CFRU Mobile Community Radio

Original Recording Date: March 2018 Guests: (Brant Ave PS) Chris, Neil and Zac, (Arbour Trails) a performance and interview with Natasha Culibrk The beginning of the show takes us over to Brant Ave PS where Chris and Neil interview Zac. Then we head over to The Village of Arbour Trails retirement home for an interview with Natasha Culibrk; Natasha is a student here at the U of G, with a placement...

Original Recording Date : Spring 2018 Guest: Bill For this show my guest is Bill from The Village of Riverside Glen retirement home - a retired teacher from John F Ross here in Guelph.  Bill's a bit of a character, having fun over at Village of Riverside Glen meeting new people and getting used to the idea of retirement.  We bond over our shared histories with Kingston, and he even gave me a bit o...

Original Recording Date: January 2018 Guests: (At Brant) Abdullah, Maha and Nderim (At Village of Riverside Glen) Jack Stevenson and Cheryl Davis At Brant Ave PS Abdullah, Maha, and Nderim discuss their favourite and least-favourite parts of Running and Reading.  Their favourite part?  Running?  Their least favourite part?  The choices of books.  This is a precursor to the students' more in-depth...

Original Recording Date: January 2018 Guests: (At Brant) Iron, Neil, and Chris, (At Village of Riverside Glen) Ena For the first half, tune in to hear four students from Brant Ave PS, as well as volunteer Anna Bowen - super fun! Then the second half heads over to The Village of Riverside Glen to chat with Ena. Music by SanteriasBand, and Geordie and Evan Gordon. Hope you like it as much as I do!!!

Original Recording Date: January 2018 Guests: At Brant Ave PS, Hosts: Maha, Nderim, and Dustin, their guests: Caroline (reading tutor), Mr. Anderson (their principal), and Caden (a student).  At Riverside Glen: Ralph From January till the end of June I brought the Mobile Community Radio studio over to Brant Avenue Public School in Guelph, to teach students interview skills, as well as skills in re...

Original Recording Date: February 2018 Guest: Kevin Sutton On this episode, once again I am joined by Kevin Sutton, chatting about equity, anti-oppression and a variety of important topics. He has so many important messages and I felt very honoured to be part of this conversation. Tune in!

Original Recording Date: January 2018 Guest: “Girl Friday” (Anonymous Retirement Home Resident) This is another retirement home episode, but this one I’m keeping my guest and the home anonymous. My reason being, this woman would really prefer to not be at a retirement home at all. I wanted her to be able to speak freely […]

Original Recording Date: January 2018 Guest: Fran This is the debut episode from The Village of Arbour Trails Retirement home! Myself and CFRU volunteer Brady Patterson headed over and met up with resident Fran and had a wonderful chat about traveling the world, and life in Toronto, Guelph, and the retirement home. 

Original Recording Date: October and December 2017 Guests: Barbara, Kim Atkins This is the FINAL segment with Barb from NorfolkManor. The first half of the show is Part 7 of her epic tale of travel from England to India in the early 60's on a converted bus with her family and her friend's family. Then for the second half you'll hear recordings from a live performance from Kim Atkins, performing ov...

Original Recording Date: December 2017 Guests: Barbara from Norfolk Manor Retirement Home, Ferol from Onward Willow (rebroadcast)  This is part 6 of Barbara from NorfolkManor, telling the tales of her travel from England to India in 1962 with her family and friends in their bus.  The second half is a re-broadcast of a holiday story from Ferol last year over at Onward Willow Centre.

Original Recording Date: November 2017 Guests: Barbara, various folks from North End Harvest Market This episode is Part 5 of Barbara from NorfolkManor sharing her story of her travels in a converted bus from England to India in 1962 with her family and friend's family. A magical trip and equally magical telling of the story. The second half of the show is more recordings from our time over at Nor...

Original Recording Date: November 2017 Guests: Barbara, various participants from the North End Harvest Market, and volunteers Brady and Veronica The first half is from Norfolk Manor, and is Part 4 of Barbara's story of her travels from England to India on her bus in 1962. The second half of the show is a few assorted interviews from the North End Harvest Market, featuring CFRU volunteers Brady an...

Original Recording Date: November 2017 Guests: Barbara, various folks from the Pumpkin Promenade This is part 3 of Barbara over at NorfolkManor telling the story of her travels from England to India in a bus in the 60's. Herself, her husband, her three children, her best friend and best friend's husband and their child, purchased a bus and set out for New Zealand. It is truly magical. First half o...

Original Recording Date: November 2017 Guests: Barb, various guests from the North End Harvest Market This episode includes "Part 2" of Barbara from NorfolkManor reading to me from her book about her travels with her family and friends from England to India on their bus in 1962. It's a magical story (you can hear part 1 by visiting the archives from last week's episode at cfru.ca) The second part...

Original Recording Date: October and November 2017 Guests: Barbara from Norfolk Manor retirement home, Barb McPhee, a long-time Harvest Market Volunteer, and a visitor picking up their vegetables This episode features a visit to NorfolkManor retirement home, and our continued stay at the North End Harvest Market.  The first half is our first segment of a BEAUTIFUL story - Barbara's 1962 journey fr...

Original Recording Date: October 2017 Guest: Brady Patterson  It's the 100th episode! Our new Mobile Community Radio volunteer Brady Patterson interviews a few of our guests from the North End Harvest Market, then I interview him!  Thanks Brady!

Original Recording Date: October 17th 2017 Guest: Peter Peter is a resident over at Norfolk Manor, who has made his room his home, filling it with the things he loves - pieces of history, antiques, VHS, paintings and old photographs.  We talk about books, movies, his time as a newspaper reporter and his time running a theatre. And of course, his life in a retirement home.  

Original Recording Date: October 2017 Guest: Chelsea (from the "Neighbourhood Nexus" Program) This was a special episode recorded over two weeks of pumpkin carving at the North End Harvest Market, led by "Neighbourhood Nexus" participant and university student "Chelsea".  Chelsea grew up in Jamaica and brings her own special perspective to Halloween, ghosts, and helping your community.  Happy Hall...

Original Recording Date: October 19th, 2017 Guest: Myra Our trip to the Village of Riverside Glen was so successful, we are branching out to include seniors living in other retirement communities around Guelph.  This is our debut  episode from heading over to Norfolk Manor, and my guest is Myra.  I LOVED Myra.  Myra's stories of growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1930s, and tales of life at Nor...

Original Recording Date: September 13th Guests: Various organizers & project participants of "Living on Less" and the North End Harvest Market Our presence at the North End Harvest Market continues, this time capturing the recipe for making your own Laundry Detergent, as well as anecdotes from various folks waiting to collect vegetables from the North End Harvest Market.

Original Recording Date: August 23rd, 2017 Guests: Market volunteers, Barb McPhee, Living Better on Less coordinators If you follow along through our Mobile Studio history, you'll see that I spoke with founder Barb McPhee about the market, back when we had the mobile studio at Parkwood Gardens.  Well now we've finally gotten the chance to collaborate with the market for mobile recordings!   For th...

Original Recording Date: Thursday August 31st 2017 Guest: Dominica, Grange Hill East NG NSW (Neighbourhood Support Worker) This episode, I interview Dominica Mcpherson, Neighbourhood Support worker of Grange Hill East NG. We talk neighbourhood, community, neighbourhood coalition, and the complexity of helping support folks who need it while keeping yourself healthy too - all kinds of stuff!  I lov...

Original Recording Date: August 22nd Guests: ARCH - HIV/AIDS Resources and Community Health, Stonehenge Therapeutic Community, and HERE 24/7 This was my first visit over to the North End Harvest Market, located at Waverly Dr. Public School in North Riverside Neighbourhood Group. During this first visit, the North End Harvest Market was running their inaugural "Resource Fair" featuring approximatel...

Original Recording Date: June 19th 2017 Guest: Egor I met Egor over at Grange Hill East NG, and found out about his love for music, and encouraged him to come create a show.  And this is what he came up with!  Egor put together this amazing playlist - all "women with attitude" in music: punk, rock and anywhere in between.  Hope you like it as much as I do!  

Originally recorded June 22nd 2017 Guests: Pam, and Rhonda This was my final episode recorded out of the Grange Hill East NG - listen to hear Pam talk about Couponing, and Rhonda talk about the Grange Summer picnic! Hope you like it!  A mixture of super informative couponing passion, and some wonderful Grange history.