Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Topic: When Graduation is the Saddest Day: A family and a community responds to developmental disabilities
Guests: Dee Karnofsky-
Lee Haynes – (all working to establish a group home on MDI)
Patty Ryan-
Meg Dexter, Charlotte White Center, Dover Foxcroft
Category: Talk of the Towns
Live & local call-in on civic issues. Happens on the third Friday of every month from 10 – 11 AM.
Talk of the Towns 7/22/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Bearin’s (the book, the people and the place)
Guest: Brian Robbins, columnist and writer, Commercial Fisheries News
Talk of the Towns 6/24/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Topic: Coastal Water Quality for Shellfish and People
Guests: Joe Porada, Chair, Frenchman Bay Regional Shellfish Committee
Senator Lois Snow-Mello, Chair, Marine Resources Committee, Linda Mercer (or other), Department of Marine Resources, Keri Lindberg, Coordinator, Maine Healthy Beaches Program, UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant
Talk of the Towns 5/27/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Featuring segments produced by Brooke Welty for The Kindness Project
Topic: The Kindness Project
Guests: Brooke Welty, College of the Atlantic; Jonathan Appleyard, Rector, St Saviour’s Episcopal Parish, Bar Harbor
Talk of the Towns 5/13/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension (and COA Faculty)
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Wood heat as part of our residential energy future
Guests: Gray Cox and Don Cass,, Professors, College of the Atlantic; Phin Ramsey and Steve Wagner, Students
Talk of the Towns 4/29/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Preventing Cyber Bullying
Guests:
Kelly Mitchell, Education Coordinator, Downeast Health Services; Students, Sumner High School, Sullivan; Kristy Ouellette, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 4-H Youth and Family Development
Talk of the Towns 4/22/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Restoring Alewives – The story of the Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder
Guests: Deb Wilson, Selectwoman, Nobleboro; Russ Williams, Volunteer, Riparian owner
Talk of the Towns 3/25/11
Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: A local food ordinance for the Blue Hill Peninsula and beyond?
What is the actual proposal and how would it work?
What do you imagine the outcome will be, for producers, growers, the local community, after a town adopts the ordinance?
If the local food ordinance passes, how would you advise producers and consumers to attend to concerns about food safety?
Guests:
Heather Retberg, Quill’s End Farm, Blue Hill
Ruth Sullivan, Halcyon Grange
Cullin Schneider, Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
Jason Bolton, Food Safety Educator,
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Hal Prince, Director , Division of Quality Assurance & Regulations, Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources
Walter Kumiega, Representative, District