Welcome
Neighbors
Welcome
Neighbors
From all walks of life
Neighbors are often some of the most overlooked and neglected
people in our often busy lives. But, once in a while it's good
to slow down and say 'hello', and shoot the breeze. Getting to
know who our neighbors are is the surest path to peace and building community right here at home.
Welcome to the
Radio Neighborhood.
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Still sking, Ernie St. Germain and John Kotar (Coe-tar) are Birkebeiner Ski race founders. They are among the handful of skiers who have skied every race since the first American Birkebeiner race organized by the late visionary, Tony Wise more than thirty six years ago. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. |
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He's around sixty years old, but he's in great shape to ski
the 55 kilometer Birkebeiner Cross Country Ski marathon. Spooner
Wisconsin's St. Mary's Duluth Clinic hometown doctor Paul Goellner talks about
health and cross country skiing. and why he loves winter. click here to listen to and see the story |
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Living in northwestern Wisconsin Paul DeMain is the editor and
driving force behind the national newspaper “News From Indian Country.”
Paul DeMain practices native spirituality because he believes it’s a
good way to live. Nick Vander Puy of the Superior Broadcast Network visits with DeMain. click here to listen to and see the story |
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The story “Truck: A Love Story,” is a tender and very funny account about a year spent working in the garden, restoring a bright red 1951 International Harvester pickup truck, and falling in love. It was written by Wisconsinite Michael Perry, when he was a bachelor. A few years ago, Perry wrote Population 485: Meeting your Neighbors One Siren at a Time” about his experiences as a small town volunteer fireman and Emergency Medical Technician. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network talks with Perry about Wisconsin, funky repair shops, his young marriage and the joys of hauling gravel and deer from the woods with his truck. |
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Every Friday afternoon around dusk at a busy intersection in Hayward they hold signs and candles and vigil for peace. Their name is Peace North and they’re calling for an end to the slaughter in Iraq. And their numbers are growing. The week before Christmas Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast drank hot cider and milled around with more than eighty people calling for the troops to come home. |
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Hunting in Sweden and Wisconsin is similar in some ways. Hunting stories dominate conversation in the fall. Tom Heberlein is a retired UW Professor of Rural Sociology. He lives part of the year in Sweden studying hunting. During the fall he hunts birds and deer in Wisconsin. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network interviews Heberlein at his deer hunting shack near Cayuga. |
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Mary Ellen Ryall is establishing a monarch butterfly and native plant sanctuary right off the highway near Shell Lake, Wisconsin. Ryall wants to teach the public about native plants, diversity, and the healing power of butterflies. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network visited the butterfly's sanctuary.
Click here: To hear the butterfly story and
see pictures To learn more about Mary's butterflies www.happytonics.org |
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A folksinger/painter husband and wife team this past fall helped unite an Oconto Falls school by painting an all-school mural. The artistic team was brought in to help teach respect. As artists Skip Jones and Judy Gosz say,” When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts the circle of creation is completed inside of us and the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.” Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. |
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Higher fur prices are drawing more trappers into the woods. But, besides the money, Duane Poupart Sr. from the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwa reservation traps because it connects him to the land and a way of life. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network joins Duane Poupart Sr. on the trap line. |
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As the ice descends on northern Wisconsin lakes a tradition lives on at Lac du Flambeau, carving decoys for winter spear fishing. Underneath an alder and canvas teepee the fish shaped lure is lowered into an ice hole and jigged on the end of a small stick to attract muskie. Duane Poupart Sr. follows revered traditional carvers by using the Lac du Flambeau carving style. |
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Pat Manthey is an avian ecologist who cares for trumpeter swans because trumpeter swans were missing from Wisconsin and the DNR Bureau of Endangered Resources attempts to restore animals that were adversely impacted by humans. |
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Wisconsin Congressman Dave Obey is very concerned about global warming because he thinks if current trends continue there’ll be more serious storms and the oceans will rise flooding coastal regions. |
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Mike Miles is running for Congress in the Seventh District, as a Green Party candidate, because Miles thinks he’s more in tune with our declining fossil fuel energy future than long term Democrat Congressman Dave Obey. Having garnered almost ten percent the vote in the last election, Miles was able to leverage his entrance into this year’s Wisconsin Public radio debates with republican challenger Nick Reid and Congressman Obey. Miles is a fifty-three year old Catholic Worker, who opposes the war in the Middle East and has built an off the grid eco-village in western Wisconsin. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. |
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Tom Galazen produces organic food, off the electrical grid at North Wind Farm in Bayfield because it tastes delicious and is better for health and the earth. Tom Galazen raises organic apples, peaches, and berries on North Wind Farm near Bayfield, Wisconsin. He doesn’t use pesticides. He sells the healthy produce right at his farm and at Farmer’s Markets in town.. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. |
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