Ames City Council Update: Rental Caps and Bike to Work Week
Bronwyn Beatty Hansen, a member of the Ames City Council stopped by.
May 2019
Go Red for Women, College Grad, Rental Cap
Originally broadcast 05/06/2019
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Cathy Adams from the American Heart Association provided information about the dangers of heart disease for women and Go Red for Women. We also heard an interview with Alejandro Martinez about his journey to become the first college graduate in his family. Bronwyn Beatty Hansen, a member of the Ames City Council stopped by. She spoke about the recently passed Iowa legislation that will eliminate the neighborhood rental caps approved by the Ames City Council, as well as Bike to Work Week, which is May 13-19. The City of Ames and other organizations and businesses will sponsor events during that week.
Politics and May Events
Originally broadcast 05/03/2019
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After the weekly Triibune news summary from Dennis Hart, Cal Haliburton came in to tell us about KHOI's plans to interview primary candidates between now and the caucuses. From Boone Community Theatre we had John Hoffman telling us about "Jeeves Intervenes," the comedy opening May 10. Susan Gwiasda, Ames Public Relations described some of the many activities designed to make people a aware of walking, biking, and enjoying the outdoors.
Young authors and Farmer Storytellers
Originally broadcast 05/01/2019
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Our May Day program was bursting with creativity. Our first guest was Dallas Center Grimes 6th grade author Miara Steir, who published her first book when she was eight and has it as her goal to reach 101 classrooms throughout central Iowa telling students how they can also publish their own books. Then Iowa poet laureate Mary Swander introduced us to her plays dealing with the lives of farmers as well her AGARTS project. We were joined by Mark Gannon, who is starting a new foundation to set up events where farmers can tell the stories of life on their farms, have them recorded, and make them available online. We played a couple of these stories from people who farmed on century farms -- Gordon Bivens and Gina McAndrews, (Gina also co-hosted as KHOI's new Farm Reporter.)