DATE: 6/26/06

CONTACT: Bob McAnally, (864) 656-7458

Your Day radio schedule for week of July 3

CLEMSON -- The following "Your Day" radio programs from Clemson University Radio Productions are scheduled to air on South Carolina ETV Radio for the week of July 3. The program airs from noon to 1 p.m. , Monday through Thursday. Listeners can call in questions during a "live” show by using the toll-free phone number: 1-888-539-8859.

MONDAY, JULY 3

How safe is our tap water? Bob Becker, director of the Strom Thurmond Institute on Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University , talks with Dr. Steve Klaine, professor of Aquatic Toxicology, Water Quality & Risk Assessment at Clemson University .

Cats don’t hike. An account of an aborted family field trip by Dr. Edwin Leap, an emergency room physician at Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca, and author of a collection of essays on his ER experiences: Working Knights. Dr. Leap’s columns can be found in the Greenville News, the Seneca Daily Journal-Messenger, and Emergency Medicine News. His new collection of essays on family, Cats Don’t Hike, is now available at Booklocker.Com.

Ten uncommon and underused trees. More tips on landscape plants from Clemson Extension Horticulturist Bob Polomski, author of Month-by-Month Gardening in the Carolinas. This information is available from the Clemson University Extension Service document: Discover uncommon and underused trees for your home landscape. More information on these trees and others is available at Clemson University Consumer Horticulture and from the North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service.

A day at the Andrew Jackson State Park. Dyana Daniels visits the Andrew Jackson Museum and tours the grounds with Laura Ledford, interpretive ranger at Andrew Jackson State Park in Lancaster County .

TUESDAY, JULY 4
An hour from the archives of our entomology discussions. A selection of questions and answers taken from the off-air archives and past editions of this call-in program on insects, spiders and other household pests. Charlotte Holt hosts Eric Benson, Clemson Extension urban entomologist and Cam Lay, assistant head of the Department of Pesticide Regulation at Clemson University . For additional insect information, visit the Clemson University Entomology website.

W EDNESDAY, JULY 5

A live call-in hour to ask about SC snakes, turtles, alligators and other reptiles and amphibians . Mike Willis, communications director for the SC Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) hosts Herpetologist Steve Bennett, a non-game biologist from the DNR Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. Listeners may call in with questions via the toll-free number 888-539-8859.

THURSDAY, JULY 6

Agriculture at the local level. Donna London of the Jim Self Center on the Future, talks with Royce Carter, vice president and project manager of the Windsor/Aughtry Company during a recent meeting of the SC District Council of the Urban Land Institute on mixed-use development.

Proper pesticide practice. Peter Kent asks Clemson University Entomologist Bob Bellinger of the Clemson University Pesticide Information Program, to dispel some commonly held beliefs about insects and pesticide use.

The American affair with the automobile.Furman University President David Shi considers the history of America ’s fascination with the automobile.

The phenomenon of Wikipedia. Eric Rodgers talks with Phil Yanov, director of Business Development at Acentron Technologies and founder and executive director of the GSA Technology Council, about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia “that anyone can edit.”

A Palate/Palette Benefit. Clemson Extension Food and Nutrition Specialist Libby Hoyle talks with Chef Ciaran Duffy from Tristan and with Joe Sylvan from the Sylvan Gallery in Charleston, about the Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association's First Annual Palate/Palette Benefit, an evening dedicated to fine art, cuisine and wine planned for July 14. The event runs from 5:30-8:30 p.m. and is presented as part of the Charleston Fine Art Dealers’ Association’s Studio Series, benefiting its visual arts scholarship.

For more information, contact Your Day at (864) 656-7458.

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