Talk Franklin, A Podcast from the Town Administrators Office - April 29, 2024

FM #1184 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1184 in the series. This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Town Administrator Jamie Hellen, Deputy Town Administrator Amy Frigulietti, Conservation Agent Breeka Li Goodlander and Recreation Director Ryan Jette on Monday, April 29, 2024. We get a very brief recap of current events (it’s all about the budget) and jump right into Earth Day and the other activities of the Conservation and Recreation departments Conservation Projects more this year than last Friends of Conservation group forming Recreation Growth in participation Field upgrades at Fletcher & King St Beaver Pond has a new kayak launch We close out with discussion and laughter around the Top 35 songs about weather https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eu2npqGS0fH9N0Uc0iB5WCitoawIMFdJ/view?usp=drive_link Our conversation runs about 41 minutes. -------------- Contact info: for Jamie & Amy: https://www.franklinma.gov/administrator Conservation page: https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation Recreation page: https://www.franklinma.gov/recreation-department Fact checking update: ? In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event "Earth Day" https://www.earthday.org/history/ ? The group garnered worldwide attention with 1987 album Diesel and Dust. Its singles "The Dead Heart" and " Beds Are Burning" illuminated the plight of indigenous Australians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil -------------- We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Pub