Jim Field visits with Matt Burkey of the Iowa Bicycle Coalition about a grant from the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau to launch the Bike Rodeo in a Box program.
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(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department report 41-year-old Robert Hudek, of Creston, was arrested this (Friday) morning, on an Assault charge. Hudek was taken into custody at around 6:35-a.m. in the 600 block of N. Cherry Street, in Creston, and charged with Domestic Abuse Assault 2nd Offense. He was being held without bond in the Union County jail, until seen by the Judge.
(Audubon, Iowa) – Officials with the Audubon County Secondary Roads Department report a bridge replacement project in the County, is finished. Bridgework was being conducted on 130th Street between Nighthawk Avenue and Oriole Avenue. Officials say 130th Street is once again open to through traffic.
(Radio Iowa) – Triple A shows the statewide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Iowa is three-36 ($3.36). That’s 20 cents lower than the national average and more than a dollar-30 ($1.30) lower than a year ago. The cheapest gas is in Henry County, where Triple A found it for sale at three-11 ($3.11) a gallon on Thursday. The most expensive fuel prices in the state were in Winneshiek County, where Triple A shows regular unleaded was selling for three-51 a gallon yesterday (Thursday).
(Radio Iowa) – A celebration of the only draft horse bred and developed in the United States is planned for this summer with special programs in three central Iowa communities. What’s known as the American Cream Horse originated in the three towns, Jewell, Ellsworth and Radcliffe. Richard Steffen, spokesman for the Jewell History Museum, says the premiere program about the horse is scheduled for this weekend. “The first is Saturday at four o’clock at the Jewell Museum,” Steffen says, “and it deals with Eric Christian, who was a local veterinarian in Jewell who had a role in this development.”
Two more presentations about the unique breed are being planned for July to educate people about the historic horse from Iowa. “The first one will be in Ellsworth at the library,” he says, “and then a third program will be the following week at the city park in Radcliffe.”
The horse is characterized by the cream or gold champagne color of its coat. It was developed during the first half of the 20th century. The horse is considered an exceptionally rare breed, with only perhaps 400 remaining worldwide. It’s listed as critically endangered.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa is back in the “Drought Watch” category on the system put together last year to keep tabs on the situation. D-N-R Hydrology coordinator, Tim Hall, works with other state agencies in assessing the issue. “We take a number of factors and look at them together. And we we decide whether a region of the state is normal, drought watch, drought warning, or drought emergency,” Hall says. He says the drought watch is similar to a thunderstorm or tornado watch.
“Which is really just a call for people to be very careful and pay attention. Because things are looking on the dry side,” he says, “and right now they’re getting a little bit worse all the time. So we’re just trying to keep an eye out and work with folks to make sure everybody has the information they need.” Hall says the state is also seeing the start of what could be a “flash drought,” or rapid increase in drought conditions in some areas. “Particularly in the eastern part of the state where things just got really dry really fast. We saw the U-S Drought Monitor pop up with severe drought in in parts of northeast Iowa and southeast Iowa. So you know, we were kind of on the mend there for a while and then March and particularly April and May have just turned dry on us and they have not done us any favors,” Hall says.
He says there are some indications the conditions might change and bring more rain, and June is normally the wettest month in the state. Hall says until we see more rain, everyone should do what they can to stop water waste by fixing any leaky fixtures. “Which is which is about as pure and simple wasting water as you can get. If you’re just dribbling it down the drain, you’re using resources to pump the water, to treat the water to get it to your house. And if you’re just letting it go down the drain, that’s an absolute waste of resources,” Hall says. “So figure out how to get those leaking faucets fixed and leaking toilets fixed.”
Hall says the situation may soon call for other measures as well. “Unfortunately, it looks like we’re getting into a situation where we’re going to have to start to remind people that water conservation is a necessary thing,” he says. “And we’re going to have to try to work on that a little bit in the state as we get through these dry, these dry weeks here.”
Hall says the best case scenario would be for normal June rainfall to return and turn the drought conditions around. But he says we have to be prepared if that does not happen.
THIRD Iowa High School Softball Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Class 1A
School Record LW
1 North Linn 13-1 4
2 Martensdale-St. Marys 9-1 8
3 Southeast Warren 12-3 1
4 Newell-Fonda 11-3 2
5 Sigourney 9-1 5
6 Fort Dodge St. Edmond 11-2 10
7 Wayne 9-3 7
8 Remsen St. Mary’s 9-1 3
9 Mason City Newman Catholic 12-2 9
10 Clarksville 12-0 12
11 Collins-Maxwell 9-2 6
12 Logan-Magnolia 7-2 11
13 Earlham 11-4 NR
14 Exira-EHK 9-1 13
15 Twin Cedars 6-2 15
Dropped Out: Woodbine (14)
Class 2A
School Record LW
1 Iowa City Regina 8-3 1
2 Central Springs 11-1 2
3 Lisbon 8-2 3
4 Van Meter 12-3 5
5 Wilton 12-4 4
6 West Monona 12-3 10
7 North Union 10-3 6
8 Cascade 8-6 8
9 Northeast 6-6 9
10 Interstate 35 7-7 14
11 Missouri Valley 15-1 NR
12 Alburnett 11-3 12
13 South Hardin 12-4 7
14 Osage 11-3 11
15 Waterloo Columbus Catholic 13-3 NR
Dropped Out: Louisa-Muscatine (13), Ridge View (15)
Class 3A
School Record LW
1 Williamsburg 13-0 1
2 Davenport Assumption 11-2 2
3 Davis County 11-0 5
4 Dubuque Wahlert 11-2 4
5 Estherville Lincoln Central 15-0 6
6 Mount Vernon 10-2 7
7 Saydel 7-1 3
8 Solon 10-3 8
9 West Lyon 11-0 12
10 Center Point-Urbana 9-3 10
11 Albia 8-3 9
12 Sumner-Fredericksburg 12-2 11
13 Sioux Center 9-3 13
14 Chariton 9-1 14
15 Grinnell 9-3 NR
Dropped Out: Benton (15)
Class 4A
School Record LW
1 Indianola 12-2 5
2 Norwalk 7-2 3
3 Dallas Center-Grimes 9-3 1
4 Fort Dodge 9-3 2
5 Carlisle 10-1 6
6 North Scott 8-4 7
7 North Polk 10-2 8
8 Winterset 10-4 13
9 Burlington 8-1 9
10 Western Dubuque 11-2 10
11 Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-5 4
12 Clear Creek-Amana 9-3 11
13 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 13-2 15
14 Storm Lake 11-0 NR
15 Knoxville 7-2 NR
Dropped Out; Creston (12), ADM (14)
Class 5A
School Record LW
1 Ankeny Centennial 10-1 7
2 West Des Moines Valley 8-3 1
3 Waukee Northwest 11-2 2
4 Ankeny 9-4 6
5 Linn-Mar 10-3 4
6 Southeast Polk 10-6 3
7 Muscatine 10-1 8
8 Pleasant Valley 7-3 5
9 Johnston 7-6 9
10 Bettendorf 6-4 10
11 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 10-3 13
12 Des Moines Lincoln 11-4 11
13 Ottumwa 7-5 NR
14 Dubuque Hempstead 10-5 NR
15 Dubuque Senior 9-3 NR
Dropped Out: Urbandale (12) Ames (14), Sioux City East (15)
The Logan-Magnolia softball team came away with a 15-10 win over Riverside on Thursday night in a game we had on KJAN. It was a game full of some very big swings.
Logan-Magnolia jumped on top 5 nothing right out of the gate in the first. Brooke Johnsen capped off a three-run third for the Panthers with a 2-run blast to right center. The Panthers added another run in the top of the 4th to go up 9-0 and appeared to be running away with the game.
Riverside responded with a monster bottom of the fourth. The Lady Dawgs pounded out 6 hits and scored 10 runs in the frame to rally to take the lead by one. The Panthers committed 4 fielding errors in the inning to assist the Bulldog rally.
Logan-Magnolia responded though with 4 runs in the 5th to grab the lead right back and added 2 more in the 6th to secure the victory.
The Panthers improved to 8-2 on the season. Riverside falls to 5-6.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 6 to 10 mph.
Tonight: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. South southeast wind around 8 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Low around 58. East wind 8 to 11 mph becoming north northeast after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. Breezy. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 76.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 76. The Low was 54. We received .3” rain at the KJAN studios, Thursday. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 77 and the Low was 57. The Record High on this date was 101 in 1985. The Record Low was 38 in 1915. Sunrise is at 5:46. Sunset at 8:52.
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