RESILIENCE RESEARCH CENTER BREAKS GROUND

Guests: Kate Stalker, Project Manager

Cora White, Neighborhood Advocate

The Center for Resilient Cities, a Madison and Milwaukee-based nonprofit whose mission is to help urban citizens and governments create healthy, economically attractive, sustainable environments, just broke ground on one of their largest projects. The Resilience Research Center will turn a four-acre site on Madison's South Side just off the Beltline at Badger and Rimrock Roads into an innovative and vibrant hub where multi-generations will learn and thrive. The first phase, planned to open in the fall of 2011, will house a project-based charter school (Badger Rock Middle School), a neighborhood center and commercial kitchen. The Center will also house neighborhood-focused businesses, an MG&E Energy Services Center and several acres of hear-round urban agriculture.

This visionary concept in building sustainable communities will offer hands-on learning centered around food production, healthy eating and living, energy and water use, and breathing new life into distressed neighborhoods. Researchers from UW-Madison and Milwaukee and Edgewood College have signed on to study the Center's innovative programming and its impact on this multicultural, multi-generational neighborhood. Kate Stalker and Cora White describe how this Center of Tomorrow has become a reality today.

For more information, go to www.resilientcities.org

I LOVE YOU...WHO ARE YOU?

Guest: Patti Kerr, writer, caregiver and author

After a professional career as a writer, Patti Kerr's life took an unexpected turn when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She spent the next six years helping her father care for her mother. Realizing the unique challenges of caregiving, Patti put on her writer's hat soon after her mother's death and interviewed other children and grandchildren who had cared for a parent with Alzheimer's.

In 2010, "I Love You, Who Are You?: Loving and Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer's" was released. In the book, Patti Kerr shares wisdom she gained as well as that of the caregivers and professionals she interviewed. "The book will guide them from initial diagnosis to the end of the journey," says Kerr. Patti Kerr shares some of her insights on this radio program.

For more information, visit www.pattikerr.com or email kerr.patti@yahoo.com.

THE 2011 AMERICAN RED CROSS REAL HEROES

Guests: Molly Kelly, Special Events Manager - American Red Cross, Badger Chapter
Caden Collins - Youth Good Samaritan
Judy Braham - From the Heart Hero

Each year, the Badger Chapter of the American Red Cross honors several people and a corporation for their individual acts of demonstrating that - YES, one person CAN make a difference. This year is no exception. Molly Kelly, Special Events Manager of the Badger Chapter brings the 2011 Real Heroes to life, describing the heroism of Joyce Phillips, the Adult Good Samaritan, who saved a man's life; Bill Troxel, Community Hero, who provided 155 families with Thanksgiving dinner; Dr. Elizabeth Pritts and Dr David Olive, Health Care Heroes, who went to Haiti to provide medical care, and Ho-Chunk Gaming - Wisconsin Dells, Corporate Real Hero, who completely funded a Disaster Shelter Trailer.

Caden Collins, Youth Good Samaritan, tells his story of how he wanted to help the children in Haiti when he heard they were without toys because they fell through cracks in the earth. At age six, he took his concern to his Pastor, and the adults listened. Caden's Fund for the Children of Haiti raised $8000 for toys and playground equipment.

Judy Braham, From the Heart Hero, began donating blood in 1985. In 1990, learning she was a great candidate for removing platelets from the blood, Judy has donated life-saving platelets over 400 times and has donated bone marrow for a patient with leukemia.

The American Red Cross Badger/South Central Wisconsin Chapter serves 13 counties plus Whitewater and South Beloit, IL.

THE POSITIVE TRUTH ABOUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Guests: Meg Robertson, Nurse Practitioner and lead clinician
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin

Tanya Atkinson, Executive Director
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin

For almost a century in the U.S. and 75 years in Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood has been the leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate. One in five women in the U.S. has visited a Planned Parenthood center. Every year, Planned Parenthood affiliates provide: contraception to nearly 2.5 million patients; more than 1.1 million pregnancy tests; nearly one million Pap tests, identifying about 93,000 women at risk of developing cervical cancer; 830,000 breast exams; nearly 4 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; more than 1.5 million emergency contraception kits, and education and school-based programs to nearly 1.2 million people. In addition, Planned Parenthood provides prenatal care, immunizations, high blood pressure, anemia and diabetes screenings, counsels people about smoking cessation and obesity, and connects them to other primary-care providers and social services.

These services are now at risk as Congress and our State Legislature contemplate cutting federal and state funding for Planned Parenthood. This radio program discusses the multiple health services provided and the five myths about Planned Parenthood including the role and separation of abortion from the totality of care provided.

More information can be found at www.ppwi.org.