Brenau's new post-graduate program; CASA gets $$$; Gville block party

*Brenau University is now offering a post-graduate certification for those working towards a career as a family nurse practitioner in an effort to boost health care accessibility in the state. The program allows those with their Master of Science in Nursing or a doctoral degree in nursing to earn certification in four semesters. You can read more about it here: Brenau offers family nurse practitioner post-graduate certification

*Gainesville-based Hall-Dawson CASA Home : Hall-Dawson CASA (halldawsoncasa.org) is one of several nonprofits chosen to get grants in the latest round of allocations from the Sawnee EMC Foundation. Sawnee serves a portion of Hall County.

*Traffic delays should be minimal in downtown Gainesville for Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day Block Party. “Should just be Bradford Street between Spring Street and Washington Street,” police spokesman Kevin Holbrook said when asked if any streets would be closed. Festivities are scheduled to begin at 5:00.

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Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.