Lavon Eblen speaks with Tova Brandt, Curator of Exhibits at the Museum of Danish America (Formerly Danish Immigrant Museum), about an upcoming brown bag lunch event.
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Lavon Eblen speaks with Tova Brandt, Curator of Exhibits at the Museum of Danish America (Formerly Danish Immigrant Museum), about an upcoming brown bag lunch event.
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Students with the Atlantic High School will be scattered throughout the community today (Wednesday), volunteering their time to help spruce-up the town and at the same time, help out the Atlantic Food Pantry. AHS Principal Heather McKay says the “Service Learning Day” is held every other year, opposite of “Career Day,” but this is the first time the event has been held in the fall. She says the project started many years ago, and began with former AHS Principal Roger Herring. McKay says it’s an opportunity for the kids to give back to the community.
The event is normally held in late April, but bad weather, conflicts in scheduling and a demonstrated need by residents in the community for help with winterizing their homes in the fall, prompted the change. JoAnn Runyan, District School to Work Coordinator says the 444-high school students dressed in their gold and black Trojan gear will be divided up into 30-groups and will be doing volunteer work at various venues, with the assistance of local groups and the Parks and Rec Department.
The students will be scattered out throughout the community until noon. Runyon says in addition to the clean-up jobs they will be handling, students will be collecting non-perishable items for the Atlantic Food Pantry. She says seven groups of seminar students will be out until 11:30-a.m. to collect food for the pantry.
If you’re not going to be home to donate food, you can place your non-perishable food items on the porch or front step for the students to pick up, or bring them to the Atlantic Food Pantry.
A representative of the Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund says the organization recently donated $1,100 to the Atlantic Junior Sports Association (AJSA). Melanie Petty says the funds will help the AJSA to purchase a Football Chute, 5×10-foot Landing Mat and Chute Board Football Training Aides.
Petty says they are excited to learn how much the AJSA has grown in the last few years, and look forward to watching the kids continue to play in years to come. She said also, another donation of over $2,000 was given to the AHS Football Program to purchase items they needed to kick off their 2013 season.
Petty says football was always part of Trevor’s life, so the two donations are a perfect fit for the Memorial Fund to give back to the community.
CLARENCE FISCHER, 94, of rural Dedham (& formerly of rural Audubon), died Wed., Oct. 16th. A Mass of Christian Burial service for CLARENCE FISCHER will be held 10:30 a.m. Sat., Oct. 19th, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Dedham. Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll after 3:30 p.m. Friday where there will be a rosary at 4 p.m. and a Christian Wake Service by St. Joseph Parish at 7 p.m. The casket will be moved to the church at 9 a.m. on Saturday where visitation will continue until the time of the funeral mass.
Burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, with Military honors conducted by the Dedham American Legion, and the Audubon V.F.W.
Jim Field speaks with Atlantic High School Principal Heather McKay and School to Work Coordinator JoAnn Runyan about service learning day going on today for Atlantic High School.
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The President of the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is calling on members to share their opinions on a host of issues prior to the ICA’s policy meeting in December. Ed Greiman (GRY-man) of Garner says one of the hot topics up for debate among cattlemen involves ethanol and the Renewable Fuels Standard. The ICA has historically supported the ethanol industry, but with talk of increasing the percentage of ethanol in gasoline, Greiman wants to know if that support is still there.
“The real question I have of our members is…do we support the mandate maybe going to 15-percent? We hear a lot of rumblings about that and I do believe that debate is going to happen sometime in the next year,” Greiman says. Ethanol is made from corn and some livestock producers are concerned that a move to E-15 will raise the cost of feed. “I would like more direction from our members,” Greiman says. “How do they feel about increasing the mandate?”
Another issue is Country of Origin Labeling on meat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Department is pushing for labeling to be mandatory, while many in the cattle industry want labeling to be voluntary. Greiman wants to hear from Iowans on that issue as well. “I just want to make sure that we have policy in place at the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association that represents what Iowa cattlemen, across the state, really are thinking,” Greiman says.
Association members are encouraged to call the ICA state office in Ames, and share their opinions, at (515) 296-2266. The ICA’s annual policy meeting is scheduled for December 9th through the 11th in Altoona.
On the web at www.iacattlemen.org
(Radio Iowa)