Minnesota’s Colombian community seeks donations for earthquake victims, ICE agent Christian Castro is free in Texas despite a Minnesota warrant, and Siftungsfest kicks off for the 165th time in Noorwood Young America.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Musikverein 1953 Diedesfeld e.V. will be at Siftungsfest all weekend [photo credit: Musikverein 1953 Diedesfeld e.V.]
Audio credit: Public News Service; Musikverein 1953 Diedesfeld e.V. 

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Esta semana dedicamos el programa a conversar sobre la salud mental. Mientras las familias se preparan para el regreso a clases, la psicoterapeuta Ana Mariela Rivera señala que este año —además del estrés natural que conlleva volver a la escuela— muchos jóvenes podrían estar reviviendo la angustia causada por los operativos federales que tuvieron lugar en el estado a principios de año.

This week, we are dedicating the program to a conversation about mental health. As families prepare for the return to school, psychotherapist Ana Mariela Rivera says that this year—in addition to the natural stress of going back to class—many young people may be reliving the anguish caused by federal operations that took place in the state earlier this year.

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Productor/Producer: Victor Palomino

Pie de foto: Niño preadolescente de camino a la escuela. [Crédito fotográfico: ADOBE stock, Por Inspiraciones]
Image: Preteen boy, on his way back to school [credit: ADOBE stock By Inspiraciones]

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Today is the one-year anniversary of the tragedy at Annunciation Catholic Church and School, the state pushes back against an Xcel Energy rate increase, and two Clydesdales make their last trots at the State Fair this fall.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Two of the State Fair Clydesdales earn a well-deserved retirement after this fall. [Image photo credit: MN State Fair]
Audio credit: Horse Whinny, Close, A.wav by InspectorJ -- https://freesound.org/s/419231/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 

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This week, we reflect on the anniversary of the tragic events at Annunciation Catholic School and Church. Then, we look at ways communities can heal from collective trauma, and why mental health support is especially important as students return to school.

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Executive Producer: Victor Palomino

Producers: Katharine DeCelle

Anchor: Victor Palomino, Britt Aamodt

Reader scripting: Xan Holston, Tracie Wells Collier, Victor Palomino

Fact checking: Victor Palomino, Joel Glaser

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger

Production Coordinator: Britt Aamodt

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: The Grass Lake bench dedicated in Fletcher Merkel's memory. [Photo Credit: Katharine DeCelle]

Audio: Bonnie Raitt, "Something to Talk About" [excerpt] from Luck of the Draw (1991), Capitol Records

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Law enforcement release their reports on their Annunciation responses, Jake Lang won’t face felony charges in Minneapolis, and the Twin Cities radio community and beyond pay tribute to Charles “Chaz Millionaire” Dillon.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Fletcher Merkel’s bench dedicated in his memory, at Grass Lake [Image photo credit: Katharine DeCelle]
Audio credit: KMOJ Radio 

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The U.S. Forest Service and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources lift their burn bans, schools prepare for the new year facing budget and service cuts, and hundreds of taxidermy animals go to northern University of Minnesota campuses.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  An automatic external defibrillator in a classroom [Image photo credit: Public News Service]
Audio credit: Public News Service 

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The Chik-Wauk Museum near the end of the Gunflint trail celebrates a new Ojibwe exhibit, Minnesota’s job numbers are up big compared to the national average, and Bonnie Raitt opens the State Fair on what’s her ninth time playing.
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  An interactive Turtle Island sculpture at the Zagaandagaa-Anishinaabeg exhibit at the Chik-Wauk Museum. [photo credit: Kalli Hawkins, WTIP Radio]

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Esta semana, desmantelan una red de tráfico sexual en las Twin Cities y el gobernador firma una orden ejecutiva para impedir la minería en Boundary Waters.
This week, a sex trafficking ring is dismantled in the Twin Cities, and the governor signs an executive order to block nickel mining in the Boundary Waters.
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Productor/Producer: Victor Palomino
Voiceover: Marisa Rueda, Rito Ayala 

Pie de foto: Lago Gull, en el Área de Canoas de Boundary Waters (Minnesota). Al final del sendero Gunflint Trail. [Crédito fotográfico: ADOBE stock By Jeremiah]
Image: Gull Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota, at the end of the Gunflint Trail [credit: ADOBE stock By Jeremiah]

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A survey of Cook County businesses shows nearly $10 million in losses during July’s wildfires, the FBI launches a new program to help solve cold cases in Indian Country, and Barnesville celebrates 35 years of “Potato Days.”
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Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Potato picking in Barnesville [Image photo credit: Barnesville Potato Days]
Audio credit: Mark Swan “I love Barnesville”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpki24z2m7o&t=35s

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Rochester loses heritage commissioners over a development vote, Minnesota’s Karen population faces challenges over Federal Temporary Protected Status, and hot rods heat up Brainerd
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Producer: Xan Holston

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Image:  Rochester Heritage Preservation Commissioners resigned after the City Council voted to move forward on a development project that would alter part of a historically designated block. [photo credit: Google Street View]
Audio credit: NHRA.com 

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