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8/2/12 5:00pm |
Transform Wisconsin Program - Focus this week is on the "Transform Wisconsin" program, which is using federal grants in an effort to improve the public health. 6.6 million dollars in grants were announced this past week, administered by the Center for Disease Control, with money provided by the Affordable Care Act health reform law. Among the projects funded in central Wisconsin are efforts to promote healthy food systems, smoke free living, physical activity, and a greenhouse food production facility in Stevens Point. Guests will be: Judy Burrows, Director of Chronic Disease Prevention with the Marathon County Health Department; Layne Cozzolino of the Central Rivers Farmshed in Stevens Point; and Tony Schultz, a farmer and local food advocate from Athens.
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7/26/12 5:00pm |
Wisconsin's Wolf Hunt - This week our focus will be on Wisconsin's first wolf hunt. Guests will be: Kurt Thiede, Division Administrator of Lands for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Mike Wiggins, Chair of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Thiede is a Medford native who administers the DNR's Parks and Recreation, Wildlife Management, Endangered Resources, and Facilities and Lands programs. Wiggins has criticized the wolf hunt plan, and asked for additional areas to be set aside as sanctuaries for the animal. Application for wolf hunting licenses opens August 1st and closes August 31st. The DNR has set a kill quota of 201 wolves in an effort to reduce the size of the state's population. Thursday's Route 51 program will feature testimony from hunters, ranchers, environmentalists and biologists recorded at the July 17th Natural Resources Board special meeting on the subject in Stevens Point.
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7/19/12 5:00pm |
South Beach Chamber Ensemble - This week we feature our annual live music show with the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, led by cellist and Wausau native Michael Andrews. Each summer, the Ensemble musicians bring their unique take on chamber music to central Wisconsin for their South Beach Up North Tour, with an eclectic repertoire that includes classical, American pop standards, jazz and rock. Andrews and the South Beach Chamber Ensemble musicians will perform excerpts of this year's Up North selections, live in our Wisconsin Public Radio studios. The South Beach Up North Tour continues Friday evening, July 20th at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and Saturday evening July 21st at the Yawkey House Museum Garden, both in Wausau.
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7/12/12 5:00pm |
Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Fest - This Thursday we preview the third annual Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Festival, which takes place Friday July 13th and Saturday July 14th at the Bull Falls Brewery, 901 E. Thomas Street in Wausau. Route 51 host, guitarist and jazz festival emcee Glen Moberg welcomes bandleader and trumpeter Sid Kyler; bandleader and saxophonist John Greiner; and guitarist and bassist Roger Pickering for an hour of conversation and live music at our Wisconsin Public Radio studios in Wausau.
The Sid Kyler Jazz Festival takes place during an extraordinary weekend in Wausau, which is also hosting the annual Ribfest, Balloon Rally, Chalkfest and Canoe Slalom World Championships. Wausau Area Central Wisconsin Visitors Bureau Executive Director Darien Schaeffer will preview the events and discuss their impact as part of Thursday's program.
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7/5/12 5:00pm |
2012 Senate Farm Bill - Route 51 host Glen Moberg is on vacation this week, so we will be simulcasting WPR's The West Side from the Eau Claire bureau. The West Side host, Rich Kremer will be joined by Tom Quinn, executive director of the Wisconsin Farmers Union and Jim Holt, board member with the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation. Guests will discuss the recently passed, five year, half-trillion dollar farm bill and the controversial dairy security act which remained intact through the bill's passage. Guests will also discuss how weather conditions in the state, including drought in the south and flooding in the north, have affected this year's crops.
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6/28/12 5:00pm |
Author, Loung Ung - Route 51 host Glen Moberg is on vacation this week, so we are featuring an Encore broadcast from May 10, 2012, of a conversation with Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father, a book recounting her story of surviving genocide in Cambodia. Ms. Ung was five years old, and part of a middle class family when the Khmer Rouge came to power. In the next five years, two million of Cambodia's seven million people would die, including Ms. Ung's father, mother, and two sisters. Her story is an inspiration to oppressed people all over the world, and has particular significance to Wausau's Hmong community. The program will feature a 30 minute conversation between Ms. Ung and host Glen Moberg, followed by a discussion with Chang Yang, former President of the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association, who escaped from Vietnam after the fall of the U.S. backed government; and Colin Hansen, history teacher with the Edgar School District, who brought Ms. Ung to central Wisconsin.
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6/21/12 5:00pm |
On the Road at the Woodson Art Museum - This week, Route 51 takes the show on the road to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau for a special program before a live audience, to unveil the museum's new exhibit, Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art (The Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection). Our guest will be Isaac Sutton himself, talking about his substantial and significant collection of botanical paintings, showcasing the natural beauty of both rare and common horticultural species. Many of the works will be on display in the galleries at the Woodson Museum. James J. White of Carnegie Mellon University writes: "Sutton feels that botanical art should be recognized as the melding of art and science that both inspires and educates. More recently he has concentrated on ecological and environmental issues, both personally and professionally."
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6/14/12 5:00pm |
Wisconsin's Penokee Range - This week we will look at a new environmental and historical art and education project called Penokee: Explore the Iron Hills, which debuts in Ashland on June 23rd. A recent proposal to mine iron in the Penokee Range south of Lake Superior stimulated discussion and controversy, bringing statewide attention to this beautiful but mineral rich corner of the state. Sparked by the mining issue, twenty visual artists, musicians and writers from Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula created works for the exhibit, which also highlights the area's metallic mining history, geology, cultural and Native American perspectives. Host Glen Moberg will discuss the exhibit with coordinator Terry Daulton and some of the artists involved.
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6/7/12 5:00pm |
Our Annual Garden Show - This Thursday we present our annual Garden Show, with growing tips, horticulture advice, suggestions for flower and vegetable gardeners, information about shrubs and trees, and landscaping suggestions specifically for our inclement climate in northern Wisconsin. Our guest will be Diane Neumann, Designer and Consultant with the Down to Earth Greenhouse and Garden Center north of Wausau. Neumann will be taking calls live on the air from our listeners and giving expert advice tailor made for North Central Wisconsin.
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5/31/12 5:00pm |
WI Politics and the Recall Election - This Thursday we again focus on Wisconsin state politics and next Tuesday's (June 5, 2012), recall elections. Our guests will be former Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, and veteran Republican strategist Bob Williams of Idea Associates of Stevens Point, who was an aide to Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus. Decker represented north central Wisconsin's 29th State Senate District for 20 years. The district is now the focus of a recall election between Republican Assemblyman Jerry Petrowski and Democratic Assemblywoman Donna Seidel. Thursday's program will focus on that race, and on the recall election race between Governor Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
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5/24/12 5:00pm |
WI 29th State Senate Debate - This Wednesday, May 23rd, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., the two candidates for the 29th State Senate recall election, Republican Assemblyman Jerry Petrowski and Democratic Assemblywoman Donna Seidel, will meet in their only face to face debate at the UW-Marathon County Center for Civic Engagement Theater in Wausau, sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio, the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, and other media outlets. Wisconsin Public Radio's Glen Moberg will moderate, with questions asked by panelists Robert Mentzer of the Wausau Daily Herald, Melissa Langbehn of WAOW TV-9, Jeff Thelen of WSAW TV-7, and Matt Lehman of WSAU Radio AM-55. The debate will be broadcast live on WHRM 90.9 FM Wausau, WLBL 930 AM Auburndale/Stevens Point, WHBM 90.3 FM Park Falls, WHAA 89.1 FM Adams/Wisconsin Rapids, WHWC 88.3 FM Menomonie/Eau Claire, and 88.7 WRFW 88.7 FM River Falls. UWMC's Center for Civic Engagement Theater is located at 625 Stewart Avenue in Wausau. The debate is open to the public.
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5/17/12 5:00pm |
Recall Review - This week we turn the spotlight back to politics and the recall elections involving Governor Walker and the 29th State Senate seat. Guests will be Democratic activist Christine Bremer Muggli of Wausau and Republican activist Kevin Stevenson of Merrill. On June 5th, Wisconsin voters will decide between Governor Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and in the 29th State Senate race between Republican Assemblyman Jerry Petrowski and Democratic Assemblywoman Donna Seidel. Petrowski and Seidel face off May 23rd in a combined media debate sponsored in part by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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5/10/12 5:00pm |
Author, Loung Ung - This Thursday we feature a conversation with Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father, whose story of surviving genocide in Cambodia is being shared this week with central Wisconsin school children. Ms. Ung was five years old, and part of a middle class family when the Khmer Rouge came to power. In the next five years, two million of Cambodia's seven million people would die, including Ms. Ung's father, mother, and two sisters. Her story is an inspiration to oppressed people all over the world, and has particular significance to Wausau's Hmong community. The program will feature a 30 minute conversation between Ms. Ung and host Glen Moberg, followed by a discussion with Chang Yang, former President of the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association, who escaped from Vietnam after the fall of the U.S. backed government; and Colin Hansen, history teacher with the Edgar School District, who brought Ms. Ung to central Wisconsin.
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5/3/12 5:00pm |
Father Steve Brice - This Thursday, Route 51 features an hour of conversation with Father Steve Brice, who is being reassigned to another community after serving for 18 years as the pastor of The Church of St. Anne in Wausau. Host Glen Moberg will ask Father Steve about his work with the social justice group NAOMI in its efforts to re-establish public bus service in the Village of Weston; his outreach to the central Wisconsin Hmong community; his efforts to help the homeless and poverty stricken in the Wausau area; and his reflections on the impact of Catholic advocacy on the debates over insurance coverage for contraception and the Paul Ryan budget proposal.
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4/26/12 5:00pm |
WI 29th Senate District Recall-Part 1 - This week we will present a forum between the two candidates on the Democratic Party ballot for the 29th State Senate District recall election. Host Glen Moberg will moderate a discussion between State Representative Donna Seidel (D-Wausau) and James Buckley (D-Antigo). The winner of the May 8th primary election will likely face State Representative Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon) in the June 5th general election. Listeners will have an opportunity to call in with their questions live on the air.
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4/19/12 5:00pm |
Israeli music group, Yamma Ensemble - This week we present an hour of conversation and music with Yamma Ensemble, an ethnic Israeli folk music group that is touring the United States and central Wisconsin. Host Glen Moberg will interview band members Talya G.A. Solan, Avri Borochov, Sefi Asfuri, Aviad Ben Yehuda, and Yonnie Dror, who will perform on ancient and modern instruments in our Wausau studio. The group appears in concert April 19th at 7:30 pm at The Grand, downtown Wausau. According to one music critic, "Yamma Ensemble brings the cultural mosaic that is Israel alive. Their sounds?drawn from Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy, Sephardic and Yemenite melodies?are at times rollicking and joyous, at others moving and mournful. But they are always vibrant, passionate, and performed from the heart. To listen to Yamma Ensemble is to stroll the markets of Old Jaffa, to sip coffee in a caf above the Mediterranean. It is to experience the mystery of Israel."
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4/12/12 5:00pm |
UWMC's Spring Play: "Milwaukee Vibrator" - This week we preview Milwaukee Vibrator, The Motorcycle Musical, scheduled for its world premiere debut performance on Friday, April 13th, at the Center for Civic Engagement Theater on the UW-Marathon County campus in Wausau. The rock'n'roll musical is based on Wisconsin's Harley Davidson culture, as the patrons of a biker bar fight to keep it open against a greedy real estate developer. Guests will be: Steve Sperry, Wisconsin native and Milwaukee Vibrator author; producer and UW-Marathon County Theater Director Sarah Rudolph; and cast member Zachary A. Wilde. In a first for the Route 51 show, the program will feature three rehearsal performance segments, performed live on the radio and from the theater stage.
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4/5/12 5:00pm |
Michael Perry - This Thursday A conversation with Wisconsin author, humorist and part time farmer Michael Perry. Glen Moberg will talk to Perry about his books Population 485, Truck, and Coop, and about his appearance April 14th at the Sentry Theater in Stevens Point.
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3/29/12 5:00pm |
Wausau Mayoral Debate - This Thursday we will present highlights of a Wausau mayoral debate between incumbent Mayor Jim Tipple and his challenger Alderman Ed Gale. The debate takes place this Wednesday, March 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the Center for Civic Engagement Theater on the UW-Marathon County campus, and is sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio, the Wausau Daily Herald and the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service. The debate will be moderated by Route 51 host Glen Moberg, with questions posed by a panel consisting of Rob Mentzer, opinion page editor of the Daily Herald; Mary Radke, board member of the Marathon County LIFE Committee; Pete Valiska, President of the Wausau West Side Business Association; Ying Lee Xiong, board member of the Wausau Hmong Mutual Association; and John Prey, member of the Wausau area social justice group NAOMI. Wednesday evening's debate is open to the public.
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3/22/12 5:00pm |
Wisconsin Kids Voting - This week we focus on the central Wisconsin Kids Voting convention, which takes place on the UW-Marathon County campus in Wausau on Tuesday, March 20th. More than 250 regional high school students will participate in the event, which is modeled after our national political conventions. The Democratic and Republican students will hold debates, and then each group will choose a presidential candidate.
On Thursday, Route 51 host Glen Moberg will present highlights in the event and moderate an hour long discussion with the two winning high school candidates, and with Mike Otten, the Executive Director of Kids Voting USA Wisconsin Marathon County.
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