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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Author and AI expert Jeff Pennington will give a presentation called “You Teach the Machines: From Virtual Hearts to Smarter Harbors” at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor Wednesday from 6-7pm, in-person only. Registration is encouraged. Seaweed Valentine workshop, Saturday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m, at College of the Atlantic’s Dorr Museum of Natural History in Bar Harbor, led by Ecologist and seaweed expert Jordan Chalfant ’12 of the Maine Natural History Observatory. Registration required. The Ellsworth Public Library series of Creative Winter Programs for Kids, this week: Afterschool Beach Party, “a lighthearted program that brings summer vibes indoors through games, activities, and relaxed afterschool fun”, Friday, January 16 at 3:30 PM Winnie-the-Pooh Birthday Picnic, a cozy and cheerful gathering honoring A.A. Milne’s classic stories, Saturday, January 17th at 11 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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