New Athens podcast tracks impact of federal COVID relief grant
A new podcast is shining a light on how federal relief money is making a difference in Athens. Athens-Clarke County’s ARPA in Athens Highlight Series gives residents a closer look at how millions of dollars in pandemic recovery funds are being used to support local families, businesses, and neighborhoods. WUGA’s Pride Haggerty has more.
Plus, for its fourth episode, the ARPA in Athens Highlight Series producer Cameron McGlothen sat down with Sterling Gardner, Interim President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Athens, and Tyrique Dunn, the Director of the organization’s Delinquency Prevention Initiative, to discuss the impact of ARPA funds. We include an excerpt from the podcast’s fourth episode.
UGA educational garden celebrates Native American agriculture
In a shortcut between parking lots and classrooms at the University of Georgia, a transformation is taking place. A garden where medicinal plants from places like the Caribbean, Mexico, and South and Central America grow is now home to the Three Sisters.
This symbiotic planting of squash, beans, and corn together fed people in the Southeast US for centuries before European contact.
WUGA’s Emma Auer has more on what adding the Three Sisters to the garden means for UGA scholars and indigenous students.
$700,000 grant to help Goodwill with second chance program
Goodwill of Northeast Georgia recently received over $700,000 from the US Department of Labor. The grant will help fund a new program that provides skill training to young adults impacted by the legal system living in the Athens-area. Jenny Taylor is the Vice President of Career Services and Chief Mission Officer at Goodwill of Northeast Georgia. She sat down with WUGA’s Emma Auer to discuss the program.
Georgia Health Report: Georgia’s public health workers deal with uncertainty
Federal budget cuts have gutted public healthcare systems around the US. Public health workers in Georgia are among those impacted. On this week’s episode of the Georgia Health Report, host Mary Ryan Howarth sat down with Rebecca Grapevine, an Atlanta-based reporter for Healthbeat, to discuss the state of public health work. Here’s that conversation.
