
Valerie Ing
Northern California Program Coordinator | Classical HostValerie Ing’s history with JPR goes back to the stone age, when she volunteered to answer phones during the 1981 fund drive. She was still a teenager when she hosted her first music program on the airwaves, and while getting her degree at SOU, she was JPR’s Student Chief Announcer and the station’s first volunteer in the news room. After graduating, Valerie’s adventures included living on islands in Greece & Alaska, but she came back to the State of Jefferson in 2002 as JPR’s Northern California Program Coordinator. As the sole staffer of the Redding studio where she hosts Siskiyou Music Hall, Valerie is the unofficial foreign ambassador of JPR. Valerie often serves as mistress of ceremonies at the Cascade Theatre, writes a music column for anewscafe.com, and plays second base on the Dirty Dozen co-ed softball team. She used to play bass in a punk rock band, drove a school bus for a few years and can cook Thai food like nobody’s business. Valerie adores her family, which includes husband Eddie, two teenagers and Casper the friendly white Westie.
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Explorer Jedediah Smith’s party faced hard times in 1828 while making the first recorded Euro-American journey by land from the California Coast to…
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Many places in Northern California and Southern Oregon honor the name of early explorer Jedediah Smith, including two rivers and the popular Jedediah…
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Samuel Handsaker quit school at the age of 11 and emigrated from England to Alton, Ill. He lacked a formal education, but was a gifted writer and…
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For settlers along the upper Coquille River in the 1800s, mail delivery was tenuous. The closest post office was in Empire City, a present-day district of…
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George Vaughan grew up in North Bend, Ore., in the roaring 1920s. From the stories he would tell his kids, he was a man who knew how to have a good time,…
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John William Fitzhugh gave new meaning to the phrase “going barefoot.”Fitzhugh was the grandson of Solomon Fitzhugh, an early Oregon senator who helped…
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In 1845, Hoy Flournoy emigrated from Missouri to Douglas County and a year later joined a Jesse Applegate survey party that slowly moved south for six…
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Explorer Jedediah Smith and his travelling companions nearly starved during the first documented land journey of American explorers up the California…
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Fred Colvin bought the Gold Beach Confectionary during Prohibition in 1921, so he sold soft drinks and near-beer, but no alcohol. But according to his…
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The first railroad in Northern California got its start in Humboldt County in the 1850s. A tiny flat car drawn on rails by an old white horse named…
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Joseph Endert, his mother, stepfather and 11 siblings left Ohio for Del Norte, Calif., after hearing of its fruitful farmland. They reached San Francisco…
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The sinking of the steamer Brother Jonathan in 1865 just north of Crescent City, Calif., resulted in a change of steamship shipping laws and the…