New hours as 'Community Conversations' focuses on ponies, papas and Poly

An open house at the Wayward Ponies Home, the Father of the Year Program and a Cal Poly student talking about a career as an ag teacher are some of this week’s topics on “Community Conversations,” a public service program on KYOS.

The hour-long show focuses on community, education and government news affecting residents throughout Merced County. There are new hours, with the show airing on KYOS, 1480 AM, at 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and at 10 a.m. Sunday.

This weekend’s lineup: Lou Ann Sakai talks about the open house for the Wayward Ponies Home in Catheys Valley; Hannah Ewing, a student teacher from Cal Poly, SLO, talks about what it takes to be an agriculture teacher; Merced Court Executive Officer Linda Romero Soles talks about the state’s traffic amnesty program; Kathleen Crookham talks about the planned gala for the Merced Theatre Board; and Paul Lundberg talks about the Father of the Year Program with last year’s winner, Doug Fluetsch, and his son, Spencer.

The show is produced by Nathan Quevedo, the public information officer for the Merced County Office of Education MCOE, Mike Conway, public information officer at the city of Merced, Roger Wood and Scott Hernandez-Jason of UC Merced, in association with the county of Merced and Merced College.

The show’s hosts this week is Wood, and Steve Colvard from KYOS is the engineer.

Go to www.mercedcommunityconversations.com for past episodes of “Community Conversations.”