🌱 Landmarks Light Up For Ukraine + Nonprofit Closes Amid Probe

Hello, Minneapolis! Here's your Saturday edition of the Daily.

First, today's weather:

Breezy and not as cold. High: 34 Low: 15.

Here are the top 3 stories today in Minneapolis:

1. Minneapolis landmarks will light up blue and yellow this weekend in support of Ukraine. Displays include the I-35W bridge, U.S. Bank Stadium, Capella Tower, Target Field, Target headquarters and Nicollet Mall. (Patch)

2. Twin Cities nonprofit Feeding Our Future will dissolve amid an FBI investigation into its funding. The board cited “negative media reports and frozen assets” as reasons for the decision. (KARE11)

3. The Golden Valley Police Department has a person of interest in a drive-by shooting case on Feb. 19. Police released footage of a potential suspect in the shooting near Duluth Street and Regent Avenue North. (CBS)

Today in Minneapolis:

• Check out the Mill City Winter Farmers Market. (10 a.m.)
• Midtown Global Market hosts a "Carnavale Celebration." (Noon)
• "The Suzy Greenberg MFA Juried Exhibition" opens at Soo Visual Arts Center. (6 p.m.)
• "The Tempest" takes the stage at the Guthrie Theater. (7:30 p.m.)
• See "Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances" at Orchestra Hall. (8 p.m.)
• "Rock from the Heart" benefit concert at the Pantages Theatre. (8 p.m.)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.