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(Radio Iowa) – A University of Iowa student and military veteran has won the prestigious Pat Tillman Scholar Award. Fort Dodge native Jake Schillo is working on his P-H-D after serving six years in the U-S Air Force as a nuclear weapons specialist. Schillo says he hopes winning the scholarship will open doors for other veterans from Iowa. “Iowa has a large community of veterans pursuing an education that would have incredible applications for the scholarship,” Schillo says. “I’m fortunate enough that the foundation saw something in me that they wanted to invest in and I hope that being the first scholar at Iowa helps to pave the way for future Tillman scholars within our state.”
The award is named after a former N-F-L player who gave up his pro football career to enlist in the U-S Army following the Nine Eleven attacks of 2001. Tillman was killed in 2004 while serving in Afghanistan. Schillo is working on his doctorate in the field of cancer genetics and hopes to open his own cancer research facility in the future. “I’m really focusing on creating new technologies that allow us to understand why patients relapse in cancer therapies,” he says, “so a lot of my research is just in that technology development.”
Schillo is among the 2021 Class of Tillman Scholars, 60 students who were selected from a group of several thousand applicants. Schillo says he’s on pace to graduate from the U-I in May of 2022. He graduated from Fort Dodge Senior High in 2005, and has a degrees in biology and chemistry from Minot State University in North Dakota.
(Radio Iowa) – Drake coach Darian DeVries got to see up close what it was like to coach your son while serving as an assistant at Creighton. Doug McDermott was a three time All-American and the national player of the year in 2014 while playing for his father, Greg. Tucker DeVries joins the Bulldog program after leading Waukee High School to the class 4A state championship.
DeVries calls it a unique situation.
He says a key is treating Tucker like the other players.
(Radio Iowa) – A Drake runner has been ruled out of the Tokyo Olympics. Yinka Ajayi won’t get the chance to fulfill her Olympic dream. According to the BBC Ajayi is one of 10 track and field standouts from Nigeria who have been ruled ineligible due to improper drug testing leading up to the games. None of the 10 athletes failed a drug test and many were based in the United States and compete collegiately in the U-S. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has accepted responsibility for the botched testing. Ajayi was hoping to be on the track this (Friday) morning to take part in the mixed 4×400 meter relay. Ajayi took part in a Zoom conference last week shortly after arriving in Tokyo.
Ajayi said she was proud to represent Drake at the Olympics.
Ajayi has won three Missouri Valley Conference titles in her first two years with the Bulldogs.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s Joe Wieskamp and Luka Garza were both selected in the second round of the NBA Draft. Wieskamp was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 41st pick. He became the first Hawkeye to be drafted since 2015 and the highest draft pick since Ricky Davis went 21st overall back in 1998.
Wieskamp felt going into the draft the Spurs would be a good fit.
Wieskamp helped his draft stock with a strong performance at the NBA Combine.
Garza was taken by the Detroit Pistons with the 52nd pick after a senior season in which he was named the National Player of the Year.
The 2021 Cass County Fair rolls on in Atlantic. Here’s a list of today’s scheduled activities:
8:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M …………………………Beef Weigh–In
8:00 A.M…………………………………………..Rabbit Show
9:00 A.M………………………………………. Horse Show
10:00 A.M……………………………………….4–H/FFA Exhibits Open
11:00 A.M………………………………………..Dog Show
3:30 P.M…………………………………………Clover Kids Animal Show
5:30 P.M…………………………………………Share–the–Fun/Style Show
6:30 P.M………………………………………….Mutton Busting
8:00 P.M…………………………………………Bull Ride
Remember, there is no charge to park, and no entrance fee, so come on out to the Cass County Fair and be sure to stop at the Fair Food Stand. It’s open from 6:30-a.m. until 10-p.m. each day through Monday, and from 6:30-until 10:30-a.m., on Tuesday.
Today: **Air Quality Alert until 4-p.m. for areas of wildfire smoke** Partly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 84. E @ 10.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/showers & thunderstorms. Heavy rain is possible. Low around 67. N @ 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow: Cldy to P/Cldy w/showers & thunderstorms ending. Some heavy rain is possible. High near 80. N @ 10.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 82.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 84.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 94. Our Low this morning, was 68. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 86 and the Low was 59. The Record High on this date was 102 in 1931 & 1947. The Record Low was 39 in 1971.
(Radio Iowa) – Another Democrat intends to seek their party’s U.S. Senate nomination and the chance to challenge Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley in 2022. Minden City Councilman Glenn Hurst is a physician who also chairs the party’s Rural Caucus. Hurst says Democrats can win over rural voters.
“They want to be able to buy groceries in their town. They want to be able to have good, stable jobs and live in safe communities and we have to give people the opportunity to do that,” Hurst says. “We have to tell them: we value a rural lifestyle and we’re willing to fight for it.” Hurst, who specializes in general and family medicine, works in Minden and two other clinics in western Iowa. He says health care access is a key issue.
Glenn Hurst
“I stand firmly on the believe that to save our rural communities we are going to have to invest in Medicare for All,” he says. “That is the solution for rural Iowa, that along with other components, such as supporting our labor movement.” Former Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids and former Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer are also planning to run in the Democratic Primary. Grassley has said he’ll announce this fall if he plans to run for an eighth term.
(Reporting by Iowa Public Radio’s Kate Payne)
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds is among a dozen GOP governors who’re urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn previous rulings on abortion and give states the authority to regulate the procedure.
Reynolds signed onto a legal brief that argues the court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision is an “unwarranted intrusion” on states’ rights. Reynolds also released a written statement, saying the ruling has “stymied” state efforts to enact abortion restrictions. An Iowa-based spokesperson for Planned Parenthood said it’s clear the governor’s goal is to ban abortions in Iowa.
Reynolds is among about 250 Republican office-holders from around the country who’ve expressed support for Mississippi’s law that bans most abortions after the 15th week of a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has scheduled legal arguments over Mississippi’s law during the court’s next term, which begins in October, with an opinion expected by next June.
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