Currently  approximately 60 percent, of children in the foster care system have no access to a CASA volunteer. That’s an estimated 400,000 children living without hope of having their voices heard or long-term needs met. 

 To  discuss CASA’s mission and upcoming Superhero Fun Run are NEGA CASA Executive Director Melissa Mitchell, and Board Members, Piedmont College Mass Communications Professor Dr. Janice Moss and Susan Smithpatrick.

A metallurgist and historical blacksmith by trade, White county resident Will King discusses why he began pirate re-enactments to help a local non-profit Back Pack Buddies, provide food and clothing for children in local northeast Georgia communities.

In an effort to increase awareness of marine life and oceanic conservation through her novels, Stephens county author CJ Matthew discusses her new paranormal romance suspense series, Dolphin Shore Shifters book one Blood Tide, which features a pod of shape shifting dolphins that pose as humans to protect the oceans at any cost.

Back in the Game Physical Therapy is a family owned and operated orthopedic physical therapy clinic located in Flowery Branch, Georgia. Owners Brendon Blake MSPT./ Cert. DN, and Gina Blake MSPT, discuss their unique approach in providing a bridge between injury and recovery to assist patients in gettting back to pre-injury status as quickly as possible.

History is in the making at Piedmont College, where the play “Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit” is returning to the stage 70 years after its Broadway premiere.  The play is based on Smith’s bold debut novel as it follows an interracial relationship in a small 1920s Georgia town and speaks to the effects of hate and separation on the lives of people and their communities. 

Thom Fogarty, Artistic director of the New York repertory theatre company 360repco, revised and restored the play to as close a representation of the original as possible.  He joins me in the studio to discuss the play’s rebirth and upcoming performances on October 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. and October 4th at 2 p.m. in the Swanson Center Mainstage Theater on Piedmont College Demorest Campus.