Host: Steve di Costanzo GM of WPKN Radio 89.5-FM Monthly 'GM Report to the Listeners' - April '16

Segment guests:

International Festival of Arts & Ideas representatives Tom Griggs, Director of Development and Chad Herzog, Director of Programming. We’ll talk about their recent kick-off event and take a look at the 21st season of this wonderful event in New Haven that runs from June 10-25

Interview with Cristina Sandolo, Executive Director of Green Village Initiative (GVI) gogvi.org

Today's "New Haven Mavens Radio Hour" focuses on GAMES -- the kind that involve fun, real life, real time interactions with real people.

The Mavens, Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea will be back on the air chatting with in-studio and call-in guests who have made it their business to entertain you, test your wits and make you think. Matt Fantastic (Matt Loter) from Elm City Games will be with us in the studio. Joining us on the phone will be Anthony Apuzzo of Digital Tracks Entertainment, Max Sutter ofEscape New Haven and Betsy Lerner, author of "The Bridge Ladies".

Host: Kevin Gallagher. My guest on Digging in the Dirt today is the fabulous North Fork Long Island farmer Steph Gaylor of Invincible Summer Farms. We are talking...tomatoes tomatoes and nothing but tomatoes.

Steph runs a heirloom tomato only CSA! Check us out here at 5pm on listener supported radio WPKN.

http://www.invinciblesummerfarms.com/

The Car Bob Show is a live call in automotive show on WPKN 89.5FM or WPKN.org.

Todays issue talked about the recent WPKN Car Bob bus trip to the The 2016 New York International Auto Show.

Other topics concerned head light safety issues and other call-in questions.

Topic: Social Justice and Unitarian Universalism

Guests Virginia Smith and Maureen Leahy of The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport discuss their upcoming Social Justice series.

For more info:

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport website:

http://www.uucgb.org/

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/UUCGB/?fref=ts

Click here for the flyer for the upcoming Social Justice series

My GM Report to the Listener today will be broadcast LIVE today from 12pm and 1pm and will also be available a bit later as a PODCAST. My guests include: Chris Mandell, the owner of Spoke & Wheel Bike Shop in Bridgeport and Rahz Branch from the bpt coop and bikeport coop.

Then, I’ll be joined in the studio by International Festival of Arts & Ideas representatives Tom Griggs, Director of Development and Chad Herzog, Director of Programming. We’ll talk about their recent kick-off event and take a look at the 21st season of this wonderful event in New Haven that runs from June 10-25.

Cristina Sandolo, the executive director of the nonprofit Green Village Initiative joins us to talk about their Resevoir Community Farm, Urban Roots Community Garden, School Gardens and Youth Leadership Programs.

River Cleanup-Naugatuck River event Sat 4/2 at 8am : meeting at the Thomaston Train station.(stopping at Watertown and Waterbury as cleanup sites,dceagle.com is where you will find 2 camera's with a look-see on an eagle family, Alewife(s) stuck at the Kinneytown Dam (A 1MW Hydro Dam)and it's impact on American Eel's otherwise known as Elvers, and other topics too many to name. Very informative and important to understand

Adam Pemberton: Redding-based member of the 2016 four-person American ‘Team Sherpa’ that participated this past February in the grueling Patagonian Expedition 500 mile Race in Chile with other members from Westport CT, (Jean Paul Desrosiers who owns Sherpa Fit in Westport) Andrew Pemberton from Boulder, CO and Elizabeth Moore from Montana.) This is called “The World’s Hardest Adventure Race” by Reuters as well as “The Last Wild Race” involving sea kayaking, mountain biking, trekking and extreme orienteering using ONLY a map and compass with NO trails.

On March 27, 2009, Co-hosts Steve di Costanzo and Eric Cocks of WPKN's RADIO BASE CAMP show interviewed the late Sky "Sunlight" Saxon, founder and frontman of The Seeds via telephone in Austin, Texas. It was one of his final interviews on radio. Sky spoke about a wide variety of subjects including life in Austin, spirituality, music and the upcoming California '66 Tour that was to feature Sky together with The Electric Prunes, LOVE with Johnny Echols & Baby Lemonade. We are saddened by the passing of Sky Saxon, who passed away on June 25, 2009. The California '66 Tour did take place and in Connecticut the bill included The Blues Magoos. Marc Rubinstein also prepared a full retro-light show- Marc one of the founders of the Pig Light Show