Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
It’s finally gardening time in Minnesota, and this year that “hobby” might take on a little more meaning, especially when it comes to community gardens. In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Professor Tracy Ore about food security in the time of COVID-19 as well as the community garden at St. Cloud State, now in its 16th year.With precautions in place concerning the COVID virus, the garden will still be open for those who wish to participate.
Up to date scheduling information can be found on their Facebook page.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
Independent Lifestyles is an organization that provides numerous programs and services to anyone with a disability within an 11 county area, and they are continuing to provide services and advocacy as best they can throughout our current struggles.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we get another look at how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting lives within our community as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Lori Olmscheid, Shawn Reagan, and Executive Director Cara Ruff of Independent Lifestyles Incorporated out of Sauk Rapids.
You’ll hear today about the ways that they’re helping as well as plans to continue providing access to Camp Bliss; plus, you can find out what you can do to make a difference through volunteering. Or, you can take the old fashioned route and give them a call at 320-529-9000.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, just as precautions within the community concerning the COVID-19 virus are beginning to have an effect upon local arts organizations on March 18th, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Denny Smith from GREAT Theatre.
Decisions were just being made about how their organization was going to cope with official cancelations and rescheduled events. You can find their constantly updated calendar here.
GREAT is also looking to the future to be able to continue providing programming to both the community in general and kids in particular. Check out their Virtual Lab for more!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Central Minnesota Arts Board Program Officer Heather Allen about the arts and arts programming in the radical shift in reality that has become our daily life now with the COVID-19 virus.
From cancellations and postponements, to how to move forward and emergency grants for working artists, Minnesota’s regional arts boards are working together, just like everyone else, to provide help and hope and to provide the means for a creative way forward.
This interview was recorded at the onset of the COVID-19 outbrek just as everything was changing.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant..
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with St. Cloud State University School of Social Work professor Shelia Moriarty and Intern Islam Abuhadid about how the college is trying to help its students during these strange times.
Beginning a few years ago, the School of Social Work began developing programming aimed towards helping SCSU students connect with community resources so that students who were experiencing unforeseen hardships might be able to complete their education. Today, however, that framework is providing a lifeline to college students who have now found themselves lost ithin the whirlwind of changes brought on by the COVID-19 virus and its effect upon our world.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we hear from St. Cloud’s ISD742 about plans to maintain educating students after Governor Walz’s executive order to keep schools closed for the rest of this school year.
As Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds out from Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Lori Posch, school isn’t “closed,” it’s just very, very different right now. Posch has advice for students, parents, and teachers as we move forward through the remainder of a COVID-19 influenced school calendar.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we visit the world of online distance learning as Arts & Cultural Producer Jeff Carmack talks with ISD742 science teacher Devon Bowker.
Mr. Bowker has worked as a naturalist for the Department of Natural Resources and a park ranger for the US Army Corps of Engineers and has quite the following online with his website The Wild Life Blog.
He’s got some helpful hints and advice for all our families currently engaged in distance learning!
Tribes across the U.S. have been expecting their share of 8-billion dollars from the federal CARES Act that was passed at the end of March to support those affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Some of those funds just started to flow to tribes the week of May 4th. Reporter Melissa Townsend talked with Minnesota’s U-S Senator Tina Smith, who sits on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
They talk about the delay in the disbursement of the $8-billion promised to tribal governments, problems in the way the money is being allocated for each tribe, new financial assistance for tribal casinos and a possible investigation into Indian Affairs Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney over her conflict of interest in allocating federal assistance to Alaska Native Corporations that was intended for tribal governments.
