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whole communities

The Whole Communities Radio Project has provided training for many KBOO Community Radio (90.7 FM) volunteer news and public affairs producers. As part of the training program each trainee produced a short feature that was aired before one of the Whole Community Radio panel discussions on KBOO. You can listen to the best of these features by clicking on the images below.

 

 

 

 

Miriam

Miriam Widman produced a piece about the struggle to stop a Walmart from being built in Cedar Mill on the outskirts of NW Portland. The Walmart was voted down by the Beaverton City Council in the summer of 2006. Now the community is trying to ensure that another big box store does not take its place.

 

 

 
Julie

Julie Sabatier's feature was about the gentrification of the Alberta Street District in NE Portland. Here she is learning to record the sounds of water at Johnson Creek Park in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland.

 
Eduardo

Eduardo DeLanderos-Tierre produced a piece about environmental justice. He looked at the environmental problems facing the mostly African refugee residents of Plazatown in North Portland.

 

Kaylene

Kaylene Chassie produced a piece about the 300 miles of disappeared creeks in Portland, Oregon. Her piece looks at the importance of restoring and protecting urban watersheds.

 

 

 

Judy

Judy Fiestal's feature was about a new coalition in Oregon that is working to ensure affordable housing for all Oregonians. In this photo she is in Mexico teaching two teen agers how to use recording equipment. These teens volunteer for the community organization Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende.