Northern Community Board member Doug Baker joined Heidi and John on What's For Breakfast. He survived a mystery jar of preserves from France on toast with butter. He also had his daily orange juice while getting ready for coffee later. Doug and his wife were heading out for a good time at local sales, but they were happy to take time to talk about morning routines. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For

Heidi Holtan and Scott Hall spoke with Deb Noethe about an upcoming training at the Blandin Foundation. Debbie is the president of the Garrett Bethke Foundation. An organization whos mission is to make an impact and a difference in our community, led by people with a desire to help other families struggling with addiction. Public Naloxone Training & Information Night will help participants recognize signs and symptoms of an overdose. Learn what to do during an over dose and how to administer

Jake Graham spoke with John Latimer about white pelicans on Red Lake. What have you been observing on area lakes? Send it along to [email protected]

Bestselling MN mystery writer Brian Freeman has a new Jonathan Stride novel out “Alter Ego”. Scott Hall and Michael Small spoke with Brain about his latest release. Brian Freeman’s latest mystery featuring detective Jonathan Stride is “Alter Ego”. You can find info at his website www.bfreemanbooks.com .

Program 69 Getting Out of the Newsprint Business, 1940s A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early days

This week Itasca Community College provost Bart Johnson introduced us to the new MN State System of Colleges and Universities Chancellor Devinder Malhotra. He talked about the need for a "major rethink". “All these changes will require for us to rethink our programmatic structures, our curricular designs, our modes of delivery. It will require us to share always and embrace change with all of its challenges and risks,” he said. “We need to be bold and courageous. And we need to rethink our

Rep. Dave Baker is Republican representative from Willmar. But more than that, he's a father whose family lost their son to an opioid overdose. The stories of loss to this epidemic are startling in their similarities. It usually goes like this: there's a health issue (accident, injury, chronic pain) where pain medication like oxycodone, fentanyl, hydrocodone and others are prescribed. These medications are highly addictive, and as Rep. Dave Baker told us "heroin in pill form". The addiction

Heidi and John spoke with Paul Lundgren State of Minnesota Wildfire Section Manager about: Burning restrictions and why they contribute to wildfire prevention (30 percent reduction in Minnesota wildfires during the last decade). Consequences of an escaped burn pile – injury and property destruction Number of wildfires and acres burned so far in spring 2018 Information on Burning Restrictions visit the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Online Burning Permits Or visit your local DNR

Next in our Strong Women series – where we listen to the stories of the lives of women in MN. Today we talk to Robin Phillips of Minneapolis. Robin Phillips is the Advocates for Human Rights executive director and an attorney, has written about human rights, including trafficking in women, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. She has also led delegations to Ghana and Liberia as part of The Advocates’ work with Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and she

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