DATE: 3/15/06

CONTACT: Bob McAnally, (864) 656-7458

Your Day radio schedule for week of Mar. 20

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 Mar. 20. 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, MARCH 20

Ireland’s new and improved economy. Bob Becker, director of the Strom Thurmond Institute on Government and Public Affairs at Clemson University, speaks with Dr. Bill Ward, director of the Center for International Trade (CIT) at Clemson University, and with Dan Flinter, managing director emeritus of Enterprise Ireland, who spoke on “The Celtic Tiger and the New Carolina” at the Clemson University/Bank of America Global Forum Dinner on March 9, during the CIT Fourth Annual Global Forum. Information on the Celtic Tiger experience:  The Transformation of the Irish Economy: The Role of Public Policy by Dan Flinter and A Private Sector Perspective on the Celtic Tiger Experience by Pat McArdle, Chief Economist at Ulster Bank.

Flooding: the number one weather-related killer. Clemson University Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Linvill talks with Vince DiCarlo, warning coordination meteorologist from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Greer.

Early childhood inSouth Carolina. Gary Melton, director of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, and his colleague Janet Marsh, a specialist in early childhood programs, talk with A. Baron Holmes, project director of South Carolina Kids Count, about the latest data on the state’s child population. Earlier conversations with Holmes can be found in the Your Day Archives for March 6 and 13.

A new home for the Anderson County Arts Center. Roy Scott visits the new warehouse facilities of the Anderson County Arts Center and talks with Executive Director Kimberly Spears and Arts School Coordinator Johnny Nutt.

Spring into gardening with the best cover crops. Clemson University Horticulture Professor David Bradshaw, a naturalist and heirloom gardener for the SC Botanical Garden, describes and explains his winter cover crop choices for his heirloom plots.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21
A live call-in hour on gardening in South Carolina. Host F. Brian Smith, Clemson Extension agent in Charleston County, will take your lawn and garden questions. Use the toll-free number 888-539-8859. For additional gardening advice, contact the Clemson Extension Home and Garden Information Center.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 – A live hour of discussion on pet healthcare issues. Call in to talk with host Glenn Birrenkott of the Clemson University Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, and Anderson Veterinarian Bobby Long of Magnolia Veterinary Clinic in Anderson. Listeners may call in via the toll-free number 888-539-8859.

THURSDAY, MARCH 23
Fictional accounts of New Testament history. Donna London of the Jim Self Center on the Future has a second conversation with AJ Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter professor of New Testament Studies and director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University . They are joined by Rev. Chris Heavner, Lutheran campus minister at Clemson University , a co-founder of the program: Women and the Sacred. An earlier discussion with Levine can be found in the Your Day Archives for March 16.

Indoor dangers during weather-related power outages . Clemson University Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Linvill talks with Vince DiCarlo, warning coordination meteorologist from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Greer.

Alfreda’s World. Roy Scott visits Coleman Fine Art on Church Street in Charleston to talk with John’s Island writer/artist/illustrator Mary Whyte, the author of Alfreda’s World.

Spring into gardening with a proper soil test. Clemson Extension Horticulturist Bob Polomski, author of Month by Month Gardening in the Carolinas, meets with Kathy Moore, director of analytical services at the Clemson University Agricultural Service Laboratory, to discuss how and why to have your soil tested before spring planting. For more information on soil testing and other services, visit the website of Clemson University Agricultural Service Laboratory. For questions regarding your home lawn and garden soil test report call The Clemson Extension Home and Garden Information Center at 1-888-656-9988.

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

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