Originally broadcast 10/23/2014
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Vermont musicians Patti Casey and Tom McKenzie, a group known as Shady Rill, are passing through Iowa on their way to a tour of the western states. They performed a private concert for KHOI which you can hear right here. They play a variety of instruments--banjo, guitar, flute, whistle and others and sing a variety of songs and ballads, many of them their own compositions.
Host: Kay Puttock
County Reporters Paul Wierson and Susan Franzen devoted this program to happenings along the Lincoln Highway. We started in the KHOI studio with our guest Artie Sanghi, from RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) talking with Paul about his experiences in the Speak Up program which in which 5th graders in various Story County schools learn speaking and writing skills in a six week course with a volunteer.
Originally broadcast 10/22/2014
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County Reporters Paul Wierson and Susan Franzen devoted this program to happenings along the Lincoln Highway. We started in the KHOI studio with our guest Artie Sanghi, from RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) talking with Paul about his experiences in the Speak Up program which in which 5th graders in various Story County schools learn speaking and writing skills in a six week course with a volunteer. In an interview Paul and Susan had recorded on their road trip to Colo the day before, Vicky Wilson, 5th grade teacher at Colo-Nesco, described the advantages of bringing a volunteer like Paul into her classroom. After leaving the school, they had lunch at Niland’s Café at the Reed Nyland Corner, founded as a gas station in 1923 at the intersection of the Lincoln and Jefferson Highways. Owner-Manager Sandra Huemann-Kelley gave them a tour of this lively historical site. Down the road in Boone, we heard from Boone County Historical Society director Pam Schwartz about their current exhibit and contest called “Secrets: the mysteries behind unidentified photography” in which people are invited to write stories about the possible events shows in the pictures. See the website for details.
Host Kay Puttock and moderator Linda Murken provide a forum for the four candidates vying for two seats on the Story County Board of Supervisors. Responding to requests from our listeners, we allow time for the candidates to respond and contest their opponents claims. Questions about the county budget, infrastructure (bridges), transparency, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and taxes are covered.
Originally broadcast 10/20/2014
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Host Kay Puttock and moderator Linda Murken provide a forum for the four candidates vying for two seats on the Story County Board of Supervisors. Responding to requests from our listeners, we allow time for the candidates to respond and contest their opponents claims. Questions about the county budget, infrastructure (bridges), transparency, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and taxes are covered.
Bill and Toni Woodman talked about the former Skunk River Bluehrass Band, as well as about Bluegrass music and musicinas in the region while telling the unusual history of their band -- how their interest in music devloped and how for how it transitioned into diverse things such as hot air ballooning. Great stories about the Bluegrass players in Boone.
Originally broadcast 10/15/2014
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Bill and Toni Woodman talked about the former Skunk River Bluehrass Band, as well as about Bluegrass music and musicinas in the region while telling the unusual history of their band -- how their interest in music devloped and how for how it transitioned into diverse things such as hot air ballooning. Great stories about the Bluegrass players in Boone.
Hosts Ursula Ruedenberg and Kay Puttock talk with Republican candidate Stacie Herridge and Democratic candidate Jim Cheek about the office of Story County Recorder, and about their race for this position in the upcoming elections. Kay Puttock interviews Beth Weiser about her volunteer work with her therapy dog Tucker. Tucker and Beth bring comfort, rehabiliation, and healing to hospital patients and residents in retirement communities.
Originally broadcast 10/13/2014
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Hosts Ursula Ruedenberg and Kay Puttock talk with Republican candidate Stacie Herridge and Democratic candidate Jim Cheek about the office of Story County Recorder, and about their race for this position in the upcoming elections. Kay Puttock interviews Beth Weiser about her volunteer work with her therapy dog Tucker. Tucker and Beth bring comfort, rehabiliation, and healing to hospital patients and residents in retirement communities. In our phenology segment today, Pat Schlarbaum talks about the sights and sounds of the beautiful Root River, which is a tributary of the Upper Mississipi, and which flows for 80 miles through the Driftless area of southeastern Minnesota.
Reporters Greta Anderson and Gale Seiler explore the World Food Prize founded by Iowa's Nobel Prize-winner Norman Borlaug, the man behind the Green Revolution. Events surrounding the awarding of this year's prize are gearing up both in Des Moines and in Ames.