole, left, after announcing Scott Leitz’s resignation Monday.

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Forum’s use of cartoon image of Mohammed and school’s response draw complaints.

By MAURA LERNER maura.lerner@startribune.com

A poster for a campus forum on the limits of free speech has set off a debate at the University of Minne-sota — about the limits of free speech.

The poster, which first appeared in January, prompted hundreds of complaints from Muslim students and others for reproducing a con-troversial illustration of the prophet Mohammed from the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.

But it’s the university’s response to the complaints — just weeks after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo — that drew fire from some faculty members.

After initially demanding that the posters be taken down, university officials quickly rescinded the ban, calling it a mistake. Then the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action investigated and advised the dean of liberal arts to disavow the use of the offending image and “use your leadership role to repair the damage” it caused in the Muslim community.

Jane Kirtley, a professor of media ethics and law, said she was taken aback by the U’s response. “There is no question in my mind that this [poster] was protected speech,” Kirt-ley said.

The incident, which has been simmering behind the scenes for months, first was reported April 29 in the Minnesota Daily. On Tuesday, it drew national attention in the online journal Inside Higher Ed, in the wake of Sunday’s attack by gunmen on an anti-Islam cartoon contest in Gar-land, Texas.

Prof. Bruno Chaouat said the Janu-ary forum, which he helped to orga-nize, was designed as “an opportu-nity to educate about free speech.” He

U poster sets off speech debate

Mahmood Kahn said he is being unfairly targeted by city.

By ERIC ROPER eric.roper@startribune.com

An embattled Minneapolis land-lord is fighting back against the city’s attempt to shut down his operations, claiming in a federal complaint that city officials are discriminat-ing against his predominantly low-income, minority tenants.

Mahmood Khan filed the housing discrimination complaint this week

with the U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development, several months after the city informed his tenants they were strip-ping his licenses. Khan has waged an extensive battle with city regula-

tors over dilapidated North Side properties, racking up more than 1,000 violations in the past two years alone.

The dispute illustrates larger con-flicts between local governments and landlords who rent to the area’s low-income residents — and where to draw the line between affordable housing and unsafe living conditions. Two other landlords, Ron Folger and Andrew Ellis , have made similar alle-gations in lawsuits against the city in recent years.

Khan has appealed the city’s revocation, likely leaving tenants

North Side landlord files complaint

By PAUL WALSH and NICOLE NORFLEET Star Tribune staff writers

A teenage boy accidentally shot and killed his 15-year-old brother in their north Minneapolis home over the weekend as they played with a gun that they reportedly found in a nearby park, the family said.

Brandon D. Wren was shot in the

neck shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday in his family’s home in the 4100 block of Fremont N., according to the Hen-nepin County medical examiner’s office. He died immediately.

The boy’s 14-year-old brother pulled the trigger in an upstairs bed-room, and an 18-year-old brother was also there, Temeka Wren, Brandon’s stepmother, said as she sat on her front steps trying to hold back tears.

They’re good kids, she said. “They just made a bad decision. They made a bad deci-sion,” she said.

It was a weekend of heartbreak for the family.

The fatal shooting came a day after the family buried the boys’ 28-year-old sister, who died of cancer.

Elbert Wren, Brandon’s father, couldn’t bring himself to speak about the shooting Tuesday, saying

he wanted to “block it out.”Police are still investigating

exactly what happened and how the boys obtained the gun.

The boys were supposed to be get-ting ready for school upstairs in the house around 11 p.m., Temeka Wren said. Suddenly she heard a loud noise and the power went out. The chil-dren ran down the stairs yelling, and Wren knew something was horribly wrong. Wren and her husband ran upstairs and saw Brandon on the floor.

Boy found gun, shot brother

Photos by MARK VANCLEAVE • mark.vancleave@startribune.com Foxy Falafel chef Erica Strait, left, sought feedback from Tiffani Ford, center, and Janaan Ahmed during the Junior Chef contest on Monday at the Wedge Table . For more photos from the competition, go to www.startribune.com/galleries.

By ALEJANDRA MATOS alejandra.matos@startribune.com

It was like a scene from a “Top Chef” com-petition on television.

In just under an hour, eight middle school students, paired with award-winning local chefs, frantically chopped, stirred and seared their culinary creations for a panel of local celebrity judges.

The Minneapolis Public Schools’ food department hosted its first Junior Chef com-petition to show students and parents how to use fresh ingredients in their everyday cooking and get students excited about eat-ing healthy foods.

“We are raising awareness about the dis-

trict’s shift away from processed and con-venience food to clean eating,” said Andrea Northup , the district’s Farm to School coor-dinator and organizer of the event.

The students, selected from pool of 50 applicants, and their chefs were given turkey thighs and a medley of grains to create an entree and a side grain salad. They had an assortment of peppers, herbs and spices to choose from and were allowed to pick six “secret ingredients” from the store at the Wedge Table, the south Minneapolis market and cafe where the event was held.

In front of an audience of dozens of par-ents and community members, the coaches and students discussed their favorite cui-

Junior Chefs turn up the heat

Critics say the Vikings should pay for the walkway at the Downtown East station.

By JANET MOORE janet.moore@startribune.com

Its $6 million cost pales in com-parison to the $1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium nearby, but a pub-licly financed pedestrian bridge at the Downtown East light-rail station is provoking protest from critics, who say the team should foot the bill.

“That seems like quite a bit of money for a relatively small bridge,” said Streets.mn blogger Nick Magrino, who questioned the cost and the design on the urban issues blog.

But the bridge is “not just a Vikings

issue, it’s a safety issue,” said team spokesman Lester Bagley, given the impending influx of office workers, residents and stadium-goers con-verging on the edge of downtown Minneapolis.

In April, the Metropolitan Coun-

cil’s Transportation Committee endorsed the bridge, which would span the light-rail tracks at the busy light-rail transit station, a key nexus of the Green and Blue lines near S. 4th Street and Chicago Avenue. The full Met Council is slated to vote on

the proposal May 27.The Met Council is working on

the project with the Vikings and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Author-ity (MSFA), which is overseeing construction of the stadium slated to open next year. The authority purchased the block where the Downtown East light-rail station stands for $17 million in 2013, and it will eventually be incorporated into a broader plaza at the stadium’s doorstep.

Light-rail operator Metro Tran-sit, a division of the Met Council, said the bridge would “provide safe post-event pedestrian movements” — especially during Vikings games. The ridership goal is 40 percent of attendance (capacity for Vikings games is about 65,000 fans). In addi-

Some cross at paying for $6M pedestrian bridge

Minnesota Sports Facilities AuthorityPaying for a pedestrian bridge at the Downtown East station is an issue.

“We don’t believe there was any malice” on the part of the teen who fired the fatal shot, police said.

Brandon D. Wren

Turkey kebabs simmered in a pan while the student-chefs prepared a salad course.

Eight students wowed parents and food professionals with their cooking skills and healthy food choices.

“Castor said, ‘I’m not here for the prize, I’m here for the

cooking.’ Right on, man.”Pizzeria Lola’s Ann Kim,

of one of her students

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Now that it’s finally early spring — also known as morel time — I have a great excuse to sneak off into the quiet woods in

search of these forest treasures. In the cool mornings, I wander near stumps of old trees, walking softly through vel-vety leaves. The task is absorbing and peaceful, especially when the weather is warm and the early sun is gentle. Though elusive, morels appear in the most unlikely places, too: in urban back yards, on the edges of parks, as well as the wilderness. I’ve found them along the fence of my neighbor’s home in south Minneapolis and along the trails of Big Woods State Park near Northfield.

Morels grow in temperate zones throughout the world, as far north as the Soviet Union and as far south as Australia. Right now, they’re popping up on forest floors, in pasturelands, ditches along railroad tracks, and even in the cracks of sidewalks.

They tend to appear each year in the same location and nor-mally, in groups, aka “herds.” A lone morel, displaced from the

herd, is called a scout, and if you see a scout, the herd is probably within 50 feet.

I have to credit John Ratzloff, a remarkably intuitive morel hunter, who served as my guide on a recent hunt for the mushroom, which since 1984 has been the state mushroom. Unlike many guides, Ratzloff doesn’t blindfold his guests as they head to their destina-tion, but he does swear them to secrecy and insist that they join him in the feast that follows.

This morel season promises to be early and bountiful, Ratzloff noted. The temperature has risen earlier than

expected, and though it’s been dry, the recent rains are encour-aging growth. Ratzloff offered these tips for finding, picking and cooking the wild mushrooms:

• Morels are the most distinctive mushroom in appearance. They are the only spring mushroom with pitted and rigid caps, and their stems and caps are hollow throughout. Their peculiar shape makes them the easiest mushroom to identify, especially

MOREL MANIAFor mushroom hunters, this is the best time of year, as

Minnesota’s favorite mushroom peeks out from the undergrowth.

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Morel mushrooms don’t last long, so should be eaten soon after picking.

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Minnesotans were well-represented at the ceremony, but ultimately were shut out.

By RICK NELSON rick.nelson@startribune.com

CHICAGO – There were plenty of Minnesotans in the Civic Opera House on Monday night at the 25th annual James Beard awards but, unfortunately, all left the building empty-handed.

Lenny Russo of Heartland Res-taurant (289 E. 5th St., St. Paul), Paul Berglund of the Bachelor Farmer (50 2nd Av. N., Mpls., www.thebachelor-farmer.com) and Michelle Gayer of the Salty Tart (920 E. Lake St., Mpls., www.saltytart.com) all were nomi-nated in the Best Chef: Midwest cat-egory. The winner was six-time nomi-nee Gerard Craft of Niche in St. Louis.

The award recognizes chefs work-ing in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The last time a local chef returned home wearing the medal-lion was in 2011; that was Isaac Becker of 112 Eatery in Minneapolis.

Newcomer Spoon and Stable (211 N. 1st St. , Mpls., www.spoonand-stable.com) was up for Best New Restaurant with six other high-pro-file competitors. The winner was Bâtard in New York City.

Spoon and Stable was also in the running for Outstanding Restaurant Design, thanks to the work of David Shea and Cori Kuechenmeister of Shea, the Minneapolis design firm. The winner was Workshop Kitchen + Bar in Palm Springs, Calif.

For its silver anniversary, the James Beard Foundation relocated its awards gala to Chicago, and the city seemingly left no appetizer unturned in rolling out the welcome mat. Mayor

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Fête mom with a taste from the past as icebox cakes enjoy a resurgence in popularity.

By JUDY HEVRDEJS • Chicago Tribune

An icebox cake is totally old-school. And totally perfect for Moth-er’s Day.

Why? Because when you were a kid, maybe Mom or Grandma helped you arrange vanilla wafers, banana slices and pudding in a pan, slath-ering it with whipped cream before chilling it. Then you devoured every last sweet bit.

And because it’s a dessert enjoying a renaissance, judging by the uptick in cookbooks on the subject in the past few years, including the latest: “Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the Coolest Cakes in Town” (Chronicle Books, $18.95).

Jessie Sheehan co-wrote the book with Jean Sagendorph and suggests the dessert’s popularity is linked to our appetite for homey, comfort foods: “It’s in the same school as the cupcake phase and the whoopie pie phase.”

Of course, an icebox cake doesn’t use cake. Instead pudding and whipped cream soften crisp cook-ies to a cakelike texture. And while the “icebox” became a refrigerator a long time ago, the name has stuck to this dessert with a sweet pedigree; its

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By TORI J. McCORMICKSpecial to the Star Tribune

As a teen, Donn Schrader maintained three aquariums in his bedroom, stocking them with a variety of fish. The act galvanized his fascination with the finned world.

“I did some breeding with tropical fish and played around with water conditions to see if I could get any of them to spawn,” said Schrader, who eventually earned a fisheries management degree from the University of Minnesota. “I learned a lot from the experience. I guess you could say I’ve always had a passion for fish and found the right job.”

Today, Schrader, 58, manages the historic St. Paul Fish Hatchery, established in the late 1870s on a few acres as the state’s first facility to raise and stock fish in lakes and streams across Min-nesota . In its early decades, the hatchery was a major tourist attraction for metro-area residents and their families.

On the eve of Minnesota’s walleye opener, anglers who plan to fish the seven-county metro area, particularly the east metro, owe Schrader a debt of gratitude. Chances are “pretty good” any walleye you catch Saturday began its life at the hatchery he runs, Schrader said. He has worked

there since 1987.“Other than in our river systems, lakes in the

metro by and large have walleyes because of stock-ing,” he said. “Without walleye stocking, there probably wouldn’t be a walleye fishery in metro. These lakes just don’t have the spawning habitat for natural reproduction.”

Each spring, Schrader — who is called “Papa Walleye” by some of his fisheries peers in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources — receives 20 million to 30 million fertilized walleye eggs, extracted by DNR crews from several loca-tions in northern Minnesota. The eggs come in large, heavy-duty plastic bags filled with water. “It’s my job to ‘hatch my kids’ so they become little walleyes for people to catch,” said Schrader, adding that roughly three out of four eggs hatch after 21 days.

“We have a pretty heavy load this year. We’re about 45 million eggs to meet our quota,” he said. “I’ve been doing this so long now I can pretty much look at a jar of fertilized eggs and guess the hatch rate. I’m usually pretty close. ”

Once the eggs are hatched, the dark, micro-scopic newborns known as fry are transferred into water jugs before they leave the hatchery. Up to 40 percent are put into several small basins called

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BRIDGET BENNETT • bridget.bennett@startribune.com (above) ; Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (top)Every spring Donn Schrader, manager of the St. Paul Fish Hatchery , receives up to 30 million fertilized walleye eggs, which land in the dozens of jars at the hatchery. It’s Schrader’s job to “hatch” them and produce walleyes for stocking lakes. Top, a historical photo of a long-ago entrance. The hatchery opened in 1877.

St. Paul Fish Hatchery has long had a part in that ultimate Minnesota rite – landing a walleye.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources operates 16 fish hatcheries across the state — five for cold-water species such as trout and 11 for walleyes, muskies, northern pike and some catfish. “Our most intensive stocking effort is with walleyes,” said Neil Vanderbosch , a DNR fisheries program consultant, who cited the importance of protecting habitat and water quality. “However, stocking has its place. You wouldn’t have some walleye fisheries without it. It’s that important,” he said. Some relevant numbers:

3.5 million The number of walleyes caught each year in Minnesota. However, only an estimated 4 percent of those fish come from statewide stocking efforts, the DNR said.

11 The number of Minnesota’s “cool-water” hatcher-ies. They produce 2 million to 5 million walleye fin-gerlings (4- to 8-inch walleye) annually and roughly 380 million fry (baby walleye, about 2 to 4 days old). The hatcheries, located throughout the state, main-tain walleye populations in 1,050 lakes.

$7.5In millions, how much the DNR spends annually on stocking state waters.

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By JACKIE CROSBY jackie.crosby@startribune.com

Larkin McPhee has never shied away from weighty subjects, taking on nuclear fallout,

depression, eating disorders and farmland pollution. But her latest film — a deep dive into the lives of family caregivers — hits close to home.

McPhee’s father is 90, her mother 86; neither lives nearby. As they become more frail, McPhee and her siblings have grown increasingly apprehensive. She hears echoes of that “undercurrent of anxiety” all around her.

“It is as if everyone’s heart is beat-ing to the same rhythm of concern, worry or exhaustion,” McPhee said.

The documentary filmmaker’s lat-est work, “Caring for Mom & Dad,” tells the stories of eight families feeling the stress of juggling families, careers and aging parents. Narrated by actress Meryl Streep, the hourlong show airs Sunday at 2 p.m. on KTCA, Ch. 2.

More than 65 million caregivers — nearly a third of all U.S. households — are caring for aging parents. McPhee’s film, which includes several Minne-sota families, lays bare the financial and emotional toll of the work, which often drains bank accounts, strains marriages and leads caregivers to put their own lives on hold.

“This came along at the perfect time,” said McPhee, 54, who first pitched a story on caregiving to PBS in 2008. “If I’d done it six years ago, it wouldn’t have resonated with me, with my parents.”

McPhee has traveled to the jungles of Venezuela, reported on abducted German bomb makers during World War II and delved into the science of how people and animals use their sense of smell. But finding topics that resonate and push for social change have become the hallmark of her work.

She won a Peabody, TV journal-ism’s highest honor, for shattering stereotypes of depression in a 2008 documentary. Her 2000 film on eat-ing disorders, “Dying to Be Thin,”

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Minneapolis filmmaker Larkin McPhee, top, with cinematographer Steve Fischer. Right, scenes from “Caring for Mom & Dad.”

CARING FOR MOM & DAD When: 2 p.m. Sun., May 10, TPT, Ch. 2.

More info: Find additional stories and resources at: pbs.org/wgbh/caringformomanddad.

A Minneapolis documentary filmmaker has made a name for herself by tackling tough topics.

By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER chrisr@startribune.com

Musicians using their voices to raise awareness for a noble cause is nothing new. A bunch of stars from the Twin Cities music scene, however, are using nothing but their voices to fight sex trafficking in Minnesota.

Haley Bonar, Dessa, Chris Koza, Robert Rob-inson, Charlie Parr, Prai-rie Fire Lady Choir and John Hermanson are among the noteworthy local music-makers who contributed vocals-only recordings to a new benefit CD, “Voice: Songs for Those Who Are Silenced,” intended to raise money

and awareness for the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota’s “Girls Are Not For Sale” campaign.

Unless you count finger snaps or hand claps, not a single musical instrument is heard on the album

over the course of 18 songs.

The end result is one of the more captivating, inventive local albums of the year — chilling at times, serene at others, always with a deep back-bone of emotion. There seems to be something

stronger about singers doing their thing without any instrumental support.

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Local musicians get vocal against sex trafficking

How a bike path in an old railroad trench sparked $200 million in residential development in the heart of Minneapolis. And what still needs to be done.

By THOMAS FISHER Special to the Star Tribune

Few places in the Twin Cities have changed as dramatically as the northern edge of Minneapolis’ Midtown Greenway, where during the past decade, developers have invested more than $200 million and constructed more than 1,200 apartment units in mostly six-story buildings that extend from Hennepin to Lyndale avenues.

Whatever you might think about

the design of individual structures or the rental rates of many units, the sheer size, scale and speed of the development remains impressive, with buildings sometimes as colorful as some of the cyclists on the adjacent bike path.

That bike path, stretching 5½ miles along a former below-grade rail line, helped attract these apartment buildings, as well as others farther to the west and a few to the east. The corridor amply deserves its recent receipt of a 2014 “Great Places Award” from the Sensible Land Use Coalition, which recognized the years of work by the Midtown Greenway Coalition to make this one of the nation’s best urban bike trails. People increasingly

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Who knew you could wake up one morning with a sense of uneasiness sim-ply because no sea lions were barking?

As it happened, the discomfort was temporary. Yapping and growling soon resumed, carried by a sea breeze from a rocky island to the oceanside house my wife, Lisa, and I were renting. But such were our confrontations during two weeks on California’s Mendocino coast, about four hours north of San Francisco.

It’s a place of crashing surf, gorgeous sunsets and moonsets, redwood forest behemoths, speeding seabirds and, yes, congregations of sea lions. And once you get there (there’s no fast way to do that), it’s replete with trails, views, local food and a variety of activities that require you to spend no more than a few minutes in your car again.

We didn’t set out for Mendocino, known over the years for redwood logging, marijuana growing, artists in abundance and ultimately for being what author Doug Pine calls a “con-tentment-obsessed place.”

But we did have two goals: After the never-ending, snow-packed Minne-sota winter of 2014, we vowed to find a March destination this year that didn’t involve freezing temperatures or the expense and complication of interna-tional travel. Second, we had numer-ous friends and relatives in California we wanted to see, but we didn’t look forward to looping around the state for one or two thousand miles and repeat-edly packing and unpacking suitcases.

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cottage, befriend the sea lions and ask the

tough questions: Winery tour or hike?

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Travel to fascinating Moscow and St. Petersburg now to save money – don’t worry, politics won’t get in the way.

By CHARLY WILDERNew York Times

“Be careful.”I can’t count how many times

I’ve heard that warning in the 14 months since I decided to move to Moscow from Berlin. It’s as if I were entering a war zone.

In fairness, those 14 months have seen a string of calamitous events that have left much of Rus-sia transformed: the annexation of Crimea; war in eastern Ukraine; the deterioration of relations with the West; sanctions; President Vladimir Putin’s clampdown on political opposition, media and the arts; and the collapse of the ruble and slowdown of the Rus-sian economy.

Not surprisingly, tourism is part of that stagnation. Since the begin-ning of 2014, tourism to Russia has fallen 35 percent, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia. Tourism from the West has been cut in half.

Yet for visitors, life generally goes on as usual in the affluent, cosmopolitan centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, where the vast majority of foreign tourists spend most or all of their time.

Except for areas near the Ukraine border or in the long-embattled North Caucasus, there are no major Western advisories against travel to Russia. The State Department is the most cau-tious, warning Americans against attending demonstrations and urging “good security practices” in public places.

Still, contrary to the images often evoked by the media, there’s little evidence to suggest that Rus-sia’s top destinations are any less safe now for visitors than they were a few years ago.

That’s not to say there has not been a change in mood. As a Western tourist anywhere, it’s often a good idea to avoid politi-cal discussions in places with

For tourists in Russia, calm endures and deals reign

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