Sheldon-Munn, WorkInAmes.com, Sigler Inc.

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 10/23/2015
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We highlight how community interests and business interests can be aligned. One way they can be aligned is in job creation. We have two segments that deal with that issue. We begin with Dan Culhane and Angie Doerenkamp from the Ames Chamber of Commerce who will talk about workinames.com, a job posting web site for our listening area. Then we have employees from Sigler companies and its President Beth Cross talking about work at Sigler. Another way that business and community interests can be aligned is urban development or redevelopment. We talk to John Lott, who operates an Architectural firm in Ames and is one of the owners of the Sheldon Munn Building on Main Street, about a grant he recently received to update an important historical building that has fallen on hard times. I am excited about sharing some of this information with you.

Watersheds, Ragtime, and The Colt Walkers

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 10/21/2015
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Hanna Bates, Prairie Rivers Resource Conservation and Development Watershed Coordinator and Amy Yoakum, resource manager for the Story County Conservation Board Notify us about a series of workshops on water quality in Story County called Nutrients in November.

Scott Kirby, composer, pianist and visual artist,will be headlining this year’s revival of Ragtime in Randall . He describes the multi-media concerts he will perform on Saturday, October 24th at Elim Church in Randall at 2:00 and 7:30 PM which include his landscape paintings of the plains and photos of Midwest town life.

Fred Love describes " Halloween Honky Tonk " at DG's Taphouse on Saturday evening, October 24. It is a costume party. His Roots Rock band, The Colt Walkers , will be one of three bands performing. The band tells stories of ordinary lives. Fred performs one song to demonstrate.

Resource Recovery, Black Farmers, and Co’Motion

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 10/19/2015
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Lorrie Hanson, of the Ames Resource Recovery Plant, told us all we need to know about resource recovery (a.k.a. recycling and garbage). Co-hosts Gale Seiler and Greta Anderson interviewed Cornelius Blanding, Director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, the organization that won the 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize. Valerie Williams stopped by to tell us about Co’Motion Dance Theater’s upcoming performance in which they will use interactive technology.

Food

Originally broadcast 10/16/2015
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Todays's show focuses on Food topics and events in Ames. We begin the show talking with Sang Kang, a Ph.D. student at ISU who is teaching the Fine Dining Event Management Course at ISU, and Shane Brewer, a Senior ISU student who is taking this course. We will be learning about the Fine Dining Dinners that ISU students will be presenting to the public over the next month. I am then giving a news update on the Fall mushroom season (see the picture of Chicken in the Woods). Marg Junken will be joining us. She is the owner of the Cook’s Emporium in downtown Ames and she will be talking about her business. Finally, We have Merry Rankin back for her monthly report on Sustainability. Today she is wearing her hat as the City of Ames sustainability coordinator and talking about the City of Ames Smart Business Challenge. Joining her segment are Ebby Brown and Drew Loiacono who are seniors at ISU and helping her as interns with Smart Business Challenge. Yes, even this topic has a food element. So Stay tuned and learn more about Food in Ames. Bon appetite!

Indian Summer Surprise and Lost Schools

Listen Here Now Originally broadcast 10/14/2015
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Local Talk hosts Susan Franzen and Sam Womley visited the Iowa Country Schools Conference at the Iowa Arboreum. There we heard from Cecile Unruh, Wesley Peters, Hal Tuttle, Colleen Lemkuil about Iowa Schools and took a surprise visit with Nerida Ellerton about the huge one room school moved to TooWoomba, Australia with an invitation to come and see it.

We then heard a description of the "Lost Schools" project at the Des Moines Register from Jason Clayworth, the Des Moines Register Reporter who published many of the newspaper articles on the subject. In addition to announcing the theater oremiere of the documenary "Lost Schools" at the Varsity in Des Moines on October 18 and its showing on Iowa Public Television on October 22, Jason described the Register's interactive website where pictures and information about abandonand or demolished schools may contributed and viewed. Hollis Monroe carried forth the spirit of the season reading the poem "Indian Summer." and Ursula Ruedenberg interviewed Asa Wentzel-Fisher and Tibi Chelche, printmakers involved with the Post Print Festival in Perry on October 19.

Used Books and Planned Parenthood

Originally broadcast 10/12/2015
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Imagine inheriting a million books. Or buying them for a mere buck at one of central Iowa's two major used book sales this past weekend, continuing into today at deep discount.  Ames Public Library Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Bohlke talks about the quirks of the Friends Foundation book sale, and how the sale supports both the mission and bottom line of the library. The 55th annual Planned Parenthood of the Heartland book sale is pretext for a conversation with that organization's CEO, Suzanna de Baca, about the intense scrutiny it has received in past months. Suzanna describes Planned Parenthood's pregnancy counseling process, and shares how the fraudulent "sting" operation conducted against Planned Parenthood has only galvanized support for its work. Finally, we speak with Leanne Harter of Story County about Iowa DOT's plans to re-engineer traffic on Highway 30 between Ames and Nevada, and other topics of county governance.

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