Please help with KCR’s next Visioning Process by writing down your hopes and dreams for Kootenay Coop Radio for the next five years.

By May 2010
-we have increased our paid staff hours by 10%.
-We receive $15,000 from the Community Radio Fund of Canada for a very creative project which allows us to compile and share our accumulated organizational skills with other community stations in Canada.
-An independent filmmaker takes an interest in our station’s history and starts work on a 30 minute documentary about CJLY.
-We are a regular producer (2-3 times a year) of Groundwire, a half hour national newsmagazine aired on 30 NCRA stations across the country
-We are broadcasting in the lower Slocan Valley
-6 volunteers and staff from the station attend the Western Radio Conference in Calgary.

By July 2010
-We partner with School Districts’ aboriginal education program to host our first Radio Camp for aboriginal kids. It’s 2 weeks long, and the kids produce a documentary as a result.
-We’ve produced a documentary about local Doukhobour history for national distribution. CBT funds it.
-We partner with Katimavik to offer all visiting Katimavik volunteers in Nelson a radio camp. With the assistance of AFKO we run our first french-language radio camp (and we get money from Heritage Canada to do it.)
-10 volunteers and staff attend the NCRC held on Gabriola Island in June.
-We have the proposed live music space set up in the basement.

By November 2010
-we’ve partnered with Selkirk College to teach a media literacy course, and a radio skills 101 course
-Students from Selkirk’s Music Program do a weekly 30 min show featuring their own original music as a part of their curriculum.
-We contribute some historical material from the station to the Nelson Museum Archive for posterity.
-Someone proposes a radio show about Canadian radio- history, technology, regulations,
-we are assisting a group in Castlegar starting their own Radio Station

by September 2011
-we are broadcasting shows in 5 different languages

by June 2012
-we host the National Campus and Community Radio Conference
-We increase staff hours a further 10%

One year. financially stabilized with at least minimal budget to replace aging/failing equipment. Stereo inside the station, even if still mono on-air. Charity status in place. Basement space ready for performances.
Two years. finances such that at least some reserves are being put aside. Stereo broadcast, even if still from “production style” mixboard.
Three years. Full stereo operation with a “broadcast style” mixboard in A. STL link to New Denver to eliminate the internet feed.
Four years. some form of sharing of signal, transmitters, productions and finances between all (or at least some) of the community radio stations in the West Kootenays, with coverage of all areas. No more MP3 or other low quality signal sources.
Five years. Burn the mortgage.

To continue Summer Youth Radio Camps with options for more advanced skill development.
To develop a regular and annual camp for more mature persons, leaning towards community focused journalism, radio plays, and local talent showcases.

To Financially stabilize with reserves set aside.

To reach 800 up to 1,000 members who have up to date paid annual membership fees.

(much like the first point mentioned by “Volcano") To secure funding & to create a sharable training package that includes audio video “how to” that encompasses all aspects of creating, operating, and maintaining a community radio station, starting with regular volunteer training material covering the basics: mic & the voice, flow of your show, using the equipment, media technology and applications, etc. to other areas of volunteer activity such as “how to organize and initiate a Membership Drive” as well as governance level volunteer training that would cover directors orientation, strategic planning, budget development, co-operative principles in action, etc. and even further to capture the process of starting a community co-operative radio station, along with a historical documentary of CJLY.

To secure local partners in funding to produce a (timeless) HISTORICAL MOMENTS series of 30 second spots that would be run much like sponsorship spots or station IDs, focusing on the West Kootenay area and the notable moments in history that has made this the place and community it is today.  (These historical moments are timeless and could be played for years and years if enough were produced.)

Volcano: I truly appreciate reading your post for it is inspiring.

By July 2010
-We partner with School Districts’ aboriginal education program to host our first Radio Camp for aboriginal kids. It’s 2 weeks long, and the kids produce a documentary as a result.
-We’ve produced a documentary about local Doukhobour history for national distribution. CBT funds it.
-We partner with Katimavik to offer all visiting Katimavik volunteers in Nelson a radio camp. With the assistance of AFKO we run our first french-language radio camp (and we get money from Heritage Canada to do it.)

All super great concepts and worth investigating! Thank you.

LVR has a student broadcast every morning to the students in the school.  Perhaps CJLY could broadcast that show to the community.  The other schools may have shows as well and they could be packaged such that the community would have another access point to understanding what is happen in our schools.