Jim Kahle

Community Voices Producer Jim Kahle brings the voices of the people hosting, supporting, and enjoying a local fish fry during Lent.

With wild populations dwindling most honeybees are now kept as willing workers by human beekeepers. Community Voices producer Jim Kahle talks with Greg and Melody Blatt of Bellbrook about their path to the hobby.

"I have been curious about the big buffalo statue that stand outside K12 Gallery in downtown Dayton," says WYSO listener Gwen Owen. "I looked at again this morning on my way in and thought, 'what is your deal, you're this big serious heavy looking buffalo statue...' and I feel like it must have a story. Where did that thing come from?"

Community Voices producer Jim Kale has met a man from southwest Ohio who makes telescopes and traveled to the rural countryside near the tiny town of Philo, Illinois to meet him.

Fifty years ago a movie director named Peter Yates and a young rising stare named Steve McQueen made a car into a movie star. The movie was called Bullitt. McQueen played a cop who drove a highland Green 68 Mustang fastback.

In the 1900's more than a million people migrated to the great lakes region from Poland. They settled all over the Midwest: in Chicago and Cleveland, Detroit and Dayton. And, like all immigrant groups, they brought their food and traditions with them. By 1935 the Polish Club had been established in Old North Dayton and for more then 80 years the club has proudly kept the Polish culture alive.

An unlikely story about a local man who built a working replica of a famous steam engine. The Allegheny Locomotive was among the largest and most powerful locomotives ever built. It was used to haul coal in the mountains of West Virginia for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads in the 1940s and 50s. Community voices producer Jim Kahle met the man who's made a small scale replica of a very large train.

Dayton’s premier car show is the annual Concours d’Elegance, where every vehicle has earned an invitation to be on display. Last month, more than six thousand people strolled the field at Dayton's Carillon Historical Park, which held over 200 restored and antique cars. Community Voices producer Jim Kahle was one of them, and he found a display of miniatures vying for their own award.