WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

WFHB  will be producing its eighth live radio variety show on March 13 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre.

"Firehouse Follies: Digital Daze" will feature music, skits, storytelling, and comedy, and will serve as a fundraiser for WFHB's digital conversion effort.

Headliners for the show will be all local musicians, and include Ginger Curry and Art Heckman. Additionally, Cathi Norton and her Firehouse Gospel Singers will be back by popular demand to provide the audience a look at some of the best-known songs from the “Girl Group” tradition, and the house band will once again be Dennis Riggins and the Firehouse Swing Thing. Local storyteller Arbutus Cunningham will also be on hand to co-host the show and keep the audience entertained with timely rants and a story.

WFHB Community Radio and The Bloomington Storytelling Project are  calling on storytellers to tell their true stories LIVE at our next storytelling gathering, to be held in Brown County.
 
The event will take place on Saturday March 6th, from 7-9pm, at the Muddy Boots Cafe in Nashville, Indiana. And folks from Brown County are encouraged to come out and share their tales.
 
Stories can, of course, be funny, silly, strange, sad, adventurous, or otherwise grand. The only rules are that they must be true and take less than 15 minutes to tell. If you cannot get involved yourself, ask your friends to share their best stories, then come out and help them share.
 

(The following statement was read into the record of the Waldron Task Force during a town hall meeting on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010, by WFHB Board President Mark Need)

Over the past few weeks, our community  has discussed the financial difficulties faced by the Bloomington Area Arts Council (BAAC) and the effect of those difficulties on the future of the Waldron Arts Center. Though representatives of WFHB have spoken informally with many of the principal parties in this matter, the station has not yet issued a formal statement or presented its own position. In general, the effect of the crisis on the future of WFHB, which operates from space adjacent to the Waldron, has not been mentioned publicly. What little has been said about the station’s role in this matter has been positive —- there is consensus that the station is an important music, arts, news, and public affairs source, and a center and hub of information by and about our community.

You can help those suffering from the devastation caused by the earthquakes in Haiti. Below  are some of the aid sites recommended by IU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which is providing a local collection site for relief supplies.

Of particular need, according to CLACS:

Wound dressing and bandages
Rehydration packets
Chloroquine (anti-malarial)
Non-perishable foods

IU CLACS is located at 1125 E. Atwater in Bloomington, and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

You can also make a financial contribution to disaster relief at the sites below.

http://www.yele.org
http://www.redcross.org
http://www.indiana.edu/~clacs

If you prefer, you can text "Yele" to 501501, which will automatically provide a $5 donation to relief efforts. Or you can text "HAITI" to 90999, which will contribute $10 to the effort through the American Red Cross.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING AGENDA
BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY RADIO, INC.
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Hooker Room, City Hall, 201 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN

I. CALL TO ORDER / ATTENDANCE OF BOARD MEMBERS
The meeting was called to order by Board President Mark Need at 7:08pm
Present: Mark Need, Carolyn VandeWiele, Kirby Thompson, Suzette Weakley, Mike McAfee, Duane Schau,
Pam Raider and Will Murphy
Absent: none
Guests: Joe Estivill, Jeffrey Morris, Ana Bennet and Shaun McDermott

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Minutes of the August and September, 2009 board meetings were approved unanimously

III. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS, UPDATES:
a.) Executive Committee - did not meet
Mark Need stated that he and Will Murphy both thought that the Executive Committee should meet
at least once between the monthly Board meetings.

b.) Personnel Committee - did not meet

c.) Legal Affairs Committee

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY RADIO, INC.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Hooker Room, City Hall, 201 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN

I. CALL TO ORDER / ATTENDANCE OF BOARD MEMBERS
In the absence of President Mark Need, the Meeting was called to order by the Board Secretary,
Carolyn VandeWiele at 7:10pm

Present: Carolyn VandeWiele, Kirby Thompson, Pam Raider, and Will Murphy
Absent: Mark Need, Duane Schau, Suzette Weakley, Mike McAfee
Guests:  Cathi Norton & Joe Estivill

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
In the absence of a quorum approval of the minutes of the August board meeting was tabled
until the October Meeting.

III. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS, UPDATES:
a.) Executive Committee: Did not meet
b.) Personnel Committee: Did not meet

c.) Development Committee:  Pam Raider

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY RADIO, INC.
AUGUST 24, 2009
Hooker Room, City Hall, 201 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN

I. CALL TO ORDER / ATTENDANCE OF BOARD MEMBERS
The Meeting was called to order by President Mark Need at 7:10pm
Present: Mark Need, Carolyn VandeWiele, Pam Raider, Duane Schau, Suzette Weakley and Will Murphy
Absent: Kirby Thompson, Mike McAfee
Guests:  Jim Manion, Chad Carrothers, Sharon Baker, Bill Daugherty, Joe Estivill, Richard Fish and Cindy Levindofske

Addenda/Handouts:
1. Letter of Concerns and Board Reply
2. Duties: WFHB News Director
3. Duties: WFHB Assistant News Director
4. WFHB Governance Document: proposed changes to Appendix A. Chart of WFHB’s Organizational Structure
    (Tentative as of 24 August, 2009)

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

WFHB Community Radio is developing the "Brown County Hour", a radio show about and for Brown County, produced by the residents and businesses of Brown County, and to be aired on WFHB.

The Brown County Economic Development Commission has offered a grant in the amount of $1,300 for equipment needed to produce the program.  

A match of $1,300 is needed by the end of the year to receive this grant.

A fundraising celebration is scheduled for Friday, December 18th at Mike's Dance Barn, just west of Nashville on SR46, beginning at 6 p.m., to try to raise the matching funds.

The fundraiser will consist of live music and an open dance floor, Brown County storytelling and skits, a silent auction, and a "white elephant" sale.

Bands will include The Harris Sisters and White Lightning Boys, Fire in the Dawn, Smooth Country, Dave and Joenna Woodsmall, and some surprise appearances.

WFHB will hold its quarterly meeting this Saturday, December 5th, in the Firebay of the John Waldron Arts Center. The meeting will begin at 12 noon, and will feature reports from the staff on the "state of the station" over the past three months, as well as a look at what may be coming down the pike in 2010.

The meeting is open to the public, and  participating station members (i.e., volunteers) are particularly encouraged to attend. Hope to see you there!

If you have any questions in advance, please contact station manager Will Murphy at manager@wfhb.org.