by rhiles | Mar 1, 2021 | Building Buchanan Podcast, News, Uncategorized
March 1 kicks off Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and for our latest episode of #BuildingBuchanan, we wanted to highlight the experience of individuals living with developmental disabilities in our area. In this episode, Colette spoke with Kelly Derks, who...
by rhiles | Oct 30, 2020 | Building Buchanan Podcast, News, Uncategorized
In this episode, Colette spoke with Jen Gentry, who is the Community Mental Health Liaison with the Northwest Missouri Crisis Intervention Council. We invited Jen as a guest on the Building Buchanan podcast because she came up during the interview Colette did with...
by rhiles | Sep 25, 2020 | Building Buchanan Podcast, Uncategorized
In this episode, Colette interviewed Courtney Alsup and David Rotert, both parents of children with disabilities and Partners in Policymaking graduates. She talked to them about their experience completing their final project for Partners, which took them on a journey...
by rhiles | Aug 7, 2020 | Building Buchanan Podcast, News, Uncategorized
In this episode, Colette sat down and spoke with Jess Gould. Jess is the Youth Services Department Manager at the East Hills Library, a branch of the St. Joseph Public Library system. In this interview, Jess shared a little bit of her background and then dived into...
by rhiles | Jul 17, 2020 | Building Buchanan Podcast, Uncategorized
In the latest episode of the Building Buchanan podcast, Colette spoke with Brian Myers, local entrepreneur and St. Joseph city council member about everything from coming of age to poverty to how you can support local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
by rhiles | Jun 3, 2020 | Building Buchanan Podcast, News, Uncategorized
In the first part of Episode 5 on the Building Buchanan podcast, Colette sat down with Kelly Henry to get her take on the Coronavirus crisis that has changed life as we know it. She shared her family’s experience with social isolation. In Part II of Episode 05,...