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64-year-old Abraham Morales is a street musician. His son Josh is 22 years old and has spent much of his life not knowing where he will sleep or what he will eat. A cut in their federal assistance left them homeless, and father and son drifted from shelter to shelter across Indiana for more than a year and a half. While most kids his age were playing xbox or checking email, Josh had to worry about surviving the cold Indiana nights. Being homeless together has bonded them in a way that transcends typical father-son relationships. Hear their unique story in this feature report by news director Chad Carrothers, produced for the 2008 National Homelessness Marathon.  Winner of the 2008 Award for Best Social Justice Reporting from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Special correspondent Jennifer Jameson presents an hour-long documentary featuring narratives from four people in Bloomington struggling with poverty and homelessness.  Poverty in Bloomington has risen at an alarming rate, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  The newest report claims poverty in Bloomington grew from 34.7 percent in 2006 to 41.6 percent in 2007, a seven percent increase in a single year.  "Streets of Bloomington 2009" consists of first-person narratives from Paul, Tavaley, Gino and Ken, patrons of the Shalom Community Center in Bloomington, Indiana, a daytime resource center for the homeless.  Produced by Jennifer Jameson, Chad Carrothers, and Andy Shaw in partnership with the Shalom Center and Indiana University’s Leadership, Ethics, & Social Action program.

In November WFHB brought you extended coverage of a social experiment called the Food Stamp Challenge, in which local participants agreed to live for one week on a food budget of just twenty-one dollars per person. The producers of the annual “Homelessness Marathon” radio program invited WFHB News Director Chad Carrothers to submit a feature story for broadcast on hundreds of stations across the country as part of this live radio marathon. His report juxtaposes the experiences of a family that tried the challenge for one week with the everyday struggles of a family for whom the Food Stamp Challenge is a Food Stamp Reality.

The sounds of the Bloomington Brass Band open our annual Memorial Day special on WFHB. Come with us for a front row seat as we go on-location to Veterans Memorial Plaza at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Bloomington, Indiana. This program is hosted by fair board secretary David Smith and organized by board member Pat Moore. Our featured guest speaker is retired Army Reserve Colonel John Tilford, founder of Hoosier Honor Flight, a not-for-profit organization created to fly World War II veterans and terminally ill veterans of any war to Washington, D.C. to visit the National World War II Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery and other sites on the National Mall at no cost to the veterans. We’ll also hear from Hoosier Honor Flight participant Bill Buher and we close our program with Taps performed by Gerald Hanson and Jim Kirkman of the Bloomington Brass Band.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels speaks briefly on his new budget proposal for the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years. In his plan total state spending would be reduced by 2.5% and the state would freeze spending increases in all areas except education. The actual proposal will be presented to a bipartisan legislative committee on Tuesday. Later in June, the governor will convene legislators for a special session to write a budget because one was not approved during the regular legislative session that ended in April. The fiscal year ends June 30. This short address was originally broadcast live on WFHB on June 1, 2009.

Hear the entire unedited audio from Congressman Baron Hill's town hall forum on healthcare. More than 800 people filled the auditorium of Bloomington High School North, almost evenly divided between advocates of healthcare policy reform and those opposed to it. Lots of cheers, lots of boos, and plenty of opinions. Recorded on-location for WFHB on September 2, 2009.

Can you be good without God? WFHB News is proud to present a public debate featuring local pastor Dan Waugh and minister-turned-atheist Dan Barker. One says you can be good without God, the other says you cannot. It's the "Battle of the Dans" - a public debate with fascinating and gripping arguments from both sides on the intersection of morality and religion, hosted by radio personality Darryl Neher. Recorded on-location in Woodburn Hall at Indiana University on October 19, 2009.

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. This is the entire unedited event audio and does contain language some listeners may find objectionable. Recorded live on-location for WFHB at The Bishop Bar in Bloomington, Indiana on October 24, 2009.

January 4th, 1993. The sound of an ancient gong resonated over our local radio airwaves, a milestone nearly twenty years in the making. Community radio WFHB launched from a tiny shack next to its transmitter on Rockport Road, where a ragtag band of volunteers began broadcasting a unique blend of music and local information. That first year our volunteers drove a collective 30,000 miles back and forth from central Bloomington out to the transmitter shack. Thirteen months after the January 4 sign-on, a crowd gathered at Bloomington’s historic downtown firehouse to celebrate its conversion to the radio station’s new headquarters, and a hush fell over the crowd as Herman B Wells slowly drew breath to speak. The late beloved chancellor was instrumental in securing both a broadcasting license and a home for WFHB. You’ll hear station manager Brian Kearney introduce Wells, but first, see if you recognize the voice of longtime jazz DJ Bruce Baker, who died in 2008.

Volunteers are needed to facilitate fun, physical activities with children and families. Anyone with an interest or expertise in physical education or fitness and/or nutrition and students who are studying health and wellness are encouraged. Volunteers are also needed to help children and families decorate seedling pots and at a later date plant seedlings. In addition, volunteers will help sort healthy food donations and deliver them to Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010; date TBD for planting seedlings
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Minimum Age: Age 12 individually or age 7 with a parent or guardian
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10
Location: Monroe County YMCA - 2125 S. Highland Ave.
Contact Person: Erika Albert, ealbert@monroecountyymca.org or (812) 332-5555 ext. 207

Yarns Unlimited holds its annual Knitting for Charity event, creating handmade items for preemies, hats for cancer patients, warm stuff for our troops and the homeless, and blankets for animals at the local shelter.

Volunteers needed to paint and restore community dance space! Windfall Dancers, Inc is looking for people to help paint our studio and clean up/paint over the graffiti on our fences. Volunteers will then be invited back to help local artists paint murals on the fences. These selected artists will paint murals that reflect their vision of how we can bring community and the arts together to promote a spirit of peace.
Date: Please see timeline above
Time: January 18th, 9am-2pm
Minimum Age: All ages welcome. Children under age 12 with parental supervision
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10-20
Location: Windfall Dancers, Inc
1101 N Dunn St
Bloomington, IN 47408
Contact Person: Amy Morwick, windfall@windfalldancers.org or (617) 966-9915

Volunteers will go door to door to collect food and cash/check donations, provide rides to other volunteers or provide logistical support at staging locations.
Date: December 27, January 18
Time: 12 - 4 p.m.
Minimum Age: 16 and 7
Number of Volunteers Needed: 15-75
Location: We usually have several staging locations for our food canvasses. May include
but are not limited to
The Indiana Memorial Union
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House
617 Marble Ln, Suite C
Contact Person: Neville Batiwalla, nevillebatiwalla@yahoo.com or 812-322-5498

We currently have a group from First United Methodist Church that will be helping us. We can use an additional 5 volunteers to help us.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 9 a.m. - noon
Minimum Age: 10 with a parent
Number of Volunteers Needed: 5
Location: 811 W. Second Street
Contact Person: Shelley Sallee, ssallee@vimmonroecounty.org or (812) 333-4033

SCC will host its sixth annual Children’s Health Day on Martin Luther King Day, January 18, 2010. The event targets families with children who are living in poverty.
Volunteers will be utilized in a variety of roles, including: processing enrollment paperwork for dentists, serving as support to other participating agencies, facilitating children’s activities, coordinating food services activities, and distributing take-home packets of health care products and supplies.
Volunteers will be scheduled into two hour shifts, with 8-9 volunteers working each shift.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 8-10 a.m., 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 12-2 p.m., 2-4 p.m.
Minimum Age: adult, or teenager accompanied by guardian
Number of Volunteers Needed: 40
Location: First United Methodist Church & Shalom Community Center
Contact Person: Joel Rekas, joel@shalomcommunitycenter.org or (812) 334-5734

Scholar corps wishes to provide transitional families with a love token to show that they are cared for and thought of during this milestone in their lives.Volunteers will be packaging baskets for families in transitional housing with the goal of welcoming them to their new homes.
Date: 1/18/2009
Time: 4 p.m. until ?
Minimum Age: No minimum age
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10
Location:
Contact Person: Eliza Erxleben, eerxlebe@indiana.edu or (260) 223-1340

2 - Pre-event volunteers to create promotional flyer, reminder slips and to schedule participants.
2 - volunteers to arrange for snacks and lunch for the clinical staff
2 - greeters on the day of the event
44 - IU staff and student volunteers to perform the exams, screening and fittings
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Minimum Age: 16 for the non-clinical jobs
Number of Volunteers Needed: 50
Location: Indiana Eye Clinic
803 N Monroe
Bloomington IN
Contact Person: Monica Clemons, Monica_Clemons@usc.salvationarmy.org or 812-336-4310

The World Needs Me Project
Help youth develop the invaluable belief that the world needs them to shine their lights and share their gifts. Local author of A World Needs Me, Elisabeth Simeri, will train volunteers to engage youth in one-on-one and small group activities and processes that awaken them to their unique gifts and how they can be expressed to serve and better our world. In honor of Dr. MLK Jr., youth learn the importance of recognizing their passions, sharing their talents, seeing their worth, and taking responsibility for making our world a better place. Training is mandatory. 4-hour commitment total.
Date: 1/13, 1/20; March and April dates yet TBA
Time: 9:30-11:30
Minimum Age: 55
Number of Volunteers Needed: 25
Location: 1/13 (9:30-11:30)
Training for all volunteers involved in The World Needs Me are required to attend training facilitated by author Elisabeth Simeri at the Monroe County Public Library in room 2B.
1/20 (9:30-11:30)

Volunteers are invited to join in the sing-a-long! Just an interest in singing and making your voice heard is sufficient.
Date: 1/17-1/18
Time: 4pm (pending)
Minimum Age: over 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: no limit
Location: Rachael's Cafe
Contact Person: Cynthia Roberts-Hall, cynhall@bloomington.in.us or (812) 606-0243

Our volunteers are trained in working with people with memory loss. They serve as friends and resources for the clients. They give reminders of how the project is done, in easy steps. In a few cases, the volunteers actually guide the hand of the participant. Above all, they provide encouragement.
Date: Jan 14, 19, 21, and 26th, 2010
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Minimum Age: volunteers are in place
Number of Volunteers Needed: We have 15 of our own volunteers
Location: First United Church, which houses the PARTNERS program.
Contact Person: Suzanne Merriman, Program Director, zanni.1@comcast.net or (812) 599-0563

Volunteers will read and fill requests for books from youth and adults incarcerated throughout the Midwest. After reading the letter, they will select books from Pages' library--most of which has been donated from members of the Bloomington community--in order to fulfill this request. Using their own judgment and experience, as well as any help our monitors can offer, volunteers will then select books that they feel best match the letter-writer's request. Volunteers will finish by packing the selected books in preparation for mailing. Though in some sense these tasks may seem simple, they call for close attention to detail, critical thinking, and an ability to sympathize with the interests of others. Volunteers will receive training at the start of the session, but as indicated above, monitors will be on hand throughout the session in order to help out whenever necessary.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 2 sessions: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 2-4 p.m.

Volunteers will be stationed at a table at which children, often with a parent or adult, will participate in an activity. Volunteers will be trained for 5-10 minutes to carry out the activity. Volunteers should enjoy working with children, and should be prepared to engage the child to understand, and reflect on the activity, and to work with others at the table to create a sense of community.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. +30 min before and after
Minimum Age: 15
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10 to 15
Location: Monroe County Public Library on Kirkwood Avenue in Bloomington
Contact Person: Naomi Posner-Horie, n.komoda@comcast.net or (812) 322-4205

Volunteers will be asked to pick up what they find in the woods that is not "natural" and will be given an opportunity to learn about a different culture and dfferent Civil Rights fights.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Lake Griffy
Contact Person: Del Criscenzo, treasurer@naccbloomington.org or (812) 272-9706

Our event will bring volunteers together to assemble storage shelves in addition to sorting, labeling and organizing storage bins as well as donations.
Date: January 16 through January 18, 2010
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Minimum Age: 16 years of age and older
Number of Volunteers Needed: Approximately 20
Location: Work will primarily take place at the storage unit for My Sister's Closet, which is located at 222 West Allen Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47404.
Contact Person: Amy Starzynski & Sandy Keller, astarzyn@indiana.edu or (812) 355-6842

The morning of MLK Day volunteers will join Mother Hubbard's Cupboard and Rhino's for a program of artistic and practical winter garden and food pantry service projects. The spirit of service will continue into February with a pantry cleaning and painting project. The day of, volunteers will help plant seeds in seeding trays for MHC's garden program, clean and sterilize garden seed trays for the 2010 growing season, as well as package seeds for an upcoming event. Volunteers will also paint "Nourishment Flags", each flag a colorful and creative representation of the volunteer's concept of nourishment. The flags will be strung up across the food pantry to add to the warm feeling of community in Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. Children are welcome to attend. All volunteers will share a pizza lunch, and this time will be used to lead a guided reflection on the work accomplished.

75+ orchestra members are engaged in service by giving substantially of their time to learn and perform the composition pieces on January 18, and then perfect the winning piece for its premier performance on May 2, 2010. 8 MAYO board members, 18 advisory board members, and 100+ parents and community members have given, and will give, of their time and talents to promote and attend the January 18 event. On May 2, between 500 and 600 members of the Bloomington Community will give of their time to attend the premier performance of the winning composition. This is in addition to the service rendered by the orchestra, board members and parents.
Date: January 18, 2010 and May 2, 2010
Time: January 18 (5 to 7 p.m.) and May 2 (5 to 7 p.m.)
Minimum Age: for orchestra - 11 years; for audience - 6 years (i.e., old enough to listen to and form an opinion about music)
Number of Volunteers Needed: 150 to 200
Location: Bloomington High School North

Its "Moving Day" at Martha's House. Helping residents staying in shelter move from homelessness to self-suffiency is the mission of our agency. We are asking volunteers to help us make the transition from shelter to a home a little easier for our residents by organizing all our donated basic household items for easy access. We are also asking volunteers to inventory all household items and create a list to be posted in our Case Manager's office so exiting residents can request needed supplies.
"Spring House Cleaning" is also needed to help keep Martha's House a comfortable temporary home. Painting beds, waxing floors, cleaning rugs, and organizing donations will help maintain our shelter and give an important message to everyone staying....that they matter and some thought and care went into their stay.
Date: January 23, and April 10
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10 to 15
Location: Helene's House 2nd and Madison and Martha's House 919 S Rogers

Project 1 – Making Healthy Choices Program – A YMCA Partnership
In partnership with the YMCA of Monroe County and Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, the Local Growers Guild will be participating in a day of activities focused around making healthy choices, including growing and eating fresh, local, and healthy foods and planning healthy exercises for the whole family.
LGG will provide information about buying local food throughout the winter, including recipes, helpful tips on healthy, local meals on a budget, and a demonstration of a meal made with locally-grown ingredients that can be found at the Bloomington Winter Farmers Market (BWFM). LGG will also provide a display of information regarding the environmental impact of food when traveling a long distance, the nutritional difference between food grown far away and shipped long distances versus food that has been grown near one’s home, and the benefits of supporting small farmers.

On MLK day, volunteers will totes and flyers to various churches, schools, and community agencies. This will continue through the 40 Days of Peace. Shoes will be collected and repaired before the trip to Mexico.
Date: 1/18/2010 - 2/26/2010
Time: All day on 1/18 and 2/26
Minimum Age: 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: 15
Location: Calnali, Mexico
Contact Person: Chelsea Rood-Emmick, crood1@ivytech.edu or 812-330-6037

Volunteers will share with high school students their experiences planning for life after high school and attending college, as well as explain why careers in health are rewarding. Volunteers will assist the students as they complete research and develop poster boards to share their findings about positive health habits of teens. Additionally, volunteers will network with the high school students during teambuilding and ice breaker activities, and during the lunch period. Volunteers are needed for individual 1 hour sessions as well as for the entire day.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Minimum Age: 20
Number of Volunteers Needed: 20
Location: HPER Room 116, IU
Contact Person: JoAnne C. Bunnage, jbunnage@indiana.edu or (812) 855-5210

Volunteers will work in teams with Habitat staff members to measure, cut and install interior wood trim throughout this new home. No previous construction experience is required. All tools and instructions for their use will be provided. Additional activities will available for caulking and painting the trim once it is installed. Volunteers will be working mainly indoors in an unheated space, so dressing in layers is recommended.
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010
Time: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Minimum Age: 18 yrs old for construction work
Number of Volunteers Needed: 8
Location: 3201 Omaha Crossing, Bloomington, IN
Contact Person: Noma Maier, maier@monroecountyhabitat.org or 812-331-4069

Volunteers are need to help improve our teen room and bathroom!
Volunteers will help to wash the carpet and paint in the Girls Inc. teen room and the girls' bathroom.
Date: January 18th- February 5th
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Minimum Age: 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10
Location: Girls Inc. of Monroe County
1108 W. 8th St., Bloomington
Contact Person: Rachel Dotson, rdotson@monroe.girls-inc.org or 812-336-7313

There will be three sets of service activities: For adults, in the morning, we will tie Dr. King’s passion for justice to actions across the state to curb climate change. Meanwhile the teens will watch excerpts from the film, The Age of Stupid, and discuss its implications together with the aid of an adult facilitator. As detailed below, the children will have their own sets of awareness-raising activities in the morning and service activities in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, adults and teens alike will focus on the nuts and bolts of cutting our own household energy usage. The other activities and service project will be for children starting from age three through age twelve.
Between the morning and afternoon activities, everyone will be together for a hot lunch that will be used to model Earth-friendlier eating.
Date: January 18, 2010 (follow up through 4/2/10)
Time: 10:30 a.m.-2:35 p.m.
Minimum Age: 3
Number of Volunteers Needed: as many as possible

The Unity Summit seeks volunteers to participate in small group discussions about diversity. This fun and engaging diveristy education program is award winning and has been described as life altering. The Unity Summit will inspire you to continue to serve in the name of Dr. King.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Minimum Age: 15
Number of Volunteers Needed: 250
Location: Willkie Auditorium, Rose Avenue, Indiana University
Contact Person: Eric Love, elove@indiana.edu or (812) 855-2139

We hope to have at least 20 young people so that the volunteers, will be engaging them in writing their Dream, poetry,read aloud,songs, mapping of his journey,having discussion,working on poster boards and putting together their binders. Help is also needed with handing out the snacks.
Date: January 18th 2009
Time: 12:30-3 p.m.
Minimum Age: 15
Number of Volunteers Needed: 10
Location: Monroe County Library
303 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Auditorium
Contact Person: Mrs. Boddie, dboddie@indiana.edu or (812) 361-4059

Join fellow volunteers from McDoel Gardens Neighborhood and Community Kitchen in feeding at-risk youth in Bloomington. We will be portioning and packaging healthy snacks to be used in Community Kitchen's Feed Our Future and Backpack Buddies Programs. Community Kitchen provides almost 1,500 snacks and 70 backpacks of food each week to area children and this is an opportunity to help them provide a nutritious boost to hungry kids in our community.
Date: MLK Day 1/18/10
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Minimum Age: 10-13 w/Adult, 14+ without
Number of Volunteers Needed: 20
Location: McDoel Baptist Church
Contact Person: Tim Clougher, timclougher@sbcglobal.net or (812) 332-0999

Volunteers will work with students as they plan and outline their research for various topics that will go into the magazine.
Date: 1/17/10 – 5/17/10
Time: Times may Vary
Minimum Age: 21 and above--Volunteers will be working with youth ages 15 -18. So ages 21 and older might engage students differently.
Number of Volunteers Needed: 5
Location: Indiana University School of Education
Contact Person: Stephanie Carter, stecarte@indiana.edu or 812.856.8265

Volunteers will be instructed in and will practice the following skills needed to carry out a search and rescue mission:
• Reading maps
• Utilizing a compass
• Recognizing whistle signals
• Coordinating a stretcher carry
• Utilizing flashlight signals
• Utilizing hand held radios to maintain contact with mission base

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Time: 6:45 - 9:15 p.m.
Minimum Age: 12
Number of Volunteers Needed: 20
Location: The National Guard Armory
3380 S. Walnut St.

Contact Person: Rick Clemens, rlclemens@comcast.net or (812) 339-2149

Volunteers will play roles of agency personnel, school teachers, business owners, and employers in this role play.
Date: January 26th, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Minimum Age: 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: 15
Location: TBA - most likely a local church or a facility that the city owns and might be able to donate the use of.
Contact Person: Bonnie Vesely, bonnie@sccap.monroe.in.us or (812) 825-2806 ext. 218

Painters needed to paint the bedroom walls for 6 teen boys living in a residential group home. No experience required!
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Minimum Age: 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: 6
Location: 6630 Rhinestone Drive, Ellettsville, IN 47429
Contact Person: Marianne Stemm, mstemm@christole.org or 812-988-1257

We would like volunteers to help us unpack and organize new children's books on Monday January 18th from 5:30-7:30 at Boxcar Books. Then on January 20th and 21st, we would like help distributing the books at Mother Hubbard's Cupboard to the children of families in need.
Date: 01/18/2010, 1/20/2010 and 01/21/2010
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. on 01/18/2010 and 3:30-6:30 p.m. on 1/20/2010 and 01/21/2010
Minimum Age: no
Number of Volunteers Needed: 3
Location: Boxcar Books
408 E. 6th St.
Bloomington, IN 47408 and
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
1010 S Walnut St.
Ste. G
Bloomington, IN 47401
Contact Person: Dena Downham, dena@boxcarbooks.org or (812) 822-2025

Volunteers will be asked to attend one evening meeting to work in small and large groups to envision Bloomington as a "City of Peace". They will be asked to reflect on the attributes of the city which already promote peace for all citizens and then brainstorm possible ways to improve quality of life and peaceful coexistence among Bloomington residents.
Date: Wed, Jan 27 @ Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall
Thurs Feb 25 @ MCPL Rm 2B (by Vital)
March & beyond dates TBA
Time: 7-9pm
Minimum Age: Elementary students
Number of Volunteers Needed: Thousands, we hope!
Contact Person: Gail Merrill, pgtmerrill@aol.com or (812) 361-0995

We will need volunteers to help set up for the march, direct people in the march, set up for activities at the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center (NMBCC), host activities at the NMBCC, and clean up duties.
Date: 1/18/2010
Time: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Minimum Age: 18
Number of Volunteers Needed: 30
Location: We would like for the march to start at 3rd and Jordan Ave and then progress up Jordan to the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center (It's a fairly short march because it will be cold). We will then have the activities at the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center.
Contact Person: Alexandria Williams, aw61@umail.iu.edu or (317) 250-0810

Cub reporters Kai Grise and Lindsey Randle anchor this year's MLK Day documentary featuring kids talking to other kids at six different service projects on the King holiday. Local youth talk about what they've learned from Dr. King and ask other kids what King might say to President Obama. Kai and Lindsey are joined this year by fellow youth reporter Jael Lampkins. Thanks to grown-ups who helped us make this show: Audra Lampkins, Domini Martin, Alexander Pareja, Austin Peach, April Woodson, Anna-Christina Acosta, Alea Ford, and January Jones. Produced by Andrew Anderson, John Elliott and Chad Carrothers for community radio WFHB. This program is supported by a grant from the city of Bloomington's Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Commission.

Governor Mitch Daniels delivers his 2010 State of the State Address. How much of the speech was productive versus fluff depends on who you ask. Predictably, Indiana Democratic party chair Dan Parker slammed the speech, saying it was more remarkable for what we didn't hear than what was actually said. Parker says Daniels failed to outline a jobs plan that amounts to more than the status quo. State Republican party chair Murray Clark fired back, saying he’s not sure what speech the Dems were listening to, because he thinks jobs were the center piece of the address, adding that the Republican ideals of lower taxes, lower government spending and fiscal responsibility have protected us from the worst effects of the recession. You decide in this unedited full-length copy of the 2010 State of the State Address.

Hear the story of a homeless musician who got back on his feet with the help of a social service agency, then gave back by recording an album to raise money for that same agency. This is the "director's cut" version of a five-minute piece that aired on stations all across the country as part of the 2010 National Homelessness Marathon. Click here to hear an entire hour with Kent Johnson.

Local voices reach a national audience as WFHB goes live from an overnight homeless shelter to hear from social service advocates and people who have experienced homelessness. Our topic is family homelessness, specifically the lack of family shelter in our own community. Hear the tragic story of a family that feigned domestic abuse just so that the mother and children could find shelter...while the father faced criminal charges. Guests include Rev. Jack Skiles, site director for the Interfaith Winter Shelter; Joel Rekas, director of Shalom Community Center; Bobbi Summers, director of Martha's House; Bill Ferry, a local outreach caseworker for the homeless with Centerstone through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program; and Dorothy Axsom, a mother who almost lost her children in the throes of extreme poverty. Hosted by Darryl Neher and broadcast live all across the country on February 24, 2010 as part of the National Homelessness Marathon.

Mayor Mark Kruzan delivers his 2010 State of the City Address in a full-length recording of WFHB's live feed from our remote transmitter inside City Hall. Kruzan gets a little help from fire chief Roger Kerr, police chief Mike Diekhoff, and Bloomington Transit director Lew May. After the address Will Murphy and Chad Carrothers gather impressions from local officials and Murphy goes one-on-one with Kruzan for follow-up questions.

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.

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.