Local Ames Businesses

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Our theme for today was Local Ames Businesses. Cindy Hicks, director of the Main Street Cultural District , kicked off our program by telling us about Small Business Saturday, the local answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We then spoke with owners of businesses that began before the North Grand Mall or Big Box store were built and have successfully adapted to changing shopping patterns in Ames. These included Rick Swank of Swank's Jewelry Store, Mark Peterson of Emerhoff's Footwear, Dave Samson of the Hobby Shop, Marg Junkin of Cook's Emporium, and Brian Smith of Evert's Flowers and Gifts. Our new Business Reporter Jim Werbel then told us that he views businesses as change agents and enjoys covering them with that in mind. He played a clip with employees of Sigler Printing about the family feeling of working there. Daniel Culhane, director and CEO of the Ames Chamber of Commerce told us about the expansion of the Ames Municipal Airport.

Fund Drive: Wednesday Local Talk

Membership week Wednesday Local Talk has three live shows. This gives us a chance to showcase the varied types of programs we feature in our TEN county listening area [Story, Boone, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Marshall, (North Polk), Dallas, Webster, and Jasper]

7:00 AM: our Nature Reporter, Pat Schlarbaum, talked with Doug Harr, president of the Iowa Audubon Society telling us about the arctic birds seen already in Iowa this winter. Steven Bradbury of ISU and member of the Iowa Monarch Consortium then gave us an overview of the ways we can deal with the conditions driving down the numbers of Monarch Butterflies. Jessie Lowry conservation director at the Blank Park Zoo, in charge of the Plant Grow Fly program to increase habitat for Monarchs.

Noon: Stu Huntington, professor emeritus in Community and Regional Planning, joined us as a dedicated listener of KHOI to talk especially about programs in KHOI that show how small nearby towns thrive in difficult times. Host Susan Franzen shared some of her favorite voices from towns throughout the area. These were: Scott De Young, Mike Mackey, Anthony Rosing, and Robby Peterson.

7:00 PM: Marty Miller brought us two members from the original Barn Owl Band, Jon Duvick and Roger Alexander, who played songs from past concerts recorded at Ames City Auditorium and for Prairie Home Companion. They reminisced about how they first formed to play at the Central Iowa Barn Dance.

Richard Wolff at KHOI

November 16, 2015 - 4:00pm -- ron

Noted economics professor Richard Wolff described his career as a teacher of Marxist economics during a reception at KHOI Monday (Nov. 16). Wolff’s nationally syndicated program “Economic Update” is broadcast Tuesdays at 4:00 PM on KHOI. He was in Ames to give a lecture on “Democracy at Work, a Cure for Capitalism” at ISU.

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.

KHOI Contributes to National Newscast

Originally broadcast 11/16/2015
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Four KHOI reporters--Ursula Ruedenberg, Greta Anderson, Gale Seiler and youth reporter Max Eness, were "commissioned" by Los Angeles station KPFK to contribute to its national broadcast with on-the-spot, live interviews immediately following the 2nd Democratic Presidential Debate, held at Drake University this past Saturday. Gale and Greta got credentialed for the "Spin Room", where they interviewed campaign managers of the Sanders, Clinton and O'Malley campaigns; Ursula and Max covered the scene outside the debate, snagging an interview with Cornel West and losing a shoe. We start this pledge week show interviewing our good landlord at the Pantorium, Dennis Jones, then tell the stories of our intrepid reporters as they try out a new beat and a new technology. Don't forget to pledge your support to KHOI Community Radio!

People, Events, & the History of the Atom

November 15, 2015 - 4:00pm -- ron

PEOPLE, EVENTS, & THE HISTORY OF THE ATOM
BY DR. KLAUS RUEDENBERG
ISU Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Chemistry

Sunday November 15 at 4:00 PM
KHOI Radio Station, 410 Douglas Ave. in Ames In honor of KHOI’s Radio’s Fall membership Drive, Dr. Klaus Ruedenberg will give a ground-breaking presentation on the amazing story of human knowledge of atoms, from ancient Greeks to now. This is geared for everyone to  understand,  with  images and descriptions of the people and technology that made today's science possible.
Join us! Refreshments served after the presentation

Bakken Pipeline Hearing

Originally broadcast 11/13/2015 at Noon
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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!

Sustainability

Originally broadcast 11/13/2015
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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.

Veterans Day and La Poste

Originally broadcast 11/11/2015
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After a tribute to Veteran's Day with a poem by Dennis Maulsby, KHOI reporter Susan Franzen told listeners about her visit to Perry this week to preview Art On The Prairie, a festival featuring visual and graphic arts, poetry, and music in seven buildings in the Historic and Cultural District of Perry. We visited with Jenny Ecklund and Mary Rose Nichols, owners of La Poste, to hear the story of how they saved the historic 1913 Perry post office from demolition and turned it into an event center, art gallery, and social hub. We attended the weekly Handlebar Happy House in the cellar of La Poste where we recorded Kurt Bearinger One-Man Acoustic Band. Dennis gave us his impressions of his past years reading poetry from his new volume of poetry, Near Death, Near Life. in the Hotel Patee and provided a touch of the atmosphere is Art On The Prairie , including the art of winemaking by Covered Bridges Winery and Train Wreck Winery. He closed by reading two poems in honor of veterans who died in World War II.

History of the Atom and Pledge Drive

Originally broadcast 11/09/2015
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On this show, Joe Collins, training facilitator with Iowa Works, and Mary Logsdon, adult services coordinator from the Ames Public library, talking about a series of job search workshops and other upcoming adult services at the Ames Public Library. As you might have heard, our pledge drive starts November 13. We are having Klaus Rudenberg at the studio on Sunday November 15 at 4:00 PM. He gives us a preview of his Lecture on T", that he has given all over the world. Finally, Leanne Harter comes back to the show to share upcoming events in Story County.

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