Jim Field visits with Freese-Notis Meteorologist Dan Hicks about the lack of rainfall this spring.
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Jim Field visits with Freese-Notis Meteorologist Dan Hicks about the lack of rainfall this spring.
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The Creston Police Department reports six recent arrests. At around 3:40-a.m. Monday (May 3), 29-year-old Casey Welcher, of Afton, was arrested in Creston for Interference with Official Acts. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond. Sunday evening, 44-year-old Travis Wambold, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Barred. His bond was set at $2,000. Sunday afternoon, 30-year-old Devon Keller, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, for simple Domestic Assault. He was being held pending a bond hearing.
At around Noon, Sunday, 25-year-old Jacob J. Davis, of Cromwell, was arrested in Creston on a Madison County warrant for Failure to Appear, on original charges of OWI/2nd offense, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense. He was turned over to Madison County Deputies. Early Sunday morning, 31-year-old William A. Bethke IV, of Creston, was arrested in Creston for Public Intoxication. He was later released on $300 bond.
And, Friday afternoon, 38-year-old Luke A. Mullen, of Des Moines, was arrested at the Union County LEC, on a Union County warrant for Theft in the 2nd Degree. He was being held on a $5,000 bond, plus an additional hold on a warrant issued out of Pueblo County, CO.
The 7:07-a.m. broadcast news, with KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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SHIRLEY JORGENSEN, 90, of Fontanelle, died Sunday, May 2nd, at the Good Samaritan Society, in Fontanelle. Private Family Graveside services will be held for SHIRLEY JORGENSEN. Steen Funeral Home in Fontanelle has the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Shirley Jorgensen Memorial Fund, to be established by the family at a later date.
SHIRLEY JORGENSEN is survived by:
Her son – Steve Jorgensen, of Fontanelle.
3 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren, her sister-in-law, other relatives, and friends.
The Atlantic City Council has a full slate of action items on their agenda for their 5:30-p.m. meeting at City Hall, on Wed., May 5th. That includes a Mayoral Proclamation that May 2nd through the 9th is Professional Municipal Clerks Week, in Atlantic, as a means of honoring their “Precise organization, record and book-keeping skills,” which without, “The City as a business organization could not function.”
The Council will act on the following orders pertaining to upcoming special events:
The Council will then hold a Public Hearing on the sale of City-owned real estate at 211 W. 6th Street, as discussed in past council meetings. The hearing will be followed by a Resolution calling for the lot to be sold to Jeff Pross, for the sum of $1.00, with the provision he must build and occupy a home valued at $100,000 or more. The Council will also review and act on a recommendation with regard to a bid on City-owned properties at 204 W. 3rd, 202 W. 3rd and 211 Locust Street.
Chuck Templeman has proposed purchasing the lots for $4,810, which is the assessed value, and for the purpose of building a garage estimated to cost $10,000. Templeman owns 209 Locust Street, which is a rental house located to the north of the aforementioned lots. In addition, the Council will review and act on a recommendation for a bid of $650 for City-owned property at 611 Linn Street. The bid from James Hemphill is considerably less than the assessed value ($8,300). Hemphill wants to merge the lot with his property to the north. City Administrator John Lund says he cannot recommend the Council approve the bid, because a $100,000 home is not planned for the proposed lot. Lund says because of that, the policy would require $8,300 for the transaction.
The Council will act on setting a Public Hearing for May 19th, to amend the FY 2021 Budget, and they’ll hold the third and final readings of Ordinances pertaining to the timeframe and removal of snow and vehicles from sidewalks and streets. If approved, the Ordinances as written would reduce from 72-hours to 24-hours following the conclusion of a snow event, to clear sidewalks, and remove vehicles so the plows may clear the streets more effectively.
(Radio Iowa) – Growers planting the traditional corn and bean crops in the state have a pretty conventional process — while industrial hemp growers face a lot more questions. Robin Pruisner from the Iowa Department of Agriculture says there are four options for most hemp growers. “So you have to kind of figure out what you’re growing before you start — which is different from what we have with our normal crops in Iowa. Typically with corn, you raise it and then you can decide if you are going to sell it to a feed mill or an ethanol plant,” She explains. “Hemp is a little more complicated than that and you have to start planning earlier.”
With hemp you can grow it to extract the C-D-B, to create seeds, for grain, or for fiber. Pruisner says the different uses cause growers to use different methods in tending those crops. “You will see an incredibly wide spectrum of fertilization techniques and products out there — with some people not fertilizing at all. Others investing in very specific products to their crop,” Pruisner says. Pruisner says the cost of the inputs used for the crop are also varied. “Depending on whether you plant seed and if it is feminized seed — it can cost a dollar or more a seed. And it can cost a lot less if it is not feminized. And if you are planting clones or seed starts — they can run as high as five dollars a piece. And then you have you labor and planting costs,” Pruisner says.
Weather conditions are a factor for all crops — including hemp. “Once its established, it likes it on the dry side. It is not uncommon to see people irrigating if they are going for the high-value flower crop for extraction,” according to Pruisner. “It is also not uncommon to just see it planted out in the farm field with no irrigation. I really do see it from Alpah to Omega the way people are raising it.” Pruisner says hemp growers do not want wet conditions around harvest time because that can cause the plants to get moldy.
(Radio Iowa) ) The rare and powerful derecho that rampaged across Iowa last August caused extensive damage to hundreds of thousands of trees, but not all of the wind storm’s damage was negative. Billy Beck, a forestry specialist at the Iowa State University Extension, says the state’s woodland owners -can- recover and make their forests even more resilient than before. “We want to treat this as a forest management opportunity,” Beck says, “and not like an insurmountable setback.” Much like a wildfire can help a forest by clearing out dead trees and undergrowth, the derecho has provided the chance to rebuild some of the state’s key woodlands.
Beck notes oak trees, which are important to Iowa’s environment, love the sunlight. “They actually rely on disturbances such as this that open canopies up and expose young seedlings to sunlight to keep their species on the landscape,” Beck says. “If not, if the canopy closes, a lot of other species that love shade, still good trees but not oaks, will creep up in the understory and eventually take over the canopy.” Diversity is vital in a forest, Beck says, and that includes diversity of species, age, size and structure, as well as distribution on the landscape. He says one plot of forest land in Linn County is a good example of how diversity helped during the derecho.
“This particular property had a lot of younger plantings, a lot of middle age plantings, and some older established forests,” Beck says. “The older established forests were hit pretty hard but the younger and middle age stands of trees that were planted were not. So, this person, although they had some damage, has a forest resource for the future because of their management efforts.” Beck is releasing a series of four short YouTube videos that explain how woodland owners can rebuild after the destructive storm. “There’s really no cookbook method to rebound,” Beck says, “so what these four initial videos were really doing is giving folks a general overview of some big concepts to start thinking about, some resources that are out there that can help them, and just some things to keep their eyes open for following storms.”
Next, Beck plans to release several longer videos that offer more detail about how to start over with woodlands. Iowa has nearly three-million acres of forestland, and saw one-and-three-quarter million acres of forests, wind breaks and urban canopies impacted by the derecho. Iowa’s forestry industry supports 18-thousand jobs and pumps nearly five-billion dollars a year into the economy.
Link to the first of four videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkvaCJrLxMo
Police in Council Bluffs are investigating a shooting that took place in the parking lot of the Ameristar Casino early this (Monday) morning. Authorities say at around 2-a.m., officers were dispatched to the casino at 2200 River Road, with regard to a security officer who was out with a man, who had suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen. Officers spoke with the unidentified victim, who told them he was walking in the parking lot, when a dark colored SUV drove up to him, and someone inside fired a shot at the man. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Anyone with information about the incident and/or who may have been in the area at the time, is encouraged to the the Council Bluffs Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, at 712-328-4728, or Crimestoppers at 712-328-7867.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 35-year-old Jorge Alfonso Garcia, Jr., of Glenwood, was arrested Sunday afternoon, following a traffic stop on Highway 34. He was pulled over for speeding 83 mph in a 55 zone, and arrested for Driving While License Revoked. Garcia, Jr. posted a $1,000 bond, and was released.
Police in Red Oak reported two arrests took place, Sunday. Following a traffic stop at around 4-p.m., 45-year-old Misty Schalome Currin, of Red Oak, was arrested for Driving Under Suspension (x4). She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on bond amounting to slightly more than $491. And, at around 4:10-p.m., 31-year-old Dustin Ray Aherns, of Red Oak, was arrested for Driving While Barred. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
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