WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence are expected to land in Indianapolis, this evening; Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly is breaking with the Democratic Party, and endorsing Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State; The race to oust Joe Donnelly from his Senate seat is growing increasingly vicious ahead of the May 8 primary; A forest fire broke out in Morgan-Monroe State Forest, this Sunday; Monroe County’s one percent food and beverage tax went into effect February 1, but Monroe County Auditor Catherine Smith says not every everyone is paying.
FEATURE: Monroe County CASA provides advocates to children going through the juvenile court system, who are victims of physical or sexual abuse or neglect. A Court Appointed Special Advocate’s mission is to make sure that child stays in the forefront of any court proceedings, and finds a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. Now, thanks to an eight-county pilot project called JCAP, Monroe County CASA is deploying child visit monitors to triage 126 children who are wait-listed, due to a shortage of advocates.
BETTER BEWARE: Chinese students and residents in Bloomington are being targeted by scammers pretending to be from the Chinese embassy. Everything you need to know to keep safe, coming up on a new edition of our consumer watchdog segment Better Beware!
CREDITS: Today’s headlines were written by Wes Martin and Jonah Chester,
Along with Sarah Vaughan for CATSweek, in partnership with Community Access Television services.
Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish.
Our feature was produced by Sarah Vaughan.
Our engineer for today is Jenna Jankowski.
Our theme music is provided by Ben Lumsdaine, Dani Graf, and Scott Schmadeke.
Executive Producer is Wes Martin.
