KVNF's Lisa Young interviews Jill Jurca, Western Slope Regional Director Destination Imagination, and Alisa Johnson, Instructional Coach at Garnet Mesa Elementary, about Destination Imagination, a program that offers students from elementary to college open-ended STEAM challenges designed to teach the creative process.

What does equity in healthcare look like for Latinos? The question may seem big and abstract, but Julissa Soto has dedicated more than two decades to accomplishing equity in latino communities. KVNF's Cassie Knust hosts this Local Motion centered around the Latino community.

In this Local Motion you’ll hear from Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Maeve Conran for another regional roundup dive in. This week features a round table with Clark Adomatis and Hattison Rensberry about their reporting on harm reduction in their communities, with audio from their respective reports.

FernGully will show at the Paradise Theater in Paonia on Thursday April 27th. Proceeds will be donated to Citizens for a Healthy Community. Tickets and more information can be found here.

In this Local Motion, you’ll hear from Merrily Talbott, director of the Paonia Players theater group and KVNF board member. Merrily and I chatted about the hope she hopes audiences will feel after seeing Happiness, and other upcoming events and features, as well as some challenges the theater group had to navigate through the pandemic.

Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran, highlights the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic that took place in Snowmass Village.

On this Local Motion, you’ll hear a conversation between KVNF's Cassie Knust and Michelle Leslie Prentice and Tom Cheney of Montrose. You'll learn about these two Montrose-based locals’ involvement in a new nonprofit, Friends of Ukraine. Friends of Ukraine was co-founded by a group of volunteers focused on helping Ukrainian refugee families transition from a war-torn country, all the way to Montrose, Colorado.

On this edition of Local Motion, Lisa Young talks to representatives from The Nature Connection and the Grand Mesa Nordic Council. Both of these non-profit organizations serve our listening area and provide a number of unique and fun opportunities for outdoor recreation here on the Western Slope.

Last year, there were more than 13,000 midwives in the United States, according to the American Midwifery Certification Board. The profession is female dominated. The board’s most recent demographic report finds that less than one percent of midwives in the U.S. are male. That figure holds true in Colorado. State data, from February of this year shows, there are currently four men certified as nurse-midwives here. This week on Local Motion, we’ll meet one of those midwives: Adrian Medina. He was born in the Philippines and grew up on Guam. He was trained on Guam as a midwife by the island’s only male midwife at the time. Last year, Medina moved to Colorado with his family to work at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction where he’s the only male nurse-midwife on staff.