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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.

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.

Originally broadcast 08/15/2016
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Gale Seiler talks about "Learning Communities" at Iowa state - that help ISU students adjust to a large campus - with: Jennifer Leptien, Interim Director of Learning Communities at ISU; Carmen Flagge, Diversity Coordinator and Multicultural Liaison Officer for the College of Human Sciences, and Coordinator of the Connect Four Learning Community in the College of Human Sciences; and David Mena, a third year student in the College of Human Sciences and a Senior Peer Mentor in the Connect Four Learning Community.

Diane Corson, owner of Bicycle Repair Man with her husband Craig Corson, descries their mobile bike repair business. She goes on to explain how they take "damaged" bikes from Target and other businesses and restoring them to be donated to people who need bikes but can't afford them. You can donate used bikes to them by calling them at (515) 232-8232 or contact them through their web site.

John Hall, Director of Business Development for the Ames Economic Development Commission, describes "cranes over Ames:" the development boom in Ames, which is rapidly growing.