KHOI

Originally broadcast 05/01/2019
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Our May Day program was bursting with creativity.  Our first guest was Dallas Center Grimes 6th grade author Miara Steir, who published her first book when she was eight and has it as her goal to reach 101 classrooms throughout central Iowa telling students how they can also publish their own books.  Then Iowa poet laureate Mary Swander introduced us to her plays dealing with the lives of farmers as well her AGARTS project.  We were joined by Mark Gannon, who is starting a new foundation to set up events where farmers can tell the stories of life on their farms, have them recorded, and make them available online.  We played a couple of these stories from people who farmed on century farms -- Gordon Bivens and Gina McAndrews, (Gina also co-hosted as KHOI's new Farm Reporter.) 

Originally broadcast 04/26/2019
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Dennis Hart gives a summary of last week''s local news from the pages of the Ames Tribune.

Galady McCollum, writer, human rights worker, and psychologist, is writing a curriculum for online training for cosmologists to prepare them for when their clients reveal that they have been assaulted or suffering abuse. The state of Illinois requires this training. She explains how she came to this work, what is important to know, and why this is being required.

Ames Progressive Alliance interviews Lucal Bleyle, local high school student who is a climate activist and leads a climate crisis club at Ames High School. 

Originally broadcast 04/24/2019
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Our guests today told us stories of how KHOI has connected them to people around the world.  Chris McClure told us about  listening to KHOI on the internet when he was stationed in Kuwait for a year and a half (his wife Cynthia, is a KHOI producer and engineered today's program).  Mary Howard, (producer of  Community Bookshelf  ) told about how her sister listened to her reading her own novel on KHOI while the sister was in Ukraine for six months.  Lonna Nachtigal and Donna Prizgintas (producers of DonnaLonna Kitchen Show) told about how guests from around the world shared the food traditions with their listeners.  Then reporter Gale Seiler described how the issue of the firing of the state director of 4H inspired a podcast on LGBTQ issues in the organization. We ended the show with Don Kom giving us a preview of Ankeny Community Theatre's upcoming production of Proof.