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CHERI LAVONNE (Beebe) SCHWENKE, 75, of Atlantic (Memorial Svcs. 9/17/22)

Obituaries

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

CHERI LAVONNE (Beebe) SCHWENKE, 75, of Atlantic died Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at Cass Health in Atlantic.  A Memorial service for CHERI L. SCHWENKE will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 11:00 am at the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic.

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The family will greet friends and family on Saturday from 10:00 am until the time of services at the funeral home.

Memorials can be made in her name and left or mailed to the funeral home at P.O. B0x 523, Atlantic, IA, 50022

CHERI LAVONNE SCHWENKE is survived by:

Daughter:  Robin Marchman (Mark Stanley), of Garwin.

Son:  Dean (Donna) Schwenke, of Atlantic

Brothers:  Ronald (Vicki) Beebe, of Oklahoma City, OK, and Richard Keller, of Atlantic

Sister:  Gladys Martin, of Atlantic

Sisters-in-law:  Alda Schwenke of Omaha, NE and LaVonne Morgan of Atlantic.

5 Grandchildren, and 4 Great-Grandchildren.

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1 arrest and 1 theft incident reported in Creston

News

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Creston, Iowa) – Police in Creston report the arrest Tuesday morning, of a woman wanted on a warrant from an outside agency. 42-year-old Melissa Sara Stow, of Creston, was arrested at her residence, and transported to the Adams County Jail.  And, an auto parts store in Creston reported the theft from behind their building, of two truck airbags and two, 5-gallon buckets of hydraulic fluid. The loss was estimated at slightly more than $519.

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Heartbeat Today 9-14-2022

Heartbeat Today, Podcasts

September 14th, 2022 by Jim Field

Jim Field shares information about the Lifeline and Affordable Connectivity Programs that help people afford phone and broadband service.  CLICK HERE to learn more!

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Cass County Extension Report 9-14-2022

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

September 14th, 2022 by Jim Field

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IATC team cross country ranking 09/13/2022

Sports

September 14th, 2022 by admin

The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their latest cross country team rankings on Tuesday. Here is a look at the area ranked teams.

Class 1A

Girls

1. Logan-Magnolia
10. ACGC
13. Woodbine
15. IKM-Manning
19. Mount Ayr
20. Boyer Valley

Boys

1. ACGC
5. Woodbine
8. IKM-Manning
14. St. Albert

Class 2A Girls

12. Clarinda

Class 3A Girls

9. Glenwood
15. Atlantic

Class 3A Boys

6. Glenwood
12. Lewis Central

Complete rankings HERE

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Harlan’s Sonderman wins at Storm Lake XC Meet

Sports

September 14th, 2022 by admin

Storm Lake XC Meet
09/13/2022

Girls Team Scores

  1. Spencer 68
  2. MOC Floyd Valley 69
  3. Harlan 70
  4. Cherokee 94
  5. LeMars 135
  6. Denison-Schleswig 149
  7. Unity Christian 155
  8. Spirit Lake 225
  9. Storm Lake 235
  10. Algona 248
  11. Fort Dodge 329

Girls Individual Top Ten

1 Sonderman, Lindsey 10 Harlan 19:23.14 1
2 Morey, Peyton 10 Spencer 20:30.60 2
3 Mendlik, Lola 10 Denison-Schleswig 20:51.22 3
4 Krieger, Katelyn 12 Spirit Lake 21:14.96 4
5 Hamilton, Ivy 12 Spencer 21:20.01 5
6 Van Der Werff, Elin 10 Moc-Floyd Valley 21:25.98 6
7 Dokter, Biyanca 12 Moc-Floyd Valley 21:30.22 7
8 Morey, Emma 12 Spencer 21:35.02 8
9 Hulinsky, Rebecca 12 Lemars High School 21:35.93 9
10 Lubeck, Riley 12 Cherokee 21:46.66 10

Boys Team Scores

  1. MOC Floyd Valley 45
  2. Algona 71
  3. Unity Christian 107
  4. LeMars 124
  5. Harlan 135
  6. Spirit Lake 136
  7. Denison-Schleswig 154
  8. Spencer 166
  9. Fort Dodge 210
  10. Cherokee 254

Boys Individual Top Ten

1 Hulshof, Isaiah 12 Moc-Floyd Valley 16:47.91 1
2 Mirande, Trevor 10 Moc-Floyd Valley 16:54.76 2
3 Ramirez Parra, Joel 09 Storm Lake 17:11.61
4 Stundahl, Ryan 12 Algona 17:12.69 3
5 VandenBerg, Damon 12 Spirit Lake 17:27.99 4
6 Hughes, Brandon 10 Spirit Lake 17:28.14 5
7 Obbink, Trace 11 Lemars High School 17:30.17 6
8 Weber, Gavin 09 Algona 17:36.77 7
9 Madden, Ryan 12 Fort Dodge 17:37.34 8
10 Meis, Michael 12 Lemars High School 17:41.72 9

Full results HERE.

In other XC Action Lewis Central placed 5th in the girls race at Tom Karpan Invitational in West Des Moines. Ava Bussey finished 22nd for the Titans. Full results HERE

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Logan-Magnolia girls, St. Albert boys win at AHSTW Cross Country Meet

Sports

September 14th, 2022 by admin

AHSTW Cross Country Meet
09/13/2022

Girls Team Scores

  1. Logan-Magnolia 32
  2. IKM-Manning 49
  3. Riverside 79
  4. AHSTW 82
  5. Treynor 89
  6. CAM 180

Girls Individual Top Ten

1 Madison Sporrer 10 Logan-Magnolia 19:59.3 6:26
2 Stefi Beisswenger 10 Audubon 20:23.7 6:34
3 Carly Henderson 11 Riveride Community School 20:28.1 6:36
4 Mya Moss 12 Logan-Magnolia 20:35.4 6:38
5 Addison Murdock 11 Woodbine 20:49.3 6:43
6 Reese Duncan 12 St. Albert 21:10.0 6:49
7 Haedyn Hall 10 Logan-Magnolia 21:20.0 6:52
8 Lilly Irwin 11 Underwood Csd 21:23.0 6:53
9 Taylor Beckendorf 10 Ikm-Manning 21:26.7 6:55
10 Adyson Lapel 10 Woodbine 21:27.0 6:55

Boys Team Scores

  1. St. Albert 49
  2. Woodbine 56
  3. IKM-Manning 57
  4. Riverside 80
  5. Treynor 143
  6. Logan-Magnolia 205
  7. Griswold 211
  8. Exira-EHK 212
  9. Missouri Valley 234
  10. Heartland Christian 250
  11. Underwood 271

Boys Individual Top Ten

1 Landon Bendgen 11 Woodbine 16:01.5 5:10
2 Colin Lillie 12 St. Albert 16:07.4 5:12
3 Caden Keller 12 Ikm-Manning 16:13.8 5:14
4 Gunner Wagner 10 Woodbine 17:29.3 5:38
5 Owen Wise 11 St. Albert 17:45.8 5:44
6 Mason McCready 11 Riveride Community School 17:56.5 5:47
7 Adam Denny 12 St. Albert 18:01.1 5:48
8 Cody Dorscher 10 Griswold School 18:01.2 5:48
9 Nathan Johnson 12 Ikm-Manning 18:03.6 5:49
10 John Ross Beiderman 12 Treynor 18:06.4 5:50

Full results HERE

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High School Volleyball Scoreboard 09/13/2022

Sports

September 14th, 2022 by admin

Hawkeye Ten Conference

(3-0) Atlantic 25-25-25, Clarinda 12-20-18 (A: Lexi Noelck 10 kills, 13 assists. Jada Jensen 13 assists. Abby Smith 8 digs.)
(3-2) Atlantic 25-24-16-30-15, Glenwood 23-26-25-28-12 (A: Lexi Noelck 16 kills, 26 assists. Jada Jensen 14 kills, 23 assists. Abby Smith 20 digs. Chloe Mullenix 4 blocks.)
(3-0) Glenwood 25-25-27, Clarinda 19-21-25
(3-1) Carroll 22-25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 25-19-18-22
(3-0) Red Oak 25-25-25, St. Albert 19-14-17 (RO: Merced Rameriz 18 assts, 12 kills.)
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, Red Oak 23-14-21
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, St. Albert 11-19-15

Western Iowa Conference

(3-0) Logan-Magnolia 25-25-25, AHSTW 23-21-12
(3-0) Missouri Valley 25-25-25, Audubon 15-8-16
(3-0) Tri-Center 25-25-25, IKM-Manning 17-14-15
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Underwood 16-22-9

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-0) Boyer Valley 25-25-25, Paton-Churdan 8-14-19
(3-1) Glidden-Ralston 26-25-10-25, Woodbine 24-19-25-15
Ar-We-Va vs. West Harrison

Corner Conference

(3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Essex 13-23-21
(3-0) Lourdes Central Catholic 25-25-25, Hamburg 4-12-10
(3-2) Sidney 26-25-27-25-15, East Mills 28-21-29-16-8
(3-0) Stanton 25-25-25, Griswold 12-19-22

Pride of Iowa Conference

(3-0) Mount Ayr 25-25-25, East Union 15-19-15
(3-0) Southwest Valley 25-25-25, Nodaway Valley 17-11-21
(3-0) Central Decatur def Martensdale-St. Marys

Other Scores

(3-0) Bishop Heelan Catholic 25-25-25, CB Thomas Jefferson 14-12-15
(3-2) Sioux City East 28-20-18-25-15, CB Abraham Lincoln 26-25-25-18-7
(3-0) Murray 25-25-25, Melcher-Dallas 21-15-12

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Drought forces Corps to lower Missouri River by a foot, navigation season cut short

Ag/Outdoor, News, Weather

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Prolonged drought across the region has pushed the U-S Army Corps of Engineers to lower Missouri River levels from Nebraska City to Kansas City by a full foot. The lower levels will affect boat traffic and could impact municipal water supplies and other utilities that rely on the river. Missouri River Basin Water Management Director John Remus (REE-mus) says conditions have been getting worse since the drought first began to emerge in July of 2020. “In March, about 70% of the upper basin was experiencing some level of drought and about 20% of it was severe drought, very, very dry,” Remus says. “We have had some good rains throughout the year up there, but the conditions have improved, but not enough to really help the runoff.”

Remus says lower water levels will have an impact on navigation this fall.  “Of course, that means more trips or more barges to get the same amount of product up and down the river,” Remus says. Navigation continues on the Missouri, though barges will have to lighten their loads to float on the river. The navigation season will end on November 28th, which is three days early. Remus says even prolonged, heavy rains likely wouldn’t make up the difference in low soil moisture levels, as they’ve been so low for so long. “The wild card is really snowpack next year,” he says. “We had next-to-nothing for plains snowpack in 2022, and we had a below-average mountain snowpack. So unless we get better snowpack in the northern part of the basin, we’re probably going to be facing what we’ve seen this year again next year.”

Flows into the Missouri River have been reduced to cope with a much lower flood control pool in the six upstream reservoirs.

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Higher gas prices continue to impact traffic volumes in Iowa

News

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Transportation continues to see an impact on traffic levels from gas prices. The D-O-T’s Stuart Anderson says traffic had been coming back after the pandemic, but gas prices started making an impact. “Definitely noticed back in April, started seeing some of those impacts of traffic in April of 2022 compared with April of 2019 — the pre pandemic traffic levels in the state — was down four percent. And it’s generally been down three to four percent each month since then,” Anderson says. He says the May number was not as negative as some of the other months, but that is believed to be skewed by people eager to get out and enjoy the Memorial Day weekend.

“But in June is about three percent down, July four percent. And we just got the August numbers here yesterday and they’re down three percent,” Anderson says. “So we’ll see if September, October, November numbers start changing now that we’ve seen fuel prices drop a little bit at the pump.” Anderson says the drop in travel isn’t enough to cause a concern about road use taxes. “We benefit in that our state road use tax fund does not rely just on fuel taxes. It also consists of revenues from vehicle registration fees. And so that helps mitigate some of these fluctuations we see from time to time,” according to Anderson.

He says supply chain issues in the car industry have helped keep registration fees up. “We’ve seen numbers of vehicles sold, probably, on average, be lower than normal, that that’s been been offset a bit by that high demand for vehicles means that vehicle prices have been higher, particularly used vehicle prices. And so the registration fees in Iowa based in part on the price of the vehicles,” Anderson says.

He says the increase in money to the road fund from the increase registration fees has helped keep the road use tax fund close to where they want it to be.

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