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Girls Regional Golf assignments released

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April 25th, 2019 by admin

The 2019 Girls Regional Golf assignments were released by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union on Thursday. For Classes 1A and 2A Regional First Round Meets will be contested on Monday, May 13th. Regional Final Meets in all Classes will then be played on Monday, May 20th.

In Class 1A Region 1B at Logan will feature Logan-Magnolia. Region 1C at Quail Run Golf Course in Neola will feature AHSTW, East Mills, Essex, Fremont-Mills, Riverside, Sidney, St. Albert, and Tri-Center. The Region 1 Final will be played in Moville at The Meadows Country Club.

Region 2A will be at Crestwood Hills in Anita with Audubon, Bedford, Boyer Valley, CAM, Exira-EHK, Griswold, Lenox, Nodaway Valley, and Southwest Valley competing. Region 2B at Coon Rapids Country Club will feature Baxter, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Earlham, Glidden-Ralston, IKM-Manning, Madrid, Martensdale-St. Marys, and Southeast Warren. Region 2C is at Mount Ayr Golf and Country Club with East Union and Mount Ayr included. The Region 2 Final will be played in Menlo at 5×80 Golf and Country Club.

In Class 2A Region 1B will be at Red Oak Country Club with Clarinda, Missouri Valley, MVAOCOU, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Treynor, Underwood, and West Central Valley playing. The Region 1 Final will be in Mapleton at the Willow Vale Golf Course.

Region 2A will be at Carroll Country Club and will feature Cherokee, East Sac County, Emmetsburg, Kuemper Catholic, OABCIG, Pocahontas Area, South Central Calhoun, and Southeast Valley. The Region 2 Final is at Garner Golf Course.

Region 4A is at Lake Panorama National Golf Course with AC/GC, Colfax-Mingo, Des Moines Christian, I-35, Ogden, Panorama, Van Meter, and Woodward-Granger competing. The Region 4 Final will be at Pleasantville Golf and Country Club.

In Class 3A Region 1 will be in Storm Lake at Buena Vista University Golf Course. This is where Atlantic will play alongside Algona, Bishop Heelan, Glenwood, Harlan, Humboldt, LeMars, MOC-Floyd Valley, Sergeant Bluff-Luton, Spencer, Spirit Lake, and Storm Lake.

Region 2 will be played at Carroll Country Club with ADM, Ballard, Carroll, Creston, Denison-Schleswig, Gilbert, Greene County, Nevada, North Polk, Perry, Webster City, and Winterset all playing.

In Class 4A CB Abraham Lincoln, CB Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis Central will all be playing in Region 2 at Willow Creek Golf Course in West Des Moines. Other teams at that site are Ankeny Centennial, Dallas Center-Grimes, Des Moines East, Des Moines Lincoln, Dowling Catholic, Indianola, and WDM Valley.

Take a look at the full pairings in each class at the links below:

Class 1A Regional Golf

Class 2A Regional Golf

Class 3A Regional Golf

Class 4A Regional Golf

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IGHSAU weekly girls soccer rankings 04/25/2019

Sports

April 25th, 2019 by admin

The IGHSAU released the latest weekly girls soccer rankings on Thursday. Not many changes from last week for area teams in the poll.

In Class 3A CB Abraham Lincoln stays at number 6.

In Class 2A Lewis Central still reigns number 1 with Winterset checking in at #13.

In Class 1A Treynor stays at #7 and Panorama is at #10 once again.

Check out the full rankings here: soccer-2019-42519rankings

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IGHSAU releases girls Regional Singles and Doubles Tennis assignements

Sports

April 25th, 2019 by admin

The IGHSAU released the Class 1A and 2A Girls Singles and Doubles Regional Tennis Tournament assignments on Wednesday. Play is set to take place at each site on Wednesday, May 15th at 9:00am.

In Class 1A Atlantic is in Region 2 at Red Oak. Other teams competing at that site are Clarinda, Glenwood, Harlan, Red Oak, St. Albert, Shenandoah, and Southwest Valley.

Region 3 at Norwalk will include Audubon, Ballard, Clarke, Creston O-M, Kuemper Catholic/Carroll, North Polk, Norwalk, and Saydel.

Region 1 at Spencer will include Bishop Heelan, Cherokee/Ridge View/Newell-Fonda, Denison-Schleswig, Estherville-Lincoln Central, LeMars, Spirit Lake/Okoboji, and Storm Lake.

In Class 2A Lewis Central will compete in Region 2 at Johnston, CB Thomas Jefferson will be in Region 3 at WDM Valley, and CB Abraham Lincoln will compete in Region 4 at SE Polk.

Full assignments can be seen here: tennis-2019-regionalsinglesdoublesassignments

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Deere agrees to pay Iowa $1M for air-quality violations

Ag/Outdoor, News

April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office says Deere & Co. has agreed to pay $1 million for violating air quality standards at its Cedar Falls facility. A news release said Thursday that the Moline, Illinois-based heavy equipment company has agreed in a consent decree to annual third-party environmental audits for at least three years. They will continue until Deere receives two consecutive audits reports with few or no violations.

The Iowa Natural Resources Department has said Deere didn’t comply with emissions limits at its Performance Engineering Center, operated without proper air quality permits in some cases and provided inaccurate information on compliance reports to the department from 2005 to 2016. Deere spokesman Ken Golden says problems arose from past errors in air permits issued in 2005 for the center’s engine test cells. He says that Deere took corrective actions and worked with Iowa officials toward the issuance of new permits after learning of the problems in late 2016.

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University of Nebraska gets $12M to study rural drug abuse

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April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a nearly $12 million federal grant to research challenges connected with rural drug abuse in the Midwest. The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a research initiative called the Rural Drug Addiction Center. Researchers will track 600 rural drug users in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

Nebraska has seen a drastic jump in its drug overdose rate in recent years. The issue is complicated by a trend among the state’s drug users who are often addicted to a combination of substances. It’s an understudied phenomenon that’s been seen in other Midwestern states. The program’s leader, Kirk Dombrowski, says current drug addiction treatment focuses on brain chemistry, but understanding social patterns of abuse can lead to new treatments.

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Iowa lawmakers near end of session, a week ahead of schedule

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April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The flurry of activity that often signifies the end of a legislative session is evident at the Iowa Capitol this week. The exact end of the 2019 session isn’t set, but lawmakers were preparing Thursday to wind down their work and go home for the year. A Friday adjournment would be a week earlier than the scheduled May 3 session end. The Iowa House debated a Republican priority property tax bill until nearly 3 a.m. Thursday. Only a few must-do budget bills remain.

Some controversial issues also are unresolved, including a bill to impose a fee on solar energy installations, a measure that remaking the way Iowa nominates judges and a bill seeking election day changes, including moving up the closing time for voting. If leaders pull together the needed votes, those issues could surface in the final hours.

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Atlantic yard waste compost site temporarily closed

News

April 25th, 2019 by admin

Officials with the City of Atlantic announced on Thursday morning that the compost yard waste site near Schildberg Recreation Area has been closed today. The site will be closed until further notice.

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FEMA Is Hiring Disaster Recovery Workers in Iowa

News

April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an immediate need to fill temporary positions in Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Polk, Pottawattamie, Shelby and Woodbury counties to assist with disaster recovery. FEMA is looking for qualified candidates for a variety of emergency management functions. Posted positions include public assistance specialists, site inspection specialists, travel specialists, equal rights specialists, emergency management specialists and external affairs specialists and many more.

The temporary positions are for 120 days and may be extended, in 120-day increments, for a maximum 365-day appointment, based on the needs of the disaster. To see posted positions, go online to USAJOBS.gov and type “FEMA local Hire” in the search box and “Iowa” in the location box. Detailed information is provided for each position, including pay, benefits and application deadline. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2019.

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Spies, Soldiers and Saints program in Atlantic this weekend

News

April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Atlantic Rock Island Society Enterprise (ARISE) is sponsoring a presentation this weekend at the American Legion Memorial Building (The Armory), that will make women in war come alive. Actress Pippa White will share stories of real women in the Civil War, World War I and II in the program entitled “Spies, Soldiers and Saints.”

White researches their lives through diaries, letters and memoirs. Women tended the wounded, risked their lives as spies and served as soldiers where needed. Saints, Soldiers and Spies will be presented Sunday, April 28 beginning at 2-p.m. at the American Legion Memorial Building (201 Poplar Street, Atlantic). The building is handicapped accessible. The program is supported by the Atlantic Community Promotion Commission. There is no fee to attend, and refreshments are included.

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Iowa Hemp Act goes to the governor for her review

Ag/Outdoor, News

April 25th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Senate has given final legislative approval to the Iowa Hemp Act. The bill sets up a state licensing program for growers. If the governor — as expected — signs the bill into law, it will immediately become legal for Iowa retailers to SELL hemp-based products. “Allow the building of the infrastructure of this market now, so that when it comes time for our farmers to harvest their crops, there will be a robust demand and an outlook for industrial hemp.”  That’s Reprsentative Jarad Klein of Keota, a farmer who worked on the legislation. Hemp has been banned for decades and the 2018 Farm Bill effectively legalized growing it again. Representative Mike Sexton of Rockwell City is urging caution, though, as planting hemp could make a farmer ineligible for crop insurance.

“I wholeheartedly support this bill, but I just think it’s incumbent upon us to make sure we let Iowa farmers know: ‘Don’t rush right into this thing without checking wth the government agencies to make sure you don’t make yourself non-compliant,” Sexton says. The bill identifies two state agencies to oversee hemp growers, transporters and processors in the state. Iowa farmers would be allowed to grow up to 40 acres of hemp, starting in the 2020 growing season. Representative Jeff Shipley, a Republican from Fairfield, voted for the measure, but expressed some frustration.

“There still is a lot of red tape in this bill,” Shipley said. “Technically we are growing government with licenses and fees and it’s hard for me to comprehend that because my understanding of hemp is basically it is an inert plant and it’s very hard for me to wrap my mind around why we need government holding people by the hand to make sure they don’t make any mistakes here.”

Forty-one other states already have an industrial hemp program in place.

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