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Tuesday’s Iowa Boys State Basketball Scores

Sports

March 6th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

2-A State Tournament
First Round
  • Sheldon 63, Pella Christian 57
  • Kuemper Catholic 61, Nodaway Valley 54

Sam Brincks scored 24 points and Kuemper Catholic used a big rebounding advantage to post a 61-54 victory over Fourth ranked Nodaway Valley in a class 2A quarterfinal round game. Kuemper took the lead for good by outscoring the Wolverines 21-11 in the third quarter and then held off a fourth quarter rally to avenge a 64-60 loss to Nodaway Valley in their regular season finale.The Knights owned a 37-27 rebounding advantage in part due to foul trouble to Nodaway Valley center Alex Welsch. The six-foot, seven senior still finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds. Nodaway Valley ends the season with a record of 23-2.

3-A State Tournament
First Round
  • Davenport Assumption 55, Dallas Center-Grimes 45
  • MOC-Floyd Valley 52, Grinnell 44
  • Waverly-Shell Rock 54, Mount Pleasant 49 (OT)
  • Harlan 67, Vinton-Shellsburg 56

Harlan outscored top ranked Vinton-Shellsburg 10-0 to start the third quarter as the Cyclones raced away to a 67-56 victory in a class 3-A quarterfinal round game. Adam Juhl led the Cyclones with 17 points. Maxton Kearns led Vinton-Shellsburg with 19 points. The Vikings suffered their first loss of the season and close it out with a record of 24-1.

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Owner seeks to unload football team via Craigslist

Sports

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A co-owner of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Titans football team is selling his stake through Craigslist. The Titans announced earlier this week that owner Mike Polaski is trying to sell his 20 percent stake in the two-year-old Indoor Football League team. Polaski writes on Craigslist that a downturn in his business as a restaurant owner is the reason and he’s asking for $80,000.

The team’s general manager and co-owner, Chris Kokalis, says Polaski was influential in bringing the team to Cedar Rapids. He says Polaski’s decision to sell has no impact on the Titans’ daily operations. The Titans (3-0) were in first place in IFL’s United Conference and face the Wyoming Cavalry on Friday.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 6th

Trading Post

March 5th, 2013 by admin

FOR SALE: Ash & Elm firewood (still green, has restocked supply, ready to sit and dry) all cut & split – $75 per load; green Bur Oak, needs to be split & cut, not on hand, will be available – $100 per load; will do tree work, not more than 2 feet across or in the Atlantic city limits. 778-4672

FOR SALE: Vintage 1950’s Maytag clothes dryer, white, still works $100. 712-590-7001

FOR SALE: 2 – side tool boxes for pickup box, ladder rack for a standard size pickup box, set of nerf bars for extended cab Chevy trauck. $300 for all or trade. 712-304-4261

WANTED: bakers racks, plant stands, plastic bookshelves, plastic cube stackers/milk crates. 789-9385

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Harkin, Miller and other Democrats seek to raise minimum wage

News

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate Democrats want to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, more than a dollar higher than President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and California Rep. George Miller say their bill, introduced Tuesday, would boost the minimum from its current rate of $7.25 an hour by 2015. It then calls for automatic annual increases tied to changes in the cost of living. Obama’s proposal last month called for an increase to $9 an hour, but Harkin says that doesn’t go far enough.

The lawmakers say a hike in the minimum wage would help lift millions of workers out of poverty and boost the economy. But top Republicans have rejected the idea, saying it would hurt employers.

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33 governors ask IOC to rethink cut to wrestling

Sports

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is hoping support from dozens of governors will help a campaign to keep wrestling in the Olympics. Branstad sent a letter Tuesday co-signed by 33 governors to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. It urges that the committee reconsider its decision to remove wrestling in 2020.

Branstad says in the letter the Olympics should respect key traditions. Wrestling was featured in the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896. He also says the committee should be more transparent about how it votes when cutting sports from the program.

The IOC’s decision earlier this year to remove wrestling has drawn criticism. More than 23,000 people have signed an online petition supporting Branstad’s campaign to save the sport, which is beloved in Iowa.

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Public hearing over Cass County Budget, Wed. morning

News

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing during the meeting Wednesday morning here in Atlantic, with regard to the county’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget. Following the public hearing, which is slated for 9:05-a.m., the board will review a recommendation by the County Compensation Board for a three-percent increase in the salary of all elected officials. The Board also recommended an additional $1,000 for the chairman of the Board of supervisors.

Action will then be taken during the Supervisor’s meeting on adopting the FY 2014 Secondary Roads Budget and FY 2014 Cass County Budget. Other action items on their agenda include authorizing Supervisor Chuck Rieken to sign a 28-E Juvenile Detention agreement, and the amending of  the Cass County Disposition (Of deceased remains) Policy, with an addition to indicate who may apply.

The Cass County Supervisors’ meeting begins at 9-a.m.

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Kuemper topples #4 Nodaway Valley in 2A.

Sports

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Sam Brincks scored 24 points and Carroll Kuemper used a big rebounding advantage to post a 61-54 victory over Fourth ranked Nodaway Valley in a class 2A quarterfinal round game. Kuemper took the lead for good by outscoring the Wolverines 21-11 in the third quarter and then held off a fourth quarter rally to avenge a 64-60 loss to Nodaway Valley in their regular season finale. The Knights owned a 37-27 rebounding advantage in part due to foul trouble to Nodaway Valley center Alex Welsch. The six-foot, seven senior still finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds. Nodaway Valley ends the season with a record of 23-2.

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Two Sioux City men plead guilty to child porn charges

News

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Two Sioux City men have reached plea agreements on child pornography charges. Court information shows 27-year-old Chad Carver pled guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography. Carver admitted that distributed child porn on the internet between September 2010 and September 2011. Carver has agreed to be sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison with a maximum sentence of 20 years.

Forty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Huygens pled guilty to one count of distributing and one count of receiving child pornography between September and December of 2011. Huygens faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 80 years. Sentencing dates are still pending for both men. Both men were prosecuted under the national Project Safe Child Initiative where federal officials work with state and local law officers to crack down on child exploitation and abuse.

(Radio Iowa)

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Coalition urges federal funding to protect Loess Hills, Neal Smith refuge

Ag/Outdoor, News

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A coalition of Iowa environmental groups, elected leaders and outdoor enthusiasts is sending a letter to President Obama, urging him to fully fund a program to preserve Iowa’s two biggest patches of prairie. The president will announce his budget recommendations for the next fiscal year this week. Amelia Schoeneman, of Environment Iowa, says the Land and Water Conservation Fund helps states buy private land to create parks.

Over the years, we’ve actually seen a decrease in funding which has put places like Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and the Loess Hills in western Iowa at risk of development and the conversion to farmland,” Schoeneman says. “There’s slowly a decrease in funds that could go towards acquiring more land and expanding these natural areas in Iowa.” The Iowa groups want to see 900-million dollars recommended for the fund. She says Iowa was originally more than 80-percent prairie, but through development and farmland over the decades, there’s now less than one-percent prairie in the state.

“Neal Smith is a unique area because it’s a restored prairie and it’s one of the largest attempts at a prairie restoration in the nation,” Schoeneman says. “The Loess Hills is very unique because it contains the largest preserved prairie, or original prairie, in the state of Iowa.” She says those two key areas, and dozens of other beloved parks in Iowa, have been providing our state’s residents with lifelong memories for decades. “Neal Smith is located just 20 miles east of Des Moines, so it’s threatened by development and most of the lands surrounding the preserve are farmlands which are also encroaching upon the reserve,” Schoeneman says. “You have the same issues with the Loess Hills with Sioux City and Council Bluffs in development as well as a conversion to farmland threatening these places.”

Groups and individuals signing the letter to the president include: Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Iowa Audubon Society, Iowa Environmental Council, Iowa Wildlife Federation, Active Endeavors in Des Moines, Iowa City and Davenport, the Iowa Farmers Union, State Representative Dan Kelley and
State Senator Nancy Boettger, from Harlan.

(Radio Iowa)

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Shelby County Board of Supervisors News

News

March 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Shelby County Supervisors have approved the Fiscal Year 2012 audit. During a regular meeting this (Tuesday) morning, Chris Nelson from Gronewold and Company, told the supervisors the county is in a good financial situation. He said “Overall you are in a good position. You have very little debt and good infrastructure. You always have projects that needed to be done and find financing for those. But overall the county is in good financial health.”

In other business, Shelby County Treasurer Carolyn Blum told the Board her office needs a new counter door, and the board approved a new crank counter door for $4,282. Shelby County Auditor Marsha Carter mentioned also, the county needs a real estate program update. The County has been budgeting for the update for the past few years. The board approved an estimate of $56,216, which will come out of the FY 2014 budget. The estimate includes training and travel for county workers.

The Shelby County Board received some good news during their meeting, from Supervisor Roger Schmitz, who reported that as of June 1st, the County will be debt free after paying off the 2007 Douglas Road bond. Schmitz said “When we had the bond we couldn’t pay it off for 5 years. Our 5 years will be up on June 1st. We will owe $605,000. We never spent all the money we bonded and we will have $422,162. So anyway, if we pay it off the first of June, we will save $72,425.04”

The Board approved a resolution authorizing the payment.

(Joel McCall/KNOD)

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