Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of The Spark program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program, Smart Talk.
In addition to his on-air duties, LaMar has moderated political candidate debates, including those for candidates running for Pennsylvania governor and the U.S. Senate and was a regular contributor to BBC World News TV before and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
LaMar often emcees or moderates local events and has gone as far as California to emcee a national event.
The American Society of Civil Engineers honored LaMar with their national Excellence in Journalism award in 2020. He has been nominated for five Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
LaMar and The Spark have been recognized throughout the Central Pennsylvania community including ADVOZ Lancaster’s “Dignity in Dialogue Award”, the South-Central Assembly’s “Regional Citizen Award” and was named a “Humanitarian Hero” by The Humane Society of the United States/Pennsylvania.
A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.
Airdate: Monday, April 17, 2023
Saturday is Earth Day — the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. That environmental movement has led to many positive changes to the environment like the Clean Air Act.
Even before the first Earth Day, Pennsylvania enacted The Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment to it’s Constitution which said “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.”
Fifty-three years after that first Earth Day, efforts to rid the environment of greenhouse gases and clean up waterways could be considered even more serious with a warming climate leading to what could be disastrous changes to the planet.
This Saturday – Earth Day – there’s a Climate Summit in Lancaster with more than four dozen presentations and events. It’s coordinated by the non-profit Regen/All, whose Executive Director Eric Sauder was with us on The Spark today, along with John Dernbach, Commonwealth Professor of Environmental Law and Sustainability, Director, Environmental Law and Sustainability Center, Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
