September 2006 Show Archives
Week 1 Show 0636
El Reno Main Street Program
El Reno is being nationally recognized after receiving the Great American Main Street Award this summer. This award honors a community's successful efforts in revitalizing a commercial district through historic preservation.
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Main Street Programs' Success
El Reno isn't alone with it's main street success, Stillwater joined six other oklahoma mainstreet towns that have invested 15 million back into their community. State main street staff members Alice Johnson and Tracey Cox talk about there programs success.
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Hunting Leases
Duncan's Gary Kohout talks about the Snapshot Sniper, a trail camera with an infrared sensor that could improve the odds for hunting success in this booming industry.
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Duck and Goose Blinds
Colton Castle, a Cherokee High School FFA member, learned how to run his duck and goose blind business near the Salt Plains from his grandfather.
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Wildlife
According to the Center for the Study of Rural America, revenue from the leasing of land for wildlife purposes, now equals traditional livestock grazing leases. From products to services, wildlife recreation generates more than one $1.4 billion dollars in economic activity.
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World Equestrian Games
Reining is a sport with headquarters in Oklahoma City, boasting members from nearly 40 countries. Russia is not one of those countries yet. To increase worldwide participation for the Olympic Reining bid process, a group of reining enthusiasts went to Moscow to meet with top Russian horse industry officials.
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Interview with Dan Wall
Dan Wall, Executive Director of the National Reining Horse Association, talks about the sport and how it has grown.
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Week 2 Show 0637
Starting Over
A family from evacuees from Hurricane Katrina are starting over in Perkins, Oklahoma. Cassandra Allen, matriarch of the family, says that two essential necessities helped her to make it through Katrina's aftermath. Her faith and gospel lyrics she carries.
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Pilot Tribute
On September 11, 2001, an airline pilots life ended in the brutal struggle for control of his hijacked plane. While his life did end on that fateful day, his life's impact did not.
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Interview with Albert Ashwood
Conversation with the director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM).
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Flower Power
Thad Doye grew his first crop of sunflowers, pressed the seed for oil, and ran his tractor on what he got for a high school science project. Since then, his prize winning project has earned him a college scholarship, and could be the route to greater economic sustainability for rural Oklahoma.
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Week 3 Show 0638
Prom Wishes
Tiffany Grant, founder of the four-year-old non-profit, organization in Sperry provides full prom attire and accessories to financially stressed youth. This teen-run operation has granted prom wishes to 397 teens from 44 Oklahoma towns including four males.
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Tractor Donation
Meeker's agricultural education program has a new vintage tractor donated by the Oklahoma Farming Heritage Association to help teach both mechanics and history.
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Interview with Gary Perry
Gary Perry a member of the Oklahoma Farming Heritage Association talks about their activities.
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New Again--Vintage Tractors
Some of Oklahoma's teens are turning their attention away from video games to focus on rebuilding tractors.
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Boot 'n Saddle
Green Country Technology Center saves the only boot and saddle-making school in the U.S. from becoming extinct by taking a dying art form and giving students the opportunity to succeed.
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Copper Theft
Thieves in the recent outbreak of copper thefts at electrical stations are being warned about this potentially deadly crime.
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Rural Crime
Historically, rural residents have enjoyed lower rates of crime than their city neighbors, but this appears to be changing. We look at what's being done to fight it.
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Week 4 Show 0639
Future of Fuel
A look at the future of fuel, and see how new technology and new opportunities could determine the future of fuel in the sooner state.
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Interview with David Fleishaker
Oklahoma's Secretary of Agriculture, David Fleishaker, talks about the future of fuel.
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Energy Independent--Brazil
Brazil's government determined during the gas crisis of the 1970's, they needed to be energy independent. Today, sugar cane ethanol now accounts for nearly forty percent of Brazil's transportation needs.
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Food vs Fuel--Interview with Mike Krueger
In this country, corn continues to be a predominant ingredient in ethanol, and some question whether we can even grow enough of it to meet both our food and energy needs. We discuss this issue with USDA chief economist, Keith Collins, and Michael Krueger, the founder and president of the grain marketing firm called the money farm.
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Energy Savings--Heat Pump Energy
An oklahoma man that is often referred to as the godfather of heat pumps, says there is a cheaper, more energy-efficient way to do what the conventional heating and air conditioners now do. All it takes is old school technology and good ol' mother earth.
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