Archives for Misc (News/Public Affairs)

Host: Jim Fisher

Topic: You are what you eat

Guests: Bob St. Peter, Eliot Coleman

What is good food? What land use policies will help? What is the impact of agro-industrial marketing?

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Host: Jim Fisher, Hancock County Planning Commission
Topic: Fitness and Physical Activity
What is fitness? What makes a community healthy? What are some barriers to fitness?
Guests: Katherine Princell, Blue Hill Memorial Hospital; Dan Stewart, Maine Dept. of Transportation
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Host: Jim Fisher
Topic: Disasters and Emergency Management
Guest: Rich Bishop, Hancock County Sheriff’s Office
What kinds of disasters do you confront?
What are some of the health issues?
What can we do to prepare our homes?

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Host: Jim Fisher
Topic: Underage Drinking and Drug Use
How big is this problem?
Health implications?
What programs do we have to help?

Guests: Attorney General Steven Rowe (by phone) and Michelle O’Meara, Coastal Hancock Healthy Communities
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Topic: Locally grown food Host Jim Fisher of Hancock County Planning Committee and guests Bob St. Peter of the Goodlife Center and the Independent Food Project, and Kay Wilkins of Woodlawn Community Garden take calls and address questions such as: What is a community garden? How can we start a new garden? What are the health benefits of gardening?

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