The first show for New Albany Now is in the archives now, and we'll use this blog to clarify and comment on the show. The blog will be show related and we'll try to separate it from our other Web logs as much as we can.
Thank you to the members of F.O.S.S.E., the Friends of Silver Street Elementary, who so warmly embraced the opportunity to talk on our first show. Our guests included Jeremy Finn of Beeler Street and the Silver Grove Neighborhood Association. My apologies to Jeremy if I cut you off prematurely. I recall that your wife had an outstanding suggestion for the school board and I probably dumped on your opportunity to share that with a wider public.
Kathy Ayres, chairman of F.O.S.S.E. and a resident member of the new Glenwood Place Neighborhood Association joined us for the entire show. Norma Condra, the incoming co-president of the Silver Street Elementary School PTO and a resident member of the Depauw Avenue Neighborhood Association joined us later.
As we write this, our statistics indicate that almost 100 Netizen locations have listened to the show in archive format, joining 15 live listeners and 5 call-in listeners or callers. I'm content with that for a first show.
During the show, a chat line was available to listeners. Unfortunately, I assumed that no one would be using it, so I minimized my screen. Perhaps I should have kept it on the desktop, because a number of listeners were able to amplify, clarify, and correct some of the things we discussed or said on the Webcast.
By e-mail at newalbanynow@gmail.com, B corrected a slip. Depauw Avenue has not been designated as a "historic district," which triggers certain covenants and protections for historic properties. Instead, with the assistance of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of New Albany, the Depauw Avenue area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a difference, just to be accurate.
On in-show chat (and you can chat after the show, too), we received these corrections:
Silver Street Elementary School was named an "Exemplary" school in 2006 and 2008, not, as a caller asserted, for the second year in a row.
BG reminded us that FOSSE has a blog of their own, http://savesilverstreet.blogspot.com/, where you can keep up-to-date with the effort to persuade the powers that be that SSE is too valuable to shut down.
Kathy Ayres, our on-air guest, wanted to make sure to invite the parents and stakeholders from the Pine View Elementary are to attend the FOSSE meetings. I think we all agree that the current process isn't served by "taking sides" and letting the decision come down to "which" school to close instead of whether any school should be sacrificed in the name of efficiency.
And Kathy also tells us that SSE has had full-day kindergarten for at least five years, not the one year that Jeremy and I agreed sounded right. I did not know that. I thought the only full-day kindergarten program was at Mt. Tabor Elementary before the 2007-2008 school year.
Disappointing, to a certain degree, was the lack of participation from the folks from the Pine View district. I had expected calls. Wonder what happened there?
Thank you to the members of F.O.S.S.E., the Friends of Silver Street Elementary, who so warmly embraced the opportunity to talk on our first show. Our guests included Jeremy Finn of Beeler Street and the Silver Grove Neighborhood Association. My apologies to Jeremy if I cut you off prematurely. I recall that your wife had an outstanding suggestion for the school board and I probably dumped on your opportunity to share that with a wider public.
Kathy Ayres, chairman of F.O.S.S.E. and a resident member of the new Glenwood Place Neighborhood Association joined us for the entire show. Norma Condra, the incoming co-president of the Silver Street Elementary School PTO and a resident member of the Depauw Avenue Neighborhood Association joined us later.
As we write this, our statistics indicate that almost 100 Netizen locations have listened to the show in archive format, joining 15 live listeners and 5 call-in listeners or callers. I'm content with that for a first show.
During the show, a chat line was available to listeners. Unfortunately, I assumed that no one would be using it, so I minimized my screen. Perhaps I should have kept it on the desktop, because a number of listeners were able to amplify, clarify, and correct some of the things we discussed or said on the Webcast.
By e-mail at newalbanynow@gmail.com, B corrected a slip. Depauw Avenue has not been designated as a "historic district," which triggers certain covenants and protections for historic properties. Instead, with the assistance of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of New Albany, the Depauw Avenue area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a difference, just to be accurate.
On in-show chat (and you can chat after the show, too), we received these corrections:
Silver Street Elementary School was named an "Exemplary" school in 2006 and 2008, not, as a caller asserted, for the second year in a row.
BG reminded us that FOSSE has a blog of their own, http://savesilverstreet.blogspot.com/, where you can keep up-to-date with the effort to persuade the powers that be that SSE is too valuable to shut down.
Kathy Ayres, our on-air guest, wanted to make sure to invite the parents and stakeholders from the Pine View Elementary are to attend the FOSSE meetings. I think we all agree that the current process isn't served by "taking sides" and letting the decision come down to "which" school to close instead of whether any school should be sacrificed in the name of efficiency.
And Kathy also tells us that SSE has had full-day kindergarten for at least five years, not the one year that Jeremy and I agreed sounded right. I did not know that. I thought the only full-day kindergarten program was at Mt. Tabor Elementary before the 2007-2008 school year.
Disappointing, to a certain degree, was the lack of participation from the folks from the Pine View district. I had expected calls. Wonder what happened there?
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