Rexing and her husband paid off a $50,000 loan on the cafe from their savings. But that was delayed and she bailed out amid a lawsuit, since settled, by Prospect Park neighbors who opposed the high-rise project. She had plans to resume operations in the new commercial-residential complex still planned for the site. It fell victim in 2018 to the sale of the building where it was located. She had to close her two-year-old T-Rex Café on University Avenue in Minneapolis about a year ago. The irony is that she thought she was over the hump this year. Olaf College, who also has put a lot more dough into T-Rex than she has taken out. This is a resilient entrepreneur, and a Filipino immigrant, educated in economics at St. Rexing, the mother of two teenagers, also is grateful for her husband’s good job and benefits that will keep the family out of the poorhouse. She donated hundreds of huge cookies to the Eagan-Apple Valley school district, which is feeding low-income kids during the virus-related school closure. “I was blowing it out of the water at Ridgedale. “It’s hard to hire people and then let them go,” Rexing said.
She also had to lay off most of her new hires and the crew at her warehouse, bakery and retail outlet in Eagan. The proceeds generated from these donations will help support our education and awareness initiatives to increase bystander action and possibly save a life.There have been times, particularly this month, when five-year cookie entrepreneur Tina Rexing longed for the $100,000-plus IT corporate management job she quit to launch T-Rex Cookies.Īdjusting to the measures designed to slow coronavirus, Rexing had to shutter the T-Rex shop she opened at Ridgedale Center in Minnetonka, which was off to a promising start after only two weeks of operations. “We urge our fans and followers to buy T-Rex cookies in Carlo’s memory. Rexing and her family for the loss of Carlo, and we express our gratitude for her generous support,” Ms. With immediate action, including calling 911, performing CPR, and using an AED, we can triple the odds of survival.” “Only 10% of people who experience a sudden cardiac arrest event, survive. It can strike anyone at any age, often without warning,” said Mary Newman, SCA Foundation President. “Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a life-threatening emergency that occurs when the heart suddently stops beating. The best way I can honor Carlo's memory is if I can prevent another family’s pain and tragedy.” I have made it my mission to carry the torch of Sudden Cardiac Awareness, heart health and CPR education. He leaves behind a wife and two young boys.
He leaves behind a little brother that looked up to him. “He leaves behind his parents who are beyond devastated. “Carlo leaves behind many friends who loved him and his smile so much,” said Ms. Although EMS and hospital staff worked to save him, their efforts were unsuccessful. Since his fellow players thought he was still breathing, the 911 dispatcher advised against giving him CPR. Carlo, 44, had been playing pickleball in a local park when he suddenly collapsed and appeared to be having a seizure. Rexing’s younger brother, Carlo Castillejos, who died from sudden cardiac arrest in August. This pledge aligns with October’s Sudden Cardiac Awareness month and will be made in memory of Ms. T-Rex Cookies, known for their unique, gigantic cookies, was named the “Best Cookie in America” by Time Out Magazine. Tina Rexing, founder of T-Rex Cookie, has announced that her company will donate 10% of all October cookie sales to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation.