Welcome to WYSO Weekend, our weekly radio magazine. Thanks for joining us each Sunday morning, and here online. Coming up in today’s program Dayton Youth Radio and Bill Felker with Poor Will’s Almamack. We’ve also got WYSO’s occasional arts series Culture Couch. See the details below.
- More than a dozen elderly homeowners in Dayton’s Westwood neighborhood have been selected by the nonprofit Rebuilding Together Dayton to receive home repairs for free. The event in west Dayton, Saturday April 29, is part of a nationwide annual event made possible by about 100,000 volunteers across the country. At a fundraising event last Thursday, we spoke to Westwood homeowner Dorothy Thompson, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and RT Dayton President Amy Radachi.
- In this week’s Politics Ohio, Karen Kasler talks about legislative initiatives on opiate presciption regulations, Green energy standards being talked about at the statehouse and, up first, passage of the Ohio transportation budget which happened after some compromises in the house and senate were hammered out.
- Dayton has an eclectic population of independent fashion designers and craftspeople. Today on Culture Couch, Community Voices producer Renee Wilde introduces two local, independent business owners who are carving out a niche for themselves, with the support of each other, and their local community.
Drag performances happen regularly all around Ohio, as they have for many years. Men dressed as women - with elaborate and sometimes outrageous hair, costumes and makeup - perform on stages and in clubs in Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, but also in smaller towns like Lima and Monroe. Dayton has its own drag tradition. Community Voices producer Eva Buttacavoli talked to some local drag performers for a glimpse of what it takes to prepare for a show. - This week on Dayton Youth Radio, we have a story from a teenager who reflects on the decision that changed his life forever.
