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FOR SALE: A heavy duty 1/2″ air impact wrench, works fine, asking $50. Also, 2 vertical shaft lawnmower motors, one is a 5HP Tecumseh and the other a 6 HP Briggs & Stratton. Asking $25 each. Call 712-304-4998 in Hamlin.
FOR SALE: Turbo charged 2005 Mazda, modified car with open hood, 5 speed, 4 cylinder, running lights in front, won 2nd place at AtlanticFest last year, only selling because no garage to keep it in, currently in a friends garage in Atlantic so has been kept dry. 651-376-8696.
FOR SALE: Landscaping blocks. Can be seen at 510 East 22nd Street in Atlantic. Asking $1.00 each. SOLD!
FOR SALE: Bicycle $60.00 Men’s Phone 712-249-6210.
FOR SALE: Aluminum 28′ extension ladder. $140 OBO. Call 712-249-8667.
FOR SALE: 5 Jeep aluminum wheels with p225/75R15 tires (87 to 95 wrangler) 4.5″ bolt pattern $150 SOLD!. Also, 1998 Ford Taurus with 137,000 + miles $1200.00. SOLD!
FOR SALE: 1985 El Camino, bronze color, located at 1413 Bryn Mawr Circle in Atlantic. 480-688-3236.
WANTED: I am in search of an old feed bunk no longer in use. Preferably no wider than 5-6 feet. Elk Horn/Exira area. Call 253-230-8453.
FOR SALE: Two refurbished Green Mountain pellet grills (like a Traeger). Easily can smoke or grill. Temperature ranges from 200 to 500 degrees. Call Jeff at 712-249-1716 for any questions. Asking $350.00 each OBO. If want to look at grills they are at Anita Lumber Yard in Anita, Iowa. Questions/negotiations should be made with Jeff, not anyone at Anita Lumber Yard.
FOR SALE: Large Plush (Stuffed) Rabbit is 31″ long stretched from tip of nose to tip of back paw and is 24″ wide from paw to paw. Nice and clean. Like new. Never been played with – only placed on a bed in a non-smoking home. Price is a bargain compared to new in stores. Will make a nice Easter gift. – $10 Item located in Exira. Call 515-943-6471.
FOR SALE: Brown overstuffed recliner. Call if you are interested or would like to see it. 712-243-4509 at Allen Place #138. Best offer will take it.
WANTED: Looking for 2 used 28′ aluminum extension ladders. Call 712-243-2860. FOUND!
FOR SALE: 8 ft. tall, Ficus patio/deck tree. $20 o.b.o. 712-250-0266. SOLD!
FOR SALE: Stacked washer & dryer $100 SOLD!; full size washer & dryer $80 for set. 243-4914.
FOR SALE: Small rocking horse, like new, $15. Bumbo seat for $10. Can deliver to Atlantic or Exira. Call 712-254-0217.
FREE: a very large bag of very good clothes, men’s jeans ladies clothes. Anita- come get them or give me a call-712-254-6842. CLAIMED!
FOR SALE: TREK 7.3 (7300) FX Hybrid Bicycle, Silver. Popular bike is a “perfect combination of road bike speed and city bike comfort”.. Lightweight, comfortable. Excellent condition. 14″ or 15″. Exira, IA. 712-304-0084. $90.00. SOLD!
FOR SALE: 4-Drawer Metal Vertical File Cabinet Gray Excellent condition. Letter size documents. Smooth opening and closing glides. 15″x26″x52″. $25.00. 712-304-0084. SOLD!
FOR SALE: Antique Five- drawer wood veneer chest of drawers. Drawers open and close nicely. $25.00. 712-304-0084. SOLD!
by Lily Bohlke (Iowa News Service) DES MOINES, Iowa — Advocates for family farms, rural neighborhoods and the environment are asking Iowa lawmakers to find a more equitable balance between the interests of factory farms and of the communities they’re in. Research has shown higher levels of nitrates and phosphorus in the water, as well as air quality issues, in communities with nearby concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Pigs at a factory farm.
Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, said the current standards for factory farms, from manure storage to air-quality standards, aren’t strong enough to protect their neighbors or natural resources. “When a facility more resembles an industrial factory than a part of a farm community, it ought to be treated as an industrial operation,” Lehman argued. “And the neighbors in the communities ought to be protected.” The Iowa Farmers Union has joined the call for a moratorium on new CAFOs and expanding existing ones.
Opponents of the bill, House Fire 440, point out Iowa is the nation’s top pork-producing state, and contended a moratorium on factory farms would harm the state’s ag industry. Drew Mogler, public policy director for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, said the state’s economy depends on livestock and other agricultural production, particularly in rural communities. He noted livestock processing has created many jobs as well. “This piece of legislation has surfaced, you know, almost every year that I’ve been up at the Statehouse,” Mogler observed. “But you know, every year it hasn’t moved, even into a subcommittee.”
Lehman pointed out despite the fact a moratorium likely won’t be in the cards for this legislative session, their work must persist. “Our neighbors still need to continue to work and talk to their policymakers about trying to strike a balance, to put in stronger protections for the neighbors of these facilities,” Lehman asserted. “And at least to have the current laws enforced.” He added the goal is simply to protect neighboring communities’ water, air and property values.
(Radio Iowa) – This is “Poison Prevention Week” and a spokesperson with the Iowa Poison Control Center in Sioux City says it’s a good time to look under our kitchen sinks and storage areas when it comes to cleaners, medicine, and materials that may fall into younger hands. Tammy Noble says the week is a good reminder to break bad habits that could lead to problems. She says sometimes the little things you do, such as reading the label to make sure you are not mixing things that shouldn’t be mixed. Or with medicine, be sure you are taking your own medicine and not someone else’s.
Noble says all chemicals should be handled properly to avoid accidental poisoning. Things like not putting poisons in things like pop bottles. Sometimes people think about gasoline and I’ve got to put it in a container and they might find a pop bottle or something to put it in,” she says. “A child when they look at that — they are going to going to think that is pop.” She says that could lead to the child drinking the gasoline. Noble says the center has been busy during this pandemic period with things you might expect — like calls about hand sanitizer. There has also been an increase in calls about bleach as people use it to sanitize things.
“Sometimes people aren’t always aware of how to do that safely. So we have people who will sometimes be overcome by the fumes of the cleaners or have an eye exposure, or breathe too much of it in — so they call the Poison Center for help,” she says. Noble said the late afternoon and evenings have been the busiest time for calls to the center. “Ninety-percent of poisonings happen at home — and most of them can actually be treated at home also,” according to Noble. “So we will give you advice on what to do and what side effects to watch for. And oftentimes we will even call you back and make sure things are going okay.”
The phone for the Iowa Poison Control Center is 1-800-222-1222 and the website is iowapoison.org. The center’s Facebook and Twitter sites will have special activities throughout the week aimed at young people.
(Radio Iowa) – In the past few weeks, Iowa’s seen a long run of subzero temperatures and snowfall as well as the first Tornado Watch of the year. Today, the first Monday of spring, marks the start of Severe Weather Awareness Week. Meteorologist Chad Hahn, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says some Iowans could use a refresher course on the dangers that likely lay ahead. Each day will have a different theme. “We talk about the severe thunderstorm criteria, what we use for a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, what we base that on, and that’s either one-inch or larger in diameter hail or 58 mile per hour winds, or greater,” Hahn says.
FILE PHOTO – Hope Gettler submitted this photo to the KJAN Facebook page. She said “We watched the rotation that formed a rope like tornado. It bounced up and down for 10 minutes while it was moving northwest towards Guthrie. This was taken 5 miles north of Adair at 320th St and Elm St.”
Tomorrow’s (Tuesday) focus will be on how Iowans get their weather information and the importance of having multiple sources, like weather radios and apps on your phone, in case severe storms knock out your usual source. “On Wednesday, we start to talk about tornadoes and the threat that those pose,” Hahn says, “and the plans that folks should have in their place of business or their home of where they’re going to shelter and have that thought through and that muscle memory in place.”
The annual statewide tornado drill is also planned for Wednesday, but with a small change this year. “We will not be issuing an official National Weather Service tornado warning product,” Hahn says. “Despite that, we still want folks to practice their procedures when it comes to where they’ll go in the event of a tornado. We want folks to drill. That is still an incredibly important part of the Wednesday of Severe Weather Awareness Week.”
Learn more about the week at weather.gov/dmx. There were 28 tornadoes in Iowa last year, and 54 twisters in 2019. Severe weather spotter classes are being offered this Wednesday, as well as March 31st, April 6th and April 19th.
Red Oak Police, Sunday night, arrested a woman on a Felony Probation Violation warrant. 30-year old Kirstin Lynn Wilwerding, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:53-p.m. and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $10,000.
Today: Cloudy w/rain. High around 56. NE wind @ 10 mph.
Tonight: Rain. Low 42. E @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Showers & thundershowers. High near 60. W/SE @ 5-10.
Wednesday: Mo. Cldy w/light rain in the morning. High near 50.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/light rain. High again near 50.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 68. Our Low this morning, 43. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 39 and Low 34. The Record High on this date was 86 in 1910. The Record Low was -6, in 1912.
(Radio Iowa) – A bill that has cleared initial review in the Iowa House has the goals of expanding custom meat processing in Iowa AND training more people how to properly butcher beef, pork and other meats. Republican Representative Chad Ingels, a farmer from Randalia, says he got the idea last spring when local meat lockers were jammed. “Now we’re extended out into 2022, 2023 as far as getting livestock processing at small lockers out across the state,” Ingels says. “A lot of interest from farmers wanting to get livestock into lockers or consumers or people who wanted to buy local meat kept getting put off.”
Ingels says the problem is two-fold. There aren’t enough local custom meat lockers and there aren’t enough butchers with the chops to break down carcasses to meet consumer demand. “The skills to work in a small locker are different, I think, than working in a meat processing plant on a line where you’re making the same cut on every carcas,” Ingels says. The bill Ingels is working on calls for a task force to study whether it makes sense to expand Iowa State University’s already existing meat science program or set up an “artisanal butchery” program at a community college. Ingels and other legislators are hoping to extend state grants to new or expanding custom meat lockers.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture distributed four MILLION dollars in federal pandemic relief grants to Iowa meat lockers last year. “But through that process they found there was at least an additional at least $3 million in need,” Ingels says, “and so we’re trying to find a way to fill some of that need and I’m sure there’s probably even more out there.” Nebraska lawmakers are considering grants for meat lockers with 25 or fewer employees. Wyoming has a law that lets ranchers butcher their own animals and deliver the meat directly to consumers who’ve purchased shares in their livestock.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) — Several freshmen showed no jitters on the opening day of the women’s NCAA Tournament. In fact, they embraced the bright lights of the Big Dance. It came as no surprise that Iowa’s Caitlin Clark began a run of impressive performances in the first game of the tournament. She was the nation’s leading scorer during the regular season. There were others. Anaya Boyd averaged only eight minutes a game for Georgia Tech. She made major contributions down the stretch to help the Yellow Jackets avoid being upset in the first round.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Freshman Caitlin Clark, the nation’s leading scorer, had 23 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, Monika Czinano also scored 23 points, and No. 5 seed Iowa beat 12th-seeded Central Michigan 87-72 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Clark was held to two points in the third quarter but teammate McKenna Warnock, who was scoreless in the first half, scored 11 straight Iowa points — capped by a 3-pointer to give the Hawkeyes a 63-52 lead. Clark scored the first four points of the fourth quarter to start Iowa’s 8-3 run to build an 18-point lead. Micaela Kelly finished with 23 points in 27 minutes for Central Michigan.
UNDATED (AP) — The Oregon Ducks moved on to the next round in a way they didn’t wish for, want or expect when positive COVID-19 tests bounced VCU from the NCAA Tournament before the teams’ first-round game in the West Region. Now it’s on to face No. 2 seed Iowa. By the time No. 7 seed Oregon takes the floor for the second round, it will have been 10 days since the Ducks played a game. The Ducks straddle a fine line between rested and rusty. The Hawkeyes are now tournament-tested after an 86-74 win over Grand Canyon. Elsewhere in the West, top-seeded Gonzaga takes on Oklahoma.
UNDATED (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have given six-time All-Star catcher Salvador Pérez the richest contract in club history, an $82 million, four-year deal that begins in 2022. The contract includes a club option worth an additional $13.5 million and has a $2 million buyout for 2026. The deal surpasses the four-year, $72 million contract the Royals gave to outfielder Alex Gordon in 2016. That deal wound up being a disappointment and Gordon retired after last season. Pérez is coming off a season in which he won his third Silver Slugger. He is also a five-time Gold Glove winner.
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Zion Webb threw for a touchdown and ran for another and Jacksonville State handled Southeast Missouri State 21-3. Webb’s 9-yard run finished a nine-play, 75-yard drive to start the game for a 7-0 Gamecocks lead. Webb wrapped it up with a 54-yard scoring pass to Josh Samuel as part of a six-play, 78-yard drive with 1:44 left in the third for the game’s final score. Andrew Bunch threw for 120 yards for the Redhawks. Kenny Doak’s 33-yard field reduced Southeast Missouri State’s deficit to 7-3 with 2:44 left in the first.
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