Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
You’re listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from the department of Counselor Education. The project reelects and brings awareness to the diversity of Winona’s working community. On this episode, we take a look at the life of Dr. Bradley Cooper. There’s a lot more to this dentist then you might think. Dr. Cooper worked in an impoverished community for a number before relocating back to the midwest. Find out what it’s like doing non-profit work and then switching to for profit work, lessons learned along the way, why he chose this particular field, and learn what he thinks he contributes to the Winona community. Learn more about Winona’s working community on, Culture Clique.
In this tasty Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down at the dinner table with St. Cloud Soup. St. Cloud Soup is a new grassroots organization and traveling potluck that is making profound changes to our community with a very simple idea, sharing soup and funding small but important projects. The volunteer driven organization recently held their winter dinner at the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud. Presenters pitched ideas to a hungry crowd that would then vote after eating and chatting to see which idea would be supported by a micro-grant generated by donations at the door. Every big idea has its small beginning, and St. Cloud Soup hopes to be that beginning for other great ideas . . . maybe even yours!
Bigfork, MN is a remote, naturally beautiful community in northern Minnesota. With the Bigfork River running right through this small town that is surrounded by lakes, the remote area is a natural vacation destination for people looking to spend time at their family cabin, camp in a state park, fish, kayak, and truly get away from stresses of modern life. In a surprise twist, this little community is also a prime location to take in some high caliber art and theater. Bigfork, with a population of less than 500, also boasts a state of the art medical facility equipped with modern options for people in all stages of advancing age and medical diagnoses.
The tiny town of Bigfork has a big heart. With its deep, logging history at the soul of the community, both winter and summer recreation seem to breathe a new life into the area today. It’s a place where locals are proud and long term and visitors tend to return.
This month’s Let’s Visit segments arose from an afternoon spent with lifelong area resident Gail Blackmer and newbie resident of around 30 years Marcie Lindgren. Gail and Marcie discussed Bigfork history as well as the social and economic impact of the Edge Center for the Arts and the benefits of Bigfork’s state of the art medical facility.
The Edge Center for the Arts started as an idea back in 1992. It’s been housed in its own state of the art facility attached to the Bigfork High School and has been open for business for close to 15 years now. The Edge Center Theater has created opportunities for people in Bigfork and the surrounding areas to experience orchestras, ballets, operas, theater and much much more. In this segment of Let’s Visit, Marcie Lindgen gives a tour and history lesson of the theater facility while sharing her passion and excitement for everything the Edge Center theater brings to the area.
On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 1961 to 1964) presented “We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For”. McDew discusses the discrimination he faced including police violence and other horrible acts as well as the formation of the Committee, nicknamed “SNCC”. McDew also recounts how if a sign said “Open to the public” what it really meant was “it was closed to black people” The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Today we learn more about this committee was and still is to our American History.
Native Minnesotan Mary Mack has a widespread following for her hilarious comedy and folk humor. An award-winning stand-up comedian, she also produces short videos and parodies, essays, and songs. Her unique voice is unmistakeable, and recently she was selected to do a voice for a late-night animated show on the FOX network. Cyn Collins produced this story for KFAI.
Living longer on limited incomes is challenging for seniors who want to stay in their homes –especially amid predictions that there won’t be enough health care workers to meet growing demands. All across the country the elderly are turning to each other for help, and at Mill City Commons in the Minneapolis riverfront, the growing Village-to-Village Network is transforming how we care for our aging population. KFAI producer Susan Gray talks to residents who say that with a little help from their friends, they hope to avoid nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Send the kids back to school! That’s the viewpoint of most Minnesota parents who responded to an online survey from the state’s Dept. of Education.
64 percent said they were comfortable with children and teens returning to school in the fall… according to the survey. 11 percent said they were uncomfortable with the idea and 24 percent said they just don’t know.
The survey was conducted between June 15th and July 6th and about 130-thousand people answered the online questionnaire.
Today on Culture Clique we visit with James Reidy, Associate Profesor in Recreation, Tourism and Therapeutic Recreation at Winona State University. James gave a talk at the University on How The Connected Community paves the way to sustainability; an earthway perspective. James examines the historical & economic conflict between the people of the First Nation and the European Nation, as well as the road to technology vs spirituality. James was given a Lokata name and was also invited into a warrior society. Today he gives us a unique look at sustainability from an indi nation perspective. Stay tuned after the talk for a quick interview with James to delve a little bit further on his ties to the Lakota, how to preserve culture and sustainability.
Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineries in Superior, Wisconsin and beyond. In the first of Pipeline Stories: A Series on MN’s Natural Resource Economy, Northern Community Radio sent reporter Britt Aamodt to a rally protesting the proposed route of the pipeline in Backus, MN.