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Attorney General Bird briefly talk about trip to Trump’s NYC trial

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird attended Donald Trump’s trial in New York on Monday at the invitation of the Republican Attorneys General Association. She briefly answered a question about the trip during a news conference today (Tuesday) in Ankeny. “I went to New York to show my support for President Trump and to witness what was going on there in that courtroom in Manhattan,” Bird said.

Bird told Iowa reporters no tax dollars were used for the trip. A spokesperson for her campaign later identified the group that paid for it. Bird spoke with New York reporters Monday and said Trump’s trial was a travesty and the charges against the former president were a scam, but during her news conference in Ankeny she spoke about the trial for about 12 seconds. Bird was at a trucking company with Iowa Motor Truck Association representatives to announce legal action against E-V rules for semis.

Atlantic School Board Special Meeting Notice for 5/15/24

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Board of Directors of the Atlantic Community School District will meet at 5:30pm Wednesday, May 15, 2024 in the Atlantic High School Media Center. The meeting will be open to the public as required in Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code.

AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Approve Agenda
4. Action Item(s)
a. Approve 2024-2025 Certified Agreement between the Atlantic Education Association and the Atlantic School District
5. Discussion
a. The Atlantic Classified Union will present its initial contract proposal for the 2024-2025 school year between the
Classified Union and the District’s Negotiation Committee.
b. The District’s Negotiation Committee will present its opening proposal to the Atlantic Classified Union and its
representatives.
6. Adjournment
7. Exempt Session
a. The District’s Negotiation Committee will go into an exempt session to review proposals. Meeting closed to the public.

MARTHA ANN PIPER, 90 [Graveside Svcs. at a later date]

Obituaries

May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

MARTHA ANN PIPER, 90, died Monday, May 13, 2024, at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa.  Per her wishes cremation for MARTHA ANN PIPER has taken place, and a graveside service for her and Walter will be held at a later date at the Kossuth Cemetery in Mediapolis, Iowa. Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.

The family requests memorials be directed to the Heritage House Good Samaritan Fund at 1200 Brookridge Circle, Atlantic, IA 50022. The Good Samaritan Fund provides financial assistance to residents who have outlived their resources. This allows them to continue living in the familiar surroundings and with the caring staff they are accustomed to. Martha was a recipient of this program.

MARTHA ANN PIPER is survived by:

Her sons – Dennis Piper, of Mediapolis; David Piper, of Burlington, IA; Wayne Piper of El Cajon, CA, and Dan Piper of Winfield, IA.

Her daughters – Renae Smothers, of Atlantic; Teresa (Jeff) Godwin, of Cumberland, and Sharon (Tom) Duffy of Des Plaines, IL.

Her sister –  Dina Poole, of Burlington, IA

Her brothers – Ray (Karen) Iversen, of Macomb, IL., and  Sivert Iversen, of Burlington, IA.

17 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandson.

  Condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.

CAM Cougars Baseball Season Preview with Coach Drew Ticknor

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May 14th, 2024 by admin

The CAM Cougars baseball team will be playing their next game right around the corner. The Cougars are coming off a 9-13 overall and 6-8 Rolling Valley Conference record from last season.

CAM will be heading the road for their first two games, when they travel to Southwest Valley and East Mills to start the season. The Cougars first home game of the season won’t be until May 28th, when they host Logan Magnolia.

The season has been fast approaching according to coach Drew Ticknor

Coach Ticknor comments on what it was like in their rebuilding year last season.

The Cougars will be bringing back the same roster as they didn’t lose anyone to graduation from last year.

Coach Tickner talked about his teams main goals for this season.

The Cougars next baseball game will be Tuesday May 21st, when they will travel to Southwest Valley in a non-conference matchup. First pitch of that game will be at 7:30 p.m.

 

ISU Releases Complete 2024 Soccer Schedule

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May 14th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State and head coach Matt Fannon announced the 2024 soccer schedule Tuesday afternoon. The 2024 slate is highlighted by a program-high 12 home games – plus a home exhibition game – to go along with seven road contests.

The Cyclones will play eight non-conference games this year, with six coming at the Cyclone Soccer Complex, as part of the 19-game schedule. The schedule includes a lone exhibition match and is capped with 11 league games. ISU will meet up with seven teams that qualified for the 2023 College Cup in 2024 – four in the non-conference and three in Big 12 play – with BYU having made it to the semifinals last season.

The 2024 season unofficially begins on Aug. 7, when the Cyclone welcome Minnesota to Ames for an exhibition contest, making it the third straight season the two teams have met for preseason play. The season officially gets underway on Thursday, Aug. 15, with Western Illinois coming to town. ISU and WIU will meet for the fourth time and the first time since 2013, when the Cyclones won 2-0.

Following the season lid-lifter, Iowa State will remain at the CSC for a game with the Creighton Bluejays on Aug. 18 before hitting the road for its first away contest of the season. ISU’s first road trip will be a short one, as the team is set to head to Des Moines on Aug. 22 for a date with Drake in the state’s capital. A week later, on Aug. 29, the Cyclones will be visited by Saint Louis, the first of seven 2023 College Cup participants on the schedule.

The Cyclones will continue to play 2023 postseason qualifiers, as their next two games – at Memphis (9/1) and vs. Michigan (9/5) – will also be against teams that made last season’s College Cup. Iowa State concludes its non-conference slate in mid-September, with a pair of home games sandwiched around the Big 12 opener on the road.

ISU and Northern Colorado will meet on Sept. 8 before the Cyclones embark on their third road trip of the season, the conference opener at Kansas (9/12). Following a one-off game in Lawrence, ISU returns to the Cyclone Sports Complex to cap the non-conference slate against in-state foe Iowa on Sept. 15 as part of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.

The Cyclones will then host UCF in the home conference opener (9/19). The Cyclones will remain in Ames to face off with old Big 12 foe Colorado on 9/22 in the teams’ first meeting since 2018, when they played as part of a non-conference schedule.

ISU is back in action the following Thursday as it heads to Salt Lake City for the first-ever meeting with the Utah Utes (9/26). The Cyclones wrap their two-game road trip in Provo, taking on the BYU Cougars to close out September (9/30). The Cyclones open October play on the sixth, welcoming Kansas State to town. The team will remain in Ames as Cincinnati makes its first-ever appearance in Ames on 10/10.

In its final road trip of the season, Iowa State heads south to face off with defending league champs Texas Tech (10/13) and Oklahoma State (10/17). The conference schedule concludes at the Cyclone Sports Complex with TCU (10/20) and Baylor (10/25) rounding out home competition.

ISU will not match up with Arizona, Arizona State, Houston or West Virginia this season.

Complete 2024 Iowa State Soccer Schedule

Aug. 7 – MINNESOTA (exh.)

Aug. 15 – WESTERN ILLINOIS

Aug. 18 – CREIGHTON

Aug. 22 – at Drake

Aug. 29 – SAINT LOUIS

Sept. 1 – at Memphis

Sept. 5 – MICHIGAN

Sept. 8 – NORTHERN COLORADO

Sept. 12 – at Kansas *

Sept. 15 – IOWA

Sept. 19 – UCF *

Sept. 22 – COLORADO *

Sept. 26 – at Utah *

Sept. 30 – at BYU *

Oct. 6 – KANSAS STATE *

Oct. 10 – CINCINNATI *

Oct. 13 – at Texas Tech *

Oct. 17 – at Oklahoma State *

Oct. 20 – TCU *

Oct. 25 – BAYLOR *

HOME games in all caps | * = Big 12 Conference

40th anniversary of Iowa Vietnam Memorial marked

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A ceremony on the state capitol grounds today (Tuesday) marked an anniversary for the state’s Vietnam Memorial.  “The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated 40 years ago on Memorial Day May 28 of 1984 by then Iowa Governor Terry Branstad,” according to Dan Gannon, Commander of the Des Moines Chapter 20 of Vietnam Combat Disabled Veterans.

Gannon says the Iowa Memorial came two years after the National Vietnam Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D-C. Gannon, who served in the Marines in Vietnam says many other Iowans served our country as well. “During the Vietnam War years 115-thouand Iowans served in Vietnam in all branches of the military,” he says. “Their average age was 19. They were still teenagers barely out of high school and some not yet old enough yet to vote for the president’s who sent him there.” Gannon says nearly 900 Iowans gave the ultimate sacrifice.

“Eight hundred and 68 Iowans became casualties of that Vietnam War their names are etched as you can see in the black granite to my to my back,” Gannon says. “There are over 58-thousand-281 names on the Vietnam Wall in D-C.” He says it wasn’t very far into the war before the first Iowan died. “Iowa’s first casualty of the Vietnam War was Navy hospital corpsman second class Gerald Owen Norton. He served with the first Marine airwing and was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam on October the second of 1962, Gannon says. Iowa Vietnam War Memorial

He says Norton, who was from Moulton, was the first corpsman killed in the war. Gannon says the last Iowan killed in combat tragically came just before the war ended. “Nineteen-year-old United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Darwin Judge from Marshalltown, Iowa. He died on the 29th of April 1975. The last day of the war during a rocket attack. His death occurred just prior to the final evacuation of the Embassy in Saigon.” Gannon says He says five Iowans received the Medal of Honor for their conduct in the Vietnam War.

It is the 17th year there has been a state ceremony for Iowa Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day. All of the names of the Veterans on the Iowa wall were read for the first time in another ceremony that followed the anniversary recognition.

Residents seek details of Western Iowa Tech settlement with Chilean students

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Residents in the Sioux City area say their local community college needs to be more transparent about a $3 million settlement with 13 Chilean students who accused the school of human trafficking.

Three other international students from Chile have not yet settled with Western Iowa Tech. Dave Bernstein, the president of State Steel in Sioux City and a former member of the Iowa Economic Development Board, addressed the Western Iowa Tech board yesterday.

“I think there’s great concern over the fact that most likely there will be additional settlements taking that number up significantly, whether or not you actually have insurance in place to cover that or not, whether that’s going to take a hit to tuition’s or come out of your state funding or come out of the levy that goes against property tax holders within this area,” he said. “I think that’s a very significant concern that all taxpayers have a right to know.”

Rosanne Plante, a Sioux City lawyer, is a former instructor at the college. She said the school’s reputation has been tarnished. “You don’t reach a settlement of $3 million without spending a significant amount of money on lawyers,” Plante said, “and without determining that it’s far better to settle than it is to have your dirty laundry aired.”

The students say the college promised a free two-year program with internships, but they were forced into manual labor jobs at a dog food factory and a food processing plant to pay off tuition. The trial in a separate case involving Western Iowa Tech students from Brazil is scheduled to start about a year from now.

Glenwood Police report, 5/14/24

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Glenwood Police Department reports the arrest today (Tuesday), of 19-year-old Jonathan Young, from Glenwood. Young was taken into custody for Failure to appear. His cash-only bond was set at $300.

Gov. Reynolds, Sec. Naig request federal assistance from USDA for Iowa farmers impacted by severe storms

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES – Governor Reynolds today sent a letter co-signed with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig to Secretary Tom Vilsack at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requesting federal assistance for farmers whose properties were damaged or destroyed by severe weather on April 26-27, 2024. 

The governor issued the letter after being notified earlier in the day that a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration had been authorized by the White House, opening Federal Emergency Management Agency and Small Business Administration programs to disaster-affected homeowners, renters, and businesses in eight counties. 

An excerpt from the letter to the USDA is included below: 

“Iowa farmers have been significantly impacted by these storms and require assistance to recover from these catastrophic damages and to rebuild and replace destroyed grain bins, farm equipment, and operational business losses.  Disaster assistance programs only offered through the Farm Service Agency following a Secretarial Designation, including the Farm Loans Program and the Emergency Assistance for Livestock Program, are needed to help Iowa farmers recover from these storms. 

“As a result, we respectfully request your consideration and prompt issuance of U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretarial Designation and activation of any and all eligible assistance for the following eight Iowa counties:  Clarke, Harrison, Mills, Polk, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Shelby, and Union.” 

The letter can be read in its entirety online. 

TIM McCOY, 68, of Atlantic (Graveside Svcs. 5/18/24)

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May 14th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

TIM McCOY, 68, of Atlantic, died November 16, 2023, at Griswold Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, in Griswold. Graveside services for TIM McCOY will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, May 18, 2024, at the Wiota Cemetery. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.

A luncheon in the reception room of the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic, will follow the graveside service.

Memorials may be directed to the Tim McCoy Family at this time, they will be designated to some of his favorite local organizations. They may be mailed to the Schmidt Family Funeral Home P.O. Box 523, Atlantic, IA 50022.

TIM McCOY is survived by:

His brother – Dwight McCoy.

His sisters – Karen Rose and Debbie Meyer;

and many nieces and nephews.