Raising Readers, Project Smyles
Two projects aimed at encouraging young people to read were featured on KHOI’s Local Talk show Friday, Jan. 31.
January 2014
Raising Readers, Project Smyles
Local Talk program originally broadcast 01/31/2014
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Two projects aimed at encouraging young people to read were featured on KHOI’s Local Talk show Friday, Jan. 31.
Co-hosts Susan Franzen and Tom Beell talked with the president and vice president of Raising Readers , Carol Elbert and Carolyn Jons, who described the wide variety of activities their group’s volunteers undertake to instill a love of reading in children.
Also appearing on the program Friday was Linda Olson, organizer of Project Smyles at the Ames Public Library. Project Smyles encourages youngsters to take advantage of the library’s rich collection of books, CDs and DVDs. Staff members conduct story times for children’s groups and in other ways help children develop appreciate the joy and value of reading. Like Raising Readers, Project Smyles is funded by grants and private donations. Earlier in the program, Paul Schlarbaum talked with Steve Dinsmore about the unusual sounds of Iowa’s owls. And then Pete Seeger, who died Monday (Jan. 27), was remembered with his performance of Alligator Hedgehog and Leather Wing Bat from his album, Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes.
Local Talk 2014 Archives
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Birds, Bugs, and "Boeing, Boeing"
This is a celebrations of the events outdoors and indoors that enliven the end of January. We hear about eagles nesting, skating on the skunk river, biking to work, running with the Polar Bear Club, bugs in winter, and the ACTORS production of "Boeing, Boeing", the French farce opening this weekend.
Birds, Bugs, and "Boeing, Boeing"
Local Talk program originally broadcast 01/29/2012
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This is a celebrations of the events outdoors and indoors that enliven the end of January. We hear about eagles nesting, skating on the skunk river, biking to work, running with the Polar Bear Club, bugs in winter, and the ACTORS production of "Boeing, Boeing", the French farce opening this weekend.
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We heard from:
- Pat Schlarbaum, DNR Wildlife Diversity
- Steve and Ethy Cannon
- Zoe Pritchard
- Donald Lewis, ISU Extension Entomologist
- Stacy Brothers, director of "Boeing, Boeing"
- Paul Sim, cast of "Boeing, Boeing"
Satellites and Butterflies
Heart of Iowa program originally broadcast 01/28/2014
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Jeremy Kerr of the University of Ottawa, a consultant for the Canadian government about species at risk of extinction, describes his work mapping change on a macro scale. Dr. Kerr argues that this kind of science is becoming more relevant in the context of climate change. His particular research interest is butterflies, and his lab recently launched the website "ebutterfly," where ordinary citizens can contribute to ecological science by logging in data about butterfly sightings. Kerr's lecture was this year's Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture at ISU. Errington was an Iowa State College scientist whose 1957 book, Of Men and Marshes, is in the same class of work as Aldo QCLeopold's Sand County Almanac.
Broadcast Studio Construction Update 01/27/2014
The broadcast studio is starting to sound more like a bank vault. Most of the second layer of 5/8" sheetrock is up on the walls. The ceiling is getting mineral wool sound insulatation in preparation for hat channel mounted on the isolation clips, then sheetrock. Thanks to: both Rons, Ken, Pat and Dave for help thus far.
PFI's Well Grounded
Local Talk program originally broadcast 01/24/2014
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On the occasion of Practical Farmers of Iowa's 2014 conference, "Well Grounded," reporter Greta Anderson and frequent KHOI contributor Angie Carter discuss PFI with "shrimp hugger" Mark Peterson, a farmer from southwest Iowa who has been experimenting with cover crops. Then, Greta interviews Ricardo Salvador, who will be delivering the keynote address on Friday afternoon. Dr. Salvador taught for many years in the ISU Agronomy department and now heads up the Food and Environment advocacy program at the Union for Concerned Scientists.