Updating the effort to crown Georgia's first national park. This week, Scott's speaking with Tracie Revis, CEO of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, to get a progress report on elevating the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to a full-fledged national park. Along with the natural beauty and rich biodiversity of the area, Revis says human history there stretches back some seventeen thousand years. The park is just north of Macon and is open year-round. Admission is free. Legislation to declare Ocmulgee Mounds as a national park has cleared a Senate committee and is now waiting on a House of Representatives hearing. https://www.nps.gov/ocmu/index.htm

"Meet the people who continue to find a way to get vital nutrition to hundreds of metro Atlanta seniors -- many who depend on Meals on Wheels Atlanta as their only source of food." This week, Scott's speaking with Meals on Wheels Atlanta (MOWA) volunteers Valerie and Dwayne Williams, and MOWA Culinary Director Robert Gerstenecker. How they are managing to prepare and deliver meals to seniors despite skyrocketing fuel and food costs. www.mowatl.org

This week, Scott's thoughts on Father's Day — and on being a dad.

The super-food harvest underway now in South Georgia. This week, Scott's speaking with blueberry farmer and state senate agriculture committee chairman Russ Goodman about Georgia's number one fruit crop. Why a swatch of South Georgia is ideal for propelling Georgia some years to best in the nation for growing this health-conscious crop.

What your news outlets could look like in the years to come. This week, Scott's talking to University of Georgia Journalism School Dean Charles Davis. It can be a toxic atmosphere for the news business these days; how that might affect future journalists? He’s pretty optimistic.

How Memorial Day can be very personal for Georgia families. Scott speaks with Lisa Jenkins, the Department of Georgia President of American Gold Star Mothers, the service organization that supports families who have lost loved ones while serving our nation.

Speaking with Kim Zane with the City of Alpharetta and Smokestack BBQ owner "Dave" about the 34th annual Taste of Alpharetta, Thursday May 14, 5-10 PM in downtown Alpharetta. Over 70 restaurants involved will make it the biggest ever. Admission is free but "taste bucks" will be required to sample and sip. Details at www.tasteofalpharetta.com.

This week, Scott pays tribute to Congressman David Scott's decades of public service with a story you may not have heard before now.

Speaking with Pamela Lyle with the James Stewart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and their effort to reunite a Purple Heart medal with the family of Atlanta native Raymond Leroy Mauldin. He was killed in action February 2, 1944, during the Battle of Anzio in Italy at the age of 19. The medal had been missing for four decades before it was discovered in a drawer as an estate was being settled. Private Mauldin's nephew, Gary Mauldin, had kept copious notes about the family history over the years, and those notes along with some intense digging by Pamela and her colleagues led to the opportunity to give the medal back to its rightful heirs in a private ceremony on May 2nd in Franklin, Georgia.

Georgia lawmakers approved a measure (HB 1193) that would put a literacy coach in every elementary school in the state more than thirteen-hundred of them. We speak with Dr. Lindee Morgan, the executive director of the Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy, to get a read on how those coaches will be trained and what they will do for Georgia children and the teachers who teach them. There is a big payoff at stake: children are expected to begin reading to learn after the third grade, and if they don't learn to read before then, they can be at a disadvantage that can stretch through a lifetime.