Jim Field visits with Tori Gibson of the Anita Town & Country Club about the Anita Whaletown Celebration and Firemen’s steak fry this weekend.
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Jim Field visits with Tori Gibson of the Anita Town & Country Club about the Anita Whaletown Celebration and Firemen’s steak fry this weekend.
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(Atlantic & Anita, Iowa) – Mobile pantries will be held in both Atlantic and Anita in August. A mobile pantry is a traveling food pantry that delivers food directly to families in need for a one-day distribution. Mobile food pantries are available free of charge. Anyone in need is welcome, and no documentation is required. People from surrounding towns and communities are welcome. Each car can take food for up to two households. Households without transportation to the Atlantic Mobile Pantries can contact Cass County Wellness Coordinator Brigham Hoegh about delivery. Delivery is offered on a limited basis. 
Details:
Anita 2022 Mobile Food Pantries
Where: Anita Food Pantry (208 Chestnut Street, Anita IA 50020)
2022 Dates: August 24, October 19
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM
Atlantic 2022 Mobile Food Pantries
Where: Cass County Community Center (805 W. 10th St., Atlantic, IA 50022)
2022 Dates: August 10, September 14, October 29
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Mobile pantry dates, times, and locations are subject to change. For the latest information on mobile pantries, local food, farmers markets, and food access, follow the Cass County Local Food Policy Council’s Facebook page @CassCountyLocalFood or contact Cass County Wellness Coordinator Brigham Hoegh at bhoegh@iastate.edu or 712-249-5870.
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(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports a man was arrested early this (Thursday) morning. Authorities say 57-year-old Jon Eric Hightshoe, of Creston, was arrested at around 12:30-a.m. at Howard and Grand. He was charged with OWI/1st offense, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. Hightshoe was being held in the Union County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
Late Wednesday night, 36-year-old Douglas Edward Woodward III, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Barred. He has since posted a $2,000 cash or surety bond. And, Wednesday afternoon, 36-year-old Heather Layne Green, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. She was cited and released from the scene on a promise to appear in court.
Four newcomers will look to add depth for an Iowa women’s basketball team that will return all five starters. Senior guard Molly Davis transferred from Central Michigan after earning second team All Mid-American Conference honors last season.
Davis on playing with junior guard Caitlin Clark in summer workouts.
Senior guard Kate Martin expects the newcomers to have an impact next season.
Northern Iowa has been picked to finish fifth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference preseason poll. The Panthers finished 6-6 last season which ended with a loss at Eastern Washington in the FCS playoffs. They open September third at Air Force.
That’s UNI coach Mark Farley who says junior Theo Day and sophomore Matt Morrissey will compete for the job of starting quarterback.
Day played in 11 games last season after transferring from Michigan State and passed for more than 23 hundred yards and 16 touchdowns. Farley says that experience is a plus.
Former Utah State offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder has joined the staff and has made some changes to an offense that averaged just under 25 points per game.
(Radio Iowa) – Back-to-school shoppers will get a bit of a break when the annual tax free weekend starts tomorrow. Iowa Department of Revenue spokesman, John Fuller says “It starts Friday at 12:01 a-m and goes through Friday and Saturday.” Fuller says you can purchase clothing and shoes tax-free. “At tax.iowa.gov there’s a list of what is non taxable and what would be taxable,” Fuller says. “For instance, hiking boots, you can wear those pretty much every day. So if there are 100 dollars or less — that’s the key — these are items are 100 dollars or less — you will not have to pay state sales tax which is seven percent. But something like rollerblades you would have to pay sales tax.”
Fuller says he is often asked if the sales tax holiday includes online sales. “And the answer to that is ‘yes’, as long as you order and pay for the items during the two day period,” he says. He expects a lot of Iowans to take advantage of the event. “So the Department estimates that the Iowans will save about five million dollars on this upcoming tax free weekend,” Fuller says.
Iowa’s tax free weekend ends at 11:59 p-m this Saturday.
Today: Mostly sunny. High near 90. NE-E @ 10.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low 62. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: Mo. Sunny. High 94. SW @ 10-15.
Saturday: Mo. Sunny. High 98.
Sunday: P/Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High near 92.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 92. The Low was 59. We received .01″ rain Wed. morning at KJAN. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 53. The Record High on this date was 110 in 1918. The Record Low was 38 in 1978.
(Radio Iowa) – There’s been a slight uptick in the amount of water flowing into reservoirs in the Missouri River Basin over the past two months, but the Army Corps of Engineers says it’s not enough to reverse long-term drought conditions along the Missouri River corridor. Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports.
The Army Corps of Engineers is slightly increasing the water flow out of the Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota. That will help barges and other vessels navigate the Missouri River through Sioux City, Omaha, Nebraska City and Kansas City. However, the Army Corps intends to conserve water releases if there is no commercial navigation in a given area.
The National Drought Mitigation Center estimates that 62 percent of the Missouri River basin is abnormally dry or in a drought.
(Radio Iowa) – As we survive the steamy, hot summer, some Iowans may find solace in pondering the cooler weather of the inevitable change in seasons, but the new edition of the Farmers’ Almanac predicts anything but a mild winter ahead. Editor Peter Geiger says the winter forecast map carries just five words floating over Iowa and the Midwest: “Hibernation Zone, Glacial, Snow-Filled.” Geiger says the publication is calling for an exceptionally snowy, extremely cold winter for 2022-’23.
“When we look at the predictions, we talk about some snow in late October, but then we talk about it being heavy snow on Thanksgiving. We talk about significant snow after that. We talk about heavy snow on the 1st, 4th and 7th of December,” Geiger says. “It’s going to be one of those unrelenting kind of winters where you dream about how nice it is when it’s hot in the summer.” While parts of Iowa have seen triple-digit heat indices multiple times this summer, Geiger says the winter before us will prove to be equally extreme.
“What really scares me about the winter is the cold,” Geiger says. “So we talk about this sharp cold, maybe as low as minus-40. I don’t think it’s going to be minus-40 in Iowa, but within the region, you’re going to see some really cold temperatures almost from the middle of January through the early part of February, and then some snow even in March.” The new edition of the almanac is due on store shelves August 15th and Geiger says it will include tips for coping with the predicted high cost to heat our homes during the frigid months.
“For example, you can use bubble wrap. If you spray a window with water and then put bubble wrap on, it insulates the window for the winter,” Geiger says. “I mean, it’s very simple, very inexpensive but it’s very possible.” Founded in 1818, the Lewiston, Maine-based almanac boasts a forecast accuracy rate of 75-to-85-percent which Geiger says is derived from a formula developed more than two centuries ago.
“It’s based upon sunspot activity, planet positions, the effect the moon has on the earth, and we actually have a page in this year’s almanac that talks a little bit about how we go about doing it,” Geiger says. “When we say it’s going to be minus-40 degrees, I think it’s an indication of how potentially cold it could be, as opposed to the fact that you can count on minus-40.”
In addition to weather predictions, the Farmers’ Almanac contains all sorts of information on gardening, cooking, home remedies, folklore, managing your household, living in harmony with nature, and more.
(Radio Iowa) – A national parental rights group has filed a lawsuit challenging an eastern Iowa school district’s policy for transgender students. The lawsuit accuses the Linn-Mar School District of allowing children to make decisions about their gender identity without any parental involvement. Linn-Mar students in 7th through 12th grades may use different names or pronouns at school and use the restroom that matches their gender identity — and choose whether their parents are notified.
Linn-Mar School Board members who adopted the policy in April said the plan follows federal guidelines for supporting transgender youth in school. Parents Defending Education, the group that filed the lawsuit, is also alleging the district is violating the First Amendment by threatening to discipline classmates or school staff who refuse to call a student by their preferred pronouns or new name.
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