The Ames City Council gave city staff direction on 19 proposed changes to property maintenance enforcement following public input, which will be reflected in ordinances presented to the council during the June 27 meeting. Ames Fire Chief Rich Higgins said citations for property maintenance violations are not used often. “The goal is not citation,” Higgins.
Ward 1 Rep. and Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Betcher hosted the renaming ceremony for the terminal of the Ames Municipal Airport, now the James Herman Banning Airport Terminal. Before the new sign for the terminal was revealed Betcher spoke on how this renaming came to be. “He was a nationally recognized pioneer of flight, a.
The Ames City Council voted 5-0 to accept the Climate Action Plan (CAP), which is not a commitment to do everything in the plan, as the city prepares to bring implementation steps before the council. Ames City Manager Steve Schainker said the council had the desire for certain climate goals and they now have to.
Uranium Derby is a feature-length documentary about a young woman's look into an experiment gone wrong-the American nuclear experiment. This film depicts the manner in which toxic nuclear waste, generated and collected in a few specific places, was allowed to spread to numerous sites around a small Midwestern university town and subsequently the country. The story, centered in Ames, Iowa, begins with a curious native filmmaker (Brittany Prater) casually looking into her hometown's highly secretive involvement in the Manhattan Project during the 1940s. The historical role of Ames in the production of materials for the first atomic bomb is portrayed in archival footage featuring two important involved scientists of the time (Dr. Harley Wilhelm and Dr. Frank Spedding). In addition, interviews with present-day physicists (Marv Anderson and Al Bevolo), a historian (Gloria Betcher), and the elderly spouse of a laboratory worker (Elizabeth Smith) also help present the story. The mai