WPPR Podcast
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North Georgia Theater Presents The 1940s Radio Hour and...
Every song has a memory, especially the styling sounds of the 1940s and Frank Sinatra, “The 1940s Radio Hour” and “My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra” are the feature productions of North Georgia Theatre’s (NGT) summer season at Piedmont College. Both plays will be performed at the Swanson Center in Demorest from June 20-30. For ticket call 706-778-8500 ex. 1355.
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Community Life In Northeast Georgia June 4, 2013
L.A.M.P. Community Youth Outreach Program has been heralded as the best answer to gang violence and the deterioration of young lives by Hall county schools, law enforcement, and community agencies. Today we speak with L.A.M.P. Community Youth Outreach Program founders Mary and Ruben Marico. They discuss their selfless approach in transforming the lives of youth in the community one day at a time. Retired U.S. Marine Major General Robert Flanagan discusses his illustrious military career and...
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Habersham Electric Celebrates 75 Years May 28, 2013
Habersham Electric celebrates 75 years of service with a new book and CD travel guide called Experience Northeast Georgia—John Kollock’s guide to 75 Special Places. To discuss HEMC’s anniversary is HEMC President/CEO Todd Pealock and best-selling author Emory Jones.
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Community Life in Northeast Georgia May 24, 2013
Habersham Electric celebrates 75 years of service with a new book and CD travel guide called Experience Northeast Georgia—John Kollock’s guide to 75 Special Places. To discuss HEMC’s anniversary is HEMC President/CEO Todd Pealock and best-selling author Emory Jones. With faith as the driving force of his writing, author John Shivers discusses his first trilogy Hear My Cry, Paths of Judgment, Lift Up Mine Eyes and his second, Broken Spirit, Merry Heart, His Mercy Endureth. A Georgia landmark...
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Community Life in Northeast Georgia May 7, 2013
Today we go on the road to Hall County and visit with Challenged Child and Friends CEO/Executive Director Dave Earnest and the CCAF staff. They discuss CCAF’s state of the art educational and therapeutic approach to serving children with disabilities and their typical peers in an integrated environment. Then we go up to Rabun County to the Amara Center, a total health and wellness center that takes a holistic medical approach to optimizing your health, beauty, lifestyle and well-being and...
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Community Life in Northeast Georgia April 16, 2013
Many throughout the centuries have witnessed and bore the sorrow and sufferings of war, but few have counted the environmental cost of war and how it affects the lives of those left to live in a war torn region for decades and sometimes centuries before seeing any plant, animal life or drinking water restored to the area. To commemorate Earth Day, Brenau Professor Dr. Gnimbin Ouattara offers insight into environmental cost of war as he shares the special story and legacy of 2004 Nobel Peace...
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Community Life in Northeast Georgia April 2, 2013
With a mixture of tongue and cheek humor Stephens County author Joe Cobb Crawford recounts his experience as a chicken catcher in his book The Poetry Company. His next book When the Chickens Come Home to Roost unfolds the details of a local murder mystery and the decided attempt of a northern socialite’s desire to fit in with the locals.And in his current work Mountain Shadow Memories family folklore takes over as he describes the life and times of his ancestors and the sometimes comical...
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- Demorest, GA
- Community, Interviews
- Georgia PR
- English
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The Swanson Center
365 College Drive
Suite 112
Demorest, GA 30535(706) 778-8500 x1565 - Visit the station website Email the show Update show info
