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Charlottesville Right Now, 4pm – 6pm

Charlottesville Right Now, 4pm – 6pm

We go beyond the headlines into the important stories that matter to us locally.
Join NewsRadio WINA’s Courteney Stuart weekdays for the news and newsmakers of the day.

Thursday, July 31, 201407/31/2014

Phil Giaramita

Phil Giaramita is with Albemarle County Schools and talks with Les Sinclair about the county getting a $20,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s (FEED) Future Education & Environment Development initiative.

Thursday, July 31, 201407/31/2014

Christopher Guedri

Christopher Guedri of the law firm Allen & Allen joins Les Sinclair with perspective about the Daly v. Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control settlement.

Thursday, July 31, 201407/31/2014

Margaret Fitch and Anne Marrs

Memory Café – Friday, August 1, 2:30–4:00 pm
A new joint venture between the Senior Center and the Alzheimer’s Association, Memory Café is a social engagement program for people with an early stage dementia or mild cognitive impairment diagnosis; family or friends who want to attend are also welcome. A trained facilitator is part of the group.

Call 434.973.6122 x 105 for more info. Free and open to all.

Thursday, July 31, 201407/31/2014

Michael Guthrie

Michael Guthrie, CEO of Roy Wheeler Realty, joins Les Sinclair to talk about how the Zillow.com and Trulia.com merger affects us locally. You can hear more about it on his weekly show on Saturday 8/2/14 at 10:00am on 1070 WINA.

Wednesday, July 30, 201407/30/2014

Russ Rader

Russ Rader is the Senior Vice President, Communications for the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and joins Les Sinclair to tell us about the latest findings on small and electric vehicles.

Wednesday, July 30, 201407/30/2014

Melanie Bounds

Melanie Bounds is the Domestic Violence Coordinator at The Laurel Center: Intervention for Domestic and Sexual Violence and joins us to discuss the headlines about The NFL player knocking his wife out and the ESPN announcer who was suspended for his comments after the fact.

Wednesday, July 30, 201407/30/2014

Jeffery Borenstein

Jeffery Borenstein M.D. is the CEO and president of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation which funded the research at Johns Hopkins suggesting that someday a simple blood test could identify people likely to try to commit suicide. He joins Les Sinclair with more information about the finding.

Tuesday, July 29, 201407/29/2014

Kaye Monroe

Kaye Monroe, of Dream Builders Academy, talks with Les Sinclair about the City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development sponsoring female City residents interested in starting their own business. The program is called Dream Builders Academy.

Tuesday, July 29, 201407/29/2014

Eric Myers

Eric S. Myers, Environmental Health Supervisor with VDH, talk with Les Sinclair about the laymens guide to dining out safely.

Tuesday, July 29, 201407/29/2014

Charles Leocha

Charles Leocha, Travelers United, talks about the House approving a bill letting airlines advertise pre-tax fares, over consumer complaints. It still must pass the Senate.

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