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A handful of local residents stood outside the Sunoco gas station on South Walnut Street this afternoon, demonstrating opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline; The Indiana Recovery Alliance, which started its needle exchange program in February of this year, is expanding its services into Lawrence County starting tomorrow; four Indiana cities are continuing to challenge a lawsuit by conservative groups seeking to have the cities’ human rights ordinances overturned; The City of Bloomington has announced the 2017 Black History Month Essay contest, which it has titled “Black Her-Story Month: Illuminating the Gifts of Black Women.”
FEATURE
A recent front page article in the Herald-Times reported that Bloomington’s cooperative grocery chain, Bloomingfoods, was failing to meet its goals. But the general manager at Bloomingfoods says that message could be misinterpreted. We bring you a conversation between General Manager, Tony Alongi; and WFHB News Director, Joe Crawford, for today’s WFHB community report. The 2016 Bloomingfoods Ends Monitoring Report is available online at bloomingfoods.coop.
ACTIVATE
From the Activate archives…
Activate! : Cry of the Children – Dellsie Boddie
CREDITS
Anchors: Janae Cummings and Doug Storm
Today’s headlines were written by Joe Crawford, Leah Carter, Jerrod Dill and Cathi Norton; along with Sarah Vaughan for CATSweek, a partnership with Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Joe Crawford
Activate! is produced by Jennifer Brooks; along with the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network
Board Engineer: Sarah Hetrick
Our theme music is provided by the Impossible Shapes.
Executive producer: Joe Crawford