Jim Field talks about some of the unusual holidays on the 2013 calender.
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As many people celebrated ringing in the New Year, several fire departments were called to the city of Dunlap for a building fire. The structure fire was located in the 100th block of 3rd Street at the intersection of Highway 30 in Dunlap. According to officials with the Dunlap Fire Department, the call came in around 7:20pm Monday.
Crews from Denison, Dow City and Woodbine were called in to help with the fire. The Denison Fire Department had to use their ladder truck to help with the fire as flames were shooting out of the top of the building. The building, once known as Linda’s Drapery in Dunlap, was a total loss. No injuries were reported as no one was inside. The Dunlap Fire Department was on scene for 5 hours. During that time, traffic was re-routed around Highway 30 with the assistance of the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office and Dunlap Police Department.
The building is said to be a total loss. The cause of the fire is unknown and officials say an investigation is being conducted by the State Fire Marshall’s Office.
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
LAVONNE KLINKEFUS, 93, of Exira, died Sun., Dec. 30th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for LAVONNE KLINKEFUS, will be held 11-a.m. Fri., Jan. 4th, at the Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon.
Visitation at the funeral home will be held one-hour prior to the service (10-a.m.), Friday.
LAVONNE KLINKEFUS is survived by:
Her daughter – Judy Nelson, of Atlantic.
You may’ve heard there’s a high-tech automobile simulator at the University of Iowa, but the campus is also home to a bicycle simulator. Dr. Jodie Plumert is co-director of the sophisticated virtual environment which is used to study how children make decisions in heavy traffic without being at risk. Plumert says the simulator immerses bicycle riders in a city-scape. “There’s a bicycle that sits in the middle of these three very large screens that are placed at right angles to each other so it completely wraps around the person who’s riding the bike,” Plumert says. “As you pedal the bike, you actually appear to be moving through the environment. As you turn, you appear to be turning and so on.”
She says one focus of the bicycling simulator is to compare how kids and adults cross intersections filled with virtual on-coming cars and trucks. “They bicycle up to an intersection and they see traffic that’s coming on the cross street,” Plumert says. “They just watch the traffic and then they cross when they think they can cross without getting hit by a car. They go on and do that again at the next intersection and they do that for 12 or 14 intersections.”
From the recent research, Plumert says they’re seeing a pattern in the children bicyclists, ages 10, 12 and 14. She says they choose the same gaps in traffic as the adults to cross, but they tend to hesitate before pulling out. “What happens is that they end up with less time to spare than the adults have,” Plumert says. “One thing we’ve been able to pinpoint is that kids, even at these older ages, when you put them in a fairly challenging traffic situation, are not coordinating their movements with the traffic as well as the adults are.”
There are some 600-thousand bicycle-related injuries treated in emergency rooms nationwide each year. Children ages five to 15 years old represent a particularly vulnerable segment of the cycling population. Motor vehicles are involved in about one-third of all bicycle-related brain injuries and in 90-percent of all fatalities resulting from bicycle crashes.
(Radio Iowa)
Police in Red Oak report the arrest this (Wednesday) morning of 50-year old Janis Kyle Hunt. Hunt, who’s from Red Oak, was taken into custody in the 15-hundred block of North 4th Street, on charges of Trespassing and Open Container. Hunt was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 cash bond.
The Board of Supervisors in Adair County will hold the first meeting of the month and year this morning, in Greenfield. Like their counterparts in Cass County, the bulk of their duties today are administrative, including: the election of a chair and vice-chairperson; approval an organizational resolution; approval resolutions pertaining to travel policy and the Master Matrix, and designation of the official newspapers for 2013.
In other business, the Adair County Supervisors will hold a public hearing beginning at 9:30-a.m., with regard to a Fiscal Year 2013 budget amendment, followed by action on a resolution to approve the amendment, an appropriations and transfer resolution, and the assignment of fund balances.
The Supervisors’ meeting begins at 9-a.m. in their boardroom at the courthouse in Greenfield.
Average High: 38 degrees; Average Low: 16; Warmest daytime high: 63 on Dec. 3rd; Lowest daytime high: 13 on Dec. 25th; Coldest Low: -2 on the 29th & 31st.
Precipitation for the month (including rain and melted snowfall): 1.55″
Snowfall for the month: 9.1″
(Data from KJAN, the official National Weather Service reporting station for Atlantic).
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A monthly economic index for nine Midwest and Plains states rose again last month but still suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months. The Mid-America Business Conditions index hit 49.5 in December, up from November’s 48.0 and October’s 46.5.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says he’s expecting only small regional increases in the job market. The survey of business leaders and supply managers uses a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth while a score below 50 suggests decline for that factor.
The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
The (podcast) KJAN listening area forecast from Freese-Notis Meteorologist Harvey Freese, and weather data for Atlantic from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson….
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