JOHN JENNINGS, 94, of Atlantic (& formerly of Griswold), died Friday, Oct. 30th, at Atlantic Specialty Care. A private family interment for JOHN JENNINGS will be held. Rieken Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold is assisting the family with arrangements.
JOHN JENNINGS, 94, of Atlantic (& formerly of Griswold), died Friday, Oct. 30th, at Atlantic Specialty Care. A private family interment for JOHN JENNINGS will be held. Rieken Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold is assisting the family with arrangements.
KENNETH LEE FINNELL, 65, of Atlantic, died Thursday, Oct. 29th, at Atlantic Specialty Care. Graveside services for KENNETH FINNELL will be held 11:30-a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7th, at the Weirich Cemetery, south of Lyman. Rieken Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland is assisting the family.
Everyone is invited to join the family for food and fellowship at Zion Lutheran Church (811 Oak St.) in Atlantic, immediately following the graveside service.
KENNY FINNELL is survived by:
His daughters – Suzanne (Rick) Holmes, of Griswold; and Jody King (Jeff Pelzer), of Atlantic.
His brothers – Joe (Wendy) Finnell, and Don (Luann) Finnell, all of Atlantic.
8 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.
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Corning, IA – Local farmer Marnie Cline recently directed a $2,500 America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation, sponsored by Bayer Fund, to Adams County 4-H Safety Education in Shooting Sports (SESS) project.
SESS will use the funds to purchase ammunition and supplies to maintain the low cost for 4-H members, and pay the fees. Evy Ganfield, Adams County ISU Extension and Outreach County Youth and Outreach Coordinator says “We are so grateful to Marnie for pursuing this grant for the SESS program and benefiting the kids – with this donation we can continue to offer an amazing Shooting Sports project with quality instructors that is available to all of our youth – the equipment is provided, so the financial commitment for families is extremely low.”
Since 2010, the America’s Farmers programs have awarded more than $57 million to nonprofits, aspiring Ag students and public schools across rural America. The Grow Communities program partners with farmers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations with resources to strengthen their local communities.
Each August, farmers can enter for the chance to direct a $2,500 Grow Communities donation to a local eligible nonprofit of their choice. Farmers have directed donations to food banks, emergency response organizations, schools, youth agriculture programs and many others that reflect the spirit and support the vibrancy of rural America.
To learn how you can be an America’s Farmers Grow Communities recipient, visit www.AmericasFarmers.com. The America’s Farmers Grow Communities 2021 program will kick off on August 1, 2020, and farmers will once again have the opportunity to enroll for a chance to direct a donation to a local eligible nonprofit of their choice.
(Radio Iowa) – In class A top ranked Grundy Center hosts Nodaway Valley. Grundy Center coach Travis Zajac says Nodaway Valley is playing its best at the right time.
Zajac says the Spartans expect a tough challenge.
(Radio Iowa) – Third ranked Audubon hosts number-seven Newell-Fonda tonight, in an 8-player contest. Audubon is 7-0 and none of the games have been close. Newell-Fonda coach Brian Wilken says his team is excited with the opportunity.
Newell-Fonda uses a lot of balance in their run game.
Wilken says the Mustangs must limit turnovers.
(Radio Iowa) – Incumbent Republican Joni Ernst has been campaigning in northwest Iowa today (Friday) as part of her final push to win a second term in the U.S. Senate. During a stop in Sioux City, Ernst criticized her Democratic opponent Theresa Greenfield for not visiting each of Iowa’s 99 counties. “Can you believe that?” Ernst said and the crowd booed. “The Iowa people expect their elected representatives to show up and do their job.”
Ernst brought along a team of supporters, including two of her fellow senators. Texas Senator Ted Cruz told the crowd jammed into Woodbury County G-O-P headquarters that Ernst’s race will determine whether Republicans retain majority control of the U.S. Senate. “There are no moderate Democrats,” Cruz says. “Now, Theresa Greenfield — she may try to talk like she doesn’t believe any of this craziness, but a vote for her is a vote for Chuck Schumer, a vote for her is a vote for AOC and a vote for her is a vote to destroy the economy and the rights of millions of Iowans.”
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley held up a bottle of hand sanitizer and told the crowd packed into Woodbury County’s Republican Headquarters he was there to clean up some lies, like the claim in an ad that Ernst had voted four times to give herself a pay raise. “Senators have not had a pay raise since 2009 or 2010, whenever it was the last time,” Grassley says.
Ernst took office in 2014. Cruz, the winner of Iowa’s presidential caucuses in 2016, told the crowd Iowa is playing a pivotal role in the national election this year. “If the Democrats win Iowa, they’re going to raise your taxes — massively,” Cruz said. “If the Democrats win Iowa, they’re going to continue to shut down the economy and destroy small businesses across this county. If the Democrats win Iowa, they are going to jam through a Green New Deal that will destroy energy in the United States.”
Governor Kim Reynolds, who is also on the tour, joked that Cruz “would be in trouble” once she got coffee after the first bus tour stop. Cruz opposes the federal ethanol production mandate, but none of the other Republicans at the event brought that up.
(Radio Iowa) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was in Des Moines earlier this (Friday) afternoon to deliver his closing pitch to Iowans at a drive-in rally on the state fairgrounds. “It’s time for us to stand up, take back our democracy,” Biden said, as car horns blasted in response. “We can do this. We’re so much better than we’ve been.”
Biden accused the Trump Administration of a “weak and chaotic” China trade policy that has dealt set-backs to Iowa farmers and the biofuels industry. “Ethanol margins have tanked and Iowa’s manufacturing facilities are idle and even closing,” Biden said. Biden also brought up the 28 BILLION dollars in trade disruption payments the Trump Administration has provided farmers. “He says because of quote — his bailouts, our farmers do better now than when they actually had to farm,'” Biden said. “…Where’s this guy from? Who does he think he is?”
Biden said if elected, he’ll mobilize an international effort to address China’s trade abuses that have hit the nation’s farmers as well as U.S. manufacturers. “I’m going to hold China, which he hasn’t from the pandemic on,” Biden said. Biden brought his Trump’s critique of wind energy — and Trump’s claim wind turbines cause cancer — “This is also a guy you may recall, the stable genius, who said the problem with the Revolutionary War was that we didn’t have enough airports,” Biden said. “And he talks about mental acuity? Whoa.”
The Biden campaign says 200 vehicles were parked around the state and another 125 were in a holding area nearby. This was Biden’s first visit to Iowa since his 4th place finish in the Iowa Caucuses. The Trump campaign announced the president will hold a rally in Dubuque on Sunday afternoon.
(Radio Iowa) – The latest predictions show a La Nina weather system has developed in the Pacific Ocean and it’s expected to linger into spring — which may bring Iowa a colder winter and could influence the state’s weather well into 2021. Matt Rosencrans, a meteorologist at the Climate Prediction Center, says they plan to update the forecast monthly.
“The La Nina forecast goes out about eight months, so if we were doing a forecast back in July, it wouldn’t have extended too far into next year anyway, so that’s one aspect of it,” Rosencrans says. “The other aspect is that you just have more certainty.”
A La Nina system occurs when sea surface temperatures average below-normal. Historically, La Ninas have caused below-normal temperatures across much of the Northern Plains states during the winter. Rosencrans says the center’s predictions are largely based on past observations.
“There’s kind of a new unpredictability die-off in this skill of La Nina at about six months, some seasons, it’s six to seven, in the springtime, it’s only about two to three months,” he says. “We really don’t have a lot of lead time on there.”
Rosencrans says they are confident of the impacts at least through February, while beyond that, there’s still some uncertainty.