We continue the story of Vic Powers for Episode 8.

Marshall Helmberger, Editor and publisher of the Timberjay newspaper, joins Heidi Holtan with news from northeastern Minnesota. This week Marshall tells us about an incident in Tower that happened last Friday. A trainee driver for a Duluth area ready-mix company accidentally dumped a line of cement down the entire length of Main Street. This caused quite a mess and created a huge clean-up problem for the city.

Today we talked with Lisa Joy Hesse. As the COVID-19 pandemic began and wore on there was a lot of uncertainty, and a lot of emotional toll. Now, with 55% of Minnesotans getting vaccinated, numbers are down and mask mandates have gone away and life is getting back to normal. But it might not feel normal. Lisa Joy Hesse is a mixed media and fiber artist, a dynamic presenter and certified infection preventionist. She lives in the woods of northern Minnesota and she has come out with a workbook called “Getting Past the Pandemic – Exercises for healing the emotional trauma of COVID-19."

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American law professor and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. She is currently the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University, where she is also the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor of history in the university’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences.

This Saturday, June 19th, the city of Chisholm is celebrating Juneteenth at Kiwanis Park from 11-2. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. and is also known as African-American Freedom Day. The event is family friendly with free food and a kid’s bouncy house. Sponsored by VEMA: Voices for Ethnic and Multicultural Awareness, Iron Range Tourism Bureau and IRRRB. Listen to our conversation on the Morning Show with Seraphia Gravelle and Nathaniel Coward - founders of VEMA.

Today on Sports Page, John and Heidi are joined in the studio with Kyle Erickson and via Zoom with Fred Freidman. Heidi starts out with High School headlines from the area. They move on to the Twins overreaction to Buxton’s injuries, talk about the future for the Twins and discuss the 10 game band for pitchers using illegal substances. They explain the NFL vaccination rules and talk about the Lynx before moving on to trivia. Today the theme is baseball abbreviations.

On the Thursday Morning Show Jeff Sundin joins John and Heidi for Early Bird Fishing Guide. This week they talk about the insect hatch. Mayflies, fishflies, midges and more are now hatching, effecting the lakes and fishing. Jeff gives us tips on where to fish on the lakes and what lures and baits are working. Recently he has had luck using nightcrawlers for walleye and lures without bait for panfish. For biting insects like deer flies Jeff recommends using Skin So Soft Bug Guard to help keep

Paul Watson of GRIMBA (Grand Rapids and Itasca Mountain Bike Association) and Gary Sjoquist of the MN Mountain Bike Series joined us to tell us about the upcoming race and what mountain biking and recreational trails do for the region. For more information on how to register for the July 11th race email GRIMBA. Want to help? Consider joining GRIMBA or become a board member!

This month on our CONSERVATION CONVERSATION we talked again with the folks from Northern Waters Land Trust. They are a non-profit conservation organization working to protect water quality and preserve environmentally sensitive lands and water resources. They serve the watersheds in Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and Aitkin Counties of Minnesota. Our Tuesday Morning guests from NWLT were Annie Johnson - Grants Manager/Conservation Specialist, John Sumption is also a Conservation Specialist and they

This week we heard from our friends who are back to their cabin in northern MN from Tennessee - siblings Ruth, Axel and Pearl... and John read and responded to your listener letters. Send John an email or join us on Season Watch on Facebook. Students are off school now, we hope you'll send in your nature sightings.