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.
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!
On today’s show, we have two excellent segments. First we have Mary Rankin back to the show to talk about sustainability issues issues in the city of Ames. She is the sustainability coordinator for the City of Ames and works with different city departments to increase their efforts at sustainability. Today she brings Kristina Murphy from the water department to the show. Our second guest is Candice Gardner, the Research Director at the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station. She brings Jeff Karstens who is an expert on saving ash tree seeds to preserve ash trees from the emerald ash borer.