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Reminders...
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Our 2011 Spring Seed the Power Membership Drive is over, and if you made a pledge, thank you for your support. Please do not forget to send in your pledge as every dollar counts.
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If you did not get a chance to make a pledge, become a member, or renew a membership, it is never too late to do so.
You can easily donate online here.
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CONTACT US
Portsmouth Community Radio
P.O. Box 6532
Portsmouth, NH 03802-6532
603.430.9722
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Dear Friends,
This issue of Tidings is arriving a little later than usual in order to allow us to include a report on the results of our Spring Seed the Power Fund Drive that concluded on May 12th.
As might be expected after a big event such as a fund drive, we have many people to thank. We make every effort to recognize those individuals and businesses that contribute their time, effort, goods and services, and, of course, their financial support. Without their support, none of what we do here would be possible. We do not take their generosity for granted.
As we move toward summer, keep listening, because no matter how warm it might be outside, you can be sure there is always something very cool going on-the-air at 106.1 FM.
Finally, Portsmouth Community Radio honors our current military personnel, veterans, and their families for their service, dedication, and sacrifice.
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With Gratitude To All Who Supported Our 2011 Spring Seed the Power Fund Drive... 
First, a huge thank-you to Mailforce, Inc. (Mailforce.com)
and owner, Mr. Chip Brindamour, for donating their bulk mailing services to Portsmouth Community Radio for our last two WSCA Fund Drive mailings. This process would have been a very big expense for us, and we deeply appreciate their generous support.
A heartfelt thank-you to each of the following businesses for their support of food and/or special premiums that were donated during our May 6-12 Fund Drive:
Port City Coffee Roasters
Portsmouth Chowder Company
Lexi's
Loco Coco's
Ken's West End Pizza
Mojo BBQ
Bob's Chicken
The Pizza Factory
Panera Bread
Margaritas Mexican Restaurant
The Shalimar India Restaurant
Robert's Maine Grill
The Black Trumpet
The Creamery
Tugboat Alley
Portsmouth Dining Club
Balance: A Woman's Gym
Check out the list of winners for our Fund Drive's Special Premium of the Day drawings.
A special thank-you to the following companies and individuals for their generous sponsorship and help with the coordination of the Boston Horns WSCA Membership Fund Drive Kick-off Concert on May 5th:
3 Bridges Yoga and White Heron Tea - Sponsors
The Jarvis Center - Facility
The Boston Horns - Performers
The Press Room - Food
Ann Bliss, Chairperson, Board of Trustees
Dan Schwarz, Board of Trustees Member
Terry Blake, Interim Music Department Coordinator
Thank you to the businesses who have partnered with us to bring you our new WSCA Membership Discount Card. See the list here. Check back, as this list is continually growing.
By the way, if you would like to have your business participate in our Discount Card Program, please contact
our Pledgeteam.
Please support the businesses who support Portsmouth Community Radio and let them know that you saw their name in Tidings or heard them mentioned on the air.
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Report From Our Campaign Coordinator,
Jean Proulx
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Due to the efforts of our dedicated volunteers, members, and listeners, the WSCA Seed the Power Spring Membership Campaign was a great success. We especially appreciate those listeners who became new members of our Portsmouth Community Radio family. I also want to offer a big thank-you to Darci Knowles for designing our Seed the Power logo.
A very special thank-you to Amy Antonucci, co-host of Making Waves (Saturdays, Noon to 1 pm),
Katie Stewart, our intern, and
Terry Blake, Interim Music Department Coordinator, host of Seacoast Scene (Mondays, 3-5 pm), and co-host of Fan Talk (Saturdays, 8-10 pm), for combining their efforts with a group of ambitious volunteers who spent two nights putting together more than 1200 letters that made up the very successful mailing portion of our campaign.
Many thanks go to other members of our Spring Membership Campaign Team: Peter Smith, John Scavo, host of Scratchy 45's and Beyond (Saturdays, 10 am-Noon), and Melissa Fischette, who arranged meals for the volunteers who worked at the station during our drive.
Though our goal of 500 new or renewing members has not yet been attained, we believe it is likely to happen, as each day more membership forms and checks arrive in the mail.
On May 12th, the end of our on-air campaign, we were close to the $13,000 mark, and I have no doubt that we could see $15,000 or more. A final tally will be published in the June issue of Tidings.
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Volunteer of the Month
George Toscano, Board of Trustees Member
and Our Treasurer
Tidings' Volunteer of the Month for May, George Toscano, earns the distinction of being the longest running Board member with Portsmouth Community Radio. George began volunteering and was subsequently voted to the Board as Treasurer, in 2003. George took on the integral role of bookkeeping and accounting for the station as our fundraising efforts increased.
While generally soft-spoken, he has always been a consistently thoughtful and constructive voice during Board meetings.
Previous to joining the station, George had experience working as treasurer for several non-profits and was introduced to WSCA by Tim Stone through their mutual work at Seacoast Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"George's contributions to Portsmouth Community Radio as a Board Member and Treasurer have been invaluable, and he deserves much credit for 'sticking it out' as long as he has," says Stone. Read More... |
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Board News
New Underwriting Sales Team Assembled
Taking Portsmouth Community Radio's underwriting sales efforts in a new direction, the station has announced that, from now on, these activities will be conducted not by a single Underwriting Sales Representative but by a Sales Team. 
First to raise her hand to join the team was Meg Middleton, a longtime WSCA volunteer and co-host of Wake Up (Thursdays, 8-10 am). Meg immediately took steps to help recruit others to the team, which now includes Jenny Freeman, host of Soul Vaccination (alternate Thursdays, 6-8 pm), as well as Kate Mitchell, host of Mama's Hot House (Sundays, 9-11 pm), and volunteer Amber Lily French. As a special bonus, Nancy Beach, another co-host of Wake Up, has agreed to bring her experience in underwriting at WBUR, Boston's NPR station, as a consultant to the team.
If you think you might like to volunteer your services by joining the new Underwriting Sales Team, contact underwriting@wscafm.org . By the way, Read More... |
Please Welcome
A New Addition to Our Tidings Staff
 Maggie Doherty, a native of the Philadelphia suburbs, has been living and working on the Seacoast for nearly three years.
Maggie moved here after receiving her B.A. in English from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She currently works at a café in downtown Portsmouth and enjoys cooking, reading, and dancing in her free time.
She is glad to be volunteering for WSCA and excited to lend her writing abilities to the Tidings staff.
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Mama's Hot House, Sundays 9-11 PM
Mama's Hot House is the newest show on WSCA-LP, airing Sunday nights from 9-11 pm. Listeners can expect to hear a fun, funky mix of genres shared in efforts of "planting seeds for the love of music." Your host, Kate Mitchell (Mama), is more than ecstatic to be back on air sharing the vast library of songs she has picked up along the way.
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As a classic "music junky" she has been intrigued by hip hop, turntablism, funk, reggae, electro-pop, indie rock, folk, rock, world music, jam bands and classics (which in Mama's case means Prince and Michael Jackson). Mama also loves to share the talents of her musical friends, some of whom may be known, some of whom should be known. By the end of the night the listener can expect a solid dance session or two, a few smiles prompted by favorite songs, and the scribbled names of new artists or songs on the nearest pad of paper as reference for your next visit to the record store. Read more about Mama's Hot House...
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The Gentle Gardener, Alternating Mondays 7:30-8:00 AM Throughout the Summer
Beginning May 30th, The Gentle Gardener, will be airing on alternate Mondays from 7:30 to 8 am this summer.
 The show's host is Marya Danihel (photo). She plans on featuring short interviews with local experts on topics ranging from natural pest management to keeping chickens.
In addition, Marya will provide listeners with local climate information and the opportunity to enjoy garden-related music and poetry.
From the looks of Marya's garden, shown in the background of the accompanying photo, she definitely knows her topic.
We welcome Marya to WSCA and remind listeners to tune in every-other-Monday to hear her interesting and informative new show beginning on Portsmouth Community Radio on May 30th.
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Transitions
Portsmouth At Large Leaves the Airwaves
Over the past five years, Portsmouth at Large interviewed
more than 100 local non-profit organizations in an effort to provide listeners with the opportunity to recognize the outstanding socially responsible community in which they live.
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Portsmouth at Large went on-the-air in October of 2005. Over the years, the hosts changed from time to time, but they
included Liz Wright, Ellen Ratner, Peg O'Neil, Jenny Freeman, and Valerie Smith.
The show was heard
weekly (Mondays,
9-10 am), until 2009, when it was changed to an every-other-Monday schedule.
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On May 2nd, Liz Wright and Valerie Smith hosted the last program by featuring the organization known as New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility.
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With Gratitude
Bi-Annual DJ Meeting and Potluck Supper Featured a Cuatro de Mayo-Luau Theme and Special Guests
Thanks to Phil Kliger, host of The Uncle Phil Show (Fridays, 10 am-Noon), our May 4th DJ Meeting and Potluck Supper had some very special guests. Phil was able to get the group known as Sultry Dessert (http://sd.rpmchallenge.com ) to perform a medley of upbeat Spanish songs to match the Cuatro-de Mayo-Luau theme of the meeting.  Sultry Dessert (photo right)
is made up of Andrea Szirbik on vocals, guitar and ukelele; Mike Thornhill on guitar and vocals; and Sam on the drum. Thanks to all.
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The term "perpetual motion" comes to mind when we think of Jean Proulx, host of Pawsitive Thoughts (Fridays 6-7 pm). As our Fund Drive Campaign and Volunteer Coordinator, Jean's abundance of enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. Thank-you, Jean, for all that you do in planning and conducting these events.  | | Jean Gagne |
We would be remiss if we did not give special thanks to Jean Gagne, co-host of Under the Radar (Mondays, 8-10 pm), for his extraordinary Mexican-Hawaiian decorations. Muy bien and aloha.
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Amy Antonucci co-host
of Making Waves (Saturdays, Noon-1 pm), and Katie Stewart, our talented and energetic intern, were recognized for assembling 1200 seed packets
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and editing the DJ Pledge Drive promos that were played on air. Our DJ Party team was coordinated by Kevin Caron, and included Jean Gagne, Katie Stewart, Owen Russell, and Cindy Bistoury. Thank-you, team. View montage of our May 4th meeting  . _____________________________________________
Volunteers Help Set Up New Mailboxes for the Station
Whoever declared paper and snail mail were dead clearly did not work at a flourishing radio station. In the past six years, WSCA and its volunteer base have grown substantially, and with all this development came the need for a larger mailbox system.
The original system, while sufficient for the early stages of the station, could not contain the volume of mail and music coming in from artists and record companies.
Therefore, a big thank-you goes out to our generous volunteers, Tim Ferrell (photo) and Seth McNally, for building the new boxes.
With such limited space in the station, much thought and planning went into the placement of our new "post offices" within our cozy facility. Thanks to Jean Gagne co-host of Under the Radar (Mondays, 8-10 pm), for his role in this phase of the project.
And finally, an extra thank-you to Tim Ferrell for his efforts in delivering and setting up the mailboxes. Next time you swing by the station, feel free to check them out.
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Notable Event
WSCA Gets Shout-Out On WBZ Radio
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Donna Halper, the author of a new book entitled Boston Radio: 1920-2010, and recent guest on Scratchy 45's and Beyond (Saturdays, 10 am-Noon) with host John "Supersport" Scavo, gave WSCA a mention on WBZ's Jordan Rich Show.
John reported that it was fun listening to the show and hearing classic names like WHDH, WBZ, WEEI, Carl De Suze, Larry Glick, Arnie Ginsburg, and WSCA, all in the same night on WBZ radio 1030 AM.
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Program Snippets
Morning Voices Celebrates The Royal Morning
Morning Voices host Angelynne Hinson (far right) and special guests Alexandra Borrie (middle) and Caroline Hinson (left)  were up bright and early to broadcast the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on
April 29th.
The special coverage included the live broadcast of the wedding service, commentary and live interviews with the David Meara, Archdeacon of London/Rector and Claire Seaton, soprano, of St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London. The show also featured popular wedding music as well as wedding reception dance favorites. Read More... |
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Engineering Notebook
Portsmouth Community Radio Goes On Location
Peter Smith has had a very busy spring, coordinating several remote broadcasts for WSCA-LP. We appreciate all the time and energy he has put into all these events.
Using our new remote equipment, Portsmouth Community Radio, with our host Tim Stone, did a live broadcast of the Seacoast Media Group's 2011 Spotlight Awards from the Portsmouth Music Hall on April 14th.
 A few days prior to the event, sound engineer Peter "Rocky" Smith (photo left) was busy soldering connectors onto the cables that would be needed to properly hook up our equipment for the Spotlight Awards event.
On May 5th, our Spring Fund Drive kick-off concert, featuring the Boston Horns, was held at the Jarvis Center in Portsmouth.
WSCA-LP broadcast the live concert, with Peter setting up the remote equipment ( above photo) and then mixing the audio signals that went out to our listeners. Read More and See Additional Photos |
Have You Heard?
Soul Vaccination Alternating Thursdays 6-8 PM
Fans of Soul Vaccination know that this is one of Portsmouth Community Radio's first shows, having gone on the air back in the fall of 2004. These days, the program is in the capable hands of Jenny Freeman, who comes in to host every other Tuesday ( 6-8 pm), alternating with BlueJazzPel with Peter Langley.
Since she began, Jenny has been exploring the genre of soul, funk, and r&b in alphabetical order: "A" for Aretha, "B" for Brown (James, that is), and "C" for Charles. And, hey, it's not too late to catch up. What's upcoming? E-mail jfreeman@wscafm.org and find out.
Jenny lives in Kittery and works in the non-profit world. Clearly, she also has a soulful side. Please join her on Soul Vaccination for a dose of this great music. |
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