WERU Special: East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy 5/31/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Program Topic: The East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy
Key Discussion Points:
a) What information is being withheld from the public, and why?
b) What things that ARE known about the project are raising concerns?
c) Who stands to benefit?
d) Who stands to lose?

Guests:

Hillary Lister—she has followed the various incarnations of the East-West plans for the past decade, doing coverage for Maine Indymedia, and living in and growing up in the vicinity of the various proposed routes

Diane Messer–she has attended all of the legislative hearings, offering testimony at them, and has studied the impacts of the E/W proposal on the community

Organizer Chris Buchanan of “Defending Water for Life in Maine”, and journalist Lance Tapley, who has been covering this issue, also join us by phone.

We also invited proposal’s most vocal proponent, Cianbo CEO Peter Vigue to either join us or send someone in his place today, but he declined to do so. We’ll feature excerpts from an interview we recorded with him in early May.

Call In Program: Yes

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Healthy Options Special 5/29/12

Host: Cynthia Swan
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections

Program Topic: Lyme Disease
Key Discussion Points:
a) What is Lyme disease, how may it effect a person & how do people get this disease?
b) What is CD57 and why is it important people know about this?
c) What is necessary to successfully treat lyme disease and how is herbal medicine helpful?
d) What is your Herbal & Supplemental Core Protocol for treating Lyme and is it effective on its own to treat lyme ?

Guests:

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

Stephen Buhner is an Earth poet and an award-winning author who has written fifteen books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine including the acclaimed book Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections. Also a master herbalist and psychotherapist, Stephen resides in Vermont and New Mexico. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, CNN, Good Morning America and other media throughout North America and Europe. Since October 2006, Stephen has tirelessly answered hundreds of questions from those following his herbal protocol through his Q & A column.

His websites: gaianstudies.org –

Stephen Harrod Buhner ~ Healing Lyme herbal protocol

Q & A column with Stephen Harrod Buhner for his Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections herbal protocol.

buhnerhealinglyme.com

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Noel Stookey on Saturday Morning Coffeehouse 5/26/12

Host: Jim Bahoosh
This hour of the “Saturday Morning Coffeehouse” featured a very special guest: Noel Stookey. Often referred to as the “Godfather of WERU”, Noel has been a great friend of Community Radio for over 24 years, even before the station began broadcasting. Noel talked about his soon to be released new CD and performed live in the studio.

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Talk of the Towns 5/25/12

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Community and local theater

Program Topic: Raise the curtain—Local Theater in Three Coastal Towns

Key Discussion Points:
1. Each guest provides brief background on themselves and their organization…
2. What experience drew you to theater and how did you come to coastal Maine?
3. Each guest invited to give a more detailed description of their company/ organization?
4. Your mission and vision… examples of how that mission comes alive…
5. What does it take to draw the best from your actors and crew? What do they gain from learning the craft and performing?
6. What do you hope your audiences gain (what is common for most productions, and what varies, depending on what is being performed?)
7. What does it take to operate a non-profit theater / theater company? What are the challenges and rewards?
8. What ways can community members participate in your company?
9. What does the wider community gain from having live, locally produced theater in its midst?
10. What do you draw, by way of inspiration, from the human community and the landscape of Coastal Maine, in which you practice your art?
11. Each guest invited to describe the upcoming season, especially summer offerings and contact information for each company / theater

Guests:
A) Alicia Hynes & Daniel Mahler, Harborside Shakespeare Company, Bar Harbor
B) Bill Raiten, New Surry Theatre, Blue Hill
C) Judith Jerome, Opera House Arts, Stonington

Call In Program: Yes

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