Jim Field speaks with Lake Anita State Park Manager Josh Peach about the park and preparations for the warm season.
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Jim Field speaks with Lake Anita State Park Manager Josh Peach about the park and preparations for the warm season.
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Montgomery County 4-H and Extension will be holding early-out Wednesday fun sessions during the month of April. “STEM Kids!” is a month of sessions held on Wednesday’s for 4th and 5th grade youth to learn about science, technology, engineering, and math! Each week the session will be held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds white building from 2 – 3:45PM. Youth will learn about different aspects of STEM, learn about technology & even get to try out lots of fun experiments!
STEM Kids is open is all youth grades 4th and 5th. STEM Kids sessions will be on the following dates: Wednesday, April 8th; Wednesday, April 15th; Wednesday, April 22nd; and Wednesday, April 29th.
The month of April sessions fee for 4-H members will be $10.00 and non-members $15.00. Registrations are due to the Montgomery County Extension Office, 400 Bridge Street, Suite 2, Red Oak, Iowa 51566, by Monday, April 6th. Officials say if there is anything you would like to learn more about, see a presentation on, or attend a workshop for, we are always open to ideas and would love to hear your interests!
For any other questions regarding 4-H contact Hallie at the Extension Office (712) 623-2592 or email hpeck@iastate.edu.
The 7:06-a.m. Newscast w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Turkey hunting season starts this next weekend (April 4th) for youth in Iowa and the season opens on April 13th for adults. Jim Coffee, a forest wildlife research technician with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, based in Chariton, says last year’s turkey season was tremendously popular. “We had about 50,000 people that went out in the woods to hear that spring gobble and over 11,000 of them were successful,” Coffee says. “That’s a pretty good success rate, when you look at the wariness of a species like this.”
Coffee offers a few tips for Iowa turkey hunters. “The biggest thing is to be prepared which begins a lot with the mental aspect of getting ourselves up early, thinking about things, always making sure your weapon is in good shape,” Coffee says. “I always emphasize understanding the biology of the bird. If we understand that animal, what it wants to do and when it wants to do it, it helps increase our success rate.”
Hunters from all over will be in Iowa, trying to bag a turkey. “We’ve got a great reputation for having big, healthy birds in Iowa,” Coffee says. “We’re going to have a lot of people, obviously, from the state of Iowa hunting but we draw from a lot of other states. Some years, we have as many as 38 other states represented in the hunting population out there.”
Turkeys are found in all 99 Iowa counties and they like to forage in forests, agricultural lands and pasture lands. There is a new application for smartphone users that will be helpful for hunters called the D-N-R Atlas. “Open it up and it’s an aerial photograph of the entire state that you can zoom right down to literally see a tree that you want to sit underneath of, as well as all of the public lands available in every county,” Coffee says, “and do a lot of scouting right from your chair.”
Find more information about turkey hunting season at www.iowadnr.gov.
The Freese-Notis forecast and weather information for Atlantic.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A safety research organization is urging Iowa to toughen its rules for teenager driver’s licenses. The Des Moines Register reports that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says a study shows Iowa could more than halve its rate of fatal teen accidents if a stronger driver’s license law were adopted. The institute says Iowa should increase its licensing age to 17 years old from the current 16. And the institute suggests Iowa not issue instructional permits until someone reaches age 16 instead of the current 14.
Two lawmakers and the state’s chief highway safety expert said Monday that it would be difficult to adopt tougher teen driver rules in Iowa, where many teenagers in rural communities rely on cars and pickups to drive to school, work and other activities.
The Montgomery and Shelby County ISU Extension offices will offer “Last Chance” Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instructional Courses (CIC) for private pesticide applicators on Wednesday, April 15th at the Montgomery County Extension office in Red Oak, and the Shelby County Extension office, in Harlan. The programs are being shown in cooperation with the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP).
In Red Oak, classes begin at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm and the course runs for approximately two and a half hours. In Harlan, registration begins at 9:30 a.m. The registration fee at both sites is $20. To register or to obtain additional information about the CIC, contact the Shelby County ISU Extension and Outreach office by phoning 712-755-3104, or Jodie Smith at the ISU Extension and Outreach office in Montgomery County, at 712-623-2592.
The course will fulfill 2014 recertification requirements for private pesticide applicators. Topics to be covered include: equipment calibration and safe application techniques; pesticide drift reduction; pest management and pesticides; and phytotoxicity.
A listing of additional locations offering this course can be found at www.extension.iastate.edu/PSEP/.
BOONE, Iowa (AP) – Attorneys are expected to deliver their opening statements Tuesday in the second Iowa trial of a man accused of killing his former roommate in 2009. The Messenger reports that a Boone County jury was seated Monday for the trial of 55-year-old John Green. Green is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 58-year-old Mark Koster in Sac City.
Green’s first trial was held in Webster County because his attorney had argued that pretrial publicity would make it impossible for Green to receive a fair trial in Sac City. The same argument was used against holding the second trial in Fort Dodge. The first trial ended in a mistrial.
Koster was declared missing in 2010. His remains were found in the basement of his Sac City home in 2012.
Single session tickets are now available for next month’s running of the Drake Relays. Assistant A-D Ryan Harris says single session prices range from five to 40 dollars. All-Session packages are still available. They cost 95 dollars. Tickets may be purchased in person, over the phone or on line. Tickets for the Saturday session cost 40 dollars.
The Drake Relays are April 22nd through the 26th.
(Radio Iowa)
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