It is Sacramento's most traveled and troubled stretch of highway. Its bumpy 40-year history includes flooding, clogged drainage pipes, and a great deal of deterioration. But how do you fix a vital artery that carries 190,000 cars each day without causing major commuting chaos? [For this and all ViewFinder episodes, click here.]
Wednesday, August 27, 7pm-7:30pm
THE THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR: NEW ORLEANS PROJECT
In Central City, host Kevin O'Connor meets the Mercy Corps program director to learn how the nonprofit organization helps homeowners in New Orleans deconstruct their ruined properties at no cost. The salvaged materials are given to local depots where they are sold at a reduced price.
Meet some Northern California commercial salmon fishermen, the group hardest hit by this year's salmon closure, and see how they are reinventing ways to stay afloat, and see how to pick, plant, and prune a California treasure - the rose! [Missed an episode of California Heartland? Watch it in its entirety here.]
Visit a dairy farm in Indiana that milks 32,000 cows a day, meet Ohio farmers converting their fields to vineyards, and harvest acres and acres of catfish in Mississippi. This and more on the next America's Heartland.
Wednesday, September 3, 7:30pm-8pm
NEW RETRO LOGO CLOTHING
Show your support of KVIE with our new retro logo shirts and mugs. Maybe you'll remember our first first logo with the owl or our logo from the 1970's. You can even change the style of shirt and color.