Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Katie Bausler is a lifelong teller of stories on the page and aloud. Published written work includes columns, poems and essays in Alaska Dispatch, Stoneboat, Tidal Echoes and Alaska Women Speak.…
Juneau Afternoon
Funter Bay exhibit at the City Museum
Sheli DeLaney hosts on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. On Wednesday’s show, the City Museum will give us an update on the Funter Bay exhibit and online resources. The National Weather Service will let us know when spring will begin as part of Weather Wednesday. And we’ll hear from Sarah Everett, KRNN’s Thursday morning host of…
Community Connection: Jan Reece
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Jan Reece has lived in Juneau for ten years and has three adult sons. She graduated from the University of Alaska with a MPA and currently works as a Suicide Prevention…
Community Connection: Henry Leasia
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. My name is Henry Leasia, but my friends in Haines call me Leasia Keys because I love to play the keyboard. I grew up in Portland, Oregon and moved to Haines…
Sea Week celebrates 50 years
Sheli DeLaney hosts on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. On Tuesday’s show, organizers of Sea Week will highlight its 50 anniversary. We’ll hear from one of the facilitators of Juneau Mutual Aid; Juneau Trails and Road Runners will tell us how to participate in virtual races; And we’ll continue our daily updates with City Hall. That’s…
Community Connection: Tom Cosgrove
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Tom Cosgrove is a storyteller who passionately believes in the ability for stories to change hearts and minds. Through his work with Mudrooms, he has helped many people take their personal…
Community Connection: Lily Jo Ramsey
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. This poem is by Lily Jo Ramsey. She is eight years old from Haines, Alaska. Click here for instructions on how to submit your own Community Connection piece.
Community Connection: Mandy Ramsey
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Mandy is an artist, mother, organic gardener, massage therapist, photographer, yoga teacher and who likes to write. She has been living off the grid in Haines, Alaska since 2000 in the…
Community Connection: Andy Miller
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Andy Miller wrote his first song in high school when he was invited as a guest on a local public access television show in rural Minnesota. He has since written at…
Community Connection: Mo Longworth
Community Connection is a segment on KTOO’s Juneau Afternoon where listeners share personal stories, reflections, poetry or music about life in these strange times. Maureen Longworth is a playwright and activist in Juneau, Alaska. Click here for instructions on how to submit your own Community Connection piece.