In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Corporal Kent Smith is the State Coordinator for Project Lifesaver. He talks with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson about the Aviation Unit's search and rescue efforts to locate Alzheimer's and Dementia patients who wander off.

This week when Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares the political forecast with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson, Alabama's Medical Cannabis Commission tops the list.

On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about a proposed draft bill for the construction of three new prisons in Alabama. And the wildcard is about a bus rider on a mission.

Elaine Greene, one ot the three Freeport Flag Ladies from Maine, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about their patriotic project to wave flags every Tuesday for eighteen years, in honor of the victims of the World Trade Center attack.  The ladies served military personnel and their families with care packages, visits to greet them at the airport, visits to wounded troops, and attendance at funerals.  Upon their "2019 retirement," due to age and infirmity, Wreaths Across America picked up their cause for 9/11 and the laying of wreaths at cemeteries across the country on  Dec. 19, to honor our fallen heroes.  The Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo will participate on Dec. 19, 2021.  
This program is a re-broadcast from Sept. 10, 2020.

Ann Slattery, Director of the Alabama Poison Information Center at Children's of Alabama in Birmingham,, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the calls the center is receiving about Ivermectin being used as a home remedy by people who are avoiding the Covid-19 vaccinations. 

Montgomery's nonprofit Old Cloverdale Association turned an abandoned lot into a community garden.  Lois Cortell, garden co-manager, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the six-year urban reclamation project.

This week when Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares the political forecast with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson, the shortage of hospital workers to take care of Covid patients tops the list.

On this week's Newswrap from In Focus, Alabama Public Television's Don Dailey shares with Troy Public Radio's Carolyn Hutcheson headlines about the Coronavirus spike in Alabama, with children now being hospitalized for the virus. And the wildcard is about a mysterious duck.

With the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan after twenty years of military involvement,Major General Walter Givhan (U.S. Air Force Ret.) shares with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, his experience commanding the rebuilding of the Afghan Air Force in 2008-2009. General Givhan leads the Alabama World Affairs Council as President and serves Troy University as Senior Vice-Chancellor for Advancement and Economic Development.

Master photographer John Dersham talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about his sixty years in photography, culminating in his new book, "Changing Moods, Sixty Years in Black and White."