ALICE LINT, 78, of Panora died Wed., Aug., 28th at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Services for ALICE LINT will be held at 11:00-a.m. Wed., Sept., 4th in Twigg Funeral Home in Panora.
Visitation will be held one hour prior to services Wed., Sept., 4th at the funeral home.
Burial will be in West Cemetery in Panora.
The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports an Underwood man was sentenced Tuesday to 8-years in prison for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. U-S District Court Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced handed down the sentence against 35-year old Christopher A. Morresi, who is also required to serve 3-years of supervised release following the completion of his sentence.
Morresi plead guilty on June 7th to being in possession of a firearm as a felon. The charge was the result of an investigation conducted by Council Bluffs Police, after they responded on Dec. 6th, 2012, to a report of a motor vehicle with a passed out driver. Morresi, who was determined to be the driver of the vehicle, had in his possession, a firearm that was reported stolen out of Nemaha County, NE. Prior to Dec. 6th, 2012, Morresi had been convicted of felony offenses in New Jersey and in Iowa.
The recent hot and dry spell has prompted the U.S. Drought Monitor to list nearly a quarter of Iowa in “severe drought.” A week ago, none of the state was in that category. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says it’s clearly very dry across Iowa, but he disagrees with some of the U.S. Drought Monitor’s new assessment. “Right along the Nebraska border, there was actually a fairly good rain there about a week-and-a-half ago. So, I would have left out Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties (from the severe drought category). They’re still plenty dry, but certainly not as dry as the rest of that area,” Hillaker says.
In far northeast Iowa, a section of Allamakee County is labeled as being in “moderate drought.” Hillaker believes that area shouldn’t be listed in that category just yet. Overall, the U.S. Drought Monitor calls all of Iowa at least “abnormally dry,” compared with 82 percent last week. Sixty-percent of Iowa is in moderate drought and 22.4 percent is in severe drought. Hillaker says the lack of moisture and this week’s extreme heat will likely hurt the development of Iowa’s corn and soybeans.
“The worry with most of the corn and soybeans is it’s going to decrease the yield and the corn kernels themselves won’t fill very well with the lack of moisture, which is going to be worsened by the heat…same with the beans,” Hillaker says. This month is on track to enter the record books as Iowa’s 7th driest August. Last month was the state’s 9th driest July on record.
Hillaker says the two months combined have produced the 4th lowest precipitation total in 141 years of records. “The only ones lower were all a long time ago with 1947 being the most recent one. The other two were back in the 1800s,” Hillaker says. The dry spell, which started back in June, follows Iowa’s wettest ever spring. Over the months of March, April, and May, Iowa received a statewide average of nearly 17.5 inches of rain. That was over two inches above the previous record, which was set in the spring of 1892.
(Radio Iowa)
JOSEPH BOES, 54, of Fontanelle, died Thu., Aug. 29th at his home. A Mass of the Resurrection service for JOSEPH BOES will be held 10:30-a.m. Tue., Sept. 3rd, at St. John’s Catholic Church in Greenfield. Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home will be held from Noon until 5-p.m. Mon., Sept. 2nd, with the family greeting friends from 3-to 5-p.m. A Scripture service will be held at the funeral home, beginning at 3-p.m., Monday. Condolences may be left online to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Joseph Boes Memorial Fund, to be established by the family at a later date.
Burial will be in the Greenfield Cemetery, with a luncheon to follow at the church.
JOSEPH BOES is survived by:
His mother – Elsie Boes, of Fontanelle.
His brothers and sisters: Glen (Marsha) Boes, of Escondido, CA; Carol (Larry) Ricke, of Parkersburg; Leroy (Dee) Boes, of Carroll; Allen (Barb) Boes, of Clive; Lynette Feld, of Carroll; Steve (Helen) Boes, of Winfield, IL; Jim (Lynn) Boes, of Adel; Barb (Neil) Merryman, of Urbandale; Jack (Becky) Boes, of Fontanelle; Mary Rick) Downing, of Denver, CO, and Lisa (Todd) Sullivan, of Broken Arrow, OK.
Other relatives, and friends.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A growing season that began unusually wet and cold in the Midwest is finishing hot and dry, renewing worries of drought and its impact on crops. Experts say corn and soybeans may not have enough moisture in dry areas to develop to full weight, which could reduce this year’s harvest.
The weekly Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows that lack of rain has caused drought conditions to expand in parts of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and most of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It also shows that abnormally dry conditions have expanded in eastern Iowa and South Dakota. Rain eased drought in portions of northern Nebraska, but much of the western half of the state remain in extreme drought.
But the drought monitor showed improvement in some states, including Kansas.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa junior Darius Stokes has been awarded a scholarship by coach Fran McCaffery. Coach Fran McCaffery says that Stokes, who has spent the past three seasons as a walk-on for the Hawkeyes, has earned a scholarship because of his energy, enthusiasm and hard work.
Stokes, a 6-foot-7 forward from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has played in 24 games over the past two seasons. His father, Greg Stokes, was an All-Big Ten player at Iowa in the mid-80s and his sister Kiah plays from Connecticut.
Iowa now has 13 scholarship players on its roster for 2013-14.
Police in Atlantic report the arrest on Wednesday of 25-year old Joseph Fredericksen. He was taken into custody on a charge of Criminal Trespassing, booked into the Cass County Jail, and later released on bond.
The P-D reports also, no one was injured during an accident that happened Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot off of west 3rd Street. A vehicle driven by Marsha Borders, of Atlantic, was traveling west out of the lot directly south of 15 w. 3rd. A vehicle driven by Todd Friesleben, of Atlantic was in a parking stall in the same lot and backing out, when it hit Borders’ car. Damage from the accident amounted to $6,000. Friesleben was cited for Unsafe backing.
Four Harlan Firefighters returned home this week following a deployment to Idaho to help battle wild fires. Jason Wickizer, Shelby County Emergency Management Operations Officer, said a crew of 4 firefighters, including himself, was called by the forester in Idaho to help with some local fires. He says before reaching Idaho, the crew saw action in Utah at a fire called the Millville fire. “Once we went there, they broke us away and sent us over to Idaho for a fire. We started our travel on the 11th of August and headed to Idaho and we assisted with the initial suppression of the Placer fire that was threatening Idaho City.”
He says the area they were had seen major damage from past fires. “We could see fire scars that took 45 minutes to drive through where you could see no living trees in both directions to the horizon. So hundreds of thousands of acres of trees gone from past fires.”
Along with Wickizer, Harlan Firefighters Chad Kroger, Brent Kiesel went out to Idaho and Andrea Syrstad was deployed to Alaska to work on fires as a paramedic. Wickizer says all the members who were deployed had the same training except Syrstad has paramedic training. “She has responded out as a paramedic twice and then she went out and assisted on Hurricane Sandy as a type two firefighter. Yes she has those paramedic skills and there sought after.”
He says one other member of the Harlan Fire Department is still out on deployment. “That’s Jordan Saunders and he is out in Montana for a fire. He is qualified as a fire fighter one trainee. He was working with a sawyer, so using a chainsaw and falling trees on a fire for a twenty person type 2 IA crew out there.”
Wickizer said the lack of communication; clean clothes and missing his family are the most difficult things while out on the mission. All the firefighters out on deployment are gaining quite the experience which he says really benefits the department when they return. “So when you look at the experiences they get, if we are ever caught off or deal with a devastating event, these folks will have experience in something similar and put those skills to use to benefit the residents of Shelby County.”
Wickizer’s crew, minus Saunders, was out west for 18 days.
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
FOR SALE: Firewood for Labor Day weekend – $5.00 a bundle – located by Lake Anita State Park – can deliver to Atlantic – 762-3400.
WANTED: Several 5 gallon pails to save young trees. Call 243-4132, will pick-up.
WANTED: Rabbit, with loppy ears. 243-5153
YARD SALE: this Friday-Sun. (August 31st-Sept. 1st) 10 am – 7 pm. 404 W. 8th ST., Atlantic.
FOR SALE: Grape tomatoes for $2/lb. Call 243-4334.
FOR SALE: Desk, $5 or best offer, 20 inches wide by 41 inches long, in Atlantic, call 712-249-3868.
FOR SALE: net wrapped round bales of grass hay. Located south of Anita. Call 712-254-2518.
FREE TO A GOOD HOME: We have four baby kitties to give away in about a week. They are very friendly and litter trained and have been in the house since they were born. One is light orange, one is grey and the other two are tiger striped. Phone numbers are Home 712-254-4409. Cell phone number is 402-681-8855. Our address is 1013 East 1013 E 10th.Atlantic Iowa.
Lavon Eblen speaks with Chris Jahnke with Cass Incorporated about The Enrichment Garden. Autumn Oliver and LouAnn Price also joined to discuss their experience with the garden.
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