June 2005 Show Archives
Week 1 Show 0522
Wind Power (View Video)
The community of Woodward is learning to embrace its windiness since becoming home to the Oklahoma Wind Energy Center.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Wind Energy Fact Sheet
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Kids Cafe Garden Project (View Video)
Hunger in Oklahoma is a battle being waged on several fronts. See how a gardening project at the Presbyterian Urban Missions for kids who are at risk is teaching children the importance of nutrition while also providing them with gardening skills they can use into adulthood.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Regional Food Bank
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Week 2 Show 0523
RevTech (View Video)
When the Wrangler plant closed in Coalgate and 300 jobs left for foreign soil, the people in this small town were determined to not let their town dry up. They set their sights on preparing for a high tech world.
For more information visit these links:Coalgate, Oklahoma
Rural Enterprise, Inc (REI)
Oklahoma Department of CareerTech
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Week 3 Show 0524
Immigration Nation (View Video)
The United States is an immigration nation. Nearly all of us can trace some of our lineage to immigrants and while every family tree has a different story, most roots here in Oklahoma are less than a century old. Yet what we have seen in the past decade is a dramatic increase in immigration. And nowhere has that growth been more dramatic than in the Oklahoma panhandle. We look at how the influx of immigrants looking for work has impacted the town of Guymon.
For more information visit this link:Guymon Chamber of Commerce
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Immigrant Workers (View Video)
Since 1990, our state has seen close to a doubling of our immigrant population. Oklahoma is now home to about one hundred thirty-two thousand foreign born residents. And of these, the immigration and naturalization service estimates about fifty thousand are illegal aliens. Many coming here to work in agricultural related jobs.
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Housing Help (View Video)
As population increases, affordable housing is often difficult to come by. But in Guymon, Oklahoma, work is underway to provide not only affordable housing, but a home that the working poor can call their own.
For more information visit this link:Texas County Mutual Self Help Program
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Interview with Brent Kisling--Housing Help (View Video)
We visit with USDA's Brent Kisling about self-help housing programs.
For more information visit this link:Texas County Mutual Self Help Program
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Guymon Agriculture (View Video)
Agriculture is big business in Guymon, Oklahoma. When it comes to ag reciepts, the money that springs from farming, in and around Guymon, puts Texas County in the top twenty of ag production. Not just in Oklahoma, but in the nation.
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Oklahoma Profile: Jim Halsey (View Video)
We meet Jim Halsey, a truly unique individual who has quietly made a significant mark in the music business for more than sixty years.
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Week 4 Show 0525
Isreal's Desert Bloom (View Video)
Israel is a country one-ninth the size of Oklahoma. Thanks to technology, Israel produces most of its own food and exports close 2.5 billion in agriculture-related products every year.
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Technology Exchange--Yogurt Cheese (View Video)
With the help of an Israeli Kibbutz, an Oklahoma farmer has transformed his dairy into a more profitable food processing company. Ron and Barbara Crain, Goulty, added a production facility to their existing dairy and are now producing Wagon Creek Creameries Yogurt Cheese.
For more information visit this link:Wagon Creek Creamery
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Bright Idea: Dock and Groundload Conversion System (View Video)
Oklahoma rancher, LeRoy Stotts woke up in the middle of the night with an idea of a portable loading chute. Now he markets his invention nationwide, the Dock and Groundload conversion system.
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