LaVon Eblen speaks with Atlantic Parks and Recreation Foreman Kyle Welter about the opportunity to rent new raised garden beds for the season at Mollett Park.
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LaVon Eblen speaks with Atlantic Parks and Recreation Foreman Kyle Welter about the opportunity to rent new raised garden beds for the season at Mollett Park.
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The two students who absconded from the Clarinda Academy Monday evening, are still at large. Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers says authorities believe both teens are now out of the area. Two vehicles were stolen from Clarinda overnight Monday into early this (Tuesday) morning: A Chevrolet S10 pickup and a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Officials think the students took the vehicles. The matter remains under investigation. Law enforcement in Iowa and surrounding states have been alerted to the missing students & the stolen vehicles.
In a previous report, Chief Brothers said the teens were reported missing at around 8:30-p.m., Monday. One of the students is a 15-year old white male, 5’-feet 9-inches tall”, 140-pounds, with blonde hair. He also wears eyeglasses. The second is a 17-year old Native American male. 5’10” 145 lbs. Black hair. No clothing descriptions available.
DES MOINES — The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association (IPSWA) announced the 2020 boys basketball all-state teams on Tuesday. The teams were selected by print sports writers in Iowa during a meeting on Sunday.
Norwalk’s Bowen Born was named Mr. Basketball. Born led the Norwalk Warriors to their first team state championship in Class 3A.
Born is head to the University of Northern Iowa on a full-ride scholarship. He was 17 points shy of scoring 1,000 points in his senior season alone, scoring an average 36.4 points per game. The 5-foot-11 guard was sixth on the Iowa High School boys basketball all-time career scoring list. Norwalk was 79-23 during his four-year career. He is a three-time all-Little Hawkeye Conference first teamer. Norwalk won three league titles under his leadership. He was the Class 3A Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Player of the Year in 2018-19.
Class 1A
First Team | School | Grade |
Trey Shearer | Montezuma | JR |
Nike Reid | Central City | SR |
Angelo Winkel | Algona Garrigan | JR |
JD Strout | Keota | SR |
Kiks Rosengarten | Wapsie Valley | SR |
Kaleb Cornielsen | Easton Valley | JR |
Braden Gibbons | Madrid | SR |
Alex Koppes | Springville | JR |
Second team | School | Grade |
Brennan Sefrit | Bedford | SR |
Jackson Louscher | South O’Brien | SR |
Nik Coble | WACO, Wayland | SR |
Zach Huff | Don Bosco | SR |
Keegan Edwards | Lone Tree | SR |
Noah Beck | BGM, Brooklyn | SR |
Kayden Ames | West Fork | JR |
Trey Baker | Martensdale-St. Marys | JR |
Third Team | School | Grade |
Spencer Schorg | Remsen-St. Marys | SR |
Jessen Weber | Easton Valley | SR |
Taurice Grant | Meskwaki Settlement | JR |
Cole Damman | Baxter | SR |
Nathan Moeller | Prince of Peace | SR |
Gage Fry | Grand View Christian | SR |
Creighton Nelson | Exira-EHK | SR |
Chett Helming | Lake Mills | SR |
Class 2A
First Team | School | Grade |
Cooper De Jean | OABCIG | SR |
Masen Miller | Regina Catholic | SR |
Caleb Delzell | Camanche | SR |
Austin Miller | North Linn | SR |
Austin Hilmer | North Linn | SR |
Tanner Te Slaa | Boyden-Hull | SO |
Michael Keegan | Dyersville-Beckman | SR |
Bryce Coppock | West Sioux | SR |
Second team | School | Grade |
Jack Tiarks | Treynor | SR |
Zane Neubaum | South Central Calhoun | SR |
Hunter Dekkers | West Sioux | SR |
Justin Recker | Monticello | JR |
Anthony Pothoff | Van Meter | SR |
Lucas Lorenzen | Okoboji | SR |
Bryce Achenbach | Woodward-Granger | SR |
Keyton Moser | Boyden-Hull | SR |
Third Team | School | Grade |
Blake Chance | Albia | JR |
Curren Ingram | Des Moines Christian | SR |
Dane Fuller | Dike-New Hartford | JR |
LJ Henderson | Camanche | SR |
Cameron Soenksen | Camanche | SR |
Jack Stogdill | Treynor | SR |
Josh Van Gorp | Pella Christian | SR |
Dan Jungling | Pella Christian | SR |
Class 3A
First Team | School | Grade |
Bowen Born | Norwalk | SR |
Xavier Foster | Oskaloosa | SR |
Kieren Nichols | Knoxville | JR |
Alex Van Kalsbeek | MOC-Floyd Valley | SR |
Easton Darling | Winterset | SR |
Sean Peeters | Assumption Davenport | SR |
Karson Sharar | Iowa Falls-Alden | JR |
Keaton Kutcher | Mount Vernon | JR |
Second team | School | Grade |
Daniel Wright | Sergeant Bluff Luton | SR |
Logan Shetterly | Pella | SR |
Wyatt Wegener | Algona | SR |
Connor Drew | Ballard | JR |
Luke Rankin | Dallas Center-Grimes | JR |
Ryan Blum | Glenwood | JR |
Tyler Johnson | Norwalk | SR |
Christian Withrow | Clear Creek-Amana | JR |
Third Team | School | Grade |
Tucker Kinney | Central DeWitt | SR |
Kole Tupa | Center Point-Urbana | SR |
Cole Glasgow | Dallas Center-Grimes | SO |
Andrew Formanek | Clear Lake | JR |
Karter Lein | Carroll | SR |
Connor Bruck | Harlan | SR |
Cael Schmitt | Wahlert | SR |
Matthew McDonald | Centerville | SR |
Class 4A
First Team | School | Grade |
Braxton Bayless | Ankeny | SR |
Ty Anderson | North Scott | SR |
Tucker DeVries | Waukee | JR |
Payton Sandfort | Waukee | JR |
Even Brauns | Iowa City West | SR |
Michael Duax | Dubuque Hempstead | JR |
DaQuavion Walker | Waterloo West | SR |
Cody McCullough | Ankeny Centennial | SR |
Second team | School | Grade |
Josh Ollendieck | Cedar Falls | SR |
Jaleque Dunson | Sioux City East | SR |
Jayden Houston | Davenport North | JR |
Jaron Crews | Ankeny Centennial | JR |
Jake Aver | Valley, West Des Moines | SR |
Sam Kilbury | North Scott | SR |
Matt Stilwill | Dowling Catholic | SR |
Trae Swartz | Ottumwa | JR |
Third Team | School | Grade |
Landon Wolf | Cedar Falls | JR |
Emarion Ellis | Davenport Central | JR |
Caleb Schlaak | Cedar Rapids Kennedy | JR |
Keshawn Christian | Iowa City High | SR |
Josh Dix | Council Bluffs Abe Lincoln | SO |
AJ Tiogo | Indianola | SR |
Micah Johnson | Ankeny Centennial | SR |
Ryan Riggs | Dowling Catholic | JR |
AMES, Iowa – Following the advice from state and national health officials, the Iowa State Athletics Department decided today to cancel the 2020 Cy’s House of Trivia event and all 2020 Cyclone Tailgate Tour stops.
Cy’s House of Trivia was scheduled for Saturday April 18. Captains for each team who registered for the event will receive an email from the department regarding refunds.
The Cyclone Tailgate Tour had previously scheduled stops from May 11-13 (Carroll, Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Okoboji, Sheffield, Clear Lake) and May 18-20 (Iowa Falls, Waterloo, Muscatine, Bettendorf, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids).
The Department is thankful for your support and understanding.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa men’s basketball junior Luka Garza was named a first-team All-American by CBS Sports, NBC Sports, and USA Today on Monday.
Joining Garza on all three of the five-player lists are Dayton’s Obi Toppin, Udoka Azbuike of Kansas, Marquette’s Markus Howard, and Oregon’s Payton Pritchard.
Last week, Sporting News tabbed Garza its National Player of the Year and a first-team All-American. Garza is the first player in Iowa history to earn national player of the year distinction. He was also voted the USBWA District VI Player of the Year and the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Player of the Year.
The Washington, D.C., native is a finalist for five national awards: Naismith Trophy, Oscar Robertson Trophy, Wooden Award, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, and the Lute Olson Award.
Garza (740 points and 305 rebounds) is one of three Big Ten players to ever to total 740+ points and 300+ rebounds in a single-season (Purdue’s Glenn Robinson in 1994 and Purdue’s Joe Barry Carroll in 1979). He ranked second nationally with 12 20-point/10-rebound performances, 20-point games (25); third in total field goals made (287) and points per 40 minutes played (29.8), fifth in scoring (23.9), 10th in 30-point games (5), 19th in double-doubles (15) and offensive rebounds per game (3.58), and 34th in rebounding (9.8). His 15 double-doubles are third most in a single-season by a Hawkeye in three decades and the most since 2002 (Reggie Evans, 18). Garza averaged 26.7 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks in 12 games against AP ranked opponents in 2019-20, including recording 11 straight 20-point performances.
Garza finished the 20-game conference schedule averaging 26.2 points per game, becoming the first player to average at least 26 points in Big Ten play since Purdue’s Glenn Robinson in 1994 (31.1 ppg). Garza scored a school-record 740 points this season, breaking the program’s 50-year old record previously set by John Johnson in 1970. He scored 20 points or more in a school-record 16 straight Big Ten games, the longest streak by any player in the Big Ten since Ohio State’s Dennis Hopson 16 in 1987.
Garza is the only Big Ten player to register seven 25-point/10-rebound performances in the same season in more than 17 years. He has produced the two highest point totals in a game by a Big Ten player this season (44 at Michigan; 38 at Indiana).
Iowa finished its abbreviated season 20-11 overall and 11-9 in Big Ten play.
LUKA GARZA HONORS (2019-20)
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — A man charged with a fatal shooting in Marshalltown is being held on $1 million bail. Marshall County court records say 30-year old Mustafa Muhammad, is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes. The shooting was reported around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Officers responding to the report found a critically injured 27-year-old man. Police say he died later at a Marshalltown hospital. He’s been identified as Blake Thomas, who lived in Marshalltown. A 37-year-old woman also suffered a minor wound. She’s been identified as a Marshalltown resident, Sarah DeSautels.
Hamburg, IA (March 10. 2020) – The Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development (RC& D say “Spring is almost here, and signs of it are all around us at Waubonsie State Park. Besides the tell-tale songbirds and reemerging early prairie plants, we also welcome the latest Artist in Residence, Terri Parish McGaffin from Sioux City, Iowa.” The innovative program was the first of its type to be implemented in any of Iowa’s State Parks. The goal of the residency is to connect with a broader audience of park-goers, thus increasing the number of visitors and ultimately educating more people about the Loess Hills ecosystem. The artists and visitors will engage with the natural resources of the park through a visual arts lens. Artists will use their time at Waubonsie to immerse themselves in the landscape as a source of inspiration and opportunity to intensely focus on their work. In exchange for their accommodations they will leave a permanent work of art for the park and also conduct a public engagement session during their stay.
Terri Parish McGaffin, in-studio
After over 30 years as an art professor and administrator, Terri Parish McGaffin’s retirement in December of 2019 is allowing her more time to concentrate fully on artistic practice and discovery. Though not intentionally, Terri has become a Twenty-First Century ‘Regionalist’, because her paintings represent the regions where she lives and travels. Terri reflects upon the opportunity to participate in the Artist in Residence program, “My most recent visit to Waubonsie State Park reminded me of the unique beauty found there. For some years, I have been making paintings of places. ‘Place’ defines human aspiration: we build homes, roads, cities and countries upon the foundation of the naural world. I have always believed that which I observe is more magical than that which I can invent. Stimulated by environment, I record these observations in paintings, which have a level of intimacy unlike other processes of representation.” Terri’s work can be seen at www.tparish.carbonmade.com.
Terri will be residing at Waubonsie through the third week in March. She will use her residency exploring and making paintings of Waubonsie, and will host two “Painting from your Nature Photos” workshops at Washawtee Lodge. Participants will be able to choose from a 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM session on Saturday, March 21st, where Terri will demonstrate a method for painting from photos. Bring a print of your favorite photo, if possible, or work from an image on your phone or tablet. Small canvases, acrylic paint and brushes will be provided. This event is open to all ages, and creativity will be encouraged! Please RSVP for this event via Facebook or by emailing rebecca.castle@goldenhillsrcd.org. More details can be found on the Friends of Waubonsie Facebook Page.
Terri is one of four artists participating in the Waubonsie State Park Artist in Residence Program’s second year. Other artists this year included photographer Sheila Newenham (www.exploringnaturephotos.com) , photographer Shelly Eisenhauer (www.buroakphoto.com), and painter Kathy Fiscus. On April 23rd, Shelly Eisenhauer will be hosting her public event, “10 Secrets for Stunning Nature Photos” at Washawtee Lodge from 6 to 8 PM. Stay tuned for an announcement about a public program by Kathy Fiscus later this spring.
This first-in-the-state Artist in Residency program at one of Iowa’s State Parks is held at one of the region’s ecological and recreational treasures. Located in the Loess Hills of Southwest Iowa, Waubonsie State Park’s 2,000 plus acres feature prairies, savannas, and woodlands which are home to diverse flora and fauna, not to mention breathtaking vistas. Park Manager Matt Moles has been working with Golden Hills RC&D Project Coordinator Lance Brisbois and Loess Hills National Scenic Byway Coordinator Rebecca Castle to develop and launch the project. While there have been other artist residency programs offered through the National Parks System and select parks in other states, this is the first such program in one of Iowa’s State Parks.
The program is loosely modeled after similar regional programs such as the Residency Program at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. The artists will receive lodging in a studio cabin and a primitive studio space in the park at no cost for the duration of the residency. In return, artists will deliver at least one public program per month of their residency and donate one piece of art to the park at the conclusion of their stay.
Waubonsie State Park is only about an hour’s drive from Omaha or Lincoln, NE; two hours from Kansas City; and 2.5 hours from Des Moines. It is located near the southern end of the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway. To learn more about the Artist in Residence program and the artists, visit www.goldenhillsrcd.org/artist-in-residence.
More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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(Radio Iowa) — Iowa U-S Senator Chuck Grassley says there would -not- be support in Congress to extend health care benefits to undocumented workers in the U-S during the coronavirus pandemic. Grassley, a Republican who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, says existing law requires hospital emergency rooms to treat anyone who comes through their doors. “That fits in with ignoring the undocumented part of it and says that they’re a human being,” Grassley says, “and one way or another, everybody’s gonna get, that has this virus problem, is going to be treated.”
The European Union is imposing export bans on certain medical supplies to ensure their own countries have enough, while the U-S has eased import tariffs on some needed medical supplies. At least 20 countries have imposed restrictions on masks, respirators and some medications, including antibiotics. Grassley says for products still coming in, the decision to remove or ease import tariffs should be made on a case-by-case basis. “For sure, if there’s a shortage we ought to,” he says, “and if there’s not a shortage there probably wouldn’t be a reason to do it.”
Grassley cautions that if countries don’t find a coordinated response on exports, a domino effect could leave everyone worse off. He’s encouraged that world leaders from the “Group of Seven” countries are working on a plan. Coronavirus is “disrupting everybody’s lives,” Grassley says, and the Senate’s passed Phase One of a plan to fund federal efforts to tackle the virus, while Phase Two should be passed soon. “This will help Americans with nutritional assistance, paid and medical family leave, unemployment insurance, tax credits for businesses, testing for the virus, and funding for government efforts to combat the virus,” he says.
Grassley says senators and their staff are holding small meetings in large rooms to allow for social distancing and he’s seen a lot more hand sanitizer around the Capitol, and fewer people.
(Reporting by Amy Mayer, Iowa Public Radio)
Jim Field visits with Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon about local efforts to fight the COVID-19 virus spread.
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