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BETTY GREENWALT, 80, of Fontanelle, died Tues., Feb. 10th, at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Greenfield. Memorial services for BETTY GREENWALT will be held 10:30-a.m. Tues., Feb 17th, at the Fontanelle United Methodist Church. Steen Funeral Home in Fontanelle has the arrangements. (*Changes time of funeral from 1:30-p.m. to 10:30-a.m.)
Visitation at the funeral home is on Monday, from 2-until 8-pm, with the family present from 6-to 8-pm. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Betty Greenwalt Memorial Fund, to be established by the family at a later date.
Burial will be in the Greenfield Cemetery, with a luncheon to follow at the Fontanelle United Methodist Church.
A Red Oak man was cited early this (Wednesday) morning on a drug-related charge. Police say 50-year old Matthew Wayne Westover was cited in the 100 block of west Oak Street at around 4:25-a.m., for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Westover was released on the citation.
The family of an Atlantic couple killed in a gas explosion and fire last week is holding a fund raising event. 57-year old’s Paul and Denise McDaniel, who operated a small taxi company in Atlantic, were killed after a fire broke out Feb. 4th in their home. The Omaha World-Herald reports donations to the McDaniel Benefit fund can be made at either the Atlantic or Creston locations of the Nishna Valley Credit Union. Checks also can be mailed to Nishna Valley Credit Union, P.O. Box 350, Atlantic, IA 50022, Attention: McDaniel Benefit.
A silent auction will take place at the Elks Lodge in Atlantic on Feb. 28 at 6 p.m., with proceeds also going toward the fund. Their family says the McDaniels did not have life insurance.
Responding firefighters found Paul McDaniel dead in the house. Denise McDaniel was taken by medical helicopter to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where she later died. Investigators said clothing hanging from a natural gas line in the basement probably caused the line to break. It’s thought a pilot light in a gas stove caused the explosion, which blew out the home’s windows.
A celebration of life service is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 17th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $485 million, making Wednesday night’s drawing the fifth largest prize in U.S. history. It’s been more than two months since someone won the Powerball jackpot, so the prize has been gradually growing from its $40 million starting point. The last time Powerball grew nearly so large was February 2014.
Because of strong sales, lottery officials Tuesday raised the estimated jackpot from $450 million to $485 million. Lottery officials are quick to point out that the game is for fun and a chance to dream. They note the chance of winning a Powerball jackpot is about 1 in 175 million.
Powerball revenue has been down slightly during a drought of jackpots, but officials say this big prize has caused sales to surge.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The newly appointed acting chief of Iowa’s corrections system says the department will keep employing some workers at state mental health institutions in Clarinda and Mount Pleasant that have been ordered to close.
Jerry Bartruff, who recently took over corrections, told a legislative panel Tuesday that about $2 million will be transferred from the state Department of Health and Human Services to corrections to continue administrative staffing and other jobs that had been shared between the agencies at both facilities.
The state Department of Corrections currently has operations at Clarinda and Mount Pleasant, which houses two of the state’s four mental health institutions. Gov. Terry Branstad has proposed phasing out state health services at the two facilities later this year, though corrections will continue to operate.
The budget President Obama sent to Congress asks for more than one-billion dollars to fight antibiotic resistance, with some of the focus on animal agriculture. Under the proposal, the U-S-D-A would get 77-million dollars to find ways to reduce use of the drugs in livestock. Hans Coetzee, a veterinary medicine professor at Iowa State University, says antibiotic resistance can make common medications ineffective, meaning, sick people or sick animals don’t get better.
Coetzee says, “We recognize that when both MDs and veterinarians are using the same class of drugs to treat disease, that we both have responsibilities to ensure that we’re using those drugs prudently and responsibly.” He says it’s important to develop new animal care strategies to stop the spread of antibiotic resistance. “It would be prudent for us in production agriculture to find ways to minimize the amount of antibiotics used, to most effectively use the drugs that we have, and then to identify alternatives,” Coetzee says.
The president’s proposal nearly quadruples the U-S-D-A money designated for such research.
(Radio Iowa)
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