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Asheville FM Seeks Board Members!

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We are pleased to announce that 103.3 Asheville FM is looking for members of our community to serve as Board members to guide our vision and fulfill our inclusive and progressive mission. The Mission of Asheville FM is to keep Asheville thriving by producing diverse and eclectic programming that inspires our listeners to build connections across our communities and to discover new music and ideas. We do this by producing diverse, insightful and relevant news, talk, sports and music programming.

Board members attend meetings (6 per year) and serve on a committee and participate in fundraising, with the primary responsibility of providing leadership, vision and direction. Board members also develop and recruit volunteer leaders, oversee and procure financial resources, support our general manager, staff and volunteers; and ensure that programming achieves AFM’s mission.Asheville FM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

Being on the board of Asheville FM is rewarding in so many ways! And fun! In addition to helping guide an important community resource, you will be making connections with other volunteers in our family and the Asheville community in general, and also learning about how local community radio serves the Asheville area. Asheville FM is a vibrant organization, our station is solvent and growing; and we need intelligent, passionate leaders to help shape our future.

Board members also attend our casual station get-togethers and other functions and get to know the members of our extended family.

Please consider a seat on our Board today! We would love the opportunity to share our future plans with you. Please send your email of interest to [email protected], and we will send you a short application.

Thank you for your consideration!

-kp

Asheville FM Record Release & Listening Party

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On Friday December 16, 2022 Asheville FM will host a Listening Party at Citizen Vinyl, 14 O’Henry Street celebrating the release of “Real People Great Radio Volume 1”, a compilation LP that showcases some of Asheville North Carolina’s most exciting new groups and performers. The project was made possible through a partnership with Drop of Sun Studios, where the songs were produced and recorded and Citizen Vinyl, where the albums were manufactured.

The listening party will spin both sides of the LP and also include live performances by 3 of the artists on the record; Fleur Geurl, Astoria, and gator pools (which includes Sarah Louise, Dave Portner, and Ryan Oslance).

The free event will be held from 5-7pm and the record will be available for purchase. Bun Intended food truck will also be serving food on site.

Asheville FM News Hour – 2022 local elections interviews – city council and mayor

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Members of the News Team interviewed all candidates for City Council who responded to our requests for an interview. We asked all the candidates the same questions, and their responses are unedited.

The hosts of The Horse’s Mouth invited both mayoral candidates for interviews, and Kim Roney accepted.

Andrew Fletcher’s interview:

Allison Scott’s interview:

Maggie Ullman’s interview:

Nina Tovish’s interview – begins at :15  :

Kim Roney’s interview:

Asheville FM News Hour – last night’s news broadcast – 11.2.22

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Last night, our coverage included an environmental report on banning plastic bags in Asheville, the Healthy Asheville Report, and an Arts and Entertainment Spotlight on the discussion series, Music To Your Ears, hosted by Bill Kopp, which looked at the rock ‘n’ roll/doo wop band, Sha Na Na.

New federal program grants billions of dollars for clean energy-powered school buses

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WASHINGTON, DC – October 26, 2022 – More children will be able to ride to and from school in ‘clean’ school buses because of the new federal Clean School Bus Program. Grants of $1 billion have been appropriated to almost 400 school districts spanning every state, the District of Columbia, several indigenous tribes and a few U.S. territories to purchase about 2,500 ‘clean’ school buses. Vice President Kamala Harris and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Michael Regan announced the grants on October 26th. The EPA had 2 thousand applications requesting almost $4 billion for 12 thousand buses. The White House said that 99% of the approved applications were from school districts serving low-resource, rural or tribal students. The funds are from the bipartisan infrastructure law signed last year by President Biden which will provide for a total of $5 billion. The remaining $4 billion of funds will be appropriated over the next 4 years. These funds should jump start the electric vehicle industry for school buses and invest in the country’s economy by providing for more well-paying jobs. Most of the school buses will be electric-powered. Almost 25 million children ride in school buses every school day. Many of the buses will be delivered by the start of the 2023 school year and the remainder by the end of 2023.

Traditionally, school buses have been diesel-powered, contributing to climate change through green-house gas emissions and vehicular air pollution through toxic gas and particle emissions. The polluting school buses can adversely affect the health of its passengers. Only 1% of the nation’s 480 thousand school buses are electric so there has become a large effort by environmentalists and public health groups to replace the aging and contaminating fleet. This changeover is consistent with the Biden administration’s efforts to transition to zero-emissions vehicles to drastically reduce these noxious emissions. Clean school buses will reduce pollution near schools and neighboring communities and protect children’s health by providing a pollution-free environment for children who ride in the buses.

Molly Rauch, public health policy director for Moms Clean Air Force, says that “It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution. Our kids, our bus drivers and our communities deserve better.”

 

Listen to the full report below:

 

 

Contact: Dr. Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, [email protected]


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The Buncombe County COVID-19 Weekly Update: Low Community Level & new boosters

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ASHEVILLE, NC – October 26, 2022 – The CDC reports that the community level for Buncombe County is low for the week ending October 24th. All of North Carolina is low with all 100 counties at a low community level. Most of the counties in the U.S. are at a low level with less than 3% of the counties at a high level. For a community at a low community level, the CDC recommends:

  • You may choose to wear a mask at any time as an additional precaution to protect yourself and others.
  • If you are at high risk for severe illness, consider wearing a mask indoors in public and take additional precautions.

The Buncombe County COVID-19 metrics are on the North Carolina COVID Dashboard. Data from the week ending on October 22nd indicate:

  • There have been 75 cases per 100,000 residents in the last 7 days down 18% from the previous week.
  • 67% of the total population have received their primary vaccination series. Unchanged over the past 11 weeks.
  • 18% of people with their primary vaccination series have had the new bivalent booster up 13% from two weeks ago.
  • The seven-day daily average of COVID-19 hospitalizations is 43 and has increased by 2 since last week, and of ICU patients is 6 and has decreased by 1 from the previous week.

The Department of Health and Human Services recommends:

  • Stay up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.
  • People with any COVID symptoms should get tested
  • People who are positive for COVID-19 or do not feel well should stay home

Vaccination sites and testing sites can be located through the North Carolina and Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services.

An updated COVID-19 booster is now available for eligible persons 5 years and older. This new booster is bivalent, which means that it targets 2 versions of the COVID virus, the original virus and the new dominant BA.4 and BA.5 variants. It will replace the previous booster shot that had targeted only the original version of the virus. However, the original vaccine will still be used for persons who have not received the primary vaccination series. Eligible persons must be at least 2 months after any prior COVID-19 shots and have had the primary vaccination series. The CDC advises that people who recently had COVID consider delaying their boosters until 3 months after their symptoms started or after a positive COVID test if they were asymptomatic. Booster shots are available at the Department of Public Health Coxe Avenue vaccination clinic, pharmacies, community health centers and rural health clinics.

 

Listen to the full report below:

 

 

Contact: Dr. Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, [email protected]


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