(Audubon, Iowa) – Officials with the Audubon County Engineer’s Office/Secondary Roads Department, said Monday, 270th Street between Goldfinch Avenue and Heron Avenue, is currently closed for bridge repairs. The road will remain closed, until further notice. 
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KATELIN M. McALPIN, 26, of Exira, died June 15, 2023, in Loma Linda, CA. Funeral services for KATELIN McALPIN will be held 10:30-a.m. Thursday, June 29, 2023, at the Kessler Funeral Home, in Exira.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is on Wed., June 28th, from 5-until 7-p.m.
Burial is in the Atlantic Cemetery (in Atlantic, IA), at a later date.
KATELIN M. McALPIN is survived by:
Her Mother – JeenLee (and Matt Nielsen), of Exira.
Her father – Shaun McAlpin, of Sunrise Beach, MO.
Her sister – Hunter McAlpin, of Sunrise Beach, MO
Her brother – Crew McAlpin, of Omaha, NE.
Her step-sister and brother: Zoey Nielsen, and Zander Nielsen, both of Exira
Her grandparents: Donna (Jeff) Anderson of Sunrise Beach, MO.; Gerry McAlpin, of Clarinda, and Jeanette Nielsen, of Adair.
other relatives and many friends.
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(Radio Iowa) – The number of insects flying around has picked up as we head into summer. Iowa State University insect specialist, Zach Schumm, says he’s heard reports of one in particular. “Small black flies that actually bite. You can call them buffalo gnats, you can call them biting midges, there’s different names for them as well so they tend to be an annoying one too that has been seemingly particularly bad in some parts of Iowa this year,” Schumm says.
Some areas got much needed weekend rain — but the trade off will be more mosquitoes. “For mosquitoes in particular they really need standing water to reproduce,” he says. “So if we have a lot of standing water around or if you know if rain is replenishing puddles of water that are on the side of the street or replenishing water in ponds and there’s more standing water there then that’s going to allow for more reproduction of mosquitoes.”
Schumm says you should take a look around your yard and empty any of the water sources that might provide a place for the mosquitoes to breed.
(Radio Iowa) – Over the upcoming holiday weekend, tens of thousands of Iowans will be declaring their independence from their houses and heading off on road trips. Brian Ortner, spokesman for Triple-A Iowa, says travel records are being forecast for the four-day weekend, both for the Midwest and for the nation. “Looking at our region, AAA is forecasting more than 3.7-million travelers are going to be taking a trip of at least 50 miles or more between this Friday and Tuesday, July 4th,” Ortner says. “That’s 140,000 more holiday travelers than the previous high that was set last year, which tied the record that was originally set in 2019, our pre-pandemic numbers.”
For the nation, Triple-A predicts 50-point-seven million Americans will be traveling over the long weekend, which is over two-million more than over the 4th of July last year. As far as the travel industry is concerned, the pandemic is a distant memory now, as all travel numbers are back to where they were before COVID-19 disrupted the world. “This year is really going to be the benchmark for that, because we were looking back at pre-pandemic numbers,” Ortner says, “and if we look at where we were for holiday travel during Christmas and Thanksgiving last year, we were edging up on those pre-pandemic numbers, and then Memorial Day we broke pre-pandemic numbers.”
Since the majority of travelers will be in cars, trucks, SUVs and other motor vehicles, gasoline prices are key, and Ortner says compared to a year ago, they’re down considerably. “Last year, between July 1st and July 6th across the state of Iowa, the average price per gallon for gas was $4.57 to $4.61 a gallon, so definitely, we were over that $4 mark last year,” Ortner says. “If we look at gas prices today in Iowa, the average is $3.36, so a dollar-plus more in savings.”
The financial news isn’t all good for vacationers, though, as Triple-A also says airfares and hotel rates are more expensive than last year.
Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Widespread haze before 3pm, then widespread haze after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Light and variable wind becoming south southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4am. Widespread haze before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. South southeast wind 9 to 13 mph becoming east after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tomorrow: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Sunny, with a high near 91. Southeast wind 8 to 15 mph becoming south southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tom.Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 66. North northwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming northeast in the evening. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90.
Friday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 84.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 80. Our Low this morning was 52. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 83, and the Low was 50. The Record High was 103 in 1934. The Record Low was 43 in 1938, 1958, & 1968. Sunrise today is 5:48. Sunset at 8:58.
(Radio Iowa) – A southwest Iowa couple who are the parents of twins born prematurely at 22 weeks say taking their son home from a Des Moines hospital five and a half months later is exciting. Cristal Alvarez of Lenox went into labor on January 11th. “I didn’t think they were going to make it,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes. “…Seeing them here and alive is a miracle and it was really scary for us because you know you never really see babies this early make it…so seeing them now, you know, it’s overwhelming.”
Jacob was one pound, six ounces when he was born 167 days ago. His twin sister, Luna, was three ounces smaller. Luna remains in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines. She’s in stable condition and will be released when she starts getting her food from a bottle. She was the vocal twin, chiming in, as her parents spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon at the hospital.
“It’s exciting to start this adventure with them at home,” Alvarez said. “I know Luna will eventually come home soon, but just seeing them do good is exciting for us, to take them home and be a family.” Dr. Samir Alabsi is medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Blank Children’s Hospital. Dr. Alabsi says the hospital had not been providing active treatment for babies born before 24 weeks, but that changed January 1st. On January 11th, he got a call about Crystal’s early labor and the twins.
“I said: ‘We are ready and we prepared to provide the best care for those babies,'” Alabsi says. “And they came and we did it.” The twins are the first babies born at 22 weeks at the hospital to survive. “They are not only alive, they are alive with good condition,” Alabsi said, “and that’s a big achievement for the team here.” Dr. Alabsi says the survival rate for 22 week old babies in U-S hospitals is between 30 to 50 percent and for twins that age, the survival rate is even lower.
Junior Mendez, the father of the twins, spoke through an interpreter at the news conference. He says after visiting the babies in the hospital for 166 days, it was a happy day to be able to leave the hospital with Jacob.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Junior guard from the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, won the 2023 Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as announced tonight by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
The Honda Cup Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 47 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics”.
Clark was chosen by a vote of administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools.
Clark, from West Des Moines, Iowa, was named the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophy winner along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors.
The guard 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.
She 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.
The CWSA, entering its 47th year, has honored the nation’s top NCAA women athletes for their superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its partnership in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women’s athletics programs.
(Anita) — Since the first pitch both CAM and Coon Rapids-Bayard were ready to play gritty baseball. The Crusaders were first to score in the 3rd thanks to an RBI single from Parker Hays and then a sac-fly RBI from Cade Behrens. They gained a 2-0 lead and were ready to hold. Coon Rapids-Bayard added two more runs in the 4th with an RBI base hit thanks to Cal Heyden and another sac-fly from Lance Clayburg.
The game at that point seemed over until an RBI single from Brayden Chester in the 4th brought life back into the Cougars. The game was now 4-1 and you could feel the excitement from the CAM fans. But the excitement was short lived because Lance Clayburg for the Crusaders continued to throw strikeouts. Clayburg pitched the full 7 innings, had 5 hits, 1 ER, and 14 K’s. CAM’s last hit came in the bottom of the 7th inning. Clayburg finished the game like he started, with a strikeout.
The final score was 5-1.
Coach Ticknor was honest about summarizing the game.
The Cougars remain focused as they look to the post season.
With the loss CAM stands at (8-11) and they will go on the road Tuesday June 27th to play Audubon. The Crusaders improve to (22-4) and are at home Tuesday June 27th against Ar-We-Va.
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