KHOI

Originally broadcast 11/16/2018
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Dennis Hart gives a summary of the past week's local news, from the pages of the Ames Tribune.

As part of the KHOI membership drive time, local talk hosts Ursula Ruedenberg, Pat Schlarbaum, and Maggie Wesvolt share their own personal perspectives on why community radio and KHOI are precious, and why listeners should donate to KHOI. 

KHOI invites people to come off the street to do broadcasting and a blooper reel" is heard here, of Local Talk's hosts learning to talk on the radio.  

Originally broadcast 11/12/2018
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The show started with weekly Iowa news from Dennis Hart. Then we remembered Veterans Day with a conversation about PTSD and other challenges that veterans face. Ursula Reudenberg spoke with Barnet Devine, a counseling psychologist who works with veterans; Keith Putney, a lawyer and farm owner in Boone who is also a veteran of the Viet Nam War; and Tyler Paterson, the suicide prevention officer with the Veterans Administration in Iowa. The photo is of the Veterans Day Parade in Ames in 1949.

Pat Schlarbaum provided an update on climate action from Carolyn Raffesberger. Keith Morgan, from Story County Emergency Management, spoke about safety during the winter season, both in your car and at home. And of course, it is KHOI’s Fall membership drive, so we asked you to become a member!  

Originally broadcast 11/07/2018
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After a brief announcement of election returns, we hear Ursula Ruedenberg's interview with the last three voters in Story County, who voted at Buchanan Hall shortly before midnight.  These first time women voters  stood in line for over two hours hours after the polls closed at 9 p.m., and  gave inspiring statements about what it meant to them.  Then Suzanne Zilber, a clinical psychologist who has been serving Iowans for 28 years,came to the studio to tell us about a workshop that will take place this Saturday, November 10, “Post Kavanaugh: Women Sharing Support.”  Returning to politics, we heard from Patti Naylor, Democratic Candidate for Greene County Supervisor, who ran to publicize issues that go far beyond Greene County -- siting of CAFOs and wind turbines.  Finally Maggie Westvold's Points to Ponder was a brief history of migrant farm labor with a personal fond memory of "Boomer," the itinerant laborer who came to her family's farm near Colo to help with the harvest each year when she was a child.