Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, February 20th, 2024. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Kelsey Pease went to the Adult Winter Recess and spoke with attendees. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Lil Bub’s …
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Bring It On! – June 15, 2020: Bloomington’s Homeless and COVID-19
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:09 — 81.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Rv. Forrest Gilmore, Executive Director of Shalom Community Center, Ms. Amber Skoby, Executive Director of the Bloomington Housing Authority, and Nicole Johnson, a Crestmont resident and community advocate. They discuss how Bloomington is trying to meet the challenge of …
Read More »Bring It On! – October 21, 2019
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 25.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich are honored to welcome Nordia McNish, whose story was recently featured in The Herald Times. She is a young single mother who has managed to overcome the odds. She was an undocumented immigrant from Jamaica who has managed to pursue her …
Read More »Middle Way House Increased Services Over 2018
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:32 — 9.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe domestic violence shelter and advocacy organization Middle Way House, in Bloomington, recently released their 2018 annual report. Middle Way House Executive Director Deborah Morrow tells WFHB’s Wes Martin the agency is continuing to grow their services, including into domestic and sexual violence prevention programs in area …
Read More »Brown County Humane Society Nearing New Shelter Goal
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:08 — 2.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Brown County Humane Society is raising money to construct a new animal shelter. Staff at the humane society said the facilities update is necessary for their continued success in the community. The Brown County Humane Society is already nearing the goal of its capital campaign to …
Read More »Area Shelters Brace for ‘Chilling Effect’ on Area Homeless
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:02 — 5.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRecent drops in temperatures can exacerbate the problems faced by those experiencing homelessness. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council says hypothermia can set in at anywhere from 32 – 50 degrees Fahrenheit. When it gets cold, body heat escapes through the skin and internal temperatures …
Read More »Middle Way House Changes Leadership
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:58 — 1.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMiddle Way House’s Board of Directors announced this afternoon a new slate of officers, including a new president. The board voted in four new officers for the next two years, including Kathleen Sideli, who will take over from Michael De Nunzio as president. Sideli is the Associate …
Read More »Middle Way House’s Food Works to Become Commercial Rental Space
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:47 — 1.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFood Works, a Bloomington business venture to employ victims of abuse, has shut down. The Middle Way House food preparation business was founded in 2002, with the mission to train and provide job experience to the women housed in the domestic violence shelter. Middle Way House Outreach …
Read More »Activate! – Bloomington Animal Care & Control: Julie Gray
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:28 — 3.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAir date: 10/30/2017 How does Julie Gray volunteer at the Animal Shelter? Let us count the ways. She is an adoption counselor, helping 180 patrons and well-suited animal companions; an office assistant, assisting with clerical and administrative needs; a graphic designer, crafting the bi-weekly adoption posters or …
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