Volunteer Spotlight: Fred McLaughlin

Fred McLaughlin

Fred McLaughlin at the North Country Fair. Photo: Bella Waters.
Fred McLaughlin at the North Country Fair. Photo: Bella Waters.

In the early 1990’s, right before I ventured over to Humboldt County from Baton Rouge, Louisiana for a summer vacation, my old friend from Arcata mailed me a brochure packet containing the Redwood Summer edition of the EcoNews newspaper, whereupon I became impressed and fascinated by all of the articles on a wide variety of environmental topics. Because I had been a Geography major in college, I was amazingly able to understand the issues.

So after I ended up moving to Arcata, I started volunteering to record and edit the KHSU EcoNews Report in 1997 along with Tim McKay (as the only host at that time), and continued working after his passing up until now with a variety of EcoNews Report hosts.

I really feel grateful to be a part of the local earth-care energy effort, and welcome any volunteer who would like to learn about recording and editing the KHSU EcoNews Report radio program.