Wake-Up Call: Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks to Sue Friedman, President and CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association Central and Western Virginia. Topics include the warning signs and risk factors for Alzheimer’s as well as some of the myths surrounding this debilitating illness.

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Wake-Up Call: Books and Summer Reading at JMRL

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Meredith Dickens, Collection Manager, Jefferson Madison Regional Library and Lindsay Ideson, Northside Library branch manager about their summer reading list. Topics include: getting more children to read, finding a new author, and reading the great authors.

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Wake-Up Call: Hunger in Charlottesville

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Margaret McNett , Executive Director of Charlottesville Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry, Michael McKee, CEO of Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Mike Signer, board member, for the Emergency Food Network about the problem of hunger in Charlottesville and across the country.

In this podcast you will learn why the stereotype of the hungry no longer applies, the meaning of food insecurity, and how volunteers at food banks are front-line healthcare workers.

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Wake-Up Call: Lee Channing

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with local psychic and intuitive analyst Lee Channing about careers, relationships and health and about the energy of Spring and how different colors affect different parts of your body.

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Wake-Up Call: 2016 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Clay Hansen, Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression about the center’s 2016 and 25th annual Jefferson Muzzle Awards. The theme for this year’s awards is “Awarding American Campuses a Failing Grade” and focuses on university campus censorship.

Topics include: Censorship of students, censorship by students, efforts to limit press access on campus, threats to academic freedom and censorship of outside speakers.

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Wake-Up Call: Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Kaki Dimock about the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. Topics include trends in the number of homeless people in Charlottesville, the use of anti-homeless legislation, the status of the lawsuit of Homeless begging on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall and panhandlers at traffic intersections.

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Wake-Up Call: Public School Funding

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Kate Acuff, Albemarle County school board chair, and Rosalyn Schmitt, Assistant Director of Facilities Planning about public school funding in the county. How a community balances its needs for progress and innovation against its ability to pay for those improvements is discussed.

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Wake-Up Call: Addiction Recovery Systems

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Kyle Austin, Executive Director of the Charlottesville branch of Addiction Recovery Systems. Is age of first use important? Can you become addicted even if you only use once in a while? Is marijuana truly a gateway drug? Listen for the answer to these questions and many more in this interesting podcast.

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Wake-Up Call: Lisa Provence

Lisa Provence (Photo: The Hook)

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with C-ville Weekly news editor Lisa Provence about the publication’s recent article Censorship or civility? Debate about new City Council procedures rages on. Also, Robert Davis is discussed. Robert is the Crozet teen who confessed to multiple killings after being questioned by police for hours. Davis was pardoned in December 2015.

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Wake-Up Call: Marijean Jaggers

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Charlottesville-based author Marijean Jaggers about her book 100 Things to Do in Charlottesville Before You Die. Jaggers recommendations include, “Eat From A Tree” (while you shop at Edible Landscaping), “Make a Cheese Pilgrimage” (to the Monastery in White Hall) and “Visit 3 Presidents’ Homes”.

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Wake-Up Call: Virginia Festival of the Book 2016

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with his guests about the 2016 Virginia Festival of the Book. Rick’s guests for today’s program are:

Jane Kulow – Festival Program Director

Susan Erno, Thomas, Jefferson Adult and Career Education, talks about the 20th Anniversary Celebration: Voices of Adult Learners event.

Leontyne Peck, Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Inc., talks about the festival’s Celebration Brunch: A tribute to the African American Literary Tradition, and,

Josh Wheeler, executive director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, talks about Kelly Carlin’s appearance at the festival along with her book A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George.

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Wake-Up Call: David RePass

Photo: Creative Commons John Pemble

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with David RePass, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut Department of Political Science about the Bernie Sanders political campaign.

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