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With the number of homeless people on the rise in Northeast Tennessee, we visit a storefront church in Kingsport that has been addressing homeless issues and other community needs for over 10 years. Our guest is The Reverend Will Shewey, a United Methodist minister who says Shades of Grace seeks to serve the four Ls: the last, the least, the lost, and the lonely.

Sometimes we just don't have time to fit everything into the episode. Here are a few of the unaired questions from previous episodes.

We talk with Hank Thomas, one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who rode Greyhound and Trailways buses throughout the South to protest racial segregation. Thomas was on board the bus that was firebombed by a Ku Klux Klan-led mob on May 14, 1961, in Anniston, Alabama. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Hank Thomas is now 82.

This week's episode is about things that cause indoor cats stress and anxiety, some of the behaviors associated with stressed-out cats, and steps you can take to make your cat more relaxed.

In this second part of our interview with cookbook author Sandra A. Gutierrez, she delves more deeply into some of the ingredients and flavors that define the Latin table. And she discusses the meticulous process of recipe testing that went into the creation of her book Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America.

For our first “Vital Voices” program of the new year, East Tennessee State University clinical psychologist Dr. Diana Morelen examines the concept of self care. And along the way, she answers the perennial pressing question: Should I or should I not make a New Year’s resolution?More information about infant mental health is available through the Association of Infant Mental Health in Tennessee (aimhitn.org).

We talk about the history of an unusual soft drink that was originally touted as a dietary supplement. Dr. Enuf was first produced by Tri-City Beverage in Johnson City 75 years ago this year.

On March 12, 1974, what became the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University was created when the Tennessee House of Representatives overrode Governor Winfield Dunn’s veto of the medical school bill. This program includes voices of people who were directly involved in the campaign to bring a medical school to ETSU.

Dr. John Shelton Reed, one of the most respected commentators on life in the American South, discusses the current state of barbecue, with specific attention to regional differences in North Carolina.

Laurel Blanchard, a meteorologist with WJHL-TV in Johnson City, talks about how she documented the weather for the year 2023 in a unique way. Using her crocheting skills, she created a temperature blanket that is almost 8 ½ feet long.