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Another wave of Canadian wildfire smoke is heading for Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air quality alert for all of Minnesota Friday and Saturday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

📖 MPR News is asking readers about their favorite summer books. Email tell@mpr.org and share the read you reach for every summer at the lake or the beach.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: Some streams in northern Minnesota are flowing with a new hue. Scientists are turning trout streams purple  to evaluate the effectiveness of stream restoration projects around the region. The goal is to take a broader, ecosystem-level look at the functioning of the streams, to ask deeper questions about their restorations.

🎧 Coming up at 11a.m. on Friday, MPR News host Kerri Miller is joined by Kent and Constance Matsumoto, authors of the book "Of White Ashes," on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas . The book tells a fictionalized version of Kent's parents' experiences in World War II, and it artfully depicts the frustration of American citizens being incarcerated by their own country and the horrors of the atomic bomb.

 
Nature-based preschools encourage kids to connect with the world around them

Dodge Nature Preschool in West St. Paul was one of the first nature-based preschools in the country that helps kids learn and connect to nature year-round. The number of these schools has more than quadrupled since some of the first started in the early 2000s.

 
Researchers in Duluth turn streams purple to help measure effectiveness of restoration

Researchers in Duluth this week temporarily turned a trout stream purple, part of a broader project to determine the effectiveness of stream restoration projects in the region.

 
What else we're watching:
Red Lake plans to open Minnesota's first recreational marijuana dispensary. Red Lake’s dispensary, NativeCare, has been providing medical marijuana to band members and non-members since April. The dispensary will expand to sell recreational marijuana starting Aug. 1.

Judge OKs state plan to monitor MPD, overhaul policing. A Hennepin County judge on Thursday approved a plan for court oversight of the Minneapolis Police Department — one that state human rights officials say will compel the MPD to make “transformational changes” around public safety and racial discrimination.

Sun, Tourism and Fashion: A new exhibition at the Goldstein Museum of Design. Experience the history and evolution of sun-inspired fashion from the 19th century to the present, as captured in the “Solar Flair: Dressing for the Sun” exhibition at the Goldstein Museum of Design, where societal norms, beauty ideals and technology intersect in the form of beachwear.

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later. There are overdue library books. Then there's “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity,” which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

— Sam Stroozas, MPR News
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