Originally broadcast 08/16/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Local Talk for Monday, August 16 featured an interview with Jess Mazour.  Ms.  Mazour discussed Iowa's Clean Water efforts at Bloody Run Creek in NE Iowa.  Liz Zuecker with Story County Community Foundation talked about their grant proposal deadline coming up.  Also Nanci Griffith, country music star was featured as she passed away August 13. She was 68.

Originally broadcast 08/10/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Pat Schlarbaum visits with Mike Meetz about his return from Isle Royale National Park and Wilderness and the survey on the Common Loon Mike is involved with.  

Erica Place, Outreach Coordinator for SCConservation joins us for our monthly visit, along with David Stein Watershed Coordinator with Prairie Rivers of Iowa and visit about a project that both units are cooperating in.

Susan Gwiasda Communications Officer for the City of Ames along with Keith Abraham Parks and Recreation Director provides us with summer updates in the parks and recreation systems.

Originally broadcast 08/09/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Dennis Hart gives a summary of Iowa News.

In commemoration of the anniversaries of the US atomic bombing of Japan, we hear first-hand stories from individuals who were there or were directly involved:

• Atomic bomb survivor Shigeko Sasamori, one of the “Hiroshima Maidens” who received plastic surgery after being disfigured as a teenager
• US Military: Henry Stimson, former Secretary of War; Paul Tibbets, Jr., US Air Force, and Charles Sweeney, US Air Force, who flew the mission to drop the bombs
• Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki bomb survivor when he was a teenager
• Victor Tolley, US Marine Corp. veteran who was stationed in Nagasaki after the bombing there
• Itsuko Okubo, Nagasaki bomb survivor who lost her son in the bombing

Recordings and production were provided by the PacificaRadio Archives, The National Radio Project. Featured Documentaries included "Hiroshima Countdown" by Andrew Phillips and "Nagasaki Journey” by Christopher Beaver and Judy Irving

Melissa K Spencer, Story County Emergency Management Deputy Coordinator, gives useful and simple tips for us to use while helping us all get through the current drought and high temperatures.

To conserve water:  

• Reduce lawn watering to 1 day a week
• Full Loads of laundry in the morning or evening
• Showers instead of baths
• Check and repair any leaks in faucets or hoses

To conserve energy:

• Reduce your demand during peak usage (business hours)
• Close drapes to keep the house cooler
• Do cleaning in the morning and evening when cooler
• Turn up the thermostat 3-5 degrees
• Avoid using the oven in afternoon and early evening
• Turn off lights when not needed.

Originally broadcast 08/04/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Betty Andrews' Iowa Community Report celebrated the 0ne Year Anniversary of Proposition 7 giving the previously incarcerated the right to vote. Then we heard a discussion on Fallon Forum between host Ed Fallon and Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, discussing ways to provide better communication between city councils and citizens bringing complaints. Al Womble brought us a follow-up on the support being gathered for the tenants about to be evicted from Crestwood Apartments in Davenport -- including a pick-up of supplies from the Pantorium.  Ending on a festive note, Laura Wade, events and communications director from the Boone Chamber of Commerce, told us what to expect for this year's Pufferbilly Days on August 8 - 10.