B Programs

We’ll talk with Linda Speerstra, of Sitka’s New Archangel Dancers, featured performers at this Saturday’s Festival of Russian Culture; Tom Brice will be here to highlight tomorrow’s kick-off event for Operation Christmas Child; we’ll talk with author David Vann, in town for a library presentation tonight; and Anchorage pianist, Dan McElrath will be here to talk about his music.

Today at 3 on KTOO-FM on A Juneau Afternoon, Pat Moore will host. He’ll talk with crafter Christina Rich, organizing a unique fundraiser for Relay for Life: it’s called Craft for the Cure; Ken Fix will be here to highlight tonight’s Planetarium presentation on Cronus and Saturn; We’ll get the details on this weekend’s Haunted House at the Nugget Mall from Stacey Poulson and Karen Banee-Pederson, and Alaska author Christie Loney will read from her book, Life on the Lynn.

We’ll talk with singer, Kathleen Wayne, about her performance during next Saturday’s Festival of Russian Culture; we’ll find out how you can help local families in need by contributing to the St. Vincent de Paul Thanksgiving Basket program; we’ll interview Joe Upton, author of Bering Sea Blues about the dangerous world of king crab fishing; and we’ll find out what the Juneau Lyric Opera’s up to.

In the first half hour Adrien talked with Dave Gaudet, Marine Debris Program Coordinator for the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation, and then in the second part of the show she interviewed two guests from the organization OCEANA – Chris Krenz, Arctic Project Manager and Jon Warrenchuk, Ocean Scientist for Oceana’s Pacific Region based here in Juneau.

For more information about these organizations, check out the following websites: http://www.mcafoundation.org/, http://na.oceana.org/

We’ll talk with pianist Tatiana Scott, one of the performers at this month’s Festival of Russian Culture; we’ll also learn how high school students are preparing for careers, with guests Debbie Banaszak and Carin Smolin.

Today at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Pat Moore will host. Jonas Lamb will be here from the Juneau Public Library to talk about Mango, a new language program available to all Alaskans; Sol Neely will join us to give us details on tonight’s Evening at Egan presentation at UAS;
Amanda Compton will be interviewing the new director of The Canvas; and Russell Strandtman will give us a preview of his lecture on the South Pole explorations of Raould Amundson.