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Originally broadcast 04/06/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Dr. Molly Lee, Associate Director of the Center for Food Security & Public Health at the Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine provided the latest updates on SARSCoV-2(Covid-19) and information on vaccine availability and distribution

Dr. William (Billy) Beck, Iowa State University Assistant Professor, and Extension Forestry Specialist provided information on a study to determine how the beaver’s (Castor canadensis)  activity affect the quality of water and what role it might in nutrient reduction in our water sheds.

Susan Qwiasda, City of Ames Public Relations Officer with Keith Abraham, Director of Parks and Recreation review new and current projects including; splash pad, downtown plaza park, Emma McCarthy Lee Bridge, official opening ceremony for the Miracle Park and other future plans.

Anna Magnussen,  KHOI’s Top “Good News Banana” brightens our day offering Poems, Music, and a review of Tuesday programs; All Things Piano, Donna-Lonna Kitchen, Science Bytes, and Heart2Heart along with a sneak peek of Thursday’s, You Name It.

Originally broadcast 04/05/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

Dennis Hart gives a summary of Iowa news from the past week.

Dennis Hart sits down with Jenny Risner, Superintendent of Ames Community School District for a at the end of a school year dominated by the pandemic to give a report on what happened, where Ames schools are now, changes in the future, building progress of the new Ames High School, and recent criticisms from the Iowa legislature of the Ames School District for their "Black Lives Matter Week" to "affirm diverse identities in the classroom."

KHOI Naturalist tells us about the bumble bees, who are now back with Spring.

Originally broadcast 03/31/2021  Listen to the entire episode now!

We focused on two outstanding Native American Women -- Mary YoungBear, Meskwaki, who was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.  Maria Pearson, Yankton Sioux, who is known as "The Founding Mother of the modern Indian repatriation movement," and NAGPRA. Both spent their childhood outside Iowa, but were strongly influenced by their Native grandmothers.

We have an interview with Mary Young Bear about the remarkable history of the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County, where she is Art Conservator and Curator at the MeskwakiCultural Center and Museum.  Students from Wartburg College (Silvia Oakland, Dominic Hanson, Courney Stucker, Nathan Stephany, Lauren Wisdom, Anshika Singh ) are preparing a video documentary about Maria Pearson and had a lot to tell us about their research and how they are adapting journalism to video production.