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Iowa Girls Coaches Association 2012 All-State Basketball Teams

Sports

March 6th, 2012 by Jim Field

Class 1A
1ST TEAM
MALLORY BOYLE, NORTH MAHASKA
KAILEY KLADIVO, NORTH TAMA
ERICA DRECKMAN, MARCUS MERIDAN CLEGHORN
CAILA RAYMOND, BEDFORD
DANI KOCK, AR-WE-VA
MADDY PEPPERS, EXIRA-EHK
BRIANNA JAMES, LYNNVILLE SULLY
JESSICA BALEK, NEWMAN CATHOLIC
2ND TEAM
KARLIE SCHUT, IOWA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
WHITNEY VANDER MATEN, BOYDEN-HULL
RENEE MANEMAN, NEWELL FONDA
MARY HALVERSON,COON RAPIDS BAYARD
EMILY BELL BISHOP, GARRIGAN, ALGONA
DANA WEERHEIM, WEST SIOUX
STEPH ROHE, LEMARS GEHLEN
KAYLA LINDENMEYER, BEDFORD
3RD TEAM
JADE LYNN VLOTHO, WEST SIOUX
CASSIDY BANGASSER, NORTH BUTLER
TARA SMITH NORTH, MAHASKA
KATIE DENTLINGER, COON RAPIDS BAYARD
BRITTNAY BRYAN, LYNNVILLE SULLY
PAIGE DANNER, AR-WE-VA
ALEE HUGEN, TWIN CEDARS
LEXI ACKERMAN, CENTRAL LYON
Class 2A
1st Team
Jessie Pauley, OA-BCIG
Tember Schechinger, IKM-Manning
Jasmin Schelhaas, Pella Christian
Brooke Wolterstorff, Western Christian
Alyssa Johnson, Estherville Lincoln Central
Morgan VanDerSloot, OA-BCIG
Kaylee Blake, IKM-Manning
Makenzie Zeitler, Van Buren
2nd Team
Anna Mallen, West Hancock
Allie Sievert, Estherville Lincoln Central
Liz Skotowksi, Mount Vernon
Kelsey Ernst, Bellevue
Leah Miller, Lawton-Bronson
McKenzie Shipley, West Marshall
Olivia Godfrey, Panorama
Brooke Stahlberg, Monticello
3rd Team
Olivia Sulentic, Interstate 35-Turo
Miranda Murphy, North Polk
Maddi Drees, Kuemper Catholic
Carly Pagel, Sumner-Fredericksburg
Zoe Dutchik, Regina, Iowa City
Britny Halleland, Roland-Story
Taryn Wicks, South Hamilton
Haleigh Hempen, Aplington-Parkersburg
Class 3A
1st Team
Alexis Conaway, MOC Floyd Valley
KJ Veldman, Spirit Lake
Madison Weekly, Benton
Madison Baier, South Tama
Mackenzie Bigbee, Williamsburg
Taylor Shull, Mount Pleasant
Morgan Lucy, Glenwood
Regan Cooper, Pella
2nd Team
Bobbie Burrows, Bondurant-Farrar
Danielle Moore, Davenport Assumption
Madison Yohe, Heelen
Sydney Griener, Washington
Aftin Phyfe, Waverly-Shell Rock
Tessa Leytem, Dubuque Wahlert
Madison Welty, Western Dubuque
Hailey Schneden, Davenport Assumption
3rd Team
Natalie Vondrak, Heelen
Besty Thomas, Sergant Bluff-Luton
Olivia Starecvich, Centerville
Jackie Yount, Bondurant-Farrar
Katie Ahrenholtz, Ballard
Naomi Phillips, Waverly-Shell Rock
Ashley Rosenstiel, Oelwein
Mariah Criswell, Winterset
Class 4A
1st Team
Maddie Manning, Ankeny
Caitlin Ingle, SE Polk
Ally Disterhoft, Iowa City West
Jadda Buckley, Mason City
McKenzie Piper, Iowa City West
Courtney Strait, Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Kelsey Nickerson, Ottumwa
Blaire Thomas, Waterloo West
2nd Team
Meg Goodson, Waukee
Tatum Klein, Iowa City West
Shaya Kellogg, Ames
Leti Lerma, Muscatine
Whitney Van Wyk, SE Polk
Mickey Hansche,Iowa City High
Sierra Chambers, Iowa City High
Myah Mellman, Mason City
3rd Team
Madison Dellamuth, Cedar Rapids Prairie
Kaz Brown, Cedar Falls
Maddie Koolbeck, Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Krista Pettepier, Ankeny
Tanya Meyer, Sioux City West
Kristie Sommer, Dubuque Senior
Danielle Franklin, Cedar Rapids Washington
Courtney Rush, Mason City

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Crock Pot Pizza Casserole (3-6-12)

Mom's Tips

March 6th, 2012 by Jim Field

  • 1 1/2 lbs. hamburger
  • 12 oz. package of kluski noodles, cooked
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 8 oz. spaghetti sauce
  • 4 oz. mozzarella cheese
  • 8 oz. pizza sauce
  • 4 oz. American cheese

Brown hamburger and onion, drain.  Add spaghetti and pizza sauces.  Put 1/2 of cooked noodles in bottom of crock pot.  Add layer of hamburger mixture.  Sprinkle half of each of the cheese over that; repeat layers of each.  Cook 30 minutes on high and turn to low for 1 1/2 hours.

Mushrooms optional

Pepperoni slices

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PETA may file lawsuit challenging “ag gag” law

Ag/Outdoor

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

A spokesman for an animal rights organization says his group may file a lawsuit challenging a new Iowa law that establishes new penalties for trying to go undercover on a farm or in a livestock confinement. Dan Mathews, a senior vice president for PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, says the law sends a message that there’s something to hide on Iowa farms. “It’s brought a lot of people to our website wanting to see the footage that we got at the Hormel farm in Iowa that everyone got so upset about and wants to keep cameras off farms as a result of that case,” Mathews says. “I think that this is going to come back to haunt Iowa agriculture more than they could ever imagine.” Mathews says Iowa has “singled itself out” as a state with something to hide.

“I don’t think that is a very strong message to send to consumers,” Mathews says. Mathews expects some of PETA’s student groups may try to keep Iowa-raised beef out of school cafeterias and while Mathews says “all options” are on the table, he’s not sure about a nationwide boycott of Iowa-raised food. Governor Branstad says if a person goes on Iowa farm property “through fraud or deception or lying”, they should be held legally accountable for trying to “disrupt agricultural operations.”

(O. Kay Henderson/Radio Iowa)

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Iowa Red Cross worker sees devastation of tornadoes

News

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

An Iowa Red Cross worker expects to return to the state today (Tuesday) after moving around to several states helping with tornado recovery. Siouxland Red Cross communications director, Tammy Pech, was in Henryville, Indiana Monday — a town that was hit with an E-F-four (EF-4) tornado packing winds of 175-miles-an-hour. “The town is pretty much leveled, every home has some sort of damage. A lot of the homes have a destroyed status to them,” she says describing the damage. “As you look out over the fields, or you look out over the hill, what used to be homes and trees and schools are gone, just big piles of rubble. So, it was pretty devastating to see,” Pech says.

The Red Cross is providing shelter and counseling to the storm victims. Pech says the disaster mental health volunteers are going out and making sure everyone is well, especially since they had a tornado go through the same area last year as well. Pech had left Sioux City for Harrisburg, Illinois last Tuesday to help with storm recovery in that area, and has been moving from state to state as the tornadoes have moved through. That included a close call with one of the storms. “Friday we learned that this tornado system was coming through, so they prepositioned us over in Kentucky. And was we were heading east, we actually got stuck in a town called Mount Vernon, and we actually had to take shelter ourselves from three tornadoes that came within 10 miles of us as we were driving,” Pech says. You can help the tornado recovery by donating to the effort. “They can call 1-800-Red-Cross. They can click RedCross.org, or they can text Red Cross to 90999, and that’s a 10 dollar donation on their cellphone bill,” Pech says. The tornadoes claimed 39 lives in five states.

(Dar Danielson/Radio Iowa)

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Most of northwest Iowa needs moisture, USDA says

Ag/Outdoor, Weather

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture says most of northwest Iowa is still short of soil moisture. Recent rain and snow have brought some moisture to the state, but the USDA said Monday that 86 percent of northwest Iowa remains short or extremely short of the moisture desired by farmers for their crops. According to The Des Moines Register, experts say soil moisture is adequate in most of the eastern half of Iowa. And statewide, topsoil moisture levels were rated as being 19 percent very short, 34 percent short, 46 percent adequate and 1 percent surplus. A year ago, 99 percent of Iowa reported adequate or surplus moisture after three years of above-average rain and snow.

Posted in Ag/Outdoor, Weather |

(Podcast) Skyscan Forecast, Tue. March 6 2012

Podcasts

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

Here’s the forecast for the KJAN listening area and the weather stats for Atlantic….

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KENNETH WOLFF, 49, of Audubon (Svcs 3-8-12)

Obituaries

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

KENNETH WOLFF, 49, of Audubon, died Mon., March 5th, at his daughter’s home in Audubon. Funeral services for KENNETH WOLFF will be held 3-p.m. Thu., March 8th, at the Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic.

Visitation is open daily at the funeral home, from 8am-5:30pm, with a family visitation scheduled from 5-7pm Wednesday (3/7).

Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Hancock.

Kenneth Wolff is survived by:

His mother – Mary Jansen, of Avoca.

His father – Vern (Marilyn) Wolff, of Hancock.

His children – Tina (Jason) Malloy, Tiffany (Keith) Schon; Tony Wolff & her fiance’ Nate Greve, and Travis Wolff…all of Audubon.

His brother – James (Mary) Wolff, of Hutchinson, KS.

His sisters – Veranne Huscher, of Sioux City; Rhonda (Jerry) Richards, of Defiance; LaVern (Brian) Frybarger,  and LaVonne Schmidt, all of Rapid City, SD.

and 8 grandchildren.

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DORIS A. RASMUSSEN, 76, of Harlan (No svcs. planned)

Obituaries

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

DORIS A. RASMUSSEN, 76, of Harlan, died Sun., March 4th, in Harlan. No public services or visitation are planned for DORIS RASMUSSEN. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan is assisting the family with arrangements.

Doris Rasmussen is survived by:

Her sons – Mark Rasmussen & special friend Brenda, of Harlan, & Eric Rasmussen, of Glenwood.

2 grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

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GRACE MARIE MORRIS, 79, of Casey (Svcs 3-8-12)

Obituaries

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

GRACE MARIE MORRIS, 79, of Casey, died Sat., March 3rd, at the Greenfield Manor in Greenfield. Funeral services for GRACE MORRIS will be held 10-a.m. Thu., March 8th, at the United Methodist Church in Casey. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart has the arrangements.

Visitation at the church, is from 6-8pm Wed., March 7th. Memorials may be made to the Grace Morris Memorial Fund in care of the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com.

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HELEN BANDOW, 77, of Manilla (Svcs. 3-9-12)

Obituaries

March 6th, 2012 by Ric Hanson

HELEN BANDOW, 77, of Manilla, died Mon., March 5th, at home. Funeral services for HELEN BANDOW will be held 2-p.m. Fri., March 9th, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manilla. Ohde Funeral Home in Manilla has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4-p.m. Thursday (3/8).

Burial will be in the Nishnabotna Cemetery near Manilla.

Helen Bandow is survived by:

Her children – Georgette (Mike) Barry, and Deb (Jon) Blom,  Scott (Laurie) Bandow, Wyatt (Sylvia) Bandow, Dale (Jane) Bandow, Kim (Greg) Terlisner,all of Manilla; Stan (Donna) Bandow, and Rachel (Kevin) Donahue, all of Jonestown, TX;  and Kelly Rutherford, of Manning.

Her brothers and sisters:

Mary Bargenquast, of TX; Josephine (Ray) Lingle, Raymond (Alice) Boeck, and Frank (Gloria) Boeck, all of Manilla; Jane (Jim) Niday, of Cedar Rapids; and Judy (Don) Schaben, of Defiance.

28 grandhchildren & 33 great-grandchildren.

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