DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Brice Calip scored 22 points and handed out eight assists and No. 24 Missouri State held off Drake 89-83. Calip sank 7 of 11 shots from the floor with a 3-pointer and made 7 of 8 free throws for the Lady Bears (20-3, 10-1 Missouri Valley Conference), who won their sixth straight game. Sara Rhine poured in a career-high 31 points for the Bulldogs (16-7, 8-3), who could have grabbed a share of first place with a victory but instead saw their three-game win streak end.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa man is facing an attempted murder charge after he fired shots into an occupied apartment and hit a dog in the crossfire. Des Moines Police said the 21-year-old gunman missed his intended target — a 19-year-old man — in the shooting. The dog was taken to an emergency veterinary hospital but wasn’t expected to survive the shooting. The gunfire was reported shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday at the Des Moines apartment complex. The suspect was arrested after a short foot pursuit. Witnesses told police that the suspect and the 19-year-old had an argument before the shooting.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Monika Czinano scored 20 points on 10-of-11 shooting, including making all five of her shots in a pivotal second quarter, and No. 20 Iowa pulled away from Purdue for an 83-71. Makenzie Meyer and Kathleen Doyle added 22 points apiece for the Hawkeyes (20-4, 11-2 Big Ten Conference), who set up a showdown at No. 13 Maryland on Thursday with the league lead on the line. Kayanna Traylor led the Boilermakers (15-10, 6-7) with a career-high 21 points, going 6 of 8 from the field and 7 of 9 from the foul line.
ROSALIE MINNIE BRADSHAW, 100, of Panora, died Friday, Feb. 7th, at Panora Specialty Care. Funeral services for ROSALIE BRADSHAW will be held 10:30-a.m. Tue., Feb. 11th, at the Twigg Funeral Home, in Panora.
Visitation will be Monday, February 10, 2020 from 5-7 P.M. at the funeral home.
Burial will be in the West Cemetery, Panora.
ROSALIE BRADSHAW is survived by:
Her daughters –Donna Vokes, of Panora; Shirley (Roy) Pittman, of Yale; Jeanette (Jim) Brogden, of Boone, and Robin (Roger L.) Dorr of Springfield, MO.
Her son – Chuck Bradshaw, of Linden.
Her brother – Bill (Theoann) Michael, of Mission Hills, TX.
12 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren & great-great-grandchildren.
JOE B. MEWHIRTER, 88, of Atlantic died Sunday, February 9th at the Allen Place in Atlantic. Funeral services for JOE B. MEWHIRTER will be held on Saturday, February 15th at 11:00 am at the First United Methodist Church in Atlantic. Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic has the arrangements.
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A Masonic service will be held on Friday at 5:00 pm followed by visitation with the family until 7:00 pm at the funeral home.
Burial in the Hillside Cemetery in Elliott.
Memorials may be left to the family for future designation.
Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com
JOE B. MEWHIRTER is survived by:
Daughter: Cheryl Barry, of Atlantic.
Son: Jeffrey (Deanna) Mewhirter, of Northlake, TX.
4 Grandchildren
1 Great-Grandchild
The 2020 Grow Rural Education program, which provides Iowa farmers with the opportunity to nominate local rural public schools for $15,000 grants designed to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, is officially underway!
Grow Rural Education, sponsored by Bayer Fund, has awarded more than $18 million to more than 1,000 schools nationwide since the program began in 2011. Now until April 1st, farmers can nominate their school district by visiting www.Americasfarmers.com.
Previous winners include an Iowa school district that converted an unused locker room into a Monarch butterfly incubator. And a Missouri high school used a Grow Rural Education grant to enhance its STEM classes by purchasing an aquaponics system that breeds fish and grows plants in an integrated environment.
Since 2010, America’s Farmers have awarded more than $53 million to worthy causes, students and public schools across the country. For the Grow Rural Education program specifically, farmers nominate a local public school to apply for one of the grants by visiting AmericasFarmers.com. The process takes less than five minutes and has strengthened schools by bringing together students, teachers, farmers and community members to make STEM programs more engaging.
After the school district receives a nomination, they will be notified and teachers are encouraged to submit a grant application describing their desired STEM project by April 15, 2020. A panel of qualified math and science teachers reviews the applications and selects the finalists. The program’s Farmer Advisory Council, consisting of approximately 30 farming leaders from across the country, will then select the winning school districts.
In the fall, farmers can enroll in the Grow Communities program for the chance to direct a $2,500 donation to a local eligible nonprofit organization, and the Grow Ag Leaders program will begin accepting applications for $1,500 scholarships for students pursuing an education in agriculture-related fields.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors will conduct a Public Hearing beginning at 9:05-a.m., Tuesday (Feb. 11), with regard to a proposed Cold Springs Park Paving Project. The hearing is part of their regularly scheduled, weekly meeting.
Afterward, the Board will act on approving the: Plans; Specifications; Cost Estimations, and Form of Contract, for the project. The Supervisors will also discuss and act on: approval of a 2020 Wellness Plan; expense and transfer appropriation changes; the acceptance of bids and contract for stock pipe and project pipe.
The Board will then act to set the dates for public hearings on a re-compilation of the Cass County Code of Ordinances, as requires at least every five-years under the Code of Iowa. The re-compilation includes the re-adoption of ordinances already in effect, and the repeal of any ordinance(s) that are deemed no longer necessary.
During a Work Session that follows the regular meeting, Tuesday, will take into consideration Budget requests, as well as review the FY2020 Budget and 2021 Budget items, including library and ambulance service contracts, funding requests, along with individual departmental budget(s).
The CAM School District’s Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting 6:30-p.m. Monday (Feb. 10th), in Anita, at the CAM High School Superintendent’s Office. Among the discussion and/or action items on their agenda, is:
After the Board adjourns, they will move into a closed (exempt) session, for Strategy Negotiations.
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – In 2018, female candidates helped power the Democratic takeover of the U.S. House. But women in the Democratic Party seem only moderately enthusiastic about voting for a woman for president. AP VoteCast finds that women in Iowa were only slightly more likely than men to back a woman. And the survey shows that many women thought a female candidate would have a harder time beating President Donald Trump in November. The concern has been an added burden for the women seeking the Democratic nomination for president. The leading female candidate in the race, Elizabeth Warren, is trying to confront it in New Hampshire.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Democratic Party is reviewing roughly 5 percent of the precincts in last Monday’s Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, after issuing a deadline for campaigns to offer data demonstrating inconsistencies with the party’s results. In a statement Saturday, state party officials in their effort to clean up after Monday’s reporting breakdown said they were reviewing campaign data from 95 of the 1,765 precinct caucuses and would issue any corrections to the final results by this Monday (Feb. 10th). The party asked the campaigns to submit evidence of inconsistencies in the final results of the caucuses.
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