The Tuesday Point Podcast

Teacher Kevin Hilman shares his heart-wrenching, personal experience leading up to and during the 1998 Thurston High School shooting in Springfield, OR. The insanity must stop.

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Megan Martin, Founding Director of Furnish Hope, shares another inspiring report of how surprisingly easy it can be to help restore lives when we work together as a community and it doesn't have to cost us a dime.

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Sally Griffin shares her fascinating story of her real-life experience, from wife and mother turned liquor store owner, to college student at age 50 who graduated with a master’s degree in education. She’s now retired after a career as a high school teacher.. Life begins at 50!

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Peace Keepers founder Luke Richter heads up a freezing weather clothing and supplies drive for Central Oregon's Homeless Community. A full 40% of Central Oregon's homeless population are working and still can not afford what's known as affordable housing. The crisis is greater than housing; it's what to do tonight in single digit temperatures. Learn where to start here. 

It's time to work together to save lives.

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OSHU Professor of Neuroscience, Dr. Larry Sherman, talks to Bruce about his lecture in the Nancy R. Chandler Lecture series entitled Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience Of Music-Making And Listening. The presentation is October 20 at COCC. You can find more information and a ticket link here.

The talk involves great classical music and signing, audience singing, and cutting-edge information about how learning to make music strengthens the brain in very significant ways.

This interview gets into the science, but also Dr. Sherman’s own life and reasons for adding this study of music and the brain to his foundational work on repairing damage to the brain.

Dr. Sherman also has a book of the same name coming out soon with co-author Dennis Plies.

KPOV High Desert Community Radio is a listener-supported, volunteer-powered community radio station that broadcasts at 88.9 FM and online at www.kpov.org. KPOV offers locally produced programs and the most diverse music in Central Oregon.

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KPOV and host Bruce were honored to interview Sweetheart Deal Director Elisa Levine on the Thursday Point October 6. It’s a beautiful interview and a great film.

We were not surprised, but were very proud, to hear that Elisa and Co-Director Gabriel Miller won Bendfilm’s Best Director Award for Sweetheart Deal.

Sweetheart Deal looks at the life of four Seattle women who are addicted to heroine and engaging in sex work to earn a living. They are aided by someone who lets them know he cares for women like them. There is a plot twist we won’t spoil for you.

Listen to this interview for so much insight. It was conducted before Bendfilm 2022, so you will hear some dated material, but the description of the film and the Directors’ motivations and methods are engaging and informative.

Benfilm 2022 is available on line until October 23 at at https://www.bendfilm.org/

On Tuesday, September 13, Bruce and Steve talked with Redmond City Councilor, veteran and former police commander, Clifford Evelyn about the importance of hope in our times. Clifford tells us where we can look and what we can do to find hope in ourselves and our communities.

Check out the wisdom and hope in Cliff himself and be inspired by his vision and courage.

On Sunday, August 28, a man entered a Safeway store in Bend, Oregon, with an assault rifle and a shotgun. He killed two elderly men and shot at least two others before shooting himself.

On Wednesday, August 31, KPOV Youth Radio Hour host Juniper Rook talked about the tragic shooting, its impact on her, other local young people, and our entire community. Juniper openly and courageously expressed her frustration, and that of other youth, that the adults in our world have not done anywhere near enough to prevent mass shootings. Juniper also offers guidance on what we can do.

You will hear astonishing brilliance from this 16-year old student/athlete/activist.

You will hear the fiery spirit that animates powerful young activists. She is the future of positive change in our world. Listen.

(The old guy in the conversation is KPOV Tuesday Point host and Station Manager Bruce Morris.)

On August 23, 2022, KPOV aired a special interview on the upcoming movie Prognosis: Notes on Living, Bruce was joined by Jamie Nesbitt of Out Central Oregon and Erin Collins of The Peaceful Presence Project. The film is presented along with BendFilm. The movie will be shown August 25, 2022 from 7-9 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bend. Tickets are available at Bendfilm.com. A facilitated discussion will follow.

In perhaps her bravest act, Oscar-winning documentarian and LGBTQ+ activist Debra Chasnoff responds to her diagnosis of a deadly disease by turning the camera on herself, her wife and their chosen family.

Hear Erin and Jamie describe their responses to the film and its impact and importance to people facing serious illnesses. The film shows how compassionate community can be formed around them and their caregivers to allow them to live life to the fullest with a serious illness.

In this episode of the Tuesday Point Podcast, we talk with someone who has become a true pillar of this community: Aaron Switzer, founder and publisher of the Source Weekly. The Source recently issued its 25th anniversary edition as Central Oregon’s alternative weekly news magazine. Aaron talks about how it all happened and his vision for the future of The Source.

In a broad conversation, Aaron addressed everything from the differences and similarities in Bend journalism over 25 years to social media to the staying power of print journalism in a digital world.

You can read The Source Weekly on line at bendsource.com and find it in the blue boxes all over Central Oregon.

KPOV High Desert Community Radio is a listener-supported, volunteer-powered community radio station that broadcasts at 88.9 FM and online at www.kpov.org. KPOV offers locally produced programs and the most diverse music in Central Oregon.

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