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WERU
NEWS
LIVE RADIO AUCTION!
By Mary Kellett,
WERU Auction Coordinator
Tune in on Saturday, December 4, 2010, from 8 am until Noon
By Matt Murphy,
WERU General Manager
The leaves have fallen off
the trees, the snow tires are
going on, the holiday cornucopia will soon be on the
table and … OK, I’ll spare
you one of those reflective
openings that I’m no good
at and just dive right into
what’s been happening at
your Community Radio Station. In short, lots.
First of all, WERU has
a new Music Director who
goes by the name of Denis
Howard, the well-known
host of the Friday edition of
Morning Maine and a former Development Director
here at the station. Welcome back to the staff, Denis! The music director is
our liaison between the station and the music industry
and the keeper of our music
library. Denis fills some big
shoes, those of long-time
and bid on a wide range of items
donated by members of the WERU
community. Most items are gift
certificates for restaurants, inns,
classes, books, garden supplies and
many other services and products.
A few items, including artwork and
jewelry can be viewed at our website
www.weru.org. Bidding on each
item will begin at half its value. Support your favorite community radio
station, secure great holiday gifts,
and just have fun!
We will auction items off in groups
of three or four. Our auctioneers will
describe each group and then play
music while the bids come in. You
can call 469-6600 or 1-800-6436273 and give your name, phone
number and bid to one of our phone
answerers. The auctioneers will update listeners as the bids come in.
Each grouping will be available for
bids for approximately five minutes.
If you are the highest bidder you
will receive a call from another volunteer who will ask if you are paying
by check or credit card and get your
T heconfessionso
acommunity radio
mailing address. A few items that
have been donated cannot be sent
through the mail and we will ask you
to come to the station to collect those
items.
Please check our website for updates at www.weru.org. We will be
posting the order in which items will
be offered for bids on the website a
few days before the auction.
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By Meaghan LaSala, WERU Associate Development Director (shown right at the 2010 American Folk Festival )
One thing I love is a good
Community Radio awakening story -- that triumphant
moment when one becomes
a grassroots radio nut for
life. If I could go back in
time to “turn of the century
Denville, New Jersey”, I’d
grab my twelve-year-old
self by the shoulders and
whisper urgently the call
letters of the local communit radio station, “FMU!
W-F-M-U” (a single tear
squirting from my eye).
Back then, freeform community radio laid waiting
for me at one left twist of
the dial. How different my
bored adolescence could
have sounded!
Alas, my awakening came
years later. I was a kitchen/
garden intern at a school in
northern California. Listening to KVMR in the kitchen
was easy enough, but to
satisfy my blossoming community radio addiction
in the garden I had to get
creative with several extension chords pilfered from
around campus. They say
plants do better if you sing
to them. I often wonder if
anyone has considered the
effects radio has on our botanic compadres.
Living rurally, I felt
empowered to engage
with my community in a
ways I never had before.
KVMR played a huge role
in demystifying the public
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On the BEAT with Mary Kellett
1186 Acadia Highway
East Orland, ME 04431
(207) 469-6600
http://weru.org/
info@weru.org
By Chris Stark, WERU Office and Volunteer Coordinator
After finishing law school in
1992, Mary Kellett returned to
the Downeast area and has put on
various WERU volunteer hats ever
since. The following is just a sampling of her volunteer involvement
over the years: She has hosted and
co-hosted Saturday and Sunday
Morning Coffee Houses and has
been a substitute host for Women’s
Windows and A World of Music.
Mary is a Board Member, and has
been Board President. She has
served on the following committees:
Home-Site (until WERU moved to
East Orland), Personnel, Development, Finance, and the Full Circle
Fair as the Volunteer Coordinator.
Mary also has been the WERU
Auction Coordinator for the past
3 years.
Mary loves all musical genres,
she says “some in smaller doses
than others”, and especially likes it
when current folk artists put their
own spin on traditional tunes – in
the spirit of the folk tradition. When
she picks out music for the Sunday
Morning Coffeehouse, a folk show
from 6 to 10 am, she prefers vocal
music to instrumental and looks for
a combination of “good lyrics and
good sound” to play. She has fond
childhood memories of listening to
her father’s record collection which
included Pete Seeger, The Weavers,
the Kingston Trio, George Moustaki
and Tom Lehrer. –With this taste
in music, getting hooked on WERU
was unavoidable.
As an appreciator of music, Mary
decided to take up piano lessons (in
private) and West African drumming as an adult. Her hobbies
include playing duplicate bridge,
gardening, pottery and listening to
as much live music as possible.
As a music programmer (DJ) she
enjoys the frenetic pace of the coffee house when the interaction with
listeners over the phone that keep
her running with requests and comments. One of her favorite memories was assisting Cowboy Tommy
Dean by running
for music and she
appreciates what a
great programmer
he became.
Mary has fun
with the high-energy and dedication
of the volunteers
that work behindthe-scenes and on
the air to make the
auction a success.
One goal this year
was to approach
more businesses
that don’t already
support the station
in a variety of ways
through memberships and under- Mary Kellet shown drumming
writing. And, due
to the economy,
they are not solicitto share great music with so many
ing “Big Ticket” items as much.
listeners. She also hopes you will bid
Mary finds WERU volunteering for an auction item! (See LIVE RADIO
fun and rewarding and is happy AUCTION! article above)
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WERU’s Mission
WERU provides a community-based non-commercial radio service; WERU broadcasts programs designed to serve the needs of those not fully
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
WERU-FM is licensed to Salt Pond Community Broadcasting, a nonprofit corporation actively run by an all-volunteer Board of Directors
from the community that WERU-FM serves. Board meetings are open
to the public. The current board members are:
Matt Baya (Volunteer Rep.)
Michael Donahue
John Greenman (Secretary)
Mary Kellett
Bill Lippincott
Matt Murphy (Ex Officio & Gen. Mgr.)
Richard Paget (Vice President)
Greg Rossel (President)
Kathleen Rybarz
Lynn Soucy (Ex Officio Treasurer)
Ellsworth
Blue Hill
Old Town
Brooklin
Hampden
Penobscot
Stonington
Troy
Lamoine
Dedham
Community Advisory Board
The CAB advises the Board of Directors on how well the the
station serves the mission of WERU-FM. CAB meetings are open
to the public The current CAB members are:
Don Bamman, Lamoine
David Foley, Northport
Kathleen Burnett, Blue Hill
Roberta M. Goodell, S. Thomaston
Gina Bushong, Orland
Chris Huh, Ellsworth
Sherry Churchill, Ellsworth
Suzanne Kelly, Bangor
Leland R. Dennett, Castine
Robert J. Salesi, Penobscot
Martha Dickinson, Ellsworth
Wendy Schweikert, Blue Hill
Frank Donnelly, Lamoine
John Sullivan, Unity
Martha Ellen Duncan, Blue Hill
Rev. Mark Worth, Castine
and John Zavodny, Unity
Station Operations Staff
Amy Browne
Bruce Clark
Tiffany Davenport
Denis Howard
Adam Lacher
Meaghan LaSala
Joel Mann
Willie Marquart
Matt Murphy
“Big Al” Scott
Sylvia Smith
Chris Stark
Fall 2010
News & Public Affairs Manager
Contract Engineer
Student Intern
Music Director
Underwriting & Publications Manager
Associate Development Director
Program & Operations Manager
Finance Manager
General Manager
Contract IT Technician
Database Manager
Office & Volunteer Coordinator
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Mark Abb, Marianne Adamenas, Eileen Ahern, Stephani Allen, Kevin Ames, Jeff Amsrud,
Mary Anderson, Sue Aripotch, Barbara Arter, Jim Bahoosh, Duncan Bailey, Steve Bailey,
Don Bamman, Jim Baranski, Matt Baya, Tom Beal, Ron Beard, Dan Beckman, 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, Richard Buxton, Jim Campbell, Laura Campbell, Kate Chapin, Sherry Churchill, Joan Clemons, Maynard
Clemons, Carolyn Coe, Ian Collins, Tracy Collins, Diana Cookson, Tom Correy, Lynn Cottrell, Chris Covert, Steve Crabtree, Erica Crane,
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Meredith DeFrancesco, Daryl Dejoy, Lee Dennett, James DesJardins, Martha Dickinson, Susan Dickson-Smith, Karen Doherty, Cheri
Domina, Mike Domrad, Michael Donahue, Chris Donley, Frank Donnelly, Charlie Dufour, Marty Duncan, Mark Dyer, Jeanne Ellis, Jeff
Ellis, Melisenda Ellis, Mark Elwin, Ryan Entwistle, RW Estela, Dave Evans, Robin Farrin, Joan Federman, Rhonda Feiman, Jim Fisher,
Joe Fisher, Brian Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty, Beverly Ann Flores, David Foley, Haydee Santamaria Foreman, George Fowler, Pat Fowler,
Karen Frangoulis, Linda Freimuth, Becka Gagne, Sean Gambrel, Stacy Gambrel, Andrea Garcia-Molina, Martha Garfield, Matt Gerald,
Jane Gerlach, Starr Gilmartin, Dorris Ginn, Richard Giordano, Winnifred Gomm, Martha Goodale, Bobbie Goodell, Byron Greatorex,
Paula Greatorex, John Greenman, Ralph Grimes, Carla Guenther, Tim Hagney, Martina Haines, Judy Hale, Petra Hall, Frets Halligan,
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Sharon Hillman-Waters, Rich Hilsinger, Fritz Homans, Denis Howard, Clare Hubbard, Chris Huh, Rebecca Hunter, Tris Hurley, Cathy
Jacobs, Lynn Jacobson, Stacie Jacques, Willie Jenner, Carlton Johnson, Renee Johnson, Magnus Johnstone, Dennis Jones, Mike Joyce,
Lisa Jung, Alice Kaiserian, Wendy Kearney, Majo Keleshian, Mary Kellett, Suzanne Kelly, Gunilla Kettis, Rick Kidson, Valentine King,
Tonia Kittelson, Ethan Klein, Laurel Lamoreau, Lucy Leaf, Russell Libby, Alice Lichtenstein, Leslie Linder, Bill Lippincott, Rosa Livonius,
Louise Lopez, Donna Loring, Roland Magnan, David Manski, Kathleen March, Chuck Markowitz, Andrew Marshall, Lisa B Martin, Cherie
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Schneider, Craig Schoppe, Wendy Schweikert, June Sendrowski, Paul Sheridan, Matt Shipman, John Shirrefs, Elaine Shute, Bob Sikkel,
Donna Slopey, Valerie Smith, Sharon Smythe, Lynn Soucy, Steve Soucy, Alan Sprague, Jeri Spurling, Noele Spurling, Larry Stahlberg, Ron
Staples, Francine Stark, Hazel Stark, Sherry Streeter, Rob Struba, Christian Sulick, Zia Sulick, John Sullivan, Cynthia Swan, Peri Tobin,
Kita Treichler, Connie Tuller, Nancy Tyndall, Tatiana Urban, Julia Ventresco, John Vincent, Calvin Vitale, Connie Wagner, Parker Waite,
Susan Walsh, Linda Washburn, Richard Washburn, Allison Watters, Gina Wertz, Sam West, Zafra Whitcomb, Melissa White-Pillsbury,
Debbie and David Wildey, Holbrook Williams, Mariah Williams, Lee Witting, Cheryl Wixson, Mike Wolf, Mark Worth, John Zavodny,
Larry and Sandy Zellner 290 TOTAL!
Active Volunteers:
Appleton (BM) Perennial Favorites Nursery & Greenhouse, (BM) S. T. Photography. Athens, GA (BM) Coastwise Consulting. Augusta (UW) Maine
Initiatives, (UW) MaineShare. Bangor (UW) Bangor Daily News, (UW) Bangor Savings Bank, (UW) God’s Oil, (BM) Herbal Tea & Tobacco, (BM) House Revivers, (BM) Integrative
Medicine, Healthy Alternatives, (UW) Kah Bang Music-Film-Art, (BM) Lippincott Books, (UW) Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, (UW) Maine People’s Alliance, (UW) MPBN,
(UW) Peace & Justice Center of Eastern ME, (BM) Pro Libris Book Shop, (UW) River City Cinema. Bar Harbor (BM) A&B Naturals, (UW) Abbe Museum, (BM & UW) Acadia Fireplaces,
(UW) Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, (UW) Bar Harbor Fine Arts Festival, (UW) College of the Atlantic, (BM) Down East Nature Tours, (BM) Friends of Acadia, (BM) John Dargis Associates,
(BM) Lynam Real Estate Agency, (BM & UW) Morning Glory Bakery, (BM) Peacock Company Builders, (BM & UW) Reel Pizza Cinerama, (BM) Rupununi, (BM) Transformation Massage
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(BM & UW) Belfast Co-op, (BM) Belfast Dance Studio, (UW) Belfast Framer and Gallery, (UW) Belfast Summer Farmer’s Market, (UW) Easterly Wine, (BM) Fiddler’s Green Farm, (UW)
First Light Community Midwives, (BM & UW) Galerie Dufour, (UW) The Good Table, (UW) The Green Store, (BM) Harmony in Hand Massage Therapy, (BM) Insight Productions, (BM)
K Construction, (UW) Maine Farmland Trust, (BM) Mainely Pottery, (BM) Metaphor Bronze Tileworks, (BM) Mid Coast Dental Arts, (UW) Morningstar Midwifery, (BM) North Twin
Education Programs, (UW) The Old Professor’s Bookshop, (BM) Penobscot Bay Dentistry, (BM) Roots & Tendrils, (UW) Waterfall Arts, (BM & UW) Wesley Rothermel, CPA, (BM) William
Armstrong Sports and Orthopedic Massage, (UW) Yo Mama’s Home. Bernard (BM) Land Conservation Legal Services. Biddeford (UW) Don Foshay’s Discount Tire & Alignment. Blue
Hill (BM) The Activity Shop, (BM) Auxilar Marketing, (UW) Bagaduce Music Lending Library, (BM & UW) Blue Hill Co-op, (BM) Blue Hill Farm Country Inn, (UW) Blue Hill Farmers’
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(BM) Jean O Design, (BM) Jon Smallidge Carpentry, (UW) Liros Gallery, (BM) Lowry Environmental Engineering, (BM & UW) MacRevival, (BM) Maine Weather, (BM) Old Ackley Farm,
(BM) Paradise Tattoo, (BM) Peninsula Metamorphic Arts & Learning, (BM) Sara Sara’s Women’s Clothing, (BM) String Theory Knitting & Spinning, (UW) TABLE, A Farmhouse Bistro.
Brewer (UW) Ilya Askinazi - Black & White Photography. Brooklin (BM) Ann F. Brayton Boat Cushions & Canvas, (BM) Center Harbor Sails, (BM & UW) Cold Spring Design & Woodworking, (BM) Holbrook Williams Garden Services, (BM) Princell Woodworks. Brooks (BM) Baldwin Apple Ladders. Brooksville (UW) Air Pollution Characterization and Control.
Brunswick (BM) Great Water, (UW) Gulf Of Maine Books. Bucksport (UW) BookStacks, (BM) Crosby’s Drive-In, (BM) Modular Media. Camden (UW) Bay Chamber Concerts, (BM
& UW) Bob Spencer Builders and Properties, (BM) Camden Falls Gallery, (UW) Camden International Film Festival, (UW) Camden Summer Farmers’ Market, (BM) Cedar Crest Inn, (BM)
Clean Bee Laundry, (BM) Country Inn at Camden/Rockport, (UW) Gambell & Hunter Sailmakers, (BM) McKittrick & Warren, P.A. , (BM) Meetingbrook Hermitage, (BM & UW) Quantum
Insulators, (BM) Spirit Soaring Glider Rides, (BM) Timberhead Music, (BM) TREEKEEPERS - Johnson’s Arboriculture. Castine (BM & UW) The Breeze, (BM & UW) Castine Farmers’
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(UW) Damariscotta River Association. Dedham (UW) Maine Gallery & Studio Guide, (BM) Northern Maine Construction. Deer Isle (BM) Beech Hill Woodworks, (BM) Dan Foss Construction, (BM) Darwin K. Davidson Photography, (BM) Nervous Nellies Jams & Jellies, (BM) Turtle Gallery. Dixmont (BM) Peacemeal Farm, (BM) Winterport Remodeling & Siding.
Dover Foxcroft (UW) Center Theatre For The Performing Arts, (BM) Ripley Farm. East Boothbay (BM) Nathaniel S. Wilson Sailmaker. Edgecomb (BM) Andy Abello at Wind Ridge
Farm Woodworking. Ellsworth (BM) Acadia Dental Arts - Peter F Meyer DDS, (BM) Acadia Naturopathic Clinic, (UW) Cleonice Mediterranean Bistro, (UW) Coastal Drilling & Blasting,
(BM) Design Group Collaborative Architecture, (UW) Down East Aids Network, (BM & UW) Ellsworth Farmers’ Market, (BM) Emmaus Homeless Shelter, (BM & UW) EverGreen Home
Solutions, (UW) Fahringer’s Framing Gallery, (BM) Farrin Photography, (UW) Finelli’s Pizza, (UW) The Grand, (BM) Hansen Counseling, (BM) Image Gazer Productions, (UW) Maine
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Education. Penobscot (UW) Birch Moon Midwifery, (BM) Earth Routes, (BM) Morse Cove Marine, (BM) Tree Feller, (BM) Weaving a Life. Pittsfield (BM) Snakeroot Farm. Portland
(UW) BelTek Arts & Music Festival, (UW) Maine Island Trail Association. Prospect Harbor (UW) U.S. Bells. Raymond (UW) Inner Tapestry Journal. Rockland (UW) Atlantic Challenge, (BM) Benchmark Solar, (UW) The Free Press, (BM) Gemini Marine Canvas, (UW) Harbor Square Gallery, (BM & UW) Jonathan Frost Frame Shop & Studio, (UW) Maine Boats,
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Rose Whitehead Culinary Landscaping. Waldoboro (BM) G. K. VanDerwerker Studio - Hand Bookbinding. Warren (UW) A. E. Sampson & Son, (BM) Sticks & Stones Landscape &
Construction. Westbrook (UW) Sunrise Guide. Winter Harbor (UW) Schoodic Arts For All. Winterport (BM) Fisher Farm. Winthrop (BM) One Heart.302 TOTAL!
ACTIVE Business MEMBERS (BM) & UnDERWRITERS (UW):
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
WERU Salt Air
Fall 2010
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Greater Bangor makes for Great Radio
By Meaghan LaSala
The Bangor Area Commons (formerly 99.9 Hour) is a monthly public
affairs show dedicated to the people,
stories, issues and arts of the Bangor
area, and is also one of my favorite
parts of my job. Every first
that music plays in the lives of the
residents of this region that is rapidly
spreading its reputation as a musical destination. So I spoke with Laurie Wingo, president of the Bangor
2010 Citizen of the year, a retired
teacher who has taught over 300 local
folks how to play the piano and who
now performs pro bono at nursing
homes around the area. I invited the
Flannery Brothers on to talk
Thursday from 10 to 11 AM,
about their new kids album
you can tune in to hear me
“The New Explorers Club”
chatting it up with movers
and what it was like to build
and shakers from Greater
a music career in Bangor.
Bangor. With live guests
And Finally, I spoke with
and local call-ins, it’s the
Zachary Robbins who orgaplace to go to learn what’s
nizes “Her Majesty’s Cabanew in the big city.
ret,” a new variety show that
The inaugural show in
opened in October. From
October was about Spruce
kids music to Cabaret, a litRun, a domestic violence
tle something for everyone.
project that serves PenobI have a few concepts
scot County. Kati McCarthy,
percolating for upcoming
Amanda Cost and Maureen
shows, but I’m always lookO’Malley, all staff members
ing for ideas, so please send
at Spruce Run, came into
them my way. Email me
the studio to talk about the
at meaghan@weru.org or
outstanding history of the
call 469-6600. Possible fuorganization as one of the
ture topics include a look at
three oldest domestic vioslow food, with guests from
lence projects in the country.
Market Bistro, a restaurant
Spruce run works to “equalthat serves all local fare, and
ize the power imbalances”
from Central St. Farmhouse,
in our society, through supone of Bangor’s newest busiport, advocacy and educanesses that meets your DIY
tion, and even through its
needs from homebrewing to
own governance structure
cheesemaking. I also might
as a collective organization
take a look at sustainable
run by consensus. To hear homes, with Brewer’s HabiThe mighty Meg Bunyan of Bangor lore!
the show, visit our archive
tat ReStore, and ReVision
at www.weru.org.
Heat, Brewer’s new heating
The November 4th show
efficiency business.
was about homegrown music in great- Band, the oldest community band in
So log on or tune in, first Thursdays
er Bangor. I tried to take the show in the state and gracious lenders of the of the month, and keep your phone on
several unexpected directions. I was show’s theme song. I produced a fea- hand while you’re listening, because I
curious about the more intimate role ture about Clayton Rogers, Brewer’s want to hear from you!
RADIO JUNKY from page one
sphere. Now, I’ve always
been a pretty obsessive radio
listener. But KVMR held my
hand across that threshold
that lies between consumption and creation. When I
tuned into KVMR, I heard
my neighbors and friends
dissecting difficult issues,
informing, making fun, and
it wasn’t long before I biked
to town to ask how I could
get involved. I walked out
of the studio that day with
a recorder in hand, and two
weeks later I had produced
my first radio story, about
the 50th anniversary of the
school where I lived and
worked.
It’s pretty much been full
throttle radio since then. In
a whirlwind two years I’ve
gone from community radio
consumer, to hobbyist/volunteer, student, mentor and
finally to full time staff. You
know what they say… ‘When
the headphones fit.’ I like
radio because my head is a
swarming chaos. As a pretty comfortable concerned
white person, I’ve had the
privilege to shop for causes,
and I tend to get distracted.
Am I an activist? A farmer?
Performer? Do I want to go
back to school and study urban planning? Do I want to
drop out of society, invest in
guns and heirloom seeds?
In radio I found my singular path where I can hunker
down, ask hard questions
and cultivate all my divergent curiosities. And the
music is great.
Then WERU opened
its big loving arms to me.
Thanks to a grant from the
Digital Arts Service Corps,
I was hired to lead WERU’s
outreach project in the Bangor Area. As an DASC Americorps Service Member, I not
only joined the WERU team,
but I also became part of a
network of people around
the country that are working to further social justice
causes through media.
Here, I am appointed
with the joyful task of infecting others with the radio
bug. Muahahahaha! I work
with the Development Committee, the Bangor Development Subcommittee, the
Plant Watering and Dish-
events for broadcast. I’m
always looking for new
ideas for Bangor area partnerships and collaborations
so send your thoughts my
way! For example, WERU
is partnering with the Nontraditional Student Association and a New Media class
at the University of Maine to
broadcast stories of nontraditional students (coming
soon!).
As you may have heard,
WERU is awaiting FCC approval for a new frequency
in the Bangor area. The 99.9
FM signal that we’ve applied
“When I’m not hunched over my
laptop muttering ‘Bangor’ repetitively
to myself, you can often find me out
about town, recorder in hand,
working on features or recording
events for broadcast.”
washing Committee (often
late to meetings), and the
Committee to Come Up with
New Committees and Give
them Silly Names Committee. Just kidding on those
last two. So I do lots of collaborating, and I also have
a lot of leeway to get creative about outreach in the
Greater Bangor area, where
I’ll be focusing my efforts
this year.
So what exactly does an
Associate Development Director do all day? When I’m
not hunched over my laptop
muttering ‘Bangor’ repetitively to myself, you can often find me out about town,
recorder in hand, working
on features or recording
for will be the strongest
WERU has ever enjoyed in
greater Bangor. Once its up
and running we’ll have lots
of fun work to do, launching a campaign to spread
the word. Think: PARTY. So
stay tuned!
I also host a monthly
show called Bangor Area
Commons that discusses
people, stories, issues and
arts in the Bangor area every first Thursday from 10 to
11 AM. See the above article
for more info. I’m working
on a page for our website
where you can find all this
information and more-- new
frequency updates, featured
businesses, non-profits and
artists, events, news, links
to my show and the Greater
Bangor blog.
Thanks to all those who
came out to our Listener
Feedback Meeting last
month. We shared some
great ideas and delicious
food donated by Market Bistro and the Natural Living
Center. While we’re talking
about donations to the station, a big thanks to all the
local businesses who have
contributed to the WERU
Radio Auction, which will
take place on the air this December 4th. And thanks to
Sean Gambrel, my soliciting
partner in crime, for helping
to break the record of most
Bangor donations in Radio
Auction history!
So it’s good to be here,
to say the least. I couldn’t
have asked for a better radio home than this inspiring
WERU community. I want
to thank you all for this opportunity to get out from
behind the microphone and
try on the development hat.
Luckily, the WERU community is doing the hard work
for me. Regardless of what
your interests are, WERU
serves as a swarming hub
where you can walk in, log
on or tune in to engage with
your community. All I have
to do is help people figure
out how they can plug in.
Help me spread the word! If
you’ve got ideas for greater
Bangor, or want to get involved, call me at 469-6600,
or email at meaghan@
weru.org. And if you wanna
just shoot the breeze about
radio, Mon-Fri, you know
where to find me.
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Downeast Family YMCA. Ellsworth. Offering fitness
rooms, a swimming pool and
gym as well as fifty hours of free
programming each week. Gift
certificate for one adult annual
membership. Begin use by
6/15/11. Value: $500.
Jay Peterson Signs. Sedgwick. WERU’s own Jay Peterson carves
and paints signs when he’s
not on the radio. He’ll carve
and paint you a double-sided
driveway sign, approximately 24”
by 5”. Gift Certificate: $250 value. Use by 12/31/11.
Darwin Davidson. Deer Isle. Join your host of Bronzewound
on a boat trip, 10 am to 4 pm,
anywhere in Penobscot Bay. Bring your lunch and up to four
friends. Use by 10/1/11. Value:
$250
Cold Spring Design &
Woodworking. Brooklin. CAD
design services, fine cabinetry
and furniture construction. A
gift certificate to be used toward
your cabinetry project or design
work. Value: $200. Use by 12/31/11.
A hand-knit Icelandic Lopi
sweater, size medium, in brown
with white speckles, tan and
paprika by Judith Dannenberg. Value: $200. Pick up at WERU.
Blossom Studio. Brooklin. A
lovely necklace of handmade
beads and beach glass created
by Sihaya Hopkins. 21” long,
strung on waxed linen, in earthy
colors of gray, cream, green and
chocolate. Value: $190. www.
blossomstudiobeads.com
The Lester Gallery. Deer Isle. Fine arts landscape photography. Offering an 8 x 10 color print,
matted and mounted. Subject: Sandy Stream Pond. Value: $175. www.thelestergalleryllc.com
Cedar Crest Motel - CamdenLocated on 3.5 acres with
views of Mt Batty, the 37 room
Cedar Crest Motel featured
free wireless internet, a heated
outdoor pool, and a full service
restaurant featuring breakfast,
lunch, and dinner with their
specialty of hand tossed pizza.
1 night stay for 2. Depending
upon when redeemed, value
is up to $154.00 Can be used
anytime except- July 15 &
16, Aug 3,4,5,6,7 and Aug 19
& 20. Please make advance
reservations. http://www.
cedarcrestmotel.com
Country Inn. Rockport. Open
year ‘round. Only minutes
from beautiful Camden and
Rockport Harbors and a myriad
of other coastal attractions. Gift
certificate for one night stay for
two in the Country Suite. Use
from January 1, 2011 through
May 27, 2011. Value: $116. Please make reservations in
advance. www.countryinnmaine.
com
Holbrook Williams Garden
Services. Brooklin. Groove shop
host Holbrook Williams will work
with you for 3 hours in your
garden on the Blue Hill peninsula
area -- pruning, planting, bed
preparation or weeding. Gift
certificate: $100 value. Use by
12/31/11
Fletcher’s Woodshop. Blue Hill. Peter Fletcher has more than
25 years experience as a fine
woodworker and cabinetmaker. Take your repair or refinishing
project to Peter’s shop – this can
include chair repair, furniture
refinishing or millwork. This gift
certificate, value of $100, covers
four hours of labor. Use by
12/31/11.
Green Store. Belfast. A General
Store for the 21st Century. Environmentally safe, energy
efficient products at affordable
prices. A Fair Trade hammock
from India. Value: $100. Pick up
at WERU. www.greenstore.com
The Charles Inn. Bangor. Bangor’s first Art Gallery hotel
with spacious accommodations. Free breakfast, parking, wireless
internet and much, much, more. Gift certificate for one night stay
in a queen size bed non-smoking
room at the historic Charles Inn. Black out dates may apply. Make
reservation for best selection. Use by 9/30/11. Value: $100. www.thecharlesinn.com
Havana. Bar Harbor. American
fine dining with a Latin flair. A
great atmosphere, extensive
wine list, knowledgeable staff
and sophisticated menu. Gift
certificated: $100 value. Open
May through December. www.
havanamaine.com
Kneisel Hall. Blue Hill. One of
the top summer chamber music
schools and festivals in the
U.S. A fabulous opportunity to
hear tomorrow’s top chamber
musicians and today’s master
teachers. Four (4) fanfare
passes to the 2011 young
artist performances and
master classes, 11 events. Gift
certificates: Value: $95 each. www.kneisel.org
those decades old recipes with
ingredients picked daily – many
from their own organic farm. Gift certificate: $75 value. www.
paolinasway.com
SaraSara’s. Blue Hill. Beautiful
clothing for women, including
locally made jewelry. Two cut
velvet silk shawls by Putomayo. Value: $68 each. www.sarasaras.
com
Camden Snow Bowl. Camden.
The Camden Snow Bowl is a
community owned ski and
recreation area. From the summit
of 1300’ Ragged Mountain, home
to the Snow Bowl’s trails, skiers
and riders have an incredible
view of the Atlantic Ocean. Two
sets of two “anytime” lift tickets. Value: $66 each. Use by 4/11/11. www.camdensnowbowl.com
Bunny Gorski Polarity and
Massage Therapy. Brooklin. A gift certificate for a healthenhancing session of polarity
therapy or massage, by
appointment in her studio in
Brooklin. Gift certificate: $65
value.
includes a children’s room. Gift
certificate: $50 value. www.
handworksgallery.org
Mainescape Nursery. Blue
Hill. A family run garden center
in Blue Hill for more than 30
years, with houseplants and
seasonal produce as well as
plants and garden supplies. They
also offer holiday wreaths and
centerpieces. Gift certificate: $50
value. www.mainescape.com
Paul Sullivan, River Music. Sedgwick. Grammy Awardwinning pianist and composer. Two Christmas CDs and a set of
sheet music (10 pieces), value:
$50. www.rivermusic.com
Borealis Press. Blue Hill. Wonderfully wise greeting cards
with thought-provoking photos
and quotes. Two gift certificates
for purchase of cards from
catalog. Value: $50 each. Use by
12/31/11. www.borealispress.net
Pat’s Pizza. Orono. Serving
salads, pizza, calzones,
sandwiches and desserts. Gift
certificate: $50 value.
CamdenOpera House. Camden.
Avner Eisenberg is a reminder
of the theatrical power that can
reside in a single charismatic
performer who touches the
heart. Four tickets for your family
to attend this performance on
January 22, 2011. Value: $64. www.camdenoperahouse.com
Andrew Clifford/Maine
StreetMusic Studios. Bangor. Work with national producer
Andrew Clifford to perfect your
sound. Gift certificate for one
hour of recording time at Maine
Street Music Studios: $50 value. www.mainstreetmusicstudios.
com
Craftsman made (1980), signed,
18” Irish bodran with celtic
design on drumhead. Must pick
up at station. Value: $60.
Urban Gardens. Brewer. Your
source for organic gardening
supplies including hydroponic
supplies and horticultural
lighting. Gift certificate: $50
value. www.urbangardencenter.
net
The Grand Auditorium. Ellsworth. A great venue for
music, theatre, cinema, live opera
in high definition, and more. Gift certificate: $60 value. www.
grandonline.org
QiGong Studio. Bangor. Offers
classes in qigong or reiki,
massage (Swedish, therapeutic,
deep tissue and qigong) and qi
or reiki healing. Gift certificate
for a one hour massage: Value
$55. www.qigongstudio.com
WoodenBoat Store. Brooklin. A shop filled with everything
to delight wooden boat fans,
including books. Offering:
Focused on the Coast: The
Photographic Work of Neal Parent,
Windjammers Downeast by Fred
Leblanc, and Building Small Boats
by Greg Rossel, value of $88.
www.woodenboatstore.com
Carding Brook Farm. Brooklin.
This organic farm in Brooklin
offers a gift certificate for their
seasonal produce, baked goods,
and maple syrup, redeemable
at the farm stand and at the
Brooklin Farmers’ Market June
through October, 2011. Gift
Certificate: $50 value.
Blue Hill Therapeutic Massage. Blue Hill. Massage for health and
general wellbeing, relaxation
and rejuvenation. One hour of
shiatsu or therapeutic massage
for women. Gift certificate: $85
value. Use by 6/30/11.
Blue Hill Hearth Bakery. Blue
Hill. Located behind North
Light Books, Blue Hill Hearth
bakes wonderful loaves and
pastries daily and offers lunch
sandwiches and soup. Will do
special orders. Gift certificate: $50 value.
Paolina’s Way Restaurant. Camden. For sixty years Grandma
Paolina created hearty yet
delicate handmade pastas and
fresh sauces for her family. Today,
with a similar spirit, Christina
and her staff joyfully recreate
Handworks Gallery. Blue
Hill. For more than 30 years
Handworks in Blue Hill has been
representing local artists, textile
artists, potters, photographers
and jewelers. The gallery even
Belfast Co-op. Belfast. A
member-owned store since
1976 offering healthy lifestyle
choices for both members and
non-members. We support the
regional economy by purchasing
from many local farmers and
producers. Gift Certificate: $50
value. Use by 10/7/11. www.
belfast.coop
Boynton-McKay Food Co. Camden. A Main Street landmark
since 1893, a place where locals
and visitors alike go for good
conversation, tasty treats, and
cures for the common-place. Gift certificate: $50 value. www.
boynton-mckay.com
French & Brawn. Camden. Family owned grocery store. Enjoy their selection of fruits
and vegetables, beer and wine,
and baked goods, as well as a
full-service meat counter. Also
offering prepared meals and
catering. Gift certificate: $50
value.
The Grasshopper Shop. Bangor, Ellsworth, Rockland,
Searsport and Stonington. Toys,
music, clothing, accessories and
housewares. Gift certificate: $50
value.
Fahringers Framing
Gallery. Ellsworth. Fahringers Framing
Gallery features expert
custom framing and
design consultation as
well as printing, and photo
& art restoration services. Gift certificate: $50 value. Use by 12/31/11. www.
fahringersframinggallery.
com
Time Out Pub - RocklandFull restaurant and bar
featuring live blues on
Monday nights with
national blues artists. Established as one of
Maine best live music
blues bar with shows
always from 7:00
to10:00 pm. $ 50.00
gift certificate can be
used for food, beverages,
and band cover charges. Strand Theater - Rockland
- 2 tickets to see HD Live
broadcast of London’s National
Theatre production of FELA on
Thursday, January 13th. Choice
of either the 2 pm LIVE show or
the 7 pm rebroadcast. Value$ 47.00 http://www.
rocklandstrand.com/
Lucy’s Granola. East Blue
Hill. Features whole grains
and unprocessed ingredients,
local whenever possible. Gift
certificate for six bags of
your choice of three granolas
- original, gluten free, or extra
seedy. Phone or email to arrange
pick up. Value: $45. www.
lucysgranola.com
George Fowler. Brooklin. Host
of New Potatoes and long-time
contradance fiddler, George
offers a one hour fiddle lesson
for an adult in his studio in
Brooklin and send you home
with a CD, either contradance
music or “Never Better”. Gift
Certificate: $45 value. www.
myspace.com/gwfowler
Kingdom Bikes. Blue Hill. A
full service bicycle repair shop
offering parts and accessories,
including car racks. Also
repairs and replaces garden
cart tires. Dick Bartlett offers
a complete tune-up for any
kind of bicycle: he will adjust
brakes and shifters, clean
and lube chain, check wheels
and bearings, and conduct a
basic safety inspection. Gift
certificate: $45 value. Use
before 12/31/11.
5 Star Nursery. Brooklin. An
organic nursery and grower
of apples, peaches, pears
nad vegetable seedlings. One bare-rooted Liberty
apple tree, disease resistant,
MOFGA certified organic. Call in April to arrange pick
up. Gift certificate: $45
value.
Gordon Bok, Timberhead
Music. Camden. This must
have collection includes an
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autographed
Gordon Bok
songbook, One
to Sing, One to
Haul, and the
2010 CD, Other
Eyes. Value: $41. www.
timberheadmusic.
com
WoodenBoat Store. Brooklin. A shop
filled with everything
to delight wooden
boat fans, including
books. Offering:
The Wooden Boat
Address Book,
Moonsailors by
Buckley Smith, and
Yellow Boatie on Blue
Hill Bay by Helen Sylvester,
value of $40. www.
woodenboatstore.com
State Street Wine Cellar. Bangor. Your cheese, gourmet
food, beer, and wine store. Gift
certificate: $40 value. www.
streetwine.com
Edge Video. Brewer. Where
you can buy or sell new or
used equipment, DVDs, games
and retro games as well as rent
videos. A $20 gift certificate
and 15 free rental cards for
total value of $35.
The Maine Grind. Ellsworth. Ellsworth’s
downtown neighborhood
café, authentically Maine,
genuinely good. “Grinder
Bucks” gift cards: value of
$35. www.mainegrind.com
Bikesenjava - RocklandMore than just a bike
shop! Enjoy a cup of
fantastic coffee, a full
equipped bike rental
shop, as well as the
latest equipment on
the market. Unofficial
clubhouse for cyclists
and triathletes. $35.00
Performance Bike Tuneup. ( does not include
parts). http://www.
haybikesenjava.com/
The Good Kettle. Stockton
Springs. Offering a bit
of diversity, The Good
Kettle features excellent
sandwiches as well as fine
wines and cheeses from all
over the world as well as
beers made right here in
the State of Maine. We
hope you enjoy our
Soups, Cheeses, Entrées,
Marmalades, Chutneys,
Sandwiches, and Baked
Goods. Gift certificate
$35.00 http://www.
thegoodkettle.com/
Bella Luna. Bangor. A
boutique offering jewelry,
clothing and handbags. Featuring many local
artists. Excellent customer
service in a relaxed and
friendly atmosphere. Offering a blue pashmina
with plaid cashmere/silk blend.
Value $32. www.shopbellaluna.
myshopify.com
Main Street Auto Care. Ellsworth. Full service auto repair
and service. Gift certificate for
oil change special, up to 5 quarts. Value: $31.39.
Gift certificate: $28 value. Call
ahead to pick up the wines at the
winery. Use by 12/31/11. Must be
21 years of age.
Tradewinds. Blue Hill. Two gift
cards for use at the Citgo pumps
on South Street. Value: $25 each. Use before 12/31/11.
Contradance Fandango. A
collaboration of Belfast Flying
Shoes Contradance and the
Oakum Bay String Band. Dance
across downeast Maine with
admission for two adults to one
dance in Belfast (1st Friday of each
month) and one dance in Blue
Hill (1st Saturday in each month). Both dances are preceded by
a family dance and all-comers’
band at 6:30 pm. Value: $30. www.belfastflyingshoes.org
New Cargoes. Blue Hill. Blue
Hill’s “littlest department store”, a
wonderland of housewares and
home furnishings, toys, women’s
clothing, art supplies, stationery,
and CDs. Gift certificate: $25
value. www.newcargoes.com
String Theory. Blue Hill. Offering
a full range of knitting and
spinning supplies, classes, and
an open knitting group. Locally
hand-dyed yarns and more. Gift certificate: $30. www.
stringtheoryyarn.com
Dudley’s Awesome Diner. Belfast. Nothing could be finer
than to eat breakfast or lunch
at this awesome diner. Gift
certificate: $25 value.
Paul Sullivan. River Music. Sedgwick. Grammy Awardwinning pianist and composer.
Set of 2 Christmas CDs, value: $30. www.rivermusic.com
Ripley Farm. Dover-Foxcroft. A
certified organic vegetable farm
and nursery selling a wide range
of vegetables, potted perennial
flowers and herbs. Two gift
certificates to be redeemed at the
Orono Farmers’ Market, July 2011
through October 2011. Value: $30 each.
Luna Bar & Grill. Bangor. Gift
certificate: $30 value. www.
lunabarandgrill.net
Homewood Farm. Blue Hill. Family owned and run farm and
farmstand with vegetables and
fruits and a corn maze in the fall. Gift certificate for you to pick
your own strawberries (2 flats
= 12 boxes) in early July. Value:
$30. A second gift certificate
for a family pass (family of
four) to enjoy the corn maze
in September & October, 2011,
weekends and holidays. Value:
$30. www.homewoodfarm.com
The Bangkok Restaurant.
Ellsworth. Great Thai food and
sushi bar. Gift certificate: $30
value.
The Mapmaker’s Kitchen. By Jane Crosen with Richard
Washburn. Creative, healthy
recipes for home, camp and
afloat. A round-the-world, athome-Downeast cookbook
celebrating family and
community, natural landscapes,
and the satisfaction and economy
of preparing and preserving
quality local foods in your own
kitchen. Value: $30.
Sow’s Ear Winery. Brooksville. Winemaker Tom Hoey uses local
fruits to make delicious wines. Enjoy two bottles of wine, one
rhubarb and one blueberry. Yo Mamma’s Home. Belfast. Fun
Funky Functional Fundamentals
for everyone. Gift certificate: $25
value. www.yomammashome.
com
The Good Table. Belfast. A
fine selection of cookware,
table linens, cookbooks,
kitchen gadgets and more. Gift
certificate: $25 value. www.
thegoodtable.net
Bangor Frameworks. Bangor. Providing custom
framing for paintings, prints
and photographs, as well as
shadow boxes for your precious
memorabilia. Gift certificate: $25
value. Use by 12/31/12. www.
bangorframeworks.com
Bella Hair Studio. Bangor. Serving all your hair, make-up and
waxing needs. Gift certificate for
$25 towards any chemical service
with Jenny McAuliffe. Value: $25
Miguel’s Mexican Restaurant.
Bangor. Serving lunch and
dinner seven days a week. Gift
certificate: $25 value. www.
miguelsbangor.com
Frank’s Bake Shop & Custom
Catering. Bangor. A retail bakery
that has been family owned and
operated for 65 years. Making
pastries, cookies and cakes
from scratch using the freshest
ingredients. Will cater special
events, offering appetizers, finger
foods or a full course meal. Gift
certificate: $25 value. www.
franksbakery.com
The Fiddlehead Restaurant. Bangor. A downtown, local eatery
featuring the best of Maine’s
produce and meats in a friendly,
comfortable atmosphere. Gift
certificate: $25 value. www.
thefiddleheadrestaurant.com
Coyote Moon. Belfast. The
boutique that speaks to the
heart, offering comfortable
and elegant clothing, playful
and sophisticated jewelry,
and whimsical and practical
accessories. Gift certificate: $25
value. www.coyotemoon.com
Bagel Central. Bangor. Offering
coffee and bagels, a full line of
breakfast and lunch items, and
a multitude of home-baked
goodies. Includes a travel mug,
a $10 gift certificate, and a card
for ten free coffees. Value: $25. www.bagelcentralbangor.com
Pyramid Studios. Ellsworth. Creative jewelry design by
goldsmiths and brothers Dave
and Don Herrington who
specialize in custom jewelry
solutions of heirloom quality with
designs that fit your lifestyle. Gift
certificate: $25 value. Use by
12/4/11. www.pyramid.ws
Paddy Murphy’s. Bangor. Paddy
Murphy’s Pub is a Victorian-style
Irish pub located at 26 Main
Street in the heart of Downtown
Bangor. Gift certificate: $25 value. www.paddymurphysbangor.com
Bella Luna. Bangor. A boutique
offering jewelry, clothing and
handbags. Featuring many
local artists. Excellent customer
service in a relaxed and
friendly atmosphere. Offering
a gift certificate for $25. www.
shopbellaluna.myshopify.com
Lippincott Books. Bangor. Located in downtown
Bangor, with over 30,000 used,
rare and out of print books
in stock. Will be moving to
Hampden in May. Two gift
certificates: $25 each. www.
lippincottbooks.net
American Retro. Bangor. Ecofashions. New and recycled
clothing for men and women. Saving the planet one garment at
a time. Gift certificate: $25 value. www.amretro.com
Hatchet Mountain Publick
House. Hope. Dine among 18th
century furniture, antique rugs &
art in the post & beam tavern or
choose to relax on the deck for
family friendly casual dining. Gift
certificate: $25 value. To be used
for food and drink only. www.
hatchetmountain.com
The Good Kettle. Stockton
Springs. Featuring homestyle
carry-out, soups and sandwiches,
fine wine and cheese,
marmalades and chutneys, and
packed picnics. Gift certificate: $25 value. Use by 10/27/11. www.thegoodkettle.com
Cafe Miranda- Rockland- One of
best, intimate and fun restaurants
in Mid Coast Maine. Open 7 days
for supper all year starting at 5
p.m. (except major holidays). We
have been sourcing local foods
and supporting related local
businesses since 1993. Our food
is wholesome, generous portions
& big flavor. Something for
everyone! Meat & potatoes, Bar-B
Q, Burgers, Thai, Mex, Asian, Meats,
Vegetarian, Kids, Seafood from
Port Clyde Fresh Catch. $25.00
Gift Certificate http://www.
cafemiranda.com/
Rock City Coffee Roasters and
Bookshop- Rockland- Featuring
used and new books and a
busy coffeehouse, Rock City is a
gathering place for conversation,
meetings, readings, discussion
groups, lunch, art and music. 2 x
$25 gift certificates. http://www.
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Noah Publications. Brooklin. Features beautiful photographs
of classic boats by Benjamin
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savers, each a CD of 40 images. Value: $20 each. www.
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Hampden Natural Foods. Hampden. An independently
owned market selling local
organic produce, beer, wine and
groceries. Eat local all year long! Gift certificate: $20 value. www.
hampdenfoods.com
McLaughlin’s Seafood. Bangor.
Offering many functional and
fun lobster gifts. Specialty items
include pottery, natural treats
for dogs shaped like a lobster,
homemade sauces, breads,
spices and cookbooks. Gift
certificate: $20 value. www.
mclaughlinseafood.com
Pro Libris Bookshop. Bangor. A
reader’s shop offering over
30,000 used books meticulously
arranged in over 30 categories. Gift certificate: $20.
Giacomo’s. Bangor. Café and
coffee shop located on the corner
of Main & Hammond Streets. Serving breakfast, lunch and an
eclectic assortment of treats. Gift
card: $20 value.
Autographed CD, Christmas in
Ireland by Danu. Value: $15.
Thai Siam. Bangor. Four gift
certificates: $15 each. Use by
2/4/11.
Angelo’s Pizza. Bangor. Offers
a wide variety of dining options
to fit all your hunger needs. Gift
certificate for one large pizza with
up to three toppings. Value: $13. www.angelosbangor.com
Bangor Floral. Bangor. Offering
Maine gifts, custom floral designs,
and silk arrangements for every
occasion. Serving Bangor’s
floral needs since 1925. Five
gift certificates: value, $10 each. Restriction: redeemable, one per
transaction. www.bangorfloral.
com
Java Joes Café. Bangor. Gift
certificate: $10 value.
Maine Discovery Museum. Bangor. The mission of the Maine
Discovery Museum is to educate
children and families, encourage
creativity, nurture a sense of
wonder, and to challenge all
to learn in new and innovative
ways. Six single admission passes: $7.50 value each. Not for group
visits. Use by 10/7/11. www.
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WERU NEWS from page one
Music Director Maggie Overton,
who leaves the staff of WERU
for a new career frontier but who
happily will continue to work at
the station as a music department “super volunteer.” Just to
let you know how great a Music
Director Maggie has been, she
recently was recognized nationally as “Specialty Music Director
of the Year” by CMJ, an important music industry publication.
Congrats Maggie and thanks for
everything!
Another piece of station news
is that we have applied to the
FCC for a new frequency in the
Bangor area. If approved, we
will add 99.9 FM. We are doing
this to provide a better signal to
everyone in the greater Bangor
area. Bangor represents a quarter of all our online listeners, so
we know that there are many people in the area that will be
very happy to have a new WERU
signal. We hope to have good
news from the FCC in the next few
months, so stay tuned!
In programming news, we are very
happy to welcome two new public affairs call-in programs to the airwaves.
The first is Bangor Area Commons, airing on the 1st Thursday of each month
at 10:00 a.m. Meaghan LaSala hosts
this program on topics and people in
and around Greater Bangor. (Read
more about Meaghan and her new
program on Page 3.) The second new
program, Midcoast Currents, is very
similar in that it covers a wide variety
of topics from Belfast to Brunswick. It
airs on the 3rd Friday of the month at
10:00 a.m. The program is hosted by
John Zvodney and is produced in partnership with Unity College.
In other programming news, due
in large measure to listener feedback,
we have increased the frequency of
our popular “open mic” public affairs
program, The WERU Soap Box, which
will now take place on the 2nd and 4th
Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m.
Tune in and call in with your comments on whatever topic you’d like
to hear on the air. And keep in mind
that you can listen to all our locally
produced public affairs programs and
short spoken-word features anytime
you want through our website at www.
weru.org.
On November 1st we demonstrated the flexibility and responsiveness
of WERU. We changed our regular
schedule to present a special radio
debate and call-in program entitled
“Why Vote?” after an Outside the Box
short feature with Larry Dansinger on
November 26th at 7:30 a.m. inspired
a good deal of listener comment, pro
and con, by suggesting that there were
some good reasons for not voting. In
addition to Larry, this lively program
featured Anne Luther and Martha
Dickinson from the Maine League
of Women Voters arguing in favor
of voting. Then on November 4 at 4
p.m. Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy
Fall 2010
Primo Cubano live at the Grand in Ellsworth 11/19/10.
Browne hosted a “vox pop” open mic
edition of RadioActive for listeners to
share their thoughts on the election
results. Listener voices are absolutely
an important part of the programming
on WERU.
In news about station events, by
the time you read this our fourth
and final Funathon Pledge Drive of
the year will either be underway (or
over), so “Thank You!” for helping us
reach our goals ($60,000 and 125 new
members). Raising all of that money
is essential to the financial health of
WERU so please do what you can to
help. Listener supported Community
Radio depends on all of us!
During the Friday of Funathon
week we’ve got a benefit concert
and dance party for everyone at The
Grand in Ellsworth on Friday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. featuring Maine’s
own Salsa band, Primo Cubano. You don’t
want to miss this benefit concert for
WERU and The Grand because Primo
Cubano is muy caliente – very hot!
So come on out, support two worthy
community organizations, and have a
great time!
Our final event of the year is the
annual WERU Radio Auction, which
will take place on Saturday morning,
December 4, from 8:00 – Noon. Call
in and bid on a host of excellent items
and gift certificates (you can’t miss the
list of items in this edition of Salt Air).
Have fun, get some good stuff and
help WERU raise funds! You can get
a sneak preview of the items at www.
weru.org. Many thanks to all the
businesses that donated items to the
auction!
Now time for a personal question:
Have you ever entertained the idea,
even for just a minute, of being on the
air at WERU? This just may be your
time to take the big step and attend the
WERU New Volunteer Orientation,
which takes place every 3rd Thursday
at 6:00 p.m. here at WERU in East Orland (on Route 1 between Bucksport
and Ellsworth). Please call the station
to reserve your spot in a session. Orientation is the first step towards becoming a volunteer music or public affairs programmer. We currently have
openings for bi-weekly or monthly
DJs on the following programs: Latin
Music: Gracias a la Vida (Saturday
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.), reggae: Reggae Reprieve (Saturday 1 – 3 p.m.). Jazz:
Come Sunday (Sunday 11 a.m. – 1
p.m.), eclectic: On the Wing Substitutes (Weekdays 11-2), new programs
(live or recorded): proposals now being accepted (Midnight – 2 a.m.)
Contact Joel Mann, Program & Operations Manager, for more info at joel@
weru.org or 469-6600.
Public affairs programmers are
also needed to record interviews and
talks out in the community, especially
for our Voices community magazine
program (Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. and
Saturday at 10:00 a.m.). Interested
in covering legislative politics in Augusta, doing interviews or recording
public speaking events? For more info
contact Amy Browne, News & Public
Affairs Manager, at amy@weru.org or
469-6600.
And don’t forget the newest feature
on our website (www.weru.org): program playlists. If you missed the title
or artist for a particular music track
you heard on WERU, and for some
reason you couldn’t call the programmer, you can go online to our website
and click on “Programs” and then
“Playlists” and you’ll go to a schedule
of WERU shows were you can find the
program and playlist you want. Just
another way that we try to serve the
listening public…
So, there it is, some of the things
that are happening at WERU. Thank
you very much for keeping your ears
pointed to WERU, for supporting and
sustaining the station and for sending feedback on our programming to
info@weru.org or calling 469-6600.
This is your radio station and the volunteers, staff and Board of Directors
are always happy to hear from you.
WERU is listener supported and volunteer powered.
Please help support your community radio station
by volunteering or by making a donation today.
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The Center for Public
Interest Reporting produces
in-depth journalism about
Maine government and politics that provides surprising
detail about how things really work here in the state
and has recently started collaborating with WERU.
WERU is diverse, engaging, surprising, alternative,
worldly and local. While
the Maine Center for Public
Interest Reporting isn’t all
of the things that WERU
is — it’s a little hard to be
diverse when you’ve only
got two staff members — our
two organizations share
some important things.
WERU produces programming that engages the
community, that often surprises listeners and provides an alternative to the
homogenized content found
on other stations. WERU is
both worldly and local — it is
connected to culture outside
of Maine and reflective of
the world inside of it.
At the center we engage
our readers with the kind
of investigative stories that
newspapers and other media
outlets in the state can’t do
anymore in this era of journalism crisis.
In recent years, most
newspaper and broadcast
news outlets in Maine have
reduced newsroom staffs
through layoffs, early retirements and attrition. One of
first victims is in-depth jour-
nalism — stories which often
take one or more reporters
“off the street” for weeks or
even months.
Serious coverage of the
electoral and legislative process has also suffered. In
Maine, statehouse coverage
has declined from about
20 year-round reporters in
1989 to 10 in 1999 to the
current six.
The center produces the
sort of work being published
nationally by the new breed
of public-interest investigative journalism groups like
ProPublica – bringing a
“worldly” trend home to our
own back yard.
The Center is non-partisan and our bylaws and
policies require our work to
be independent of political
parties, ideologies and special interest agendas.
And of course, WERU
and the Center are both underfunded, people-powered
non-profits that rely on the
kindness of friends, foundations and individual donors
to keep us going.
All of which is why it
makes sense that in late
summer of 2010, WERU and
the Maine Center for Public
Interest Reporting joined
forces to bring our investigative reports to WERU listeners. While our stories
were already featured
in 20 newspapers in the
state, we wanted to expand
to another medium beyond
print and the internet –
good, old fashioned broadcast radio.
We worked with news
director Amy Browne to figure out a format for getting
our stories on the air, since
we write them for print and
reading our stories out loud
didn’t sound like a whole lot
of fun for WERU listeners.
We settled on what’s called
a “debrief,” where Amy asks
us questions about the stories we’ve done. The first of
our debriefs was an interview with Amy this August
about the three-part series
I had done on the state’s
wind power policy and how
it became law. That was
followed in September by a
debrief with Center senior
reporter John Christie about
his series on the state’s $4.2
billion debt to the pension
system.
As the Center
rolls out future
stories, we’ll head
up from Hallowell
to the WERU studios in East Orland
and talk with Amy
about what we’ve
found. Our stories
often take us
months of research and
writing, and along the way
we end up being immersed
in — sometimes drowned by
— the details of the larger
story we want to tell. So it’s
fun to actually talk about the
research, about the quirky
things we might have found
out along the way to writing
our stories, although it’s
Amy’s job to make sure we
don’t get totally lost in the
kind of wacky or minute detail that sometimes delights
journalists — but which
might bore the average
reader or listener. Did you
know, for example, that the
state stores its old email correspondence in a cyber-vault
called Iron Mountain?
For more information
about the Center, take a look
at our website, pinetreewatchdog.org . And make
sure to check out WERU’s
online listings for a bulletin
about when we’ll next be on
the air, talking with Amy
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Program Schedule for WERU 89.9FM Blue Hill and online at: http://weru.org/
SUNDAY
5
AM
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
COUNTRY
FOLK
Sunday
Morning
Coffeehouse
Blue Macaw,
Jane Gerlach,
Mary Kellett,
John McVeigh
9
ECLECTIC MIX OF AMERICANA
Morning Maine
Allison Watters
11
John Hillman-Waters
Brother Al
FOLK
Front Porch Folk
BLUES
Barefoot Blues
Hour
COUNTRY
Downhome Country
Denis Howard
Phreddie
Rotating
Programs
Alternative
Radio
DYLAN
10
Rotating
Programs
Live Local
Call-Ins
MUSIC/STORIES
Jim Bahoosh
Melisenda Ellis
Mark Dyer
Cheo and
Susan McClatchy,
Joel Raymond
The General Store
2
GOSPEL/CLASSICAL
Maine Sunday’s
Best
Karen Nelson
NEW AGE &
INDIGENOUS
Earthtones
ROOTS
Rhythm Ranch
R&B
BLUES
Blues Station
X-Large Soul Show
Fritz Homans
Jay Peterson
Alan Sprague
Christian Sulick,
Ryan Swanson
SOUL
Soul Food
Fresh & Eclectic
Sister Mango
Kevin Ames
WINGS
Voices
This Way Out
WORLD
A World of Music
Greg Rossel
JAZZ
Jeri Spurling
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Adagio
Drew Darling
10
Magdalen
Linda Washburn
w/ Harry Shearer
11
ECLECTRONICA &
SPOKEN WORD
The Matrix
Magnus Johnstone
2
AM
4
AM
5
AM
Ric Pomilia
ECLECTIC
Rythm Section
Want Ads
Corey Paradise
National Native News (M-F)
Short Spoken Word Features
Media Minutes NEW
Esoterica*
Ask W.A.M.*
Natural Remedies*
Peak Oil Check In
Workers Inpependent News (M-F)
Short Spoken Word Features
A Word in Edgewise*
Outside the Box*
World Ocean Radio*
Electronic Cottage*
Awanadjo Almanack*
Featured Artist of the Week (M-F)
Democracy Now! Headlines (M-F)
Hightower Radio (M-F)
2:30 - 2:35
4:00 - 4:28
Mon:
Tues:
Wed:
Thurs:
Fri:
4:28 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00
Mon: Peace Time*
Grassroots News/Features
WINGS
Voices* (4th Tues: Fear No Art*)
This Way Out
RadioActive*
CounterSpin
Hightower Radio (Mon-Fri)
Free Speech Radio News (Mon-Fri)
Democracy Now! (Mon-Fri)
Afternoon PM
4
Monday All: Alternative Radio or local specials
Tuesday 1st: Conversations thru the Ism Prism*
2nd: BoatTalk*
3rd: Wabanaki Windows*
4th & 5th: Making Contact (10-10:30)
History Counts (10:30-11:00)
5
Jazz Straight
Ahead
Groove Shop
Holbrook Williams
Departure
Joe Fisher
Cheryl Morin
Wednesday 1st: Healthy Options*
ECLECTIC
2nd & 5th: Natural Living/Your Own
Health & Fitness (alternating)
3rd: Common Health*
4th Soap Box*
Daydream Nation
Kristy Billings
Andy Buckley
8
A Southern Wind
SATIRE
Le Show
3
AM
Paula Greatorex
John Blaisdell
ECLECTIC ROCK
Larry Stahlberg
ECLECTIC &
BLUES
LATIN/ZYDECO/
SPOKEN WORD Blues the Healer DELTA BLUES
Women’sWindows
Morning AM
6:00 - 6:05
6:30 - 6:35
Mon:
Tues:
Wed:
Thurs:
Fri:
7:00 - 7:05
7:30 - 7:35
Mon:
Tues:
Wed:
Thurs:
Fri:
7:45 - 8:00
8:00 - 8:15
8:30 - 8:35
6
The Jazz Scene
Fritz Homans
WEEKDAY NEWS & FEATURES
MONTHLY 10-11 AM PUBLIC AFFAIRS
ROCK/ECLECTIC
Left of the Dial
Duncan Bailey
Leah Renee
Democracy Now!
WERU Soap Box 6-7 PM
(1st Mon. of month)
8
Counterspin
Free Speech Radio News
George Fowler
Kathleen Rybarz
6
RadioActive
3
In the Bag
Lee Witting
New Potatoes
5
REGGAE
1
PM
Reggae Reprieve
4
CELTIC
11
Gracias a la Vida
On The Wing
Elaine Shute
Karen Doherty
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Weekend Voices
LATIN
ECLECTIC CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
(Singer-songwriter, Folk, Rock, World, Jazz, & More!)
Charlie Bickford,
Fritz Homans
9
Doc Dufour
JAZZ
Parker Waite,
6
Highway 61
Doc Morrill
Health
Related
5
AM
Matt Baya
Sean Gambel
Chuck Markowitz
INFORMATION & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Come Sunday
1
PM
John “Vern” McVeigh
DETAILED PUBLIC AFFAIRS
FOLK
Saturday
Morning
Coffeehouse
Robin Mendenhall
Joneford (Comedy Hour airs
on last Mon. of the Month)
PHILOSOPHY
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Earth Beat
(with news, weather, & short features)
MUSIC/SATIRE
New Dimensions
Book Waves
5-5:30
Sunrise Service
Scouting the Perimeters
10
SATURDAY
FRIDAY
NEW AGE
Downhome Country
Doc Morrill
6
THURSDAY
REGGAE
BLUEGRASS
WERU
Drive Thru
Bronzewound
Carlton Johnson
Darwin Davidson,
David Manski
PsychEdelic
ARABIC/MID-EAST MODERN ROCK Underground
Modern
Beyond the Veil
Jeanne Ellis
ECLECTIC/WORLD
After Hours Pub Northern Journeys
Jeff Ellis
Matt Murphy
CELTIC/IRISH
Inside Outsider
Sounds
Moonlight
Neal Harkness
Da Vibez
Magnus Johnstone
Sam West
EURO POP
Radio Sentrum
Steve Bailey
Ryan Mitchell
NEW!
Cheo
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Cultural Baggage
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Century of Lies
2nd: Writers’ Forum*
3rd: Baby Talk *
4th & 5th: Local & National Specials
Rick Kidson
Tom Correy
DJ Mark of
KZGM Missouri
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Radio Active*
Rotating Local
PUBLIC AFFAIRS Public Affairs*
TUC Radio
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Building Bridges PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS Writers Voice
Talk Nation Radio
2nd: Talk of the Towns*
3rd: Midcoast Currents* NEW!
4th: Talk of the Towns*
5th: WERU Review*
HEAVY METAL
Head Rush
Brian F.
JAM BAND
(Recorded Live)
The Ride
Dancin’ Bear of
KEUL Alaska.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Hard Knock Radio
and Logic Amen
2
AM
3
AM
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Weekend Voices*
4
AM
PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Flashpoints
Flashpoints
Uprising
Flashpoints
Between the Lines
Friday 1st: Common Ground*
10
12
AM
ELECTRONICA
WORLD FUSION
Trance on the Porch
So Beautiful
PUNK
Out of Step
Thursday 1st: The Bangor Area Commons* NEW!
Track Lab
Dan Beckman & Caethua
PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS
First Voices
Guns & Butter
Law & Disorder
Grit Radio
Indigenous Radio
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Global Radio
Ecoshock Radio PUBLIC AFFAIRS Michael Slate Show
Sea Change
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Sprouts
Flashpoints
Flashpoints
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
HIP HOP, etc.
ELECTRONICA
& TECHNO
5
AM
WEEKEND AM PUBLIC AFFAIRS
6:30 - 6:35
7:30 - 7:35
Sat:
Sun:
8:30 - 8:35
Sat:
Sun:
10:00 - 11:00
Sat:
Sun:
11:30 - 11:35
12:00 - 12:05 PM
Isla Earth (Sat. & Sun.)
Short Spoken Word Features
Mindful Parenting*
Pet Sounds* NEW!
Short Spoken Word Features
Ask W.A.M.*
Awanadjo Almanack*
Grassroots News/Features
Weekend Voices*
New Dimensions
U.S.- El Salvador Report* (Sat)
Radio Bilingue News (Sat)
*LOCALLY PRODUCED PROGRAMMING:
All of which are archived online for you to listen
to, download and forward completely free of
charge at: http://archives.weru.org/
curre N T | V olunteer | O P P o R T U N I T I E S
WERU is anything but bland. It is
the place where volunteer programmers do their best to present music
that is expressive, vibrant, rhythmic,
and alternative. And you could be one
of them! At WERU there are no Pied
Mainstream Pipers leading listeners
into the musical cave of the same ol’
same ol’ mediocrity. We are unique
because WERU’s diverse community
has kept the station on course for 22
years to “serve the needs of those
not fully served by other broadcast
media” meaning that we respect
individuality and diversity. We celebrate you!
Currently, we are short in our DJ
rotation for jazz and reggae shows.
We also need DJs for the midnight
to 2 am spots and as substitutes for
a variety of daytime and evening
shows. Do you want to be part of a
community radio station that is all
about diversity and discovery?
As a volunteer powered community radio station our needs are varied.
We depend on a large number of
listeners also actively participating
as volunteers to keep going forward
(¡Adelante!). Volunteers act as public
affairs producers, committee members, pledge drive phone volunteers,
CD library cataloguers, audio archive
digitizers, and the list goes on.
And now, (drumroll please), you
can find out about a wide spectrum
of volunteer opportunities by signing
up for a Volunteer Orientation on the
3rd Thursday of each month from 6
to 8 pm right here at the station in
East Orland!
If Interested, please CONTACT:
Chris at 469-6600 or send an
e-mail to info@weru.org.