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FOR SALE: Shuttle brand 3 wheel electric chair, battery operated(needs a battery). $75.00. Call 712-779-2281.
WANTED: I am look for living room furniture in GOOD condition such as couch, love seat, coffee table, tv stand, also kitchen table and chairs, bakers rack, pots and pans, kitchen utensils, Queen size bed with frame, and dressers. I can’t afford a whole lot just moved into our apartment. If you have anything that will help in good shape please call or text me at 712-254-6705.
FOR SALE: Small Bales of Hay. Approximately 25 or 30. $3 each. Call 243-3059.
FOR SALE: 7′ x 16′ steel garage door, complete with track. Asking $100. Call 712-304-0255 in Audubon.
FOR SALE: 2008 Millennium Falcon, over 2 1/2 feet long and 22 inches wide, this is a never been out of the box collectors item. Asking $175.00 (less than you can find on the internet) Call 243-4131.
FOR SALE: 3 separate items that include: A compact lithium ion drill/driver from Craftsman. Its 12 volt…3/8″ single sleeve with 195 pounds of tork and brand new. $40. Also a Craftsman lithium ion ring angle impact driver with a battery and charger. 700 pounds of tork with variable speed and brand new. $60. Also a pair 13D New Balance 602 that are white with navy trim and in new condition. $15 obo. 712-789-9745.
Police in Council Bluffs are investigating the robbery early this (Wednesday) morning, of a convenience store on North 16th Street. Officials say at around 2:55-a.m., a white male entered the Bucky’s store at 15 North 16th Street. The man approached the counter, displayed a handgun, and demanded money. He got away with an undetermined amount of cash. No injuries were reported. The suspect was described as being about 5-feet 8- to five-feet 10-inches tall, and weighing about 150- to 160-pounds. He wore dark clothing with gloves, a baseball cap with a light colored bill, and a red bandana around his face. Anyone with information about the robbery, is asked to call the Council Bluffs Police Department at 712-328-4728.
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The Iowa Transportation Commission, Tuesday, approved more than $1.5-million in funding for Safe Routes to School Program projects, nearly $5.3-million for 11 statewide Transportation Enhancement Program (TEP) projects, and more than $1.2-million for six Recreational Trail Program projects. The appropriations were approved during the Commission’s meeting in Ames, Tuesday. In our area, the I-DOT Commission approved $236,000 for the Shenandoah Safe Routes to School Program. The program was created in Iowa in 2005, using federal transportation funds. Its purpose is to increase the number of children safely walking and bicycling to school.
The I-DOT Commission also approved a $530,000 award to the Iowa Department of Natural Resource and Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, for the “Great River Road Scenic Byway” and “Loess Hills Byway” projects, and $554,000 to Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D), for the “Interpreting Iowa’s Byways” project, which involves the development and implementation of an Interpretive Master plan. Funds for the projects come from the Statewide TEP.
And, the DOT Commission, Tuesday, approved a $300,000 Recreational Trails Program award to Coon Rapids and Creating Great Places, for the Herndon to Coon Rapids segment of the American Discovery Trail.
Here’s the forecast for Atlantic, and the KJAN listening area…
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Legislators are likely to engage in a spirited debate over what kind of bullets may be fired at doves. Last year, in uncharacteristically speedy fashion, lawmakers voted to legalize dove hunting in Iowa. But Senator Dick Dearden of Des Moines and others are upset with the Iowa Natural Resources Commission’s decision to forbid hunters from using lead shot when firing at doves. “People talk about the legislature sneaking this (law) through and the reality is they snuck through that (restriction),” Dearden says. “They came through at the last minute and made the rule.” The rule requires the use of steel shot for dove hunting, but a resolution that would nullify that rule is pending in both the Iowa House and the Iowa Senate. Representative Henry Rayhons, of Garner, stopped by a local gun shop last week and heard lots of complaints about steel shot.
“It’s not as accurate,” Rayhons says. “It’s harder on the guns and it’s darned near twice as expensive.” Critics say animals, like ducks and eagles, die after eating the lead shot lying on the ground that didn’t wind up in a bird. Dearden, a life-long hunter, accuses those opponents of using the lead-shot issue as a smoke-screen to try to derail the entire dove hunting law. “It’s all about doves,” Dearden says. “It has nothing to do with eagles or anything else.” Dearden says he got plenty of hate mail after spearheading passage of the dove hunting law last year.
“My favorite was a woman who said: ‘You’re a sick old man. I hope you die while hunting mourning doves,'” Dearden says. “I emailed her back and said: ‘So do I.'” Critics of lead shot say it’s a danger to humans, too, who eat bird meat that’s riddled with lead fragments. One study suggested lead particles have been found up to a foot and a half away, causing a greater risk of lead poisoning to humans than previously thought.
(O. Kay Henderson/Radio Iowa)
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is addressing concerns about his agency’s plan to close 259 U-S-D-A offices, labs and other facilities. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, told reporters in a teleconference Tuesday, that the closures are in response to Congressional budget cuts. The goal is to trim USDA expenses by $150 million a year. Vilsack said the plan involves $90 million in savings through reduced travel and supplies. The office and lab closures would account for the remaining $60 million in savings. Vilsack does not anticipate widespread layoffs as nearly 7,000 USDA employees took early retirement last year and many workers will be given the opportunity to transfer to other offices. Critics of the plan have raised concerns about the possible effect on food safety.
“I want to be very clear about this – the office closings we announced in the food safety area are about administrative personnel. They are not about inspectors,” Vilsack said. “We did not deal with the inspector issue at all. We’re still going to be in every single plant. The inspectors will continue to do the work that they’re doing in those plants and it will have no impact whatsoever on our responsibility to ensure the safety of the food supply in the United States.” In Iowa, the so-called “Blueprint for Stronger Service” would close three Farm Service Agency offices in Appanoose, Decatur and Union Counties. In addition, a Natural Resource Conservation Service office in Jefferson County would be shut down. Vilsack said public hearings will be held within 90 days in the counties where offices are to be closed.
(Pat Curtis/Radio Iowa)
Authorities have identified a southwest Iowa man who died following an ATV accident Tuesday afternoon, north of Shenandoah. According to officials, 63-year old Lyle Green was riding the all-terrain vehicle on family property about a mile and half north of Shenandoah when the accident occured at around 4:30-p.m. At about that same time, the Shenandoah Fire Department was called to a field fire, and, while details concerning the accident are not available, sources say the ATV accident was the cause of the fire.
The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in their investigation of the incident, by the Iowa State Patrol, DNR, the Fremont County Coroner’s Office and Shenandoah Fire/Rescue.
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