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Focus on fire

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WCPI public radio 91.3 FM will be re-broadcasting an earlier Focus program on the recent downtown fire which destroyed the former McMinnville Opera House. According to host Bill Zechman, the program will air Thursday, Apr. 10 at 1:03 p.m.

Guests for the broadcast will be county historian James A. Dillon and Southern Standard news editor Charlie Johnson.

‘It’s an eyewitness account and a historian’s view of the tragic fire that claimed one of Warren County’s proudest and historical cultural landmarks,’ Zechman said. ‘We have an eyewitness who documented it for posterity in the Southern Standard, and the county’s official historian as appointed by the Warren County Commission.

‘This building has been a part of our history for over a hundred years, built in the 1880s,’ Zechman said. ‘And it’s a supreme irony that this happened during Warren County’s bicentennial year.’

Focus is a public radio program dedicated to local issues, local concerns and local personalities. WCPI is owned and operated by the non-profit Warren County Education Foundation.

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