Jerry Kenney

Comedian, Jonathan Winters, who died on April 11th, 2013 was born in Dayton, Ohio on November 11, 1925. He went to school in Springfield, and at the age of 17, joined the Marine Corps. He served two-and-a-half years in the South Pacific, came back to Ohio and went Kenyon College in central Ohio.

The comedian also had an interest in art, and that led him to the Dayton Art Institute where he studied for over two years.  It’s there that he first met his wife of more than 60 years. Eileen Schauder Winters, died in 2009, following a long battle with breast cancer.

In 1981 Mick Montgomery turned an old factory cafeteria into the iconic music venue, Canal Street Tavern.  Recently, it was announced that Mick was selling Canal Street to Bill Daniels, owner of Pizza Factory and 

South Park Tavern. Many were upset by the news, but in an interview with WYSO's Jerry Kenney, Montgomery says he’ll still be involved with the club, and for now not much will change.  First, He talks about what the club has meant to him over the last 30+ years.

Hear the interview, as aired on WYSO Weekend, April 14, 2013.

On April 18th Professor of Education at Wittenberg University, Lowell Monke will engage an audience at Antioch College in a conversation about "Unplugging Narcissus: Why a High Tech Society Needs a High Touch Childhood."   It’s about the effects of social media and other technologies on the younger generation In an interview with WYSO he explains how this issue became a priority to him. 

Full episode of WYSO Weekend for April 14, 2013 including the following stories:

-- Dayton Police Chief: Aerial Surveillance For Crime, Not Spying, by Emily McCord

-- Canal's Street's Montgomery Says Venue Has Been His Life, by Jerry Kenney

Today the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patt will open the doors to its newly renovated 400-seat, giant-screen theatre.  The overhaul cost about $800,000 dollars and this weekend the venue will host the Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation. Among the diverse lineup of flight-related films, a new film about the Wright Brothers.