Meredith Hawes, National Fire Protection Association, joined us to talk about the Top 10 Safety Gifts for the Holiday Season.

Review the top stories of the week with Beth Milligan from the Traverse City Ticker, discussing the culinary institute director’s retirement, the community effort to rebuild the Riverside Inn, TC to Denver direct airline service expanding and Garfield Township withdrawing from Grand Traverse Metro Fire.

United Nest Foundation is a non-profit based in Michigan and dedicated to supporting villages and families in rural Haiti.  We were joined in studio by Aaron Dye of Turbo Pup, Pete Kirkwood of the Workshop Brewing Company, Onlee Bowden and Ephraim Lucien of United Nest ahead of this Sunday’s “A Celebration of Families” fundraiser, 1 to 4 pm at the Workshop.   

On today’s Foodie Scene, we wanted to get YOU in on the fun with “Foodie Scene for YOU!”  So much fun to take your calls and hear which places in Northern Michigan offer your favorite “comfort food.”

Gary Gatzke, Principle Double Bassist and Interim Executive Director of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, joined us ahead of their annual Home for the Holidays concert — a sure sign of the season!

Dr. Thomas Conner, Hillsdale Professor and Author of “War and Remembrance:  The Story of the American Battle Monuments Commission,” tracing how it was created by Congress after World War I, how the cemeteriesand monuments the agency built were designed and their location chosen, and how commemorative sites have become important “outposts of remembrance” on foreign soil.

Christian Goss plays guitar with the passion, precision and soul of someone 40 years his senior -- or at least someone who has finished junior high school!  As he awaits hearing back from "America's Got Talent," I got to chat with this pre-teen virtuoso about what music means to him, his professional dreams and which player he would most like to join on stage.

Hope you had a gobble-gobble good time yesterday!  Was great to be joined by Wendy Nienhouse and Vic McCarty to review our respective Turkey Days and preview...Black Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  Today we’re bringing you a #GoodNewsStory about a man who used a personally negative situation to create a lovely, welcoming, positive situation for himself and his neighbors, both near and far.  It’s a story about the best of us, and the best of the Thanksgiving mindset.  Enjoy the day!

So happy to speak with Patrick, Mindy and Mina Cotner today from the Old Town Playhouse’s upcoming adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” November 23 through December 8!  We talk about taking on this beloved holiday classic, and about the Playhouse’s continuing initiative to offer Sensory Friendly Versions of their performances.