Healthy Options 9/3/2014

Host and Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall
Engineer: Amy Brown

Program Topic: Trauma resiliency and community resiliency
Key Discussion Points:
What are the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)?
What are the new ways in which these models are being used to effectively deal with trauma?
What are some of the successes in communities across the world, with the use of TRM & CRM?

Guest: Elaine Miller-Karas, the executive director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute,
a non-profit agency which provides training worldwide, to bring about more effective
treatment for long-term and acute trauma

Contact info:
www.traumaresourceinstitute.com

2 previous Healthy Options programs about the work of the Trauma Resource Institute can be found at

Healthy Options 12/1/10

Healthy Options 9/02/09

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Maine Arts Alive 8/26/14

Host: Michael Donahue
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Regional Theatre in Maine: Planning A Season

Key Discussion Points:
How a season is constructed from different vantage points
How an actor or designer prepares to audition for and fulfill the demands of a season

Guests by name and affiliation:
Bari Newport, Artistic Director, Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor, Maine
Michele Colvin, director, choreographer
Laura Hodos, actress

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WERU Special 8/25/14

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

The US Army Corps of Engineers and Maine DOT are proposing a dredging project in Searsport Harbor that would result in nearly a million cubic yards of materials being dumped in Penobscot Bay near Islesboro. The project would deepen and widen the shipping channel. Supporters say that would improve commerce in the port, but opponents say the economic and environmental risks far outweigh any potential benefits.

Joining me in the studio today are Joel Pitcher of the Maine Lobstering Union, and attorney Kim Tucker. She represents the Maine Lobstering Union, Pemaquid Muscle Farm, and the Sierra Club of Maine as well as some individual members of the Zone D lobster council. The program also features excerpts from an interview with Dr. Kevin Yeager- an independent scientist who previously worked on the Holtrachem/Mallinkrodt mercury case in the federal court system. He is the author of a new report that raises serious concerns about the plan– among them the possibility that inert mercury in the sediment may be converted to a more toxic form and make its way into the food chain in Penobscot Bay. He also criticizes the methology the Army Corps used in their sediment sampling.

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