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LINDA SUE NORDBY, 66,of Irwin (Celebration of Life, 1/14/20)

Obituaries

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

LINDA SUE NORDBY, 66,of Irwin, died Thursday, Jan. 9th, at her home. A Celebration of Life for LINDA SUE NORDBY will be held 10:30-a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Harlan.

Visitation at the funeral home in on Tue., from 9-a.m. to 10:30-a.m. (Prior to the service)

Burial will be held at a later date.

LINDA SUE NORDBY is survived by:

Her husband – Lyle Nordby, of Irwin.

Her daughters – Kristine (Scott) Lingle, of Manilla, and Mandi (Ahmed) Al-Asfour, of Rapid City, SD.

Her son – Aron (Danielle) Nordby, of Shelby.

her siblings, and 9 grandchildren.

Authorities ID couple found dead in Story County home

News

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

COLO, Iowa (AP) – Authorities have released the names of two people who were found dead by a relative in their Story County home _ deaths that authorities say were the result of a murder-suicide. They’ve been identified as 79-year-old Richard Davis and his 78-year-old wife, Charlotte. Authorities say Richard Davis shot his wife before shooting himself. A shotgun was found Wednesday near his body on the kitchen floor of their Colo home. Her body was found in a living room chair. No note was found. Their son Russell Davis told The Des Moines Register that his parents seemed happy at Christmas.

Cardinals announce 4-player trade with Tampa Bay Rays

Sports

January 10th, 2020 by admin

ST. LOUIS, MO., January 9, 2020 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced a four-player trade with the Tampa Bay Rays this evening, acquiring top pitching prospect lefty Matthew Liberatore, minor league catcher Edgardo Rodriguez and the Rays Compensation B draft pick (66th overall), in exchange for outfielders Randy Arozarena, Josè Martínez and the Cardinals Compensation A draft pick (38th overall).

“We are extremely excited to be adding a top pitching prospect in Matthew Liberatore to our organization, and this trade also helps us to create more opportunity in the outfield for players like Tyler O’Neill, Lane Thomas and others,” stated Cardinals’ President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak.

Liberatore, 20, was the Rays 1st round draft pick in 2018 (16th player overall) out of Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Ariz., and is ranked as the no. 3 prospect in the Rays system.

The 6-5, 200-pound Liberatore has compiled an 8-4 mark with a 2.59 ERA in 25 games (24 starts) in the minors, striking out 113 batters in 111.0 innings pitched, allowing just two home runs to go along with a 1.22 WHIP and .224 opponent’s batting average. Liberatore was 6-2 with a 3.10 ERA in 16 games (15 starts) for Bowling Green of the Midwest League (A) this past season.

Liberatore went 8-1 with a 0.93 ERA and 104 strikeouts as a senior at Mountain Ridge High School and was Arizona’s Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year. He was named a first-team Rawlings/Perfect Game All-American, and helped lead Mountain Ridge to the Class 6A state championship game.   In 2017, Liberatore pitched 12 scoreless innings for USA Baseball’s 18U National Team and recorded the win in its gold medal game victory over Korea, and in the 2017 Under Armour All-America Game he threw scoreless 9th, 10th and 11th innings for the American League to get the win and earn Most Valuable Player honors.

The Rays selected Liberatore higher than any other high school pitcher in club history, and he became the fourth high school pitcher selected by the Rays in the first round, following Jason Standridge (No. 31) in 1997, Taylor Guerrieri (No. 24) in 2011 and Blake Snell (No. 52) in 2011.

Rodriguez, 19, a right-handed hitting catcher from Valencia, Venezuela, was signed by the Rays as an international free agent in July of 2017.   The 6-0, 205-pound Rodriguez has produced a .338 batting average, six home runs and 40 RBI in his first two seasons as a professional.   He batted .330 with 6 HR’s and 34 RBI in 51 games in the Dominican Summer League in 2018, ranking among the Rays minor league leaders in batting (3rd), slugging (.492, 6th) and on-base pct. (.384, 9th).  In limited action with the GCL Rays, he batted .400 in 2019.

Today’s trade reduces the Cardinals current 40-man Major League roster to 38 players.

Backyard and Beyond 01/10/2020

Backyard and Beyond, Podcasts

January 10th, 2020 by admin

LaVon Eblen speak with Atlantic Parks and Recreation Foreman Kyle Welter about what’s happening in the Atlantic Parks system and a special New Year challenge.

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Police: Officers rescued unconscious man from burning house

News

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say three Burlington police officers rescued an unconscious man whose house was burning. The officers were patrolling nearby when the blaze was reported a little before 4 a.m. Thursday. Authorities say the officers used a neighbor’s ladder to climb up 8 feet to a bedroom window, break it and then get the man out to safety. He was treated at the scene and then taken to a hospital. A dog inside the house was able to run out the front door. The names of those involved haven’t been released. The fire cause is being investigated.

Gov. Reynolds appoints Stuart Anderson to serve as Interim Director at Iowa DOT

News

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES– Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds today (Friday) announced the appointment of Stuart Anderson to serve as Interim Director at the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT). His appointment is effective as of today (Friday, January 10th). Reynolds says “Stuart brings a wealth of transportation experience and will provide steady leadership to the department until a permanent Director is appointed,” said Gov. Reynolds. “I look forward to working with him to not only ensure a smooth transition at the agency, but also improve infrastructure and road safety.”

Anderson said “I appreciate the opportunity to guide the Iowa DOT through this interim period while the process to identify a permanent director is completed.During this time, the great team at Iowa DOT remains committed to providing outstanding service to Iowans and other users of our multi-modal transportation system.”

Stuart Anderson, P.E. (Professional Engineer) joined the Iowa DOT in 1992 as an engineer-in-training, in the Systems Planning Bureau. He served various roles within the bureau until his appointment to director of the Office of Systems Planning in 2002. Most recently he has served as the director of the Planning, Programming, & Modal Division which he has held since January 2009. Anderson is a 1991 graduate of Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.

Heartbeat Today 01/10/2020

Ag/Outdoor, Heartbeat Today, Podcasts

January 10th, 2020 by admin

Jim Field speaks with Cass County ISU Extension Coordinator Kate Olson about the Cass County Master Gardeners program.

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Iowan to graduate in new class of Moon-bound NASA astronauts

News

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — After two years of training, an Iowan is graduating today (Friday) with NASA’s first class of astronauts in the Artemis (ART-ah-mus) program, which aims to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars. Forty-one-year-old Air Force Colonel Raja Chari (RAH-jah CHAR-ee) grew up in Cedar Falls. In a 2017 interview with Radio Iowa, Chari told how he was picked from among 18-thousand applicants to be in the first class of 12 astronaut candidates, but was ordered to only share the secret with his immediate family. “I was able to call my wife and that’s when there was screaming on her end and I was still in my office with all of the folks right outside the door,” Chari says, laughing. “I had to just do a little happy dance in place. It was about all I could do at the time to not totally give everything away.”

Chari has degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Air Force Academy and M-I-T, and he flew combat missions over Iraq. Chari’s wife, Holly, is a Cedar Falls native and they have three children. His mother still lives in Cedar Falls. Chari graduated from Waterloo Columbus High School in 1995 before heading to the academy. He admits he hasn’t always dreamed of becoming an astronaut but learning to fly was one of his early goals, along with studying science. “Right around eighth grade, we got a new science lab and new science tables in that lab and that was a very big deal to an eighth grader,” Chari says. “I distinctly remember, ‘Now we can do all kinds of cool things in there.’ We dissected frogs and other activities that we now have this science lab for and that really sparked my interest.”

Chari’s father came to the U-S from India to get his master’s degree and spent his entire career at John Deere in Waterloo. “My father came to the country with the goal of getting an education and realizing the importance of that and that directly translated to how I was brought up,” Chari says. “There was a focus throughout my childhood on education and that being the thing you really needed to do well to succeed.”

This is a particularly exhilarating time to be joining the space program, he says, with so many new possibilities on the horizon as NASA looks past the space station and toward missions to the Moon and beyond. With the space shuttle fleet long since retired, the prospects of being the first to pilot a completely new spacecraft into orbit are a thrill for Chari: “I wouldn’t say daunted so much as excited.” Chari is graduating at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Victim of NW Iowa pickup rollover crash identified

News

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — Authorities in northwest Iowa’s Plymouth County have identified the man who was killed in a traffic accident Wednesday night. Thirty-two-year-old Mitchell L. Anderson of Hinton was driving his 1999 Chevrolet pickup truck in the southwestern area of the county. Anderson lost control and started sliding off the roadway, going down a steep embankment, and rolling over into a creek bed. There were no other vehicles or passengers involved. Anderson was transported to Floyd Valley Healthcare at Le Mars where Plymouth County Medical Examiner, Dr. Sheila Holcomb conducted her examination.

(Podcast) KJAN 8-a.m. News, 1/10/2020

News, Podcasts

January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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