Driving Notes

The 2018 Knox County RELAY FOR LIFE is Friday, June 15th
Big Blue will make a stop at Knox County’s Relay for Life on Friday, June 15th.

 There are a few changes worth noting from last years relay…

There is a NEW location!
The event is being held on the Public Square in downtown Mount Vernon!
There is also a NEW time!
The event will run from 6 p.m. – midnight

Relay For Life is a grass roots, community-based team event. Although every Relay For Life event is different, they do have a few things in common.

Here’s a look at the Relay Schedule of Events…

Opening Ceremony – The event kicks off by honoring everyone who’s been affected by cancer and everyone who has contributed to the success of this year’s Relay season. The Knox County Opening Ceremony will be at 6:15 p.m. on June 15th, 2018.

Survivor/Caregiver Walk
Survivors and Caregivers are the heart and soul of Relay For Life events. We honor their strength and courage with every step they take. It doesn’t matter if you were diagnosed 10 days ago or 10 years ago, you can walk while everyone gathers together to cheer you on.

Luminaria Ceremony
During this ceremony we represent everyone touched by cancer with a Luminaria. Each light represents a life—a life taken by cancer, a survivor of cancer, or a support for a person still fighting the disease. It’s a powerful demonstration that gives people the opportunity to grieve but also offers comfort and hope.

Closing Ceremony
Our closing ceremony is the time to commit to take action and help lead the fight for a world free from cancer. It’s a time to celebrate what we’ve accomplished together and a time to unify for the work that needs to be done moving forward.

WNZR will bring you live coverage from the Knox County Relay for Life from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. as we talk to local team members, bring you highlights from the survivors lap, the caregivers lap and tell you about the amazing luminaria ceremony. Please join our Big Blue Crew and support the American Cancer Society.

WNZR is honored to join 24 teams and 213 participants in the fight against cancer. Please join our team and support Relay for Life.

Stop by Big Blue and register to win a special “Shape Up, Clean Up and Dress Up”prize basket featuring:

• One 8-week kids Zumba session and Two adult punch cards for 8 Zumba classes from Zumba with Teresa and Lisa (Valued at $90)
• An entire house cleaning from Carefree Cleaning Company. Amy Kessler gives you 4 hours of house cleaning! (Valued at $100)!
• One $15 gift certificate for Premier Designs Jewelry with Amberly Frye

Plus WNZR goodies including:

• One “On the Road with Big Blue” T-shirt
• One NIV Bible
• Coasters, cups, keychains, jar openers, Frisbees, guitar flyswatter, magnets and more! The prize package is valued at over $225!

Thanks for listening!
– Lilly and Todd

Today on the Drive we played Song Poetry and Name That Tune!

For Song Poetry, we read off a section of lyrics from a song that we play on the station, then we ask if you can identify the name of the song, and the artist it belongs to!

This weeks lyrics were…

“I’ve been the one
To try and say
I’ll overcome
By my own strength”

Congrats to George from Mt. Vernon!
They guessed correctly and won the $5 Gift Certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!
The song was “You Are I Am” from MercyMe!

Playing Name That Tune, we play a 10 second clip of a song we play on the station.
We ask for the name of the song and the artist it belongs to for this as well!

This week, we had a stumper for Name That Tune!
We shall revisit it next week!!!

Thanks for Listening!
– Lilly, Joe and Todd

We decided to talk about the history behind some of of the forgotten gems! Today is Drive In Movie Day, and it’s also Yo-Yo day! So we gave you all the ins and outs and who knews of these days!

DRIVE IN MOVIES…
On June 6th, 1933, motorists parked their automobiles on the grounds of ‘Park-In Theaters’, the first-ever drive-in movie theater, located on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey.

The term “drive-in” came to be widely used only later–was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, a movie fan and a sales manager at his father’s company, Whiz Auto Products, in Camden.

Hollingshead was inspired by his mother’s struggle to sit comfortably in traditional movie theater seats, so he came up with the idea of an open-air theater where patrons watched movies in the comfort of their own automobiles.

He experimented in the driveway of his own house with different projection and sound techniques, mounting a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, pinning a screen to some trees, and placing a radio behind the screen for sound.

While testing his ideas at his home, he also tested ways to guard against rain and other inclement weather, and devised the ideal spacing arrangement for a number of cars so that all would have a view of the screen.

After finalizing his concepts, Hollingshead received a patent for the concept in May of 1933 and opened Park-In Theaters, Inc. less than a month later, with an initial investment of $30,000.

Advertising it as entertainment for the whole family, Hollingshead charged 25 cents per car and 25 cents per person, with no group paying more than one dollar.

Hollingshead’s patent was overturned in 1949, drive-in theaters began popping up all over the country. One of the largest was the All-Weather Drive-In located in New York, which featured parking space for 2,500 cars, a kid’s playground and a full service restaurant, all on a 28-acre lot.

The popularity of the drive-in spiked after World War II and reached its heyday in the late 1950s to mid-60s, with some 5,000 theaters across the country. Drive-ins became an icon of American culture, and a typical weekend destination not just for parents and children but also for teenage couples seeking some privacy.

Since then, however, the rising price of real estate, especially in suburban areas, combined with the growing numbers of walk-in theaters and the rise of video rentals to curb the growth of the drive-in industry. Today, fewer than 500 drive-in theaters survive in the United States.

YO-YO’S…

The history of the Yo-Yo goes all the way back to 440 BC, where there are records of a Greek vase painting from showing a boy playing with a yo-yo. Greek records from the period describe toys made out of wood, metal, or painted terra cotta (fired clay).

Jumping forward in history, In 1928, Pedro Flores opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California. The business started with a dozen handmade toys; by November 1929, Flores was operating two additional factories in Los Angeles and Hollywood, which altogether employed 600 workers and produced 300,000 units daily.

The main difference between the Flores design and more primitive yo-yos is in the way the yo-yo is strung. In older yo-yo designs, the string is tied to the axle using a knot. With this technique, the yo-yo just goes back-and-forth; it returns easily, but it is impossible to make it sleep. In Flores’s design, one continuous piece of string, double the desired length, is twisted around something to produce a loop at one end which is fitted around the axle.

Physics time…

When the yo-yo is first released, the throw gives it translational kinetic energy. As the string unwinds, much of this energy is converted into rotational kinetic energy, causing the yo-yo to spin rapidly. As the yo-yo unwinds, it also gains some energy from gravity. Because the yo-yo has significant rotational inertia, it can store enough energy in its rotation to fight gravity all the way back up to the hand.

The string winds in the opposite direction upon the return of the yo-yo. If the string is connected to the shaft with a loop, there may not be enough friction to overcome gravity and begin winding the string. In this case, the yo-yo will continue to spin at the end of the string instead of returning. However, if the yo-yo is jerked slightly, it will enter free fall for a brief moment, and the string’s friction becomes the most significant force on the yo-yo. This allows the slack string to bind, and the energy from the yo-yo’s rotation finishes the rest of the return.

Around 1929, an entrepreneur named Donald F. Duncan recognized the potential of this new fad and purchased the Flores yo-yo Corporation and all its assets, including the Flores name, which was transferred to the new company in 1932.

The name “Yo-yo” was registered in 1932 as a trademark by Sam Dubiner in Vancouver, Canada. Harvey Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest in London, England.

In 1932, Swedish yo-yos started to be manufactured as well.
In 1946, the Duncan Toys Company opened a yo-yo factory in Luck, Wisconsin. The Duncan yo-yo was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1999.

Declining sales after the Second World War prompted Duncan to launch a comeback campaign for his trademarked “Yo-Yo” in 1962 with a series of television advertisements.

In a trademark case in 1965, a federal court’s appeals ruled in favor of the Royal Tops Company, determining that yo-yo had become a part of common speech and that Duncan no longer had exclusive rights to the term.

Thanks for listening!
– Lilly and Todd

Today for Mystery Monday, we looked back on our weekends, and boy, did we have some amazing weekends!

We talked about the first First Friday in Downtown Mt. Vernon! The Big Blue Crew had a blast celebrating the summer season with our community!
We gave away our Clean Up, Dress Up, Drink Up and Shape Up prize basket!
Linda Holt from Mt. Vernon won our prize!
Congratulations to Linda! You can win all summer long with WZNR!
Our next event is on 6/15! Catch us at the Knox County Relay for Life!

I (Lilly) went to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland this weekend, and I had a blast. It was an incredible experience to see of the guitars used by some of the most influential musicians in Country and Rock history.
This museum has everything from Metallica to Roy Orbison to the Beatles and everything in between! My personal favorites? Well… I got to see the Kirk Hammett Metallica ESP see-thru guitar, 2 of John Lennon’s Rickenbacker guitars, the guitar Ritchie Valens wrote ‘La Bamba’ on, Geddy Lee’s (Rush) bass among many other things!The three favorite things I got to see, though, were as follows…
1. Jimi Hendrix’s 1970 cream Fender Stratocaster2. Kurt Cobain’s black Fender Stratocaster

3. Johnny Cash’s tour bus! (You’ll rarely see me happier than I am in this picture).

For our Mystery Monday question, we went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction vault! Here’s the question… This man is a Rock and Roll hall of Fame member class of 1992, inducted by Lyle Lovett. He was born in Arkansas, and is known for his work in country, rock and roll, folk, and gospel. Who are we talking about?

A man who signed with Sun records, has sung with Elvis, has made the Martin D-28 and the D-35 the guitars of country, and has a museum in his name in Nashville and 19 year old women geeking out in Ohio.
A Highway Man, a third of the Tennessee Three, the Man in Black himself… Johnny Cash.

Congratulations to Travis of Mt. Vernon! He guessed correctly and wins that $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly and Todd