On the radio
Well, I was on my way out the door to interview the Sultana High School cheerleading team — 1st in the state, two years in a row — when I got a call from Barb Stanton at Talk 960.
She was asking for more information about my article about the Hesperia Unified School District’s response to the Apple Valley child abduction attempts.
It was out of the blue, as sometimes happens in the news. The conversation went something like this:
Barb: Hey, Beau, it’s Barb Stanton!
Beau: Hey, Barb!
Barb: I’m on the air right now — well, we’re on a commercial break — and I wanted to know if you wanted to come on the air and talk about your article in the paper.
Beau: Which article is that?
Barb: The one about these horrible abductions in Apple Valley.
Beau: Oh, right. Yeah, but I’m running out the door to go to this interview …
Barb: It’ll only take a minute.
Beau: All right, Barb. We can do it fast.
Barb: Great.
So, with a minute’s worth of warning, I was back on the radio for the first time in 15 or 16 years. Hopefully I did OK. It helped that I’d just inputted the HUSD police log and was able to talk about relative school safety compared to my high school, South Lakes High School in Reston, VA, and about how kids in the HUSD get citations that add up to real money and that, yes, parents can and will get arrested if they fail to pay these fines.
It went OK, I think. We have a good relationship with Barb over here at the Hesperia Star, but I don’t know that I’m going to let her talk me into being interviewed on the radio as an actual guest. Even I don’t think that I’m that interesting.
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How come you guys don’t report the regular police log anymore? It was good to know what kinds of crimes were taking place in the neighborhood.
Comment by Henry Hesperia — March 9, 2006 @ 16:59
When we don’t, it’s because we (well, I) run out of time due to getting swamped with stuff at the last minute.
Having said that, I did the police log this morning as well as the school log. (I’ll be out of town on Friday.) It’s my goal to get both logs in for every week for the rest of the year.
Comment by Beau — March 9, 2006 @ 18:10
Way to go! If you ever somehow manage to get on ‘Fresh Air’, you gotta do ‘jazz hands’ at Terry Gross and see if she throws peanuts at you.
Comment by f. chong rutherford — March 9, 2006 @ 18:18