Community Conversations
Special Program: Curry Coast Community Radio’s Inaugural Texas Hold’em Tournament Winners
Curry Coast Community Radio's inaugural Texas Hold’em Tournament fundraiser took place at High Noon Saturday, October 10, at the Brookings’ Elks Lodge. The event was a huge success with nearly fifty players joining KCIW’s cadre of volunteers to help support Curry...
Community Conversations: Port Orford Rotary Exchange Student
Community Conversations meets KCIW’s Multi-cultural programming! Guest show host Skip Hunter interviews Port Orford Rotary Clubs’ foreign exchange student Eneko Arregi as he prepares to leave after his year-long stay in Curry County. Eneko, from the Basque Region of...
Community Conversations: Expanding Healthcare with Curry Health Network CEO Ginny Razo and Brookings Mayor Ron Hedenskog
Did you know that Curry Health Network has already invested $21 million in our community at the Fifth Street clinic? In this edition of Community Conversations host Connie Hunter reaches out to Brookings Mayor Ron Hedenskog and Curry Health Network CEO Virginia...
Community Conversations: Brookings Tea Party Presents Curry Health District Expansion Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Ron Hedenskog and Catherine Wiley
If you don't have the back story, you don't have the whole story! At the Sept. 26, 2015 Brookings TEA Party meeting and forum, City of Brookings' Mayor Ron Hedenskog, Vice Chair of the Curry Health District Political Action Committee, and retired healthcare...
Community Conversations: National Disaster Resilience Competition with Brookings City Manager Gary Milliman
This segment of Community Conversations provides additional information about the Natural Disaster Resilience Competition Grant Competition (NDRC), phase 2. This is perhaps the single most important funding opportunity that our “neck of the woods” has ever had and...
Community Conversations: Brookings City Manager Gary Milliman
What would you do with $20 million? Most of us wouldn’t know where to begin … Build economic resiliency? Build disaster preparedness infrastructure? Both? City Manager Gary Milliman shares detailed insights regarding developing the National Disaster Resilience...
Community Conversations: Curry County Outreach Forums with County Commissioner Susan Brown
What's Curry County’s greatest asset? According to Curry County Commissioner Susan Brown the answer to that question is easy. The citizens of Curry County are the innovators, community builders, and strategic planners whose many gifts will craft the future success of...
Community Conversations: Growing Grassroots Civility, Episode 1
Curry Coast Community Radio's Community Conversations announces a new year-long series called Growing Grassroots Civility. During the inaugural episode of this important series, Host Connie Hunter talks with Julie Schmelzer, head of Economic Development and...
Community Conversations – The Backstory: Brookings City Update with City Manager Gary Milliman
Affecting change in rural Southern Oregon is another challenge local leaders face, even beyond providing a stable municipal government in Curry County at it edges toward a fiscal cliff. Following-up on the City Council meeting of June 22, 2015, Brookings City Manager...
Community Conversations: The Brookings Planning Commission Considers Ham Radio Tower Restrictions
To regulate or not to regulate, that's the question. Should the Brookings City Council place restrictions on the location and height of ham radio antenna towers? Ham radio operators don't want local restrictions. Some of their neighbours disagree. What does the...

