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Noon Edition is a weekly radio program inviting your participation on news and issues facing the central and southern Indiana community. Noon Edition airs Friday at 12:06 p.m. on WFIU HD1.

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Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard and the Salvation Army

This week on “Noon Edition,” leaders from two area charities will be in the studio to talk about how the downturn in the economy has affected their missions. In the first half of the program, volunteers from Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard will join us. In the second half, Peter Iverson and Captain Elmer Gamble from the [...]

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Poverty and Hunger Activist John Breen

This week on “Noon Edition,” Bloomington computer programmer John Breen joins us in the studio to discuss his novel uses of the Internet to fight hunger and poverty worldwide. Breen founded The Hunger Site in 1999, and this year started his newest web-based charity, FreeRice.com.

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Philanthropy

This week on “Noon Edition” we get into the holiday spirit with a program on philanthropy.

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