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Take an October River Cruise with us onThe Saar, The Mosel, The Rhine and The Neckar

Nothing beats the easy pace of a riverboat tour of some of the most beautiful and historicsites on Germany's scenic rivers. The fall colors will be in full bloom to complementincredible food, beverages and scenery. This trip includes round trip transportation fromPeoria and most meals. Come aboard with us October 13-22. Cabin space is limited sobook your reservation now. Visit PeoriaPublicRadio.org or call (309) 677-4907.

Heidelberg MS Leonard De Vinci

Mainz

Strasbourg

Bernkastel

Lion statue on the Mosel River

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From the desk of Tom HuntExecutive Director

The title of Bob Dylan’s 1964 album has more meaning today than ever. Dylan sang aboutsocial change: the Civil Rights Movement, the changing role of women, the sexualrevolution, and challenges to established political thinking.

Today’s times are not that different. While we still pay attention to Civil Rights, women’s rights andeverything from gender identity to marriage, our dialog on the changing times takes place in a digital form.Dylan’s 1964 album was vinyl. Today’s album releases are online and digital. I’ve written a lot about technological change on this page during the past few years. This is because PeoriaPublic Radio is implementing many changes, not only to keep us relevant to our listeners, but to improveour efficiency. Anyone who has managed a business that relies on technology to stay competitive knowswhat I’m talking about. It can be a blessing or a curse depending on your approach. New technology can beas simple as trying to figure out your new smart phone, or as complicated as the latest manufacturingequipment or a software upgrade. This technology touches each and every one of us in one way or anotherevery day. Do we embrace it or fight it?Peoria Public Radio is riding these changes as we move into the world of digital technology. We have bettercommunication with listeners than ever before. These changes open new opportunities and point to theobvious need to reduce or stop other activities.One of the changes brought about by technology is the way in which we communicate with you off the air.FanFare as a print publication is no longer cost effective for us. The Peoria Public Radio staff spent a lot oftime looking at ways to be more efficient, and came to the conclusion that it cannot be sustained. Therefore,we will cease publication of FanFare after the July issue. More listeners are using other means to get timely information about programs, events and activities, suchas the e-newsletter and the web. The cost of printing and mailing FanFare continues to rise, putting a strainon our budget. As a result, FanFarewill be an online publication in the form of an expanded version of ourweekly e-newsletter. In order to be better stewards of your contributions, we will put all of our resourcesinto our on-air and online product, and work to become a greener public radio station.Program guides were instituted in the early days of public broadcasting in order to provide detail of ourbroadcast offerings. Most public radio stations produced a program guide 40 years ago, but today, very fewcontinue this practice because there are better alternatives. Much staff time and money was spent onproviding an hourly schedule of the music we planned to play, and special programs on the schedule, butlisteners did not use the guide as intended, so they slowly evolved into a monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterlypublication. Lack of timeliness made them less useful, to the point that online information became costefficient and very effective. We realize that not all listeners have access to the internet. If you fall into this category, we will not abandonyou! Let us know if you want to continue receiving a printed program schedule in a simpler form, and wewill put you on our mailing list.As always, thank you for your generous support of Peoria Public Radio. We continue to work to make thisstation more cost efficient and greener.

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Two years ago Peoria Public Radio launched the Sustainer Program. It was implementedto improve the financial health of the station. There is no debate, monthly sustained givingis now a definitive best practice in the nonprofit sector, pursued aggressively by a varietyof organizations nationwide.Sustained giving will improve the station’s net revenue far into the future. Needless to say,the Sustainer Program is probably here to stay. It offers many benefits that we at PeoriaPublic Radio are already witnessing. For example:• The income generated is predictable each and every month.• The average gift is higher because donors pay in smaller increments, allowing them to give morethan they could in a lump sum.

• Renewal and retention rates are high—sometimes reaching more than 90%.• The lifetime value of each donor increases because they stay active longer.• The cost of cultivating and retaining sustaining donors is relatively low.

We have more than 300 sustainers, and that number is growing. Let me stop and say “Thank You”! We areso grateful that you made the decision to become a member of a group that wants to improve thefinancial health of the station. You are making a difference. Many of you have shared the benefits that youenjoy personally. I’ve heard comments such as, “Becoming a sustainer has released me from having toremember when to renew.” Others have said they like the freedom of not having to write a check, butknow that their membership is still current. And some have shared that they like not getting the renewalnotices in the mail. In reality, the Sustaining Program benefits both the donor and the radio station.Those members who have chosen not to become a sustainer for whatever reason, you are equally valued.We are grateful for your love, commitment and continued support of your radio station. All donationsgiven to Peoria Public Radio are received with gratitude.As Tanya Koonce mentioned in her article at the beginning of 2014, we got off to a busy start. In additionto hosting the events and membership drive, we also hosted two private receptions for the Tower SocietyMembers. Tower Society members are Peoria Public Radio’s larger donors. When you become a TowerSociety Member, you are invited to an exclusive reception where you can meet and greet the station’sspecial guests. I also want to thank our Development Committee for their time, talent, ideas, and enthusiasm. They domagnificent work helping execute elegant, fun-filled events. The Committee Members are Joan Ruppman,Chairperson, Glenn Ross, Board President, Henry Blackwell, Board Vice President, Sarah Zallek, ChrisTaluc and Fred Guinn.By the time you are reading this, my plans are to be touring the Parthenon, National Library and Houseof Parliament in Athens and on to cruising Mykonos and other stops in Greece with some of Peoria PublicRadio members and listeners. This station’s trip is hosted by Lee Wenger.If your schedule didn’t allow you to join us on the Greece trip, don’t fret. Tom Hunt will be hosting a tripOctober 13-22, 2014 cruising the four fascinating rivers, The Saar, The Mosel, The Rhine and The Neckar.Tom would love to have you join him and experience the number one boat cruise on Germany’s scenicrivers. For more information call (309) 677-4907 or visit PeoriaPublicRadio.org.

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“Wine Country inYour Own Back-yard”---MackinawValley Vineyardand Winery hasprovided this andso much more forCentral Illinoisansduring the past ten

years. The tasting room has 20+handcrafted wines forsampling and a 30-milepanoramic view of thesurrounding vineyardsand valley. In additionto serving award-win-ning wines and scenicvistas there are manyevents offered year-round that allow you to escape to the countryside and experience a weekend get-away while barely leaving home!There are concerts in the vineyard on Saturday eveningsJune to September and five festivals scheduled for 2014,including The International Music, Wine and Beer Festivalat the end of May, a July Art Festival, an August VintageFestival and a Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival on

August 31. Yes, you can stompgrapes and dress up as Lucy! Anew Scarecrow Festival wasadded for this November withall proceeds going to theTazewell County ResourceCenter. The vineyard also hostsTrivia Game nights and Mur-der Mystery Dinners on Satur-

day evenings February through April. The oldest winery and vineyard in Central Illinois islocated just a short 30-minute drive from the greaterPeoria area or Bloomington-Normal on Illinois Route9, four miles east of Mackinaw. A unique gatheringplace for family and friends to celebrate a party, awedding or just to relax, Paul and Diane Hahn and

their family inviteyou to visit and expe-rience the vineyardfirsthand. On theweb at Mackinaw-ValleyVineyard.com.

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Cindy Dermody

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Wine Country in Your Own Backyard

Where Functionality Meets ExcellenceIf you want an automobile where functionality meets ex-cellence, a BMW may be the car for you. BMW of Peoria ispart of the Sam Leman auto group which is locally ownedand has served central Illinois since 1963. BMW’s goalwith its European engineering is to provide tomorrow’stechnologies as standard in every BMW produced today.As a result, BMWs have less emissions and more drivingpleasure. A BMW is for people who love to drive.

And when it comes toservice, central Illi-noisans are fortunatethat BMW of Peoriawas recognized byBMW of North Americain 2013 as being in thetop 10 in the nation for

“Best in Class Service.” Additionally, always rememberthat all new BMWs are built and sold with a 4 year, 50,000

mile full warrantyand complimen-tary, scheduledma i n t e n a n c e .While your BMW is being serviced, BMW of Peoria offersalternate transportation with new 2014 BMW automobileloaners and local pick-up and delivery. The service de-partment offers service to all makes and models, but theyspecialize in BMW and other European makes. BMW ofPeoria also offers a full-ser-vice body shop and a detailfacility. The local dealership, locatedat 1720 W. Pioneer Parkwayin Peoria, is open Mondaythrough Saturday, withevening hours on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Additional information available at BMWofPeoria.com

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It’s been a busy start to spring for us for sure. In addition to daily newscasts, website feedingand social media efforts, we have hosted the Whad’Ya Know? show in Washington,completed the Spring Membership Drive and our 2nd Annual Gala with NPR MorningEditionHost David Greene. That series of events happened in about a 13-day stretch at theend of March into early April. We are all no doubt still shaking off a bit of the very long, snow-filled winter. In the PeoriaPublic Radio news room, we are hopeful it’s a less extreme season than the last. But wealso think it wise to plan on some flooding of the Illinois River as the big thaw of 2014 moves downstreamand the often rainy season of spring has the potential to contribute. It is my greatest hope that does not happen on the weekend of April 11, 12 and 13. We are hosting theIllinois News Broadcasters Association Spring Convention in Peoria that weekend. The INBA SpringConvention Committee is planning a multi-site venue downtown between the Mark Twain Hotel, theRhythm Kitchen, The Caterpillar Visitors Center, The Riverfront and the Peoria Riverfront Museum. We alsoare planning a barge trip down the Illinois River for about 120 of our visiting media friends and colleagues.Needless to say, we also have a back-up plan for that extraordinarily interactive conference session.The other thing that’s worth noting on the media landscape is the potential for Peoria news agencies to bedelivering reports with audio, video and pictures from inside a Peoria County courtroom. That can happennow on a very limited basis, thanks to the Illinois Supreme Court Rule 63 on Extended Media Coverageadopted by the 10th Judicial Circuit in Peoria County at the end of last year. Our thanks to Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride and 10th Circuit former Chief Judge MichaelBrandt, whose efforts opened the door for the pilot project. We also appreciate 10th Circuit Chief JudgeSteve Kouri’s efforts to implement the experimental policy. We look forward to working with him tomaintain the integrity of the policy. We also are excited to participate in the historic transition in Illinois ofhaving a camera and microphone in the courtroom. Thank you for your membership. Thank you for listening to Peoria Public Radio.

News Notes

Tanya KoonceNews Director

Greetings from the Peoria Public Radio News Team!

The Rhine is the number one riverboat tour! This is your opportunity to experience these scenic rivers and support Peoria Public Radio. Plan your fall vacation today. The tour features:

• Round trip motor coach transportation from Peoria to O’Hare Airport.• Round trip air transportation from Chicago to Frankfurt on United Airlines

non-stop flights.• 2 nights of hotel accommodations in Germany, 1 in Mainz and 1 in Worms.• 6 nights of accommodations aboard MS Leonard De Vinci, with an outside

cabin on the Lower Deck.• Breakfast and dinner at the hotels.• Three meals daily while on the cruise.• Wine, beer and juices included with the lunches and dinners onboard.• Guided tour of Mainz and Strasbourg.• Shore excursion included to Castle of Cochem, the city of Heidelberg and

the charming town of Rudesheim.• All transfers and luggage handling of one suitcase per person.

Join us for an October cruise of four of the most scenic rivers in GermanyThe Rhine, The Saar, The Mosel and The Nekar — Oct. 13 - 22

Call Norma Joseph at (309) 677- 4907, or visit PeoriaPublicRadio.org Cabin space is limited.

Please book early.

As you may have heard, Carl Kasell, longtime NPR newscaster and officialscorekeeper for Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! has announced his retirement.Carl will record his final broadcast for Wait Wait! this spring. He will, how-ever, remain "scorekeeper emeritus" for the show. He will continue to recordcustom voice mail greetings for the show's lucky winners, and continue tooccasionally appear in the program.

NPR is encouraging fans to leave Kasell farewell voice mails of their own at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT (1-888-924-8924; select Option 2). Kasell’s radio career spans half a century. He joined NPR in 1975 as a part-time newscasterfor Weekend All Things Considered. He previously spent 10 years at WAVA in Arlington, Va.,as morning anchor and news director. Before moving to the Washington, D.C., area in 1965,Kasell was morning deejay and newscaster at WGBR-AM in Goldsboro, N.C., and workedat a local radio station part-time during high school. Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featured on WCBU2

In honor of Memorial Day, Classical WCBU2 will feature a performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem bymassed choirs and orchestra, conducted by James Conlon, at Disney Hall to commemorate the composer’s cen-tenary. The broadcast on May 22nd also includes a studio recording of Britten’s Cantata Misericordium as a shortcompanion piece to the War Requiem.The War Requiem is a non-liturgical setting of the Requiem Mass composed by Britten in 1961 and 1962. Firstperformed on May 30, 1962, it was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral,which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.Britten, a pacifist, chose to set the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war bythe English poet Wilfred Owen. The work is scored for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, chorus, boys' choir,organ, and two orchestras. The chamber orchestra accompanies the settings of the English poetry, while so-prano, choirs and orchestra are used for the Latin sections; all forces are combined in the conclusion.Tune in for this special broadcast of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Thursday, May 22nd, at 8:00 p.m. on Clas-sical WCBU2. You can listen on an HD radio receiver, or online at www.peoriapublicradio.org

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Program Notes

Nathan IrwinProgram Director

A Farewell to Carl

These programs air Tuesday nights, at 9:00 p.m.April 1: Does the president have the Constitutionalpower to target and kill U.S. citizens abroad?With the drone strike on accused terrorist and New Mex-ico-born Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, President Obama hastested the limits of the executive branch’s powers. Doesthe president have constitutional authority under the dueprocess clause to kill U.S. citizens abroad, or is it a violationof this clause to unilaterally decide to target and kill Amer-icans? April 29: Does affirmative action on campuses do moreharm than good?Affirmative action is meant to foster diversity and provide

equal opportunities in education for underrepresented mi-norities. But is it achieving its stated goals and helping the population it was created to support? Its critics point tostudents struggling to keep up in schools mismatched totheir abilities and to the fact that the policy can be manip-ulated to benefit affluent and middle class students. Is ittime to overhaul or abolish affirmative action? May 6: Are Millennials underrated?Millennials—growing up with revolutionary technologyand entering adulthood in a time of recession—have beenmuch maligned. Are their critics right? Is this generationuniquely coddled, narcissistic, and lazy? Or have we letconventional wisdom blind us to their openness to changeand innovation, and optimism in the face of uncertainty,which are qualities to be admired?

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