Happy New Year! THE LIFEBOAT SHOW starts our new year Monday, January 15 at 9:30 am on Coast Community Radio, KMUN Astoria 91.9 and KTCB Tillamook 89.5 and www.coastradio.org .

The start of a new year always seems to be a time for reflection and prediction. We predict that's what this LIFEBOAT SHOW will be about! And, we predict we¹ll have some important guests, like local mayors and city managers: Mayors Gramson,Williams, Van Dusen and Larsen of Warrenton, Cannon Beach, Astoria and Seaside -- and City Manager Jerry Taylor of Manzanita.

Richard Heinberg will make a personal visit by phone from California.

And, we'll "go into uncharted waters" and talk with a student of behavioral psychology-turned-astrologer named Bill Herbst.

We also predict that YOU could "win" an important resource, just by listening. If you phone KMUN (325-0010) during the Lifeboat Show and say you're a Lifeboat Listener, we'll set aside a free copy of YES! Magazine's Winter 2007 Go LOCAL! issue, filled with ideas and examples of ways to support local prosperity, plus articles on "Fishing for the Future", an organic farmers' cooperative, alternative energy, local economic independence, "Commerce and the Commons", and the local "multiplier effect." Featured writers are Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Frances Moore Lappe and John Stewart of The Daily Show.

Just call KMUN at 325-0010 when we remind you during THE LIFEBOAT SHOW and we'll take your name and save a copy for you at the station. Simple as that! (If you are from the Manzanita/Nehalem area, Caren will deliver them the following week to It's Only Fair so you can pick them up there. -- Thanks Gin!)