The Fruits of Our Labors!
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ISSUED 6 TIMES PER YEAR JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2010 VOLUME 38 ~ ISSUE 6 The WYSU & Mill Creek MetroParks Partnership: The Fruits of our Labors! During the past three WYSU To view images of the tree plant- on-air fund drives, members who ing site, as well as some examples contributed to WYSU at the $120 of the kinds of trees planted, please ‘Supporter’ level could choose to have visit this website: http://tinyurl.com/ a tree planted in their honor in Mill WYSUMetroParktrees Creek MetroParks as their thank-you So far, by virtue of the WYSU gift. community partnership with Mill The first group of such tree plant- Creek MetroParks and our special ings took place in autumn 2009 at tree planting premium, WYSU lis- the Mill Creek Preserve, located on teners have been responsible for the Western Reserve and Tippecanoe planting of 182 trees in Mill Creek Roads. The types of trees planted for MetroParks! this initial planting included: black Thank you for supporting walnut, serviceberry, black tupelo, WYSU—and our local environment. shagbark hickory, black oak, white pine, sweet birch, black cherry, crabapple, red maple, sugar maple, swamp white oak, and persimmon. These species were chosen because of their ability to provide wildlife habitat and supply food in the form of fruit, nuts, and berries. WYSU would like to thank everyone who elected to “go green” with their premium selection, thereby helping us preserve one of the last wild places in Mahoning County. Yours is a gift that will last a lifetime! WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz Program Listings 2010 January & February MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Mid. Mid. Jazz 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 Classical 3:00 Music 3:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 DW Newslink 6:00 6:00 Hearts of Alternative Space 7:00 Radio 7:00 Morning Edition On the Speaking of 8:00 Media Faith 8:00 9:00 Weekend 9:00 Edition 10:00 Weekend 10:00 Car Talk Edition 11:00 11:00 Classical Music with Barbara Krauss Wait, Wait ... The Splendid Don’t Tell Me! Noon Table Noon Only A Game A Prairie 1:00 Home 1:00 Hearing Voices Companion 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton 2:00 Travel with Car Talk 3:00 Rick Steves 3:00 Fresh Air The Splendid Wait, Wait... 4:00 Table Don’t Tell Me! 4:00 Fresh Air Says You! 5:00 All Things Considered 5:00 Weekend ATC 6:00 6:00 On the Marketplace A Prairie Media 7:00 Home 7:00 DW Newslink Companion Thistle and Lft, Rgt & Ctr Shamrock 8:00 Lincoln Ave. 8:00 Folk Festival with 9:00 NPR The Jazz Sofa The Jazz Sofa 9:00 World Performance Today with with Charles Darling All Songs Considered 10:00 of Rick Rick 10:00 Opera Popovich Popovich Harmonia 11:00 11:00 Classical Music Rhythm Now’s the Classical Mid. Sweet & Hot Time Music Mid. All programsAll programs are subject are subject to change to change without without notice. notice. 2 WYSU 12th note January & February 2010 WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz Program Listings 2010 Classical Programming–hd2 MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Mid. Mid. 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 Classical Music 4:00 with Peter van De Graaff 4:00 5:00 5:00 HD2Classical Programming 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 9:00 9:00 10:00 Sunday 10:00 Weekend Baroque 11:00 Music with Barbara Krauss Performance 11:00 Today Noon Saint Paul Noon Sunday 1:00 SymphonyCast 1:00 Classical Music Harmonia with with Angela Mariani 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton Peter van De 2:00 Graaff Live! At the 3:00 Concert- Pipedreams 3:00 gebouw 4:00 Performance Today with Fred Child 4:00 Deutsche Chicago 5:00 Welle Festival Symphony 5:00 Chicago Live! At the Concerts Orchestra New York Symphony- Pipedreams 6:00 Symphony Concert- Cast 6:00 Philharmonic Orchestra gebouw New York 7:00 Philharmonic 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Sunday 8:00 Baroque 8:00 Weekend 9:00 Performance Today with Fred Child Performance 9:00 Today 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 Classical Music with Peter van De Graaff Mid. Mid. All Allprograms programs are are subject subject to to change change without without notice.notice. 1 WYSU 12th note November & December 2009 Discount Offer for WYSU Members Like you, Park Vista Retirement Community, the Mahoning Valley’s only Continuing Care Accredited organization, is a friend of WYSU and believes in supporting this wonderful asset to our community. Because of the special relationship we share, we are extending an offer to WYSU members. If you are considering retirement options for yourself or a 1216 Fifth Avenue loved one, ask about the opportunity to save up to $200 off per month for 6 (330) 746-2944 www.parkvista.oprs.org months or $2,500 off the entrance fee* for Independent Living and Assisted Living.** For more information, or to schedule a tour, please contact Josie Polis at 330-746-2944, Ext. 1550. Up to (*Subject to meeting admissions criteria, and **currently not receiving Medicare covered services. This offer may be discontinued at any time.) in savings$ 2,500 January & February 2010 WYSU 12th note 3 WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor —LIVE in HD! In a first for the show, a special performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed live in high-definition on Thursday evening, February 4, to over 500 movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and Canada. This special cinema event (Cinecast) will be identical to the regular Saturday evening radio broadcast with every- thing we have come to expect each week, including the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, Garrison’s signature News from Lake Wobegon, Guy Noir, and special musical guests. The audio will be recorded and aired during the normal Saturday evening time slot on February 6th. You can join WYSU-FM for the local Cinecast live screening of APHC on Thursday, February 4th at Tinseltown USA in Boardman. An encore screening of the show will take place on Tuesday, February 9th, also at Tinseltown. Tickets are on sale now, $22 for the live performance and $18 for the encore. This special two-hour presentation begins at 8 pm. Preceding the special presentation at 7:30 pm, the theater will show a 30-minute, specially produced “walk-in,” featuring show trivia and other entertaining elements. Don’t miss your chance to watch the magic come together for one of public radio’s most popular programs on the big screen in High Definition! TICKETS are now available at www.prairiehome.publicradio.org Commentary Contest As we continue to celebrate our 40th anniversary, we’d like YOU to get involved. This is your opportunity to have your say—literally, because we’re sponsoring a commentary contest! The topic is "What WYSU Means to Me". The winner will read his or her commentary on-air and receive a WYSU 40th Anniversary mug and tote bag, plus 2 HD radios – a portable Insignia and a tabletop Radiosophy. Commentaries should be submitted to Gary Sexton, [email protected]. Guidelines for acceptable submissions are the same as the station’s commentary guidelines, available on our website. The commentary should be about three minutes in length. The entry deadline is the end of our spring fund drive: Friday, April 23rd. The winner will be announced in May 2010, at the end of Youngstown State University’s academic year. If we’re a part of your day-to-day life and you can’t imagine your day without us, please enter the contest and tell us all about it! If you’ve been listening to WYSU since our very first year, we’d love to interview you for an upcoming edition of the 12th Note. We’ll talk about the changes you’ve heard over the years, reminisce about the Memoriesfounders and programs of years past, and we’ll talk about what’s kept you listening since 1969. Please call Melinda Bowen-Houck at 330-941-1777 to set up an interview. 4 WYSU 12th note January & February 2010 WYSU’s 12th note 88.5 MHz, 90.1 MHz, 97.5 MHz WYSU Intern Kayla Marafiote Since July, Kayla Marafiote has been 2009, with a bachelor’s degree in an intern in the WYSU development telecommunications. I have spent department. She has been a fantastic the last six months here at WYSU- addition to our student staff. Kayla FM as a development intern. My graduated in December, and her last time at WYSU has been both excit- semester at Youngstown State was a ing and educational. I have learned hectic one. In addition to a full class so much these past few months that load, she’s been kept very busy with it is impossible to explain it all. From Kayla Marafiote (left), with another WYSU student the station’s 40th Anniversary plans. learning about development in the employee, Mindy Goist (right). Kayla is ending one chapter and public radio world to FCC copyright beginning another, and while we’ll laws, I believe my time here was well I cannot begin to express the miss her a lot, we’re excited for her spent.