Diane Douglas's blog

**The West Side Nut Club’s Fall Festival is only 33 days away and we’ve already heard about a few new items this year.  The Nut Club is adding 10 booths this year making a total of 136 food booths.  The 10 new booths will be located in the parking lot at 11th Avenue and Franklin.  Among the unusual items – deep fried Klondike Bars (already comes on a stick!) chocolate covered pork rinds, and deep fried Girl Scout Thin Mints.  Also, the Nut Club is offering ca

**We chatted with Byron Douglas, meteorologist at 14WFIE about Hurricane Irene –

#1.)  After all the hype, Hurricane Irene wasn't quite as DEVASTATING as the media had us expecting.

**Special Thursday edition of the Extortion Breakfast this morning on the WIKY Morning Show, we welcomed the St Wendel Knights of St John for their “Extortion Breakfast Gone Wild!” extravaganza.

**Beloit College in Wisconsin just released its annual "Mindset List" for this year's crop of incoming college freshmen . . .

WIKY Morning Show August 22, 2011

**With the naming of the new downtown arena Ford Center, we wondered if there’ll be a time in the near future when someone asks, “Hey where is that taking place?” and if you say, “The Centre,” they’ll have to ask, “Is that the Centre r-e, or the Center, e-r?”  

WIKY Morning Show August 12, 2011

**We welcomed the United Way of Southwest Indiana live in studio this morning for our Extortion Breakfast, brought to you by Old National Bank.  Joining us were Pat Hughes, the Director of Development, Gretchen Ross, their Assistant Director of Development and Mike Blake  of 14WFIE, a United Way volunteer. </SPAN

WIKY Morning Show August 11, 2011

** It seems like just about everything costs more than it used to.  And prices for everything from coffee and bacon, to rent, health care, and used cars have hit all-time highs. 

WIKY Morning Show August 10, 2011

**New study out about women’s feet and their not happy about it –

For whatever reason, women think they're supposed to have small feet. 

WIKY Morning Show August 9, 2011

**DJB and Diane found this story rather disturbing - apparently, major department stores around the country have started reversing the slats on their dressing room doors.  Now, instead of keeping you private and helping you see out of the dressing room, p

WIKY Morning Show August 8, 2011

**Two random items that we love looking for on the WIKY Morning Show are boots in the road and random stalks of corn.  The homeless boot is a story begging to be told, it seems to us.  How did it get there?  Where’s the other one?   Shoes are interesting but it’s the boots that ca