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 to the State of Jefferson in 2002 as JPR’s Northern California Program Coordinator. As the sole staffer of the Redding studio where she hosts Siskiyou Music Hall, Valerie is the unofficial foreign ambassador of JPR. Valerie often serves as mistress of ceremonies at the Cascade Theatre, writes a music column for anewscafe.com, and plays second base on the Dirty Dozen co-ed softball team. She used to play bass in a punk rock band, drove a school bus for a few years and can cook Thai food like nobody’s business. Valerie adores her family, which includes husband Eddie, two teenagers and Casper the friendly white Westie.
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In 1853, Ephraim Catching filed a donation land claim along the Coquille River in Coos County, Ore. Soon 52 people lived in the village that sprouted…
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The Quinn Martin film company approached Siskiyou County rancher Gary Gragnani in 1977 about filming scenes for the TV movie titled “Standing Tall” on…
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As our nation gets decked out in red white & blue to celebrate Independence Day, have you ever wondered what qualifies as the most patriotic song? I do…
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UPDATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, NOON. … Over 140,000 acres have burned and containment is above 25 percent in all the fires except the River Complex near…
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UPDATE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 11 AM - The Frog Fire has reached 100 percent containment while the Dodge Fire is 30 percent contained. Lightning is forecast…
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UPDATED| Thursday 9/25/14 4:55 p.m.The end is in sight for firefighters on the Happy Camp Complex of fires burning in Siskiyou County. Containment reached…
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Jefferson Public Radio and the Shasta County Historical Society have been awarded the 2014 Governor’s Historic Preservation Award for a collaborative film…
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UPDATED | Thursday 5 PMThe heavy rains that fell on the region Wednesday did not produce any new mudslide activity on the southeast flank of Mount…