WIN0NA, Minn.  — Thousands of bikers were expected to converge on Winona this weekend for the annual Flood Run and then keep going and head home. It’s been 60 years since the first run, when a dozen bikers rode from the Twin Cities to Winona to help sandbag against one of the most devastating Mississippi River floods in history. The biker event has become e a fund-raising ritual sponsored by bars up and down the river and later up the St Croix River. Proceeds go to the Gillette children’s hospital  in St. Paul.

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