Housing Trusts and Active Shooter Planning

Originally broadcast 12/14/2015
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Story County does not receive a penny of the $6 million pot of money the state sets aside to encourage development and preservation of low-income housing. Why not? Because we do not have a local housing trust. Host Greta Anderson talks with two members of the AMOS Affordable Housing advocacy group, retired ISU sociologist Jan Flora and Emergency Residence Project director, Vic Moss, together with Ames city council member Amber Corrieri, who with others are promoting this concept as one way to address our community's critical need for affordable housing. We also air clips of a recent talk AMOS hosted by Eric Burmeister, executive director of the Polk County Housing Trust, illuminating the nuts and bolts of housing trusts, as well as broader issues concerning "community character". In the show's second half, Story County Emergency Management director Keith Morgan, together with Sgt. Nicholas Lennie and Asst. Jail Administrator Micah Andersen of the Sheriff's office, address the prospect of an "active shooter" and describe how they have prepared Story County school children to "Run / Hide / Fight".

ISU Arabic Studies and Ames Municipal Update

Originally broadcast 12/11/2015
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ISU students recently took action when their Syrian Arabic professor, Dr. Ghinwa Alameen, had to suspend her Arabic language classes at ISU due to failure of routine process to reissue her work permit. Peter Benzoni and others carried out a comprehensive campaign to bring this to public and official attention and succeeded in bringing about Dr. Alameen being reinstated to resume the Arabic language program at ISU. Benzoni discusses how and why he and others did this and the process of cross-cultural understanding among students. Susan Gwiasda, public relations officer for the City of Ames, gives updates on current municipal projects. She encourages you to visit the City of Ames' new mobile friendlyweb site.

Community Theatres and Christmas Trees

Originally broadcast 12/09/2015
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We started with a visit to the Enchanted Valley Tree Farm, talking with Joe Reutter and Amber Ouellette. Then we spoke with Nick Jeulsgaard, producer of Barefoot in the Park at Boone Community Theatre , Stephanie Hill, director of Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at the Webster City Community Theatre, and Michael Porche director of The ReGifters at the Ankeny Community Theatre.

Democracy in Motion

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 12/07/2015
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Join us as we travel the ins and outs of the Highway 30 interchange debate as it affects Nevada and rural Story County. Guests include Nevada council member Ray Schwichtenberg, Story County supervisor Rick Sanders and farmer Randy Collings, with recorded comment from Iowa Department of Transportation District 1 engineer Scott Dockstader. We then travel down the road a ways with Caroline Isaacs, Arizona director of American Friends Service Committee. She is coming to Ames to present a lecture "Who Benefits from Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration" on Wednesday evening (details in link below). Finally, we hear three citizen voices opposed to Governor Branstad's Medicaid privatization plan and its hasty implementation, en route to address the Government Oversight Committee in Des Moines: Rhonda Shouse of Marion, who organized several busloads and vanloads of like-minded citizens from around Iowa, "Stacey", on the bus with Rhonda, and Tom Andre, driving his own carload from Ames.

Artisanal Giving and Animals

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 12/04/2015
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Host Greta Anderson explores several ways central Iowans can direct their holiday dollars toward beauty and justice both locally and abroad. First, Trades of Hope "compassionate entrepreneur" Katie Darby of rural Boone describes the direct marketing methods of this fair trade company, and the kinds of impact it has been able to make on women in the Third World. Reporter Kay Puttock offers a look into Creative Artists' Studios of Ames (CASA) with an interview of artist Leanne Wilson. CASA is holding an open house with art for sale this Saturday (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM) and Sunday (12:00 noon - 4:00 PM) at 130 S. Sheldon Street. Finally, musician Bryon Dudley joins us to describe how his band Strong Like Bear teamed up with Electric Jury to learn Pink Floyd's Animals album in its entirety. These bands will be playing Animals along with original works on Saturday, December 12 at D.G.'s Taphouse.

Christmas Celebrations

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 12/02/2015
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We started our program with a memorial to Fenner Stevenson, who died on November 9. In his honor we shared selections from his December 2014 KHOI interview about the Santa Express and his involvement in the Boone Scenic Valley Railroad in 1996.

The remaining part of the program was a preview of the upcoming community Christmas celebrations, Susan Schafer, owner/manager of the Book Shoppe Inc. in Boone gave us the view of the celebrations from the perspective of a businesswoman. Kurt Phillips, executive director of the Boone IA Chamber of Commerce , described the variety of events in Boone, Ogden,and Madrid. A completely different lineup came from Lynn Scarlett, executive director of the Nevada Chamber of Commerce. Paul Wierson, co-host and Story City native gave the Story City report.

ISU Postcard Print Exchange, Getting Out During the Holiday Season

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 11/30/2015
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April Katz, professor of print-making at ISU School of Art & Visual Design, describes the 15th annual International Postcard Print Exchange and Juried Student Exhibition, being held at the College of Design Building on the West side of campus (Gallery 181). The exhibit will run from November 30 - December 4. Hours are 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. There will be a silent auction of the post cards; funds will be used to help pay for students' travel to a national print conference. The Exhibit is produced by the ISU Print Society. April Katz described her career as a print maker. Anyone - professional printer or not - who prints in any medium can submit for next year's exhibit. The deadline is in April. For information on how to submit, contact Jordan Luckow, University Print Society President.

Allyson Walter from the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau, reviewed some public holiday events, concerts, children's entertainment, and local holiday shopping in Central Iowa. A comprehensive listing for holiday planning is available on the ACVB website.

Food Safety, NASA, and Family

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 11/27/2015
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Host Gale Seiler invited her Thanksgiving guests into the studio for the show today. Her daughter, Abby Seiler, talked about her work at the Center for Food Safety, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC. And Kevin Gilligan, her son-in-law, talked about his work at NASA. They discussed the mission of each of their organizations and why they are inspired by it. They also discussed how they got interested in their fields.

Thanksgiving

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 11/25/2015
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We spoke with Laural Beaty of the First Christian Church in Nevada and Mike Cleaveland of the Boone First United Methodist Church who are organizing community Thanksgiving dinners in their respective churches tomorrow. We also heard from Kent Harvst about events in Webster City. Virtus Brockman of rural Marshall County told us about old time Thanksgiving on the farm. We closed with a reading "Gratitde Is" by Mark Jackson as read by Paul Wierson.

Pictured: Boone FUMC Thanksgiving Dinner

Arabic Language, Motivated Students and Difficult Conversations

Originally broadcast 11/23/2015
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This show discusses two different topics in depth. First comes the second Local Talk program-segment on "Difficult Conversations" with Alicia Krehbiel, Hospice Care Coordinator at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Hear why you should be sure to have these difficult but profoundly important conversations with your family (old AND young) and with your doctors and caregivers. And learn how to begin and continue these conversations more easily. In the second half of the program we talk with Ghinwa Alameen, a lecturer in Arabic language at Iowa State University. Ghinwa's students come from many different disciplines, and are mostly American-born, but she describes them as all "highly motivated." And they recently proved that they are highly motivated to keep Ghinwa as their instructor at Iowa State! Hear the whole story here!

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