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Girls Golf:
Atlantic 180, Lewis Central 196 (Medalist: Erin Olsen, Atlantic 40: Runner-up: Brooke Newell, Atlantic – 42)
Boyer Valley 221, Exira/EHK 253, Glidden-Ralston 296 (Medalist: Jessica Wood, E/EHK 51)
IKM-Manning 240, Missouri Valley No Team Score (Medalist: Sierra Ford, MV 48)
Boys Golf:
Denison 152, Atlantic 162 (Medalist: Parker Eller, Denison 38; Runner-up: Ben Renaud, Atlantic 38)
Clarinda 154, Griswold 168 (Medalist: Benton Bielfeldt, Clarinda 35)
Boyer Valley 180, Exira/EHK 187, Gliden-Ralston 190 (Medalist: Kyle Behrendt, BV 42)
IKM-Manning 173, Missouri Valley 183 (Medalist: Zach Dreier, IKM-M 38)
Girls Tennis:
Kuemper Catholic 8, Atlantic 1
Denison 7, Bishop Heelen Catholic 2
Shenandoah 8, Abraham Lincoln 1
Red Oak 9, Southwest Valley 0
Glenwood 9, Sioux City West 0
Harlan 9, Audubon 0
Boys Tennis:
Atlantic 5, Kuemper Catholic 4
Harlan 6, Audubon 3
Abraham Lincoln 9, Shenandoah 0
Red Oak 8, Southwest Valley 1
Thomas Jefferson 5, St. Albert 4
Girls Soccer:
Glenwood 10, Harlan 0
Denison 1, Creston 0
Boys Soccer:
Creston 2, Denison 1
Shenandoah Fillies Golf Invitational
Medalist: Sabrina Hernandez, Southwest Iowa 89; Runner-up: Madison Hance, Creston 90
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U-S Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he cannot comment on the lawsuit alleging boards of supervisors in three northwest Iowa counties failure to manage ag drainage districts has contaminated central Iowa’s drinking water supply. “But it is appropriate for me to talk about conservation and the role of USDA in all of this and I think what might surprise…many Iowans is how much conservation is actually taking place today in Iowa,” Vilsack says.
Since January of 2011, the U-S-D-A has awarded over two-point-two BILLION dollars to Iowa farmers to help finance conservation projects to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus run-off into rivers and streams. “The reality is that this is a very complicated situation,” Vilsack says. “It’s going to take time, but I am absolutely convinced that people are committed to better soil health and better water quality.”
Vilsack suggests the federal government is doing its part to stimulate conservation measures on Iowa farmland, but the state government could and should be “more aggressive” in its support of water quality initiatives. Vilsack sugests something similar to the “Vision Iowa” program he iniatated 15 years ago when he was governor .
“Let me just make a suggestion to our friends in the legislature and the governor: we did a great thing with Vision Iowa. We took gaming revenues and we put them on the table and we said to communities across the state: ‘What would you do if you had this money available to spur economic opportunity, tourism attractions, whatever?’ And people responded and we saw the landscape of this state change,” Vilsack says.
“I think it’s time that we do that with water. There’s no reason why we can’t do something similar and then that could leverage significantly greater sums from the federal government.”
Vilsack points to the Republican governor of Michigan, who has committed 45 million dollars in state money for a single water conservation project. Vilsack made his comments during taping of the “Iowa Press” program that airs tonight (Friday) on Iowa Public Television.
(Radio Iowa)
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Google Inc. wants to expand its Council Bluffs data center spending an additional $1 billion and doubling the size of its staff to 70. The California company is asking the state for an additional $19.8 million in tax refunds bringing its total tax incentives to more than $36 million. The company received nearly $17 million in tax incentives to build the first phase of its data center in exchange for a promise to employ 35 people. Google’s total investment in Iowa will come to around $2 billion.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority is to consider the project expansion, today (Friday). Microsoft is spending about $2 billion to build two data centers in West Des Moines and Facebook has invested about $1 billion in two Altoona data centers.
Atlantic Fire and Rescue personnel, along with crews from Audubon, Exira and Harlan responded to an incident at a grain bin northeast of Audubon Thursday afternoon. According to officials, the accident happened just before 1-p.m. There’s very little in the line of information available early this (Friday) morning, but on the Harlan Fire Department’s Facebook page, officials said “Unfortunately the outcome wasn’t as good as we had hoped.”
Atlantic, Exira and Harlan crews provided mutual aid to the Audubon Fire Department in handling the incident, with Atlantic providing its aerial truck. We hope to have more information later this morning, on KJAN and on the web at kjan.com.
Deputies in Montgomery County, Thursday, arrested 36-year old Kale Allen Wenberg, of Red Oak. Wenberg was taken into custody at around 4:45-p.m. in the 400 block of West Washington Street, on a warrant for Probation Violation. Wenberg was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
And, the Red Oak Police Department reports 25-year old Jessica Faye Davis, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 3:30-a.m. today (Friday). Davis was taken into custody near the intersection of N. 1st and E. Hammond Streets. She was brought to the Montgomery County Jail where Davis was being held on $1,000 bond on an OWI charge.
(Updated 3:52-a.m. CDT FRI APR 17 2015)
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.
TODAY...PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
SATURDAY…SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
SATURDAY NIGHT…THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
SUNDAY…SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. COLDER. LOW IN THE UPPER 30S.
MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
(Audubon, Iowa/ KJAN) – A man from Central Iowa is dead and two other men were injured during a collision Thursday evening, about two-miles north of Audubon. The Iowa State Patrol says the driver of a 2013 Chevy pickup, 42-year old Kurt Robert Sulzman, of Polk City, who was wearing his seat belt, died in the crash that happened just after 7-p.m. on Highway 71 at the intersection with 170th Street.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Google is asking for an additional $19.8 million in tax refunds from the state to double the size of its Council Bluffs data center staff to 70, a $1 billion investment for the California company. The Iowa Economic Development Authority is to consider the project expansion Friday. Microsoft is building two data centers in West Des Moines and Facebook has invested in two data centers in Altoona.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinary officer says the poultry industry may have to live with a deadly bird flu strain for several years, which could be devastating. Iowa’s first case of the H5N2 strain of avian influenza showed up earlier this week. Dr. John Clifford says that new cases should drop close to zero once the weather warms up but there is likely to be a resurgence this fall.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Des Moines has appealed an Iowa Department of Transportation order to remove its automated speed camera on Interstate 235. A DOT report said Des Moines’ camera location had a low crash rate before the cameras went up, contrary to rules dictating that cameras target “high-crash or high-risk locations.” But the appeal claims the site has the highest level of traffic flow in the state and complies with DOT regulations.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gannett Co. has hired an Iowa native as president and publisher of The Des Moines Register. Thirty-nine-year-old David Chivers replaces Rick Green, who is now president and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Chivers most recently worked as chief digital officer at Jostens, which sells yearbooks and class rings.
The Iowa Public Information Board has dismissed a complaint made by Jeff Lundquist, the publisher of the Atlantic News Telegraph, against the Atlantic Community School District, which was subsequently withdrawn. The Daily NonPariel reports the Telegraph had challenged the timeliness of information being released by the Atlantic Community School District. Lundquist said previously the paper was not receiving information until hours before public meetings, and the school district said it would address the complaint’s concerns.
The IPIB said also, it will continue to study a complaint made from Red Oak into what legally constitutes an “advisory body” and whether current guidance is conflicting. Charlie Smithson, executive director of the IPIB, asked to defer a compliant by Margaret Stoldorf against the Red Oak Community School District until the board’s May meeting. He said a bill before the General Assembly could still be acted on that would determine how the law applied to the complaint.
Stoldorf’s complaint includes five specific allegations, including challenging whether appropriate notice was given for a Jan. 5th meeting of the Red Oak School Improvement Advisory Committee and whether a subcommittee of school board members and others that met on Jan. 30th should have had a public agenda – both issues related to the status of advisory groups.
An attorney representing the school district said the Red Oak school board met its legal requirements and asserted that neither the Jan. 5th nor the Jan. 30th meetings fell under the state’s open meeting regulations.
The IPIB resolved several complaints against the Red Oak school board last year, and Stoldorf was one of those Red Oak residents who brought concerns to the state agency. Smithson said he wants to meet with both sides to ask what is going on and how to prevent continued complaints from the community. The Superintendent has since resigned, and a new administration will be in place.