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By Matt Murphy, WERU General Manager OUTSIDE

Since our last edition of Salt Air all the great work- er bees at WERU (board members, staff and volun- the BOX teers) have been busy with a number of projects and activities. Perhaps the most widely promoted and no- ticeable one is our new and improved website. Our volunteer Technology Com- mittee worked diligently to design and build the new site, which you can check out at the same address we’ve been using for years, “Hello, and welcome to another almost no one else is thinking sistent spelling sounds that I not someone else’s. weru.org. There are lots edition of Outside the Box, where about. developed. English is one of the I am NOT a poet, but I even of spiffy audio features such the question, ‘why be normal?’ is Outside the Box has given me most complicated languages to wrote a poem for one feature, with as short-term archives of re- normal. a chance to look at just about any- learn because one letter can have the last lines, cent music and public affairs thing from a unique point of view. as many as three, four, five or even programs. (Music programs “Today’s topic is...... ” I’ve done about 140 commentaries six different sounds. That was a “plastic here, plastic there, are archived for a limited so far, with topics ranging from trip, and lots of fun to create. plastic, plastic everywhere.” period in compliance with That’s how Outside the Box the Voluntary Human Extinction Before that, I recruited listen- copyright law. Local public starts. It’s the short weekly fea- Movement to socially responsible ers for a new religion, Dansinger- It may never get published, but affairs programs are also ar- ture, aired every Tuesday at giving to racism (titled “I’m a Rac- ism, which had as one of its two that proves that anyone can be a chived on the site basically 7:30am, that I write and produce. ist”) to being an odd duck and commandments, “You shall decide poet if they let themselves try. forever.) Other features The topic could fall almost any- proud of it. your own beliefs.” No recruits so I’ve always had a desire, may- include station news and where on the map or even off it. For one feature, I invented far, but I haven’t given up. At least be an obsession, to challenge the featured artist of the week. That’s the point. Expect the un- a new language, NuSpel, where it got people thinking “outside the usual way people think about a expected. Give recognition to the every English word was spelled pew,” and, I hope, believing that CONTINUED page four strange, the weird, the ideas that (speld) according to a set of con- the best ideas might be their own, CONTINUED page three Next Stop: The Blues Station By Megan Richardson

WERU newcom- Homans has always ers and seasoned lis- loved music. Whenever teners alike should his work brought him all plan a trip to The to a new destination, Blues Station, the new, he passed up staying in one-of-a-kind blues his hotel room in favor show hosted by Fritz of exploring the local Homans (right) that blues scene. As a re- airs every Wednesday sult, Homans knows a from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. lot about a lot of great Homans is not your musicians, including average blues fan. many relatively un- Through his college known and under-ap- years in North Carolina preciated talents. It is and his international these musicians that travels working as the Homans wants to in- Vice President of the troduce to his listeners government division of through his show. Chris Stark takes a peek at the a vitamin manufactur- Each week the show, er, Homans has trav- which debuted Febru- Volunteer Power in the Greater Bangor Area eled far and wide and ary 3rd, takes listeners experienced a vast ar- to a new geographic lo- WERU is currently oper- MidCoast. And then there ray of the world’s best cation that is rich with ating with more than 280 ac- is Penobscot County with blues. Says the fulltime blues. Homans has tive volunteers doing a wide 40 volunteers. Since we father of two, “the show found throughout his assortment of activities such expanded our signal in the reflects my travels.” CONTINUED page six as planning special events Greater Bangor Area over or building improvements, a year ago we have slowly cataloging music or cleaning been growing the volunteer the station, producing on-air and membership base in 1186 Acadia Highway NON-PROFIT ORG. programs or reporting news that area. PRSRT STD East Orland, ME 04431 and events or designing the If you are from Penobscot (207) 469-6600 U.S. POSTAGE website. County, you are probably PAID Most of the volunteers, wondering what volunteers http://weru.org/ 148 right now, are from do from your area. The an- Permit #82 Hancock County. There are swer is: a lot of things! [email protected] Ellsworth, ME at least 85 volunteers from Waldo/Knox Counties -the CONTINUED page six Page 2 WERU Salt Air Spring 2010

WERU provides a community-based non-commercial radio service; WERU broadcasts programs designed to serve the needs of those not fully WERU’s Mission served by other broadcast media in the areas covered by the WERU signal; WERU is a “voice of many voices” offering a wide variety of people an opportunity to share their experiences, concerns, perspectives and information with their neighbors over the airwaves and Internet.

Board of Directors PLEASE CONTACT Salt Air is published by the staff and volunteers of WERU, and is printed on recycled-content Salt Air paper with soy-based ink at the Ellsworth American. Copies of Salt Air are mailed directly WERU-FM is licensed to Salt Pond Community Broadcasting, a comments, corrections questions, subscription info: [email protected] to all current members and distributed throughout WERU’s listening area by volunteers and non-profit corporation actively run by an all-volunteer Board of staff. This issue and other back issues are available to download at http://weru.org/ Directors from the community that WERU-FM serves. The current board members are: WERU-FM broadcasts 24 hours a day from the top of Blue Hill Mountain in the town of Blue Hill at 89.9 FM and is streaming & podcasting at http://weru.org/. WERU is a member of Maine Association of Broadcasters, Maine Association of Nonprofits, National Federation of Matt Baya (Volunteer Rep.) Ellsworth Community Broadcasters, and the Grassroots Radio Coalition. John Greenman (Secretary) Old Town Bill Lippincott Hampden WERU-FM Office: (207) 469-6600 E-mail: [email protected] Matt Murphy (Ex Officio & Gen. Mgr.) Penobscot PO Box 170 Studio: (207) 469-0500 Streaming & Podcasting at Richard Paget (Vice President) Stonington East Orland, ME 04431 Fax: (207) 469-8961 http://weru.org/ Greg Rossel (President) Troy Kathleen Rybarz Lamoine Marianne Adamenas, Eileen Ahern, Stephani Allen, Jeff Amsrud, Mary Anderson, Sue Ari- Lynn Soucy (Ex Officio Treasurer) Dedham Active Volunteers: potch, Barbara Arter, Jim Bahoosh, Steve Bailey, Don Bamman, Jim Baranski, Matt Baya, Tom Beal, Ron Beard, Dan Beckman, Paul Behnken, Andree Bella, Linda Bennett, Charles Bickford, Kristie Billings, John Blaisdell, Ant Blasi, Mark Boshko, Midge Boshko, Jeff Bosse, Al Bourgoin, Mary Brennan, Andy Buckley, Kathie Burnett, Gina Bushong, Erica Buswell, Community Advisory Board Richard Buxton, Jim Campbell, Kate Chapin, Sherry Churchill, Alan Clemence, Joan Clemons, Carolyn Coe, Ian Collins, Diana Cookson, The CAB advises the Board of Directors on how well the the Lynn Cottrell, Chris Covert, Steve Crabtree, Erica Crane, Brendan Curran, Abigail Curtis, Larry Dansinger, Drew Darling, Tiffany Daven- station serves the mission of WERU-FM. CAB meetings are open port, Darwin Davidson, Mavis Davis, Vesta Davis, Leah Deasy, Meredith DeFrancesco, Daryl Dejoy, Marina Delune, Lee Dennett, Martha to the public The current CAB members are: Dickinson, Susan Dickson-Smith, Karen Doherty, Cheri Domina, Mike Domrad, Michael Donahue, Chris Donley, Frank Donnelly, Charlie Dufour, Kate Duncan, Marty Duncan, Mark Dyer, Jeanne Ellis, Jeff Ellis, Melisenda Ellis, Mark Elwin, Ryan Entwistle, RW Estela, Dave Don Bamman, Lamoine Roberta M. Goodell, S. Thomaston Evans, Robin Farrin, Joan Federman, Rhonda Feiman, Asha Fenn, Jim Fisher, Joe Fisher, Brian Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty, David Foley, Kathleen Burnett, Blue Hill Suzanne Kelly, Bangor Haydee Santamaria Foreman, Chrissy Fowler, George Fowler, Pat Fowler, Karen Frangoulis, Linda Freimuth, Sean Gambrel, Stacy Gam- Gina Bushong, Orland Tonia Kittelson, Bar Harbor brel, Juliane Gardner, Martha Garfield, Matt Gerald, Jane Gerlach, Starr Gilmartin, Dorris Ginn, Richard Giordano, Winnifred Gomm, Leland R. Dennett, Castine Robert J. Salesi, Penobscot Bobbie Goodell, Byron Greatorex, Paula Greatorex, John Greenman, Ralph Grimes, Tim Hagney, Martina Haines, Judy Hale, Petra Hall, Martha Dickinson, Ellsworth Craig Schoppe, Ellsworth Jared Hansen, Neal Harkness, Ariel Harris-Porada, Jane Haskell, Kaley Haskell, Nancy Hathaway, Lisa Hawkins, Henries Family, Mary Frank Donnelly, Lamoine Christine West, Penobscot Hildebrand, John Hillman-Waters, Sharon Hillman-Waters, Rich Hilsinger, Fritz Homans, Denis Howard, Clare Hubbard, Rebecca Martha Ellen Duncan, Blue Hill Rev. Mark Worth, Castine Hunter, Tris Hurley, Cathy Jacobs, Lynn Jacobson, Stacie Jacques, Willie Jenner, Carlton Johnson, Patricia Johnson, Renee Johnson, David Foley, Northport John Zavodny, Unity Magnus Johnstone, Mike Joyce, Lisa Jung, Wendy Kearney, Mary Kellett, Flash Kellish, Shannon Kellish, Suzanne Kelly, Rick Kidson, Valentine King, Tonia Kittelson, Ethan Klein, Lucy Leaf, Leslie Linder, Bill Lippincott, Laura Livingston, David Livonius, Rosa Livonius, Louise Lopez, Donna Loring, Roland Magnan, David Manski, Kathleen March, Chuck Markowitz, Lisa B Martin, Heather Martin-Zboray, Station Operations Staff Cherie Mason, Jeremy Mason, Carol Mathiesen, Marge May, Rob McCall, Jeff McCarter, Maggi McCaw, Sue McClatchy, Barbara McClure, Amy Browne News & Public Affairs Manager Patrisha McLean, John McVeigh, Cathy Melio, Deb Melnikas, Robin Mendenhall, Cathy Mink, Brook Minner, Dave Miramant, Rob Mo- Bruce Clark Contract Engineer carsky, Jonathan Mohr, Cheryl Morin, Arthur Morison, Doc Morrill, Claudette Nadeau, Peter Neill, Karen Nelson, Anthony Nicholson, Tiffany Davenport Student Intern Mike Nickerson, Ian Norburg, Tim O’Shea, Cade Overton, Richard Paget, Ellen Paige, Mike Paige, Marie Palluotto, Corey Paradise, Ryan Adam Lacher Underwriting & Publications Manager Parker, Gray Parrot, Jay Peterson, Susan Pierce, Laura Pines, Cathy Planchart, Jane Ploughman, Ric Pomilia, Joe Porada, Chris Ramsay, Joel Mann Program & Operations Manager Joel Raymond, Cathy Rees, Amy Robbins-Wilson, Chris Roberts, Phil Rogers, Anne Romans, Greg Rossel, Todd Russell, Marilyn Ryan, Willie Marquart Finance Manager Kathleen Rybarz, Bob Salesi, Craig Schoppe, Wendy Schweikert, June Sendrowski, Paul Sheridan, Matt Shipman, John Shirrefs, Elaine Matt Murphy General Manager Shute, Bob Sikkel, Donna Slopey, Valerie Smith, Sharon Smythe, Lynn Soucy, Steve Soucy, Alan Sprague, Sam Spruce, Jeri Spurling, Larry Maggie Overton Music Director Stahlberg, Ron Staples, Sue Staples, Francine Stark, Hazel Stark, Rob Struba, Christian Sulick, Zia Sulick, Kelsey Sullivan, Cynthia Swan, “Big Al” Scott Contract IT Technician Araya Tegan, Suei Tietje, Peri Tobin, Connie Tuller, Nancy Tyndall, Tatiana Urban, John Vincent, Calvin Vitale, Connie Wagner, Parker Sylvia Smith Database Manager Waite, Susan Walsh, Will Walton, Paul Waring, Linda Washburn, Richard Washburn, Allison Watters, Chris West, Sam West, David Wildey, Chris Stark Office & Volunteer Coordinator Debbie Wildey, Holbrook Williams, Mariah Williams, Lee Witting, Mike Wolf, Mark Worth, John Zavodny, Larry Zellner, Sandy Zellner,

Appleton: (BM) Perennial Favorites Nursery & Greenhouse, (BM) S.T. Photography. ACTIVE Business MEMBERS (BM) & UnDERWRITERS (UW): Athens, GA.: (BM) Coastwise Consulting. Augusta: (UW) Maine Initiatives (De- mocracy Now), (UW) MaineShare (Outside the Box). Bangor: (UW) Bangor Daily News (Various), (UW) Bangor Savings Bank (Come Sunday), (UW) Bull Moose Music (Various), (UW) Chyrsalis Psychological Services (Dem. Now!), (BM) Herbal Tea & Tobacco, (BM) House Revivers, (BM) Integrative Medicine, Healthy Alternatives, (BM) Lippincott Books, (UW) Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center (This Way Out), (BM) Maine Patients Group, (UW) Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine (Democracy Now), (BM) Pro Libris Book Shop, (UW) River City Cinema (Various). Bar Harbor: (BM) A&B Naturals, (BM&UW) Acadia Fireplaces (Hightower), (UW) Bar Harbor Bank & Trust (Morning Maine Weather Report), (UW) College of the Atlantic (Democracy Now), (BM) Down East Nature Tours, (BM) Downeast Food Shed, (BM) Friends of Acadia, (BM) John Dargis Associates, (UW) MDI Farmers’ Market (Sun. Morn. Coffeehouse), (BM) Morning Glory Bakery, (BM & UW) Reel Pizza Cinerama (OTW), (BM) Transformation Massage Therapy, (UW) Window Panes (Gracias a la Vida). Belfast: (BM) Aarhus Gallery, (BM&UW) Acupuncture Clinic of Rhonda Feiman (Democracy Now), (BM) Belfast Bicycles, (UW) Belfast Chamber of Commerce (Various), (UW) Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage (Various), (BM&UW) Belfast Co-op (Fri. On The Wing), (BM) Belfast Dance Studio, (UW) Belfast Farmers’ Market (Morn. ME.), (UW) Belfast Framer (Barefoot Blues Hour), (BM) Bob Meggison, Attorney at Law, (UW) Easterly Wine LLC (Free Speech Radio News), (BM) Darby’s Restaurant, (BM) Fiddler’s Green Farm, (UW) The Good Table (Adagio), (UW) The Green Store (FSRN & Democracy Now), (BM) Harmony in Hand Massage Therapy (BM) K Construc- tion, (UW) Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility (Various), (BM) Mainely Pottery, (BM) Metaphor Bronze Tileworks, (BM) Mid-Coast Dental Arts, (UW) Morningstar Midwifery (Baby Talk), (BM) North Twin Education Programs, (UW) Old Professor’s Bookshop (FSRN and Book Waves), (BM) Penobscot Bay Dentistry, (BM) Roots & Tendrils, (UW) VillageSoup.com (Tue. On The Wing), (UW) Waterfall Arts for the Belfast Free Range Music Festival (Various), (UW) Wild Rufus Records (Reggae Reprieve), (BM) William Armstrong Sports and Orthopedic Massage, (UW) Yo Mama’s Home (Highway 61). Bernard: (BM) Land Conservation Legal Services. Biddeford: (UW) Don Foshay’s Discount Tire & Alignment (Fri. On The Wing). Blue Hill: (BM) The Activity Shop, (BM) Auxi- lar Marketing, (BM&UW) Blue Hill Co-op & Café (Sat. Coffeehouse), (UW) Blue Hill Farmers’ Market ( Morn. ME.), (BM) Blue Hill Hearth, (UW) Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce (Various), (BM) Bruce D. Warring, Master Stone Mason, (BM) Jean O Design, (BM) Jon Smallidge Carpentry, (BM) Kevin Poland - Maine Weather, (UW) Liros Gallery (Jazz Straight Ahead), (BM) Lowry Environmental Engineering, (BM) MacRevival, (BM) Old Ackley Farm, (BM) Paradise Tattoo, (BM & UW) Sara Sara’s Women’s Clothing (The Jazz Scene), (BM) String Theory Knitting & Spinning, (UW) Table (Talk of the Towns), (BM) Wessel Electric/American Sun Electric. Bremen: (BM) Lind Building & Renovating. Brooklin: (BM) Ann F. Brayton Boat Cushions & Canvas, (BM) Center Harbor Sails (BM&UW) Cold Spring Design & Woodworking (X-Large Soul Show & World of Music), (BM) Holbrook Williams - Garden Services, (BM) Princell Woodworks. Brooks: (BM) Baldwin Apple Ladders. Brooksville: (UW) APCC Ltd. (DriveThru) (UW) Brooksville Farmers’ Market (Morn. ME.). Brunswick: (UW) Gulf of Maine Books (Book Waves), (BM) Great Water Inc. Bucksport: (UW) BookStacks (Dem. Now! Headlines and Book Waves), (UW) The Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce (Various), (UW) The Bucksport Enterprise (Weather, Voices & Front Porch Folk), (BM) Crosby’s Drive-In, (BM) Modular Media. Camden: (UW) Bay Chamber Concerts (Various), (BM & UW) Bob Spencer Builders and Properties (Democracy Now), (BM) Camden Falls Gallery, (BM) Country Inn at Camden/Rockport, (UW) Gambell & Hunter Sailmakers (Boat Talk), (UW) Maine Boats & Harbors Magazine (Weather,Tue. Public Affairs, & Thu. Morning Maine), (BM) McK- ittrick & Warren, P.A., (BM & UW) Quantum Insulators LLC (High Tower & Renew. Radio), (BM) Spirit Soaring Glider Rides, (BM) Timberhead Music, (BM) TREEKEEPERS LLC - Johnson’s Arbo- riculture. Castine: (BM) The Breeze, (UW) Maine Maritime Academy’s Division of Continuing Education (Weather), (BM&UW) Stella’s Jazz Nocturnal (Various). Cherryfield: (BM) Fritz Gensheimer Custom Builder. Dedham: (UW) Maine Gallery & Studio Guide (On the Wing), (BM) Northern Maine Construction. Deer Isle: (BM) Beech Hill Woodworks, (BM) Dan Foss Construction LLC, (BM) Darwin K. Davidson Photography, (BM) Nervous Nellies Jams & Jellies, (BM) The Turtle Gallery. Dixmont: (BM) Peacemeal Farm, (BM) Winterport Remodeling & Siding. Dover-Foxcroft: (UW) Center Theatre (Various), (BM) Ripley Farm. East Boothbay: (BM) Nathaniel S. Wilson Sailmaker. Edgecomb: (BM) Andy Abello at Wind Ridge Farm Woodworking. Ellsworth: (BM) Acadia Dental Arts, (BM) Acadia Naturopathic Clinic, (UW) Cleonice Mediterranean Bistro (Free Speech Radio News & Jazz Dojo), (UW) Coastal Drilling & Blasting Inc. (Talk of the Towns), (BM) Design Group Collaborative Architecture, (BM) Ellsworth Farmers’ Market, (BM) Emmaus Homeless Shelter, (BM&UW) EverGreen Home Solutions (EarthSense, Fri. On The Wing & Alternative Radio), (UW) Fahringer’s Framing Gallery (X-Large Soul Show), (BM) Farrin Photography, (UW) Finelli Pizzeria (Various), (UW) The Grand (Various), (BM) Hansen Counseling, (BM) Image Gazer Productions, (UW) Maine Community Foundation (Talk of the Towns), (BM) Midwives at Maine Coast Womencare, (UW) Pyramid Studio (Mon. On The Wing & WERU Drive Thru), (UW) Richard Parks Furniture (Hightower, Morn. ME.), (UW) Rock & Art Shop (Blues the Healer), (BM) Roy, Beardsley, Williams & Granger, (BM&UW) The Sand Castle (Various), (BM) Sandra Hylander Collier Law Offices, (BM) Savory Bay Environmental Planning, (BM) SVAHA LLC (Electronic Cottage), (BM) Tom’s Terrific Tattoos, (UW) United Methodist Church of Ellsworth (Various). Falmouth: (UW) Inner Tap- estry Journal (Health Related & Renewable Radio). Franklin: (BM) Fiery Mountain Gallery, (BM) Maine Coast Sea Vegetables. Freedom: (BM) Village Farm. Friendship: (BM) Bolen’s Mooring Service. Gouldsboro: (BM) Darthia Farm. Hallowell: (UW) Merrill’s Bookshop (Democracy Now). Hampden: (BM & UW) Hampden Natural Foods (Dem. Now! & FSRN). Hancock: (BM) Dennis J. King Masonry, (BM) Raven Tree Gallery. Harborside: (BM) A Revolutionary Press. Holden: (UW) Fields Pond Audubon Center (Talk of the Towns & Renewable Radio). Hope: (BM) Joshua Leavitt Fine Craft. Hulls Cove: (BM) Davistown Museum & Maine Artists Guild. Islesboro: (BM) Blue Water Songs, (BM) Robert Clayton Builder, (BM) Terry Wuori Company / Carpenter & Builder. Islesford: (BM) Islesford Dock Restaurant. Jackson, NH.: (BM) Monolithic Building Services. Jonesboro: (BM) the WordShed. Lamoine: (BM) Peacock Company, (UW) Redfern Boat Company (Boat Talk). Liberty: (BM&UW) Liberty Graphics (New Dimensions), (BM) ReVision Energy LLC (Democracy Now!). Lincolnville: (BM) The House That Ruth Built, (UW) Maine Nonviolent Communications Network (New Dimensions), (BM) Open Communication, (BM) Sleepy Hollow Rag Rugs. Mercer: (BM) Lizzyoos Milbridge: (UW) Luna Midwifery (Baby Talk), (BM) Ray Carbone Sculpture & Wood- working, (BM) Striper Bait. Monhegan Island: (BM) Storm Lobster Corp. Monroe: (BM&UW) Artisan Builders (Radio Active), (UW) 1st Light Community Midwives (Dem. Now!), (BM) Look Far Agricultural Service, (BM) Whitman Graphics & Sign Design. Montville: (BM) Thirteenth Moon Art Therapy Healing Center. Mount Desert: (BM) Mountain Sea Properties, (BM) Sweet Timber Frames. New Harbor: (BM) Hardy Boat Cruises. Northport: (BM) Holland & Foley Architecture, (BM) Jim’s VW. Orland: (UW) Alamoosook Lakeside Inn (Sat. & Sun. Coffeehouses), (UW) Orland House B & B (New Potatoes) & (BM) Rufus Wanning - Master Arborist. Orono: (UW) Peacemeal Farm for the Orono Farmers’ Market (Tue. Morning Maine & Sat. Coffeehouse), (UW) University of Maine Cooperative Extension Crop Insurance Education Program (Doing Business & Weather) Penobscot: (BM) Earth Routes, (BM) Morse Cove Marine, (BM) Northern Bay Timber Frames, (UW) Penobscot Solar (On the Wing), (BM) Safe Arbor Tree Service, (BM) Tree Feller, (UW) Wardwell Point Whole Health (Common Health), (BM) Weaving a Life. Pittsfield: (BM) Snakeroot Farm. Portland: (UW) BELTEK (Various), (UW) Peace Action Maine (Various). Prospect Harbor: (UW) US Bells (Barefoot Blues & WERU Soap Box). Rockland: (UW) Atlantic Challenge (Various), (BM) Benchmark Solar, (UW) The Free Press (Various), (BM) Gemini Marine Canvas, (UW) Harbor Square Gallery (New Dimensions), (BM&UW) Jonathan Frost Gallery & Frame Shop (Blues The Healer), (UW) Rock City Coffee/Second Read Books (Wed. Morning Maine & New Potatoes), (BM) Rogers Renovations and Repairs, (BM) The Strand Theatre. (UW) Village Soup (Various) Rockport: (BM) All Creatures Veterinary Hospital, (BM) Florimbi Studios, (UW) Fresh Off The Farm (Reggae Reprieve), (UW) Harvest Fuels (Hightower & Renewable Radio), (BM) Rockport Marine. Rock- wood: (UW) Moosehead Condos (Hightower) Round Pond: (BM) Bull’s Point Lobster Company Inc., (BM) Muscongus Bay Lobster Company. Sargentville: (BM & UW) El El Frijoles (Democracy Now & Thu. On The Wing). Searsport: (UW) Left Bank Books (Book Waves), (BM) Safe Harbor Massage, (UW) Sundog Solar Store (Democracy Now!) Sedgewick: (UW) Food for Maine’s Future (Various), (BM) Jay Peterson Signs, (BM) Parker’s Applied Designs, Prints and Frames. Skowhegan: (BM) Grassland Organic Farm. South China: (BM & UW) Two Loons Farm (Rhythm Ranch). South Thom- aston: (BM) JMS Uninc. Southwest Harbor: (BM) A-Cappella.com, (BM) Mary McMorrow Adams MSW LCSW, (BM) Richard Bradford Builder, (UW) South WEst Cycle (Renewable Radio, Reggae Reprieve, This Way Out) (UW & BM) XYZ Restaurant (Gracias a la Vida). Stockton Springs: (BM) Red’s Automotive. Stonington: (BM) Marlinespike Chandlery, (UW) Pennobscot Bay Press (Healthy Options & Common Health). Sullivan: (BM) Sullivan Granite Company. Sunset: (BM) Maine Camp Outfitters. Surry: (BM) Blue Moon Images Gallery, (BM) Morgan Bay Farm. Tenants Harbor: (BM) Kevin Solsten Cabinetry, (BM) Turkey Cove Auto Repair. Thomaston: (BM) Seal Harbor Construction, (BM&UW) Smarty Pants (Thu. Morning Maine) Troy: (BM) Greg Rossel Boat Carpentry. Tun- bridge, VT.: (BM) Mountain Folk Union: (BM) Agricola Farms, (BM) Come Spring Farm & Saw Mill, (BM) Marine Models, (BM) Shep’s Imports, (BM) Treeline Artisans. Unity: (UW) Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (Wed. Morning Maine), (BM) Unity College’s Center for the Performing Arts. Verona Island: (BM) Island Flowers. Vinalhaven: (BM) Tidewater Motel & Gathering Place. Waldo: (BM) Rose Whitehead Culinary Landscaping. Waldoboro: (UW) Midcoast Green Collaborative (Various), (BM) G. K. VanDerwerker Studio - Hand Bookbinding, (UW) Waldo Theatre. Warren: (UW) A. E. Sampson & Son (Morning ME.). West Rockport: (UW) Smith & May Masonry (Mon. On The Wing). Winterport: (BM) Fisher Farm. Winthrop: (BM) One Heart. Editor’s Note: If you are aware of any Supporters left off the list please contact WERU ASAP. This list is also available at weru.org TECHNICALLY from page one

Spring 2010 WERU Salt Air Page 3 CLICK HERE to LISTEN Jim Campbell introduces the audio features found on our new website. NEW your own computer so you can listen to it later: just click on the “Download” T O T E link. Suppose you don’t want to check the BAGS WERU website every week to see when sweatshop free a new edition of your favorite program recycled cotton is available. At the top of the Audio Ar- chives page, you will see a menu item that says “Podcast Feeds.” A “pod- ONLY cast” is simply a program that you can download to your own computer, ei- $15.00 ther manually or automatically. Click call the station on this link to find instructions on how (207).469.6600 to subscribe to a particular program on the Audio Archives page. You will need software on your computer that is able to subscribe to podcast feeds and the “Podcast Feeds” page tells you how to go about it. Once you set up the podcast feed, your favorite program will be delivered to your computer whenever a new version is added to the Audio Archives page. The programs that allow you to subscribe to a podcast are often called RSS aggregators (RSS stands for “Re- The WERU website has lots of new Streaming” page, where you can look ally Simple Syndication”). RSS aggre- features for your ears, your eyes, and for a particular show by title of the pro- gators allow your computer to auto- your head. Today, let’s simply concen- gram, the program genre, or the name matically check sites that you wish to trate on our ears. of the program host. You can listen - obtain programs from. This all hap- On the home page of the WERU but not download - any program that pens in the background once the RSS website, you’ll notice an item right at has been broadcast on WERU during feed is set up so that you don’t have to the top of the page that says “Listen.” the past two weeks. Because of copy- remember to check yourself weekly, You can see the name of the program right regulations, WERU is not able to monthly, or whenever. currently on the air, and clicking on broadcast music programs that were And speaking of RSS, if you look at this link will allow you to listen to originally broadcast more than two the bottom of the WERU home page, WERU’s signal over your computer. weeks in the past. Still, this is a great you will see a menu item that says Note that there are two options: you new option for listeners who may have “Syndicate.” This could just as easily ELFAST can listen at a rate of 24K (24 kilobytes missed their favorite music programs say “RSS:” it means the same thing. If B per second). This is a lower quality or just want to listen to them again. you click on this link, you will be able 800-244-5211 stream but one which works well over The second choice on the “Listen” to obtain additional news items as they phone lines. There are still many peo- box is “Public Affairs Audio Archives.” are added to the WERU website. This WARREN ple who access the Internet using their These are spoken word programs is not the place to subscribe to pod- 800-948-4546 phone lines, and the 24k stream allows produced at WERU. WERU owns the casts - this will only bring you updates those folks to listen on their comput- rights and can therefore make them from the WERU web pages. ers. The other choice, 128K, allows you available for as long as the station So there you have it: you can get an HANCOCK to listen to WERU at a higher quality wishes to, and some programs actually earful of WERU via the Internet by 800-439-4729 Family Owned & Operated rate. This is a good choice if you have go back several years. So if you missed Listening Live, listening to music pro- Since 1945 high speed Internet either at home or an edition of Boat Talk or Awandjo grams broadcast in the past two weeks VINALHAVEN where you work. Almanac or some other favorite pro- through “On Demand Streaming” (no 863-2242 If you glance down a little, you’ll gram, you can play, download and downloads), listening to WERU pro- Complete Selection notice another box that says “Listen: share it as often as you want. You can duced spoken word programs in the INCOLNVILLE Online Audio Features.” This box has even have it delivered to your com- Audio Archives more or less forever, L of Lumber & three links so let’s take a quick look puter whenever a new version of the and you can even have programs or 800-660-3605 and see what each of these choices program is posted. Here’s how. new information items on the WERU Building Supplies means. If you would like to listen to the pro- web site delivered to your comput- “Live Streaming” is what we just gram now, simply click on the triangle er via RSS. And, of course, there is discussed. “On Demand Streaming of below the description of the program still good old 89.9 on your FM dial. Past Shows” is an exciting new option you are interested in. This will play Rhonda P. Feiman at the WERU website. Clicking on this the program on your computer. You Jim Cambell hosts the Elctronic Cot- option brings you to the “On Demand can also download the program to tage every Thurday at 7:30 AM. Doctor of Oriental Medicine

OUTSIDE the BOX from page one subject or issue. I’ve been why one REAL goal with do this! few days I come up with out of sync with almost Outside the Box is to make So doing this feature new ones. It’s a wonderful everybody else all my life, people feel ok, even good, is not easy for me. I am way to learn more about even as a kid. I remember about their strange or un- not a wordsmith. I have a the subjects, and I try to get getting paper, blank on one usual thoughts and behav- “funny” sense of humor, clearer on the big issues of side, out of the wastebasket iors. We can be odd ducks so I can’t entertain. I don’t the moment. 18 Harbor Street, and writing schoolwork on without being quacks. Or, have a commanding voice. We face many local, na- Belfast, Maine 04915 it in the fourth grade. I was according to another famil- I have to depend on listen- tional, and international (207) 338-4454 perpetually cheering for last iar saying, “Do not adjust ers’ curiosity: “What kind crises in the world today. place baseball teams, even your mind, there is fault in of strange, interesting idea I am passionate about try- as a kid, because I wanted reality.” or twist on current thinking ing to solve these problems, Serving Our Community Since 1992 the underdog to win. and radio is now one I must have been a medium for me to do non-conformist from “Organizers do best when they let go of their own ego, that. As I recently told my first breath, - al stay in the background, and let things happen because a friend, I don’t have though I don’t know the people they work with make them happen.” much faith in the in- where the character- stitutions in our daily istic came from. life – government, When I was in my teens I’ve spent most of my will he come up with this the capitalist economy, en- and twenties in the 1960s, adult life as a community week?” At the end of each vironmental protection, Over 35,000 everyone I knew was listen- organizer. Organizers do feature, I ask listeners what representative democracy, Select Used ing to rock music, growing best when they let go of THEY think about the top- religion, the military and Paperbacks & Hardcovers their hair long, and smok- their own ego, stay in the ic. I’ve said my piece/peace. homeland security, even Open in Stock ing dope. That wasn’t me. background, and let things Now it’s their turn to decide technology – to solve these I skipped the drugs. My happen because the people what they believe and, I problems. But, I do have Tuesday - Saturday hair stayed short and I was they work with make them hope, how they’ll act. faith that humans can fig- 10 AM - 6 PM listening to ragtime, bossa happen. Doing this radio I thank WERU for giving ure out a solution to our nova, and marimba music feature is a supreme act of me the chance to have such problems, if we just take off – not exactly top 40s. ego. (Notice how many of fun doing these features. those blinders, move past 10 Third Street Somehow, I managed these paragraphs start with I’ve got a list of about 200+ certainty about what we can (off Union) email: [email protected] not to be embarrassed (too “I.”) Yikes, I can’t hide be- topics I haven’t gotten to and can’t do...... and think Bangor, ME 04401 much) by it all, which is hind anybody else when I yet, and it seems like every “outside the box.” Page 4 WERU Salt Air Spring 2010

May 1st Birthday Blow Out and Open House HOOPLA! WERU is having a birthday at the WERU station in East Or- ing your Community Radio stations (top right) followed by folk cal jam-band favorite The Reach. party, and you are invited! On land, located on Route 1 between tion. duo Emme Walsh & Chuck Don- So mark your calendars for Saturday, May 1, we’ll celebrate Bucksport and Ellsworth. There The live musical performances nelly (top center) at noon, Shades May 1st and the WERU Birthday twenty-two years of WERU with will be great live music, food, a will start at 11 AM with the Shawn of Blue featuring the voice of Ju- Open House! We hope to see you a Birthday Open House from 11 used jewelry sale, station tours Mercer Band featuring tunes liane Gardner (top left) at 1 PM, at the party! More information AM to 3 PM. The party will be and lots of nice people celebrat- from their latest album Reflec- and culminating at 2 PM with lo- at: 469-6600 or [email protected].

WERU NEWS from page one We invite you to utilize all of the features more about this service position is invited some degree in those directions, including leaves $5,100 from the first quarter to make and information on the site and send us any to email [email protected] or read about Downtown Bangor. In the event that these up before the end of the year, but with your feedback you may have. it online at weru.org. Please no calls. The changes don’t improve the signal enough help we can do it. We also had 106 people Other new things at WERU are two fine selection process for the position will take in Bangor we are applying for FCC permis- join the station as new members. Support programs that recently were added to our place in late April through May 17th. sion for a new low-power frequency that we from Business Members and Program Un- program schedule. Maine’s Sunday Best Speaking of the Bangor area, we are could broadcast with later in the year. We derwriters remains strong as well. Thank with Karen Nelson is a fine collection of still working on restoring a strong Bangor- are sorry for the inconvenience to all Ban- you! Gospel and Classical every Sunday after- Brewer signal, especially down near the gor listeners and members who lost a clear The radio station has some nice upcom- noon from 2 – 4, and The Blues Station is river, since we had to turn off our 102.9 FM 102.9 signal and want to let them know that ing events too. First, thank you to every- a great blues show hosted by Fritz Homans translator (low-power transmitter) recently they are not forgotten. one who came out for the emma’s revolu- every Wednesday afternoon from 2- tion concert on April 23 in Ellsworth. 4. Welcome to these new shows and They put on a great show and the hosts! event was a success also because of all Speaking of new shows and pro- Geoff Kaufman WERU Benefit Concert the people who attended. For other grammers, in April we had 25 people Saturday May 29th at 7:30 PM in Ellsworth upcoming events see the center box, go through our new volunteer train- where you’ll find out about the Non- ing. We have a few spots opening up The Downeast Concert Collective & WERU FM are excited to bring violent Communications workshop in in our schedule so who knows which singer, songwriter, shantyman & balladeer Geoff Kaufman. He will Belfast and Geoff Kaufman concert in of these new voices you’ll be hearing in perform in Ellsworth to benefit WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM Ellsworth. Find information about our the near future! Our next new volun- at the Ellsworth Unitarian Universalist Church on Saturday, May May 1st Birthday Open House in the teer training will take place in the fall. 29th at 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7 PM. Suggested donation is $15. above article. And in general, please It is with both sadness and grati- Free for those under 16. Seating is limited and reservations are sug- get out there and support local music tude that we bid farewell to our “Super gested by calling 667-7825 or emailing [email protected]. and other local community events too Intern” Tiffany Davenport who has For more information visit http://downeastmusic.org/. For more (many of which you can hear from our been with us serving Community Ra- information about Geoff Kaufman visit www.geoffkaufman.com. community calendar announcements dio for the past nine months. Tiffany and read about at our online commu- has done just about every thing you nity calendar.) can think of at the radio station, from Upcoming this summer is the next office work to on-air programming Nonviolent Communications Workshop: Youth Radio Summer Program, when work, and done them very well with a “Building Peace Within Me and the World” high school students come to WERU great attitude and friendly demeanor. one day a week and learn how to be We’ll miss her, but wait! Tiffany will Held on Saturday, May 22, 2010, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM at Waterfall broadcasters. On the very first day of still be connected to the station as one Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast Maine. Please bring your own lunch the program teens will be on the air. of the hosts of Tone Soup, a Saturday or delight in food from local eateries. This workshop is open to We’ve saved a spot in our broadcast afternoon (4-6) eclectic rock show. everyone regardless of ability to pay. It is a $70 value; payment is schedule for them to be on the air one Very cool! by donation. Participants are encouraged to contribute as much as day a week for the summer. If you are Although we no longer have the they can because this is a benefit for WERU. The workshop will be a student and this sounds interesting, benefits of a capable college student led by Peggy Smith. For registration information contact Peggy at or maybe you’re a parent with kids intern as a member of our staff, we will 789-5299 or [email protected]. that might be interested, please email have some more extra help starting in [email protected] or call 469-6600 for August. WERU has been accepted more information. Space is limited so into the FCC Transmission Project, in part- because it was interfering with a full-power In the listener financial support depart- don’t wait to find out more and sign up. nership with AmeriCorps*VISTA, which station’s signal. In June or July two micro- ment, fundraising for the first quarter of In closing, please don’t hesitate to give provides a Digital Arts Service Corps Mem- wave dishes belonging to other tenants on 2010 was quite good. The goal for the us feedback, positive and negative alike, ber for one year. This temporary member the tower atop Blue Hill Mountain will be quarter was $62,500. During our March about WERU programming. Listener in- of our staff will serve doing outreach and removed and will no longer obstruct our on-air pledge drive $24,600 was raised. put is extremely important to us because it engagement in the community, especially transmission signal to the north and east. In response to membership mailings an- strengthens our connections to the commu- in our new signal area in Greater Bangor. We hope that the removal of their dishes other $23,500 was raised and sustaining nity, which is really what Community Radio Anyone who is interested in finding out will help improve our signal at least to members gave $9,300 automatically. That is all about!

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The Watson Twins --- Talking To You, Talking To Me The Watson Twins, Leigh and Chandra, were born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1975 and moved to California in 1997. In 2006 they sang back-up vocals on Jenny Lewis’s critically acclaimed album Rabbit Fur Coat. On this, their second full-length cd, they not only remain true to their Ameri- cana roots, they also explore and reveal their love of R & B, indie-pop and classic soul. These twelve songs on the Vanguard label are groove-heavy and ambitious, prompting Consequence of Sound to say “Talking to You is the step up that moves the sisters from indie rock back-up singers to brilliant singer/songwriters to relish.”

AM --- Future Sons and Daughters The Best Value in AM is not only the name of the band but also of the singer/songwriter/guitarist who fronts it. AM Home Audio & Home Theatre is a Tulsa-born and New Orleans raised artist who is heartfelt in sentiment, polished in structure and lyrically thoughtful, prompting comparisons to Wilco. Future Sons and Daughters is AM’s 341 Ohio Street, Bangor, ME 04401 3rd disc and has Buzzine.com saying these 11 tracks show that “AM and his band is probably one of the most promising rising stars since the coming of Coldplay and Keane.” (207) 947-4434

Jeff Merchant --- City Makes No Sound Jeff Merchant’s music is smooth and pensive, free flowing and hypnotic, substantial and thought James Derby: provoking. This hour long, 15 track cd on the Tropical Mall label tells diverse stories of city life Preservation Carpenter that are amusing, sad and uplifting and sometimes lonely, being looked at with both hope and despair. The online site Allmusic says “the arrangements are dream pop soundscapes set at long- Housewright & Barnwright ing tempos with an aural sheen to go with Merchant’s innocent sounding tenor,” while Zeitgeist Traditional magazine says “this is the kind of intelligent grown up music that gives musicians a good name.” Building, Restoration, Stabilization Delta Moon --- Hellbound Train and Inspection The music of Delta Moon is emotional, economical and tough with time-worn themes. A thick blend of Chicago slide guitar blues and Southern soul-rock, this is their first cd without a female 5 School Street singer. Tom Gray’s voice takes center stage, and he does not disappoint. Along with Mark John- Waldoboro ME.

son’s mean slide guitar, the pair’s focused song writing makes the 11 tracks on the Red Parlor label (207) 832-0635 well worth listening to. A blog critic says “it is possible to enjoy this music with your reptile brain, (207) 524-0115 which, if it’s anything like mine, will dig the slouching beats and growling guitars.” [email protected] Page 6 WERU Salt Air Spring 2010 BANGOR’s WERU from page one Here at the station, vol- Over the years WERU the American Folk Festi- Community Service Opportunity: unteers from Penobscot has had reporters, mu- val in Bangor (where we County help during the sic programmers, Board broadcast and stream mu- WERU has been accepted into the FCC Transmission quarterly membership members, committee sic live), the HOPE Fes- Project, in partnership with AmeriCorps*VISTA, drive. It takes at least 150 members, and CD library tival in Orono, the Amy which provides a Digital Arts Service Corps Member for volunteers to pull it off, volunteers from Penob- Goodman talk in 2008, one year. While accepted into the program WERU must answering phones or on- scot County. Volunteers or the KahBang! Indie still find a suitable candidate by the end of May who will air fundraising. It is a fun come to the station to Music Festival in Bangor. then be vetted by the Transmission Project to see if we way to meet and talk to volunteer their time once Can you think of another make the final cut. This person will serve doing outreach other unique and sincere a week or once a month. event in the Greater Ban- and engagement in the community, especially in our new folks. The next pledge Volunteers also share in- gor Area that would be signal area in Greater Bangor. Anyone who is interested drive, by the way, starts formation about WERU good for WERU? Email: in finding out more about this position is invited to email on Saturday, June 5th. at a variety of events, like [email protected] [email protected] or read about it online at www. weru.org. Please no calls. The selection process for the BELOW: See what Greater Bangor area volunteers Deb Melnikas and position will take place in late April through May 17th. John Greenman have to say about their WERU Experience: Sister Mango (aka: Deb Melnikas) this Bangor knock-out wants you to share your passion...

I started by hosting The Sadly, both have passed on, but I am grateful to have known them. They were Blues Show every third my mentors and are a big reason I volunteer at WERU. Thursday evening. I also oc- Volunteering at WERU has been a thrill for me. I have been exposed to some casionally subbed for On The great music/groups that I don’t think I would have discovered on my own. I Wing and Reggae Reprieve. I have met some amazing people, and I get to share music with people. That’s currently host On The Wing every what it’s about for me – sharing music, and giving airtime to talented and de- other Wednesday (11 am to 2 pm) and Reggae serving groups who can’t get airtime on commercial radio. Reprieve every other Saturday (1 to 3 pm). It all Do you have a passion for music? Or a passion for a specific genre or region? started about 9 years ago when someone told me SHARE your passion and knowledge with WERU and its listeners. that I could host a show on WERU. I was skeptical. I want to send a shout out to Bangor folks – we’d love more volunteers from Being a “disc jockey” was something I always wanted to Bangor. Of the 281 volunteers, only 11 are from Bangor. I live and work in Ban- do, but something I didn’t think I would ever have the op- gor, and it’s only about 25 miles one-way. It’s a nice drive, and even nicer on a portunity to do. I immediately called WERU, and was thrilled motorcycle to learn it was true! Luckily, there was an upcoming volunteer orienta- If getting behind a microphone isn’t your thing, there are volunteer oppor- tion. After I attended the orientation and training, I was fortunate to sit tunities that are behind-the-scenes. If you’d like to learn more about these op- in with Jah Guide RoDi (Royce Dixon) and Charlie Oldham (his show fol- portunities, please call WERU. Join in the fun! Be a part of community radio lowed RoDi’s.) I have some great memories, and I learned a lot from them. – meet new people and make some memories of your own.

help make our world a better place. I’ve also been able to record John “Green”man many speeches and press conferences in the Bangor area, for use in WERU’s Public Affairs programs. AND, I’m having a blast produc- shown right with his best friend! ing the monthly Comedy Hour (the last Monday of the month from 9 to 10 am), knowing full-well that if we stop laughing and begin to I’m on the fringe (some have said I’m beyond the fringe) of re- take ourselves too seriously, we’re bound to start down the slippery ception for WERU here in Old Town, but ever since I discovered it, slope of cynical pessimism. I’ve been listening to WERU and Democracy Now and all the Pub- “Volunteer Powered” is a totally appropriate description of WERU lic Affairs and music programs I enjoy. So, when I quit my job at because it truly does translate to “WE ARE YOU”. As a Bangor-area MPBN I immediately started looking at what I might be able to do volunteer, and now member of the Board of Directors, I encourage to help WERU. The progressive outlook on life that WERU is proud you to take another step towards helping to sustain and strengthen to reflect from its volunteers and listeners represents an extremely your station. Look around your life. Do you see something (activity, important counterbalance to the knee-jerk, fear-based, ignorant organization, music, arts, etc.) that you think others would be in- rantings of those who say things like “keep the government out of terested in knowing about? Have you ever wondered what it would my Medicare”. We can do better than that. be like to produce or help to produce a radio program? Are you in a For that reason, among others, I became a WERU volunteer pro- position to help your community radio station in some other opera- ducer and created Going And Doing early in 2007. While it was tions role? (there are a ton of them) Don’t wait any longer! Get in airing, Going and Doing trumpeted the work of dozens of volunteer touch with Chris, now! (operators are on duty to take your call, void organizations, the idea being that we can all DO SOMETHING to where prohibited by law).

BLUES STATION from page one travels that many places have strong local blues hotbeds is Texas, which he says has around the country and lived for a few some of that hard-to-find music. He also blues talent that, unfortunately, doesn’t of- a rich history, tradition, and talent in the years in Germany, as well. While living in recommends taking advantage of WERU’s ten get heard. Homans says many talented blues arena. He cites Johnny Red & The all these places, he wasn’t just loving the playback feature, which allows listeners to musicians aren’t heard simply because they Roosters and Robert Ealey as two of his fa- blues scenes, he was learning about them play past shows at www.weru.org. don’t have record deals, and he hopes the vorites. “There are so many blues people in as well. He says he always liked the idea of When Homans isn’t playing the best that show will help get those musicians some air Texas other than the big names,” Homans a blues show that teaches listeners about the blues has to offer, the music lover is time while also exposing listeners to some says. “I try to bring to the forefront some of the music while they enjoy it. With this in probably playing some jazz. In addition to new, good music. He prefers to feature art- those great performers.” mind, The Blues Station mixes some his- The Blues Station, Homans hosts two jazz ists who “go beyond just playing notes” and Homans also likes to show off the blues- tory and information with tracks that lis- shows: The Jazz Scene every other Monday are really great performers and entertain- y sides of some well known artists as well, teners will want to hear again and again. “I from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Come Sunday ers. “That’s what I try to share with the au- including Lyle Lovett. He says future shows try to play blues that make you feel good,” every fourth Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. diences each week,” Homans says. will feature women in blues and blues from Homans says. Homans feels very fortunate to be a part The Blues Station makes stops in a vari- the 1940s and 1950s. “It’s a time and desti- Blues fans can search for The Blues Sta- of WERU and was a listener and a fan for ety of locations, including California, Chi- nation station,” Homans says. tion on Facebook, where Homans posts 15 years before he took to the airwaves last cago, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Canada, and Though he grew up and now lives per- set lists and information about local and year. “It’s really a delight to be a part of it,” the Northeast. One of Homans’ favorite manently in Maine, Homans has lived all regional artists, and how to get a hold of he says.

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INVITATION to GRAPHIC ARTISTS Pacifica Network: Would you like your design work to be viewed in countless places associated with WERU, from letter- a grassroots organization with a technological history head to website to tote bag? Check out the current designs on our website, and if you would like to donate Accounts of relations between Pacifica and other stations an alternative design, something that you think would in the early years of community radio foreshadow the way look better, we’d gladly consider it. that Pacifica and its affiliates relate today. Athough Paci- Your design should include identifying text (89.9, fica pioneered listener- sponsored community radio in the WERU-FM, Community Radio, www.weru.org and United States, community radio stations began springing “a voice of many voices”), should be visually simple up elsewhere as well. In the 1970’s, KPFA veterans Lorenzo enough so that it looks good both reduced and en- Milam and Jeremy Lansman were renowned for pioneering larged, and should clearly represent a radio station. independent community stations from St. Louis to Seattle. Email designs by May 28th to: Inevitably new community radio stations and Pacifica began [email protected] to find shared interests and needs and began collaborating.

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, conventions in Miami as its first ma- programming and start its own dis- reporters at Pacifica stations, some jor live national broadcast. Bensky, tribution system. Use of this satel- Wild Rufus Records international stringers, and several who was the producer/anchor, writes; lite had been introduced by KFCF, a Serving Midcoast Maine & the World since 1979! KPFA reporters situated in Washing- “We had about twenty people from community radio station in Fresno, ton DC (called the Washington Bu- KPFA and WBAI and KPFT there. A California that wanted to receive and reau) patched together a news feed us- techie genius named Jeremy Lansman air programming originating from ing telephones for distribution. While hooked up a land-phone relay system KPFA-Pacifica in Berkeley. The satel- CD’s Open 7 the news feeds went primarily to the so that about twenty stations - some of lite was originally used only by KFCF LP’s days a Pacifica stations, independent - com them student stations, some commer- for this purpose, until it was realized DVDS week munity radio stations like KGNU in cial “alternative rock” stations got our that another channel on the satellite Boulder and KUNM in Albuquerque feeds.” In 1987 Bensky went on to lead could be used for the Pacifica na- began to pick them up as well. the Pacifica coverage of the Iran Con- tional distribution of programming Meanwhile, stations began look- tra Hearings, which are widely credited like Free Speech Radio News and ing for ways to with establishing Democracy Now!. share desirable Pacifica’s national In July, 2005, Pacifica introduced radio programs. reputation for live its Internet-based distribution sys- “All kinds of music for all kinds of people!” In 1975 the Na- national broad- tem - the Pacifica AudioPort. First NEW location: 135 high St., Belfast, ME tional Federation casts. envisioned by Norm Stockwell of 207-338-1909 or wildrufus.com of Community Finally, sat- WORT, the AudioPort was built by Broadcasters was ellites played a Pete Korakis, Pacifica.org Project created and es- pivotal role in na- Manager and Shawn Ewald, contrac- tablished a coop- tional collabora- tor for Pacifica and creator of Radio- erative program tions. Pacifica be- forall.org software. AudioPort offered exchange ser- gan distributing more avenues of distribution opportu- vice as part of its its news reports nities and more flexibility for program initial mission. on Public Radio’s reception that eliminated the need for This service was satellite system satellite equipment. a somewhat un- when it was es- With the introduction of AudioPort, wieldy exchange tablished in 1980. the Pacifica Network moved from a MAINE’S LAKESIDE HAVEN of audiotapes Due to Pacifica’s vertical model - with Pacifica being the Lodging, Lobsterbakes, Catering All Types of Events from station to new satellite ac- primary distributor of content to its station, via mail. cess, Bill Thomas affiliates, to a more horizontal model When Bill Thom- also began to re- where radio producers from all of the as, who organized alize the potential stations can self-upload their content the exchange, left of his program ex- for distribution and exchange their Six cozy quest rooms. Open year-round. Enjoy: NFCB to work for Free Speech Radio News is change. Produc- content. Collaboration has increased swimming, fishing, canoeing or winter cross country skiing. Pacifica Archives, available M-F from 4:30 - 5 PM ers from Pacifica significantly since producers of like Near Bangor, Belfast and Acadia National Park. Pacifica inherited stations and inde- interests can easily find each other. www.alamoosooklakesideinn.com - 207.469.6393 the exchange and pendent commu- This model energizes community ra- its mailing list of participating NFCB nity stations sent him their programs dio in general as a profession and member stations with him. for national distribution and he coor- brings more grassrooots voices to the The spontaneous activities of the dinated their up link to the satellite. national platform. early grassroots radio movement an- Thus, by the late 1070’s and early ticipated Pacifica’s role as the broad- 1980’s, the need for news coverage With the new technologies and cast network for independent commu- and the desire to exchange programs a pressing political need for nity radio, both as a provider of news drew Pacifica into coordinating a na- grassroots media, our mutual and high-end live production and as a tional network. These are needs that history has great potential as a provider of infrastructure for exchang- continue to be expressed to this day. springboard for moving inde- ing content by producers at many sta- During the early 1990’s Pacifica be- pendent media into the future in tions, Pacifica and independent sta- gan developing formal client relations bold and innovative new ways. tions alike. with affiliates. In 1997 Pacifica moved Text courtesy: www.pacificanet- Those who remember the early to its own satellite called the KU Band work.org. days say that live coverage of national Digital System, aspiring to fill this events was also pivotal in establishing isolated band with an affiliates program. Veteran KPFA its own producer Larry Bensky describes Pacifica coverage of the 1972 Democratic and Republican www.weru.org 89.9 Featured Podcast FM WERU Coverage: “Potential Health Risks of Cell Phone Use”

As Reported on RadioActive (3/25/10, 3/18/10 & 2/25/10), Weekend Voices (3/13/10), the Electronic Cottage (4/1/10) and discussed on the WERU Soap Box (3/19/10)

On March 25th 2010 the Maine House of Representatives voted down the Health and Human Services Committee’s minority report on LD 1706. The proposed bill would have required labels on cell phones sold in Maine, warning of potential health risks, including brain can- Since 1970, we have been cer, and would have specifically cautioned against their use by selling fine foods and organic products. pregnant women and children. Health Foods - Vitamins - Skin Care Products Fresh Baked Bread - Organic Coffee The public hearing LD 1706 in August on March 2nd 2010 drew ex- Fine Wine - Fresh Organic Produce perts from the scientific and medical fields across the US and Europe, and cell phone industry lobbyists. 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WERU says goodbye and thanks for all the great programming to Mike Nickerson, who leaves Come Sun- day, to Dave Evans, who retires Renewable Radio, Ariel curreNT|Volunteer|OPPoRTUNITIES Parada, who retires Violins on TV (ambient/techno show Volunteers are needed to help perserve thousands of programs in the WERU archives recorded over the past 22 years on Black Dot currently fills Violins slot Thurs. 12-2 AM) and tape. Help burn old programs on CD or DVD, identify topics, hosts, guests etc and enter information into a web form. Most of to Renee Johnson and Chris roberts who step away this work is done at the station, however listening to programs can be done anywhere. Training is provided. from Tone soup (Kaley Haskell & Vesta Davis will be ex- If Interested, please CONTACT: Chris at 469-6600 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. tending Metamorphoses 2 hrs. once a month now).