July 2012 | Signal eNewsletter | WSIU Radio

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Vol. 5, No. 7 • July 2012

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WSIU Summer 2012 Community Support Celebration

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George Majka. Photo: Pomona Winery.

“At Pomona Winery, our favorite WSIU Radio programs, in addition to the indispensable news coverage, are This American Life, Rhythm in Bloom, World Café, and American Routes. Keep up the good work…Southern Illinois needs WSIU. Thanks!“ - George Majka & Jane Payne Pomona, Illinois

Rhythm in Bloom

Sundays, 12am & 8pm

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ohn Hochheimer, SIU associate professor in Radio-TV, hosts this popular local series featuring jazz and blues tunes that have helped to shape America’s musical landscape.

SIU Radio would like to thank everyone who called, pledged online, or mailed in a contribution during our Summer Community Support Celebration June 22-29.

Your dedication to WSIU is a shining example of our region’s commitment to public broadcasting. Thanks to your generosity, we beat last year’s goal with a total of nearly $22,000!

Your support is what makes it possible for WSIU Radio to finance our programming, which totals more than $200,000 annually. Your contributions help to support Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Whad’Ya Know?, This American Life, and classical music, as well as local shows like Celtic Connections, Rhythm in Bloom, and Sounds Like Radio.

WSIU Radio also plays a vital role, not only as a source for news, information, and entertainment, but as a social convener that connects the many communities that populate our region.

WSIU Radio is proud to serve as your public radio service – and we are proud to be “Powered by You!”

This Month on Morning Conversation

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orning Conversation, hosted by WSIU morning news anchor and reporter Jennifer Fuller, airs at 8:30am on Tuesdays and other weekdays, as scheduled, and repeats at 5:30pm.

Tue, July 3 • McLeod Summer Playhouse Mon, July 9 • Illinois Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon Tue, July 10 • SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng Mon, July 23 • SIU President Glenn Poshard Tue, July 24 • Carbondale Community Arts/McLeod Summer Playhouse All Southern Illinois High School Theater Project cast of “Cinderella” All Morning Conversation episodes are available online at www.wsiu.org/live.

You can also find them on our podcast page and get a calender listing of upcoming events at www3.wsiu.org/ radio morningconversation.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter!

Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for Morning Conversation to mornings@wsiu.org.

SIRIS Volunteer Virginia Young decided that she wanted to do that kind of volunteer work and, therefore, called SIRIS to find out how to get involved.

Virginia Young. Photo: Katie Tullis.

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s a longtime citizen of southern Illinois, it is only natural for Virginia Young to have the desire to help make her community a better place to live. When the opportunity arose for Young to volunteer for SIRIS, she jumped at the chance to try something new.

Since she first began at SIRIS in July 2011, Young says the experience has been enjoyable, fulfilling and humbling. She loves the work and is learning new skills. She also feels that people who benefit from SIRIS appreciate the services as much as she enjoys volunteering her service.

She said she tries to put emphasis on words and sentences to make the content more interesting to the listener.

Young has several hobbies and interests. She likes to read, play piano, listen to music, and work on the computer. Young also has a particular interest in genealogy and says, “tracing a family tree can cause a person to wear many hats.”

Young, originally from Carbondale, Young has played the piano since Illinois, spent her childhood growing she was 9-years-old, and is interested up in southeast Missouri. Her mother, in learning how to play other a teacher, worked in the area, while instruments, such as the violin and her father chose a military career and harp. She currently plays for the male served in the U.S. Army, where he chorus at her church. She enjoys the subsequently became a three-war arts and (whenever possible) likes to veteran and received an honorable take advantage of such. discharge.

Young believes WSIU and SIRIS are In 1960, Young returned to services worth supporting. “People Carbondale to attend college. should support WSIU because the Over the years, she worked for the stations provide services that benefit Carbondale Clinic, City of Carbondale, everyone,” she says. Young also and Addus Healthcare as a contractual values the diverse programming she clerical worker assigned to the hears and sees on WSIU Radio and Department of Human Services/Home WSIU-TV. “I just think it’s important Services Program in Carbondale. to take advantage of the educational Young was also enrolled in the opportunities offered by WSIU.” Southern Illinois Collegiate Common Market Senior AIDES program, where On WSIU Radio, Young listens to classical music and jazz, as well as she received employment training programs such as Whad’Ya Know?, assignments at host agencies.

Fresh Air, and All Things Considered.

Young first became familiar with “Whatever comes on, I listen to and SIRIS through Mrs. Christine Green, enjoy every minute of it. I look forward who is a member of her church, and to what’s coming on next.” her sister-in-law, Beverly Hardnett On WSIU-TV, Young enjoys health Young. Beverly’s son and Young’s specials by Dr. Daniel Amen, as well nephew, Stephen Hardnett, also as news programming, Charlie Rose, was a volunteer at SIRIS. Young also received additional information about and WSIU InFocus.

SIRIS from a health fair held at the If you’re looking for a volunteer Carbondale Senior Citizens’ facility. opportunity that improves the quality Volunteering at SIRIS sounded like an of life for others, go online at interesting opportunity. After learning wsiu.org/siris or call SIRIS at more about the organization, Young (618) 453-2808.

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Come to the 5th Annual SIRIS Classic Vinyl & Media Sale

leaning out your closets or garage this summer?

Donate your old vinyl records, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, Sat, Sept 8, 10am • 9pm VHS tapes, and gently Sun, Sept 9, 12pm • 6pm used stereo equipment to the 5th Annual SIRIS Classic Vinyl & Media Sale to benefit WSIU Radio’s Southern Illinois Radio Information Service (SIRIS). SIRIS is a radio reading service for individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.

This year’s sale will be held at the University Mall in Carbondale on Saturday, September 8 from 10am to 9pm and Sunday, September 9 from noon until 6pm. The sale will be in a new location this year and details will be available at Guest Services in the mall.

Beginning Monday, July 9, you can drop off your donations at the table at Guest Services at the University Mall. You can also drop off your donations at several other locations:

Holz Tool Supply

819 Broadway in Mt. Vernon, Illinois

Wright Do-It Center

208 S. Williams in Murphysboro, Illinois

SIU Credit Union

Carbondale, Energy & Metropolis, Illinois

VOLUNTEER! Volunteers are needed to assist with this annual fundraiser.

To learn how you can help, contact SIRIS director and WSIU outreach coordinator Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or Volunteers laugh while sorting vickie.devenport@ records. Photo: Jenna Richardson. wsiu.org.

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PR’s Cities Project is an area of coverage about our urban lives, Photo: Provided

by NPR. from the striking trends of urban life today to the challenges for cities going forward.

Friday, July 6 | Moving Buildings

In a series of radio segments for All Things Considered and featured on NPR.org, the Cities Project captures the vibrancy of the urban experience, a street-level view of people who live and work in real space, and the tough and multifaceted ongoing issues of urban life, such as development, preservation, transportation, diversity, and the economy.

Monday, July 9 | The So-Called War on Cars

Tuesday, July 3 | Oakland Redevelopment California is shutting down its “redevelopment agencies”, leaving urban building projects in the lurch.

In Oakland, the agencies that sparked a revitalization of its downtown are closing. NPR’s Buster Gonzales.

Thursday, July 5 | South Bend Sound Bend, Indiana, the home of the University of Notre Dame, is more than just a college town -- it used to be a “company town”. Now the city hopes to create a second act for commercial life in South Bend, as NPR’s Sonari Glinton reports.

In Washington, DC, the American Association of Medical Colleges moved 100-year-old row houses to make room for its sleek new headquarters. The older structures will be brought back and inserted into the new building – but why go to all the trouble and expense? NPR’s Melissa Block reports.

As our metro areas grow, there’s more traffic congestion. One way is to support alternative forms of transportation. NPR’s Franklyn Cater reports.

Monday, July 16 | Tearing Down Highways Zack Seward of member station WXXI travels to Syracuse, New York where citizens are starting to think about how their city might look without Interstate 81 dividing their community.

Check out the l atest specials from NPR!

Fourth of July Highlights

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his 4th of July, get out the grill and turn up the radio to celebrate with NPR!

Photo: Provided by NPR.

WSIU will be hosting a number of specials that celebrate the red white and blue. And it’s all taking place before the fireworks go off!

Reading of the Declaration of Independence Morning Edition | Wed, July 4

NPR’s Morning Edition continues its time-honored reading of the Declaration of Independence. Tune in to hear hosts, reporters, newscasters and commentators read the historical text, backed by the traditional musical composition “On the Threshold of Liberty” by Mark Isham.

A Capitol Fourth 2012 | Wed, July 4 • 7 - 9pm

Broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, A Capitol Fourth features an Olympic tribute to Team USA and performances by Megan Hilty, Javier Colon, Kool & the Gang, Kelli O’Hara, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Co-hosted by Tom Bergeron and NPR newscaster Korva Coleman.

Summer Science on Morning Edition

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hy does skin burn in the sun? Why do we get headaches if we slurp a milkshake too fast? NPR’s science correspondent Joe Palca (photo left) tackles the most vexing of questions this summer in occasional segments airing on Morning Edition through August.

Monday, July 23 | New York Taxis In New York City, one Manhattan economist has a theory that taxis actually make traffic congestion worse.

Robert Smith of NPR’s Planet Money team reports.

Monday, July 30 | Wuhan, China China is experiencing one of the largest mass migrations.

Tens of millions of people are moving from the countryside to rapidly growing cities over the country. NPR’s Frank Langfitt reports from one of them -- the city of Wuhan.

In addition to the on-air segments, you’ll find companion video pieces from NPR’s science desk online at npr.org.

Week of July 2

How Does Insect Repellent Work?

Week of July 15 or 22 What Causes Sunburn?

Week of July 30

Why Does Hot Tea Cool You Off?

Thank You, Underwriters!

Please join us in thanking the underwriters who recently began, renewed, or expanded their partnerships to make public radio possible:

Eye Care Specialists LLC

Airs Saturday @ 7pm • Sunday @ 6pm July 7 | New Releases

Join host Bryan Kelso Crow for a roundup of some of the latest releases in the Celtic music genre.

July 14 | Men of the North

The North of Ireland has a rich tradition of male singers and instrumentalists, some of whom are featured on this week’s program.

July 21 | Fresh From Ireland

Bryan Kelso Crow presents music he picked up on his June 2012 trip to Ireland.

July 28 | Women of Distinction

Some of the “leading ladies” of Celtic music are highlighted in this week’s program.

Program Changes at WSIU

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SIU Radio will be making a few changes to our programming schedule later this summer and in early fall. European Jazz and Hear the World, which air on Sunday mornings at 1am and 2am, respectively, are going out of production and will be dropped from our broadcast lineup later this month. Both series are produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

Dream Farm Café is one of the likely replacements for one of these early Sunday morning programs (time TBA). Hosted by Julie Lavender, the series explores a broad range of jazz music and features interviews with accomplished independent musicians who perform their music and talk about their musical inspiration.

We also plan to make a change to our Saturday morning lineup as a result of the retirement of Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers, of the long-time series Car Talk. We may test a few new programming possibilities later this summer and will offer listeners an opportunity to share their ideas and vote for favorites!

Stay tuned for details as they become available.

Southeast Missouri, Carbondale/Marion IL, & Paducah KY

Gator Automotive of Carbondale Jackson County Health Department of Carbondale

Kemper CPA Group LLP Marion, Illinois

Shawnee Health Services Southern Illinois

Department of Theater Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

University Museum

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Gas Company Carbondale, Illinois

Hedman Vineyards Alto Pass, Illinois

Peter J. Pirmann, D.M.D. Carbondale, Illinois

For a complete list of WSIU sponsors and information about sponsoring WSIU programming, visit us online wsiu.org or call (618) 453-4286.

WSIU Public Radio Communications Building 1003 Mail Code 6602 Southern Illinois University 1100 Lincoln Drive Carbondale IL 62901 (618) 453-6101 wsiuradio@wsiu.org