Originally broadcast 08/21/2015
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Today's local talk show is about commonwealth issues. We listen to Clark Wolf and Peter Orazem, professors at ISU, discuss the topic of commonwealth and tensions between individual and collective rights. We then hear for Merry Rankin talking about the City of Ames Sustainability efforts in improving our local commonwealth. Today we talked about ways to reduce the waste stream.
Originally broadcast 08/19/2015
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KHOI environmental reporter Pat Schlarbaum calls in from Decorah to describe the current effort to build a platform for the Decorah Eagles, to replace their nest, which fell recently due to weight and wind. Theirs is the home of the famous Decorah Eagle Cam that allows people throughout the world to see the eagles raise their young up close.
Konrad Kramer, Executive Director of Whiterock Conservancy, describes this extraordinarily beautiful 5,000 acre land trust in Coon Rapids, Iowa. The Conservancy is a working farm but also available to the public for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, water travel and also accessible via all-terrain vehicle. Cabins and camping are available. The Conservancy is extraordinary for recreation and education about land stewardship where one can experience native Iowa oak Savannahs, sand prairies and wetland seeps. A new trail system has just been finished and the public is invited.
Dean and Judy Henry from the Berry Patch Farm explain why they built a farm where people can pick their own fruit to enjoy the flavor and vigor of ripe-picked fruit and where children can learn about how fruit is grown. The farm is available to the public for all-you-can-pick for a set fee. It is located near Nevada.
Originally broadcast 08/17/2015
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Today’s show, hosted by Gale Seiler, featured the first of a series of reports on service workers, prepared by Ron Latson. Cynthia McClure brought us a first hand report from sheep barn and the food building at the Iowa State Fair. And we heard from Dr. Cathann Kress, the Vice President for Extension and Outreach at Iowa State University, who told about the many ways that ISU is involved at the State Fair. We also shared a list of upcoming presidential candidate appearances.
Originally broadcast 08/14/2015
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This was the KHOI Birthday Show! Co-hosts Jim Werbel and Tom Beell brought us the story of KHOI’s birth, from applying for the FCC broadcasting license, through making deals to get a better broadcast pattern, all the way up to building the tower and the studio, and getting the first shows on the air. Ursula Reudenberg, Joe Lynch, and Kay Puttock shared stories of the early work that brought KHOI to life. Others shared their memories as well, including Cynthia McClure and Ron Latson who were members of the “flash drive crew”, Roger Parmenter, Paul Nelson, and Susan Franzen. Bob Anders told about the KHOI Birthday Bash that he is planning for Sunday, August 23.
Originally broadcast 08/12/2015
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Today's show focuses on our neighbors the Meskwaki Nation, and on Native American cropping systems featuring their centerpiece crop, maize. KHOI intern Varad Diwati together with correspondent Pat Schlarbaum ask Jonathan Buffalo, historian of the Meskwaki Nation, about summertime on the Settlement, past and present. Then, co-host Greta Anderson speaks with Jane Mt. Pleasant, a Tuscarora Indian and soil scientist at Cornell University, who is considered an expert on native cropping systems, particularly the "Three Sisters" of corn, beans and squash, which the Iroquois grew together, in a polyculture, rather than in separate fields or plots. Her agronomic research has shown that the Iroquois farmers were probably eating better than their European counterparts well into the colonial period. Then, Greta visits Steven and Ethy Cannon's garden on 13th and Ridgewood in Ames (pictured above), where they experiment with "Three Sisters"-type intercropping and other plants used by indigenous peoples for food. Song, "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow," by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings from the CD, Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's 'Bitter Tears' Revisited.
Originally broadcast 08/07/2014
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We had a diverse show today. Susan Gwiasda, City of Ames Public Relations Officer gave us an extensive rundown on happenings in Ames and cultural war correspondents Bryon Dudley and Ron Carson take us behind the scenes of bands Doctor Murdock and Stewart Esses. Garrett Adams of Stewart Esses also talked about the upcoming RE:Birth event.
Bryon Dudley and Ron Carson showed us some of the inner workings of two Ames bands: Doctor Murdock and Stewart Esses. From the dank basement jam room at the Drum House that Doctor Murdock inhabits, to the tiny guest-filled apartment that is home base for Stewart Esses, these two shameless intruders give you a glimpse of what is behind the creation of thes band's music.
Susan Gwiasda told us about new ADA-compliant traffic signals at the intersection of 13th Street and Stange Road and the program to update other key intersections to make pedestrian crossings safer. She gave an update on the demoliton of the North Dakota water tower which was decommissioned ten years ago. She also used yesterday's fire in Ames as a reminder to use smoke alarms.
