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WFHB Assistant News Director January Jones presents an hour-long journey with people on the front lines fighting for everyone’s right to shelter and compassion. In this year's edition of our annual documentary, we follow local social worker Bill Ferry, a case manager for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH). The PATH program works directly with people experiencing homelessness to help them get back on their feet. We visit the people and places in a side of Bloomington few people ever see as we take you on-location to the Shalom Center, the Interfaith Winter Shelter and hear interviews with advocates Joel Rekas, Hal Taylor, and David White, along with winter shelter volunteers and PATH clients.

Several times a year WFHB partners with the Bloomington Storytelling Project to host a live storytelling event, featuring local stories shared by the people who experienced them. There are only two rules for story submissions: they must be less than fifteen minutes long, and they must be true. In its third edition, the Bloomington Storytelling Project went to neighboring Brown County, where storytelling is an integral part of the local culture. Brown County is famous, or perhaps infamous, for storytelling, but according to project rules the Brown County folks had to stick to true stories instead of their usual "tall tales". A beer-drinking horse, a bully gets his comeuppance, and a little brother who likes to pee on things are all on the menu in this one-hour edit of a live event recorded on-location at the Muddy Boots Café in Nashville, Indiana on March 6, 2010.

Host Helen Harrell interviews Bloomington resident, IU graduate student, local attorney, WFHB host of Indigenous Indiana and Native American activist Rebecca Riall. Their conversation covers topics such as the recent establishment of the local Native American Community Center, discrimination against and acceptance of native Americans on campus and in the community as well as issues related to reservation life and historical events.

Paul Edwards is the director of the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp on the Indiana University campus, originally designed to support historically underserved and underrepresented students with limited opportunities. Its namesake, Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr., is an astronaut, physician and businessman who was the first African-American to walk in space. Edwards talks about the kids served by the camp and what they learn from their time in Bloomington. Also in this program: financial consultant Kevin Osborne talks taxes on a new edition of our money management segment "Compound Interest". Our featured musical artist is The Holmes Brothers, from the new album "Feed My Soul". Wendell and Sherman (and honorary brother Popsy Dixon) have been serving up a gumbo of gospel, blues, country, funk, reggae, roots rock, and soul for more than thirty years. As always, Bring It On!

Several times a year WFHB partners with the Bloomington Storytelling Project to host a live storytelling event, featuring local stories read by the people who experienced them. There are only two rules for story submissions: they must be less than fifteen minutes long, and they must be true. In the third installment, the BSP records in Brown County, Indiana, where storytelling is an integral part of the local culture. Recorded live on-location for WFHB at the Muddy Boots Cafe in Nashville, Indiana on March 6, 2010.

Hosts Anna Witte and Miguel Lara welcome Cristian Medina to the show to talk about the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, local relief efforts, and explains the science behind earthquakes. Medina is a native of Chile and a geologist at Indiana University. Hola Bloomington also highlights this week's community events and volunteer opportunities in a segment prepared by Jenny Gibson and Daniel Soto. As always we feature cultural and health segments produced by Nuevos Horizontes, a program of the University of Illinois Extension, and Latin American news from Radio Bilingue. Enjoy another local segment of Efemerides, celebrating significant moments in Latin American history.