Latino Voting, Care Farm, Altrusa, and Carnage

Local Talk continued its focus on voting with Carolyn Klaus of the Ames League of Women Voters altering us to changed laws for casting ballots, early voting, mail-in ballots, or in county drop boxes.  For more details check the Iowa Secretary of State's website https://sos.iowa.gov/ Joe Enriquez Henry,  of LULAC, League of United LatinAmerican Citizens, came on to reveal the importance of Latinos in Iowa, economically as well as potential voters.  Our next stop was a visit with Gina Perkins at Cultivating Hope Farm, a new non-profit in Story County based on the model of Care Farms in other states. Charissa Hamel director of the internationally acclaimed dark comedy, Gods of Carnagea production of Ankeny Community Theatre's Readers Virtual Theatre came in to tell us to tell us how we can get tickets online.

 

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Originally broadcast 09/23/2020
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