Pufferbilly Days and Local Theatre

Originally broadcast 09/07/2016
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Alyssa Knudsen, manager of programs and events at the Boone Chamber ofCommerce, telling us about the activities planned for the 40th Anniversary of Pufferbilly Days this coming weekend. John Fitzsimmons told us about a variety of Civil War Reenactment that will be part of the festival.

Homie Simmonds and Corriann Westvold gave us a preview of the 2016-2017 season for Boone Community Theatre and Kivan Kirk told about Story Theatre Company’s children’s workshops starting September 17. Homie and Corriann discussed Boone Theatre Compamy's November production of Narnia: the Musical, comparing it with Kivan's description of Story Theatre Company's December production of The Lion. the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Both plays are based on the same book by by C. S. Lewis, so Narnia fans will have a busy time at the end of 2016.

Future Generations and the Struggle for Two Rivers

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 09/05/2016
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Carolyn Raffensberger, Ames lawyer and director of the Science Environment and Health Network, explains where the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) legal struggle is now:

  • There are two major pending lawsuits: Standing Rock against the Army Corps of Engineers for nationwide permitting of crossing of rivers; 15 Iowa landowners whose property was seized by eminent domain vs. the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB), which classified the private pipeline as a utility|
     
  • There are also two permits yet to be granted: the crossing of Oahe Lake, and a hydrostatic testing permit to essentially flush the pipeline from end to end once it is complete.

Trespassing With Intent

Originally broadcast 09/02/2016
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We speak with three earth and water protectors / pipeline protesters who were arrested Wednesday for blocking access to the Precision Pipeline yard in Boone, Iowa: Taylor Brorby, a native of North Dakota, is a writer living in Ames who has published an anthology of creative writing, Fracture, on the topic of fracking. Julia Slocum is the farmer at Lacewing Acres in Ames. Mary Sand is the leader of the local Amnesty International chapter. The goal was to slow construction of the Bakken crude oil pipeline, which has proceeded despite numerous lawsuits.

Taylor, Julia, and Mary reflect on how it was they decided to risk arrest, how they felt in the moment, how they were treated by law enforcement, and especially, how their actions connected with the 4000-strong encampment near Cannonball, North Dakota by American Indians in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux nation.

Susan Gwiasda of the City of Ames manager's office and Rudy Castor of the Public Works Department tell us about road closings (look out for the closing of 13th just east of the Furman Aquatic Center on September 6), incentives to get Ames High School students from the west side to park at Furman, and the 40th birthday of CyRide, coming up September 13.

Freak Week and Louisiana Flooding

Originally broadcast 08/31/2016
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Ames Musicians Larry "Red" Stoltenberg, Ron Carson, and Kent Johnson give the history of Freak Week, an Ames tradition of a counter culture alternative to Greek Week at ISU. There will be a Freak Week Revival at DG's Taphouse this Sunday evening and they tell us who will be performing.

KHOI reporter Whitney Wright gives an update on election polls of presidential candidates and discusses public opinion and candidates' stances on the issue of gun control and mass violence.

Richard and Carolyn Newkirk are residents of Ankeny who recently went with the Iowa Red Cross to Louisiana to be of help after the disastrous flooding there.

Robert Sherman is a local resident of Baton Rouge who gives us his take on the effect of the flood on his community. He also compares the events in Louisian to what happened during Hurricane Katrina. Sherman is producer and host of Down the Road at WHYR, a show that KHOI airs on Fridays at 2:00 PM.

Standing Rock Protectors, Drake Custom Bass, NAACP

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Latest update from Carolyn Raffensperger, attorney for the Standing Rock, the Dakota peoples and other Native Americans resisting access for the Bakken pipeline (also known as the Dakota Access pipeline) across their traditional homelands. Andrew Drake's business, Drake Custom Bass and Guitar, is building a nation-wide and even an international reputation. Hear how a hand-crafted Drake guitar is built, including choosing and treating the wood. Edna Clinton, President of the Ames branch of the NAACP talks about the Game Changers: ways to address that major areas of inequality facing African Americans. Allyson Walter of the Ames Convention & Visitors Bureau talks about the recreational opportunities coming up this Fall.

Disability Issues, Pipeline Resistance, and Tom & Doug

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 08/26/2016
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Victoria Szopinski and Anne Kinzel of the Ames Progressive Alliance led a discussion about accessibility in Ames for people with disabilities. Their guests were Jan Bauer, Andrea Keith, and Jennifer Ellis.

Reporter Pat Schlarbaum brought us an update from Carolyn Raffesperger and Joy Broun in North Dakota where protestors are attempting to block Bakken Pipeline construction across Indian lands and waters.

Lastly, Doug Gentile and Tom Florek, of the Tom and Doug Show, told us about their upcoming celebration on Sunday, September 4th at KHOI.

Local Town Celebrations

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 08/24/2016
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Kelly Wiech committee chair for Huxley Prairie Fest started the show by describing the unusual activities for this year's festival to be August 26-28. Then Lynn Scarlett, executive director of the Nevada Chamber of Commerce, told us about an event with a different history of emphasis - the 33rd Lincoln Highway Days to be celebrated in downtown Nevada this weekend. We ended the show by turning north to Little Wall Lake in Hamilton County, starting with a segment from Susan Franzen on the history of sailing in central Iowa, which actually started on Little Wall Lake almost 50 years ago. This included recollections from Bernie Gerstein, Fritz Franzen, and Ursula Ruedenberg. For an update on Little Wall Lake today, we heard from Brian Lammers, Director of the Hamilton County Conservation Board.

Women at ISU: Past and Present

Originally broadcast 08/22/2016
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The show started with sounds of the storm-tossed Foodies and Brew gathering in downtown Ames on Friday.

Ursula Reudenberg brought us an interview with Marilyn Gibbs Alger, co-owner of the Cranford Building in Campustown, who talked about that building’s connection to the history of women faculty at ISU.

Host, Gale Seiler, was joined by Lora-Leigh Chrystal, the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at ISU, who told about current efforts to address the persistent lack of women in many science fields.

Beginnings and Endings: Schools and the ERP

Originally broadcast 08/19/2016
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This program focuses on beginnings and endings: the beginning of the new school year; the ending of the old Roosevelt school as a school and its re-birth as historically-sensitive condos; and the hiring of a new director of the Emergency Residence Project in Ames.

Carrie Dunwalt, the new director of the Emergency Residence Project (ERP) , and Shari Reilly the chair of the board talk about the work that is ongoing and has already been accomplished in Ames to prevent and ameliorate homelessness. All are welcome to the party for Vic Moss, the retiring director of ERP, on August 28 at the Depot Deli, 2:00-4:00 PM.

Alex Fefjar, of the Ames Historical Society talks about the history of the Roosevelt, the much-loved building that once housed an elementary school and is now historically-sensitive condos. You can be at the debut showing of the documentary film The Roosevelt, from Classrooms to Condos if you attend the Annual Benefit Dinner of the Historical Society, on Saturday, August 27.

Three fourth and fifth graders from Sawyer Elementary School visit KHOI studios together with Kathy Hanson, Director of School, Community and Media Relations for the Ames Community School District. They give us a preview of the spoken-word performance they've composed and that they will be performing for the teachers and staff of their school on Monday, to welcome them back at the start of the school year. Together they give an uplifting message about the culture of mutual caring that is being established at their school.

Resource Recovery, Restoration

Originally broadcast 08/17/2016
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Monthly guest Merry Rankin of the ISU Office of Sustainability brings in Superintendent of Ames Resource Recovery Plant Bill Schmidt and Ames public relations officer Susan Gwiasda to share stories from the first-ever--and hugely successful--Rummage Rampage event over the July 29-31 weekend. This community-wide rummage sale was designed to divert furniture and other usable household items from the landfill during the rental move-out date.

Ursula Ruedenberg goes to the Iowa State Fair to check out the FFA's Agricultural Machinery Restoration Competition. Henry Corbin of Nevada describes the antique washing machine he refurbished (in pink!), and Nevada FFA members Eric Fevold, Chance Steffes, and FFA state secretary Chase Kusel, describe their projects as well.

This month's Community Service Appreciation segment by Kay Puttock features Devita Harden of the local Ames NAACP chapter. President Edna Clinton will be featured next week.

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