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Six players in red numbers after Tournament of Champions Day 1

Sports

August 9th, 2019 by admin

The 61st Annual Tournament of Champions got underway on Friday with the opening 18 holes of play. 6 players shot under par rounds to kick the tournament off in strong fashion. There is a three way tie for the early lead with Rob Langfelt of Crestwood Hills Golf Course, Barry Smith of Pine Knolls Golf Course, and Jared Koch of Majestic Hills Golf Course all shooting 4 under par rounds of 65.

Nathan Zimmerman of Treynor Recreation Area was in one of the late tee groups and finished a shot back with a 66. Zach Christianson and Jake Olsen of the Atlantic Golf and Country Club finished at 1 under 68. 10 other players are at +2 over or better.

There is a two-way tie for the Senior Division lead with Don Newbury of Lakeview CC and Past Champion Rick Carter both shooting 2 over rounds of 71. 3 other players were at +4.

In the Super Senior Division, Past Champion Arnie Leistad shot a +4 73, as did Kenny Hinson of Nishna Hills Golf Course.

Groups will tee up the second round beginning at 8:30am on Saturday and we’ll have coverage throughout the day once again on KJAN. Check our other post for the full scoring list and link to Saturday tee times.

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SHIRLEY CHALFANT, 91, of Guthrie Center (Svcs. 8/13/19)

Obituaries

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

SHIRLEY CHALFANT, 91, of Guthrie Center, died Thursday, Aug. 8th, at The New Homestead in Guthrie Center. Funeral services for SHIRLEY CHALFANT will be held 10:30-a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13th, at the 1st United Methodist Church in Guthrie Center. Twigg Funeral Home in Guthrie Center has the arrangements.

Visitation at the funeral home is from 5-until 7-p.m. Monday, Aug. 12th.; Online condolences may be left at www.twiggfuneralhome.com.

Burial is in the Audubon-Arlington Cemetery, in Audubon, with graveside services at 1:30-p.m, Tuesday.

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Waterloo woman pleads guilty in 4-year-old daughter’s death

News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo woman has pleaded guilty for her role in her 4-year-old daughter’s death and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The Courier reports that 34-year-old Kristi Amber Buss pleaded guilty Friday to three felony charges: neglecting a dependent person, child neglect resulting in serious injury and involuntary manslaughter. She had originally been charged with child endangerment causing the death of her daughter, 4-year-old Gracie Buss, and had faced 50 years in prison.

Kristi Buss’ boyfriend, 35-year-old Chad Allen Little, was convicted in May of first-degree murder in the death and sentenced in June to life in prison.
Prosecutors say Little abused his Buss’ two children, and delivered a fatal head injury to Gracie in May 2015.

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Harris says Trump enjoys inciting hateful speech, actions

News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Friday that President Donald Trump “seems to derive joy” from provoking some Americans to hateful speech and actions, and she says that goes to issues deeper than whether the president is a white supremacist.

“I’ve not said this out loud, but I think it and I feel it,” Harris told The Associated Press during an interview traveling across Iowa. “He seems to derive joy from the response he gets when he talks this way. It seems he derives some element of joy in inciting people around, around outrageous and hateful rhetoric.”

Trump’s recent series of racist remarks toward women of color in Congress, as well as the ties between his anti-immigrant rhetoric and the deadly mass shooting in El Paso, have sparked a debate in the 2020 Democratic field over whether the president is a white supremacist.

Harris, like former Vice President Joe Biden and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, has stopped short of using the label. Meanwhile, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg have said it applies.

Harris, on a weekend-long campaign trip to the early caucus state, said that debate misses the point. “It literally oversimplifies the issue, because it’s almost that the conversation begins and ends with that,” Harris said on her tour bus traveling across rural northwest Iowa. “The lens through which I think about it is so much broader than a label.”

Harris cited Trump’s 2017 ban on travelers from six largely Muslim countries, his 2018 order banning transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces except under limited circumstances, and his constant degradation of immigrants entering the U.S. from the Southern border. She said they are part of a pattern Trump has followed to feed his own psyche instead of encouraging acceptance at a time of increased hate crimes.

By ascribing personal motives to Trump’s rhetoric, Harris’ comments go further than most candidates, who have not shied from connecting Trump’s rhetoric and the El Paso shooting Saturday, when 22 people were killed by a man who admitted to police he had targeted Mexicans.

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Iowa football coach excited to get fall practice underway

Sports

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Hawkeye football team is hosting media day today (Friday) in Iowa City. Coach Kirk Ferentz says it’s exciting to get a new start every season. “It feels like we are back into a football mode. It doesn’t matter what year it is –you always have that excitement as the season approaches and come. So, it’s great to be back in camp with everybody,” Ferentz says.

He says it’s a time every year where you are looking to build a new team with the newcomers and returning players. “Really what it’s all about is the challenge of filling some voids of really good players, good leaders. And then it creates opportunities for players. A good chance for anybody to step up and show they are worthy of helping the football team be successful,” according to Ferentz.

Iowa is ranked 19th in the preseason poll of the coaches and Ferentz was asked if the team is aware of that ranking. He says he doesn’t know how many players are aware and says he is aware that the coaches have a “really bad record of predicting suff. Ferentz says “most of us kind of live in a closed environment.”

Iowa is coming off a 9-4 record that included a victory over Mississippi State in the Outback Bowl. The Hawkeyes open August 31st against Miami of Ohio.

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Packed field of 2020 Dems descends on Iowa’s ‘Wing Ding’

News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Nearly all the Democrats running for president are descending on northern Iowa to make personal pitches to hundreds of would-be supporters in the state that kicks off presidential primary voting.

Around 20 candidates are speaking at Friday night’s Wing Ding, an annual fundraiser featuring chicken wings in Clear Lake, population about 8,000.
The event coincides with the state fair in Des Moines, and most White House hopefuls have been crisscrossing Iowa for days, some by bus or RV.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke canceled his planned Iowa visit to remain in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting killed 22 people. O’Rourke said Friday on Facebook that he’ll attend more funerals and continue hospital visits, but will rejoin the campaign “at some point” and “sooner or later.”

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2019 Tournament of Champions – Friday Round 1 Results

Sports

August 9th, 2019 by Jim Field

CLICK HERE for Saturday tee times!

Championship Division:

  • ROB LANGFELT, CRESTWOOD HILLS 65 (-4)
  • SMITH, BARRY PINE KNOLLS GC  65 (-4)
  • JARED KOCH, MAJESTIC HILLS GC  65 (-4)
  • NATHAN ZIMMERMAN, TREYNOR REC AREA  66 (-3)
  • ZACH CHRISTIANSON, ATLANTIC G&CC 68 (-1)
  • JAKE OLSEN, ATLANTIC G&CC  68 (-1)
  • EVAN SCHULER, PAST CHAMPION 70 (+1)
  • DARBY MCLAREN, ATLANTIC G&CC  70 (+1)
  • MATT GEARHEART, NISHNA HILLS  71 (+2)
  • JEFF GUDE, ATLANTIC G&CC  71 (+2)
  • ALEX BIRELINE, PAST CHAMPION  71 (+2)
  • TIM REDDING, HILLCREST CC  71 (+2)
  • CHRIS NELSON, PAST CHAMPION  71 (+2)
  • RON PETERSON, PAST CHAMPION  71 (+2)
  • MATT HALEY, INDIANOLA CC  71 (+2)
  • ROSS MARTENS, ROSEMAN GLENDALE  71 (+2)
  • CARTER TREWET, OTTER CREEK GC  72 (+3)
  • JAKE GRANDGEORGE, EAGLE GROVE GC  72 (+3)
  • JAXSON ARMSTRONG, CRESTWOOD HILLS  72 (+3)
  • DYLAN SCHEFFLER, SAC COUNTRY CLUB  72 (+3)
  • RYAN CLARK, BRIARWOOD GOLF CLUB  73 (+4)
  • CHAD BURESH, WOODWARD GC  73 (+4)
  • DAVE KAILI, HH BLANK GC  73 (+4)
  • BILL MATZDORFF, BRIARWOOD GOLF CLUB  73 (+4)
  • DEREK JACOBSEN, PAST CHAMPION  72 (+5)
  • JEREMY JOHNSON, INDIANOLA CC  74 (+5)
  • MIKE DAVIE, LOGAN-MO VALLEY CC  74 (+5)
  • JOE SCHAFER, MT AYR G&CC  74 (+5)
  • KEN HARRYMAN, ROSEMAN GLENDALE  75 (+6)
  • BEN RENAUD, NISHNA HILLS  75 (+6)
  • MATT GROSS, NISHNA HILLS  75 (+6)
  • BRAD HARTKOPF, PAST CHAMPION  75 (+6)
  • DREW THOMPSON, THREE LAKE GC  75 (+6)
  • DREW VANDERHEIDEN, 5×80 GC  76 (+7)
  • MICHAEL WEST, CRESTMOOR CC  76 (+7)
  • AARON KING, SAC COUNTRY CLUB  76 (+7)
  • BRETT GEER, CLARINDA CC  77 (+8)
  • JAY SMALL, DEER RUN GC  77 (+8)
  • DUSTIN MCLAREN, ATLANTIC G&CC  77 (+8)
  • DANNY PATTEE, AVOCA GC  78 (+9)
  • ZACK DUNKIN, PINE KNOLLS GC  78 (+9)
  • RYAN GROVE, HAPPY HOLLOW CC  78 (+9)
  • JASON BRANHAM, QUAIL RUN CC  78 (+9)
  • CRUZ REED, THREE LAKE GC  79 (+10)
  • TIM MURPHY, DUNLAP GC  80 (+11)
  • TOM ZACCONE, HARLAN G&CC  80 (+11)
  • WADE CORWIN, WAVELAND CC  80 (+11)
  • AUSTIN VANDERHOFF, NEWELL MUNICIPAL GC  81 (+12)
  • JOSH BURNS, SAC COUNTRY CLUB  82 (+13)

Senior Divison:

  • DON NEWBURY, LAKEVIEW CC  71 (+2)
  • RICK CARTER, PAST CHAMPION  71 (+2)
  • DARYL ARMSTRONG, CRESTWOOD HILLS  73 (+4)
  • DARRON BAKER, PAST CHAMPION  73 (+4)
  • RICK THOMPSON, PAST CHAMPION  73 (+4)
  • JEFF MORENZ, ATLANTIC G&CC  76 (+7)
  • KIM PETERS, CRESTWOOD HILLS  76 (+7)
  • JIM WOOD, RED OAK CC  76 (+7)
  • BLAIR HOEGH, ANKENY G&CC 77 (+8)
  • JEFF HECKROTH, WOODWARD GC  78 (+9)
  • RYAN PHIFER, GATEWAY REC AREA  78 (+9)
  • MARK MAHLSTEDT, JESTER PARK GC  79 (+10)
  • BOBBY RIST, LAKE CITY CC  79 (+10)
  • ERIC BROWN, MT AYR G&CC  79 (+10)
  • CHUCK SMITH, NISHNA HILLS  81 (+12)
  • DEL MILLER, PAST CHAMPION  82 (+13)
  • TAD OLSEN, ATLANTIC G&CC  82 (+13)
  • BOB FRANKE, MANSON G&CC  84 (+15)
  • CLINT HUTCHISON, WILLOW CREEK GC  85 (+16)

Super Senior Division:

  • ARNIE LEISTAD, PAST CHAMPION  73 (+4)
  • KENNY HINSON, NISHNA HILLS  73 (+4)
  • JIM MULLENIX, ATLANTIC G&CC  76 (+7)
  • JOHN WILLMORE, PAST CHAMPION  76 (+7)
  • BARRY MCGINN, QUAIL RUN CC  78 (+9)
  • RICH MITCHELL, NISHNA HILLS  80 (+11)
  • TERRY RICHARDSON, OAKLAND GC  81 (+12)
  • ALLAN HJELLE, ATLANTIC G&CC  82 (+13)

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Man dies after being trapped in Sac County grain bin

Ag/Outdoor, News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

LAKE VIEW, Iowa (AP) — Western Iowa authorities say a 58-year-old man died after becoming trapped in a grain bin. Firefighters, medics and Sac County deputies were sent to the Lake View location around 3:40 p.m. Thursday. Officials say Garry Leonard became stuck after he entered the partially filled bin to break up some corn clotting. Another worker tried to pull him free but failed. The corn was removed, and firefighters were able to get him out about 45 minutes later. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Leonard lived in Lake View.

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Tentative ID on body stuffed in suitcase, found in Missouri (Iowa connection)

News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

NOEL, Mo. (AP) — Investigators have tentatively identified a body found on a hillside in southwest Missouri as a mother of three young children. McDonald County Sheriff Michael Hall said positive identification of the body found July 29 is pending but authorities believe it was 25-year-old Jessica McCormack. He said McCormack’s family was notified. The Joplin Globe reports Hall initially announced the tentative identification Thursday out of concern for McCormack’s three young children, who were considered missing.

Police in Des Moines, Iowa, said Friday the children’s father had dropped them off with a relative a few days ago. Police are seeking the man. McCormack was last seen around Noel in mid-July. Investigators believe her body was stuffed into a suitcase that rolled down a hill after being thrown from a moving vehicle. The body fell out as it deteriorated. No cause of death was announced.

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Mechanical issues force Atlantic Sunnyside Pool to close for the season

News

August 9th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Atlantic Parks and Recreation Interim Director Bryant Rasmussen said today (Friday), “Due to the pool pump continuously overheating, we are having to CLOSE Sunnyside Pool effective immediately for the season. If you had a season pass, we will continue to accept those through Wednesday, August 21st at the YMCA. However, from only 1-7 pm and with some restrictions due to the YMCA’s hours. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused. We hope that you have enjoyed the pool this summer and have a great 2019-2020 school year!”

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