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 THE WORLD PARTY NOW AIRS FOR 2 HOURS ON WCRS!

TUESDAYS from 7PM - 9PM

The World Party features energetic and eclectic dance and party music from all corners of the globe!

• Show 56 originally aired on July 12, 2011.

• Show 56 features international dance and party music originating from the Ivory Coast, Russia, United States of America, England, Spain, France, Romania, Australia, Sweden, and more. Cool music playing on radio stations and at festivals, bars and dance clubs all over the world!

Tonight on the Show:
The Bryan Award Nominations- Who are they? What are they?
Preview of the Primetime Emmy Nominations on Thursday- Who will get in?
Weekend Warrior Previews the Week's Events

This edition of Youth Beat Radio features many art-related pieces with independent spirits. First, Mad Mike reviews local independent movie theaters. Harrison Sydnor follows with an EcoBeat interview with the independent movie theater The Gateway Film Center. Then Youth Beat contributor Brenden Martin, East High School, shares two of his poems, and Yi-Ann Lii, Ohio State University, shares a creative essay about adjusting to life in Ohio. Anwar Nur, a contributor from Temple University, reviews independent musical artist Aloe Black's album "Good Things." Finally, Youth Beat reporter Bridgette Kreuz sits down with a dance student from Ohio State to learn more about her major.

Daniel Ingwerson
“The city has given a lot of support (for community gardens) vocally… but it’s often been more of a promise than a follow thru. Just this past year there was going to be $60,000 distributed to , I think, 50 gardens.

“I know of over a dozen community gardens that did not receive the grant that was announced on Earth Day by Mayor Coleman at Franklin Park. The got zip as far as money is concerned...that’s kind of disappointing.”

When the city spends $44 million on the new Scioto river way, and they can’t even put $50,000 into community gardens. That’s not saying much for the city’s real support…compared to other big cities Columbus is at the back of the pack (in its support for community gardens.)

“Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate what the city has done so far, but it’s nowhere near enough. Our food supply is not as safe and secure as some of us would like to think.”

Bob Fitrakis and Connie Gadell Newton interview Connie Everett and Susann Moeller about their activist efforts to promote a ban on plastic bags in Columbus, Ohio

7/5/11

Beans, zinnias, Thai chilis, pumpkins, cabbage, basil, sage and flowers are growing in the community garden in the parking lot of the Corner Stone Deli and Café in Clintonville.

“We set these 2 gardens up as an example of what you can do in a truly urban setting.
We’re completely surrounded by traffic, parking, and cement,” said Jean Bird, who coordinates gardens for the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center, aka CRC.

“We have lots of volunteers and children. Children have done quite a bit of our planting--children from the Kid’s Club that the CRC also sponsors.”

Bird said the crops were started as seedlings with help from homeless persons and children, as well as help from Jocelyn Smallwood (red shorts) and Hallie Foster, who are with the AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate Program.

Smallwood said she hasn’t worked in gardens before but is enjoying it.
“The garden programs are pretty cool. They’re all over the place. We have this one and a couple more. They need a lot of care. We have a lot of volunteers who work really hard, but it’s a bit of a challenge to get out to all of them and give them the attention they need.”

She and Foster are helping to fill the gaps in person-power for the gardens. But she encourages people interested in volunteering to contact the resource center.