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L � <br />Michele Lindau <br />From: Bryan Bear <br />Sent: Monday, March 11, 201910:15 AM <br />To: Michele Lindau <br />Subject: Fwd: HUGO RAIL SUCCESS OPEN HOUSE <br />Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device <br />-------- Original message -------- <br />From: Bryan Bear<BBear@ci.hugo.mn.us> <br />Date: 3/11/19 8:34 AM (GMT-06:00) <br />To: "Tom Weidt (mayortom@ci.hugo.mn.us)" <mayortom@ci.hugo.mn.us> <br />Subject: FW: HUGO RAIL SUCCESS OPEN HOUSE <br />From: busch+partners [mailto:buschptnr@aol.com] <br />Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 5:17 PM <br />To: rep.linda.runbeck@house.mn; sen.roger.chamberlain@senate.mn; sen.chuck.wiger@senate.mn; <br />rep. peter.fischer@ house. mn; blake.huffman@co.ramsey.mn.us; gohmann@msn.com; mwegner@tcwr.net; <br />jculotta@progressiverail.com; japitz@messerlikramer.com; whall@mnnr.net; mlooyen@mnnr.net; <br />rep.leon.lillie@house.mn; sen.bruce.anderson@senate.mn; aplatt@tcbmag.com; john.shoffner@state.mn.us; <br />kevin.mckinnon @state.mn.us; johngohmann@msn.com; mwegner@tcwr.net; jculotta@progressiverail.com; Bryan Bear <br /><BBear@ci.hugo.mn.us>; ceng@wchra.com; tom@whitebearchamber.com; fran.miron@co.washington.mn.us; <br />bkunkel@jlschwieters.com; jbarritt@loadmastergrease.com; rstewartsls@stewartlubricants.com <br />Subject: HUGO RAIL SUCCESS OPEN HOUSE <br />All... <br />We've been working with the White Bear Area Chamber in organizing a joint open house and tour of Hugo businesses- <br />Schwieters and Loadmaster Lubricants --for key legislators to showcase how a very small amount of state help committed <br />to save a critical piece of the metro area's freight rail network can have a wide reaching impact economically --saving <br />existing jobs, enabling business expansions, and creating new employment. <br />As a result of the $1.5 million appropriation to save and rehabilitate the Hugo short line, these two businesses --rather <br />than being forced to relocate out of the Bald Eagle Industrial Park, one of them perhaps even out of state --have now <br />expanded and added jobs. Schwieters has completed a $20 million expansion and is adding 100 workers; Loadmaster, <br />which sells lubricants to mining companies all over the world, has doubled employment (rather than moving to Kansas, <br />which they threatened if rail service went away). <br />Both facilities will be open for tours, let by their respective owners. <br />As now planned, the event will be hosted jointly by the City of Hugo, Washington County and the White Bear <br />Area Chamber. Tentative date is <br />Friday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. Please mark your calendars and reserve the date. <br />We will be inviting and recognizing all of the legislators who played a leadership role and worked so hard to get the <br />