Sandra Lopez has lived in the valley for twenty years but for the last nine months she has had to live in sanctuary to avoid deportation. Sandra and her son, Alex, describe how living in sanctuary has affected their family.

In 1997, Diane Kenney opened the Carbondale Clay Center and invited people of the Valley to come make something with their hands. Listen as Diane talks about community art, growing up in Illinois and her early years in the convent before coming to Colorado. That's Immigrant Stories at 4:30, only on KDNK.

Penny Pappas's Greek immigrant parents were busy creating a life together and then the unthinkable happened. Join Penny as she talks about how her family struggled to carry on after the death of her mother.

Fred Haberlein has dedicated his life to taking art to the streets. His sweeping landscapes adorn halls and buildings across Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Here, Fred talks about the importance of community art and the joy of painting in public. For part 2, follow the headline...

Many people know Kristina Mace from her days at the Pine Creek Cookhouse at Ashecroft where she and her husband, Greg, served Hungarian cuisine to guests from around the world. But, most have never heard her harrowing story of escape from Hungary as a child. Here, she talks to Walter Gallacher about the winter of 1956 when Soviet tanks rolled into her neighborhood and changed her life.

Join host Walter Gallacher and guest Bill Barnes for stories about Bill's dad and how he made a living in the Roaring Fork Valley in the late 1940s.

Today Alex Alvarado works as a paralegal for a Denver law firm but twenty-two years he came to the United States from Mexico, as a toddler. He came with his parents and his five year-old brother. They joined many of the working homeless ​in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Every November, we in the US set aside a day to remember our veterans and thank them for the sacrifices they make to protect us. But for people like John Tripp, remembering is a constant thing. Tune in as John remembers his band of brothers, Camp Hale and the assault on Italy's Mount Belvidere.

Marsha Weigum grew up in Jamaica, watching her mother struggle to raise five kids on her own. And then one day, Marsha realized she was thirty and the same thing that happened to her mother was happening to her. Here, she talks to host Walter Gallacher about her journey to create her own life.

Yesenia Arreola came to the US from Mexico in 1994 when she was six years old. In the spring of 2017, she graduated from Denver University with honors and an MSW. In this month's show, she talks to host Walter Gallacher about the challenges and opportunities she's faced along the way.