On Sunday, October 7 at 1:00pm, Meagher County Public Television will kick off National 4-H week with a retrospective of shows produced by the Meager County 4-H TV/Video Project.  Each day at 1:00pm throughout the week, MCPTV, Channel 26 will show selected works from this on-going and talented production group.

In 1992, Vid-Kid Productions was created by 4-H’er Jolene Jacobs (Johnson) and a group of enterprising young 4-H’ers in cooperation with MCPTV.  During the first six years, Vid-Kids produced the “4-H Magazine” as well as the first funding tape for the Montana 4-H Foundation.  As the youth progressed in their production skills they became known across the nation. Vid-Kids have traveled from New York City to Hawaii and many places in between taping conferences and working with other groups to produce public service announcements and quality 4-H programming.

Weekdays at 7:30am and 12:30pm

Dinosaur Train embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains. The series encourages basic scientific thinking and skills as the audience learns about life science, natural history and paleontology. Each of the 40 half-hour episodes features Buddy, an adorable preschool age Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his adoptive Pteranodon family as they board the Dinosaur Train and embark on whimsical voyages through prehistoric jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans. The episodes include two 11-minute animated stories, along with brief live action segments hosted by renowned paleontologist Dr. Scott Sampson, that unearth basic concepts in life science, natural history and paleontology.
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Wednesday, November 11 @ 10:00pm

The Way We Get By

The Way We Get By takes a look behind the hearty smiles, handshakes, heartfelt thanks and free cookies and cell phones the greeters bring to the airport, and discovers a world in which the seniors are engaged in their own struggles with aging, disease, loneliness, memories of war and personal loss. The film discovers a remarkable symbiosis between the soldiers’ fighting mission and the greeters’ fight to overcome pain, fatigue and depression in making sure no soldier departs or returns without thanks.

On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. The Way We Get By is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the universal losses that come with aging and rediscover their reason for living. Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet find the strength to overcome their personal battles and transform their lives through service. This inspirational and surprising story shatters the stereotypes of today’s senior citizens as the greeters redefine the meaning of community. A co-production of Dungby Productions and ITVS in association with WGBH and Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).