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ifiyWW The Sacramento Bee SATURDAY January 2 1999 Internet WWWSACBEECOM- FAMILY RELIGION ETHICS "TV The McQuay family Herb and Thomasina McQuay met at a recording session and their lives have been on a high note ever since The Family Page back page 10 COLUMNS 2 COMICS 89 RELIGION ETHICS 5 I 1 rfanii Arrow to hit local airwaves again soon at 937 FM The Arrow music format complete with morning personality Sander Walker will return to Sacramento radio next week The latest incarnation will be Arrow 937 FM which will push that low-rated country format Gold Country KRAK- mi to the AM band at 1470 A ft is radio jargon for rock roll and features mostly hits from the 1970s Although popular with listeners the old Arrow 108 (KXOA 1079 FM) where Walker worked in the mornings was dumped last July when owners Entercom Inc deemed it too much like its classic rocker The Eagle (KSEG 969 FM) Arrow 108 was replaced by Top 40 station The End (KDND 1079 FM) In its final rating period Arrow 108 finished a strong No 4 fP i4 it tax' i -i 4 The Rev Sandy Peirce believes churches should be partners in solving community problems Meanwhile CBS Radio was searching for a format to replace its ailing Gold Country KRAK a ratings-challenged station that had dropped to a woeful No 16 in the ratings Gold Country features country classics from the 1970s and 1980s looked at everything that been done including Howard Stern in the said Doug Harvill general manager of Arrow 937 and three other CBS Radio stations in Sacramento research came back and the market overwhelmingly wanted the Arrow back The more we looked into it the more we liked Arrow 937 is tentatively scheduled to launch on Wednesday but it may be a day or two later ac- cording to Harvill Between now and then Gold Country will be simulcast on both 937 FM and 1470 AM To make room for country music the oldies format that had been heard at 1470 AM has been scuttled Harvill said Arrow 937 will have some of its air personalities in place by next week but that the morning show will be adding talent in the weeks to come and will be a personality-driven While Walker will return his old Arrow 108 co-host Carrie Owens is now working at KRSK Music-wise Arrow 937 will be similar to its predecessor but will add more pop to the music mix of ACDC and Aeros-mith we might play Earth Wind Fire Santana Eric Burdon and War and even a few Prince Harvill said By Paul Clegg Bee Staff Writer cripture tells us that without vision the people says the Rev Sandy Peirce who about to perish from lack of vision Peirce the high-energy co-pas tor of the Federated Church in Placerville is a vocal proponent of social activism She believes a church needs to be deeply involved in solving community problems a role that Federated a combined Federated i i Church in I I Placerville is i i 1 1 attracting new 1 1 Presbyterian-Methodist church has served for decades she said Since her arrival in 1981 as the first female associate pastor and through her years as pastor Peirce 53 has maintained the vision that Federated should be a community church for the El Dorado region through such programs as a health ministry to serve isolated senior citizens free breakfasts for local schoolchildren and Sunday dinners for the poor Despite the recent growth Peirce said large percentage of the county is undereducated and at the low end of the economic scale There are folks hungry and homeless people who slip through the cracks We want to offer programs to the wider Please see THRIVE page 5 I 1 I I members I I with its policy i of community I 1 action Bee photographsLeilani Hu The Rev Sandy Peirce gives 2-year-old Teague Wasserman a push at the day-care center run by Federated Church where she Is co-pastor Life has you feeling licked? A pet may be the answer Arrow 937 will get new call letters later this month leaving KRAK to countiy where it has a long history on AM radio in Sacramento Countiy music played for 30 years on the old KRAK at 1140 AM In 1994 that frequency became the home of Sports 1140 also owned by CBS Radio and one of the most successful stations in Sacramento Harvill said none of the Gold Country air staff would lose jobs over the switch including morning personality Joey Mitchell Gold Country 1470 KRAK will add sports programming to nights and weekends and become something of an ESPN2 to its sister-station Sports 1140 be the NASCAR station in town and carry broadcasts of both the Busch and Winston Cup he said also have NASCAR programs throughout the week Country music and NASCAR just seem to go Harvill said he expects Gold Country 1470 KRAK to also carry college sports major-league baseball NFL football Sacramento Knights soccer and other local sports in the future Some of the programming will aid Sports 1140 in cases of schedule conflicts great example would be the World Series where we had to interrupt the Mike on Sports 1140 and their listeners were Harvill said we have access to another AM DAN VIERRIAs column appears Tuesdays and Saturdays In Scene Write to him at PO Box 15779 Sacramento 95852 call (916) 321-1 1 9 or send e-tnall to dvierriasacbeecom By Dru Wilson Knight Ridder Newspapers died of cancer a year ago Just before he died they adopted Little Bit a small white poodle know what I would do without Turner says as she pats the tiny dog curled up next to her in a big cushy chair cried for a week and she was always there looking at me telling me she was there for Though the companionship and comfort was a life-saver she says the bond they forged goes even beyond that hears eveiything for says Turner whose hearing is fading With a bark and a dash to the door Little Bit lets Turner know the mail has arrived want to go Turner asks and then laughs as the dog Please see PETS page 3 Today families often are separated by miles and busy lives Pqfs have become family for older people whose children are far away or who have been left alone by divorce or the death of a spouse But they are also part of life for younger people who found time to have children or who find it hard to make friends pets need says Dr John Freeman president of the American Veterinary Medical Association in Schaumburg 111 has a tremendous psychological impact people need to feel needed and wanted Animals can fill that void at a time when families are moving all over the No one knows that better than Virginia Turner 71 of Colorado Springs Colo whose husband ido Fifi and Fluffy are more than cute balls of fur They are living breathing pre- scriptions for what often ails us Our pets entertain us Touching their soft cuddly bodies soothes us Their joy and spirit encour- 1 age us and their mere presence as silent understanding companions comforts us and chases the blues away Big or little our pets run walk crawl slither and fly 1 into our hearts And in doing so they improve our physical and mental well-being in ways nothing else can Although pets have been around for ages in recent years appreciation has grown for the therapeutic nature of the human-asjunal bond Bee photograph Dick Schmidt I it This pooch seems to be asking for a tummy scratch which may be as therapeutic for the scratcher as for the ifu iiii fta r-.