October 2020

Central Iowa Action: Rotary International, Justice Summit, Job Training

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 10/07/2020
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Glen Rippke from the Ames Rotary Club started our program today by telling us about two programs the local Rotary Action Group for Community Development. Both are in collaboration with Rotary clubs in Tanzania.  One is bringing water to villages, and the current one is for milk production.  Then Betty Andrews, chair of the Iowa Nebraska NAACP, told us about the Iowa Justice Summit, a virtual conference on October 29, in response to the fact that Iowa is #3 (down from #1) in the proportion of African-Americans in the criminal justice system.  Our final guests were Brenda Dryer of the Ames Chamber of Commerce and Jean Cresse of United Way announcing a new program partnering with DMAAC (Des Moines Area Community College) for retraining people who have lost jobs during COVID19. 

Lisa Heddens, Candidate for Story County Supervisors, Mason Zastrow on ISU and Community Spread

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 10/5/2020
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Dennis Hart gives a roundup of Iowa news from last week.

An interview with Lisa Heddens (Democrat), candidate for Story County Board of Supervisors.

Mason Zastrow, a junior at Iowa State university, gained local and national attention to the problem of  community spread in Story County when he wrote an open letter in August to the administration of Iowa State University. He was calling for the closing of in-person classes and for ISU to share testing resources to the residents of Ames. Zastrow, who is an off-campus senator in the ISU student government, introduced a bill addressing ISU safety and community responsibility. He was quarantined in September due to student infection in his own household and believes he himself was infected, although he tested negative. Zastrow describes his concerns about false-negative testing and describes the pivotal issues discussed through which the a bill was passed by the student government with recommendations for ISU to address community spread. 

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