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Realtor Jim Duncan and mortgage broker Matt Hodges of Compass Home Loans join Rick Moore on the January 20th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to talk about what’s new in the area real estate market. The pair answer questions and give explanations of how to buy real estate and how current trends have affected professionals and influenced buyers of property.
Jim has a great summary of the show on his blog. Go and comment there!
On the January 13th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore is joined in studio by representatives of are organizations that serve the area’s poorest residents.
The five guests answer questions about getting along with neighbors, coordinating donors, maintaining shelter facilities and collecting and distributing food between agencies and other organizations.
For the New Year show, Lee Channing answers callers’ questions about family, career, personal challenges and mysteries. Particular callers ask about moving on from paralyzing breakups, reducing stress at work and in life, and anger management. Also covered are the meaning of color and the roles of chakras (zones of the body) in the life. She projects the nature of the coming year for individual callers and in general.
Have you ever wondered how to start your own business? The first edition of the Wake-Up Call in 2008 examines the stories of three local business owners who took the plunge.
Dan Epstein of Eppie’s on the Downtown Mall, Stefanie Marshall of M3 Marshall Contracting and Masonry, and Kirt Gray of Maggie Moo’s discuss some of the hurdles they had to overcome — location, staffing, parking, and regulations set out by the city and county.They also give advice on how you can go about following your passion and starting a business of your own.
On the December 9th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, Commonwealth Attorney-elect for Albemarle County Denise Lunsford joined Rick in the studio. She talks about her experiences with running in the highly contested race against Jim Camblos, and more generally about life in the public eye.
Rick opens the show with a monologue about gift giving.
Is there a level at which Albemarle County should stop growing? That’s the assertion of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP), a group that is studying how many people the area’s natural resources can support. Board members Jack Marshall , Tom Olivier, and Jeff Sobel join Rick Moore on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to talk about a sustainable population can be maintained, and how what ASAP is doing affects other counties. Callers also chime in with their questions and concerns as well.
This week on the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, two members of Who’s Watching Charlottesville? join host Rick Moore to talk about cyber security, and how to protect yourself in the digital world. Marty Peterman is an IT Security Officer from UVA, and Aaron Paula Thompson is with the UVA Community Credit Union; they try to educate people of all ages about topics like online shopping safety, protecting your password, and viruses.
On this program, Peterman and Thompson discuss wireless internet, cellular networking, and online banking, and other topics callers asked about. Find out all about these topics by listening to the podcast, and visiting the Who’s Watching Charlottesville Website.
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This week on the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Bob Girard and Charlie Pastorfield, two veterans of the Charlottesville music scene come on to talk about how local performers have changed over the past few decades. They also discuss the documentary Live from the Hook, about the history of Charlottesville’s musicians. The movie centers around Bob and Charlie, from when they met at the University of Virginia though all their musical exploits together since, but is really about all the musicians that have ever played in Charlottesville, and all that are to come. Find out more about the film, and the C’ville music scene in general – only on the WNRN’s Wake-Up Call.
This week on the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, local artists discuss the Frank Ix Project off the Downtown Mall. The Project will include seventeen acres of residential, business, and retail space, and calls into question the age-old debate about expansion and development. What can we expect from the complex?
John Owen of Live Arts, John St. Ous of Piraeus Pictures, and Leah Stoddard of the Second Street Gallery also respond to the question of how much “art” (films, plays, writers) Charlottesville can actually handle. Will more theatre productions distract the public from the theatres already in place, or can Charlottesville absorb any artistic venture that’s thrown at it?
Find out here, only on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.
Police Chief Timothy Longo talks about new developments in policing the city, particularly surveillance cameras on the mall. He also covers some of the old, perhaps underappreciated , challenges facing the police force.
Rick Moore writes a description of the July 15 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call:
“We’ll discuss UVa’s past and upcoming seasons on a handful of sports but the focus will be the chage in Scott Stadium season ticket seating for 2008.”
Four hot, funny, scary women give a peek into what girls talk about in private. Callers chime in to provide the heat.