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PAUL McDANIEL, 57, of Atlantic, died Wed., Feb 4th, at his home. DENISE McDANIEL, 57, of Atlantic, died Thu., Feb 5th, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. A Celebration of Life visitation for PAUL and DENISE McDANIEL will be held from 11-am until 1-p.m. Tues., Feb. 17th, at the Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home, in Atlantic.
Burial will be at a later date.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
Paul and Denise McDaniel are survived by their son – James McDaniel & fiance’ Beverly Todd, of Atlantic.
Paul McDaniel is survived by:
His mother – Wilma McDaniel, of Sun City, AZ.
His brothers – David McDaniel, of Glendale, AZ; Gary (Jean) McDaniel, of Bedford, VA; and Alan (Jeanie) McDaniel, of Blacksburg, VA.
Denise McDaniel is survived by:
Her brothers – Terry (Jane) Mathisen, of Atlantic; & John Mathisen, of Carroll.
Her sisters – Cindy Booton, of Griswold. Janice Peterson of Atlantic.
and the couples’ 3 grandchildren.
Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County say an incident in Villisca Friday night, led to one person being arrested on an assault charge. 47-year old Douglas Franklin Nicholas, of Villisca, was arrested at around 7:50-p.m. for Domestic Assault, following an investigation into an incident that took place in the 300 block of south 3rd Avenue, in Villisca. Nicholas was being held without bond, in the Montgomery County Jail. Red Oak Police assisted in the investigation and arrest.
A traffic stop south of Villisca Friday night turned into a chase with speeds that reached 130-miles per hour. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says at around 7-p.m., a deputy attempted to stop a 1996 Cadillac Seville that had fraudulent license plates, at the intersection of Highway 71 and South U Avenue. When the vehicle failed to yield, deputies engaged in a pursuit. About two-miles north of the intersection of Business Highway 2 and Highway 71, the car hit stop sticks laid down by deputies with the Page County Sheriff’s Office.
The car continued southbound before turning west into Clarinda on Washington Street, then onto 5th Street, where Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies used “Legal intervention” to stop the vehicle. The driver, 30-year old Nicholas Allen ray, of Nelson, MO., was arrested without further incident. A female passenger in the car was detained for questioning, but later released.
Ray was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held pending an appearance before the magistrate. He’s been charged with Eluding, Driving While Suspended, Fraudulent Use of Plates, and Speed by Pace (130-mph in a 55-mph zone). Ray was also being held on a felony Missouri warrant for Probation Violation.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office was assisted during the incident by the Page County Sheriff’s Office, Clarinda P-D, and the Iowa State Patrol.
The first-ever statewide non-profit organization to preserve farmland from urban sprawl is launching its operations. Suzan Erem, of West Branch, is president of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, or SILT. Erem says the new organization will be focused to protecting Iowa farmland to grow healthy food. “We’re going to be targeting land that’s surrounding our growing communities,” Erem says. “Market farmers are having trouble staying close to their markets. They’re under pressure either from development or from commodity farmers. Either way, the land prices go up and it makes it much harder for them to stay close to the community where they’re trying to sell their produce.”
Farmers, she says, are often land rich and cash poor. “If we don’t have a non-profit taking the pressure off of the land from development or commodity prices, there’s no way to keep it from going up and up and up,” Erem says. “Every time somebody buys land, they count on 30 or 40 years from now, selling it at a higher price.” Working with city planners and private developers, she says small farms can be built into a community’s planning process.
“If we can’t take the land out of the equation, we’re always going to have our farmers farming with one arm tied behind their backs with this debt,” Erem says. “The land trust will protect the land and keep it just for local food production which eliminates that competition with the other pressures.” Independent, family farms help to provide a diverse, healthy landscape which she says will increase nearby home values while attracting new businesses seeking a high quality of life for employees.
Learn more at: www.silt.org.
Key legislators involved in crafting a bill to raise the state tax on motor fuel by a dime a gallon say the legislation will include an attempt to rein in county borrowing for road and bridge projects. Representative Josh Byrnes, a Republican from Osage, says Black Hawk County, for example, has borrowed over 35 million dollars for transportation-related projects in the past seven years.”That’s $46,000 of debt per mile of secondary road and it’s $269 per person that they’ve got on their backs,” Byrnes says.
Byrnes, who is chairman of the House Transportation Committee, says the problem is many roads will have to be repaired or even replaced long before residents have paid back the 30-year bond for the original project. Senator Tod Bowman, a Democrat from Maquoketa, is chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Bowman says the bill to raise the gas tax likely will include a call for counties to match the length of their loans to the “life-expectancy” of the road or bridge.
“We’re not finalized,” Bowman says. “It could change yet before we publish the draft, but there are under consideration some other ideas to be in the bill.” Bowman and Byrnes discussed the issue today (Friday) during taping of Iowa Public Television’s weekly “Iowa Press” program. Iowans for Tax Relief founder David Stanley, a critic of the fuel tax hike, was also a guest. “As I hear these people talk…about the bill, they’re still having trouble putting it together,” Stanley said. “I don’t think they have a done deal yet.” Stanley say the gas tax is the most regressive tax the state levies.
“After several years of recession, we’ve got thousands of Iowans out there who’ve lost their jobs. They’re working for half the money they used to get. Many now have to drive 30, 40, 50 miles to work,” Stanley says. “We’ve got people hurting. This is the wrong time.” Other groups, like Americans For Prosperity, argue state policymakers should prioritize state spending and divert three-and-a-half percent of all the other taxes the state collects into the gas tax fund which is used exclusively for road projects.
Supporters of the gas tax increase say that will pit roads against other priorites, like spending on schools and the mentally ill, and the gas tax is a user fee that is also paid by out-of-state motorists and truckers who drive on Iowa roads.
(Radio Iowa)
345 AM CST SAT FEB 7 2015
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. AREAS OF FOG. SOUTH WIND NEAR 5 MPH.
TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF FOG THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN PATCHY FOG BEFORE NOON. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 20S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S.
Adair-Casey 57, Charter Oak-Ute 32
Ar-We-Va, Westside 62, West Harrison, Mondamin 41
Audubon 58, Logan-Magnolia 52
Carlisle 73, Carroll 20
Central Decatur, Leon 82, Southwest Valley 48
Coon Rapids-Bayard 53, CAM, Anita 26
Denison-Schleswig 48, Clarinda 46
Des Moines Christian 69, West Central Valley, Stuart 37
East Sac County 70, Southeast Valley 41
Essex 60, Clarinda Academy 21
Fremont Mills, Tabor 65, East Mills 38
Harlan 68, Glenwood 33
IKM-Manning 64, Missouri Valley 49
Interstate 35,Truro 56, East Union, Afton 8
Lewis Central 48, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 31
Martensdale-St. Marys 56, Lenox 18
Murray 59, Orient-Macksburg 33
Red Oak 70, Creston 46
Riverside, Oakland 48, Griswold 41
Shenandoah 56, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 52, OT
Sidney 35, South Page, College Springs 31
Sioux City, East 57, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 13
Stanton 65, Heartland Christian 23
Treynor 56, Underwood 55, OT
Tri-Center, Neola 53, A-H-S-T-W, Avoca 29
Van Meter 53, Guthrie Center 12
Winterset 60, Perry 52
Woodward-Granger 43, Earlham 38
Western Valley Conference Tourney
Lawton-Bronson 69, Westwood, Sloan 59
OA-BCIG 54, Siouxland Community Christian 40
River Valley, Correctionville 40, West Monona, Onawa 36
Woodbury Central, Moville 72, Ridge View 51
Audubon 67, Logan-Magnolia 33
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 73, Sioux City, West 71
Boone 50, ADM, Adel 44
Carroll 68, Carlisle 62
Central Decatur, Leon 79, Southwest Valley 31
Clarinda Academy 64, Essex 52
Coon Rapids-Bayard 61, CAM, Anita 37
Creston 65, Red Oak 42
Denison-Schleswig 70, Clarinda 58
Des Moines Christian 64, West Central Valley, Stuart 25
Earlham 62, Woodward-Granger 33
East Mills 57, Fremont Mills, Tabor 56
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 53, Glidden-Ralston 40
Griswold 56, Riverside, Oakland 32
Harlan 66, Glenwood 51
IKM-Manning 71, Missouri Valley 51
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 72, Shenandoah 40
Lenox 63, Martensdale-St. Marys 58
Lewis Central 71, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 61
Murray 72, Orient-Macksburg 42
Panorama, Panora 54, Ogden 50
Paton-Churdan 64, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 53
Pleasantville 52, Mount Ayr 49
Sidney 88, South Page, College Springs 50
Sioux City, East 73, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 22
Stanton 69, Heartland Christian 28
Treynor 64, Underwood 52
Tri-Center, Neola 56, A-H-S-T-W, Avoca 42
Van Meter 81, Guthrie Center 39
Winterset 60, Perry 52
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential prospect Rand Paul says he agrees with outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder on some criminal justice issues. Speaking at a rally in a Des Moines-area winery, Paul says he applauds Holder’s efforts to reduce seizure of property from people facing no criminal charges. He also supports reducing penalties for possession of marijuana. Paul plans to appear with freshman Republican Representative Rod Blum later today.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say they’re trying to decide the best way to remove ethanol that leaked into the Mississippi River and pooled around the area where several train cars derailed. The Telegraph Herald reports about a half-acre of fuel froze at the site as of Friday, with more covering about an acre of ice on the Mississippi. Fourteen of the cars that derailed Wednesday morning contained ethanol, and eight appeared to be leaking.
BERNARD, Iowa (AP) — Police say an intoxicated man has been arrested after he caused a commotion at an eastern Iowa school that triggered a lockdown. The Telegraph Herald reports 39-year-old Scott Menadue was detained Friday after officials at Bernard Elementary School called authorities about an angry man inside the school who they believed was intoxicated.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines Register was named Friday as the Iowa Newspaper Association 2015 “Newspaper of the Year.” The award was announced at the association’s awards banquet during the INA 2015 Convention and Trade Show held in Des Moines.