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WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call: Preventing Teenage Drinking

What role should school systems play in fighting teenage drinking? That’s one of the questions explored in a panel discussion on alcohol held during the June 18 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Sue Friedman is the chair of the Albemarle County School Board. Frank Birkhead is a parent of a recently graduated student from Western Albemarle High School. Andrew Owen is the coach of the lacrosse team at Western Albemarle.

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The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard every week at 11:00 AM on WNRN.

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Two men dead in Albemarle County plane crash

Two men died this morning when a single-engine plane crashed into an Albemarle County field. County Spokeswoman Lee Catlin says the plane was from Central Virginia, but would not reveal their identities pending notification of next of kin. The bodies will be identified at the University of Virginia medical center this afternoon. Here’s a report from the scene.

Read up on the event at the Daily Progress, cvillenews.com and the Hook.

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Charlottesville–Right Now: “Blogfather” Jerome Armstrong on the future of the Democratic party in the digital age

The Internet helped propel the Howard Dean campaign into financial success, and Jerome Armstrong says the next successful presidential candidate will build on Dean’s success with the blogosphere. In 2001, Armstrong started the political blog MyDD, which inspired other Democrats to take up the practice. He’s written a book with Markos Moulitas (the guy behind Daily KoS) called Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots and the Rise of People Powered Politics. Armstrong is also working with former governor Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC. He spoke to Coy Barefoot on the June 6 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now about the future of the Democratic party in a digital age.

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Monticello Podcast: A look at the International Center for Jefferson Studies

A dozen years, several conferences, a score of books, and hundreds of scholars from twenty countries. Radio producer Sean Tubbs talks with Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies about the Center’s work fostering and sharing new Jeffersonian scholarship at home and abroad.



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Wake-Up Call with Starr Hill master brewer Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson grew up in Charlottesville, got a biology degree from James Madison University, moved to Portland, and became a brewer of beer. Now he’s the master brewer at Starr Hill Brewery in Charlottesville. On the first weekend of June, Mark joins Rick Moore to talk about this most delicious of beverages, and about starting your own business.

In the monologue, Rick talks about how the war in Iraq came home to him this week when his friend, CBS reporter, Kimberly Dozier, was injured in a roadside bombing.

The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard every week at 11:00 AM on WNRN.

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New podcast from Canine Campus

Canine Campus, an Earlysville-based dog obedience training company, has released its third podcast. From their website:

“In the third part of our series on adult and adolescent obedience, we’ll wrap up the class with a discussion on the difficulties of generalization, the life cycle of a behavior (“from new to known”), the different types of rewards we use to encourage desired behaviors, and a few more tips on capturing behaviors for recall and house training.”