Utah Public Radio in Cedar City for 2011 Utah Rural Summit LOGAN, UT (upr) - Utah Public Radio Morning Edition Host and News Director Kerry Bringhurst will be in Cedar City on Thursday and Friday, August 11 and 12, for the 2011 Utah Rural Summit. On August 11, Bringhurst will provide live coverge of the Summit from the Hunter Conference Center at Southern Utah University. Her reports can be hard periodically throughout the day on UPR. A complete list of station frequencies is posted online at UPR.org, and the website also includes live audio streams. In Cedar City, listeners can hear UPR on 97.3 FM.

The public is invited to meet Ms. Bringhurst on Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at UPR's booth in the Hunter Conference Center.

Utah Public Radio will continue its coverage of the Utah Rural Summit on Friday, August 12, from 9 to 10 a.m. during a broadcast of Access Utah, the station's weekday call-in program. Guests will include Robin Phelps from the National Center for Economic Gardening and Jim Goodwin, project coordinator of the Western Rural Development Center at Utah State University (USU), who will discuss USU-based community and economic development projects.

Utah Public Radio is a service of Utah State University and heard by listeners across Utah and in Southern Idaho via a network of 32 translators. More than half of Utah's population resides within the station and translator network coverage area. The station was licensed in 1953 as KVSC, the Voice of State College, and the call letters were changed later to KUSU. It's Utah's oldest public radio station.

In addition to its translator network, UPR also operates four full-power stations servicing northern Utah, south-central Utah, and soon in San Juan and Grand Counties. © Copyright 2012, upr