We're going to start off with a little Jimmy Thackery with Edward's Blues.

My name is Cynthia Hines and were here at the Paonia studios of KVNF community radio.

“... here on Blues and Other Colors, Im Cynthia,” I've been a DJ here for 27 plus years, And, deeply love this community radio station, the community, the music.

And I'm deeply passionate about public broadcast.

When the administration pulled our funding it represented $162,000 for the radio station, which is about 20% of our budget.

It's a big deal for us, we have really developed this incredible news programing, which is such a difficult task and we don't want to lose it.

It's essential for our community, because we have no other source for that kind of information.

When we had the fires on the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, I live about ten minutes from the North Rim, and I have horses on my property.

I had no idea what was going on for the first 24 hours.

I didnt know if we had to evacuate, etc., but the only way I knew what was going on was through KVNF.

[jazz] “So, folks, coming up next, we're going to have a fair amount of new music,” I think it's important for folks to understand that at least on the radio side there's impacts that we don't even know about yet.

When I think about, things that we could lose, there aren't that many things because KVNF is volunteer run all of our music programing is run by volunteers and we have a teeny tiny staff of eight people.

So, perhaps we would cut some of our smaller projects, like, filming musicians that come in.

Obviously the most important and cherished thing that we never want to cut are our employees.

And we're nervous, it's not just this year, it's three years more and maybe beyond that even.

So how we do it year over year is going to be a real test to this station.

Because we live in such a rural area with such challenging topography, we have isolated pockets of community- there's something about the airwaves that picks up something in people and shares it, and there's an energy that comes back.

And that's how we get tied together.

KVNF is absolutely essential to keeping this community tied together.