Good afternoon and welcome to Chatabout!

On today’s show, we’ll visit with Village of Hope’s new executive director Michelle Raiter. The shelter that exclusively serves families facing homelessness had to shutter its doors last month after flooding destroyed everything in the building.

The grant-funded shelter anticipates reopening in March, but there are still ways people can help by visiting villageofhopebemidji.org.

On tomorrow’s show, we’ll visit with Planning Director Jamin Carlson ahead of the Greater Bemidji Area Joint Planning Board meeting tomorrow evening. That’s on Chatabout tomorrow at about 12:15 p.m.

Our show today was brought to to us by our friends at the Bemidji Chrysler Center, by Higgins Heating Air Conditioning & Refrigeration, and by the Beltrami Electric Cooperative.

Thanks for tuning into the area’s talk show since 1956! Have a terrific Tuesday!