They Give By Going. You Go Through Giving.
![2016-2017 volunteers Karen Trop, Lauren Frost, Tyler Stup, and Davis Hovey hold a KNOM Radio banner under a particularly vivid, green-colored instance of the Northern lights near Nome.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-04-06-static-misc-008-1200x800.jpg)
For more than five decades, volunteers have come to Nome to give a year or more of service. In concert with supporters like you, the mission’s commitment — to serve Western Alaska with faith, inspiration, news, and education, through radio — has remained constant.
Ministry at the Edge of the World
![A landscape of Diomede, Alaska, in wintertime: a small airplane sits on a runway made of ice, with village houses nestled at the base of a steep hill in the background.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DiomedeOverview-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
Nowhere is the need for rural Alaska broadcasting more evident than in the village of Diomede, a small community located on an island in the Bering Strait.
A Youth Summit in Kiana
![Nick Hanson, from the very top of a large, wooden structure, looks down on children sitting on the floor of the Kiana school gymnasium.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Nick-Hanson-in-Kiana-2x3-ratio-2736px-1200x800.jpg)
KNOM endeavors to connect with listeners, on the air and face to face. Recently, volunteer producer Lauren Frost had the chance to do both during a special youth summit in rural Kiana, Alaska.
When It’s Springtime in Alaska…
![An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, its airport runways, and nearby mountains, covered in snow in late winter 2017.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-04-06-static-misc-007-5-1200x800.jpg)
Extreme weather tends to persist well into springtime in Western Alaska. It’s a season of transformation — during which accurate radio broadcasting remains vital.
Meet Michael
![Deejay Michael Burnett, wearing headphones, standing at the microphone and radio sound board in KNOM's main broadcasting studio.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-04-06-static-misc-006-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
This spring, KNOM listeners are keeping company with a new voice on weekday mornings. Meet Michael Burnett.
In Rural Alaska, “Use What You Can Find”
![Eileen and Ashley Moses hold their pets inside the Elim Fire Hall](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2016-10-15-static-misc-004-1200x800.jpg)
Veterinary services are rare — and greatly needed — in rural Alaska. A recent episode of KNOM’s “Story49” documents how a new organization is filling the gap; it takes listeners to the front lines of where pets and pet owners need care the most.