August Newsletter

By KMUD membership | August 10, 2023

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Why do you tune to KMUD ?

Thousands of people tune to KMUD every day for essential information and entertainment. Chances are you’re one of them! Perhaps you’re loving the Local News, to know everything that matters to our area, or maybe you’re grooving to the Land of a1000 Dances or feeling part of Women on Wednesday. No matter how you engage with KMUD, we’re grateful to have you as a listener.

That’s why today we’re swapping roles and handing you the mic. We want to hear from you — how and why do you to KMUD’s programs?

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Great Redwood Trail
by Lauren Schmitt, News Director

Momentum for the Great Redwood Trail is growing as proponents have been holding community meetings in Humboldt and Mendocino seeking input on the Master Plan which will layout the framework for the trail in Eel River Canyon. The Master Plan is expected to be completed by December 2023. Portions of the 320 mile trail have already been completed in the Marin-Sonoma and Eureka-Arcata region. However, the most rugged and remote portion of the trail is slated to be built along the defunct railroad that runs adjacent to the main-stem of the Eel River, encompassing Southern Humboldt, Western Trinity, and Northern Mendocino. Land owners, first responders, tribal representatives, and environmentalists have expressed concerns related to trespassing, liability, fire danger, life safety hazards, the degradation of sacred cultural sites, and legacy toxins from the rail road, but supporters say it will bring economic opportunities to bolster local economies such as Alderpoint. KMUD News attended the July 26th meeting in downtown Alderpoint where all sides were discussed with local leaders, community members, and Great Redwood Trail proponents in this story.

In Mendocino, our sister station KZYX has also been covering the issue.

Most recently, an online workshop took place on August 2nd and it focused on the economics benefits. Here is Daniel Mintz’s coverage.

The construction of the trail through the Eel River Canyon will take years if not decades, but local stakeholders are encouraged to participate now and help influence how the trail’s corridor in Mendocino, Trinity, and Humboldt Counties is built before the Master Plan is completed. The Board of Directors with the Great Redwood Trail Agency will meet on August 17th at the Eureka City Council Chambers 10:30 am – 12:00 pm. KMUD News will bring you the highlights.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:

⊲ The Great Redwood Trail Master Plan project website

⊲ Great Redwood Trail Agency website

Movers and Shakers
by Dennis Maher, Music Director

Have you had the opportunity to hear Wild Ginger’s smooth and warm voice yet? Wild Ginger is a new volunteer programmer, who has been recently training during Women On Wednesday with host B.R. “I’m inspired by the show” she says. “It’s an opportunity to empower each other and make sure women have a voice. The program is showing future generations all the opportunities available to them“. “In a male dominated industry, B.R. makes sure to have only female voices on the show so that someone in need can have a safe space to listen”. Wild Ginger says she’s really enjoyed the training and opportunity to hang with community members at the station and at the Healy Senior Center Wednesday lunch where a substantial KMUD crew can sometimes gather to share the meal. Women on Wednesday with rotating hosts B.R. and Brenda Starr and Astrology with Selina Rain can be heard each week at 10am. Check it out live each Wednesday or in the archives.

Kmud welcomes our newest engineer, Kelsey Hale! Kelsey joins the ranks of our most skilled operators who facilitate all the dials and and intricacies of the talk and public affairs shows and deliver local information during Kmud’s news and information hour at 6pm weeknights as well as Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Keep an ear out for Kelsey.

Click on the photo to see a fun video of Jordan

Programmer Highlight : Jordan Jumpshot

Your good friend on the radio here with some data points. After more then 15 yrs on the KMUD airwaves I am still finding plenty of inspiration to create good radio. I am very fortunate to bring you radio very much in the moment, influenced often times by your comments and requests. Sometimes my own questionable choices become the portal through which we must travel to get where we are headed. Railroads, back roads bridges and rainbows and KMUD forever! We can make it happen in less time than a station ID.
With love to all, I thank you, Jumper

Listen to Jordan tonight (Wednesday), for a special Jazz and Jams edition from 8.30pm to midnight.

The Choice is Yours
by Patricia Tinkler

Every fourth Thursday at 9am, The Choice is Yours delivers a well-researched dive into a myriad of topics. Doro, Sheila and Kimbo spend the month gathering huge amounts of documentation of their chosen topic and then editing it into a carefully crafted hour. Last month, their show on how the medical system over prescribes drugs instead of emphasizing lifestyle changes to treat disease was extremely provocative. If you weren’t opening your medicine cabinet and counting the bottles, you weren’t listening. While they emphasize that they are not experts, they lay out compelling information that makes you think.

As consumers we have choices. The Choice is Yours helps our listeners make better ones.

The Choice is Yours can be found on the KMUD archives

Silent Drive in the mail

Our Membership Drive committee, along with George, long time KMUD member and now Board member, and DJ Daniel, who you might wake up to regularly, got their talents with words and pencils together t
o create our Fall Silent Drive letter, to ask you, in the nicest way, to donate to KMUD.
If you are already a member, you’ll receive their letter in a few days, keep an eye out for it.
And if you are not a member, now is the time to do it via KMUD’s website or via square.

Signature Coffee
by Patricia Tinkler, Underwriting & Traffic Coordinator

Change is happening at Signature Coffee Company. For the past several years, Karyn Lee-Thomas and her staff have been discussing succession plans and working their way through details. Next Tuesday, August 15^th at 9am on The KMUD Business Show, Karyn will be my special guest to discuss the future of Signature Coffee. I’ve known her since I moved to SoHum, another woman with a coffee roasting business, and we enjoyed many conversations about specialty coffee, business in a male-dominated industry (that too is changing!) and life in Humboldt County. So please tune in….

Besides being a longtime underwriter for KMUD, Signature Coffee Company has also been my go to for freshly roasted organic specialty coffee. Our community is so lucky to have a craft roaster in town, and now Signature has a new top of the line roaster, another Diedrich, manufactured in Sandpoint, Idaho. A computer allows Nick Nochera, the lead roaster, to track the roasting process, from first crack to completion and be able to replicate the exact roasting arc the next time. It’s an incredibly useful tool for producing a coffee that satisfies every time.

Signature Coffee Company is located at 3455 Redway Drive in Redway. Open Monday through Friday 7am to 5pm.

SignatureCoffeeCompany.com

(707)923-2661

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