Central Kentucky Radio Eye enters the fall quarter with the exhilaration and promise of new beginnings. We are looking forward to having a new home with the Lexington Public Library. We are expanding our local broadcasting menu to include two airings of the Herald-Leader. We have welcomed many new volunteers, new program underwriters, new listeners, and new broadcasting equipment.

At the same time, this fall is a time to thank those steadfast partners who have been with us for many years. The University of Kentucky has been our home since the beginning and is gracious enough to allow us to stay a little longer. WUKY public radio allows us access to their sub-carrier frequency to transmit our broadcast on the air each day.

CKRE volunteer readers and control board operators are keeping up their great work, providing favorites such as Moneyside, the Sports program and Health Corner. Friendly volunteer voices bring numerous regional papers and magazines, which are provided free of charge by their publishers. Through special programming, including CKRE Science & Nature Diary, the Smithsonian readings, the great Black History Month series, CKRE's Book Series, and the "CKRE Community Update," we keep our listeners informed, enlightened, even entertained!

And because we believe in every person's right to the written word, and we are making it our mission to reach everyone in the Bluegrass who needs our help, this is a good moment to mention our upcoming Annual Appeal!!

As this fall turns into winter, we are looking toward a bright future. We have the people, the programming, and - thanks to Lexington Public Library - a new home to go to. However, we do need your help to make it happen. So please consider supporting CKRE by making a donation to our Annual Appeal.

Your generosity will enable CKRE to bring the "written world," consisting of the necessary and often vital information that blind and disabled citizens are otherwise unable to read.

Thank you so much for your generosity - happy holidays from all of us at CKRE.

Dori Hjalmarson, Margaret Chase & Sarah Nix

What an exciting year! Lots of good things have happened at CKRE, and we have much to be thankful for.

First, however, I want to say a big thank you to our Studio Manager, Sarah Nix. Sarah has been with CKRE two years. Her hard work and cheerful spirit is much appreciated by all of us.

Good Samaritan Foundation came through for us early this summer, and we want to thank them for their very generous support. Recently, CKRE was honored to be among grants awarded by the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, and we want to thank them for including us in their "good works."

We also want to thank Wal-Mart and Meijer, who helped us in a time of need. As many of you know our broadcast is available in several local hospitals, and we are pleased to say that we are working with Clark Regional Medical Center (together with Adelphia) to provide our broadcast in that hospital. Additionally, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital. which carries our 24-hour radio service on their in-house CCTV system, is once again sponsoring our Monday Health programming.

Our big news, of course, was that we secured a new home with Lexington Public Library (Northside Branch, yet to be built). With an estimated completion in 2008, we are already working on studio layouts, furniture, equipment and technical needs. We hope we can count on some major foundations, UK, and other organizations to give us financial backing and in-kind support to make this move possible. In the coming year, we will keep you updated on that.

Thanks to some great teamwork by staff and volunteers, we are pleased to provide our listeners with a repeat of the Lexington Herald-Leader at 2:00 p.m. on weekdays. We use some "interesting" equipment to make it happen - and even after several weeks of it working well, we still get pretty excited when all the pieces click into place! We know the rebroadcast is appreciated, especially by those listeners who cannot tune into the Herald-Leader at 8:00 a.m.

And by the way - did you know that CKRE is virtually an "all volunteer" organization, and that we are completely independent? Contrary to what you may think, CKRE is not part of the city, state, or any other organization. There is no guaranteed annual income, no dedicated revenue. Each year we must raise the money for the whole budget. If we had to pay volunteer readers, sound engineers, and a full-time staff, it would cost about $200,000 a year to run CKRE. Few organizations could operate a 24-hour radio reading service on less than a quarter of that - but we do - and still increase the number of listeners and volunteers each year.

In November we will be conducting our Annual Appeal. This is our most important fundraiser of the year. It helps sustain CKRE and gives us the ability to serve more people. Additionally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is offering a matching grant up to $800. So please consider making a donation to our Annual Appeal. Our address is CKRE, University Station Box 1030, Lexington, KY 40506.

Thanks to you, CKRE has accomplished so much, look out 2007! Margaret Chase
Chair & Executive Director

Donations made in memory of very special people
In memory of Herb Christian Pettersen
Bluegrass Family Health
Dr. and Mrs. Norman Eifler
Richard and Diane Cumming
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kepel
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tucker
Mary Jo Burke
Tom Dixon
Mrs. Patricia Waggener
In memory of Mary Reisner King of Oakland, CA
Mrs. James F. Christmyer
In honor of Al Crabb
Mrs. Jean Cravens

THRIVENT FINANCIAL FOR LUTHERANS
We would like to take a moment to recognize Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for their continuing support of CKRE. Thrivent financial for Lutherans is a non-profit fraternal insurance and investment organization. Therefore, they "reinvest" any profits into charities and community programs tin which its Lutheran membership is active. The community benefits are two-fold - funding plus the encouraging of volunteers, including CKRE readers Christine Vanderhoof and Muzzy Hemken, Board Member Marge Holmes and the fabulous John Mau, who keeps CKRE's radios up and running. A big thank you also goes out to all the "labelers" who made our Annual Appeal run so smoothly last year.

Thank you, Thrivent Financial, for your support of Central Kentucky Radio Eye as well as all you do for numerous other community services throughout the Lexington area. Keep up the great work.

We were very graciously granted a an opportunity to participate in the Children's Activity by Jean Covert, Children's Project Planner, and Sara Ferguson, Art Fair Coordinator. We jumped at the opportunity to share a "tactile" art activity with kids attending the fair while also promoting CKRE and its services. Using senses other than sight to feel for beads hidden in a sandbox and then stringing the beads onto bandanna strips gave us ample opportunity to talk to the "grown ups" as the kiddies strung away.

Bluegrass Council of the Blind also helped us out by allowing us the use of a Perkins Brailler and paper. Children had lots of fun SLOWLY brailling their names onto name cards. Brailling is much harder than it looks, we quickly discovered.

From the moment Virginia Smith, Mike Sullivan and Sarah Nix started setting up the tent on Friday afternoon, the excitement was contagious, and little did we know what an adventure was actually ahead of us!

Saturday, almost immediately after the children's activity, the skies opened. Virginia, Emily and Sarah made it back to the information booth in time to find Karri Sandino and Rives Stoll plugging leaks in the borrowed canopy. "Save the flyers" was the battle cry. What good sports! For the entire wet, wet, wet eight hours of Saturday, our booth was continuously "manned" by CKRE volunteers.

Sunday morning, Virginia Smith was greeted by the sight of our canopy and bent poles in the middle of Kentucky Avenue! Cell phone in hand, Virginia roped her husband and a friend into the reconstruction of the CKRE booth. Thirty minutes later, a new and improved booth was ready for action. Again, we had volunteers in the booth all day talking up the fantastic service provided by CKRE. Thanks to Radio "Eye-ced" Tea and plenty of samples from Kettle Korn, we survived the weekend.

A huge thank you goes out to American Founder Bank, Woodland Art Fair, Woodland Christian Church, and Bluegrass Council of the Blind. An even bigger thank you to Virginia Smith, Diane Curtis, Jim Kemp, Emily Horcha, Azetta Williams, Rives Stoll, Karri Sandino, Rita DaVega, Aaron Hudson, Diane Wachs, Mike Sullivan, Benjamin Bynum and Frieda Vinson. There is truly NO WAY that we could have done this without you.

What a great way to get into the public eye. Due to the success of this event, CKRE is loading up its dance card with numerous community events and fairs. What's next? A table at "Accessibility Awareness Day" and a 5:30 a.m. slot cheering on the participants in the Alcon "Tri for Sight" triathlon.

You just never know where smiling CKRE volunteers will pop up next; we'll keep you posted.

Native West Virginian Rob, a WWW librarian at UK, taught college English before becoming a librarian in 1983. A colleague of Al Crabb (founder of CKRE), Rob first learned of Central Kentucky Radio Eye when helping unload Al's father's moving van in Lexington. He quite frankly can't remember the beginning date of the CKRE website, but he does remember setting it up with Kevin Hong and Margaret Chase some 10 years ago and has maintained and revised it since, including working on establishing the www.RadioEye.org domain name.

He spends many an evening reading aloud to his wife, fellow librarian Stephanie (trying to build up his chops to read for CKRE!), and enjoys their annual pilgrimages to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.

CKRE would like to thank Rob for all of his help and encouragement over the years. His continued web support is an invaluable addition to CKRE and has greatly increased our ability to reach out into the community. We really couldn't do it without you, Rob.

PATRICIA RAND - CKRE LISTENER
Let me introduce you to Patricia Rand, a faithful listener for over three years, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration about three years ago.

When asked if she listens daily she proclaimed, "Daily, oh definitely!" She starts listening at 8:00 a.m. to the Herald-Leader and also catches the Louisville Courier-Journal, plus other broadcasts throughout the morning. The only time she misses is Thursday mornings, while volunteering at St. Joseph Hospital, but she turns us on when she gets home.

She helps out in Human Resources. "You probably wonder how a blind person does payroll," she said with a chuckle. But she explained that she assembles packets for new employees.

She has two daughters and one son, and they all live out of state.

After being away from Lexington for 38 years, she moved back to her hometown. She retired from banking in Florida, where she managed the safe deposit department at the bank.

She lives with Amos, a Boston Terrier, that she has had for five years. Amos is her guard dog, according to Ms Rand.

For transportation she walks, uses public transportation or has friends who take her places. She would walk to church if only she could cross Harrodsburg Road. She tried it once and got stuck on the median.

Ms Rand said her niece told her about Radio Eye and she is very thankful for all the helpers at Radio Eye.
Rita DaVega

We want to say thank you to Lexmark for, once again, helping us out with this latest Newsletter. Also special anonymous friend who arranges for the folding of the newsletter: many thanks.
Thanks also Starbucks and Chic-fil-A for supplying goodies for the volunteers involved in our Diana: Princess of Wales Project. This project, based on information on the Diana exhibit recently shown at the Dayton Museum of Arts, was aired on CKRE on the August 31 anniversary of Diana's death.Thanks to readers Chriss Turner, Roger Tremaine and researcher Mary Rouse. Also, great work from CKRE Staff Sarah Nix and Margaret Chase in producing this programming.

Your gift will help strengthen and preserve CKRE so we will be there for future listeners. Call us at 257-2702 for more information.

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Thanks to The Grocery Show on CKRE, I find I am saving more money shopping in the local grocery stores because I have the Best Buys and Load Up lists, and I hope you are finding savings too.

As your host, I'd be delighted to hear any suggestions or comments on how I may improve TThe Grocery Show.
Sincerely, Joan "Save a Dollar" Grever

I am Joyce Hahn, a retired school librarian. I was the librarian at Southern Elementary School here in Fayette County for 24 years. I have had the pleasure of being part of CKRE for almost two years.

I have recently begun editing The Kentucky Series. We use such magazines as Kentucky Living, Kentucky Explorer, Keeneland Magazine, The Lane Report, Appalachian Heritage and others. I look over the magazines to select the articles our readers present in this series. For a while I read The Kentucky Series myself once a week, but now I am reading The Louisville Courier Journal each Tuesday.

A few personal facts about me and my family are that my husband and I have nine grandchildren, including twin boys and also triplets who happen to be two girls and a boy. My husband is retired from UK's Mechanical Engineering Department. We both enjoy travel and photography.

As a school librarian I always enjoyed reading aloud to students, and so I am glad to have the privilege of helping out with the services of Central Kentucky Radio Eye.

So please, let's make sure to keep Joyce busy by tuning into the Kentucky Series at noon Tuesday through Friday, immediately following the Courier-Journal.