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2024 Iowa Girls High School Soccer Rankings: Thursday, May 2nd

Sports

May 2nd, 2024 by Asa Lucas

Class 1A
School
Record
LW
1
Davenport Assumption
11-0
1
2
Gilbert
9-1
2
3
Des Moines Christian
9-2
3
4
Bishop Heelan
8-4
4
5
Nevada
9-4
5
6
Underwood
10-1
6
7
Denver
11-1
8
8
Hudson
11-1
7
9
Center Point-Urbana
8-0
9
10
Panorama
11-0
10
11
Treynor
10-2
11
12
Beckman Catholic
8-1
13
13
Council Bluffs St. Albert
11-2
14
14
Vinton-Shellsburg
8-2
12
15
Garner-Hayfield-Ventura
9-1
NR
 
Dropped Out: Van Meter (15)
 
Class 2A
School
Record
LW
 
1
Waverly-Shell Rock
8-0
2
2
North Polk
11-0
4
3
Norwalk
9-4
5
4
Dallas Center-Grimes
6-3
1
5
Pella
8-3
3
6
Independence
9-2
6
7
Iowa City Liberty
7-3
8
8
Lewis Central
9-4
7
9
Cedar Rapids Xavier
4-3
10
10
ADM
5-6
11
11
Spencer
9-4
9
12
Iowa Falls-Alden
8-1
12
13
Clear Creek-Amana
10-2
14
14
North Scott
7-7
13
15
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson
9-2
15
 
Dropped Out:  None
 
Class 3A
School
Record
LW
1
Waukee Northwest
10-2
1
2
West Des Moines Valley
11-1
2
3
Ankeny
8-3
3
4
Waukee
8-3
4
5
Pleasant Valley
12-2
5
6
Ankeny Centennial
8-3
6
7
Linn-Mar
11-3
7
8
Bettendorf
7-3
8
9
Iowa City High
8-1
9
10
Southeast Polk
8-4
10
11
Iowa City West
6-3
11
12
Urbandale
5-5
12
13
Johnston
4-6
14
14
Mason City
8-1
15
15
Dubuque Hempstead
7-3
13
 
Dropped Out: None

IEDA Awards Tax Credits to Iowa Historic Preservation Projects in Carroll & Council Bluffs

News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

May 2, 2024 (DES MOINES, IA) – The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) announced over $19 million in awards to help transform 12 historic buildings. The awards were made through the Historic Preservation Tax Credit program.

“By supporting the restoration and revitalization of historic buildings, we not only preserve the architectural heritage of our communities but also breathe new life into them, creating vibrant spaces for generations to come.” said Debi Durham, director of IEDA and the Iowa Finance Authority.

The Historic Preservation Tax Credit program provides a state income tax credit to projects that rehabilitate underused or vacant historic buildings while maintaining the historic character-defining features that enhance neighborhoods and communities. Work completed on buildings must meet the federal Secretary of Interior Standards.

The most recent application round opened in January with approximately $19 million available for awards. IEDA received 13 applications requesting over $37 million in tax credits. Projects are scored based on readiness, financing and local support and participation. This round of awards will help to enhance historic buildings across the state including:

  • Ames: Rehabilitation of the Cranford Apartments. One of the few remaining historic structures in Campustown, this is a 1922 brick structure comprised of commercial space on the first floor and 30 apartments on the second through fourth floors. The project will upgrade mechanicals, re-establish original window openings, modify the apartments to provide new kitchens and bathroom and laundry in each unit, a workout room in the attic and renovate the first floor space for Jeff’s Pizza.
  • Carroll: Restoration of the Anne-Mar Building – Carroll Medical Center. This 1929 southwest Mediterranean architecture designed building located in the downtown area formerly housed a doctors’ clinic that served citizens outside of the hospital setting. The project involves converting the building into 12 new apartments.
  • Council Bluffs: Transformation of the Council Bluffs Federal Building and Post Office. Located at the west end of the downtown commercial corridor, this three-story building was completed in 1959. The project will convert the property into 53 apartments and helps with the city’s housing needs.
  • Dubuque: Revitalization of the Farley & Loetscher building. This project involves two buildings that formerly served as a window wood mill and furniture manufacturing facility. The buildings will be transformed into 127 apartments and mixed-use commercial/office spaces.

Download a spreadsheet with today’s awards here.

The Historic Preservation Tax Credit program is administered by IEDA. The next application round for large projects opens June 2024, with applications due September 16.  For more information on the program, visit www.iowaeda.com/historic-preservation-tax-credit/.

Construction on major thoroughfare through Iowa Great Lakes to be done by Labor Day

News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa)  – A major road upgrade in the Iowa Great Lakes region is ahead of schedule. Iowa D-O-T engineer Darwin Bishop says the goal is for out-of-town motorists on Highway 71 to think everything looks normal during tourism season. “We’re on schedule to be completed with our roadway paving May 24. We might be out there for a couple of weeks after that working on driveways and sprinkler systems and sod,” Bishop says. “We’re going to go through and repaint everything through town so it looks nice for vacation season and hopefully there’s very little interruption for anybody.”

The project began LAST spring, replacing Highway 71 pavement and some sidewalks in Okoboji and Arnolds Park. “The rain has slowed us down a little bit, but we had a great start and the contractor has been doing a real good job of moving his crew around to the work that the weather conditions allow,” Bishop says, “so if it’s a little muddy and dirty, they’ll work in an area where they’re not in the dirt and then when the weather’s good, they can pave away.”

Iowa DOT map of Highway 71 in Iowa Great Lakes region

All of the road construction in the area should be done by Labor Day. Bishop says they’ll replace the adjacent sod in the spring of 2025. Highway 71 is the main thoroughfare through the Great Lakes. According to Vacation Okoboji, cell phone data indicates over 180-thousand tourists visited the area last July – about a quarter of them stayed more than six days.

Gov. Reynolds requests expedited Presidential Disaster Declaration for severe weather

News, Weather

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES – Governor Kim Reynolds has requested an expedited Presidential Disaster Declaration for nine Iowa counties where significant damage was sustained from severe weather that occurred on April 26, 2024. The governor requested funding under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Individual Assistance Program and the activation of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loan Program for Clarke, Crawford, Harrison, Mills, Polk, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Shelby, and Union Counties.

Funding under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Individual Assistance Program provides disaster-affected homeowners, renters, and businesses access to programs and services to maximize recovery, including assistance with housing, personal property replacement, medical expenses, and legal services.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loan Program provides homeowners, renters, businesses, and most nonprofit organizations in the affected counties whose property was damaged or destroyed by this disaster, the ability to apply for low-interest disaster loans from the SBA.  In addition, the governor requested funding to conduct hazard mitigation activities for the entire state.

‘The letter can be read in its entirety here.

Iowa joins lawsuit over private firearm sales regulations

News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

Iowa is joining a lawsuit challenging a new rule that would stop some private firearm sales. A new rule from the Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms, known as ATF, would require a federal firearms dealer license for every person who sells a gun for a profit.

The change would force some private sellers to conduct background checks on potential gun buyers. The rule is set to go into effect on May 20. The filed lawsuit says the rule is unconstitutional because it is vague and circumvents Congress.

Attorneys General in 21 states are part of the lawsuit against the new ATF rule.

Iowa man arrested after allegedly flashing gun during road rage incident

News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested after police said he flashed a handgun at a driver in a road rage incident on Interstate 380 in Johnson County on Wednesday. According to KCRG-TV, a criminal complaint says 36-year-old Shawn Pettit is charged with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. Law enforcement said they were called by a driver heading south on I-380 near mile marker 4, saying a heavy-set, bald man driving a Chevy Silverado had flashed a handgun at them after brake-checking in front of them.

The caller told police the driver of the truck was driving “extremely fast,” well over the posted speed limit and weaving in and out of traffic. Police said they later found the truck with the same license plate number and description near the 87-mile marker on Highway 218.

According to the complaint, Pettit admitted to having a handgun in the vehicle and admitted to having the confrontation with the victim while driving fast and weaving in and out of traffic on I-380 through Johnson County.

FREYLER, KLOTZ RECEIVE NICK BASSETT PERSEVERANCE AWARD

Sports

May 2nd, 2024 by Asa Lucas

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell announced Thursday that seniors Beau Freyler and Stevo Klotz are this season’s recipients of the Nick Bassett Perseverance Award.

Nick Bassett was a supporter, fan and friend not only to the Cyclone Football program, but to the entire Iowa State community. He had various health struggles from age two until he passed away in January of 2022 at 29 years old. 

Nick served as an inspiration to everyone he met. His continued positive spirit, attitude toward adversity of all kinds, ability to persevere through challenges he faced and continued support and love for those he cared about provided an illustration all people can learn from – both in the Iowa State community and around the world. Nick’s life and legacy continues to impact Iowa State’s players, staff, fans and the entire program in tremendous ways.

The award recognizes two football players annually at the conclusion of spring football practice each season. The players that earn the honor are selected based on exemplifying the characteristics of that we remember Nick by: positive spirit, perseverance and selflessness.

Freyler is a senior from Colorado Springs, Colorado, while Klotz is a redshirt senior from Chaska, Minnesota. The pair will wear a Nick Bassett Perseverance Award decal on the back of their helmets next season.

Nick Bassett Perseverance Award Recipients

2022 – Zach Ross, Tayvonn Kyle

2023 – Jake Remsburg, Gerry Vaughn

2024 – Beau Freyler, Stevo Klotz

ISU professor says it’s often unsafe for farmers to pull over to let motorists pass

Ag/Outdoor, News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – State records show about 30 percent of farm-related crashes on Iowa roads occur during April, May and June. Steven Freeman, a professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University, says farmers need to make sure all lights on their equipment are working and the “slow moving vehicle” signs and reflective markers are in the right position. “That maintenance is something that will help the motorists see them,” Freeman says. Freeman says in rural areas, drivers need to exercise patience and keep their distance from farm equipment.

“Even if they have to follow farm equipment for a couple of miles, that’s just a couple of minutes out of their day,” Freeman says. “They should not try to pass because sometimes that’s not going to be safe and they should not be impatient and honking and expecting the farmer to pull over and let them by because sometimes that’s not safe.”

Freeman says the side of the road, especially a gravel road, may not support the weight of the farm equipment and pulling over to let a vehicle pass endangers the safety of the farmer. From 2017 to 2022, there were 114 vehicle accidents in Iowa involving farm equipment that caused serious injury or death. Widespread rain has likely paused planting in much of the state. The U-S-D-A estimates 39 percent of Iowa’s corn crop and about a quarter of Iowa’s soybean fields were planted by last Sunday.

Multi-Agency Resource Centers (MARC) to offer on-site assistance to the victims of the recent tornado in Minden

News

May 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Officials with the Pottawattamie County Emergency Management Agency have announced A Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) will offer on-site assistance this weekend, to survivors of the April 26th tornado that devastated the City of Minden. The town is where most of the damage in Pott. County occurred, and MARC is designed to operate as a one-stop shop assistance center for disaster survivor information, and service delivery. Approximately 15 organizations available will be in Minden to offer assistance this Saturday and Sunday.

MARC will operate at the Minden United Church of Christ on Saturday, May 4th, from 9-a.m. until Noon, and on Sunday, May 5th, from 1-until-4-p.m.

Available assistance at the MARC will include health and mental services, temporary housing, legal services, and more. Efforts to establish future MARCs are being coordinated, with possible locations in Crescent, Treynor, and Council Bluffs. Regardless of the location, the MARCs will be open to all Pottawattamie County residents impacted by the tornado outbreak.

Officials say assessments on structural damage throughout the county are ongoing and will take time to accurately complete. Officials currently estimate approximately 300 homes and businesses in the county experienced some level of damage. In Minden, officials currently assess 48 homes as destroyed, displacing resident occupancy. Access to the city has been limited to city residents, public safety personnel, and utility crews, as safety hazards remain an obstacle. Officials are hopeful outside volunteer assistance will be allowed entry in the coming days.
Power has been restored to all homes and businesses capable of receiving in Minden. The State of Iowa has partnered with the City of Minden to obtain contract services for a temporary water treatment plant and a debris removal contract that will expedite recovery.

There has been no communicated need for food, water, or emergency shelter anywhere in Pottawattamie County. Currently, all communities in the county have received sufficient donations of household items. Disaster survivors can access these resources from multiple locations.
• Crescent City Hall, 102 W Florence Street, Crescent, Iowa
• Neola Area Community Center, 110 4th Street, Neola, Iowa
• Treynor City Hall, 11 West Main Street, Treynor Iowa

Monetary donations can be made to the Southwest Iowa Emergency Relief Fund to support areas impacted throughout the region (GiveWesternIowa.org). A separate fund is being established for donations designated specifically to the community of Minden, and information on how to make that donation will be announced in the coming days.
As local and state officials explore opportunities for federal funding, it is vital property owners report storm-related damage on the Pottawattamie County Emergency Management Agency website, pcema-ia.org.

MAY BIRTHDAYS 2024

Birthday Club

May 2nd, 2024 by Lori Murphy

May 1:

  • Bill Paulsen of Exira (winner)
  • Knox Paulsen of Anita

May 2:

  • Don “Mr. Frog” Ozbun of Atlantic (winner)
  • Jason Ploen of Minden

May 3:

  • Gavin Leighton of Atlantic (winner)

May 4:

  • Isabell Wheatley of Avoca (winner)

May 5:

  • Donna Phillips of Anita (winner)

May 6:

  • No birthdays submitted

May 7:

  • Nora Ann Knudsen of Atlantic (Winner)
  • Jim Phillips of Anita
  • Violet Knight of Atlantic

May 8:

  • Penny LaFoy of Audubon (Winner)
  • Kurt Haupert of Atlantic
  • Kim at the Chuckwagon in Adair
  • Tristan Mathisen of Lewis

May 9:

  • Donna Karwal of Atlantic (winner)
  • Viola Phippen of Stuart
  • Kirk Bradley of Atlantic
  • Joe Nelsen of Anita
  • Christie Wallcae of Griswold

May 10:

  • Ashley Williams of Atlantic (winner)

May 11:

  • Angela Hillhouse of Atlantic (winner)
  • Amy Roland of Atlantic

May 12:

  • Jackie Knight of Atlantic (winner)

May 13:

  • Leiah Thomas 0f Atlantic (winner)
  • Dane Andersen of Waukee

May 14:

  • Marilyn Vernon of Atlantic (winner)
  • Pete Tallman of Atlantic

May 15:

  • No Birthdays

May 16:

  • No Birthdays

May 17:

  • Kelly Templeman of Atlantic (winner)

May 18:

  • Eric Gundersen of Atlantic (winner)
  • Walker Embree of Massena

May 19:

  • Dick Hensley of Atlantic (winner)
  • Gage Lauritsen of Exira
  • Steve Andersen of Atlantic
  • Darrin Feltner of Omaha, Nebraska

May 20:

  • Mary Greving of Exira (Winner)
  • Brenton Lambert of Atlantic
  • Susan Gray of Atlantic
  • Jacque Wickey of Atlantic

May 21:

  • Maddi Zellmer of Atlantic (Winner)
  • Ellie Jane Schultes of Exira
  • Margaret Haley of Exira

May 22:

  • Michelle Finnell of Atlantic (Winner)

May 23:

  • Joann Anderson of Atlantic (Winner)

May 24:

  • Jenn Nelson of Audubon (Winner)
  • Rae Ome Conn of Atlantic
  • Paul Schmidt of Harlan

May 25:

  • Mary Copp of Elk Horn (Winner)
  • Fred Sievers of Audubon
  • Charla Schmid of Red Oak

May 26:

  • Floyd Hackwell of Exira (Winner)
  • Ben Nelson of Audubon

May 27:

  • Bailie Duncan of Anita (winner)
  • Steve Farrier of Atlantic
  • Angel Honeck of Atlantic
  • Mandy Parks of Atlantic
  • Nancy Hepler of Atlantic

May 28:

  • Bev Olsen of Exira (winner)
  • Emily Kennedy of Atlantic
  • Robin “Papa” Jones of Atlantic

May 29:

  • Lucy Newton of Atlantic (winner)
  • Bill Edie of Atlantic
  • Doug Pankonan of Adair
  • Mike Hill of Cumberland
  • Stephanie Williams Landsown of Atlantic

May 30:

  • Alan Peterson of Atlantic (winner)
  • Vicki Templeman of Atlantic

May 31:

  • Marge Klindt of Atlantic (winner)
  • Ralph Cleveland of Exira