By Walter Byj
BURLINGTON, ON April 16, 2013 Over the past number of years, the PBS station in Buffalo ,WNED, has run a series called Our Town, highlighting communities in northwest New York and southern Ontario. These hour-long broadcasts were the result of volunteers putting on film the way they saw their city.
WNED producer Lynne Bader previews the Burlington production for the videographers who took part. Bader on the left with Joe Veitch in the centre. Our Burlington’s reporter Walter Byj was one of the participants.
The project started September 5th and 6th last year at the Central Library when a number of volunteers from Burlington met with senior producer Lynne Bader of WNED TV. After discussing various program ideas and receiving tips for video shooting, each individual was given two weeks in which to submit their unique story with at least 55 minutes of raw data.
On September 21st and 22nd, the volunteers submitted their recordings and gave a quick on camera interview about their topic.
The project is now finished and I was able to view the finished product on Tuesday night; the tone of the stories reflects Burlington. With the short window we had to film some of the major Burlington events were not covered. However, the overall show does reflect well on Burlington.
Golf was covered in some detail – I did a segment on the golf courses in Burlington – waiting now for Hollywood to call me.
It all goes on air Tuesday April 23rd at 9:00 pm on WNED TV channel 31 on the Cogeco dial.
Also some very good segments about LaSalle Park’s Trumpeter Swans, the gardening culture of Burlington, and our incredible love of green spaces, parks, the waterfront and escarpment. Oh yea, and active happy seniors!