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Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pat pork chops dry and season with salt and pepper. Place flour, egg and panko bread crumbs in three separate shallow dishes. Mix Italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese with panko. Dip chops in flour, then egg, then panko mixture. Spray a large sheet pan with non-stick cooking spray. Add pork chops, tomatoes and green beans to pan. Drizzle vegetables with olive oil and season with salt and pepper, as desired. Roast for 12-18 minutes, or until pork internal temperature reaches 145 degrees and green beans are tender.
Red Oak, IA— The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Office in Montgomery County is offering two, four-week, after school STEM programs for local youth at the Montgomery County YMCA. Kindergarten through 2nd graders are invited to participate on Tuesday afternoons throughout the month of March. The 3rd through 5th grade program will be held on the following Tuesdays in April: April 2, April 9, April 16 and April 30. The program will start at 4:00 PM and conclude at 5:30 PM each day. Throughout the program, youth will learn how to code with robots, why some chemical reactions occur and how the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) discipline is used in our daily lives!
The deadline to sign up for the Kindergarten through 2nd grade program is February 25th. Those wishing to participate in the 3rd through 5th grade program are asked to register before March 25th. Registration is limited and there is a registration fee of $15. All Montgomery County 4-H members will receive a $5 discount on their registration.
Registration forms can be found online at www.extension.iastate.edu/montgomery or by contacting the Montgomery County Extension Office. If you have any questions about the program, please contact Celine Beggs, County Youth Coordinator at the Montgomery County ISU Extension Office by calling (712) 623-2592 (or by emailing cmbeggs@iastate.edu)
(Radio Iowa) — Efforts to save the monarch butterfly in Iowa may be starting to pay off. A report from the World Wildlife Fund finds monarchs overwintering in Mexico covered about 15 acres of forest canopy, twice the previous year’s population and a level not seen in a decade. Steve Bradbury, a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University, says it’s excellent news. “This past year’s survey information from Mexico was definitely encouraging,” Bradbury says. “Our goal, our nation’s goal and all of the work going on in states in the Midwest and Southern Plains, is to try to maintain that 15 acres as an average over the coming 10-to-20 years.”
While the population rebound is a big plus, Bradbury says consistent long-term gains rely on advancing conservation efforts that are critical to help monarchs survive and reproduce in Iowa and the Upper Midwest. “What we see this past year is certainly a signal,” Bradbury says. “Starting to get that habitat in the ground is good, but there was also just the most perfect weather conditions that helped make that happen.” In recent years, cities, farmers and individual Iowans have joined to create or to preserve habitat that’s vital to monarchs, including the cultivation of milkweed and nectar plant gardens. “Getting new habitat in the ground is picking up the pace,” he says, “and people being really careful about the habitat that’s already on the landscape and protecting it.”
The Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy aims to maintain a yearly population of 225-million adult monarchs, or roughly that 15 acres of forest canopy. About 40-percent of all monarchs that overwinter in Mexico are estimated to come from Iowa and neighboring Midwestern states. Bradbury says expanding monarch habitat in Iowa will play a major role in the recovery of the species.
CONRAD, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say two University of Northern Iowa students, including one from western Iowa, were killed when their car collided with a semitrailer, Sunday. The collision occurred around 12:40 p.m,, a few miles north of Conrad on Iowa Highway 14. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office says the northbound car went out of control on the snow- and ice-covered roadway and crossed into the path of the southbound semi.
The Sheriff’s Office identified the car driver as 21-year-old Justin Kime, who lived in Stewartville, Minnesota, and his passenger as 21-year-old Tristan Marlow, who lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The truck driver wasn’t injured. He’s been identified as 27-year-old Laurence Smith, of St. Louis. The accident is under investigation.
The Creston Police Department reports 21-year old Brandon Joseph Lee Tull, of Creston, was arrested at around 3-a.m. today (Tuesday), following a traffic stop. Tull was arrested for Driving While Suspended.
And, four people were arrested on separate charges, Monday: A little before 6-a.m., 33-year old Cassie Ann Wilmeth, of Creston, was arrested on Highway 25 in Creston, for Driving While Suspended; At around 2:10-p.m., 47-year old Misty Dawn Darst, of Creston, was arrested at Birch and Summit Streets in Creston on an Adams County Warrant. She was transferred to the custody of Adams County Deputies; Just before 10:30-a.m. Monday, 51-year old Edward Earl Jones, of Creston, was arrested at his residence, for Violation of a Protection Order. He was being held in the Union County Jail awaiting initial appearance; And, at around 8:30-a.m. Monday, Creston Police arrested 58-year old Pamela Dea Claiser, of Creston, on an Adams County Warrant. Claiser was subsequently released on a $200 bond.
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(Radio Iowa) — While recent “honor flights” have recognized veterans of World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, a new honor flight is being organized for those who served in conflicts in the Middle East. Bill Williams, a co-founder of the non-profit group Patriotic Productions — which puts on the flights, says this initial new flight to Washington D-C for veterans from western Iowa and Nebraska will be limited. “To take all of them, it would be multiple flights and a million dollars,” Williams says. “Our compromise is to take the Purple Heart recipients from the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Bronze Star recipients are also welcome to apply for the flight, scheduled for May 24th. Williams says some other V-I-Ps will also be making the journey. “We’re also going to take the highest-decorated combat veterans from those same three conflicts,” he says, “and our special guests on the plane will be Gold Star children of the fallen from Iraq and Afghanistan.” The chartered jet will fly out of Omaha’s Eppley Airfield for a day-long whirlwind tour of Washington D-C, including stops at several war memorials and Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknowns. There will be a special homecoming in Omaha that night. Williams says, “We’re going to pick them up on the tarmac at Eppley, drive them through the Old Market led by a marching band and horses and classic cars and motorcycles, down to the Durham Museum around the back and they’ll walk through that crowd of flags and signs to the cheers of those welcoming them home.”
The last honor flight, which was for Vietnam veterans, saw a crowd of about seven-thousand gathered at the Omaha airport to welcome the veterans back to town. Veterans of Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan who earned the Purple Heart or Bronze Star can apply for the May flight. Applications are available at the website: www.patrioticproductions.org.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of fatally stabbing his mother and uncle in Des Moines has been ruled incompetent for trial. Court records say a judge last week ordered psychiatric treatment for 30-year-old Joshua Adams, who’s charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of his mother, 49-year-old Tracy Adams, and uncle, 54-year-old Gaylord George Jolly Jr. Police found their bodies Dec. 28 at the home Joshua and Tracy Adams shared. A hearing to discuss the progress of Joshua Adams’ treatment is scheduled for March 18.