KKRN 88.5 FM - BELLA VISTA, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA U.S.A.

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Our next pancake breakfast is Sunday, June 20th, 2010.
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From Burney to Bella Vista. KKRN 88.5 FM is coming soon to a mountain near you! KKRNs purpose is to share music, culture and information. Our station acts as a forum for people and issues that typically lack media access. We promote positive social change, foster healthy communities and positive youth development. KKRN is a responsive and responsible volunteer organization dedicated to diversity, understanding and excellence.

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With all the commercial and noncommercial radio frequencies that have been licensed in the USA there remained a small number of noncommercial spots. In November of 2007 the FCC opened a one week window to apply. We did. And to our surprise and joy...we got a construction permit.

A handful of folks have been working on ways to make this happen. We are raising money. We do the BEST pancake breakfasts you will ever attend. Sausage, freshly ground whole wheat and corn pancakes, real maple syrup and fruit salad.

We will except any kind of donation. Please help envision this and let’s make it happen for our inter-mountain community. Thanks!

The studio of KKRN will be located at Hill County Community Clinic in Round Mountain.

We will feed our signal from the studio to the tower with our antenna and transmitter on Hatchet Mountain. The transmitter will amplify our voices and send them south east down the 299E corridor into eastern Redding, Bella Vista and Palo Cedro. We will set up a small micro wave system to transmit into Burney.

Anyone is welcome to get on board, learn how to broadcast and put a show together. We are all learning so don't be afraid to get involved. We are all volunteers and we can never have too many.

We meet the 1st Wednesday of each month at the new Hill Country Health and Wellness Center.
Call 530-337-6736

KKRN is on the move. We have $25,000 in a matching grant from The California Endowment Program. We also applied for the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program Grant through the Department of Commerce and were awarded $82,000. This fund helps community radio and tv stations buy and upgrade equipment to better serve their communities. All grants must be matched by the grantee, so we have a lot of work to do. We must still raise about $54,000 by March 2010 to match these federal funds. These funds will let us begin to purchase all equipment from studio console boards, to antennas, to microphones! We really need local help and donations now! The grant is for $82,000 and this is the 2nd year we applied. We were turned down the first year.

To make a donation to KKRN please call 530-337-6736 or donate online using the button below.

This is our actual tower located on a section of Hatchet Mountain west of Burney, California known as Bunch Grass.

It is considered one of the coldest and unfriendly spots in California for a tower due to icing in the winter.We will need ice shields to protect our equipment.

We will add a small micro wave system from this tower to another tower on the eastern edge of Hatchet to transmit into Burney.

Community radio is a resource for the entire community. Some of the services we hope to provide are:

News of intermountain area, local road conditions, weather advisories, sheriff’s reports, fire information, school notices, community calendar, a swap & sell show, local call-in talk show, programs by and for our local teens music, local musicians, as well as rock, jazz, world music, folk music, national and world news, features from Free Speech Radio, Democracy Now, as well as other mainstream sources.

About Acorn Community Enterprises

Acorn Community Enterprises is a non-profit organization started in 1998. Acorn is the parent organization of KKRN, a "non-commercial educational" community radio station. KKRN is a project of Acorn and we envision the station be a place where all are welcome and encouraged to be involved, a place where varying opinions are treated with respect and where information and knowledge are seen as keys to a healthier community. Acorn is particularly interested in involving youth and disenfranchised populations into the radio station and look forward to creating a strong asset in our community.

More at www.acornshasta.org

Acorn Community Enterprises Statement of Mission

Our mission is to support healthy families and communities with a broad range of projects that focus on:
(1) youth development, with an after school program, teen group, and youth job training activities;
(2) family support services, with a variety of workshops, groups, and referral activities for families; and
(3) community economic development through job training, availability of GED and other computer-based educational opportunities.

More at www.acornshasta.org