Your Community Matters Podcast

Your Community Matters looks at macro concerns through a micro lens: the Northwest Ohio region, and people who are working to make their community better. Their stories are local, but their concerns are common to people across the country.This podcast features uncut versions of the 27-minute weekly radio show that airs Tuesdays at 8 PM on Toledo’s public access radio channel, WAKT 106.1 FM. The radio station is itself a project undertaken by area citizens to make our community better, and can be accessed globally via livestream at toledoradio.com. yourcommunitymatters.substack.com

Your Community Matters Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Paula Ashley, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Paula Ashley hosts Your Community Matters Podcast, a society show with 12 episodes published.

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  What does it mean to be a "strong town"?

  Jul 27, 202556 minS0

  <p>Due to a series of difficult personal circumstances earlier this year, I was unable to post a podcast version of my conversation with Maumee City Manager Patrick Burtch at the time the two-part radio show originally aired on WAKT 106.1 FM in late spring.</p><p>It was thus with some sadness that I saw the news of Mr. Burtch’s resignation this past week, so I’m changing the podcast posting schedule to share here what I experienced as a heartfelt accounting of his motivations as Maumee city manager.</p><p>As I noted during my conversation with Mr. Burt...

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  One hundred and sixty-five years

  Jul 2, 202529 minS0

  <p>Since its humble start in 1860, when a Lutheran pastor began caring for orphans in his east Toledo home, Genacross Lutheran Services has developed into a provider of essential services to thousands of people in every phase of life throughout northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.</p><p>Adaptability, resourcefulness, and responsiveness to community needs have made this faith-based organization one of the area’s leading nonprofit social service agencies. In my conversation with Genacross president and CEO, Rick Marshall, the organization’s intentional focus of caring for both the body and soul of those in need was a consistent theme. As y...

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  Is there anything more delicious than a fresh start?

  Jun 29, 202533 minS0

  <p>Teacher. Coach. Advocate. Organizer. Connector. Inspirational leader. And (did I almost forget?) Professionally Trained Chef. Saundra Irvine, creator and director of the Inspiration Kitchen workforce development program, is all this and more.</p><p>She’s also my guest on this edition of Your Community Matters and she’ll probably be quite vexed with me for “talking her up” here, because she shuns the spotlight and habitually puts service to others first. Her proportion in this photo (the tiny figure at the end of the table) typifies her student-focused attitude:</p><p>Nevertheless, Saundra has crafted a remarkable program that is...

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  Can we live without clean waterways?

  Jun 25, 202538 minS0

  <p>Dead fish.</p><p>That was my first experience with a beach.</p><p>I was seven years old, and my parents had decided to take my sister and me to Crane Creek State Park for a picnic and swim. The smell of fish wasting away on the shore greeted us on that hot, summer day — scarcely a happy memory and, quite possibly, why I never developed a compelling desire to live on the water. I loved swimming too much to avoid a dip in the lake that day, but it was clear to me even at my tender ag...

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  Come for the homes, stay for the fun

  Jun 5, 202558 minS2

  <p>Toledo’s Old West End Festival, now in its 5th decade, is one of the Toledo area’s most well-attended neighborhood festivals. A major reason for its enduring popularity is the historic homes tour, an exceptional opportunity for people to view remarkable examples of late Victorian and Craftsman-style homes built at the turn of the last century.</p><p>But none of this would have been possible without the persistent dedication of those who’ve come to the neighborhood over the last 50+ years with the mission of preserving these architectural treasures. Two such people are the guests on the interv...

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