July 7, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman presents highlights from Hispanic festival on the West Side of St. Paul. This was the first El Midwest Canto Al Pueblo (aka - Song to the People). Program includes interviews with artists, music breaks, poetry reading, and other sounds from and about the festival.
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July 25, 1979 - MPR’s Lee Axdahl provides a report on pollution concerns of PCBs (aka - polychlorinated biphenyls) in the Great Lakes. Axdahl tours the Environmental Protection Agency's research ship Crockett as it traverses Lake Superior. Scientists on the vessel are examining the health of the water.
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July 30, 1979 - MPR reporter John Ydstie presents sound portrait of a powwow celebration. Ydstie went to the White Earth Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota and recorded various interviews and performances from the Ojibwe cultural event.
July 30, 1979 - Jane Kretzmann, director of the Minnesota Indochinese Resettlement office of the Minnesota Department of Public Welfare, and Tom Vang, originally from Luang Prabang and an interviewer in Southeast Asian resettlement camps, discuss the plight of the refugees and what is being done for refugee resettlement in Minnesota with Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson.