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On Valley Edition: Leticia Perez; Ice Cream; Buffalo Soldiers; Book Club

KVPR | By Joe Moore,
Rebecca Plevin, Ezra David Romero
Published July 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM PDT
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This week on Valley Edition Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez speaks with host Joe Moore about the upcoming senate race. Also on the show Valley Public Radio reporters Rebecca Plevin and Ezra Romero team up to look at three ice cream shops that have remained popular and successful across generations. 

Also on this week's program Valley Edition host Joe Moore interviews Shelton Johnson, a ranger with the National Park Service, about the presence of Buffalo Soldiers in Yosemite and other national parks. 

The program ends with FM89's Rebecca Plevin interviewing author Anne Fadiman about her book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.  Plevin is joined by a panel of experts to talk about the impact the book has on the medical field and the Hmong population across the nation.  

 

Guests in this week's program

Senate Race - Leticia Perez, Kern County Supervisor (@Team_Leticia)

Buffalo Soldiers - Shelton Johnson, Ranger with the National Park Service 

Homegrown Book Club - Anne Fadiman, Author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Homegrown Book Club - Jim McDiarmid, Psychologist with Mercy Medical Center, Merced

Homegrown Book Club - Michael Thao, Psychiatrist

Homegrown Book Club - Candice Adam-Medefind, Executive Director of Healthy House Merced 
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Joe Moore
Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
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Rebecca Plevin
Rebecca Plevin was a reporter for Valley Public Radio from 2013-2014. Before joining the station, she was the community health reporter for Vida en el Valle, the McClatchy Company's bilingual newspaper in California's San Joaquin Valley. She earned the George F. Gruner Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism and the McClatchy President's Award for her work at Vida, as well as honors from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Plevin grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is also a fluent Spanish speaker, a certified yoga teacher, and an avid rock-climber.
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Ezra David Romero
Ezra David Romero is an award-winning radio reporter and producer. His stories have run on Morning Edition, Morning Edition Saturday, Morning Edition Sunday, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Salt, Latino USA, KQED, KALW, Harvest Public Radio, etc.
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