New Year's Celebrations
Originally broadcast 12/31/2014
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This preview of the New Year's Celebrations of 2014, include an interview with Jessica Hansen of the Ames Jaycees telling about the New Year's Eve Bash at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center with Burnin' Sensations. Then Shirley Shaw issued an invitation to the Red Friars' Dance Party where the High Society Big Band will be playing. Announcements of other Ames events were followed by an interview with Jim and Linda Sills at the Crossroads Tavern in Kelley, which will provide shuttle service for its party with Country & Western singer Casey Muessigmann. Our special guest was fifteen-year-old Hawk McIntyre, singer and guitar player from Boone, who came with his manager and father Jeremy McIntyre to tell about how he has launched his career in central Iowa and what he plans to do for the New Year's party at Toby K's Hideaway in Boone. For listeners in Marshall County, we announced The The Electric Hillbillies at Road Hog's Bar in State Center.
Hosts for this program were: Susan Franzen, Belinda Merritt, Holly Davis, and Paul Wierson
Environmentalist Pat Schlarbaum explains what is going on with all the wild geese and swans around the area. Apparently, a whole crew of migrating birds has arrived from the North to winter in Iowa.
KHOI's own DonnaLonna Kitchen show won international recognition in a contest held by the 
The County Reporters took a road trip to Jefferson to visit RVP 1875’s version of Santa’s Workshop, where they talked with master woodworker Robby Peterson in his workshop about the historic furniture he builds and teaches others to build. Then we toured the History Boy Theatre and talked about the dinner and a musical show, “Murder Ballad,” directed by Angie and Robby Peterson, which is making its Mid-west Premiere on New Year’s Eve. On the way back to Ames we discussed Christmas Tree Farms in several counties.
Today's show features coverage of the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Meeting held in Ames City Auditorium this past weekend, an upcoming art show (and reception this Saturday) celebrating Ames history, and the history behind the actual "birthday" of Ames on December 17. Organizer Andrea Basche and reporter Susan Franzen recapped the anti-pipeline meeting, which drew 280 attendees, laying out the major reasons people are opposing it and correcting the misinformation shared by the pipeline company. After a musical interlude courtesy of Ames singer-songwriter Paul Doffing, we hear about an upcoming art show at Gallery in the Round in Ames from Tibi Chelcea, the organizer. Finally, Alex Fejfer of Ames Historical Society fills us in on the dirty dealings of Cynthia Duff, without which Ames would not exist, along with the all-day celebration planned for Dec. 17 in Ames.