WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives – Page 118 – Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)

1. What are the visitation trends and why are they on the rise?
2. What is the impact of increasing numbers on the Island, both positive (such as economic), and challenging (such as closures of parking areas).
3. What are the transportation planning options and how can people be involved in voicing their concerns.

Guests:
John Kelley, Management Assistant, Acadia National Park
Martha Searchfield, Executive Director, Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Let’s Talk Animals 10/27/17

Producer/Host: Dr. John Hunt
Engineer: John Greenman

Dog Rehabilitation

Key Discussion Points:
a) Qualifications to to rehab
b) Eqiupment used
c) types of exercises in rehab

Guest: Heather Sprague, Animal Health Tech

Awanadjo Almanack 10/27/17

Producer/Host: Rob McCall

“Hunting vs Farming”

RadioActive 10/26/17

Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco

Environmental and Social Justice: Nurse’s Delegation to Puerto Rico and Nestle’s Commodification of Maine Water

a) Today we speak with Amy Lee Tidd, a registered nurse from Bangor, who has just returned from two weeks in Puerto Rico as part of a Registered Nurse Response Network delegation.
b) We talk with her about the continuing health crisis in Puerto Rico, with lack of potable water, food, safe housing and the electricity needed to power life saving medical equipment.
c) We also hear from water rights activist, Nickie Sekera, on Nestle/Poland Spring’s commodification of Maine water.

Guests by name and affiliation:
Amy Lee Tidd, Bangor nurse with National Nurses Unites, Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN)
Nickie Sekera, Community Water Justice