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Jim Field speaks with Atlantic Head Football Coach Eric Waldstein as his team prepares for a week 4 home match-up with ADM.
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MARJORIE FORD, 98, of Bridgewater, died Friday, September 19th,, at the Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone, Iowa. Funeral services for MARJORIE FORD will be held 11-a.m. Tue., Sept. 23rd, at the Bridgewater United Methodist Church. Steen Funeral Home in Fontanelle has the arrangements.
There is no visitation. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Burial will be in the Garner Cemetery at Bridgewater.
MARJORIE FORD is survived by:
Her children – Judy (Larry) Edwards, of Boone; Nancy Erickson, of Massena, & Roger Ford, of Boone.
8 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, 4 great-great grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
JOHN WILLIAM BROYLES, 92, of Weatherford, TX (& formerly of the Griswold area), has died. Graveside services for JOHN BROYLES will be held at Noon on Tuesday, September 23rd, at the Hillside Cemetery at Elliott, IA. Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family will begin at 9:00 AM Tuesday morning at the Duhn Funeral Home in
Griswold and will continue until the procession to the cemetery at 11:45 AM.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh searches for its first 4-0 start since 2000 when the Panthers host Iowa on Saturday. The Panthers are coming off a 42-25 win at lowly Florida International that included a rally from an early 16-point deficit. Pitt coach Paul Chryst praised his team’s ability to bounce back, but added the Panthers can’t be so sloppy early on against the Hawkeyes (2-1).
Iowa blew an early 11-point lead in a loss to Iowa State last week. The Hawkeyes are averaging a modest 21 points a game, 102nd in the country. Coach Kirk Ferentz says he hasn’t lost patience with his offense, pointing out his team has narrowly missed a handful of big plays that could have changed the complexion of the game.
ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa (AP) — A union representing correctional officers said Friday the discovery of hundreds of pills inside a prison was a “major security breach.” AFSCME Iowa Council 61 President Danny Homan called on the Iowa Department of Corrections to release more information about the breach, accusing administrators of keeping key details from the public. State officials announced Thursday that 300 to 400 capsules containing an unknown substance were discovered inside the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City.
Homan said that cell phones and chargers were also discovered — a fact that department spokesman Fred Scaletta refused to confirm or deny. Homan said that phones were the “worst kind of contraband” because they allow inmates to communicate with people outside the prison.
Homan also asserted that several inmates there have tested positive for marijuana since the discovery, but that no marijuana had been found. Scaletta declined comment on that claim. Scaletta confirmed Friday that some testing has been done on the pills, but refused to say what it found. He said additional testing is being done by the Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and that more information would be released next week.
Homan said he believes one or more members of the public were able to smuggle in the contraband “because of the lack of staffing and appropriate staff training.” Scaletta said that prison officials “do the best they can with the resources they have” to manage the facility. He said that steps will be taken to prevent a similar breach from happening.
Sheriff’s officials in Cass County say deputies arrested a Griswold woman on drug charges this (Friday) morning. 19-year old Tara Lynn Waters, of Griswold, faces charges that include OWI 1st Offense, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Waters was taken to the Cass County Jail and later released.
On Thursday, Cass County deputies arrested 29-year old Amanda Fay Petrzilka, of Council Bluffs, on a charge of Driving While Revoked. Petrzilka was taken to the Cass County Jail where she was released the following day on her own recognizance.
And there were two arrests Wednesday in Cass County. 45-year old Carl Daniel Wiechmann, of Griswold, was arrested on a charge of Domestic Abuse 2nd Offense. Wiechmann was taken to the Cass County Jail where he was released later that day on $2,000 bond. Also, 33-year old Jessica Ranell Jamison, of Winterset, was arrested Wednesday, on a district court warrant for Probation Violation. Jamison was taken to the Cass County Jail where she is being held on $25,000 bond.
(12-p.m. News)
CARF International announced Friday (Today), that CASS Incorporated has been accredited for a period of three years for its Community Employment, Employment Planning, Organizational Employment, Community Integration and Supported Living services. The latest accreditation is the tenth consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body, CARF, has awarded to CASS Incorporated.
The accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a Three-Year Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process. It has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit its commitment to offering programs and services that are measurable, accountable, and of the highest quality.
CASS Incorporated is a nonprofit organization with offices at 1406 SW 7th Street. It has been providing Community Supported services in the Cass County area since 1977. CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF International, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.
For more information about the accreditation process, please visit the CARF website at www.carf.org.
A new study finds young people who don’t take driver’s education courses are more likely to be involved in collisions and they’re much more likely to get ticketed and be found guilty of traffic law violations. Gail Weinholzer, spokeswoman for Triple-A-Iowa, says vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for teenagers, both in Iowa and nationwide. “Children under the age of 18 who do not participate in a driver’s education class are more likely, not only to be in crashes, but to receive convictions,” Weinholzer says. “We’ve got 30 states across the country that require driver’s education in some form and 20 states that do not.”
Iowa is among the states where driver’s ed is required. Some school districts in the state offer it as a regular course, while other districts require students to use a private, professional driver’s training company. “Obviously, we’re very pleased that Iowa has driver’s education and it’s required for all people under the age of 18,” Weinholzer says. “We certainly can always improve the system by enhancing the graduated driver’s license system, adding things like a parent education seminar, those sorts of things.”
The motor club’s report found students who took driver’s education courses saw a reduction in crashes by four-point-three percent and a drop in convictions by nearly 40-percent. It also found that teens who completed driver’s ed scored higher on the driving exam and demonstrated better knowledge over their peers who had no formal training.
(Radio Iowa)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – This time of the year is the peak season for two mosquito species most likely to carry the West Nile virus, which can cause high fevers and brain-swelling, an Iowa State University researcher said. Brendan Dunphy, an entomology researcher with the university, told The Des Moines Register that “we’re right in the thick of that time.”
Dunphy said the virus tends to be carried by the mosquito species, culex pipiens and culex tarsalis, and that late summer and early fall are the peak season for them. He said those species tolerate cool weather better than their cousins do. He said high numbers of mosquitoes buzzed into Iowa this summer, noting that in one week in July, special traps in Des Moines caught more mosquitoes than had been caught throughout the entire state in 2012. “The numbers were astronomical,” he said. “It was unbelievable.”
Overall, the bug numbers have fallen since July, but Dunphy said continued rainfall has helped the bugs continue to thrive in the state. “The bottom line is that water is the magic ingredient,” Dunphy said. Ann Garvey, deputy state epidemiologist, said that so far this year, the Iowa Department of Public Health has confirmed 11 illnesses and two suspected cases of the West Nile virus.
More than 40 Iowa residents were ill from the virus last year, which first appeared in the state in 2001. To avoid mosquito bites, Dunphy recommended repellents and emptying swimming pools and clogged rain gutters, where mosquitoes breed.