Spotlight with Gary Shipe

This week we’ll meet folks from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Western Washington, Mallory Cwik, Kathleen Waite, and Jeff Roberts.

Jeff is the father of this year’s Honored Heroes for the upcoming Take Steps Walk on Saturday, June 9th. Jeff tells the story of his young sons’ diagnoses as well as what living with Crohn’s disease is like for elementary aged boys.

One in 200 people live with Crohn’s or Colitis and Mallory and Kathleen discuss the need for more research into how to cure these Inflammatory bowel Diseases as well as the funds necessary to support such research. The Take Steps Walk of Western Washington is celebrating its 10th year with a new site, Lincoln Park in West Seattle on Saturday the 9th at 1pm.

Support the Walk or start your own team online at www.cctakesteps.org/westernwashington and learn more about Crohn’s & Colitis at www.ccfa.org

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This week we’ll learn of the heroic exploits of a young man who defected from behind the iron curtain in the early 1950s by flying a Czech Airliner to freedom. Later becoming the personal pilot to Bill Boeing Jr., working for the CIA, a stunt pilot, an airplane and hydroplane racer and national champion; Mira Slovak’s story has been preserved for us in a new book by our guest David Williams. A Race To Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story is a fascinating biography that teaches the depth of desire for freedom that seems innate in all of us.

The book goes on sale this week on Amazon.com as well as at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent.

David Williams will do a book signing at the museum on June 8th.

www.thunderboats.org

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As Memorial Day gets closer we offer an encore broadcast from several years ago with two veterans of World War II that have since passed away.

Roscoe Mitchell and Art Shipe served on opposite sides of the globe during World War II. Roscoe was a nose gunner and bomb toggler in a B-17 with the 8th Air Force in Europe. Art was a turret gunner in a Grumman TBM Avenger that flew off the air craft carrier Bunker Hill in the Pacific.

They share some of their experiences in the war and relate their feeling that they are not heroes, but rather, the real heroes didn’t make it home.

World War II veterans are dying at a rate of 1000 per day. Make sure you thank one as Memorial Day approaches on May 28th.

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Joining us this week to talk about Type 1 Diabetes are Senior Development Manager at JDRF Lindsey Larkin, one of this year’s Ambassadors for the annual Beat The Bridge Run 16 year old Emma Murphy, and Promotion Coordinator at Radio stations Movin’ 92.5 and AM 880 KIXI Delilah Sanabria. JDRF for years stood for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but in recent years we’ve learned that it is not a juvenile disease. The topic is personal for both Emma and Delilah, as they have been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 15 years, and they will participate in the Beat The Bridge run coming up on Sunday May 20th at Husky Stadium. (Emma was diagnosed at age 1 and Delilah as a young girl)

JDRF uses the funds raised from Beat The Bridge to fund research. Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) still has no cure and it is not know what exactly causes the pancreas to quit producing insulin. If you’d like to learn more about T1D or the JDRF go online to their website www.jdrf.org and to participate in the Beat the Bridge run visit www.beatthebridge.org Once there you can support Delilah Sanabria’s Team T1E DYE, or Emma Murphy’s Emma Jane’s Gang, find someone else to support, or start your own team.

The first weekend in June means it is time for Komen Puget Sound's Race For The Cure, and this time they are celebrating 25 years!

Joining us this week are Executive Director of Komen Puget Sound, David Richart and Komen Puget Sound's Volunteer of the Year and Fundraising Chair, Jim Mendoza.

David and Jim tell us of the continuing need for research to end breast cancer. One in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease this year and almost 40,000 will die.

Jim shares his own story of why he volunteers and raises money in the Race For The Cure each year, his wife Laura's diagnoses ten years ago.

This year's Race For The Cure is Sunday, June 3rd at the Seattle Center and will feature a reunion of honorees and volunteers from the previous 24 events.

To start a team or support another go online to www.komenpugetsound.org/race

Dr. Cheryl Al-Mateen is Medical Director of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, and Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Psychiatry. She is passionate about helping kids and youth because it's known that half of mental illnesses start before age 14. This being the case...we need to get a better understanding and be proactive on behalf of these kids, their families, and ultimately the future and our communities.

www.aacap.org , www.bpkids.org , www.nami.org

This Earth Day we investigate the success and future of Built Green homes.

Leah Missik is the Program Manager of Built Green, a non-profit arm of The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish County. We also hear from Anthony Maschmedt, the Owner/Principal of Dwell Development, a Seattle builder who recently built a Net Zero energy home in Ballard.

Built Green ratings range from 3-Star, 4-Star, 5-Star to Emerald Star; and there are many factors in determining the efficiency of a new home. Along with energy usage there are use of construction materials, water use, and indoor air quality.

The Built Green program is advocating to make these types of homes easier and less costly through policy as well as advances in technology.

Two years ago Dwell Development built Seattle's first Emerald Star home and with two years of data now available, the results show that it is more efficient than thought. Over the course of each year, the owners of this home actually sell energy back to the grid.

Learn more online at www.builtgreen.net or www.mba-ks.com/ and watch an impressive video about the Emerald Star home here www.dwelldevelopment.com/video/

Christian Davenport is a staff writer at the Washington Post where he covers the space and defense industries for the financial desk. So he's had the opportunity to be up close with the recent history of space activities. Christian is also an author whose newest book is: The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. Christian will be in Seattle at the Museum of Flight (a great Seattle treasure!) on Wednesday April 25 at 6:30 to discuss the book, sign copies, etc.

www.museumofflight.org