On the Mark from Newsradio 1070 WKOK

On The Mark: Mark Lawrence and guest co-host John Shipman interview PennDOT’s Ted Deptula about the $13 million Northumberland Duke/Water/Front St. underpass project and the remaining 1.5 years of work. We talked about the road closures, detours, traffic lights and stop signs!   Then UMC Pastor J.T. Young calls and discusses his reaction (not favorable) to the churchwide vote this week regarding LGBTQ marraige and ordination. Then John talks favorably of Pres. Trump at the summit.

Movie Mike McGranaghan, Professional movie critic, author and ‘women in cinema’ advocate, with his review of ‘Fighting with my Family’ and he’ll have words about new movies. He’ll discuss entertainment news, including controversy surround the ‘Green Book’ Oscar win, and Rotten Tomatoes makes big changes.

Mark Lawrence and Joe McGranaghan start out analyzing the congressional testimony of Atty. Michael Cohen, asking if he could be believed, and what was the impact of his testimony. Then on the topic of the national UMC vote, we had many calls about marrying LGBTQ, and ordination.

Penn Garvin, Chair, Donald Heiter Community Center (DHCC)board of directors, and Mike Glazer, volunteer, DHCC, with the mission and work of the DHCC, the second year of the Leadership program for middle school students. The program resumes March 4, runs for 10 weeks and is held at the Union County Government Center

David Wisnia, Holocaust survivor, author, musician, US Army 101st Airborne veteran, and noted international advocate for remembrance, and David Jacobson, Lewisburg, businessman, co-founder and co-organizer of the ‘Days of Remembrance’ essay contest locally. We talk about why ‘remembering’ is an imperative that must be taught to, and internalized by, our young people. We talk about Mr. Wisnia’s journey from Poland, to Auschwitz, Dachau, the US Army, and to the US, and why his story of ‘growing hate’ must be heard. Mr. Jacobson talks about the contest, the work of accepting and judging entries, and who is helping in the process. https://daysofremembrance.org/ (recorded).

Mark Lawrence and Joe McGranaghan interview Snyder County Commission Chairman Joe Kantz on the new Snyder County Conservation initiative, and the ‘state of the county.’ We talk about the process of getting new election machines. Then Joe M. and Mark talked about the United Methodist Church vote to keep their ‘Traditional Plan’ restrictions on LGBTQ ordination and marraige. Most callers favored this stance.

Dr. John Pfeifer, Interventional Cardiologist, Heart and Vascular Center of Evangelical, Evangelical Community Hospital returns to the morning programs to help us wrap up Rock Red for Healthy Hearts with Evangelical Community Hospital, discussing Congestive Heart Failure, the causes, symptoms, and treatments., Well discuss prevention, diagnosis, and various treatments at the Heart and Vascular Center.

Mark Lawrence and Joe McGranaghan discuss a defeated US Senate vote to require physicians to care for viable fetuses born via a late term abortion. The measure was defeated with all of the pro-choice presidential candidates voting against it–which some say was the real intent of the measure. We also discussed Jake Corman’s minimum wage comments, Walmart vs. Target and other topics.

Pete Marrara, Abbie Carney and Nick Jacobson, all Lewisburg high school students performing in Bye Bye Birdie, will talk about this weekend’s performances and the heart of the matter: What is the differences between the dreams of students fifty years ago, and those of students today?