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The Wiota Volunteer Fire Department is receiving an Assistance to Firefighters grant amounting to just over $61,340. Senator Tom Harkin made the announcement late last week. Harkin says the grant comes from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants program. Harkin is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which funds the Department of Homeland Security. The grant money awarded to the Wiota Fire Department will be used for operations and safety.
Here’s the (podcast) weather forecast for Atlantic and the KJAN listening area, from Freese-Notis Meteorologist Harvey Freese, and the weather stats from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson….
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Two Villisca residents were arrested overnight on assault charges. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 41-year old Harland Keith Belcher was taken into custody at around 11:25-p.m. Sunday, and 42-year old Karen Renee Coleman was arrested just before Two o’clock this morning, for Serious Domestic Assault. The charges were the result of an incident which occurred in the 2400 block of Montgomery-Page Street, south of Stanton.
Belcher and Coleman were being held in the Montgomery County Jail this (Monday) morning, on $1,000 bond. Officers with the Red Oak Police Department and deputies with the Page County Sheriff’s Office along with Stanton Fire and Rescue assisted at the scene.
359 AM CDT MON APR 9 2012 National Weather Service/Des Moines
TODAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. AREAS OF FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW AROUND 30. NORTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
…FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY...
TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF FROST THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON.
TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. AREAS OF FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW AROUND 30. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ANDISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. LOW IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. hIGH IN THE MID 60S.
351 AM CDT MON APR 9 2012 NWS Des Moines
…FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY, FOR ALL COUNTIES ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30, PLUS AUDUBON-CASS–SHELBY- HARRISON- AND POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST IOWA.
THE FREEZE WATCH ISSUED SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THOSE COUNTIES, IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
TEMPERATURES WILL COOL SIGNIFICANTLY OVERNIGHT…DROPPING BELOW FREEZING BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES MAY REMAIN BELOW FREEZING FOR SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE QUICKLY WARMING AFTER SUNRISE TUESDAY. MOST AREAS WILL EXPERIENCE MORNING LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S. THE COLDEST READINGS WILL BE GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30…AND IN LOW LYING AREAS ALONG THE NISHNABOTNA RIVER VALLEY. FROST MAY ACCOMPANY THESE COOL TEMPERATURES AS WELL.
YOUNG TENDER VEGETATION MAY BE KILLED OR DAMAGED BY THESE COOL TEMPERATURES AND FROST. a FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
IN ADDITION, A FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING, FOR THOSE COUNTIES SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 92, AND THOSE COUNTIES EAST OF CASS COUNTY, ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 (INCLUDING ADAIR, GUTHRIE, MADISON, & DALLAS).
With the snow long gone and warmer temperatures for most of the spring so far, Iowa farmers have been anxious to start putting corn seeds into the ground. State Ag Secretary, Bill Northey, says there hasn’t been a lot of planting yet, but he expects things to start picking up. “We still can get some cold weather this time of year, we saw some frost last week in part of the state, but I think there’ll be some corn go in this week. I think folks are kind of not getting into too much of a hurry, but the ground is ready and it’s hard not to go,” Northey says. Some farmers may be waiting until midweek to get started.
He says you can’t plant before April 11th to be able to get failed planting coverage if you have to replant. Farming has become more precise with G-P-S systems guiding the tractors through the fields, and that leads to fuel savings. But Northey says higher fuel prices are still felt on the farm.
“We can still buy four to six gallons an acre of fuel out there in some cases, and if you start multiplying five-gallons-an-acre times four-dollars-a-gallon, than it dollars up when you see the price come up,” Northey says. “So it has an impact. Right now that’s a small part of our input costs when you look at seed and fertilizer and the other costs of taking care of that ground…but it’s still like everything else, it adds up and it does make a difference.” Northey says the mood is good as farmers enter the planting season and see the commodity prices. “Lately we’ve actually seen the bean prices slip up a little higher than what the corn prices are for fall. So, I’m sure we have a few folks trying to decide on those last acres, whether they will go ahead and plant beans or corn,” Northey says.
“Right now if the ground is fit they will probably go ahead and plant corn. But if those bean prices are a little bit better, we may have a few folks leaning some of that direction based on soybean prices for fall which are still over 13-dollars a bushel.” Northey says the high commodity prices are nice, but you always have to keep a watch on the market forces.
“Certainly if China would decide to buy more from South America or decide to buy less overall, that would have some impact on these markets as well. And that worldwide economy and demand on livestock products affects how much livestock is produced and therefore how much corn and soybean meal they use. There’s plenty of things to be watching for, at the same token, we’ve certainly has a nice run here of decent prices,” Northey says. Northey farms near Spirit Lake.
(Dar Danielson/Radio Iowa)
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Pioneer Hi-Bred is set to open a new research center in Johnston, bringing 400 new jobs to the area. The company will hold a grand-opening celebration for the $40 million facility today. Governor Terry Branstad, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley and other dignitaries are expected to attend. The center will be used to research plant genetics.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Council Bluffs has gotten $1 million in federal aid for flood repairs and expects to receive another four to $5 million by month’s end. Finance director Art Hill says that the city is pleased with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to aid requests. Council Bluffs spent $19.5 million to fight the rising Missouri River for several months last year.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Volunteers from across the state have started to clean up homeless camps in Des Moines. Dozens of people took part in Saturday’s trash pickup. The cleanup was sponsored by Joppa Outreach, a nonprofit that aids the homeless in Des Moines. Volunteers visited about a dozen camps on Saturday. Another cleanup is set for next weekend.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The 2012 U.S. Olympic team wrestling trials are two weeks away. But there’s already interest in bringing the event back to Iowa City in 2016. The president of the Iowa City-Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau says there is “a real good chance” USA Wrestling will want Iowa City to host the event again.
The Massena City Council will meet in a regularly scheduled session Monday evening, beginning at Seven o’clock. On their agenda in addition to regular issues and topics, is a review and accepting of mosquito control bids, discussion with regard to Tax Increment Financing (TIF), and a matter pertaining to concrete in front of the Fire Department building.