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Man thanks nurses in Sioux City with a flight of doves

News

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A recent cancer patient returned to a Sioux City hospital today (Thursday) to give a special thank you to the nurses who took care of him. Russ Guthridge of Aurelia and his wife released 50 white doves outside of St. Luke’s UnityPoint Health Center as a sign of love, new beginnings, and blessings to his caregivers. “I wanted to show how much I appreciate the nurses and what they did for me. I was here three weeks, and without the nurses, it would have been very difficult,” Gutheridge says. Haley Brewer is one of the nurses who cared for Gutheridge.

“This is beautiful, you know we’ve never had anything like this at St. Lukes. I’ve never gotten to see something like this. It was just a wonderful, wonderful way to say thank you,” Brewer says. The doves took off, circled the hospital and began their 60-mile flight back to Aurelia. Gutheridge has trained the doves for nearly 15 years — and says they always find their way home.

“We turn them loose for weddings, funerals, special occasions,” Gutheridge explains. “They know exactly where they are and how to get there.” He says the birds also take part in racing events and can return home from up to 600 miles away.

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IGHSAU girls soccer rankings 05/13/2021

Sports

May 13th, 2021 by admin

2021 FOURTH Iowa Girls High School Soccer Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
May 13, 2021

Class 1A
School Record LW
1 Davenport Assumption 10-4 1
2 Waterloo Columbus Catholic 10-1 2
3 Treynor 13-1 3
4 Dubuque Wahlert Catholic 7-4 4
5 Tri-Center 10-2 6
6 Nevada 7-5 7
7 Van Meter 10-3 8
8 Des Moines Christian 11-2 9
9 Gilbert 8-6 5
10 Denver 6-3 10
11 Dike-New Hartford 9-2 13
12 Iowa City Regina 5-5 11
13 Hudson 9-4 12
14 Sioux City Bishop Heelan 6-7 15
15 Solon 9-4 NR
Dropped Out: Underwood (14)

Class 2A
School Record LW
1 Waverly-Shell Rock 10-2 1
2 Lewis Central 12-2 2
3 Norwalk 10-2 3
4 North Polk 11-2 4
5 Clear Creek-Amana 12-0 5
6 Spencer 12-4 9
7 North Scott 6-5 7
8 Cedar Rapids Xavier 9-3 8
9 Mount Vernon 13-1 6
10 Dallas Center-Grimes 9-5 10
11 Glenwood 10-3 11
12 Pella 7-4 12
13 Carlisle 10-3 13
14 Bondurant-Farrar 7-5 14
15 ADM 8-4 15
Dropped Out: None

Class 3A
School Record LW
1 Ankeny Centennial 10-1 1
2 West Des Moines Valley 11-1 2
3 Pleasant Valley 12-2 3
4 Waukee 9-3 4
5 Dowling Catholic 10-3 5
6 Linn-Mar 11-2 6
7 Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 12-1 7
8 Johnston 8-3 10
9 Ankeny 6-4 9
10 Ames 9-3 13
11 Muscatine 11-2 14
12 Bettendorf 8-4 9
13 Iowa City West 8-4 12
14 Des Moines Roosevelt 6-3 11
15 Iowa City High 6-4 NR
Dropped Out: Urbandale (15)

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2021 Boys substate soccer brackets released

Sports

May 13th, 2021 by admin

Boys substate soccer brackets were released on Thursday by the IHSAA. The first round of postseason games in all three classes is scheduled for Thursday, May 20. Second round substate games will be played on Monday, May 24, and substate final games are set for Wednesday, May 26. Eight teams from each classification will advance to the 2021 IHSAA State Soccer Tournament, currently scheduled for June 1, 3, and 5 at Cownie Soccer Complex in Des Moines.

Tickets for the first two rounds of substate are $6, then substate finals tickets are $8. All host sites will utilize HomeTown Ticketing, which creates a digital ticket for spectators. Tickets for all games, once determined, will be for sale through the IHSAA Tickets page.

Here’s a look at the local first round match-ups on May 20th with higher seeds the home team:

CLASS 1A

Substate 7
#1 Greene County vs. #8 Atlantic 7:00 p.m.
#4 Van Meter vs. #5 Panorama 5:00 p.m.
#2 Des Moines Christian vs. #7 Grand View Christian 6:30 p.m.
#3 West Central Valley/Nodaway Valley vs. #6 PCM 6:30 p.m.

Substate 8

#1 St. Albert vs. #8 Tri-Center 6:30 p.m.
#4 Underwood vs. #5 AHSTW 6:30 p.m.
#2 Treynor vs. #7 Logan-Magnolia 7:00 p.m.
#3 Riverside vs. #6 Missouri Valley 5:00 p.m.

CLASS 2A

Substate 8

#1 ADM Bye
#4 Glenwood vs. #5 Carroll 6:30 p.m.
#2 Denison-Schleswig vs. #7 Harlan 6:30 p.m.
#3 Creston vs. #6 Boone 6:30 p.m.

CLASS 3A

Substate 1

#1 Sioux City West Bye
#4 CB Abraham Lincoln vs. #5 Sioux City East 6:30 p.m.
#2 Sioux City North Bye
#3 Lewis Central vs. #6 CB Thomas Jefferson 6:30 p.m.

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Boys Sectional golf tees up on Friday

Sports

May 13th, 2021 by admin

The boys golf postseason fires up on Friday with Sectional Golf Tournaments for Class 1A, 2A, and 3A schools around the state. The top two teams from each sectional advance to District Tournaments the following Friday. If a host school is among the top two, then a third team also qualifies. The top two individuals not on a qualifying team plus ties will also advance on to District play.

Here’s a look at the area Sectional sites and assignments.

CLASS 1A

@ Coon Rapids Country Club (CR-B): Ankeny Christian Academy, Audubon, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Earlham, Glidden-Ralston, Madrid, St. Edmond.

@ Dunlap Golf Course (Boyer Valley): Boyer Valley, CAM, Exira-EHK, Griswold, Logan-Magnolia, Riverside, St. Albert.

@ The Meadows Country Club (Woodbury Central): Kingsley-Pierson, Lawton-Bronson, Siouxland Christian, West Monona, Westwood, Woodbine, Woodbury Central.

@ Three Lakes Golf Course (Lenox): East Mills, Essex-Stanton, Fremont-Mills, Lenox, Sidney, SW Valley.

@ Lamoni Golf and Country Club (Lamoni): Bedford, East Union, Lamoni, Mormon Trail, Mount Ayr, Nodaway Valley, Wayne.

CLASS 2A

@ American Legion Country Club (Shenandoah): AHSTW, Clarinda, Missouri Valley, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Treynor, Tri-Center, Underwood.

@ Lake Panorama National (Panorama): ACGC, Colo-NESCO/Collins-Maxwell, IKM-Manning, Kuemper Catholic, Ogden, Panorama, Roland Story, South Hamilton.

CLASS 3A

@ Atlantic Golf and Country Club (Atlantic): ADM, Atlantic, Carroll, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Greene County, Harlan, Perry.

@ Lakeview Country Club (Winterset): Bondurant-Farrar, Carlisle, Clarke, Creston, Newton, Pella, Saydel, Winterset.

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State auditor investigating $15/hour election worker wages in Scott County

News

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – State Auditor Rob Sand is investigation potential overpayments the Scott County Auditor approved for election workers. Scott County Auditor Roxanna Moritz (MORE-its) approved increasing pay for workers in the June, 2020 Primary Election to 15-dollars an hour. State Auditor Rob Sand says that may have been a misuse of federal Help America Vote funds made available to Iowa counties by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s office. Moritz made the pay decision on her own, without approval from the Scott County Board of Supervisors.

Moritz retired as Scott County Auditor last month.

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Axne bill on corporate profit shifting clears US House committee

News

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) –  Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne is sponsoring a bill designed to force big corporations to disclose how many jobs they outsource to other countries and if they’re using so-called tax havens in other countries to avoid paying U.S. taxes.  “In 2017, US corporations booked $32 billion of profits in Bermuda despite having 547 employees there. That’s something like an efficiency rate of $130 million per employee. Come on. I know Iowans are efficient when it comes to work, but that’s crazy,” Axne says. “That’s $32 billion in profits that’s been off-shored — they’re not paying taxes on that.”

Axne’s bill has cleared the U.S. House Financial Services Committee and similar legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. Axne, a Democrat from West Des Moines, says it’s a fairness issue. “The large, multinational corporations are shifting those profits around and avoiding taxes,” Axne says, “while our Main Street businesses are paying their taxes and they’re struggling to make ends meet.”

If Axne’s bill becomes law, corporations with shareholders would have to publicly disclose details about operations on a country-by-country basis. Axne says it would show how many employees are based outside the U.S. and how much company revenue and profits are being claimed as being earned outside the U.S. “Once you disclose this, there is an obvious understanding of how much money we’re missing out in taxes because businesses are taking advantage of opportunities that the everyday Iowan, the everyday American doesn’t even know about,” Axne says, “or even have a chance to do.”

Axne’s bill would work in tandem with tax changes the Biden Administration is seeking to reduce the incentives for corporations to shift profits to low-tax countries in order to avoid U.S. corporate taxes.

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Iowa livestock group rails on USDA for limiting COVID relief to producers

Ag/Outdoor

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Some livestock producers in Iowa saw little or no financial aid during the latest round of federal COVID-19 relief payments. The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is sending a letter to U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding payment limitations. Cora Fox, the association’s director of government relations, says the U-S-D-A was slow in putting out additional COVID payments intended for cattle producers and put a limit on them. Fox says, “Unfortunately, there are producers that carried quite a bit of risk due to their investments and they actually did not receive any additional assistance in this most recent round.”

The Cattlemen’s Association said in the letter that it wants the agency to know the payment limitations don’t fit what Congress intended. “Congress felt that cattle producers were not adequately compensated and that’s why we were explicitly included in that appropriations package,” Fox says. “Congress went as far as to provide the formulas and make stipulations regarding those payments. They did not, however, include a payment limitation.” Fox says there are many Iowa cattle producers who experienced significant losses and were denied pandemic funds, while others, who had minimal losses, were paid in full.

“USDA didn’t have any discretionary authority there in interpreting the directive, deciding how much anyone should get paid, anything like that, on a per head basis, yet they’re utilizing a payment limitation from last year,” Fox says. “What it’s done, it’s really missing the mark on a specific group of cattle producers that had significant losses.”

She says several feeder cattle operators who are struggling were completely left out of the aid due to the U-S-D-A-imposed payment limitations.

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PATRICIA LYNNE JOHNSON, 74, of Altoona (& formerly of Griswold) – Memorial Svc. 5/18/21

Obituaries

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

PATRICIA LYNNE JOHNSON, 74, of Altoona (& formerly of Griswold), died Dec. 5, 2020, at UnityPoint Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. A Memorial service for PATRICIA JOHNSON will be held 11-a.m. Tuesday, May 18th, at the Oakland United Methodist Church. Rieken Funeral Home in Griswold and Oakland is assisting the family.

Interment of Patricia and Dennis Johnson will be in the Oaklawn Cemetery.

PATRICIA JOHNSON is survived by:

Her sons – Jeffrey Johnson, of Omaha, NE, and Michael (Nancy) Johnson, of Altoona.

Her daughter – Pamela (Trent) Casey, of Treynor.

Her sister – Karen Emken, of Omaha.

Her brother – Russel Cooney, of Oakland.

12 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.

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Caramel Apple Crunch (5-13-2021)

Mom's Tips

May 13th, 2021 by Jim Field

  • 8 cups sliced peeled tart apples
  • 33 caramels, divided
  • 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons milk, divided
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • dash ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup cold butter
  • vanilla ice cream (optional)

Place apples in a greased 13″ x 9″ x 2″ baking dish.  In a heavy saucepan or microwave, melt 25 caramels with 2 tablespoons milk, stirring often; drizzle over apples.  In a bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, walnuts, salt and cinnamon; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.  Sprinkle over apples.

Bake at 375 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool for 10 minutes.  Meanwhile, in a heavy saucepan or microwave, melt the remaining caramels with the remaining milk, stirring often until smooth.  Drizzle over dessert and ice cream if desired.

YIELD:  12-16 servings.

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Man arrested in Boone County on Page County warrants

News

May 13th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer reports deputies with the Page County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday, arrested Justin Allen Williams. He was taken into custody at the Boone County Iowa Sheriff’s Office. Williams was wanted on two active Page County Warrants for Violation of Probation. He was transported to the Page County Jail and held on a $20,000 cash or surety bond.

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