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Host of “Peak Moment TV” to network with founder of Local Investment Opportunities Network Dec. 5, 6 on WCKN-tv

Posted 12/3/11

“Peak Moment TV” host Janaia Donaldson will discuss how to create opportunities for local businesses, individuals, and local investors to network with James Frazier, co-founder of the Local …

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Host of “Peak Moment TV” to network with founder of Local Investment Opportunities Network Dec. 5, 6 on WCKN-tv

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“Peak Moment TV” host Janaia Donaldson will discuss how to create opportunities for local businesses, individuals, and local investors to network with James Frazier, co-founder of the Local Investment Opportunities Network (LION) in Port Townsend, Wash. on WCKN-tv Monday, Dec. 5 and Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.

WCKN is on channel 30 on the Time-Warner cable system.

Frazier says, “We’re keeping money flowing locally so we’re more prosperous as a community.”

LION acts as a clearinghouse between business owners like Matthew Day and potential investors like Kees Kolff. A business owner presents an investment opportunity to LION members. It’s all based on one-to-one personal relationships, so support can be more than monetary, says Kees — such as interest paid in locally-produced cheese and cider.

The LION membership consists of local citizens who want to invest their money locally, thereby putting their investing money to work within the community. Keeping funds local facilitates greater economic self-sufficiency, job growth, economic development, and a dollar-multiplier effect whereby a dollar kept within the community can be spent many times over for a far greater benefit than a dollar invested away from the community. Learn more at http://www.L2020.org/LION.

Figuring out how to multiply the power of local investment and keep it local is a challenge for every small community. When the big box stores come to town, they tend to bring with them low-wage jobs and strip mine an area of its ready cash as profits are sent back to the company headquarters. Recycling money through a locally-owned network of businesses and service providers improves the economic health of a region, adding resiliency when the overall economic climate is down.

Now in its third year, the “Peak Moment TV” programs air every week at 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday on WCKN, Time Warner Channel 30. Peak Moment explores locally reliant living for challenging times. The programs are underwritten locally by The Center for Excellence in Communication at Clarkson University and the Seymour Family of Potsdam.

The December Peak Moment TV shows include Dec. 12 and 13, Collapse of the Titans; Dec. 19 and 20, a Soccer Mom Prepares for the Unexpected; and Dec. 26 and 27, Oil Puts the Squeeze on the Economy.

In the weeks to come, WCKN will continue to air Peak Moment TV. The topics covered will include local food production, renewable energy, transportation alternatives, sustainable building, preparedness and psychological, business, and governmental responses. All the programs are available on the internet at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations in both video and audio format.

In addition, more than 80 Peak Moment TV shows are now available on DVDs which can be borrowed from the Potsdam Public Library from the collection of shows purchased for broadcast locally.