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NPR member station KBIA to hold community engagement event in Kennett

NPR member station KBIA in Columbia, Missouri sent two reporters to the Bootheel of Missouri to report on health and economic issues in the region.  The station will hold a community engagement event in Kennett and the First Presbyterian Church  on May 20.  A panel discussion about health and development issues will take place at that  time. The event is open to the public and starts at six.  KASU's Johnathan Reaves interviewed KBIA's health reporter Bram Sable-Smith in this interview. 

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.