Outdoor Alliance of Story County and Worldly Goods
Originally broadcast 03/16/2015
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Greg Vitale and Diane Birt, are board members of the newly formed nongovernmental organization, the Outdoor Alliance of Story County, for funding for developing and sustaining conservation in Story County. They will host their launch event at the Conservation Center at McFarland Park on March 26 at 7:00 PM. There will be a keynote speech by Jim Pease on “Partnerships in Conservation.”
Andrea Gronau, Worldly Goods manager, a local fair trade store in Ames, explains the history, mission, and work of the Fair Trade movement. Worldly Goods is this month’s KHOI Community Service Appreciation featured organization.
In the continuing coverage of a now dead bill in the Iowa legislature that would have raised the compulsory school age to 18, six youths from the AMP (Achieving Maximum Potential) at Youth and Shelter Services tell their stories about school, their struggles and their opinions about staying in school and getting a diploma.
Co-hosts Gale Seiler and Greta Anderson recap Wednesday's lecture by Dr. Vandana Shiva, entitled "The Future of Food" and explore the issues raised with guests Angie Carter, organizer for the Sustainable Agriculture Students Association, Dr. Clark Wolf, director of Bioethics and member of the Philosophy and Religious Studies department at ISU, and Dr. Michael Owen, researcher in the ISU Department of Agronomy. We start the show with a piece by KHOI intern, Jazmin Murguia, highlighting the achievement of ISU students Dequan Burnside and Mac Liu, in the Canvass My Campus competition.
Today's program is a preview of The Harmaleighs' concert which will be live at the Pantorium on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00 PM. Haley Grant and Kaylee Jaspserson, the duo that makes up the Harmaleighs,came into the studio live this morning to perform a few songs they have written and to tell us about their road trip across the country and how they came to Ames.
International Women's Day, March 8, has been traditionally been celebrated in Ames with a gathering for more than 10 years. This year the event, "International Women's Day: Make It Happen," was held at the Public Librabry and was sponsored by India Cultural Association, the Iowa Resource for International Service, Friends of International Women, YWCA ISU-Ames, the Assault Care Center Extending Shelter & Support (ACCESS), Wheatsfield Co-op, Worldly Goods and Ames Public Library. Organizers from these groups joined us to describe the results of discussion groups held at the event, including Kim Hope, Andrea Gronau, Andrea Mallarino, Juri Bhattacharyya.
Co-hosts Greta Anderson and Gale Seiler explore the Des Moines Water Works lawsuit against Sac, Calhoun and Buena Vista county supervisors in their role as trustees of drainage districts in the watersheds of the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers, the source of the utility's water. We talk to Story County drainage clerk and mapping technician Scott Wall, who explains "drainage districts," a key concept in the lawsuit (we have 119 of them in the county!). Then we speak with John Torbert, executive director of the Iowa Drainage District Association, who consults with legislators in Des Moines on behalf of county supervisors. After a lively interview with Des Moines Water Works CEO and General Manager Bill Stowe, who is a driving force in the lawsuit, we speak with Neil Hamilton, the Dwight D. Opperman Chair of Law and Director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University, who provides analysis of the lawsuit and its implications.
This show was inspired by Iowa's Century Farms, the Iowa Public Television documentary, which Local Talk host Paul Wierson narrated. To represent century farmers we spoke with Ben Wise, who told us how his father, and farming partner, grows organic row crops to keep the soil productive and serve a niche market. Then Marsha Miller told us her memories of growing up on her grandparents' century farm (pictured at left, she holds the original 1848 deed for 160 acres to prove it) and to tell how farmers on that land have kept it productive enough to make a living through succeeding decades. Then we had a lively discussion of the role of folk music in the social life of farmers over that past hundred and fifty years by Marty Miller who is making arrangements for the Harmaleigs' concert on March 11 at the Pantorium, and by Lance Sumpter, who was there to tell us about the music he will feature on his Friday 10:00 PM to 12:00 midnight DJ show, The Blue-collar Philosopher. Only on KHOI.