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May has been dry, but not dry enough to set any statewide records. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says an average of three inches of rain fell in the state this past month. “Basically you had a fairly wet first six days of the month and a few places since then have stayed a bit the wet side, mostly northwestern Iowa,” Hillaker says. “But certainly a lot of Iowa, especially the central and southern sections, have been very dry now for the last three, three-and-a-half weeks or so, but not one for the record books, even in those drier areas.” Temperatures in Iowa for May are about six degrees above normal. “(That) probably would put us in the top 10 as far as warmest Mays, although we will be cooling things off here just a tiny bit here in the last couple of days of the month, so that might drop the ranking just a little bit,” Hillaker says. “It’s actually been a more unusually warm month than unusually dry at this point.” A large part of the state currently is classified as “abnormally dry” — the lowest level in a nationwide system that measures drought conditions. The west central and north central Iowa are “moderately dry”.
“Right now, nothing is in an especially bad category as far as drought conditions go, but we’re getting to that time of the year when things can change pretty rapidly if we get higher temperatures and higher evaporation rates because of that,” Hillaker says. “If we don’t get rain, you know, things can dry out very, very quickly at this time of the year.” The southern two-thirds of the state has “parched” topsoil that needs some rain, according to Hillaker, and recent windy conditions are exacerbating the problem.
(Radio Iowa)
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Iowa at Omaha, ppd., rain
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Iowa at Omaha, 6:05 p.m., 1st game
Iowa at Omaha, 8:35 p.m., 2nd game
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FRANCES JEAN “JEANIE” CARLSON, 59, of Atlantic died Tuesday, May 29 at her home in Atlantic. Memorial services for “JEANIE” CARLSON will be held 2-p.m. Tuesday, June 5th, at the Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic.
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Memorials may be directed to the family.
JEANIE CARLSON is survived by:
Husband: William Carlson of Atlantic
Son: Shane (Amy) Kelly of Norfolk, VA
Sister: Susie (Stan) Kinzie of Anita
Brother: Steve McClure of Anita
The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Thursday (May 31st), are expected to act on a Resolution in support of naming two US Highway 6 bridges to commemorate two ‘fallen’ Iowa state troopers: Lance Dietsch and Stan Gerling. Trooper Pilot Lance Dietsch and Trooper Stanley Gerling were killed in an airplane accident on June 30th, 1989, near Atlantic. The pair had been searching for an elderly man who had wandered off, and were about to call off the search when they troopers located him in a soybean field. They began to circle the area when the plane made a sudden turn and crashed vertically into the ground. Troopers Dietsch and Gerling were the first aircraft fatalities since the addition of the Patrol Airwing in 1956.
Trooper Pilot Lance Dietsch
Trooper Dietsch, who lived in Council Bluffs, had served with the Iowa State Patrol for six years.
Trooper Gerling, who lived in Atlantic, had served with the Patrol for one-year.
Trooper Stan Gerling
BILL WOLFE, 89, of Greenfield, died Wed., May 30th, at the Mercy Medical Center–West Lakes, in West Des Moines. Funeral and Masonic Services for BILL WOLFE will be held 10-a.m. Sat., June 2nd, at the First Presbyterian Church in Greenfield. Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.
Visitation will be held on Friday, June 1st, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with the family greeting friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Bill Wolfe memorial fund to be established by the family.
Burial will be in the Greenfield Cemetery.
BILL WOLFE is survived by:
His daughter – Robin (Chad) Wyllie, of Grimes.
His sisters – Ethelyn Rhodes, or Irvine, CA, & Mildred Harrs, of Greenfield.
& 2 grandchildren.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is scrambling to develop a plan for spending federal money to expand payment options at its 200 farmers markets. An appropriations bill provides $4 million in funding to increase farmers markets participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. Iowa is to receive about $161,000. The Gazette in Cedar Rapids says the money has to be obligated by Sept. 30. The funds are to expand the availability of wireless point-of-sale equipment in farmers markets not currently participating in SNAP. Tracy Penick of the Iowa Department of Human Services says the challenge is that vendors use individual devices to run SNAP cards, while the funding is designed to go to farmers markets as a whole.
John R. Whitaker, Iowa State Executive Director for the Farm Service Agency (FSA), today (Wednesday), announced that USDA Secretary Thomas A. Vilsack has approved the closure of three FSA county offices in Iowa, including those in Union County, Decatur and Appanoose Counties. The process will begin immediately. After the required notifications have been provided to producers, FSA employees and office landlords, closure dates will be established and made publically available.
FSA Administrator, Bruce Nelson said in a Press Release, “FSA places the utmost priority on ensuring that our services to producers remain strong as this consolidation process begins.” The agency will provide farmers and ranchers affected by closures an opportunity to choose the most convenient neighboring county office with which to conduct their future business with the agency. In addition, all employees in the closing office will be provided in opportunity to continue to work with FSA.
Officials say as a federal agency, FSA has been affected by widespread budget reductions made by Congress. Since 2011, the Agency has lost 1,230 permanent employees through voluntary early separation and normal retirement. In addition, FSA has been forced to reduce discretionary administrative expense by over 30 percent in the last fiscal year alone. For a complete list of FSA county offices affected by the decision, go to: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/officeconsolidations
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