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Originally broadcast 09/21/2018
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Dennis Hart gives a summary of local news from the pages of the Ames Tribune. 

On Wednesday, on Central Campus, a vigil and commemoration was held  for the slain  Celia Barquín Arozamena.  On Local Talk, we hear some of the testimonials given by fellow ISU students, athletes, friends, and faculty, as well as Carlos, her boyfriend.

KHOI is proud to serve as a featured Maximum Ames Music Festival venue to host free all ages concerts at 7 pm on Friday the 28th, 7 pm Saturday the 29th, and 1 pm Sunday the 30th with noteworthy performances by Will Pett and KHOI producer Tom Russell (Friday), Iowa City singer-songwriter Charlie Cacciatore's solo-project-turned-band Good Morning Midnight (Saturday), and the constantly evolving lineup of Rence Liam's group Dear Rabbit (Sunday). 

In a "Wild Ones" segment, Local Talk hosts discuss their own encounters with wild animals and encourage you to send in your own encounters to khoiradio@gmail.comso we can share them on the air. 

Alex Fejfar from the Ames History Center invites you to view their Cathedrals of the Plains exhibit about grain elevators and Hometown Teams, about local Athletics. 

And finally we give Mr. Hart a send off as he heads for his California winter home. He will resume providing news for Local Talk in two weeks, when he gets settled there.  

Originally broadcast 09/17/2018
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Maggie Westvold brought us four young poets whose works were recently published in the Iowa Poetry Association’s Annual Anthology.

Host, Gale Seiler, interviewed Dr. Shanise Walker, who completed her doctorate in Spring 2018, and is the first African American student to obtain a PhD in Mathematics from ISU.

Cindy Hicks, the Director of Main Street Cultural District, came by to tell us about a traveling exhibit called Smithsonian’s Hometown Teams, which is coming to Ames.  

Originally broadcast 09/12/2018
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After Dennis Hart's news roundup from surrounding local newspapers we heard from Matthew Covington telling us about next week's presentation by Kevin Simowitz, Political Director for Caring Across the Generations.  We hosted a discussion of solar power between Don Kom, Director of Ames Electric Utilities, about the Ames Sun Smart Solar program and Tim Dwight, from the California based solar start-up Integrated Power Corporation, bringing us an outside perspective about the potential of solar energy in Iowa. Then Jay Wilson from the Story City Greater Chamber Connection told us about the recent improvements to the Story City Antique Carousel. The show ended with Maggie Westvold's "Points to Ponder," a touching but light-hearted reflection on funerals.