Ogden UT

KUER partners with Nurture the Creative Mind to put recorders and microphones in the hands of teenagers.  They choose who they want to talk to, and what they want to talk about.  In this episode, Ryan Gimbel sits down with fellow student Piper Deamer to talk about Piper’s brother.

Chloe McGregor talks with her mother about the death of her father.  He died when she was three years old. 

Cooper Lavallee talks with Rick Rea, the artistic director at the Ziegfeld Theater in Ogden, Utah, about community theater between the coasts.

Alicia Baker is passionate about diversity in all its forms.  She had conversations with Weber State University’s Chief Diversity Officer Adrienne Andrews and Ogden City Council member Luis Lopez.

Piper Deamer loves Ogden. And she wanted to find out how much of her city’s colorful history is really true. She spoke with Special Collections Curator Sarah Singh from Weber State University.

Sydney Van Vliet wants young people coping with depression to know they’re not alone.  She talked with her friend Isabella Hill about their experiences with mental illness.

Hear Me Now is a production of KUER in partnership with Nurture the Creative Mind. Download today on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn. You can also listen below and via KUER's mobile app. 

Ogden school officials are holding a town hall meeting this Thursday evening for suicide prevention, the first of its kind for the district.

Fall is here and that usually means that farmers markets are beginning to close. But the crowds and the harvests are so big this year that the Ogden Farmers Market is extending its season.

In fact, it’s been a record summer for the farmers market at Ogden’s historic 25th Street. More than 100,000 people have already come out to buy local honey, baked goods, produce and crafts this year, so organizers have decided to keep it open through October 10.

  After three years of reconstruction, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will open its temple in downtown Ogden for public tours starting Friday, August 1st.

Federal workers and furloughed employees are holding a rally Thursday at the Ogden Federal Building to protest the government shutdown. Ogden-Clearfield is one of the top 10 metro areas in the country affected by the furloughs. Hill Air Force Base is Utah's largest employer with some 25,000 federal employees and contractors.