Imagining Yolo Davis interviews citizens (imaginers) of this community who are imagining projects that will affect all of us for the greater good. From recycling, music, community groups to park clean-up groups ... the list goes on — private imaginers using their talents to enrich our community.
What makes these imaginers tick and what is so important? The health and well being of our community.
The goal of Imagining Yolo Davis is twofold: first, to learn about a particular project and what motivates the imaginer's participation, and second, to to motivate other imaginers in our community.
This show airs Fridays at 5:30 p.m. on KDRT. Repeats are available on kdrt.org or on your favorite podcast app.
Podcast
The start of the Putah Creek Council with Carrie Shaw, Imagining Yolo Davis, Nov. 3, 2023Fri, 11/03/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorThis week on Imagining Yolo Davis we welcome Carrie Shaw. She and the other founding members of the Putah Creek Council show us what volunteers can achieve. Whether it's helping one individual, one tree, one pet -- or in this case, reviving a creek -- volunteers make a huge difference. So listen in as Carrie describes the beginning of the council. We close the show with Creedence Clearwater's 1969 hit song "Green River," which is about Putah Creek. |
Putah Creek Council's Phil Stevens shares its mission, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 27, 2023Fri, 10/27/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorPhil Stevens, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, joins us this week. The council's mission is to support regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship. Its vision is to protect and restore natural resources in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of the creek’s wildlife and the regional community. |
Community radio, volunteers, and Doug Kelly, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 20, 2023Fri, 10/20/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorDoug Kelly joins us this week to discuss the importance of community radio, and to share his insights, experience and long history with radio. Doug is a board member of Davis Media Access, a nonprofit community media center that includes KDRT. He also hosts Electric Compost Heap. |
Thriving Pink, a group of extraordinary volunteers, with guest Joni Rubin, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 13, 2023Fri, 10/13/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorThriving Pink has a very simple mission: "Our vision is that no one goes through breast cancer alone, whether newly diagnosed or in long-term survivorship." On today's Imagining Yolo Davis, Joni Rubin explains the extraordinary group of volunteers who make it all happen. Joni, chair of the Davis nonprofit's board of directors, "has more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare and wellness leader, innovator, and educator. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, Joni relied on the support of family, friends, colleagues, and community throughout her journey. Paying it forward, Joni is a strong advocate for the breast cancer community. She leads our outreach efforts, supports our mentorship programs, and is also a Pink Peer and mentor to many in our community." |
Torin Dunnavant of Tree Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Sept. 8, 2023Fri, 09/08/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorTorin Dunnavant, executive director of Tree Davis, shows us how to keep our towns really "cool." Tree Davis has more than 13,000 witnesses standing guard around Yolo County (that's how many trees they have planted to date). Listen in today on Imagining Yolo Davis as he discusses its many programs, such as tribute trees, memorial groves, education programs, and so much more. As Tree Davis says on its website, its mission is "to improve the health and resilience of our communities by enhancing and expanding climate-ready trees and landscapes through direct action, community engagement, and advocacy." |
Kate Laddish explains In Home Supportive Services and Democracy WintersFri, 08/25/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorKate Laddish has many interests and passions, and today she talks with us about two: Yolo County In Home Supportive Services, better known as IHSS, and Democracy Winters, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving democracy. Both organizations deserve a second look, and here is an opportunity as Kate shares her insights into both. |
Songs that focus on helping others, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Aug. 11, 2023Fri, 08/11/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorThis week I am playing some tunes with a focus on helping others. It's interesting how a song can literally change its meaning when you listen to it with the idea of volunteering. Listen with a need from the individual or the community in mind. |
Community Harvest of Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, July 28, 2023Fri, 07/28/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorJoin us as John Aubert and co-founder Greg Gibs talk about the truly awesome Community Harvest of Davis, a nonprofit run by volunteers that harvests fruit from residential trees and donates it to agencies that feed people in need. Both guests are members of the group's board. Community Harvest donates to Davis agencies, primarily the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee, with any excess going to the Yolo Food Bank and local churches. Its mission "is to provide food for people who need it, promote sustainable use of urban resources, and contribute to a stronger community." As of fall 2017, the charity had donated more than 250,000 pounds of fruit, and had a donor database of 200+ homes and more than 400 volunteers, including including members of 11 UC Davis service groups. |
Pamela Cohen shares the story of the Purple Tree Cafe, on Imagining Yolo Davis, July 21, 2023Fri, 07/21/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorPamela Cohen, founder and board member of Purple Tree Cafe, shares the story of the Davis nonprofit on the latest Imagining Yolo Davis.
Purple Tree Café creates community-based employment for people with disabilities and brings people with and without disabilities together through food, art, and music. It offers handcrafted vegan and wheat-free baked goods, and organic iced tea and other beverages, at the Davis Farmers Market and other events, often serving from its signature bicycle-driven coffee cart -- an icon in bike-friendly Davis. |
Paul Simon explains his vision of mortality, June 30, 2023Fri, 06/30/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter PastoorThis week's guest is Paul Simon via his latest musical release, Seven Psalms. By sculpting his lyrics into his music, he explains his thoughts on mortality and his observations on life. This album has no majestic orchestrations as in Bridge Over Troubled Water, or snappy happy dance tunes, as so many of his songs do. Mr. Simon shares his thoughts and asks you to listen. I imagined myself listening under a canopy of stars. He brings up reflections of his life we all see and feel in our own lives, and he admits we all interpret in our own way. His version is facinating. |
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