Wake-Up Call: Virginia Integrative Medicine

Dr. Marty Albert and Dr. Peggy Wright drop by the WNRN studios to discuss their integrative medicine practice, and the role of integrative medicine in health care. They take questions from Rick Moore and callers about insurance, nutrition and approaches of encouraging health or just treating disease.

CPN featured the pair in a podcast from earlier this year.

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SELC attorneys on how growth affects the area’s environment

Morgan Butler and Cale Jaffe from the Southern Environmental Law Center join Rick Moore to discuss what impact growth in our area will have on the environment. The May ’06 Albemarle Retail Report shows 2.5 to 3.5 times more commercial space being approved than the area can handle without harming existing businesses. The two SELC attorneys lay out the possible effects of growth on air and water and the recent decision regarding the approval of North Pointe.

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A conversation with the Food Geek, Brian Geiger

Charlottesville’s Food Geek, Brian Geiger, joins Rick Moore to discuss specialty diets such as gluten-free diets, and other food topics such as coffee, food supplements, and the importance of local foods. This program originally aired on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on July 30.

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Wake-Up Call: Travel Talk with Julie Currier Arbelaez of Peace Frogs

Travel is an enriching experience that changes people for the rest of their lives. So says Julie Currier Arbelaez, the proprietor of Peace Frogs, an agency that specializes in adventure travel. On the July 16 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Julie talks about her own trips, and answers questions about new passport regulations, kids on airplanes, and what destinations are currently popular.

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Wake-Up Call with Starr Hill master brewer Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson grew up in Charlottesville, got a biology degree from James Madison University, moved to Portland, and became a brewer of beer. Now he’s the master brewer at Starr Hill Brewery in Charlottesville. On the first weekend of June, Mark joins Rick Moore to talk about this most delicious of beverages, and about starting your own business.

In the monologue, Rick talks about how the war in Iraq came home to him this week when his friend, CBS reporter, Kimberly Dozier, was injured in a roadside bombing.

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Wake-Up Call: Real estate demystified by Jim Duncan and Matt Hodges

Does the idea of buying a house make you feel like curling up into a ball? Relax! It’s actually a pretty straight-forward process, according to Jim Duncan and Matt Hodges. Jim is a realtor with Century 21 Manley Associates, and Matt is with Compass Home Loans. They were both Rick Moore’s guest on the May 21 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.

Counselor James Yates on overcoming negative emotions

On the April 30 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, local counselor Dr. James Yates discussed how guilt and shame rob us of our ability to live at our highest potential and get what we want out of life. Dr. Yates shared methods for beginning to overcome these self-denigrating emotions and how to refrain from passing them along to children and others who look to you.

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Murder or Disappearance? The Mystery of Patrick Collins

On March 22, 1986, U.Va physiology student Patrick Collins disappeared into thin air, after using an ATM machine in downtown Charlottesville. Two weeks later, people began asking questions about where he was. Was he murdered, or did he simply walk away from his life? Hook columnist Barbara Nordin joins Rick Moore on this installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to discuss the case.

In the monologue, Rick laments the impersonal nature of the digital age.

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Wake-Up Call: A Look at the Living Wage Campaign at U.Va

Activists at the University of Virginia this week rallied outside a meeting of the school’s Board of Visitors to ask the University to pay a “living” wage to all of its employees. Two people who marched for higher pay join Rick Moore on this week’s installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. They are Teresa Daniels and Kevin Simowitz.

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Next week’s show will feature Barbara Nordin of the Hook, who will look at the case of former U.Va medical student Patrick Collins, who has been missing for the past twenty years. Was he murdered, or did he just simply walk away from his life? Tune in Sunday April 16 at 11:00 AM to hear what Nordin has to say.