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Jim Field visits with Atlantic Police Lt. Devin Hogue about the Joe Dirt Memorial and other fund raising activities to help with the “Shop with a Cop” and “Family Dreams Christmas” holiday programs.
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(Radio Iowa) — The Environmental Protection Commission has entered into a contract for a research project to examine if a wider view should be used to determine how things are thrown away. The D-N-R’s Tom Anderson says the law created in 1987 determined the success of what was recycled based on the weight of what went into landfills. “Weight is not necessarily the best measure of environmental impact. And it’s kind of what sustainable material management is looking at,” Anderson says, “”it’s looking at the environmental impacts from raw material extraction through the production, distribution, use and ultimately disposal.”
Anderson says the program created 30 years ago was appropriate for the time. “It was easy because all you needed was the weight — eventually all the landfills had scales — so the weight was an easy number to grasp. And then an easy number to use that and say we landfilled less than we did the previous year, our programs must be working,” according to Anderson. “That very well could be true, but environmentally we still don’t know if the actions we are doing here are better for the environment, or should we be doing alternative actions.”
He says looking beyond how much space something takes in the landfill could show that landfilling isn’t the best way to handle it. “If you look at it more holistically and look at it upstream so to speak — back to that raw material extraction — there may be more impacts to environment by recycling it than disposing it,” Anderson explains. Anderson says one example that has been studied is coffee containers — which can be metal cans, plastic cans or pouches. The costs for each container from when it was made to when it is thrown away were analyzed. He says you have energy and water and air emissions in the manufacture of the cans or pouches. And then when you look at distribution, the cans are heavier and bigger and the environmental impact is more because it takes more trucking to move them than it does the pouches.
He says all the factors showed them something. “You come to find that overall from start to finish the environmental impact is greater for the metal can than it is if you were to dispose of that pouch,” Anderson says. Anderson says the research project will establish a vision for Iowa waste management that considers environmental impacts and create a detailed plan to engage everyone in carrying out that vision. The effort will begin December 1st and Anderson says they hope to have it completed by September.
Police in Creston report there were four arrests over the Thanksgiving Holiday time frame. At around 2:45-a.m. Sunday, 24-year old Justin Garcia, of Raymondville, TX, was arrested in Creston for OWI/1st offense. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.
At around 11:20-a.m. Thursday, 32-year old Joshua Baker, of Leon, was arrested in Creston, for Theft in the 5th Degree, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/3rd or subsequent offense. Baker was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 bond. And, at around 9-p.m. Thursday, 27-year old Anthony Cross, of Creston, was arrested for Violation of a Protection Order. Cross was later released on an unspecified bond.
And, last Wednesday, 47-year old John Pace, of Creston, was arrested on an Adams County warrant for Failure to Appear in court. Pace was released to the custody of Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies.
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The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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A 13-year-old girl is accused of leading police in eastern Iowa on a high-speed chase early Sunday morning. According to reports, police in Blue Grass tried to pull over a van whose driver and/or occupants were suspected in attempted car break-ins. The teenage driver fled the scene at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. The chase concluded when officers used a PIT maneuver to end the pursuit. The 13-year-old driver and five other people in the van were taken into custody. The vehicle had been reported stolen from Rock Island. Three law enforcement vehicles sustained minor damage in the chase.
(Radio Iowa) — A former Iowa State University entomology professor bypassed the traditional cake and candles to celebrate his 85th birthday. Instead, Wayne Rowley jumped out of a plane. “The idea came to me when George H.W. Bush, our 41st President of the United States, sky-jumped on his 80th birthday,” Rowley said. “I told myself, if I make it to 85, I’m going to do that.”
Wayne Rowley
Rowley is now a resident of the Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames. The skydive included a freefall for two miles before his parachute opened. “I’ve been a pretty active person all my life and it wasn’t something I even gave a second thought to,” Rowley said. “People do it all the time. Why couldn’t I?”
Following the skydive in July, Rowley went on an annual solo fly-fishing trip to the Russian province of Siberia. That’s where he was for his 85th birthday on August 27. He just recently discussed the skydiving adventure. “I thank the good Lord I made it to 85 and I kept that promise to myself. It was fabulous,” Rowley said.
A Utah native, Rowley moved back to Ames last year from another retirement community in Maine. He decided to return to Iowa following the death of his wife, Annette, who was a long-time English teacher at Ames High School. The couple raised two sons and a daughter. Rowley said he had so much fun skydiving last summer that he plans to jump again in the spring.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two firefighters have been injured battling a house blaze in Des Moines. Firetrucks were dispatched to the house around 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Fire Lt. Chris Clement says the injuries occurred when one firefighter fell through a weakened floor into the house basement, landing atop another firefighter. Both were taken to a hospital and were released after treatment. Their names haven’t been released. The fire cause is being investigated.
JOSEPH JOHN PETERSON, 84, of Walnut, died Saturday, Nov. 24th, at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, in Council Bluffs. Memorial services for JOSEPH PETERSON will be held 1-p.m. Friday, Nov. 30th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Avoca.
Burial will be in the Layton Township Cemetery at Walnut.
JOSEPH PETERSON is survived by:
His daughter – Vicky (Max) Davis, of Springfield, MO.
His siblings – Dorothy (Carl) Michael, of Logan; Helen (Charles) Hanson, of Moorhead, IA; Elaine (Ron Blaine) Wageman, of Apple Valley, MN; Donald (Glenda) Peterson, of Spencer, IA; Alvin Peterson, of Chandler, AZ; Kenny (Corrine) Peterson, of Mesa, AZ; Darlene Harvick, of Shenandoah; Debra (Dr. Mark) Jensen, of Livermore, IA; Terry (Tomi) Peterson, of Spencer; and Ron Skalla, of Texas
His brother-in-law Ronald Wegner of Harlan; 4 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren;1 great-great grandchild.
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