NEWTON, Iowa (AP) – The IndyCar series race at Iowa Speedway will be held on a Sunday afternoon in 2013. The series announced Sunday that the Iowa race will be held on June 23 of next year. The event on Iowa’s short oval will be staged on a Sunday after two years of being held on a Saturday night. The seventh annual IndyCar race in Iowa will be broadcast on ABC.
Meetings are planned this month in more than 100 Iowa towns where the U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce hours at post offices. Peter Hass, a spokesperson for the U-S-P-S in Iowa, says window hours could be reduced to 2, 4 or 6 hours a day depending on the location. “We want to hear our customers’ feedback on what their preferences are and we’re going to be doing community meetings in every community where we have a proposed change in the retail hours for a post office,” Hass said.
The USPS originally proposed closing 3,700 rural post offices around the country to cut costs, but altered the plan to simply reduce retail hours. Hass notes access to a post office’s P.O. Boxes would remain the same under the plan – only access to a clerk to buy stamps or mail a package would be limited.
The meetings happening in Iowa begin next week. Hass said Iowans who can’t attend a meeting in their community can still provide feedback. “Prior to the meetings, we’re sending out notifications to our customers in those communities with a survey, so they can provide their input in that way as well,” Hass said. The USPS is searching for ways to cut costs in response to a 25% drop in mail volume in the past five years. The plan to reduce rural post office hours is projected to save the Postal Service $500 million a year.
Here is a partial schedule of the meetings set to occur at Post Offices or other locations in southwest Iowa:
Oct. 9th: 6-p.m. at the Braddyville City Hall.
Oct. 15th: Orient Post Office, 2:15-p.m.; Fontanelle Post Office, 4-p.m; Cumberland Post Office- 5:15-p.m.; Grant Post Office, 6:30-p.m.
Oct. 16th: Prescott Post Office, 2-p.m.
Oct. 17th: De Soto Post Office, 1-pm.; Macksburg Post Office, 2:30-p.m.
Other location and meeting times can be found here: http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/our-future-network/post-plan.htm#toggle_oct2012
(Radio Iowa/Ric Hanson)
Mon. Oct. 1st 2012, at the Greenfield Golf and Country Club
Boys Champion – Creston; Runner-up: Nodaway Valley.
Girls Champion – Griswold; Runner-up: Creston.
Boys Individual Champion: Colton Graham, Senior @ N-V; Runner-up: Timmy Settlemoir, N-V freshman.
(3-0) Adair-Casey 25-25-25, Guthrie Center 20-19-20
(3-1) A-H-S-T 25-25-22-25, Boyer Valley 17-15-25-20
(3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Sidney 15-17-23
(3-0) Heartland Christian 25-25-25, Clarinda Academy 6-19-7
(3-0) Nishnabotna 25-25-25, Essex 20-12-7
(3-0) Stanton 25-25-25, Heartland Christian 8-12-7
(3-0) Villisca 25-25-25, East Mills 18-12-21
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NAOMI DeVOSS, 95, of Atlantic, died Mon., Oct. 1st, at the Allen House in Atlantic. Funeral services for NAOMI DeVOSS will be held 1-p.m. Fri., Oct. 5th, at the 1st United Methodist Church in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home, in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family will be held from 6-to 8-pm Thu., Oct. 4th, at the funeral home.
Burial will be in the Grant Cemetery.
Memorials may be directed to the family for later designation.
NAOMI DeVOSS is survived by:
Her children – Dianne (George) Behrends, of Wiota; Ed (Lana) DeVoss, of Pleasant Hill, MO.; Lindy Klinge, of Ankeny, and Gary (Nadine) DeVoss, of Council Bluffs.
11 grandchildren & 11 great-grandchildren.
HAZEL G. CHRIST, 94, of Exira, died Sept. 27th, at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services for HAZEL CHRIST will be held 1-p.m. Thu., Oct. 4th, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home is open, with the family visitation set to take place from 5:30-to 7:30pm Wednesday, and an Eastern Star service at 6:30-p.m.
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery, in Atlantic following a funeral luncheon.
HAZEL CHRIST is survived by:
Her children – Ronald (Martha) Christ, of Vallejo, CA: George (Julie) Christ, of Windsor Heights; and Catherine (Ronald) Barkey, of Des Moines.
3 grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
ALICE ISABEL (Sparling Thompson) BASSETT, 94, of Guthrie Center, died Sun., Sept. 30th, at the New Homestead in Guthrie Center. Funeral services for ALICE BASSETT will be held 10:30-a.m. Thu., Oct. 4th, at the 1st United Methodist Church in Guthrie Center. Twigg Funeral Home in Guthrie Center has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 4-to 7pm Wed., Oct. 3rd.
Burial will be in the Canby Cemetery at Canby, IA.
IRENE D. CHRISTENSEN, 96, of Audubon, died Sat., Sept. 29th, at the Friendship Home in Audubon. Funeral services for IRENE CHRISTENSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Oct. 3rd, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present 6-p.m. Tue., Oct. 2nd.
Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Kimballton.
IRENE CHRISTENSEN in survived by:
Her children – Jerry (Carole) Christensen, of Salina, KS; Donna (Art) Malloy, of Churdan; and Paul (Sharon) Christensen, of Audubon.
Her brother – Ed (June) Faaborg, of Des Moines.
9 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren & great-great grandchildren, her brother-in-law, other relatives, and friends.
Deputies in Montgomery County are investigating a residential burglary in Villisca. Officials say sometime between 3:30-p.m. Sunday and 9-a.m. Monday, someone entered the bedroom of a home in the 100-block of West 5th Street, in Villisca. Entry was gained through a screen window. Inside, the person or persons responsible for the theft, took $260 in cash bills and a mason jar with an estimated $35 in change. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office’ Crime Stoppers line at 1-800-432-1001.
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