Fund Drive: Wednesday Local Talk

Membership week Wednesday Local Talk has three live shows. This gives us a chance to showcase the varied types of programs we feature in our TEN county listening area [Story, Boone, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Marshall, (North Polk), Dallas, Webster, and Jasper]

7:00 AM: our Nature Reporter, Pat Schlarbaum, talked with Doug Harr, president of the Iowa Audubon Society telling us about the arctic birds seen already in Iowa this winter. Steven Bradbury of ISU and member of the Iowa Monarch Consortium then gave us an overview of the ways we can deal with the conditions driving down the numbers of Monarch Butterflies. Jessie Lowry conservation director at the Blank Park Zoo, in charge of the Plant Grow Fly program to increase habitat for Monarchs.

Noon: Stu Huntington, professor emeritus in Community and Regional Planning, joined us as a dedicated listener of KHOI to talk especially about programs in KHOI that show how small nearby towns thrive in difficult times. Host Susan Franzen shared some of her favorite voices from towns throughout the area. These were: Scott De Young, Mike Mackey, Anthony Rosing, and Robby Peterson.

7:00 PM: Marty Miller brought us two members from the original Barn Owl Band, Jon Duvick and Roger Alexander, who played songs from past concerts recorded at Ames City Auditorium and for Prairie Home Companion. They reminisced about how they first formed to play at the Central Iowa Barn Dance.

Richard Wolff at KHOI

November 16, 2015 - 4:00pm -- ron

Noted economics professor Richard Wolff described his career as a teacher of Marxist economics during a reception at KHOI Monday (Nov. 16). Wolff’s nationally syndicated program “Economic Update” is broadcast Tuesdays at 4:00 PM on KHOI. He was in Ames to give a lecture on “Democracy at Work, a Cure for Capitalism” at ISU.

Ames Cultural Ambassadors

Originally broadcast 11/16/2015 at Noon
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On the noon show for Nov. 16, we had what could be considered Ames Cultural Ambassadors. Our guests live in Ames and perform nationally. One guest is Michael Ching, who recently had a world premiere of his opera Alice Riley in Savannah, Georgia. The other guests were Julie Fox Henson, the assistant concertmaster (pictured to the far left) with the Des Moines Symphony and Alan Henson, the principal cellist with the central Iowa symphony. We talked about their efforts in music education.

KHOI Contributes to National Newscast

Originally broadcast 11/16/2015
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Four KHOI reporters--Ursula Ruedenberg, Greta Anderson, Gale Seiler and youth reporter Max Eness, were "commissioned" by Los Angeles station KPFK to contribute to its national broadcast with on-the-spot, live interviews immediately following the 2nd Democratic Presidential Debate, held at Drake University this past Saturday. Gale and Greta got credentialed for the "Spin Room", where they interviewed campaign managers of the Sanders, Clinton and O'Malley campaigns; Ursula and Max covered the scene outside the debate, snagging an interview with Cornel West and losing a shoe. We start this pledge week show interviewing our good landlord at the Pantorium, Dennis Jones, then tell the stories of our intrepid reporters as they try out a new beat and a new technology. Don't forget to pledge your support to KHOI Community Radio!

People, Events, & the History of the Atom

November 15, 2015 - 4:00pm -- ron

PEOPLE, EVENTS, & THE HISTORY OF THE ATOM
BY DR. KLAUS RUEDENBERG
ISU Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Chemistry

Sunday November 15 at 4:00 PM
KHOI Radio Station, 410 Douglas Ave. in Ames In honor of KHOI’s Radio’s Fall membership Drive, Dr. Klaus Ruedenberg will give a ground-breaking presentation on the amazing story of human knowledge of atoms, from ancient Greeks to now. This is geared for everyone to  understand,  with  images and descriptions of the people and technology that made today's science possible.
Join us! Refreshments served after the presentation

Bakken Pipeline Hearing

Originally broadcast 11/13/2015 at Noon
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As part of our pledge drive, co-hosts Greta Anderson and Mark Edwards revisit our November 4 "Tale of Two Counties" show on efforts at the county level to stop or slow the Bakken pipeline permitting process--then, we talk with three people who attended the November 12 Iowa Utilities Board public hearing on the pipeline, retired Ames High School earth sciences teacher Jack Troeger, Ames Tribune columnist Larry Koehrson, and a young farmer Julia Slocum, of Lacewing Acres. This kind of hour-long media coverage is available only on KHOI Community Radio, so please, pledge your support!

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