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Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. |
| Radio Return to index of stories... |
We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. |
| Spring Return to index of stories... |
And later, in search of the first signs of spring. |
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Hello. I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. We begin with an experiment with special family courts that could soon spread statewide. That's the intent of a bill debated at the statehouse today. As Richard Ager reports, the pilot program began 8 years ago and has involved thousands of cases. |
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Reporter: Since 1996, special family courts.and other family matters. Track: Many legislators now say the experiment has run long enough. It's time to fish or cut bait.or make it permanent. Track: The head of the state's courts agrees - and John Broderick made that message the focus of his first testimony before a legislative committee in his role as chief Justice. The Superior Court docket.on marital cases. As all of you know, marital and family cases constititute an increasing.intend to make it work. Track: To make it work, the court has appointed a committee to draw up a plan to expand famly courts statewide. Marital Master Pam Kelly is on that committee. She says family courts serve a special need. Track: The committeee will have to address complaints about the Grafton County family courts, but overall the legislature supports expansion. I think now that there's a better relationship.family courts throughout the state. Track: If the bill passes, the committee should have a plan by December to expand family courts statewide. For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. |
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Next, as the state's elderly population grows, so too does the need for long-term care. Many older and disabled people don't want to move to a nursing home. Over 32-thousand granite staters receive professional care in their homes. But these options may disappear if state lawmakers don't increase funding. Home health care advocates are holding forums around the state to draw attention to the crisis. Julie Donnelly has a personal story from Strafford County. |
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Extra dollars will be hard to come by in New Hampshire, since the budget deficit is estimated at just over 52-million dollars. Speaking recently at a forum in Strafford County, State Senator Richard Green was "candid" with home health care advocates who are hoping for "more" funding from the state, not less. |
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The recent Home Health Care forum in Strafford county is just one of several meetings that are planned around the state to get legislators and community leaders thinking about how best to manage the health care needs of our homebound neighbors. |
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The next time you're driving through Concord, tune your radio into 94.7 FM and you'll hear a new station on the air - W-C-N-H. It's a classical music station and the people there are doing things a little differently. |
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N1 - Christi Reed is a Concord lawyer. Step into her office and you're likely to hear music - classical music. Christi "Excellent background listening, very soft, very soothing, beautiful for the beginning of the day sort of get you mind ready for work or for the end of the day after its been a long day." N2 - Until recently, Reed had to get her daily fill of classical music on her drive to work from Nashua. She was unable to find a radio station that played it in the Concord area. Christi Talk about the commute and the classical listening N3 - That's changed thanks in part to this man. Harry Kozlowski is president of WCNH. It's the newest radio station in Concord. And all they play is classical music. Harry "I get calls everyday from people that love the radio station and have the own favorites they want to hear and we play their requests that they want to hear." N4 - Kozlowski doesn't have his own music library yet. So every morning he raids NH Public Radio's. Harry "This music has been sitting here for 3 years since NPR went to all talk. And even longer because they have been running everything off satelite. But this treasure trove of music was made available to us" N5 - NHPR once broadcast hours of classical music every day. Three years ago, however, talk radio took over and classical music was out. So, Kozlowski and public radio formed a partnership. Mark Handley "We provide the station with access to our record library. We have a massive classical music and jazz library. They have access to that." Harry "I take one or two selections of every cd which gives us any where between 15-16 hours of programming" Dissolve to WCNH N6 - That programming originates here. WCNH shares this building with a stone cutter. This is the broadcast center. Harry "We're at the studio of WCNH. What used to be a dark room and now has been turned into a radio studio and transmitter room. We're a no thrills radio station nor do we need to be, radio is invisible and as long as things work it doesn't matter what they look like or where there located this site suits all out needs. There is no waste here." N7 - This is what's called Low Power FM. While the average commercial station broadcasts with 50,000 watts of power, WCNH has 18. Harry "It's a new class radio station created by the government a 3 years ago to give local radio station access to the airwaves. They are stations with no largest the 100 watts of power, and fit in between the large commercial station on the band. Its taken them 3 years to issue the first wave of licenses there are 7 including ours in NH." N8 - The CDs that Kozlowski borrows from NHPR are downloaded into this computer. It'll play for as long as it has power. There are no lunch breaks for this DJ. Harry "If I didn't show up it would loop over and over again. So I try to come every day so it only loops once or twice. Unless you're listening 24 hours a day you don't hear much repetition." N9 - Donations helped put the station on the air in late February. Harry "It cost $17,000 to build our station. I've heard of stations doing it for less. You're looking at least $10,000 for equipment. Depending on situation, we did not have to build a tower, we rent this tower. Can you make a living out of this? We will find out…HAHAHA." N10 - But there will be a day, Kozlowski believes, when they'll be able to move out of this closet. Perhaps even have a live host. Harry "Right now we're learning to crawl. We have plans to develop more and add special features. Live symphonies, opera. We want to do more local programming were in the process of interviewing local hosts and ideas of shows. We want to highlight local musicians at all levels." N11 - For now, Christi Reed and other classical music fans living within 5 miles of this tower, can sit back, relax and enjoy the music. Christi "What I like about WCNH fun music, happy music, go get them music, a lot of popular music that people can really enjoy. I don't have a background in classical music but I can enjoy the beautiful songs." |
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Finally, in case you missed it this past weekend, spring is officially here. And none too soon. Producer Chip Neal takes us to the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to show us some early signs of spring with Senior Naturalist Dave Erler. |
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Spring Chip Neal visits with Squam Lakes Science Center senior naturalist to look for some early signs of spring. They talked about Stone Flies and Snow Fleas as well as the budding pussey willows. And finally, spent some time cleaning out some bird boxes. |
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That is it for this edition of our program. For information and links to our guests and interviews, connect with us on-line at nhptv.org. Join our online discussion and tell us what's on your mind. You can also find streaming video of all our broadcasts. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - The art and science of Maple Sugar Production in the Granite State. We'll meet some of the people and see some of the places that produce that highly prized liquid gold. I hope you'll join me for this special edition. |
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We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. The art and science of Maple Sugar Production in the Granite State. Meet some of the producers of that highly prized liquid gold. Tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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While Chip was there he met two 3 1/2 month old mountain lions that will be the main attraction in a new Mountain Lion Exhibit scheduled to open later this spring. These mountain lions were orphaned in Montana and came here to the Science Center when they were 8 weeks old. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 03:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. We begin with an experiment with special family courts that could soon spread statewide. That's the intent of a bill debated at the statehouse today. As Richard Ager reports, the pilot program began 8 years ago and has involved thousands of cases. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Richard Ager\NH Outlook, Rep. John Pratt\D - Walpole, John Broderick\Chief Justice - NH Supreme Court, Pam Kelly\Marital Master, Rep. Henry Mock\Chair - House Judiciary Cmte Sen. Robert Clegg\Senate Majority Leader |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 03:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. We begin with an experiment with special family courts that could soon spread statewide. That's the intent of a bill debated at the statehouse today. As Richard Ager reports, the pilot program began 8 years ago and has involved thousands of cases. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Richard Ager\NH Outlook, Rep. John Pratt\D - Walpole, John Broderick\Chief Justice - NH Supreme Court, Pam Kelly\Marital Master, Rep. Henry Mock\Chair - House Judiciary Cmte Sen. Robert Clegg\Senate Majority Leader |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 07:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. Next, as the state's elderly population grows, so too does the need for long-term care. Many older and disabled people don't want to move to a nursing home. Over 32-thousand granite staters receive professional care in their homes. But these options may disappear if state lawmakers don't increase funding. Home health care advocates are holding forums around the state to draw attention to the crisis. Julie Donnelly has a personal story from Strafford County. Extra dollars will be hard to come by in New Hampshire, since the budget deficit is estimated at just over 52-million dollars. Speaking recently at a forum in Strafford County, State Senator Richard Green was "candid" with home health care advocates who are hoping for "more" funding from the state, not less. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Pat Meiklejohn\Home Care Patient, Julie Donnelly\NH Outlook, Pat Currier\Licensed Nursing Asst, Norma Juneau\Nurse,Sen. Richard Green\R- Strafford County |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 07:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. Next, as the state's elderly population grows, so too does the need for long-term care. Many older and disabled people don't want to move to a nursing home. Over 32-thousand granite staters receive professional care in their homes. But these options may disappear if state lawmakers don't increase funding. Home health care advocates are holding forums around the state to draw attention to the crisis. Julie Donnelly has a personal story from Strafford County. Extra dollars will be hard to come by in New Hampshire, since the budget deficit is estimated at just over 52-million dollars. Speaking recently at a forum in Strafford County, State Senator Richard Green was "candid" with home health care advocates who are hoping for "more" funding from the state, not less. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Pat Meiklejohn\Home Care Patient, Julie Donnelly\NH Outlook, Pat Currier\Licensed Nursing Asst, Norma Juneau\Nurse,Sen. Richard Green\R- Strafford County |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 06:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. The next time you're driving through Concord, tune your radio into 94.7 FM and you'll hear a new station on the air - W-C-N-H. It's a classical music station and the people there are doing things a little differently. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Christi Reed\Lawyer,Harry Kozlowski\WCNH President, Mark Handley\NHPR President |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/23/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 04:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Is a crisis looming in funding for home health-care services? We'll see why home care advocates and their patients are concerned. We'll hear the sounds of low power radio playing to listeners in a whole new way. And later, in search of the first signs of spring. Finally, in case you missed it this past weekend, spring is officially here. And none too soon. Producer Chip Neal takes us to the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to show us some early signs of spring with Senior Naturalist Dave Erler. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Dave Erler\Squam Lakes Natural Science Ctr |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. . Tonight at 10pm on New Hampshire Public Television. |