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| Last updated on January 15, 2008 |
WRRS/RADPRIN is an essential lifelong educational resource for the Greater Lehigh Valley. WRRS/RADPRIN provides programming that stimulates and expands thought, inspires cultural horizons, and promotes understanding of the issues of our diverse community and world.
Contact person: Tom Eberts, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone)
Office fax number: (610) 861-4125
Address:
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3835 Green Pond Rd
Bethlehem, PA 18020
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Web Site: http://www.radprin.org
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Overall Experience 
I enjoyed it & I got to meet many people I never knew before
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I helped out in my Parish church when needed & also did the same while in the Air Force.
posted by Charlie McMorrow on July 31, 2008 |
Overall Experience
It's an opportunity to interact with intelligent, public spirited folks in a clean, safe setting.
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I’ve been volunteering at WRRS-RADPRIN for over three years and find it very satisfying. Here I’ll give you a short introduction to the operation and to the activity I’m involved in.
WRRS-RADPRIN is a low-budget non-profit organization that relies heavily on over 150 volunteers to broadcast printed material to the “print impaired.” Print impairment comes about in three ways: severe visual disability, dyslexia, and inability physically to handle printed material. On the air 24/7, RADPRIN brings listeners material that is not available in the mainstream media. To see the complete lineup, go to http://www.radprin.org/, scroll down, and click on “broadcast schedule” on the left.
Volunteers at RADPRIN carry out a variety of activities, but reading live on the air or taping for later broadcast account for the largest chunk of volunteer hours - over 5,000 annually. To qualify as a reader, you come to the studio on the main campus of Northampton Community College, read some standard materials into a tape recorder, and if your reading is steady and clear, start in substituting occasionally. When a vacancy opens up in one of the regular reading slots, you will be invited to become a regular.
I’m a reader of local news on one day during the work week. Each weekday, a team of three readers arrives at the studio at 11 a.m., clips news articles from the day’s Morning Call and Express Times, and then reads them on air from noon to 3. Within each broadcast hour the three readers take turns in a regular rotation. While the other two team members are reading, I go over my next article to try to decode unfamiliar names. Sitting in a soundproof booth to read, we come out for a short break between hours. Elsewhere in the week’s schedule, articles from the local weeklies are read. At the studio volunteer tapists record material like shopping ads, wedding notices, births, and obituaries for broadcast later. For information on other volunteer roles at RADPRIN, contact the station.
Our volunteers are quite a mix of people, many being retired. At least two have extensive background in radio; many were teachers. The one commonality they seem to have is skill and enjoyment in working as a team. While serving a very disadvantaged audience, RADPRIN has the side benefit of providing meaningful involvement in the community to over 150 intelligent, public spirited neighbors. I recommend RADPRIN as an outlet for your good will.
posted by ClintW on June 22, 2007 |
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