Caitlin Clark had 24 of her game high 33 points in the second half as the fourth ranked Iowa women pulled away to a 73-62 win over Belmont.
Clark says defense was the key as the Hawkeyes improved to 4-1 and bounced back from a loss at Kansas State.
Caitlin Clark had 24 of her game high 33 points in the second half as the fourth ranked Iowa women pulled away to a 73-62 win over Belmont.
Clark says defense was the key as the Hawkeyes improved to 4-1 and bounced back from a loss at Kansas State.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisors in Cass County will begin their meeting Tuesday at 9-a.m., with a Public Hearing. The hearing is with regard to a proposed amendment to Zoning, changing McCunn Specialty Firearms, LLC from a Business District to Light Industrial, for the purpose of assembling firearms.
That’s Zoning Administrator Rich Hansen, who spoke during the Supervisor’s meeting on Oct. 25th. At the time, Hanson said letters would be going out to nearby landowners with regard to the proposed zoning change.
In other business, the Board will hear from Wendy Mueller, Executive Director of West Central Community Action. They’ll act on approving a Resolution to approve bids for two bridge projects, and an application for Family Farm Eligibility. The Cass County Supervisors meet, as always, in their Board Room inside the Cass County Courthouse, in Atlantic.
The meeting will be broadcast on Zoom, through a link found HERE.
(Atlantic, Iowa) The Director of the Atlantic Public Library provided an Annual Report to the City Council, last Wednesday. Michelle Andersen updated the Council on the Library’s mission statement from over the past year, and set a new strategic plan. The Mission Statement, she said, sets the framework for talking about the services offered by the Library, last year.
Another part of their Mission Statement, is connecting people to resources, which you would probably think of as traditional library services .
While still not at pre-Covid levels, Andersen said they are on the way back to what the use was before Covid. One of the more interesting resources the Atlantic and other affiliated libraries in Cass County have utilized over the past year, is the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Atlantic Public Library (Kathy Somers, photo, via www.atlantic.lib.ia.us)
When the child gets their 5th birthday book through the program, they are invited and encouraged to get their very own library card. On another note, Michelle Andersen said they received a grant in the form or a Public Library Collaboration Award, from the Network of the National Library of Medicine to use for mental health resources. The collaboration was between the libraries of Cass County and Healthy Cass County to accomplish three goals.
The other part was buying mental health resources shared across Cass County, and mental health programming.
During the fiscal year 2022, there were over 38,000 visits to the library, and 300 programs attended by 3,595 people. Revenues were funded approximately 86% from the City, with the rest through various other sources, including grants. Andersen pointed out the “Fees do not run a library. Fees are a part,” that help them recoup some of the cost of what it takes to do things associated with their programs and necessities.
(Council Bluffs, Iowa/KJAN) – The holiday travel season is upon us. Americans will be making their way over the river and through the woods…to see distant – and not so distant relatives, by plane, train and automobile. If you’re traveling on the road to make your destination, be advised law enforcement agencies across the State will be watching to ensure drivers obey the rules of the road, and making it there and back, safely. Last year in Iowa, 11 people lost their lives on the State’s roads between November 15th and the 28th, which is the holiday traveling time-frame. State Patrol Trooper Ryan Devault with District 3 in Council Bluffs , says to-date, there have been 302 fatalities statewide since the beginning of the year.
Devault says seat-belts save lives. Since the beginning of the year also, 27 traffic-related deaths have occurred in the nine-county region Post 3 covers south of I-80 in southwest Iowa. That’s one more than the number of fatalities that occurred last year. The Iowa State Patrol, Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB), and other law enforcement agencies across the State, are working together to keep the Thanksgiving travel tradition alive, but reminding motorists of some simple tips.
The number of reckless, impatient and aggressive drivers have been increasing since the COVID virus began to wane and more motorists take to the road. Trooper Devault says over 90 crashes involve some sort of bad driver behavior, such as weaving in-and-out of traffic, tailgating and brake-checking other drivers.
Inattentive driving is another factor in many crashes. There are number of things that can make a driver want to take their eyes off the road, including conversations with people inside your vehicle. Devault offers this piece of advice…
And, of course, if your holiday plans involve an alcoholic beverage or two, don’t drive impaired.
In 2020, one-person was killed every 45-minutes in a drunk or impaired driver crash on the nation’s roads.
(Radio Iowa) – As we approach Thanksgiving a turkey teaching and research facility that is the first of its kind in the U-S is now operating on the Iowa State University campus. Dawn Koltes in the I-S-U Animal Science Department says it is a joint project with the industry to improve how they operate. “What’s really cool about this building is it came from a need from the producers to understand some basic questions that they had in terms of management practices, even including some of the feed and feed additives that are on the market,” Koltes says. She says producers won’t have to use their own flocks to test various practices, while I-SU does the testing. There’s another benefit of having a turkey lab to show off the process.
“The other thing that is really much a need, as in most of our animals sectors, or even ag sectors, more generally here is the need to increase understanding about where food comes from, as well as finding kind of labor stream or labor pool for that next generation,” she says. Koltes says they’ll do that by encouraging the public and groups to visit and see how things work. “Because we have viewing windows in what’s called our vestibule area, and it’s a public space. So people can come in and right now even go in and see the poults as they are in their environment,” Koltes says. “We have a lovely mural on the wall that Greta Irwin at Iowa Turkey Federation and Morgan Pothoven, also with Iowa Turkey Federation, helped put together to explain what the turkey industry is and what it means to the state of Iowa.” She says they have some things set up to let visitors understand the growing process.
Turkey poults (ISU photo)
“What should we see, when we start looking at these birds? What should we hear when we listen to these birds and what should we be looking for? And so we have kind of those questions so that a stand by the window, you can ask those of yourself,” she says. “And then not only do we have it from the outside, but we also have it on our grower finisher side, which is where those birds after they reach about five or six weeks of age will be moved to.” The research will cover a variety of issues that are facing the industry. “Microbes and diseases that we know a there cause harm to our birds — or even on the human side. So, salmonella would be one that the birds can host, but then don’t necessarily have an immune response to but unfortunately, we do,” Koltes says. They will also look at new technologies such as air handlers, and other things that can impact the health of the turkeys.
“How do we maximize our water vaccination strategies? How do we provide supplements in the feed or the water? So for instance, during bouts of heat stress, people can put electrolytes in,” Koltes says. “So just like when we get hot and sweaty, and you know, we’ve been working out we go have a Gatorade or some other fluid that has electrolytes in it. We’re trying the same types of things to ask, does it really help with the turkey production? So is it worth spending the money to put that into the water lines?” The are classrooms where animal science students can work and study some of these issues. The facility is called the Balloun Turkey Teaching and Research Facility after the main donor, Julia Balloun. It was dedicated in May 2022 and the first set of turkey poults were recently delivered.
(Radio Iowa) – The La Nina weather pattern will influence Iowa’s climate for the winter ahead, likely bringing wetter and colder-than-normal temperatures. It’s the third winter in a row for La Nina, but observers do -not- expect it to make a fourth appearance. Meteorologist Doug Kluck, the climate services director for the central region of the National Weather Service, says they see La Nina fading early next year. “As time goes on, into the spring, we see a lessening of the chance of La Nina to sustain itself,” Kluck says, “better chances for something we call neutral, sort of in between La Nina and El Nino, that are chances for that kind of middle period.” Kluck says they expect cooler, wetter weather for the region during December.
“There’s better chances, leaning towards below-normal temperatures across the far north, really, the entire area except for Colorado,” Kluck says, “and then for us, it’d be the Missouri Basin being above-normal in terms of chances for precipitation.” Kluck says the expectation for December through February is similar. “We have that below-normal temperatures extending from the Great Lakes west to the coast. That’s a very, very, very strong La Nina-esque picture,” Kluck says. “That’s precipitation above-normal across the northern tier and Ohio River Basin. A lot of those places need the water, and so we hope they get it.”
With La Nina fading, Kluck says the expectation is for more normal weather trends across North America.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop in Red Oak early this (Monday) morning, resulted in an arrest. According to Red Oak Police, Officers stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation in the area of 2nd and Nuckols Street at around 12:32-a.m. Upon further investigation, they determined 44-year-old Chad Michael Hill, of Red Oak, had a suspended license through the State of Iowa. Hill was taken into custody and held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $491.25 bond.
An accident in Montgomery County Sunday night west of Villisca, resulted in the driver being flown to a hospital. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports Deputies were notified at around 9:30-p.m. about a crash in the 2700 block of 265th Street. Upon their arrival, they found a pickup truck in a field to the south of the roadway, fully engulfed in flames. The driver, Kyle Pack, of Villisca, was located at a nearby residence, suffering from his injuries.
Pack was transported by rescue personnel before being flown to a trauma center. The pickup was a total loss. The crash remains under investigation. Red Oak Rescue, Villisca Fire and Rescue and Montgomery County Communications assisted in handling the incident.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 45. West wind 6 to 9 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 19. North northeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 51. Southwest wind 5 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 50.
Thanksgiving Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 44. Breezy.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 52. Our Low was 19. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 50 and the Low was 17. The Record High on this date was 71 in 1990. The Record Low was -14 in 1937.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowan who’s on the panel that will decide if Iowa’s Democratic Party Caucuses go first in 2024 says Iowa is key to winning the presidency. Scott Brennan is a member of the Democratic NATIONAL Committee’s Rules and Bylaws panel. It meets in early December to discuss which states vote first as the party picks its 2024 presidential nominee. “We can’t let the Midwest become a Republican monolith,” he says. “…North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri — if they all turn red, we can’t elect Democratic presidents because the Electoral College math does not work.”
Brennan says there’s a basic argument for keeping the traditional line-up of early voting in Iowa, then in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. The Democratic nominee has won the POPULAR vote in seven of the last eight elections. “Why would you mess with success? Why risk it to satisfy some vague belief that we need to do something different when in fact we’ve won the popular vote time after time?” Brennan asks. As the kick-off event of past presidential elections, Brennan says the Iowa Caucuses have given candidates a way to connect with rural, working class voters.
“You have to be able to talk to folks like folks in Iowa,” Brennan says. The delayed results from the party’s 2020 Caucuses results put Iowa Democrats in what Brennan describes as “a bit of a pickle,” but he emphasizes the party is abandoning its complicated Caucus Night rules and will instead use a mail-in system to determine who wins the 2024 Caucuses. “We needed to update the Caucuses,” Brennan said, “and this is a good way to do it.” President Biden could be a wildcard as national party leaders gear up for a decision that may change the presidential nominating process.
Biden, who says he intends to seek reelection, has not publicly said whether he favors changes. “He is likely going to get some sort of challenge,” Brennan says. “He’s not going to just get a cake walk to the nomination, but we have not heard from the White House at all.” If the D-N-C’s Rules and Bylaws Committee recommends changes, it will then be up to the full Democratic National Committee to ratify the new plan in late February or early March. That would give the party less than a year to plan for a new system.
Brennan made his comments on this weekend’s “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S.
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