Valerie Ing
Northern California Program Coordinator | Classical HostValerie Ing’s history with JPR goes back to the stone age, when she volunteered to answer phones during the 1981 fund drive. She was still a teenager when she hosted her first music program on the airwaves, and while getting her degree at SOU, she was JPR’s Student Chief Announcer and the station’s first volunteer in the news room. After graduating, Valerie’s adventures included living on islands in Greece & Alaska, but she came back in 2002 as JPR’s Northern California Program Coordinator, Today she's Classical Music Director, and hosts the morning music program First Concert.
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People said Dale Ross could run like a deer.As a boy growing up in Ashland, Ore., Ross would go camping with his family at Howard Prairie Lake and run all…
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Today the coastal town of Port Orford holds a Fourth of July celebration called the Port Orford Jubilee that more than a century ago was known as the…
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Jack Stevens was a popular kid in Coquille, Ore., in the 1940s, serving in high school as class president for several years.Following the footsteps of his…
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Movie stars, gangsters, even a U.S. President are said to have spent time at the Clark Creek Lodge in its heyday. The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. built…
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Summer in Shasta County can feel as hot as the Sahara Desert, but on one occasion the Burney Falls State Park doubled in the movies as a cool spot in the…
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When Whiskey Creek gold was discovered south of Coos Bay in 1852, miners from all over the world showed up on the Southern Oregon Coast, hoping to strike…
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The small Siskiyou County town of Weed, Calif., finally embraced linking its name to marijuana by holding a Four Twenty Educational Weed Festival this…
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In November 1933, Doris Sparks and Andrea Mardelle stepped into their car in Spokane, planning to drive all night to Klamath Falls to meet up with Doris’…
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The names Chiquinha Gonzaga and Elfrida Andree probably won’t ring a bell with many classical music fans today, but both were not only pioneers in music… -
In March 1967, a private plane took off from Portland for San Francisco with pilot Alvin Oien, his wife, Phyllis, and their teenage daughter, Carla. The…
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The pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Redding, Calif., in the 1960s, Noble M. Streeter, enjoyed sharing stories about his hard times as a child in the…
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In September 2018, a wildfire exploded in northern Shasta County alongside Interstate 5, its 300-foot-high flames forcing freeway motorists to ditch their…
