We got our first press coverage in the April 3rd Edition of Westmoreland News. Reporter and Colonial Beach resident Suzy Pietras-Smith attended the organizational meeting on March 30th, and filed the story below. Funny thing was, I didn’t spot it myself but had it called to my attention by somebody in my building at work […]
The Colonial Beach Chamber of Commerce have graciously invited WWER to share a corner of their office for 6 months while we figure out where we will live on a more permanent basis! Thanks for the free space! We are investigating a more permanent solution, but this will take the pressure off for our very […]
Last night, I made a presentation to the Colonial Beach Community Foundation (our parent organization) about our progress so far. They seem as excited as some of you about the prospect of our little town having it’s own radio station, and want to help. I explained to them what we have accomplished so far, what […]
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Lest you think nothing is going on between blog posts, nothing could be further from the truth! We have several volunteers working hard on several fronts, and need more! Most are working without any formal titles, but soon we will start to name people to positions (in an ‘acting’ role) to start creating some structure […]
Thanks again to all those who attended our first meeting. I think the lovely weather may have kept some people outside instead of in a meeting, but those who attended had a nice discussion of what lies ahead. We had a nice mix of people with some skills that we will need for WWER. We […]
The FCC paperwork to assign the license of WWER to the Colonial Beach Community Foundation was officially filed March 19. Typically it takes the FCC 30 to 60 days to act on these requests. “Stay tuned” for further updates!
I’ve been coming to Colonial Beach for more than 10 years (I’ve had a house here nearly that long), but never knew that there was a radio station licensed to the town that started in 2009. Then one day I read that there was one, and that the licensee no longer wanted to broadcast. As […]
Please join us for our first volunteer meeting this Saturday, March 30th at 10:30am. As per Wikipedia, ” Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain “to benefit another person, group or organization”. If you are unable to make this meeting but want […]
The 90s undoubtedly marked the Golden Age of underground music zines cataloguing subcultural movements. Without an avalanche of Tumblr accounts offering endless information on what your favourite band is wearing, Soundcloud recommendations about who to listen to next, or Twitter documenting your most-loved guitar player’s childhood fear, publications such as the pioneering DIY zine Sniffin’ […]
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