Ames Tribune
Iowa State professor Janette Thompson said she had a visceral reaction upon seeing a riverside forest destroyed along Ioway Creek. I drove over the bridge and I just thought I was gonna lose my breakfast, Thompson said. It was like a gut punch.
The city felled trees along the Ioway Creek, near the Duff Avenue bridge in Ames, this spring as part of a $4.9 million flood mitigation project 10 years in the making.
While the city plans to create wetlands in the area, Iowa State Natural Resource Ecology and Management professors Thompson, Timothy Stewart and Michael Rentz say the project removed established habitat incomparable to anything manmade.
Funding for cultural projects at KHOI comes from a generous donation from Ames Commission on the Arts.
LOCAL TALK 9 April 2021
Local Talk for Friday April 9 included a great summary of the news from the pages of the Ames Tribune by Dennis Hart. Merry Rankin, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Ames and Iowa State University invited Anne Owens, Volunteer Center for Story County to talk about Stash the Trash program this weekend at Jack Trice Stadium. Kayley Barrios Lain, Electric Services Coordinator, discussed community Earth Month Scavenger Hunt to empower the community to learn good things about our home. Municipal Engineer, Tracey Peterson appeared with Susan Gwiasda Public Relations Officer for the City of Ames to interpret the major flood plain renovation project along Ioway Creek and South Duff. The goal is to mitigate perilous floodwaters associated along South Fifth St. and allow Ioway Creek and cleaner convergence with South Duff bridge. The goal
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Funding for cultural projects at KHOI comes from a generous donation from Ames Commission on the Arts.
LOCAL TALK 23 February 2021 Meetz
Karen Kedrowski, Director of the
Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics (a political science professor at Iowa State University. Her research agenda focuses on women and politics and civic engagement.) U.S. Rep. Katie Porter – an Iowa native who represents California’s 45th Congressional District and has earned a reputation for her tough questioning and use of visual aids during congressional hearings – will give a virtual presentation on Feb. 26 as the Spring 2021 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics.
Burgie s builds stand-alone coffee shop in Somerset
Ames Tribune
The Burgason family has had an impact on the coffee consumption of Ames residents for nearly three decades, and in a few months Burgie’s Coffee & Tea Company will have an additional location when it opens its new coffee shop in the Somerset neighborhood.
Grading started this week on the lot at 3619 Stange Road, in the space east of the Fareway Store. Completion of the coffee shop is expected in the spring or summer.
Although the Burgasons have been in the coffee business in Ames since the 1990s, this is the first stand-alone location coffee shop without a gas station or a connection to another business.