Common Ground Radio 12/10/20: Keynote Address – Common Ground Country Fair – 2020

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

Keynote address given on September 27, 2020
-Indigenous peoples food culture
-New green revolution

Guests:
Winona LaDuke, White Earth Nation, Minnesota
Sarah Alexander, Executive Director, MOFGA, Unity, Maine
Beth Schiller, Dandelion Spring Farm, Bowdoinham, Maine

About the host:
C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/10/20: COVID-19 Tracking Again

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Who wants to be talking about Covid-19 tracking in the holiday season? Probably no one. However, given the world we are in, it’s not a bad idea and think about one of the most important tools for stopping the spread of the virus – contact tracing. Technology was supposed to help make that cumbersome task easier but that will only happen if people choose to use it. So far they haven’t.

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Talk of the Towns 12/9/20: The Promise of Midwifery for Maine

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

What is the history of midwifery?

What is the current status of midwifery in Maine? What are the challenges to access to care, especially to women in rural areas… how does midwifery play a role in this?

How does someone become a midwife? ( education and levels of practice)

What are the advantages and challenges of starting an independent private practice.

How are midwives/ midwifery care incorporated into Family Practice Residencies?

What is the student experience, advantages of being a student in Maine and challenges with finding preceptors and meeting practice requirements.

What are the key challenges to unlocking the promise of midwifery for Maine, and your hopes for the future?

Guests:
Cathy Heffernan, Certified Nurse Midwife, Bridgton
Linda Robinson, President, Maine Affiliate American College of Nurse Midwives, Bar Harbor
Kristen Hayward, Certified Nurse Midwife, Owner Anchored Women’s Health, Ellsworth
Angela Ripley, Faculty, Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, Augusta
Nakeisha Lindsey, midwifery student , Georgetown University, Bangor

About the host:
Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals.

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BoatTalk 12/8/20: new local news, many topics

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

a) short interview with giffy full
b) mike, jon, and alan talk about local boatyard news
c) correa with a k skit

guest: Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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