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2023 Cass County Fair: Schedule for Thursday, July 27, 2023

Ag/Outdoor, News

July 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – A full week of activities during the Cass County Fair begins tomorrow (Thursday), in Atlantic. The Horse Show takes place at 2-p.m., with the 4-H/FFA Food Sale at 5-p.m., in the lobby of the Cass County Community Center next to the fairgrounds. The 4-H/FFA Exhibits are also open to the public at 5-p.m.

Everything brought in for judging will be offered for sale, minus a small piece where the judge cut out a sample. Only the baked goods selected for State Fair will not be sold, as the whole item will be on display throughout the Cass County Fair. Recipes of each baked item are even included, so you can bake that award-winning banana bread for yourself! Items on sale vary depending on exhibits created by local 4-Hers. Cookies, bars, cakes, pies, breads, muffins and rolls are all common offerings. Fresh garden produce and canned goods are occasionally offered as well.

The featured meal Thursday at the Food Stand is a Roast Pork Sandwich.

Thursday night, the Little Miss and Mister Contest gets underway at 7-p.m., followed by the King and Queen Contest.  Officials with the Cass County announced Wednesday evening, that the Little Miss, Little Mister, King/Queen and Senior Recognition events Thursday evening, having been moved to the Outdoor Show Ring, instead of in front of the grandstand, due to the extreme heat.

The Queen contestants will be interviewed live on KJAN. Senior Recognition begins at 8-p.m., along with the Teen Dance, from 8-to 11-p.m. The dance is open to 6th through 12th graders. Officials say the following 14 4-H seniors will be recognized for their many hours of hard work, dedication, and leadership to the Cass County 4-H program. They include:

~Elizabeth Anderson – Bear Grove Blazers

~ Sydney Becker – Union Leaders & CAM FFA

~ Breeana Bower- C&M Champions

~ Brett Dreager – Bear Grove Blazers & Atlantic FFA

~ Dayna Dreager- Pymosa

~ CeCe Hensley- Union Leaders

~ Rio Johnson- Grove H.O.T. & Atlantic FFA

~ Emma Mundorf- Griswold Clubsters

~ Keira Olson- Pymosa

~ Carter Pellett- Pymosa

~ Abbigael Richter – Grove H.O.T. & Atlantic FFA

~ Tessa Ritter – Pymosa

~ Natalye School – Benton Franklin & CAM FFA

~Trista Swain – Pleasant Noble United & Griswold FFA

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Pott. County Supervisor reacts to hoax texts regarding his position on Special Election

News

July 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – A member of the Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors says someone is sending out text messages saying he supports a plan that is opposite to what he supports, with regard to the August 1st Special Election on how Pott. County Supervisors are elected. Newly elected Supervisor Jeff Jorgensen tells KJAN News he thinks the vote to change the method of election is over sour grapes on what transpired during the past two elections.

Jorgensen is the former Chair of the Pottawattamie County Republican Central Committee, who is known simply as “Jeff J.”

Jeff Jorgensen

A petition offering three plans on how the Supervisors are elected includes three options:

Plan 1 (or Plan A, as it’s also referred to): Leave everything as is, meaning electing the Supervisors At Large who can live anywhere in the county.

Plans 2 & 3 (B&C) involve breaking up the Supervisors into districts:

  • Plan 2 says Pottawattamie County will be split into five districts with similar populations, and voters will vote on a board of supervisors from each district. Voters will be able to vote for all five candidates in this plan.
  • Plan 3 says Pottawattamie County will still be split into the five districts, but voters will only be able to vote for the candidate in their district.

The districts have not been set, but in case Plan 2 or 3 passes, Council Bluffs will be split into four of those districts. One of the City’s districts will include parts of the county next to the Council Bluffs. Jorgensen says no one is supporting Plan 2.

Jorgensen supports Plan 1, but he says someone is sending out text messages stating he supports Plan C.

Screenshots courtesy Pott. County Supervisor Jeff Jorgensen.

It is illegal to impersonate an elected official. Jorgensen says he’s filed charges with the Council Bluffs Police Department, which has assigned a Criminal Investigations agent who will look into the matter. He said he has an idea of who might be sending the messages, but he doesn’t have the proof right now to make the allegations stick. He said also, there is a website that is promoting Plan C, “Plan 3 Project,” and that the person in charge he says, is also the Co-Chair for Concerned Citizens of Pottawattamie County.

Jeff Jorgensen says hopes everyone votes for Plan 1 (Plan A), “For unity for our county.” Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on August 1st, with early voting through July 30th at 4:30 p.m.

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Caitlin Clark Wins CSC Division I Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year

Sports

July 26th, 2023 by Asa Lucas

IOWA CITY — Junior guard from the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, was named the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Division I Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for all sports in 2022-23 on Wednesday.

“I’m honored to have been selected for this award because there’s a ton of excellent student-athletes across the United States,” Clark said. “My academic craft is something that I take very seriously while playing basketball at the highest level. I want to thank the CSC for selecting me for and Division I Academic All-America Team Member of the Year.”

Clark also won the 2023 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award, Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors. She also was the ESPY award winner for Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports.

“I’m thrilled that Caitlin has been selected for this award,” said P. Sue Beckwith, MD, Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder. “She truly exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete at the highest level and the way she represents the University of Iowa. Our program couldn’t be prouder of what she has accomplished this year.”

She is also a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.

Clark led her team to its first-ever NCAA Championship game and helped post the Hawkeye’s most wins in a single season. During the NCAA Tournament, she posted the first 40-point triple-double in NCAA Tournament history (men’s or women’s) and broke the NCAA single-tournament records for most 3-point FG made (24) and most points scored (191). This season, she is the only player in the nation with 1,000 points, 240 rebounds, 310 assists and 45 steals.

Overall, Clark became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season and was fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons.

Off the court, she is a two-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2023 CSC Academic All-America of the Year for women’s basketball.

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Pope appoints Mt. Vernon native as next Archbishop of Dubuque

News

July 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Pope Francis has appointed the bishop of Davenport’s Diocese to serve as the Archbishop of Dubuque. The Dubuque Archdiocese covers 30 counties in northeast and northcentral Iowa where 18 percent of the population is Catholic according to an archdiocese news release. The Most Reverend Thomas Zinkula will be the 11th Archbishop of Dubuque when he’s ordained the fall. The previous archbishop, the Most Reverend Michael Jackels, resigned in April for health reasons.

Archbishop-elect Zinkula, who is 66 years old, grew up on a farm near Mount Vernon. He graduated for Cornell College with a degree in math, economics and business in 1979, worked at an insurance company in Cedar Rapids, earned a law degree from the University of Iowa in 1983 and joined a law firm in Cedar Rapids. In 1990, Zinkula earned a masters in theology at Catholic University, the same year he was ordained as a priest at the cathedral in Dubuque. Zinkula served seven parishes during his assignment in the archdiocese and was rector of the Catholic seminary in Dubuque for three years before his appointment as Bishop of the Davenport Diocese in 2017.

In a written statement, Archbishop-elect Zinkula said he is humbled and overjoyed to receive the appointment to return to his home diocese and hopes being a native son of the area makes the transition somewhat easier and quicker. His ordination will be held in Dubuque on October 18th. Until then, the Most Reverend Richard Pates, who retired as the bishop for the Des Moines Diocese in 2017, will continue as the administrator of the archdiocese.

(Here’s the list of parishes where TMR Zinkula served: 1990-1993 Parochial Vicar of St. Columbkille Parish, Dubuque; 1993-1996 Parochial Vicar of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Dubuque; 1998-2002 Pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Rickardsville; Sacramental Priest for St. Francis Parish, Balltown and Ss. Peter & Paul Parish, Sherrill; 2002-2005 Sacramental Priest for St. John Baptist de La Salle Pastorate; 2005-2007 Pastor of Holy Ghost Parish, Dubuque; 2007-2011 Pastor of Holy Spirit Pastorate, Dubuque; June-July, 2011 Parochial Administrator of Holy Spirit Parish, Dubuque; 2012-2014 Episcopal Vicar of Cedar Rapids Region.)

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Matt Fannon Finalizes Staff, Hires Kathleen Duwve as Assistant Coach

Sports

July 26th, 2023 by Asa Lucas

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head coach Matt Fannon has finalized his 2023 coaching staff, officially announcing the hiring of Kathleen Duwve (DOO-vee) as assistant coach/goalkeeper coach.

Duwve will reunite with Coach Fannon in Ames, as she was a standout goalie for Bowling Green and played under Fannon from 2017-19. Duwve will also reunite with DePaul transfer Kristin Boos who signed with the Cyclones earlier this summer. She will join new additions Olivia Seddon and Jermima Job as soccer staff members.

A Sylvania, Ohio, native, Duwve arrives in Ames after spending two years as an assistant coach at DePaul University. With the Blue Demons, Duwve worked primarily with the goalkeepers. Across her two years, Duwve’s keepers posted 143 saves and eight shutouts.

Prior to her stint in Chicago, Duwve played professionally for Apulia Trani ASD in Italy’s Serie C before returning to the United States to play for the Gotham Reserves (NJ/NY) in the WPSL.

Before becoming a professional athlete, Duwve starred for Coach Fannon’s Falcons at BGSU, starting 56 games across her four years. She totaled 216 total saves and toted a .797 save percentage. Duwve earned 32 career wins and tallied 14 clean sheets.

In her freshman campaign with the Falcons, Duwve started 11 of 13 matches and recorded 10 saves in three different outings. Her sophomore season was cut short, as she sustained an injury that limited her to just three contests.

Duwve bounced back from injury in a big way, helping to lead Bowling Green to two straight MAC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances over her junior and senior years in 2018 and 2019. She started all 22 matches during her junior campaign and tied the BGSU single-season wins record, tallying 14. In the postseason, she made three saves against the No. 14 Penn State Nittany Lions.

Duwve built on her stellar junior season and turned in an equally impressive senior year which again resulted in BGSU making the postseason. She posted six complete-match shutouts and started 22 of 23 matches (missing one due to injury). She totaled 54 saves and again made three postseason saves, this time against Michigan.

Duwve finished her collegiate career as Bowling Green’s all-time leader in career winning percentage and goals against average while ranking among the top five all-time in every goalkeeping category.

She earned first-team All-Conference honors in the MAC twice, as well as once earning a United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region award. Academically, Duwve was on the Academic All-MAC Team, a MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete and earned the MAC Commissioner’s Award.

The Iowa State soccer program will kick off its season on August 17, welcoming Arizona to the Cyclone Soccer Complex for the start of the 2023 regular season. Admission to all home matches is free.

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Adair County Supervisors approve $30k in seed funds for Crossroads Behavioral Health

News

July 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, today (Wednesday), approved $30,000 in “seed funds” for Crossroads Behavioral Health Services. The funds will come from the County’s share of the State/Federal Opiod Settlement. Crossroads Executive Director Brittany Palmer, and Certified Prevention Specialist Jessica Putter, spoke to the Supervisors before making their formal request for funding. Palmer said they are working on proposed programming, with the staff of school districts within Adair County.

Brittany said because of the county’s poverty level and the number of teenagers in the county, those persons are at greater risk of getting involved in abusive and/or illegal substances. She said also, young people are more at risk than ever, of suicide and depression.

She said if they “Can get mental health services and drug prevention services in the schools, studies show that kids are six times more likely to engage in services if we commit them to the schools.”

Jess Putter spoke in more detail about the two programs they offer in the middle and high school.

The seventh grade program offers 10 sessions twice a week for several weeks.

The school district, she says, comes up with a list potential students who are most in need of Crossroads’ services. Supervisor John Twombley said Southern Hills Regional Mental Health officials indicated starting kids with services in junior high, is almost too late. Brittany Palmer agreed.

She said the Nodaway Valley School District has committed funding the Crossroads Programs, through a 4-year grant. The District served as a pilot program last year, and plans are to focus more on what needs to be done to make the programs work even better this year.

In other business, the Adair County Board of Supervisors, Wednesday, acknowledged the receipt of Manure Management Plan updates, and appointed Pat Baier as the Grand River Township Trustee.

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ACSD BOOSTER CLUB

Sports

July 26th, 2023 by Asa Lucas

On Friday, July 14th the Atlantic Community School District Booster Club held their annual golf tournament at Nishna Hills Golf Course.

This year’s tournament boasted a roster of 32 teams, 38 hole sponsors, 7 corporate sponsors, and multiple volunteers. Volunteers manned a variety of areas including individual betting holes, registration tables, and a team that helped prepare lunch.

The 2023 Booster Club Golf Tournament raised just over $20,000. Funds from the tournament funded the new shed at the Atlantic High School tennis courts. 

Megan Roberts, ACSD Booster Club Scheduler commented,”Our partnership with Beth Johnsen, ACSD Superintendent and Lisa Jones, ACSD SBO have begun as both were out in full support of the event and were in attendance throughout the day!” 

“The Boosters Club put on a well-organized golf outing to fundraise money that supports our activities program!  The turnout of teams and local business support was outstanding. The Atlantic Community support was speaking loudly with how they are loyal supporters for taking care of the needs of our kids. I am very impressed with the overwhelming advocacy for the school district. I met a lot of awesome people at the event and I look forward to being part of the growing support and energy in Atlantic.” ACSD Superintendent Beth Johnsen commented on the overwhelming support from the community she witnessed as she attended her first official ACSD event. 

 

Booster Club member Tina Zellmer commented on the vital support from all involved. “The tournament’s success is paramount to all those who step up and offer support!” This year’s tournament offered corporate sponsorship opportunities. The 2023 Booster Club Golf Tournament Corporate Sponsors included: Meredith Communications,

Duke rentals, Brocker Karns & Karns, Rolling Hills Bank & Trust, Olsen Fuel Supply, AM Choron & Son, Mutual of Omaha – Stuart Dusenberry, State Farm – Megan Roberts

 

The 2024 ACSD Booster Club golf tournament is scheduled for Friday, July 19th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club. 

 

Your ACSD Booster Club holds monthly meetings on the third Monday of the month at 630pm, in the Atlantic High School media center. 

 

You can also stay up to date by following the Booster Club’s Facebook page:  “Atlantic School Booster Club“.

 

Questions pertaining to this press release should be directed to ACSD Communications Specialist, Mallory Robinson. 

 

Questions pertaining to the ACSD Booster Club should be directed to: boosterclubhelp@gmail.com

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Big Ten Network Announces 2023 College Football Broadcaster Lineup

Sports

July 26th, 2023 by Asa Lucas

CHICAGO, Ill. –With 40 game broadcasts surrounded by studio coverage, the Big Ten Network’s 2023 football season features a lineup of new faces and experienced voices.

Game broadcasts:

BTN’s rotation of game analysts for this season will include Jake Butt, a former All-American tight end at the University of Michigan, two-time NFL All-Pro and four-time Super Bowl Champion Matt Millen, and All-Big Ten and NFL alumni Anthony Herron and Brock Vereen.

They will accompany a veteran group of play-by-play talent, including Cory Provus, Mark Followill, Lisa Byington, Connor Onion, Jason Ross Jr., and Joe Beninati.

On-field reporters, including Brooke Fletcher, Elise Menaker, Meghan McKeown and Justine Ward, will provide updates from the sidelines.

Former NFL Vice Presidents of Officiating Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino will also return as rules analysts.

Studio:

B1G Tailgate is back for its seventh season with a new look, hosted in-studio by Rick Pizzo and featuring analysts Gerry DiNardo, Howard Griffith and Vereen. Host Mike Hall, and first-year analyst Tyvis Powell, will travel to a different Big Ten campus each week for interviews and on-site analysis. B1G Tailgate is the home for Big Ten football fans on Saturdays with original features, special guests and Big Ten analysis.

B1G Tailgate’s on-site locations for September has been confirmed:

Saturday, Sept. 2 (Noon ET)

Fresno State at Purdue

Saturday, Sept. 9 (3:30 p.m. ET)

Richmond at Michigan State

Saturday, Sept. 16 (Noon ET)

Georgia Southern at Wisconsin

 

Saturday, Sept. 23 (Noon ET)

Rutgers at Michigan

Saturday, Sept. 30 (Noon ET)

Louisiana at Minnesota

Dave Revsine, Pizzo and Hall will once again anchor studio coverage for the network, including The B1G Show, B1G Today, B1G Live: Football Game Break, B1G Live: Football Postgame and The Final Drive. The hosts will be joined by an accomplished group of analysts, including former NFL head coach Dave Wannstedt, Illinois standout J Leman, The Athletic’s Senior Writer Nicole Auerbach, Sports Illustrated’s Senior Writer Pat Forde, DiNardo, Griffith, Butt and Herron.

Urban Analysis, featuring Urban Meyer and DiNardo, will also return this fall.

Big Ten Network Originals:

The Emmy-nominated franchise The Journey: Big Ten Football 2023 will debut its 12th season this fall, and The B1G Moment returns for its third season with several football centric episodes. Those include:

  • The first night game at Michigan Stadium (2011), in which Denard Robinson led a fourth quarter comeback and threw the game-winning touchdown pass with two seconds remaining.
  • Ohio State’s 30-27, walk-off win in double overtime against Michigan in 2016.

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ACSD Booster Club Golf Tournament raises over $20k on July 14th

News

July 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Officials with the Atlantic Community School District’s (ACSD) Booster Club report that on Friday, July 14th the Club held their annual golf tournament at Nishna Hills Golf Course. This year’s tournament boasted a roster of 32 teams, 38 hole sponsors, 7 corporate sponsors, and multiple volunteers. Volunteers manned a variety of areas including individual betting holes, registration tables, and a team that helped prepare lunch. The 2023 Booster Club Golf Tournament raised just over $20,000. Funds from the tournament helped pay for a new shed at the Atlantic High School tennis courts.

Megan Roberts, ACSD Booster Club Scheduler commented,”Our partnership with Beth Johnsen, ACSD Superintendent and Lisa Jones, ACSD SBO have begun as both were out in full support of the event and were in attendance throughout the day!”  ACSD Superintendent Beth Johnsen commented on the overwhelming support from the community she witnessed as she attended her first official ACSD event, saying “The Boosters Club put on a well-organized golf outing to fund-raise money that supports our activities program!  The turnout of teams and local business support was outstanding. The Atlantic Community support was speaking loudly with how they are loyal supporters for taking care of the needs of our kids. I am very impressed with the overwhelming advocacy for the school district. I met a lot of awesome people at the event and I look forward to being part of the growing support and energy in Atlantic.”

This year’s tournament offered corporate sponsorship opportunities. Those sponsors included: Meredith Communications, Duke rentals, Brocker Karns & Karns, Rolling Hills Bank & Trust, Olsen Fuel Supply, AM Choron & Son, Mutual of Omaha – Stuart Dusenberry, State Farm – Megan Roberts.

The 2024 ACSD Booster Club golf tournament is scheduled for Friday, July 19th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club.

The ACSD Booster Club holds monthly meetings on the third Monday of the month at 630pm, in the Atlantic High School media center. Stay up to date by following the Booster Club’s Facebook page:  “Atlantic School Booster Club“. Questions pertaining to the ACSD Booster Club should be directed to: boosterclubhelp@gmail.com

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Big Ten Announces Football Preseason Honors

Sports

July 26th, 2023 by Asa Lucas

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced its 2023 football preseason honors on Wednesday ahead of the start of Big Ten Football Media Days at Lucas Oil Stadium. A media panel selected the 10-member preseason list, with five representatives each from the East and West Divisions.

 

The East Division list highlighted by a pair of returning consensus All-Americans in Michigan’s Blake Corum and Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. Corum and Harrison Jr. were joined on this year’s preseason East Division squad by Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, Wolverine quarterback J.J. McCarthy and Penn State offensive lineman Olumuyiwa Fashanu.

 

Four different schools placed students on the West Division preseason list, led by two representatives from Minnesota in tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford and defensive back Tyler Nubin. They were joined on the list by Illinois defensive lineman Jer’Zhan Newton, Iowa defensive back Cooper DeJean and Wisconsin running back Braelon Allen.

 

The 2023 Big Ten preseason honors list features two recipients of conference individual awards from a season ago in Corum (Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year) and Harrison Jr.  (Richter-Howard Receiver of the Year).

 

Corum, Harrison Jr., and Newton were also 2022 first-team All-Big Ten selections, joining second-team selections Allen, DeJean, Fashanu, Nubin and Tagovailoa, as well as third-team honoree McCarthy.

 

Nine of this year’s Big Ten preseason honorees — Allen, Corum, DeJean, Fashanu, Harrison Jr., Newton, Nubin, Spann-Ford, Tagovailoa — are scheduled to attend Big Ten Media Days this week in Indianapolis.

 

The full list of Big Ten football preseason honorees is as follows:

 

EAST

Taulia Tagovailoa, QB, Maryland

Blake Corum, RB, Michigan

J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan

Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State

Olumuyiwa Fashanu, OL, Penn State

 

WEST

Jer’Zhan Newton, DL, Illinois

Cooper DeJean, DB, Iowa

Brevyn Spann-Ford, TE, Minnesota

Tyler Nubin, DB, Minnesota

Braelon Allen, RB, Wisconsin

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