Jim Field visits with Wendy Richter, Director of the Family Crisis Support Network, about the Family Fun Day at the Cass County Fair on Saturday, July 29 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm. The Cass County Child Abuse Prevention Council and the Healthy6 Cass County Coalition are teaming up with local supporters to provide this family-friendly event.
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(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak say no injuries were reported following a collision between a 2006 Freightliner semi pulling a hopper-style trailer, and a 1992 Ford Tempo. Authorities report the car, driven by 92-year-old Wallace Keith Jones, of Red Oak, was traveling west on W. Market Street at around 5:45-p.m. He stopped at the intersection with S. Broadway Street, and then pulled away from the stop sign, before his car was hit on the front by the right front passenger side of the semi. Jones told police he didn’t see the semi before pulling out into the intersection.
Jones, and the driver of the semi, 48-year-old David Lee Rydberg, of Essex, were checked-out by medics, but refused transport to the hospital. The car was a total loss. Damage to the semi was estimated at $2,000. Red Oak Police issued Wallace Jones a written warning for Failure to Yield to a Passing Vehicle.
(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department say there were two arrests Thursday night. At around 9:50-p.m., 34-year-old Kayla Sue Hoffman, of Creston, was arrested for Theft in the 3rd Degree. Hoffman was taken to Union County Jail and later posted a $2,000 cash or approved surety bond.
And, at around 10-p.m., Thursday, 22-year-old Jerimiah Lee Whitney, of Creston, was arrested for assault, at a residence on W. Summit Ave. He was taken to Union County Jail and later posted a $300 cash or surety bond.
Class 4A
4A Championship Game: Winterset 5, North Scott 3
4A Third Place Game: Norwalk 5, Fort Dodge 0
Class 5A
5A Championship Game: Ankeny Centennial 11, Pleasant Valley 0
5A Third Place Game: Muscatine 5, Southeast Polk 0
Class 2A
Beckman Catholic, Dyersville 11, West Lyon, Inwood 2
Underwood 3, Cascade 1
Class 4A
Johnston 9, Dowling Catholic, W.D.M 4
Ames 4, Cedar Falls 3
Friday, July 21
Class 1A Championship
12:00 p.m.–St. Mary’s, Remsen vs. Lisbon
Class 2A Championship
2:30 p.m. – Underwood vs. Beckman Catholic, Dyersville
Friday, July 21
Class 3A Championship
5:00 p.m. –Western Dubuque vs. North Polk
Class 4A Championship
7:30 p.m. – Johnston vs. Ames
(Radio Iowa) – A significant, new advance in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is being unveiled at a medical conference in Amsterdam, and a central Iowa physician who’s there calls it a very exciting development.
Dr. Yogesh Shah, a geriatrician at Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, says a simple, finger prick blood test, much like what diabetics do daily, shows promise in the ability to detect Alzheimer’s. “It will have to go through the regular checks, regular confirmations and approvals,” Dr. Shah says, “but the way I feel, the field is moving very fast, that this will happen soon and will be available for patients all over, including in Iowa.”
In a Radio Iowa interview from the Netherlands, Shah says this streamlined finger-prick test may help detect Alzheimer’s at home or in the doctor’s office, and indications are the blood test is more than 80% accurate. How soon will it be available? “I would say and hope that it’s not years,” Shah says. “What I would also can say it’s not going to be available next week. I feel in months, so hopefully, in early to middle next year.”
Once it’s available, Shah says only people with a family history of dementia, or those who are showing symptoms, should need to take the test. If the test is positive, preventative measures could start much more quickly. Still, the drugs that are approved for helping to slow the progress of Alzheimer’s are expensive.
“It can cost up to $26,000 per year, so it’s a significant cost, and side effects, so we have to be careful,” Shah says. “It’s not for everybody. It’s only for patients with very early stage of Alzheimer’s.” A statement released by the Iowa chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association says this new blood test, once verified and approved, “would offer a quick, noninvasive and cost-effective option.”
It’s estimated there are 66,000 Iowans living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and another 98,000 Iowans are their caregivers. A report out this week says the average Alzheimer’s prevalence rate in Iowans age 65 and older is 11%, while the rate is even higher in northwest Iowa.
IGHSAU State Softball Tournament
Friday, July 21
1:00 p.m. – Class 3A Third Place – Iowa Central Field
Estherville Lincoln Central (32-4) vs. Wahlert Catholic (32-9)
2:30 p.m. – Class 3A Championship – Kruger Field
Williamsburg (35-9) vs. Davenport Assumption (34-6)
3:30 Class 2A Third Place – Iowa Central Field
Interstate 35 (26-13) vs. Central Springs (26-6)
5:00 – Class 2A Championship – Kruger Field
Iowa City Regina (29-8) vs Van Meter (36-5)
6:00 p.m. – Class 1A Third Place – Iowa Central Field
Wayne (22-9) vs. Clarksville (29-2)
7:30 p.m. – Class 1A Championship – Kruger Field
Martensdale-St. Marys (27-6) vs. North Linn (38-6)
(Radio Iowa) – Fourth District Congressman Randy Feenstra says he’s focusing part of the new Farm Bill on the cost of crop insurance.
Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, says the expense of crop insurance is a major barrier to young farmers who are just getting started in production agriculture.
“There’s this big push where China and other countries are buying our farmland and the reason that’s happening is because that next generation cannot afford or cannot buy that land from their parents,” Feenstra says. “One of the big problems is the input costs.”
Feenstra says he and the other members of the House Agriculture Committee are considering discounts on crop insurance for those farmers who are just starting off. “A new beginning farmer for the first five years, you get up to a 15% discount on their crop insurance to lower that input, so we can keep that farmland in Iowa and with the Iowa farmer,” Feenstra says, “and then it slowly ratchets down after five years, four years, three years, it goes from 15% down to 10%.”
Crop insurance is one of the biggest input costs farmers pay each year and he says some may choose 85% coverage, or even as low as 70%.
“Because of the costs, a lot of farmers are going down to that lower amount and that’s where operational loans from the bank, they get a little concerned,” Feenstra says. “You have a big hail out or a catastrophic event, then all of the sudden, you put yourself in peril because you only have X-percent of coverage for that crop.”
Feenstra says the largest part of the Farm Bill is food programs, including SNAP. He says farm state members of the committee want to make the program more efficient as SNAP payments have exploded in recent years.
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