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CKMS News -2024-04-19- Kitchener’s RISE Fund address systemic barriers and underfunding of Black, Indigenous and racialized community organisations

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CKMS News -2024-04-19- Kitchener’s RISE Fund

by: dan kellar
Kitchener – Applications for Kitchener’s Racialized and Indigenous Supports for Equity (RISE) Fund are open until May 2nd and the city has already received more applications than in past funding cycles.

Since 2022, the RISE Fund has awarded nearly 250,000$ to 34 organisations. The grants have funded everything from community garden and swim program projects, to film festivals and community feasts, to gendered based violence prevention programs and a project which works to reunite families displaced by conflict in Syria.

CKMS News spoke with Rea Parchment, the senior equity advisor for the City of Kitchener, about the importance of the grant in helping to address inequities, and support opportunities and well-being for Black, Indigenous and racialized community-led organisations.

To get more information about the RISE fund, visit kitchener.ca/RISEFund.

 

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CKMS News -2024-04-19- Lawyer contracted by Waterloo Police Services fired as a result of charges in Thunder Bay

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CKMS News -2024-04-19- Police Lawyer Fired After Being Charged With Obstruction And Breach Of Trust

by: dan kellar
Kitchener – On April 9th 2024, an external counsel for the Waterloo Regional police and the former internal legal counsel for the Thunder Bay police, Holly Walbourne was arrested by the OPP and charged for actions which they say took place while she was still working for the police force in the northern Ontario Town. 

Walbourne was retained by the WRPS for her legal services in May 2023, however, police spokesperson Cherri Greeno wrote to CKMS News that “As a result of allegations that are currently before the courts, WRPS has discontinued this contractual agreement.” 

Walbourne has been charged alongside former Thunder Bay police chief Sylvie Hauth. The two are charged with obstructing a public or peace officer, breach of trust, and multiple counts of obstruction of justice. 

This show features an interview with Patrick Watson, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Toronto, who researches policing and police oversight.  He explains how communication works between police forces, and why the hiring of Walbourne may have happened despite the issues in Thunder Bay.

From The Void

FROM THE VOID #94 APRIL 16th

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Welcome to Episode #94 of From the Void

Tonight is all about the my daughters 1st Birthday!!

My new podcast with Co – Host Peri Urban is on YouTube, it’s called The Listening Eyebrow and its about EVERYTHING!!!

ALSO!!! I released  a new album. Hear the Future.  You Tube,  Bandcamp,  Spotify, Apple Music or where ever you stream your music!

Subscribe to the Podcast

 

Radio Nowhere

Radio Nowhere Episode 58, 4/13/24

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Looking For Somebody Fleetwood Mac
This Wheels On Fire (Concert Version) The Band
The House Is Rockin’ Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Drag Me Down Weaves
Out Come the Freaks Was (Not Was)
Down Harry Nilsson
Danny’s All-Star Joint Rickie Lee Jones
Hard to Handle The Black Crowes
The Core Eric Clapton
GSFUYK? Explode When They Bloom
Virginia Plain Roxy Music
Sign of the Judgment Cassandra Wilson
All I Could Do was Cry Etta James
He Can Only Hold Her Amy Winehouse
Fall Apart Again Brandi Carlile

 

New Music, The Horizon Broadening Hour

New Music Added to Libretime

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What’s up, y’all? First things first, reminder that Bob Jonkman is taking over the Horizon Broadening Hour for me throughout the month — make sure to tune into his variation of the show at 10:00 PM tonight!

I am still adding some music to Libretime when I can, here is what I added in the past week:

Dave Teichroeb Road Poets Rock CanCon
John Canning Yates The Quiet Portraits Singer-Songwriter No
Trina Chakrabarti Calling – Single Alternative CanCon/KWCon
Trina Chakrabarti Is This Human? – Single Alternative CanCon/KWCon
Funeral Lakes North American Martyrs Alternative CanCon
Salwa Flicker – Single Alternative CanCon
River Honey Billy the Bronco Alternative CanCon
Beams Requiem for a Planet Alternative CanCon
Omnivide A Tale of Fire Metal CanCon
Jay Danley Nova Jazz CanCon
Vailhalen EP001 Rock CanCon
Stritz Detuned Synchronicities Rock CanCon
Alix Firnz Bizou Rock CanCon
Brad Rushing Black and White – Single Rock No
Calvin Swyers Sweet Morning Air – Single Country CanCon
Foghat Sonic Mojo Blues No
Tammy Huggan Candle-Single Singer-Songwriter CanCon
Nutty P Beats Traffic (EP) Hip Hop/Instrumental No
Olcay Bayir Tu Guli World No
Rum Ragged Gone Jiggin Folk CanCon
Pixie Moonshine Ocean Rock CanCon
Townies Of This I Am Certain Rock No
remember whales perpetual nostalgia machine Alternative CanCon
Feed mAn is Five – Single Rock CanCon

See y’all next time!

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CKMS News -2024-04-09- Local climbing gym fights a developer and displacement

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CKMS News -2024-04-09- GRR at City Council

MP Holmes.

Kitchener – For the second time in as many years, Grand River Rocks, a climbing gym in Kitchener, Ontario, is fighting to stay in business due to urban development plans.

At the Kitchener City Council Planning and Strategic Initiatives Committee meeting on Monday April 8, the owners of Grand River Rocks expressed concerns over a lease they signed without knowledge of redevelopment plans. Council has been asked by the developer, the Falco group, to approve the project that would see more than 1000 new residential units on Victoria Street North, and if that approval is granted, the gym would need to relocate.

The Kitchener city councilors questioned the gym’s decisions and proposed collaborating with developers. They deferred the decision to allow more time for debate.

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CKMS News -2024-04-12- Public Health orders student suspensions over vaccinations records while facilitating adherence to immunization rules

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CKMS News -2024-04-14- Public Health orders student suspensions over vaccinations records while facilitating adherence to immunization rules

by: dan kellar

Waterloo – Nearly 7,000 secondary school students in Waterloo Region have been told they will be suspended on May 1st for having out-of-date vaccination records.  The order, from Region of Waterloo public health was announced on April 8th and follows the suspension of 2969 elementary school students on March 27th for the same issue.

The suspensions are allowed under the Immunization of School Pupils Act which, as the Waterloo Region District School Board told CKMS News “requires families and caregivers to ensure that their children receive specific vaccinations.” Students without a medical or ideological exemption must be up to date on up to 9 vaccines. COVID Immunization is not on the required vaccine list.

David Aoki, the Director of Infectious Disease and Chief Nursing Officer for Region of Waterloo Public Health spoke with CKMS News about the seemingly high number of suspensions, and how students and families can get suspensions lifted.

New Music, Shows, The Horizon Broadening Hour

The Horizon Broadening Hour #26

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B&W illustration of people dancing, but the front centre dancer is dressed in orange.
Keep Dancing!

Most of this week’s tracks were taken from CDs submitted to the radio station, digitized and uploaded to our LibreTime software by Mophead, your regular host. He’s busy with work, and will be back in May. And some tracks were uploaded by other show hosts. Thanx, Dan and Don!

–Bob.

Podcast


Download: The-Horizon-Broadening-Hour-26.mp3 1h59m23s, 109 MBytes.

Music List

Time Title Artist Album Genre
0h00m Candle Tammy Huggan A blonde woman in a black dress playing guitar
Candle – Single		 Singer-Songwriter / CanCon
0h05m Promised Land FOGHAT The Foghat logo and album title superimposed over a graphic of a guitar and a starburst designSONIC MOJO Blues
0h08m She’s Dynamite Blues
0h12m Le moniteur sile Renonce Black and white needle-like shardsNuisance sonore Electronic / CanCon
0h14m Sweet Morning Air Calvin Swyers Sweet Morning Air | Calvin Swyers (An unmade bed in the middle of a field)Sweet Morning Air – Single Country / CanCon
0h19m Black and White Brad Rushing Black and White | Brad Rushing (black, white, and red letters on a Black and White – Single Rock
0h23m Rouge à lèvres Alix Fernz Bizou ( two mimes bending down to stare into the camera, on a bright pink border)Bizou Rock / CanCon
0h26m Crack de dent Rock / CanCon
0h30m L’étranglé Rock / CanCon
0h33m Get Right! John Orpheus Get Right! (two people standing in a stairwell)
(single)		 funk, rnb, cancon, queercon
0h37m 06 Cages Strung Out Strung Out | Dead Rebellion (two skeleton robots holding a flag on a dias)Dead Rebellion Punk
0h40m Fold Stritz Detuned Synchronicities (a baby wearing a diaper laying on the beach)Detuned Synchronicities Rock / CanCon
0h43m Purple Stained Mess Rock / CanCon
0h46m Cream Soda Rock / CanCon
0h50m Taking The Fifth Jay Danley Jay Danley | Nova (illustration of a post-apocalyptic streetscape with a guitar and amp in the foreground)Nova Jazz / CanCon
0h55m JP’S Playground Jazz / CanCon
0h58m Let It Go Jazz / CanCon
1h05m Death be not Proud Omnivide Omnivide | A Tale of Fire (a person wielding a sword and holding a staff in a valley with dead trees and a burning castle in the background)A Tale of Fire Metal / CanCon
1h10m Childlike Empress Beams (a stag leaping out of a woman's torso)Requiem for a Planet Alternative / CanCon
1h14m Billy the Bronco River Honey A man wearing a white cap and holding a guitar in a wood-panelled room.Billy the Bronco – Single Alternative / CanCon
1h18m Flicker Salwa (A woman in a red dress walking through deep snow, a bare branch with only a few leaves is in the foreground)Flicker – Single Alternative / CanCon
1h22m Generals Die in Bed Funeral Lakes North American Martyrs (Redcoat soldiers marching to the right, superimposed are multiple lines of "North American Martyrs")North American Martyrs Alternative / CanCon
1h26m Eyes to the Sun (National Myth) Alternative / CanCon
1h30m Yesterday Motel Dave Teichroeb Dave Teichrob | Road Poets (Torso of a man wearing a black "Road Poets" T-shirt)Road Poets Rock / CanCon
1h34m Too Big to Fail Rock / CanCon
1h38m Your Monster Trina Chakrabarti (A woman wearing a sari and a steampunk helmet)Your Monster – Single Alternative / CanCon / KWCon
1h43m Calling A woman wearing an orange sweater standing under a willow tree)Calling – Single Alternative / CanCon / KWCon
1h46m Dreams Forgotten John Canning Yates The Quiet Portraits | John Canning Yates (a man standing on a tall rock at a craggy seashore)The Quiet Portraits Singer / Songwriter
1h50m Riches Singer / Songwriter
1h54m He Wants You Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Nick Cave | and the Bad Seeds | Nocturama (profile photo of Nick Cave)Nocturama Singer / Songwriter

The Horizon Broadening Hour is hosted by Mophead and Bob Jonkman, produced by Richard Giles (Music Committee Coordinator), and sponsored by Radio Waterloo. HBH airs on CKMS-FM every Sunday from 10:00pm to Midnight.

Mixtape Monopoly

MIXTAPE MONOPOLY – April 13 2024

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In case you haven’t heard the news in the world of hip hop, Mister Cee passed away earlier this week. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, he was the original DJ for Big Daddy Kane back in the day. Mister Cee was also an executive producer on Biggie’s Ready to Die Album.

Over the years he was well known in the hip hop world. Also hosted a number of radio shows, and Including one up until the day before his passing. So, today’s show is dedicated to the finisher Mister Cee.

Today is going to be a complete throwback show. With classics From Biggie, Joe Budden, DMX, plus a lot more.

81 82 83 84, Shows

81 82 83 84 Season 3 Episode 22: Eclipse

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All that you touch, and all that you see All that you taste, all you feel And all that you love, and all that you hate All you distrust, all you save And all that you give, and all that you deal And all that you buy, beg, borrow or steal And all you create, and all you destroy And all that you do, and all that you say And all that you eat, and everyone you meet And all that you slight, and everyone you fight And all that is now, and all that is gone And all that’s to come  And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd 

Eclipse photos taken from my home in Plano Texas – click to enlarge

Shows, Through The Static

Through the Static Episode 32 – 10/04/24

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A focus on some fun piano tunes, ambitious instrumental tracks, and emotionally charged bangers. Enjoy the usual collection of chunes.

  • Sunflower – Dizzy
  • You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
  • I Feel The Earth Move – Carole King
  • It’s Too Late – Carole King
  • Cantaloupe Island – Herbie Hancock
  • I’m Waiting For The Man – The Velvet Underground
  • YYZ – Rush
  • Good Luck, Babe! – Chappell Roan
  • Take What’s Given – BADBADNOTGOOD

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From The Void

FROM THE VOID #93 APRIL 9th

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Welcome to Episode #93 of From the Void

Tonight is all about the Eclipse

My new podcast with Co – Host Peri Urban is on YouTube, it’s called The Listening Eyebrow and its about EVERYTHING!!!

ALSO!!! I released  a new album. Hear the Future.  You Tube,  Bandcamp,  Spotify, Apple Music or where ever you stream your music!

Subscribe to the Podcast

 

Radio Nowhere

Radio Nowhere Episode 57, 4/6/24

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No Fun The Stooges
Blitzkrieg Bop Ramones
Go for a Soda Kim Mitchell
Sixty Years On Elton John
Heavy, California Jungle
Tighten Up Archie Bell & the Drells
Playing in the Band Bob Weir
Runnin’ Blue The Doors
Here I Am Lyle Lovett
Try Blue Rodeo
He Wants You Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Hello It’s Me Todd Rundgren
The Stomp Ten Years After
CKMS Community News, Newsroom

Blooming roadsides restore habitats for pollinators

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MP Holmes
Kitchener, ON

A few years ago, it was common for car windshields to be spattered with bugs after a drive in the country. According to Jennifer Leat of the Pollinator Roadsides Project, that’s not happening so much anymore. There are fewer bugs, and fewer bugs equals fewer pollinators.

A community driven project to help pollinators will be happening on Saturday April 13 to restore habitat corridors for pollinators by planting pollinator-friendly native plants along roadsides.

Backed by a grant from the Region of Waterloo’s Community Environment Fund with support from volunteers and sponsors, the Pollinator Roadside Project seeks to increase biodiversity, support pollinator conservation, reduce maintenance costs, and control water runoff. The project also hopes to set a provincial and national precedent for prioritizing sustainability in roadside plantings.

Jennifer Leat, Lead of the Pollinator Roadsides project talks to CKMS about the project and the importance of pollinators.

New Music, The Horizon Broadening Hour

New Music Added to Libretime

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Hi, Folks,

First and foremost, just reminding everyone that Bob Jonkman is holding down the Horizon Broadening Hour fort for the month of April; tune into his version of the show at 10:00 PM EST!

That said, even though I am quite busy, I have been able to get a bit of music added to Libretime (and have files ready for two albums that are still under embargo; if they sound interesting to you, mark the end of the embargo on your calendars):

Renonce Nuisance sonore Electronic April 12th Embargo CanCon
Northern Ranger The View From Here Jazz/Folk April 26th Embargo CanCon
Daniel Raymond What We’re Trying to Become Folk CanCon
Amanda Keeles Can’t Stop Me Now Country CanCon
DAHL That’s It Rock CanCon
Touching I Can Be Two People At Once Folk CanCon
Matthew Chaffey Hotel Texas Soul CanCon
The Oblique Mystique Cheap! Blues Ripped from 7″ Vinyl CanCon
Melody Graves and the Hokum Redemption Jazz in Meajin 009: Live at the Bearded Lady Jazz CanCon
Sam Wilson Wintertides Jazz CanCon
Various Artists On the Road – Sitsansik St. Mary’s Traditional CanCon
Mombius Hibachi Loosen Up the Noose EP Rock CanCon

That’s all for now!

Shows, The Horizon Broadening Hour

The Horizon Broadening Hour #25

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(silhoutte illustration of five people dancing)
Keep dancing!
Happy Sunday, Waterloo Region! Your regular Horizon Broadening Hour host, Mophead, is busy with the day job, so I’ll be filling in the seat for the month of April. Today features some of the tracks which I’ve added to our LibreTime library over the last two months. Not everything is new, but it’s new to me.

–Bob.

Podcast

Music List

Time Title Artist Album Genre
0h00m Too Many Notes Cameronoise Cameronoise | Id's My Party (a collage of B&W photos on a red background)
Id’s My Party		 Rock / CanCon / Instrumental
0h03m type two

Rose Brokenshire

 (a woman kissing a flower)
(singles)		 Jazz Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h07m Habit to Help Folk Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h10m goodwill song Amanda Braam (single) Pop / CanCon / KWCon / FemCon
0h12m PINK PAPER HEARTS
Origami		 Indie / CanCon / KWCon / FemCon
0h15m My Heart Feels The Same Way Too (Acoustic) Amanda Keeles Can't Stop Me Now! | Amanda Keeles | Debut Album (a woman in a red dress with arms outstretched standing between two houses)
Can’t Stop Me Now!		 Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h18m Playin’ It Cool Country / CanCon / FemCon
0h22m Rewind Julia Rose   Pop / CanCon / KWCon / FemCon
0h26m Don’t Say a Thing Cinzia & The Eclipse ( a woman in a yellow dress holding a chess piece, sitting at a table covered by various things)
Springland		 Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h28m Burning Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h32m Fly Lisa Froment Fly (paining of three people in pointilist style)
Fly		 Rock / CanCon / FemCon
0h36m Dans Tes Yeux Kelly Bado Hey Terre | Kelly Bado (a woman with her hair up, wrapped in pink and blue scarves)
Hey Terre		 Pop / CanCon / FemCon / French
0h39m Hypnotizing Pop / CanCon / FemCon
0h43m Case Départ Missy D Case Départ | Missy D (B&W photo of a laughing woman reaching toward the camera)Case Départ Rap, Hip-Hop / CanCon / FemCon / French
0h46m Last Man Standing (feat. FLX) Sam Nabi Help Yourself (a pink and yellow cake with whipped cream on a plate)
Help Yourself		 Hip-hop & Rap / CanCon / KWCon
0h49m What Came Out Of The Kaleidescope (feat. Shark & Champa) Hip-hop & Rap / CanCon / KWCon
0h55m Honey Elias Cooper (a red marigold and a black dot on a yellow background)
Honey		 Pop / CanCon
0h59m Kiss The Mirror ShantiMaya ShantiMaya | Kiss The Mirror (a person in a windswept goen standing at a window overlooking the horizon at night)
(single)		 Kirtan Spiritual / CanCon / KWCon
1h04m Great Strides Tim McInnes Great Strides | Tim McInnes (legs striding on a wavy piano keyboard)
(single)		 Acoustic Piano / Instrumental / CanCon
1h07m I’m Coming Back To You Chris Collins (closeup of a smiling man with a beard wearing a Santa hat and headphones)
(single)		 Pop / CanCon / KWCon
1h09m Harder Avalon Stone (a woman with her hands against a wall wall of plastic wrap, blue lighting)
Chained		 Blues Rock / CanCon / KWCon / FemCon
1h13m Hurry Up and Die RiffAction RiffAction (red and blue lighting bolt across a distorted face)
The Colours They Hold		 Hard Rock / Metal / CanCon
1h19m The Killer Hard Rock / Metal / CanCon
1h24m Lost In The Wild Hot Mud Hot Mud | Rehab Rock (simple line drawing of a smile showing a tooth gap, with the letters of "Hot Mud" on each tooth)Rehab Rock Indie Rock / CanCon
1h29m Life at Sea Space Kitchen Space Kitchen | What's Cookin'? (a kitchen diorama floating in space; purple letters)
What’s Cookin’?		 Progressive Rock, Pop / CanCon / KWCon
1h33m Lovin’ 9 to 5 Progressive Rock, Pop / CanCon / KWCon
1h37m so into you (paun remix) paun Paun | Double Standard (half-toned white&blue image of peacock feathers; blue letters on a pale blue background
(singles)		 ElectroPop / KWCon
1h42m double standard House / KWCon / Instrumental
1h46m Ambient Summer Vol. 3 w/ Tina Marie & Paun Various, aired by Callshop Radio ambient summer vol 3 w/ tina marie & paun | callshopradio.com | CR 21 09 (art deco illustration of a woman with long flowing hair wearing a pink evening gown)(single) Ambient / KWCon / Instrumental

The Horizon Broadening Hour is hosted by Mophead and Bob Jonkman, produced by Richard Giles (Music Committee Coordinator), and sponsored by Radio Waterloo. HBH airs on CKMS-FM every Sunday from 10:00pm to Midnight.

CKMS Community News, Newsroom

The rise of ticks and lyme disease in Waterloo Region

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MP Holmes
Kitchener, ON

 

In 2023, the Ontario government designated Lyme disease a disease of public health significance.

Lyme disease, a combination of skin rashes, fevers, headaches, and fatigue, is contracted from black legged ticks, and if left untreated, can escalate to affect joints, the heart, and nervous system.

Statistics from Public Health Ontario showcase an increase of 300 new Lyme disease cases across the province, From 1, 490 in 2022 to 1, 795 in 2023.  In Waterloo Region, the 2003 data has not been released yet, but by looking at earlier years, a clear upward trend is evident, from 13 cases in 2021 to 22 cases in 2022.

ETick.ca is an online platform where people voluntarily report tick sightings in the environment or when found on humans or animals. Comparing the first three months of 2023 to 2024 shows there has been a threefold increase in blacklegged tick reports for KW on eTick.ca.

The Region of Waterloo’s Public Health Manager for Vector-borne Diseases is Rebecca Piovesan, and she talked to CKMS News about lyme disease  and back-legged ticks.

In addition to resources above:

Canadian Veterinary Medical Association,

 The Ontario government page on Lyme disease and tick removal.

 

 

CKMS Community News, Newsroom, Shows

Stories of Hope: Community-Led Food Assistance Programs in Waterloo Region

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MP Holmes
Kitchener, ON

In the last three months of 2023, food assistance programs in the region marked almost a 50 percent increase in usage compared to the same period in 2022. In those last three months of 2023 alone, almost 15, 000 unique households accessed a food assistance program, a 43 percent increase over that period in 2022.

These numbers are from the Food Bank of Waterloo Region  and they highlight the surge in demand for food and the growing issue of food insecurity within our community.

However, amidst these challenges, there are stories of hope and compassion emerging through community-led initiatives that are making a difference in the lives of those in need.

These initiatives include the Tiny Home Takeout and Food Not Bombs, which are both operating on shoestring budgets with a crew of volunteers and demonstrate the power of grassroots movements in addressing basic human needs.

CKMS has more on this story

Shows, Through The Static

Through the Static Episode 31 – 03/04/24

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Happy April and start of spring! To kick off the season, here is a selection for all the April Fools, the indieheads, the classic hiphop enjoyers, and for those who just want to chill while the rain falls outside. Remember, the April showers bring May flowers!

  • Bitter Boogie – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
  • April Fool – Chalk Circle
  • Mold – Lunar Vacation
  • Cutting Corners – Lunar Vacation
  • Peg – Steely Dan
  • Eye Know – De La Soul
  • Oh My God – A Tribe Called Quest
  • Raid – MF Doom & Madlib
  • All Caps – MF Doom & Madlib
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
  • El Condor Pasa – Simon and Garfunkel

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From The Void

FROM THE VOID #92 APRIL 2nd

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Welcome to Episode #92 of From the Void

Tonight is all about Maynard and his 60th Birthday!

My new podcast with Co – Host Peri Urban is on YouTube, it’s called The Listening Eyebrow and its about EVERYTHING!!!

ALSO!!! I released  a new album. Hear the Future.  You Tube,  Bandcamp,  Spotify, Apple Music or where ever you stream your music!

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CKMS News -2024-03-31- The Free Weekly Distro fills a need and “shares the bounty”

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CKMS News -2024-03-31- The Free Weekly Distro fills a need and “shares the bounty”

by: dan kellar

Waterloo – As the cost of living crisis continues and the effects of high housing costs remain at the forefront of many discussions, record high food prices remain an important issue.

Since the fall of 2020, LSPIRG and Martin Luther University College have run a project out of the college, called “The Free Weekly Distro“, offering free food and basic home items to anyone who needs them. While the project’s webpage states The Distro started in response to “the serious level of food insecurity that was compounded due to COVID-19 unemployment and existing services being closed”, the mutual aid effort continues weekly as food costs have continued to rise.

This show features an Interview with Tavia Weber, the Distro Program Development and Partnerships Coordinator at Luther. Weber talks about the program’s origin, the effects of the high cost of living on students, and the massive growth in the program’s use. 

Radio Nowhere

Radio Nowhere Episode 56, 3/30/24

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Fresh Air Quicksilver Messenger Service
Please Mr. Postman The Beatles
Bo Diddley Bob Seger
T.B. Sheets Van Morrison
Stuck In The Middle With You Stealers Wheel
Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
Shakey Ground The Temptations
İstanbul 1:26 A.M. Orient Expressions
Tan bi (Heat, Breeze, Tenderness) Youssou N’Dour
My Love Follows You Where You Go Alison Krauss & Union Station
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now Little Feat
Telephone Road (With the Fairfield Four) Steve Earle & The Fairfield Four