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10/20/11 5:00pm |
Randlin Homes - This week we turn our attention to Randlin Homes, a Wausau based organization that helps homeless veterans and others recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. The organization celebrated its 10th anniversary this month. Guests will be Ralph Schlitz and Linda Larson Schlitz, the couple that started Randlin Homes in 2001, and have led the organization as it provided housing and job assistance to more than 600 people.
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10/13/11 5:00pm |
New Options for Retirement - This Thursday, we'll be taking a look at new options for retirement. In these uncertain economic times, many Americans are rethinking traditional ideas. Rather than planning for a retirement stage of life based purely on leisure, they're designing lives filled with enjoyment, engagement and purpose. That may include extending an existing career, starting a new job, going back to school or finding meaningful volunteer opportunities. Our guest will be John E. Nelson, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement. Nelson will appear at a workshop on the subject sponsored by the United Way of Marathon County and AARP Tuesday, October 18th in Wausau.
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10/6/11 5:00pm |
Kayaking for a Cause - This week we welcome the family of Joe Bodewes of Minocqua, who kayaked 1500 miles this past summer, circumnavigating all the way around Lake Superior. Joe and his three sons, 14 year old Will, 12 year old Luke, and 10 year old Noah, embarked on their epic journey in order to raise money to help HIV positive children in Africa. The children, many of them orphans, were born and raised near the shores of Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world, which led the Bodewes family to the idea of a charity paddle around the largest lake in North America. Joe, Will, Luke and Noah will talk about what they had to do to survive their epic journey across Superior's frigid waters, building makeshift shelters on wilderness beaches, and dealing with the lake's unpredictable and unforgiving weather patterns.
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9/29/11 5:00pm |
Global Competitiveness - We'll be taking a look at efforts to help businesses in central Wisconsin compete in a global economy. Guests include David Ward, CEO of Northstar Economics; Jean Burgener, Vice President of Post Acute Care at Aspirus Hospital; and independent economic consultant Mary Roberts, former Director of Business Retention and Expansion with the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce. The program will preview a conference on global competitiveness scheduled for October 6th at the Center for Civic Engagement on the UW Marathon County campus in Wausau, which is sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce, and Centergy.
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9/22/11 5:00pm |
Wust El Balad - This week features another of our special music shows... with the groundbreaking Egyptian folk rock band Wust El Balad. The group, which includes both Christian and Muslim musicians, incorporates modern rock and jazz themes with traditional and ancient Egyptian influences. They have become one of the most popular bands in their homeland. We will ask the musicians about their influences, about the sources of their inspiration, and about the positive role music can play in a volatile part of the world. The program will feature music performed live in our Wisconsin Public Radio studio.
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9/15/11 5:00pm |
Empowered Dream Hunts - Dream Hunts is a project that gives disabled adults and young people an opportunity to explore the outdoors and go deer hunting.
This week, Route 51 welcomes Joe Ramsey, Founder and Director of Empowered Dream Hunts and Mitch Hoyt, one of the program's recipients. The program will focus on the rehabilitative value of the outdoors experience, and the extent to which people can rise above their disabilities, and the adversities in their lives.
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9/8/11 5:00pm |
Rural Heritage Reading Project - This week, Route 51 welcomes author James L. Pope of Plover, the leader of the Rural Heritage Reading Project. The project teaches children about the people and the culture of their local Wisconsin history, while fostering an appreciation for reading and literacy. Pope is the author of Everyday Adventures of a Farm Boy in the '50s, an illustrated, hardcover book for elementary school students detailing his experiences growing up on a small, central Wisconsin farm six decades ago. Pope not only paid to have the book published and printed, but gives away hundreds of copies each year to area fourth grade students as part of the Reading Project.
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9/1/11 5:00pm |
Workers Compensation Law - This Thursday, September 1st, marks the 100th anniversary of the nation's first constitutional workers compensation law, and it's also the subject of Route 51 this week. We'll discuss the centennial event, and the ways in which workers compensation changed America's labor force, with a panel of experts: John H. Jones, retired senior vice president of Wausau Insurance and founding board member of the Workers Compensation Research Institute; Ron Kent, retired AFSCME International education representative; and Andrew Kersten, professor of history, UW-Green Bay. Dubbed "The Great Compromise," the Wisconsin idea of workers compensation was a dramatic recognition of society's responsibility to the workplace, and was the first form of social insurance in American history.
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8/25/11 5:00pm |
Wisconsin Regional Airports - The economy has been tough on regional airports across the country. Delta Air Lines recently announced it could no longer afford to service 24 small airports in the Midwest and South. On the other hand, Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee is getting a $3 million upgrade this fall. This week on "Route 51," guest host Bill Martens, filling in for Glen Moberg, and guests, CWA Manager Tony Yaron and Wausau Downtown Airport Manager John Chmiel, will talk about the challenges regional airports are facing and the opportunities that lie ahead.
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8/18/11 5:00pm |
Impact of Dairy Farming on Wisconsin - Taking a look at the impact of dairy farming on Wisconsin's way of life. Our guest will be Edward Janus, author of Creating Dairyland, How Caring for Cows Saved our Soil, Created our Landscape, Brought Prosperity to our State, and Still Shapes our Way of Life in Wisconsin. Janus is a former dairy farmer, audio journalist and oral historian. His work examines how farm life in Wisconsin evolved through the years, and how dairy farming shaped our state's progressive history.
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8/11/11 5:00pm |
Art Stevenson and High Water - We will be wrapping up our Summer Music Series with a bang: a free, live broadcast concert with Art Stevenson and High Water, one of America's top bluegrass bands. The group will perform at the Center for Civic Engagement Theater on the UW Marathon County campus, 625 Stewart Avenue in Wausau. The free concert is open to the public. No tickets are necessary.
Art Stevenson and High Water are Wisconsin's best-known bluegrass show, and have been in demand throughout the Midwest festival circuit since 1993. The band's bluegrass sound comes from the close duet singing of husband and wife team Art and Stephanie Stevenson, along with the spirited banjo and dobro playing of Dale Reichert, and the hard-driving mandolin picking of Bruce King. They have released six albums. High Water's music is heard on bluegrass radio programs around the USA and has received critical acclaim in the magazines Bluegrass Unlimited and Bluegrass Now.
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8/4/11 5:00pm |
14th State Senate District Recall Election: Olsen vs. Clark - This Thursday's show features both candidates in the upcoming 14th State Senate District recall election, which is scheduled for August 9th. Guests will be incumbent Republican Senator Luther Olsen and his challenger, Democratic Assemblyman Fred Clark. Discussion will revolve around issues in the race, their positions on Governor Walker's budget and collective bargaining, and the controversial state legislative redistricting map. Listeners will have an opportunity to call the program and question the candidates live on the air.
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7/28/11 5:00pm |
12th State Senate District Recall Election: Holperin vs. Simac - This Thursday's show features both candidates in the upcoming 12th State Senate District recall election, which is scheduled for August 16th. Democratic Senator Jim Holperin and his challenger, Republican tea party leader Kim Simac will discuss the issues facing the northern district, their positions on Governor Walker's budget, and the decision by senate Democrats to leave Wisconsin to delay the Governor's collective bargaining bill. Holperin will appear live on the program and take questions from our listeners. Moberg will interview Simac in a pre-recorded segment for the show.
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7/21/11 5:00pm |
South Beach Up North - Our summer music series continues with our friends South Beach Chamber Ensemble from Miami, FL. Executive Artistic Director and Wausau native Michael Andrews brings the ensemble into our studios for conversation and great music.
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7/14/11 5:00pm |
Sid Kyler Dixieland Band - This week we continue our summer music series by welcoming members of the Sid Kyler Dixieland Band to preview the second annual Sid Kyler River Valley Jazz Festival. Route 51 host and guitarist Glen Moberg will sit in with legendary band leader Sid Kyler, clarinet and sax player Louis Pradt, and pianist and vocalist Ray Kraemer for an hour of live music and lively conversation. The annual free jazz festival takes place this Friday evening and all day Saturday, July 15th and 16th, at the Bull Falls Brewery, 901 E. Thomas Street in Wausau. 13 bands have been lined up for the event, which is being sponsored for the second consecutive year by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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7/7/11 (All day) |
Communist Daughter - This week, Route 51 kicks off our Summer Music Series with a live, in-studio appearance of critically acclaimed indie rock group Communist Daughter. The Minneapolis based band will perform selections from their breakthrough CD, "Soundtrack to the End," including the hit single Not The Kid. Guests include group leader John Solomon and other band members, talking about their unique sound, described by one reviewer as "steeped in '60s-era Beach Boy harmonies and expansive, sunny choruses... contrasted with lyrics about loss, cynicism, and struggle." Communist Daughter performed at last year's Why Not Wausau? Festival, and will appear in Wausau again later this month. Bass player Adam Switlick is a Wausau native. The group will perform acoustic versions of their songs live in our Wisconsin Public Radio studios during this special Route 51 program.
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6/30/11 5:00pm |
Congressman Sean Duffy - This week features Seventh District Republican Congressman Sean Duffy, who was elected to his first term last November. Duffy will talk about his recent trip to Afghanistan, his reaction to the President's announcement of troop withdrawals, the negotiations over the debt ceiling, a proposal to redraw the Seventh District congressional boundaries, and his vote in favor of Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to reform Medicare. Then, we'll get analysis from Eric Giordano, Professor of Political Science at UW-Marathon County, and Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service.
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6/23/11 5:00pm |
Corky Siegel- take 2 - This week we will re-broadcast a favorite Route 51 show, with harmonica virtuoso and blues pioneer Corky Siegel, for an hour of lively conversation and live music. Corky talks about his long career that started in the sixties with the legendary Siegel-Schwall Band, and progressed through the seventies and eighties with a series of critically acclaimed solo albums, to the Deutsch Grammophon release of William Russo's Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony, to his own symphonic compositions and collaborations. This show was originally broadcast in January 2011.
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6/16/11 5:00pm |
MREA's 22nd Annual Energy Fair - This week we'll preview the 22nd Annual Midwest Renewable Energy Fair, scheduled for this weekend in Custer, WI, just east of Stevens Point. Glen Moberg will moderate a discussion with keynote speaker Chris Paine, writer and director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Doug Stingle, Outreach Director for the Midwest Renewable Energy Association. Listeners will be able to call in with their comments and questions on the future of renewable energy.
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6/9/11 5:00pm |
America's Favorite Pastime: Baseball! - Once again we welcome guest host Bill Martens, filling in for vacationing Glen Moberg. Martens will tackle the subject of America's Favorite Pastime, Baseball, with his guest, Chris Schulte, Sports Editor for the Wausau Daily Herald. Discussion will revolve around the sport of baseball, with specific attention to the Milwaukee Brewers, and the regional Minor League teams, the Wausau Woodchucks and the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. Schulte will take calls live on the air from listeners with questions or comments about "all things baseball."
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