Want experience running a non profit society?

Are you interested on working for your fellow students?

Do you want to get paid to do this?

Your Student Union will be holding “Spring Elections” soon.  Find out how you can become a paid member of the “VIUSU “Student Executive”.   Find out more at the student union building 193

For agenda please visit www.chlyfm.com (RMS members only)

In a Muslim village near Bethlehem affected by Israeli occupation, Jihan Nassar, a Christian Palestinian, runs a women’s centre with international help.  In Tel Aviv, Rona Moran is one of three feminist researchers behind the website whoprofits.org - providing activists with information about international companies that make money off the occupation. Melinda Tuhus, a US radio journalist, conducts the interviews.

Tune into CHLY 101.7 FM each week, Wednesday’s at 1:30 PM for W.I.N.G.S

www.wings.org

CKUT (Montreal) and CHLY Present

The 10th annual Homelessness Marathon
14 hours of live radio programming on justice, not charity

*Tune in and participate!*

//// February 22-23, 2012 \\\\
//// 2pm-4am \\\\

*TUNE IN all night long on 101.7FM, or online at www.chly.ca

*CALL in to our toll-free number from anywhere in Canada to participate
and speak your mind: 1-866-594-7729

*FOLLOW us on…
Facebook

Twitter

* What is the Homelessness Marathon? *

Every year, the Homeless Marathon serves up 14 hours of people-powered
radio, broadcasted on nearly 40 radio stations across Canada. With the goal
of being a consciousness-raising event, the Marathon will provide an
opportunity for homeless people and their allies to take to the airwaves,
and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible
solutions.

*35 stations carrying the marathon from coast to coast to coast! To find
the station nearest you broadcasting the marathon, visit:
http://ckut.ca/homeless/?page_id=93

*Some highlights for this year include:
** Open mic hour from midnight-1am (call in with your questions, comments,
and rants, or bring an instrument down to the centre and play a song) -
1-866-594-7729
** Other hourly topics and panels on gender and access to housing, police
repression and the law, art in the streets, migration and housing, and more!
** Segments of the marathon also being hosted live from the streets of
Halifax by CKDU radio, and the streets of Vancouver by CJSF radio!

*For the complete schedule, *and for more info, visit: www.ckut.ca/homeless

*Get involved!*
We need help putting up posters, getting the word out, and also on the
airwaves. Get in touch with marathon@ckut.ca, or call 514-448-4041 x.6788

After 2 years of operating at less than 2000 watts, we are pleased to announce we are back at full power!!  Thanks to all the members (including VIU Nanaimo Campus Students), donors, sponsors over the last 2 years.  With your help Radio Malaspina has purchased a new 350 Watt back up transmitter and has repaired its main 2000 Watt transmitter.

Dr. Paola Lake, registered psychologist, established her practice in 2004 after moving from Ottawa, Ontario. Shortly after settling into west coast living, she received a call from CHLY programmer Pam Edgar; host of Living for the Health of It, who invited Lake to become a monthly guest on her show. Lake eventually decided to produce and host her own talk show, The Dr. Lake show. Her show is motivated by a desire to help people build resources and community support to enhance personal resilience and people’s ability to deal with life’s challenges. The Dr. Lake Show has been on the air for three years.

Originally from Italy, Lake came to live on the Lower Mainland when she was 5 years old. She studied at the Universities of Victoria and Saskatchewan before moving to Ottawa. In addition to her private practice and teaching experience in Ottawa, she also co-hosted a radio show that focused on de-stigmatizing mental illness. She ultimately returned to Nanaimo where her parents had retired and is now firmly established in the harbour city.

In addition to having her PhD in Psychology, Lake is completing her certification as a life and executive coach. She enjoys the positive and action-oriented nature of coaching and its focus on building on people’s strength, instead of the traditional focus on pathology. She uses a multitude of tools to build on people’s strengths.

The Dr. Lake Show is a vehicle to ‘help people help themselves’ and represents Lake’s philosophy that together, we can work build strength and support to manage tough times. Because everyone experiences some degree of adversity in their lives, her focus is on building resilience. Like community radio, she sees her program as a vehicle to give voice to community members and experts and to create an accessible avenue to discuss mental health and wellness.

Although Lake is influenced by a variety of clinicians and authors in her work, such as Martin Seligman, Lee Pulos, Carl Rogers, and Gabor Mate, she draws inspiration from examples of everyday people who face adversity and achieve the unexpected while facing challenging circumstances. She stresses the importance of taking time to reflect on personal beliefs and examining whether they are enhancing or limiting our potential and quality of life. She also believes that most people can benefit from developing tools and skills to manage everyday challenges such as mindfulness practice, development of effective communication skills and strategies for achieving personal goals.

If you are interested in enhancing your resiliency and improving your well-being, tune in to 101.7fm every Monday evening from 7:00-8:00pm. Or, check out her podcasts at

www.chly.ca. Past topics include creating positive change, hypnosis, self esteem and developing a mindfulness practice.

Alison Roberts is the author of Clutter’s Dirty Secret and a volunteer writer with CHLY radio.

Photo Credit: Denisa Krausova