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EDYTH G. SIMONSEN, 80, of Audubon (Svcs. 6/17/15)

Obituaries

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

EDYTH G. SIMONSEN, 80, of Audubon, died Sun., June 14th, at Mercy Hospital Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for EDYTH SIMONSEN will be held 2-p.m. Wed., June 17th, at the Audubon Church of Christ. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present from 6-until 8-pm Tue. (6/16).

Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Audubon.

EDYTH SIMONSEN is survived by:

Her sons – Norman (Melinda) Simonsen, of Carroll; David (Cindy) Simonsen, of Audubon.

Her daughters – Linda Holland, of Audubon, & Gwena (Joe) Nash, of Urbandale.

Her brother – Charles (Polly) Williams, of Elkins, AR.

Her sister – Wilam (Leland) Watkins, of Huntsville, AR.

9 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren, other relatives & friends.

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Red Oak man arrested on warrant

News

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A Red Oak man was taken into custody Monday evening on a warrant for Probation Violation. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 27-year old Jacob Tanner Franzen was arrested in the 100 block of W. Coolbaugh Street, at around 6:40-p.m.  Franzen was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.

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Court upholds limits on overnight protests at Iowa Capitol

News

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a free speech ruling, an appeals court has upheld restrictions on the public’s ability to protest overnight on the Iowa Capitol grounds. Attorney Sally Frank said Monday the decision was a blow for free speech and assembly, pledging an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Frank represents Basil Hill, one of two dozen Occupy Iowa protesters arrested for trespassing in 2011 for staying on the Capitol grounds after an 11 p.m. closing time. To hold protests overnight, groups need advanced permission from the Department of Administrative Services.

Frank argued protesters’ free speech rights should trump the restrictions. She noted that protesters cannot get permits during the weekend, which doesn’t allow for spontaneous gatherings. The Iowa Court of Appeals last week upheld the limits, saying they were reasonable and content-neutral.

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Flood Warnings for the East & West Nish in Fremont County

Weather

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
251 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 2015

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a Flood Warning for
The West Nishnabotna River Near Riverton from Monday afternoon to late tonight…or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 2:15 AM Tuesday the stage was 24.2 feet…or 2.7 feet above flood stage.
* Flood stage is 21.5 feet.
* Minor flooding is forecast to continue.
* Forecast…the river will continue falling to below flood stage
late this afternoon.
* Impact…at 24.0 feet…The river is at bankfull and floodwaters
will begin to spread throughout the floodplain.

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a Flood Warning for
The East Nishnabotna River At Riverton.
* until Wednesday afternoon…or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 1:45 AM Tuesday the stage was 23.7 feet…or 0.2 feet above flood stage.
* Flood stage is 23.5 feet.
* Minor flooding is forecast to continue.
* Forecast…the river will slowly rise to near 24 feet at early
afternoon…then fall below flood stage this evening.
* Impact…at 23.5 feet…Lowland flooding begins.

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Flood Warning continues until 7-a.m. for E. Nish at Red Oak

Weather

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

…The Flood Warning continues for the following river…

East Nishnabotna River At Red Oak affecting Montgomery County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

Do not drive cars through areas where water covers the road. The
water depth may be too great to allow your vehicle to pass safely.
Turn around…don`t drown!

* At 10:30 PM Monday the stage was 20.1 feet…or 2.1 feet above flood stage.
* Flood stage is 18.0 feet.
* Minor flooding is occurring and Minor flooding is forecast.
* Forecast…The river will continue rising to near 20.3 feet before falling below flood stage early this afternoon.
* Impact…at 20.0 feet…Lowland flooding begins along the west bank.

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KJAN listening area weather forecast from the NWS: 6/16/15

Weather

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Early This Morning: Mostly clear. Patchy fog. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Today: Sunny. Patchy fog through mid morning. High around 80. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Low in the mid 60s. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the late morning and afternoon. High in the lower 80s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Low in the mid 60s. Southwest wind near 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. High in the lower 80s. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Low in the mid 60s.

Friday: Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. High in the lower 80s.

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Tuition hike to hit IWCC students this falll

News

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Iowa Western Community College will raise its tuition by $11 a credit hour starting with the upcoming fall semester. According to the Daily NonPareil, members of the Board of Trustees reluctantly approved the hike Monday at a meeting held at the Page/Fremont County Center. President Dan Kinney said it represented the largest tuition increase of the state’s community college system for the upcoming fiscal year, despite doing as much as possible to eliminate spending.

Iowa Western faced what board member Brent Siegrist described as the “perfect bad storm” when putting together its budget for next year. Factors contributing to the increase, according to Kinney, include, the 1.25-percent increase in State Aid from the Legislature, which was less than what Gov. Branstad recommended, and uncertainty over the number of students enrolling this fall.

The preliminary budget also estimated a 3 percent decline in enrollment and corresponding reduction in tuition collected. But Kinney said a more “reasonable and sensible” figure would be a 5 percent decline, and college officials won’t know the real situation for a few months. In addition, health insurance costs were anticipated to be “much lower” than the actual 10.3 percent increase faced by the college. Kinney said additional reductions – mostly by trimming positions – are still underway to reach the goal of only raising tuition by $11 a credit hour.

Tuition is currently set at $138 for Iowa residents and $143 for nonresidents. The hike represents about an 8 percent increase in non-fee costs to attend classes at Iowa Western.

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Unknown when bird flu facilities can re-open

Ag/Outdoor, News

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported just one new case of bird flu last week, and says all the infected birds at the turkey facilities have been destroyed, and all but one of the chicken facilities have had their birds euthanized. Deputy Ag Secretary Mike Naig, told Radio Iowa recently that it will not be a quick process to put birds back at those sites. “It’ll vary from site-to-site. Depending on the facility, you could be looking at several months before some of these sites can have re-population, some may be sooner than that,” Naig says. “But it really is on a case-by-case basis, whether you are talking about a turkey site that is composting, whether you are talking about a large layer facility that has cages that need to be cleaned.”

There are 76 infected sites in 18 counties, and the long it takes to get them back up and running, the more money they stand to lose. But Naig says there’s not a quick answer on a when the sites can be back in business. “That is unfortunately a big question mark for a lot of folks out there. How long will they be out of operation and how quickly can they get back in operation again,” he says. Naig says cleaning up the facilities takes more than a bucket of soapy water.

“It can be quite complex — there’s a process that has to be gone through — dry cleaning and actually cleaning out and sweeping the cages out. And then a couple of other options that could be available, some spraying and disinfection and fumigation, those types of things,” according to Naig. There are more than 31-and-a-half million birds that had to be destroyed after becoming infected. The U-S-D-A has more than 21-hundred staff and contractors working on the avian influenza situation here. More than 300 state employees have also participated in the disaster response at some point.

(Radio Iowa)

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Lackey, Molina pace Cardinals’ 3-2 win over Twins

Sports

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yadier Molina homered and John Lackey worked eight strong innings for the St. Louis Cardinals, who won their fourth in a row with a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night. Mark Reynolds connected three pitches ahead of Molina in the fourth, giving the Cardinals back-to-back homers.

Randal Grichuk tripled, singled and scored for St. Louis, which is 42-21 overall and 25-7 at home — both major league bests. The Cardinals have won 15 of 20. Twins rookie Byron Buxton tripled for his first career hit with one out in the eighth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Brian Dozier that cut the gap to a run. Buxton also slammed into the wall, but didn’t stay down long, after just missing a running catch on Grichuk’s triple leading off the third.

 

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CWS: Vandy and VA advance

Sports

June 16th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The defending NCAA baseball champs have opened their College World Series schedule with a victory. Freshman Jeren Kendall’s two-run homer off Tyler Peitzmeier in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Vanderbilt a 4-3, come-from-behind victory over Cal State Fullerton. The Commodores were down 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning when heavy thunderstorms Sunday night forced the suspension of the game.

Virginia is 2-0 after Brandon Waddell limited Florida to a pair of hits in seven innings of a 1-0 verdict over the Gators. Robbie Coman supplied the game’s lone run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.

Arkansas was eliminated from the series when Jacob Heyward singled in the bottom of the ninth to give Miami a 4-3 win over the Razorbacks. Heyward opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the fifth, scored the go-ahead run in the seventh and delivered the walk-off hit after Willie Abreu doubled off the center-field wall.

 

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