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News Correspondent Gerry Leonard speaks with David Forbes, who is the editor of the Asheville Blade. He gives us a recap of the City Council Meeting that took place on 06/11/2019. One of the main things they discuss is the budget. Get the full details below!
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News Correspondent Kirby Rucker got the chance to speak with Kim Bailey, who is the Pollinator Month coordinator for Hendersonville Bee City USA and the Hendersonville Tree Board. June is Pollinator Awareness Month, and we got the chance to speak about the importance of protecting our pollinators and recognizing all the work they do for us. We also spoke about some awesome events coming up in Hendersonville and Buncombe County throughout June. Listen to the full interview below!
Featured image courtesy of PestWorld.org
News Correspondent Sara Doverspike spoke with Angie Cathcart of the Asheville City Association of Educators (ACAE), who is the local affiliate of NCAE serving members teaching in Asheville City Schools. They are also the voice of public education for Asheville City Schools. We spoke about their policy demands that were recently presented in Raleigh. Hear the full interview below!
Featured image courtesy of ACAE’s Facebook page
News Correspondent Scott Owen got the chance to speak with Julia McDowell of Just Folks, a non-profit organization in Asheville focused on keeping black heritage alive by having community events. We talked about their community efforts and their Summer Series event in the Blocks Triangle Park. Listen to the full interview below!
Featured image courtesy of Just Folks’ Facebook page
by Stretch
A segment produced by Aisha and Rafrica Adams with Asheville Greenworks, where they offer a talk back feature about their experience recycling at home for Greenworks’ #flipyourlid challenge.
Asheville Greenworks offers that collective recycling is important in:
-Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators
-Conserving natural resources such as timber, water and minerals
-Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials
-Saving energy
-Helping create jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States
To learn more about this challenge, you can visit Ashevillegreenworks.com
by KP Whaley
In 2015, The Cathedral of All Souls, an Episcopalian church in Asheville, opened the Kairos Community Center in West Asheville to empower emerging local leadership through art, liturgy, and social service in the spirit of Jesus. The church’s Reverend Canon Milly Morrow and Reverend Canon Naomi Tutu talked with Local Fauna’s Kitty Love about the center and its mission.
“My work, which is also pastoral care,” said Morrow, “is to really be able to see people’s gifts for what they are, and then to help them offer that to the building of our congregation and to the building of the kingdom of God.”
Reverend Tutu explained the need from which the community center was born. “[It] was Milly’s brainchild and baby,” said Tutu. “A place that the church has offered as a space for the community to focus on—’What are the gifts as well as the needs of the community?’—and use that space to incubate ideas, and organization, and people that are about the work of economic and racial inequity.”
“There’s a nickname for our church—all sorts—for that very reason,” said Morrow. “Because we do strive to be inclusive and welcoming and open to everyone.” It was through that mission that the community center was founded.
“The congregation came to the realization that probably the largest challenges facing us as a church and the world are racial injustice and economic inequity,” said Tutu, “and so [we] wanted to be at the forefront of that struggle for justice.”
Tutu explained that she views placing racial and economic equity at the forefront of their mission as a way to return the church to its foundation. “The church’s DNA from our formation has been about justice. That is what Jesus taught. That is justice in the world, peace in the world, care for one another, and recognizing God in each other.”
The Cathedral of all Souls was built by George and Edith Vanderbilt in 1896, designed by the renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, who also designed the Biltmore House and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Listen to the full interview here.