June 12, 1997 - SPECIAL INTRO FOR MORNING EDITION As anyone in the Red River Valley can tell you, floodwaters dredge up an awful lot of junk you might never expect. And though the flooding wasn't as severe, when the waters of the Mississippi through the Twin Cities receded, tons of garbage was left along the banks. Dozens of volunteers boarded the Harriet Bishop Riverboat yesterday (THU) to help clean up some of that trash. Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe was on the banks in Saint Paul riverboat stopped to drop off bags of garbage. That report from Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe. Sun 28-MAY 19:10:01 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11
June 11, 1997 - Gary Gillette, baseball analyst and vice-president of Total Sports, comments on Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad making pitch to fellow baseball owners for permission to begin trying to sell or move the team…even as an offer to buy the team surfaced.
June 10, 1997 - The tabloids in Britain recently told how a young British exchange student essentially revived the spirit of the blitz when she volunteered during the flooding of the Red River Valley. Trouble is, the papers exaggerated a little about brave young Katie Ballinger, an 18-year old exchange student spending the school year in Baudette. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 6120 | TIME: 2:48 | OUTCUE: "...THAT WAS ENOUGH." --------------------------------------------------------- Liz Ballinger and her exchange student daughter Katie return to England next week. They're staying with Katie's host family in Baudette, Minnesota. She attended Lake of the Woods High School. Sun 28-MAY 19:11:12 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
May 23, 1997 - Baseball analyst Kevin Hennessy former Minnesota Twins great Jim Kaat share their thoughts on the problems with Twins pitching. The root of it may lie in their inability to take good prospects in the minor leagues and turn them into good major leaguers pitchers.
May 19, 1997 - The House and Senate are meeting at this hour, hurrying through their votes to try to finish their business before tonight's midnight deadline... but the real action at the capitol is taking place behind closed doors, where DFL leaders and the Governor's staff are struggling to figure out a compromise over K-12 education tax breaks. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports.
May 15, 1997 - The next three Fridays, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is screening 23 regionally-produced films and videos in the 1997 Film and Video Showcase. This year, there were double the number of submissions from the local filmmakers. One of those is Peter Syvertsen (SEE-vert-sen), who made a 17-minute film called "26 Summer Street", based on a William Carlos Williams short story. Peter Syvertsen (SEE-vert-sen)'s "26 Summer Street" shows May 16th, in the third and final Friday night of the Walker's 1997 Film and Video Showcase. The showcase of short movies actually begins tomorrow night, and includes Chuck Smith's "Once Again", Hayden Groom's "Family Tree", and Mary Ahmann's "The Last Goodbye". Sun 28-MAY 19:29:01 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
May 9, 1997 - It's pale, it's jiggly, it's made of bean curd, and it's not the first thing to come to mind when you envision things people craft festivals around. Yet Josh Abrams, a student at Carleton College, has organized Tofu Fest tomorrow.
May 9, 1997 - Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton gives a preview of her appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Letterman brought in the mayor, Kirby Puckett, and residents of Minneapolis as part of a running thematic series on his show of highlighting various cities across the country.
May 8, 1997 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Larry Schoenberg, son of composer son of composer Arnold Schoenberg. The two discuss Arnold Schoenberg’s evolving compositions and The Minnesota Orchestra performance of Schoenberg’s piece “Guerre-Lieder.”
May 1, 1997 - A few years ago, health officials in Minneapolis were presented with a puzzling series of brief illnesses in the workplace that arose from a surprising source: a hot chocolate vending machine. It seems innocuous enough, but it was causing some problems. The latest issue of the Public Health Reports magazine reports the results. Pamela Nelms of the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support was one of the co-authors.