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Iowa bicycling enthusiasts may not be able to do much pedaling in the freezing cold right now, but they’ll be flocking by the thousands to Des Moines later this week for the Iowa Bicycle Summit. Mark Wyatt, executive director of the Iowa Bicycle Coalition, says it’s actually three big events rolled into one weekend. “We have the Iowa Bicycle Summit which is our education conference,” Wyatt says. “We train people to build trails and teach people how to install bike lanes and build better bicycling facilities into communities. The second thing we have is the Iowa Bike Expo which is our big outdoor enthusiast’s place to see new gear, new bicycles and find new destinations to vacation with your bicycle next summer.”
The third event is the Route Announcement Party for the annual RAGBRAI, a statewide ride that draws more than 10-thousand cyclists from across the world every summer. Wyatt says this statewide summit event at the Iowa Events Center continues to grow every year. “We’re actually setting a record for the Iowa Bicycle Summit at 140 people so far registered, so that’s outstanding,” Wyatt says. “The Iowa Bike Expo, last year we had great weather and had about 3,000 people attend. We have over 90 vendors that are going to be present to talk about bikes and gear and destinations.”
Iowa has some two-thousand miles of bike trails, with some of the longest continuous trail systems in the country. “Over half of Iowans, and we have 3-million Iowans, over half own a bicycle,” Wyatt says. “They may not ride them but certainly we know people have access to bicycles. It’s not too difficult to see the large increases in the amount people bicycling, especially with the introduction of a lot of trails and bike lanes and other infrastructure we have that really make it easy to go out and enjoy yourself.”
Learn more about the events on Friday and Saturday at www.bikeiowa.com.
Jim Field speaks with Susan Oliver, 4-H and Youth Coordinator for ISU Cass County Extension, about STEM.
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Police in Council Bluffs are investigating the robbery early this (Monday) morning of a convenience store. Authorities say officers were called to the Kwik Shop at 3622 Avenue “G” at around 2:15-a.m. The victim told police two individuals entered the store, one of whom displayed a handgun and demanded cash from the register.
After the clerk complied, the suspects left the area in a vehicle, with an undetermined amount of cash. No one was injured, and the incident remains under investigation by the Bluff’s P-D’s Criminal Investigation Division.
Much of Iowa is waking up to brutally cold temperatures this (Monday) morning. A wind chill warning is in effect until noon today for a wide section of north-central Iowa while an area north of Interstate 80 is under a wind chill advisory. Rod Donovan is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Johnston. Temperatures are 5 to 10-below in northern Iowa as increasing north winds knock wind chills down to 25 to 35-below, which will last much of the morning.
Donovan says the cold weather will be hanging around for several days. Tuesday will see a slight warm-up into the teens with 20s on Wednesday, but he’s expecting temps below freezing all week. Donovan says Iowans will have to wait until next weekend for daytime highs in the 20s and 30s.
(at 5:30-a.m., it was 1 degree above zero in Atlantic, with winds NW @ 15-25 mph, creating a wind chill factor of around -21.)
(Radio Iowa)
Here’s the Freese-Notis (podcast) forecast for Atlantic and the KJAN listening area, and the weather data for Atlantic…..
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(4:05-a.m. 1/21/13)
**Wind Chill Advisory until Noon for Audubon, Guthrie, Crawford, Carroll and Greene Counties**
M.L.King Day: Scattered flurries before 9am. Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 10. Wind chill values as low as -20. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 1. Wind chill values as low as -10. North northwest wind 6 to 9 mph.
Tuesday: A chance for flurries, then a slight chance of snow showers between noon and 3pm, and then a chance for flurries again. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 19. Wind chill values as low as -10. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night: Scattered flurries before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 10. Wind chill values as low as zero. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 6 mph in the evening.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 28. South southwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 12.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 26.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Governor Terry Branstad has released his budget proposal, but one key part of the plan remains a question mark. That’s compensation for the roughly 20,000 union represented state workers in Iowa. And the acrimonious tone between Branstad and union officials suggests the current contract talks will not be easily resolved.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials say they made a mistake in releasing the records of 328 state employees because nearly half of those resigned to avoid being fired. The state says 145 of the people included in the initial list of fired employees resigned to avoid having a termination on their record. Earlier this month, the Des Moines Register reported that 33 employees who had been fired were later rehired by the state.
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa veterans who want to showcase their military service on their driver’s licenses are disappointed they have to wait until their current license expires. KWWL reports a new law took effect last week allowing Iowans to have a veteran designation on their licenses to help them get discounts.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Deon Mitchell scored 20 points, leading four Northern Iowa players in double figures, and the Panthers routed Drake 85-55 yesterday. Jake Koch had 16 points and a team-high seven rebounds, and Seth Tuttle and Anthony James scored 10 points apiece for the Panthers, who shot 60 percent from the field, making 30 of 50 shots in Cedar Falls.
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