Parksville, BC, Canada / The Lounge 99.9
Mar 5, 2021 1:55 PM
Tucked into a suburban Chicago train station may appear to be an unassuming coffee shop. But whatâs going on behind the scenes is much more than just your average cup of Joe. For the seventh year in a row the shopâs owner Pilot Pete, a.k.a. Peter Thomas, has been the driving force behind âCoffee With a Purposeâ, an annual community initiative that collects and distributes coats and other necessities to help the local homeless population brave the harsh Midwest winters. Thomas says the idea came to him when he was trying to find a way to give back to the community as well as get others involved. He admits he was initially unprepared for the positive avalanche of responses. In the weeks prior to Christmas in the driveâs first year, he and other volunteers took in 3,000 coats. This year, for drive number seven, Thomas and crew helmed the Coffee With a Purpose command center from the back of a 26-foot
Parksville, BC, Canada / The Lounge 99.9
Feb 26, 2021 1:22 PM
For children raised in the Jewish faith, a bar or bat mitzvah is the celebration of the symbolic passage into adulthood. While at age 13, weâre not truly grown up, we can begin to see our place in the larger world. What Lindsay Sobel saw in the months leading up to her own bat mitzvah was that a life of privilege wasnât a blessing that everyone sharedâand she was determined to do something about it. As she became increasingly aware of the day-to-day hurdles homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles faced, one thing Sobel saw time and again was how many lacked proper footwear. âI noticed a lot of them were in really awful living conditions, no way any person should have to live. On top of that, I noticed a lot of them did not even have shoes on,â she said in an interview with A Mighty Girl. âAt 12 years old, I was like, âWow, people donât have shoes?â It kind of put
Parksville, BC, Canada / 88.5 The Beach
Feb 26, 2021 1:29 PM
When a koala was found next to its dying mother, becoming an orphan wasnât its only misfortune. The rescuer also noticed the marsupial was missing a foot. Luckily, of all people, a local dental prosthetist has been able to help this little one out. The story of how the prosthetist managed to save the day is an amazing one. The koalaâs helper, Marley Christian from Friends of the Koala, was doing her best for Triumph the koala. Sheâd been using dollsâ socks to cover his stumpâa birth defect. The socks seemed to help clear the discomfort Triumph appeared to feel whenever he tried to put weight on the limb, but Christian felt she couldnât stop there. She began searching the internet for pet prosthetists that might be able to craft an artificial limb. But for a koala, there was nothing to be found. âWe were told it had not been done and it could not be done,â Ms Christian said.
She was one of the voices that defined music in the 1970’s and continues t5o be enjoyed all these years later. Carly Simon is the artist of the week.
Carly was born In The Bronx in 1945, Her mother a civil rights activist, and her father, a co-founder of publisher Simon and Schuster, as well as a classical pianist. A childhood trauma led to Carley developing a stammer, which she managed to control by singing. She wrote and sang songs for much of her life, even performing with her sister Lucy, as The Simon Sisters in the mid 60’s.
Real success came later though when Carly released her debut solo album in 1971, “Carly Simon”, and scored a Grammy win for best new artist and a best female vocal nomination. It also contained her first top 10 hit: “That’s The Way I Always Hear It Should Be”. She continued to enjoy success through the 70’s as one of it’s brightest stars, and released albums well into the 2000’s including an album of pop standards. Along with nume