Bringing radio to the islands | Letter

I would like to publicly acknowledge the good and important work of the late Michael Calhoun who, along with his wife Jody and son Copper, went to great efforts to start the local radio station that is now such a valuable resource to San Juan island.

I would like to publicly acknowledge the good and important work of the late Michael Calhoun who, along with his wife Jody and son Copper, went to great efforts to start the local radio station that is now such a valuable resource to San Juan island.

As I understand it, after obtaining the license and establishing the station, the Calhouns turned the station over to Skagit Valley Community College, where it became the Friday Harbor station of SVC’s excellent radio system.

I highly recommend giving it a listen, especially in the late afternoons when they present excellent public interest programs available nowhere else on the local airwaves.

Throughout the day their programming is lively and often amateurish in the positive sense of the word–people doing radio not for money or fame, but because they are passionate about it – much, appropriately enough, like the Calhouns themselves.

Andrew Seltser

Friday Harbor