KNHA-FM is a new, low power FM radio station with streaming on the web. It’s a local radio station from Coulterville, California, the Birthplace of America’s Best Idea, preserving National Parks. We will bring you the best in community programming, with a wide diversity of music around the clock as well as news and events.

Radio station manager Glynn Wilson will kick things off with a morning show inspired in part by “Chris in the Morning” from Cicely, Alaska on the CBS show “Northern Exposure.” With a little inspiration from Scott Simon on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.” Maybe a little Garrison Keilor from “Lake Wobegon.” We may even go all the way back to the Grand Old Opry on the radio to mine for jewels.

We are now actively raising money to pay the expenses to fund this radio startup and live streaming project. All contributions are tax deductible through the non-profit Operation New Earth. To contribute you can use PayPal or GoFundMe. Click on the link button below.

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We are beginning to explore obtaining sponsors to also help fund this radio station startup and streaming operation. Get in touch if you would like to be a part of this exciting new development in community radio, which is becoming more important than ever as National Public Radio loses financial support in Washington, D.C.

The New American Journal is proud to be the founding sponsor of this effort by providing web hosting and design services, as well as writing and producing expertise.

Radio Advisory Committee and By-Laws for the Operation New Earth Non-Profit Prepared by Founder Jim Rhodes

RADIO ADVISORY COMMITTEE Station K N H A-LP 100.9 Coulterville, California BY-LAWS
This committee operates under the umbrella of OPERATION NEW EARTH (O.N.E.), a non-profit
Alabama corporation established in 1996 with a name change August 13, 2008. Our Employer
I.D. number is 72-1347431; our Public Charity status is 170(b)(1)(a)(vi)-501(c)3 Section 170 of
the Internal Revenue Code. Our DUNS number is 079106668; our Unique Entity Identification
Number is NCCHAM5RC5L5; NAICS number is 813319; CAGE Code is 711G9; Alabama State
Corporation 079-205 of Tallapoosa County.

O.N.E.’s MISSION STATEMENT is as follows and includes modifications that authorizes this
Radio Advisory Committee including a relevant footnotes:
The long term objectives of OPERATION NEW EARTH include empowering individuals and
communities to become self-sufficient. Our principal objectives are both regional and global
and include, but are not limited to, assisting community residents to develop in a self
subsisting eco-friendly manner, create for themselves new opportunities, and seek out new
resources to sustain on-going projects in a manner that thinks locally but realizes global
potential.

Specific initial objectives will include-but not be limited to-organic farming, recycling,
composting projects in the United States with an emphasis on affordable healthy food sources,
healthy diets, sustainable agricultural communities with a companion project of establishing
and promoting recycle factories as currently located in Dharavi, India; Austria, where 60% of
the nation’s waste is recycled; Brazil, where over 500 recycle cooperatives employ 500,000
recycling collectors…

Our foreign projects will include working with (low economic) Vietnamese farmers who are
currently raising and harvesting tea, coffee, salt water pearls, etc., primarily for foreign
enterprises who are actively engaged in vulture capitalism and care little/nothing for the
people/communities that are providing huge profit margins for everyone except the farmers
doing the actual work. ONE intends to become caring global partners with the Vietnamese
farmers and make sure they are provided with a living wage that will elevate standards in their
own families and communities.

To work with victims of herbicidal poison, especially Agent Orange, and work closely with
organizations as the Friendship Village in Hanoi: an American non-profit founded by war
veteran George Mizo who himself died of herbicidal poison issues prior to the official opening
of his labor of love that would survive to treat Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (Fourth
generation as of this writing); and to network among U.S. veterans, Vietnamese veterans,
civilian victims, and international groups with similar goals and objectives.
In countries like Vietnam, not currently bought off or controlled by special interests, ONE will
investigate the possibility of entering into programs that will develop and promote alternative
energy sources: solar; off grid; biomass; renewable; wind; and/or new energy. ONE will also
continue with individual efforts that endorse and promote projects of a “similar mind” with
Vietnamese authorities as well as Vietnam Television International; Vietnam News Agency;
Voice of Vietnam; Bao Dien Tu; Quan Doi Nhan Dan.

On October 22, 2013 ONE applied for a Low Power FCC radio license for Phenix City, Alabama,
as there are no radio stations in Phenix City or Russell and Lee Counties. We were
professionally assisted by Prometheus Radio and received FRN # 0023057102. We intended to
promote programming featuring women, people of color, ethnic and culture, and providing a
voice to marginalized, overlooked, and suppressed groups (i.e civil and human rights activists).
Within 24 hours of this going public, racist and big corporations in Columbus, Georgia-with the
use of their congressional representatives-had our permits withdrawn and cancelled claiming
our low power station would “interfere” with their 50,000 watt Georgia stations.
On May 13, 2024 ONE was granted a Low Power Broadcast Construction Permit for
Coulterville, California 95311. This time instead of opposition, our nearest sister station KRYZ
98.5 Mariposa is in support of our efforts. We are grateful. We are registered with the
California Secretary of State as CALIFORNIA FOREIGN NON-PROFIT CORPORATION # 6336152
and operate under the laws and guidelines of the Internal Revenue Service and Code of
Federal Regulations 47 parts 70-79 TELECOMMUNICATION.

We will actively be associated with the Aplache Research Foundation (formally associated with
the Coweta Creek Confederacy) and other historical research and preservation projects,
writers, museums, memorial parks, and historical societies. (The Coweta Creek Confederacy
existed before European slavers arrived and was composed of Coweta Creek within what is
now Alabama-Georgia-Florida; the Taino in Puerto Rico; the Arawak in Cuba; and the Maya on
the Yucatan). Our work on the Gold Rush may be found at:
https://aplacheresearch.com/2023/11/25/premier-thars-gold-in-them-thar-hills/
As the Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer (data.HRSA.gov) indicates the 95311 Zip Code is
low income, underserved, and disadvantaged-we will provide programming that addresses the

unique issues of our rural, mountainous region, which will include, but not be limited to: drug
use; poverty; lack of medical and mental health services; suicide; teen pregnancy; PTSD;
domestic abuse. Stats that support this follows:
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Library/ICS_MARIPOSA201
9.pdf
Mariposa County Health Status Profile
An Update on the Epidemics of Opioid Related Overdose Deaths for Central Valley (California
Department of Public Health)
https://www.centralvalleyopioidsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CVOSC-Opioid-
Dashboard-Data-for-website.pdf
California Veteran Suicide Data Sheet, 2021-Department of Veteran Affairs
https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/data-sheets/2021/2021-State-Data-Sheet-California-
508.pdf

K N H A-LP RADIO ADVIORY BOARD
Our initial Board is as follows and will be listed in our initial FCC filing, ALL members are within
10 miles of the station (FCC requirement):

*Nina Avina-Rhodes *James Rhodes, Mark Nordeen, Shelly Beeman, Raven Little Wing,
John Coleman, Tim Chang, Tina Swartzel, James LeBallister, Jeffrey Burton.
Nina Avina-Rhodes and James Rhodes represent the Board of Directors of Operation New Earth
and are de facto members. At our first official meeting, prior to filing the last of our required
FCC documents, the Radio Advisory Board will elect officers and decide upon the duties each
member will perform. This is a small town, everybody knows everybody and we will adjust,
make changes include more official and specific guidance when that time is necessary-this
includes setting meeting times and dates and actual number of advisory board members,
appointment, election, and/or replacement.

The Bank for the Radio Station is PNC Bank; 13755 Mono Way, Suite A, Sonora, California, 95311.

Our contact is April Alberto, Branch Manager, 209 532-7481. Donations are tax exempt
as we operate under the umbrella of OPERATION NEW EARTH with accounting systems
previously established; however, the funds for O.N.E. and Radio Station K N H A will never be
comingled or combined as O.N.E.’s bank is in Alabama.

The Radio Station has NO EMPLOYEES but we reserve the right to hire independent
contractors to provide necessary services. We also reimburse for actual expenses directly
related to the radio station. FCC regulations state no one associated with the radio station can “profit” from this
relationship; however, factually informing the public who we individually are and our projects,
programs within the local community, void of pandering, is acceptable as we are a unique
community which should serve as an inspiration for others to imitate.

Posted by

Glynn Wilson
Station Manager/News Director
Yosemite Radio
KNHA-LPFM 100.9
Operation New Earth
5016 Main Street
Box 166
Coulterville, CA 95311

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We work with U.S. Veterans Programs, including the Rural Veteran Suicide Prevention Program.

We are in talks to provide reading services on the radio to the Mariposa County Library Adult Literacy Program and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.