Golden Owl, TEDxYouth, Yellow Cup, Roland Pool

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 03/06/2019
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Paul Wierson and Susan Franzen celebrated the warming weather with a road trip to Story City to meet with people recently featured in news stories.  Brad Taylor, ag teacher and FFA adviser at Roland Story High School, and finalist for the Golden Owl Award, told us about the extensive career and life skill education now available through FFA. While we were a the high school, we stopped in to learn from Extended Leaning Teacher Thomas Klett and student Whitney Erickson about the upcoming TEDxYouth event coming up this week at RSHS (one of the first in Iowa).  In time for a coffee break we went to the Yellow Cup Cafe and heard from the proprietor Shannon Hayden about how she started the newest restaurant in Story City.  There we met Mayor Andrew Webb of Roland and discussed the bond issue for a new swimming pool. The voting was taking place as we met, but the subject that brought us there in the first place was a recent poll that placed Roland and Story City in the top 20 best Iowa towns under 5,000 population.  The proud mayor had been promoting the fact that Roland ranked #6.  When our program aired on Wednesday morning, Mayor Webb was on the phone to report that the bond issue passed with 82.38% YES votes and a turnout of of 42% of all eligible voters. 

International Womens Day is March 8, Ames High Step Team,the Narrative of Immigration (UCC of Ames Theologian in Residency Program)

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 03/04/2019
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Dennis Hart gives a rundown of Iowa in the news last week.

KHOI Women's issues reporter Joy B. gives a historical perspective on International Women's Day, on Friday, March 8th, around the world and at the Ames Public Library. 

Mary Logsdon, Adult Services Manager and interim General Manager of the Ames Public Library, and Dava James from the League of Women Voters of Ames and Story County, give background and vision behind the Ames International Womens Day and introduce activities such as a performance by the Ames High Step Team, a panel discussion between local women in politics, the opening of one time capsule and the creation of a new one, and more. Everyone - women, men, children - are invited to the International Women's Day Celebration on March 8th from 6:30 to 8:30. Don't be late, or you will miss the Step Team.

And speaking of...members of the Ames High Step Team Aisha Conteh, Dashawna Green, and Sionna Stokes tell you first-hand what they perform, how they do it, and why it is so exciting and inspiring. They also talk about how being African American women has impacted their lives. We also hear from their coach, Jean Muhammad, who is also Student and Family Advocate at Ames High.

Charles Knicker, organizer of last weekend's Theologian in Residency Program of the Ames United Church of Christ (UCC), describes lessons learned last weekend when a distinguished group of lawyers, activists, filmmakers, and social workers came to the UCC, along with the visiting theologian in residence, Rev. Dr, David Vasquez-Levy who is President of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.

We hear excerpts from his presentation, as well as observations by film maker Luis Argueta.  Participants in the weekend program Lee Molgaard and David Hansen also gave their impressions and share experiences they have had relating to immigration and what Central Americans  face.

Bronwyn Beatty Hansen, from the Ames City Council - at Large, gives a schedule events when the City asks for citizen input in the next month. 

Second Egg for Decorah Eagle, Street Snow Removal, DSM Lobby Day over the Master Matrix, Being an Urban Sonali-American Transplant

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 03/01/2019
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Dennis Hart gives a summary of local news from the pages of the Ames Tribune.

The Decorah Eagles have laid their second egg! Pat Schlarbaum, KHOI environmental reporter updates us and explains why the eggs don't freeze in the February cold.

Schlarbaum also brings us recordings of State House Rally included lobbying for House File 203.  A bill for an act establishing a moratorium relating to the construction, including expansion, of structures that are part of certain confinement feeding operations where swine are kept.  Senator Claire Celsi, Polk County and Representative Sharon Steckman were featured.

Intern Tre Moore bings a second installment of Ames Untold: stories about parts of your town that you might not know about. He introduces Ifrah, a first-generation Sonali-American and her difficulty with adjusting to life in Central Iowa. 

Ames City Public Relations Officer Susan Gwiasda and Justin Clausin, Public Works Operations Manager. They describe winter snow, ice, and rain from the perspective of the city's snow plowers. They explain exactly what has to be done, and the obstacles to their mission to keep Ames' streets drivable. 

Randy Burk, Children and Climate, CIS, Child Survivor

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/27/2019
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Our program today started with a Promo for tonight's Pantorium Session when reporter Greta Anderson interviewed Randy Burk, who will be performing tonight at 7 p.m.  A report from last night's Ames Public Library event " Using the Courts to Kick Start Climate Action  : Can Children Show Us a Direct Path Forward?" presented by Channing Dutton, Atty followed.  Reporters Ci Ci Iversonand Susan Franzen interviewed Dutton and  played segments of his presentation.  We heard from Central Iowa Symphony's Music DirectorEric McIntyre describing the music to be performed at the CIS Young Artists Concert this Sunday.  Chabad Rabbi Leibel Jacobson came into the studio to tell us about "An Evening with Dr. Inge Auerbacher" the youngest survivor of Terezin concentration camp, who will be speaking at Great Hall ISU Memorial Union, 6 p.m. Monday, March 4. 

Project SEARCH, Immigration Matters

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/25/2019
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Host, Gale Seiler, spoke with Linda Lind, the Director of Project SEARCH at ISU, and Maegan McColley, who is an intern with the Project. The program provides campus internships for young people with disabilities, and they are having a Business Summit to forge partnerships with businesses interested in employing graduates of the program.

Ursula Ruedenberg interviewed Reverend Dr. David Vasquez-Levy, President of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, who will hold a dialogue on Friday evening with Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller about reframing our societal and legal approach to immigration. This event is part of the annual Theologian in Residency Weekend organized by the United Church of Christ in Ames. This year’s theme is Immigration Matters: Joined Together, Finding Solutions. 

Crystal Davis, from the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau, was delayed by snowy roads, so we shared information on upcoming local events, which Crystal sent to us. 

Black History Month, Moratorium on Confinement Animal Feeding Operations

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/22/2019
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Dennis Hart provided update of the week from Ames Tribune.   Story County Board of Supervisor, Linda Murken, discussed a recent vote to place a Moratorium on Confinement Animal Feeding Operations in Story County.  Black History Month featured Alexander Taylor and the Ames Progressive Alliance was featured. 

February Musings: Hearts and Flowers

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/20/2019
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Co-Hosts Susan Franzen, Joy Beadleston, and Ci Ci Iverson pooled their ideas for beating the malaise of winter with a variety of ideas.

Carole Horowitz came in to tell us about Play With Words: This is America, (a collaboration including Ames Childrens' Theatre, Ames Public Library, and CY Stephens), which will be performed March 1 - 3 in the staging area at CY Stephens. After a discussion of activities to combat SAD (Seasonal Attitude Disorder), Joy B. brought us Melissa Murphy, a volunteer at the Iowa Heart Institute, to tell her story of surviving a heart attack with warning signs to watch out for.  Joy reminded us that spring flowers are available right now at Everts Flowers Shop, and gifts cards may be purchased at the KHOI studio. 

Birmingham Jail, Memory Project, FUEL

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/18/2019
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KHOI reporter, Susan Franzen, brought us a segment on an event this past Saturday at the Ames Library, which featured a film and a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Ames HS art teacher, Lindsay Wede, and students Gretchen Webber, Caylee Fuqua, and Leah Wolter spoke with KHOI reporter, Greta Anderson. They told about their involvement in the Memory Project, through which young artists around the world create portraits as special gifts for children facing challenges. This year the project centered on Syrian refugees, and the artworks are hanging in the Ames Public Library foyer. In the last part of the show, host, Gale Seiler, chatted with Allee Wengart, from the Ames Chamber of Commerce, along with Danielle Minde and Christian Hempen. The topic was the re-envisioning of the organization formerly known as Young Professionals of Ames, now called FUEL. 

Transgender Rights Win and Ready to Run Program

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/15/2019
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Dennis Hart rundowns the local news from the the pages of Ames Tribune.

On Wednesday, February 13, a Polk County jury delivered a historic win for transgender rights in Iowa. Melissa Hass, from the Sherinain and Hasso Law Firm tells us how they gained this win.

Joy B brings you information about Ready to Run a unique program in our area that demystifies the world of politics for anyone interested in testing the waters.

A conversation with Alex Fafar, research and exhibits manager of the Ames History Center. 

Photo credited to ACLU of Iowa

Meskwaki Wisdom and Festival of Personal Geographies

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/13/2019
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Ci Ci Iverson and Susan Franzen took a road trip last Saturday visiting the Meskwaki Cultural Center and Museum in Tama to learn from Historic Preservation Director Johnathan L. Buffalo about how ancient peoples survived bitter cold and how present day natives are passing on the strategies for survival to their children.  Coming back to Ames for the last half of the program we heard from  Tibi Chelcea and Alex Braidwood about a unique expression of art, the Fesitival of Personal Geographies. 

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