Northwest Focus
About this original series
NW Focus, produced by KWPX TV, is a public affairs program dedicated to the issues in and around the community it serves. This show airs each Thursday @ 6am & 6:30am on KWPX (Seattle) and KGPX (Spokane). Check your local listings for your ION channel. NW Focus welcomes your comments, both good and bad! Be aware, however, that comments of a vulgar nature and/or containing profanity will be removed from the postings.
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# Episodes
138 episodes -
Rating
TV-G
Episodes of Northwest Focus
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NW Focus: Medic One
Medic One, Seattle and King County’s pre-hospital emergency care system, sets the standard for lifesaving excellence in the U.S. and worldwide, and the Medic One Foundation is a major reason why. The Seattle visionaries who founded the Medic One program in the late 1960’s believed that bringing an advanced life support system right into the home of a heart attack victim could improve the chances of survival with early pre-hospital intervention. Today, Medic One’s response system of 911, medica...
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Release date
May 14, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Sprout.Green Innovations
Sprout is a locally sourced community dinner that funds emerging Seattle artists with a vote. Participants get a locally sourced meal and a ballot to vote on artist project proposals. The artist with the most votes receives the funds collected at the door. The artist returns to the next Sprout to show the progress of the project. Sprout grew from and is part of a larger network of micro granting projects that are occurring all through the nation from NYC to Phoenix. Sprout was inspired by the ...
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Release date
May 3, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Reading with Rover
Reading with Rover is an exciting program here in the Northwest that involves kids, dogs and literacy. Its a community-based literacy program volunteering in the schools, bookstores and libraries in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. It is their goal, as volunteers and founders of Reading with Rover, to make the "Rover" program available to all schools, reading and learning facilities that would like to enhance their reading programs. Their mission is to inspire children to discover the...
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Release date
Apr 5, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Zero Waste
The Solid Waste Division (SWD) provides garbage transfer, disposal and recycling services for residents and businesses in all of King County, except for Seattle and Milton. SWD also provides household hazardous waste disposal options and recycling education programs for its residents. One of SWD’s highest priorities is to reduce the overall amount of material that is disposed through the implementation of innovative waste reduction and recycling services - at county facilities and in the commu...
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Release date
Mar 21, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NWF: Pomegranate Center
Pomegranate Center was founded in 1986 by artist and community organizer Milenko Matanovic. When he moved to the United States in 1973, he saw growing suburban neighborhoods filled with traffic, waste and lack of imagination. It is from this concern for the isolating direction of modern communities that Pomegranate Center was founded – to bring the creative process to community problem solving. Today, Pomegranate Center has developed an effective model for helping communities prepare for the f...
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Release date
Mar 15, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Recovery Cafe
Recovery Café is a refuge of healing and transformation. They are a recovery support center utilizing an alternative therapeutic community model. Recovery Café and its school for recovery serve men and women who have suffered trauma, homelessness, addiction and/or other mental health challenges. In this loving community, men and women experience belonging, healing and the joy of contributing. The Café and school for recovery help participants develop tools for maintaining recovery and stabiliz...
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Release date
Mar 8, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: NW Burn Foundation
The Northwest Burn Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit serving all those in need in the Pacific Northwest including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Their mission is to prevent burns and improve the quality of life for burn survivors through programs, education, and research. On today's show, Erin sits down with Claudia Baker, a volunteer for the foundation, and discusses how it affects the lives of burn survivors. Then, Erin speaks with Amber Fowler, Ex. Director, a...
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Release date
Feb 24, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Youth Outdoors Unlimited
Youth Outdoors Unlimited (Y.O.U) is a Central Washington based, non-profit corporation organized to take youth who have been diagnosed with a life threatening illness and/or physical disability and who have a dream to hunt or fish on their own outdoor adventure. Youth Outdoors Unlimited is committed to providing those with a passion for hunting, fishing, and the outdoors an opportunity to share the common joy and experience of the outdoors with these special children and their families. Y.O.U....
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Release date
Feb 23, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Peak 7 Adventures
Peak 7 Adventures is a grassroots outdoor adventure non-profit organization aimed at taking young people into the wilderness to show them the wonder of God's creation. Wilderness adventures challenge participants to expand their horizons by fostering trust relationships and team building skills. Peak 7 targets youth who are underprivileged or have been labeled "at-risk" and provide a positive alternative to the typical behaviors and habits that youth in our society often fall into. On today's ...
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Release date
Feb 9, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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NW Focus: Stundet RND
StudentRND inspires students to learn more about science and technology by offering hands-on opportunities for students to explore, learn and create.Technology is so prevalent nowadays–and yet, students are not really learning about the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. StudentRND is working to inspire students through enriching, hands-on workspace experience and educational visits to science labs On today's show, Erin sit down with student Edward Jiang to discuss th...
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Release date
Feb 9, 2012
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Runtime
28:00
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