Jim Field visits with Shaun Sayres, the new Museum Manager of the Danish Windmill in Elk Horn.
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(Bridgewater, Iowa) – The hail storm that passed through Cass and area Counties Tuesday evening stripped trees of leaves and decimated an Adair County organic vegetable farm. Bridgewater Farm is the largest organic vegetable farm in Iowa. It has 25 acres of vegetables. Owner Dale Raasch reports almost all of his outdoor produce was lost during an approximately 10-minute burst of hail and heavy rain.
The hail, whipped by approximately 80 mph winds caused damage that was estimated at $150,000. Raasch said he did not have insurance on the specialty farm. He estimates the losses from strawberries alone to be $32,000. On the Bridgewater Farms Facebook page, Dale Raasch said “We have received donated transplants to replant, some have offered to volunteer their time and energy and the amazing monetary donations that will help mitigate the losses of all the seed costs, labor and infrastructure, not to mention the potential profits lost. Thank you all for giving us hope.”
Lettuce
Beets
Garlic
In addition, a Go Fund Me page has been established, that (as of early Friday morning), had raised more than $88-hundred dollars. Replacement plants are on their way to the farm, and new seeding has begun. (Photos from the BF Facebook page show some of the many different vegetables that were lost to the storm)
(Radio Iowa) – A Mason City man is jailed on a kidnapping charge. The Mason City Police Department says on Thursday just before 1 PM, officers and fire medics responded to a report that a person had been assaulted and held against their will for several days by a man known to them. The victim was taken by ambulance to the hospital. A search warrant was served at a residence in the 400 block of 1st Southwest in connection with the investigation.
23-year-old Moises Erreguin-Labra was initially arrested on a charge of serious assault, but as the investigation developed, police additionally charged him with first-degree kidnapping, a Class A felony punishable by life in prison. Erreguin-Labra is being held in the Cerro Gordo County Jail.
ADA I. FIEBELKORN, 81, of Atlantic, died Tuesday, June 7th, at the Salem Lutheran Homes in Elk Horn (IA). Funeral services for ADA FIEBELKORN will be held 11-a.m. Monday, June 13th, at the Kessler Funeral Home, in Audubon.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will meet with friends from 10-a.m. Monday, until the time of service.
Burial is at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Audubon.
ADA FIEBELKORN is survived by:
Her husband – George Fiebelkorn, of Atlantic.
Her son – Rick (Mavis) Fiebelkorn, of Kimballton, and Randy (Brandy) Fiebelkorn, of Exira.
Her daughters – Deb (Ron) Hensel, of Atlantic; Martha (Kevin) Baier, of Lewis, and Kim Fiebelkorn (and Bruce), of Grimes.
13 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; her brothers-and sisters-in-law, other relatives and friends.
SOFTBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 8, Lewis Central 3 (Jada Jensen 2 runs, 2 RBI. Zoey Kirchoff 2 RBI, Save allowing 2 hits with 11 K’s)
Creston 7, Shenandoah 3
Glenwood 3, Clarinda 2
Harlan 3, St. Albert 2 (9 innings)
Harlan 4, St. Albert 2
Kuemper Catholic 5, Denison-Schleswig 4 (9 innings)
Western Iowa Conference
Audubon 6, Tri-Center 2 (A: Michelle Brooks and Victoria Asmus both with 1 hit and 2 RBI.)
AHSTW 13, IKM-Manning 7 (A: Natalie Hagadon HR, 2 hits, 5 RBI. Graycen Partlow HR, 2 hits, 2 RBI, 3 runs)
Logan-Magnolia 20, Riverside 0
Treynor 8, Missouri Valley 3
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 15, Lenox 5
Exira-EHK 12, Ar-We-Va 2 (E: Alisa Partridge 2 hits, 2 RBI, 2 runs. Shay Burmeister 2 hits, 2 RBI, 2 runs)
Glidden-Ralston 11, Boyer Valley 4
Corner Conference
Fremont-Mills 11, West Harrison 1
Griswold 11, Nodaway Valley 1 (Brenna Rossell 9 K’s. Whitney Pennock 2 doubles, 2 RBI. Makenna Askeland HR, Double, 2 RBI, 1 run scored.)
Pride of Iowa Conference
East Union 13 Stanton 5
Martensdale-St. Marys 3, Wayne 2
Southeast Warren 12, Central Decatur 1
Southwest Valley 24, Essex 5
Other Scores
Moravia 14, Orient-Macksburg 5
Moravia 11, Orient-Macksburg 7
River Valley 9, Whiting 1
Sioux City North 9, Abraham Lincoln 6
Sioux City North 7 Abraham Lincoln 3
BASEBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic vs. Lewis Central (PPD to 6/10 @ 2:00 p.m. in Council Bluffs)
Creston 5, Shenandoah 4 (8 innings)
Harlan 9, St. Albert 1
Kuemper Catholic 6, Denison-Schleswig 4
Red Oak 16, East Mills 1
St. Albert 16, Harlan 14
Western Iowa Conference
IKM-Manning 1, AHSTW 0
Logan-Magnolia 4, Riverside 2
Treynor 3, Missouri Valley 1 (T: Jaxon Schumacher 11 K’s)
Tri-Center 11, Audubon 1 (TC: Michael Turner 3-4, 3 RBI, 2 runs, 3 steals.)
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 12, Glidden-Ralston 5
CAM 11, Lenox 7 (C: Lane Spieker HR, 4 RBI. Seth Hensley 2 hits, 3 RBI. Colby Rich HR)
Pride of Iowa Conference
East Union 4, Stanton 3 (8 innings)
Martensdale-St. Marys 6, Wayne 3
Southeast Warren 9, Central Decatur 1
Southwest Valley 30, Essex 2
Other Scores
CB Abraham Lincoln 4, Sioux City North 1
CB Abraham Lincoln 5, Sioux City North 0
(Radio Iowa) – The State Board of Education has approved plans by the University of Northern Iowa to offer an online accelerated elementary education and special education teacher program. U-N-I’s Director of Education Preparation, Benjamin Forsyth says courses in this program will be offered in eight-week, eight-credit terms. “The way we had to do this to be able to accelerate was to bundle courses that typically aren’t taught simultaneously,” he says. You will need an Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Science Degree and must be employed as a paraeducator or teachers’ aide within a K through sixth-grade school setting to get into the program. Forsyth says surveys on the interest in such a program show it is high.
“Just one example, on Facebook, if you and I say hey we’re doing something, you got about three shares, we’re up to almost 200 shares on this,” Forsyth says. Iowa and other states have been struggling with teacher shortages, and it’s hoped this will help. “We’re expecting a lot of people to apply, but then a portion of those not to actually meet requirements. And because chapter 79 is the way it is we really can’t take anyone that doesn’t have an A-A or A-S. We really can’t take a paraeducator that’s teaching preschool because they’ve got to have these field experiences,” he says. Forsyth says they will slowly get the program rolling.
“We want to take as many as we can but we’re not expecting to go that large on this first round,” Forsyth says, “we know that we don’t have the resources to go beyond about 30 or 60. We know that we’re going to have to work out some bugs on the first round but we want to see this happen.” Those who complete the accelerated program will have a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and a minor in Special Education with teaching endorsements for a K-6 elementary teacher and K-8 instructional strategist.
The State Board of Education approved the plan at their meeting on Thursday.
(Red Oak , Iowa) – A traffic stop Thursday night in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a man wanted for Forgery. Red Oak Police say 30-year-old Aaron Garfield Nelson, of Red Oak, was taken into custody on a Red Oak Police warrant for four felony counts of Forgery. Nelson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $20,000 cash-only bond.
Today: Cloudy to Partly Cloudy. High 77. SE-NW @ 5-10 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 60.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High 83. S @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 85.
Monday: P/Cldy. High around 95.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 77. Our Low was 57. Rainfall at KJAN amounted to .15″. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 96 and the Low was 68. The Record High on this date was 104 in 1933. The Record Low was 40 in 1966.
(Radio Iowa) – One of the largest employers in Clinton is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Governor Kim Reynolds and other officials joined A-D-M leaders Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the company’s corn processing plant purchase from Nabisco. Plant Manager Eric Fasnacht says A-D-M has significantly expanded the plant in the four decades — and it currently processes 350 thousand bushels of corn a day from local farmers and elevators. That works out to between 400 and 500 truckloads a day.
“Separate the corn kernel into its fractions – we make different kinds of corn sweetener, dry starches, crystalline sugars, and feed components that go out to the animal food or feed industry,” he says. There are around one thousand employees in the plant every day from A-D-M and local contractors. The company also celebrated the opening of a new mill to process corn that cost 250 million dollars. And Fasnact says the company will continue to invest in Clinton.
“We’re looking at even another project that’ll be starting here in the fall with a Japanese company that we’re partnering with on another big project, so we’ll see some of that starting to happen later this year, ” Fasnact says. Hiring for that joint project has already started. He says a corn processing facility first opened in Clinton back in the early 1900’s, and Nabisco is believed to have purchased the plant in the 1950’s and run it until selling to A-D-M in 1982.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s largest water utility has begun operating its nitrate removal facility, as nitrate levels have spiked in the rivers that are the source of drinking water to 600-thousand customers. Ted Corrigan is general manager and C-E-O of the Des Moines Water Works. “It isn’t as easy as just flipping a switch, but we’ve tested everything fairly recently and we can put the whole process into action pretty quickly, within a couple of hours or so.” Corrigan says spring rains washed nitrates off land upstream.
“It’s not uncommon at all for us to see high nitrogen concentrations in both the Des Moines and Raccoon River when we have a wet spring following a dry fall or a even dry year, like we had last year,” so it’s not really a surprise, but we are seeing nutrients that are coming off the landscape after basically having been stored there during the dry conditions of the last couple of years.” Employees are monitoring the processed water that is pumped to customers in the Des Moines area and Corrigan says it is safe to drink.
“Customers shouldn’t notice any difference in the treated drinking water,” Corrigan says. “It meets all the federal drinking water standards.” It costs about 10-thousand dollars per day to operate the nitrate removal equipment. “The length of time that we’ll have to run the facility is very dependent on how much flow we see in the river and the temperature,” Corrigan says. Corrigan expects the operation to run for several weeks. The last time the nitrate removal facility at the Des Moines Water Works was running was in 2017 and what was removed was diluted and returned to the river.
“We’re no longer able to do that and not because of the nitrate, but because of the chloride that’s in the waste stream. We don’t want to put that back in the river,” Corrigan says, “so now we actually have a pumping station that sends that waste stream to the wastewater treatment plant and they run it through their process.” Due to nitrate runoff, Corrigan says tests on Tuesday started to show the utility’s river water source had nitrate levels close to the federal cutoff for safe drinking water, so the nitrate removal facility began operations.
“We literally need millions — 10 million, 15 million acres of cover crops in the state. We need thousands of saturated buffers. We need hundreds of wetlands across the state,” Corrigan says, “and those practices are being implemented across the state, but not at a scale to see a measurable difference in water quality.” On Monday night in GRINNELL, there was a catastrophic failure in a large water pipe and nine-thousand customers of Grinnell’s water utility were advised to boil water before drinking it. The pipe rupture was repaired, the water tower refilled and tests of water in eh system showed no bacterial contamination, so Grinnell officials lifted the boil order on Thursday.