THERESA E. McKEE, 69, of Villisca, died Monday, November 25, 2024. A Celebration of Life service for THERESA McKEE will be held 10-a.m. Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Wolfe-Billings Funeral Chapel in Clarinda.
Visitation will be held on Friday, November 29, 2024, from 5-until 7-pm, at the Wolfe-Billings Funeral Chapel.
Memorials can be made to family choice.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Thanksgiving and the day before are the top two days in this country for the chance of a cooking fire to happen in someone’s home. Cooking causes an average of 158,400 home fires per year, which is 44% of all home fires in the United States. The American Red Cross offers safety steps everyone can follow if they will be preparing their family’s Thanksgiving feast. Emily Holley, Regional Communications Manager for the Nebraska-Iowa Chapter of the Red Cross, says “Cooking is the leading cause of home fires, home fire injuries and the second leading cause of home fire deaths. Most happen because people leave cooking food unattended. We want everyone to have a safe, enjoyable holiday, so don’t leave the kitchen while you’re cooking.” 
The Red Cross offers the following cooking safety tips:
On Tuesday, Mariah Hadley and Conner Johnson signed their commitment papers to continue their archery careers at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake. In what has become a bit of a feeder, Hadley and Johnson are not the first Atlantic archers to find their way to Storm Lake. Atlantic coach Clint Roland started his career at Buena Vista, so there is little surprise that Atlantic has become a feeder. BVU coach Conner Ellinghuysen looks forward to having Hadley and Johnson in the program.
For Hadley, archery started at a young age and quickly became one of her favorite activities.
Archery takes skill, concentration, awareness, and maybe most importantly, dedication and practice. Hadley’s parents were both very proud of what their daughter had been able to accomplish.
Like the Hadley Family, the Johnson family was very proud of their son’s accomplishments and said that the lessons archery has taught him will carry beyond sport.
For Johnson, his career started a little later than Hadley’s but loved it all the same, and it helped him find his niche.
Roland sang Hadley and Johnson’s praises and said they are archers he can never replace.
(Iowa DNR News) – Pheasant hunting has been as much a part of the Thanksgiving holiday for generations of Iowans, as cranberries and stuffing. And with a weather forecast that will likely put birds in cover, this would be a good year to continue that tradition and get back to the fields. Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), says “It’s a good opportunity for hunters to get out with less competition. Would also be a good time to invite someone new along and pass along that tradition.”
The Iowa DNR offers an apprentice license that allows someone to give hunting a try under the supervision of an adult mentor without completing hunter education. This license may be purchased twice in a lifetime before the individual is required to complete a hunter education course. Iowa’s pheasant population is down slightly from last year when hunters bagged the highest number of roosters since 2007. According to the August roadside survey, the regions with higher pheasant counts are north of Interstate 80. “The harvest is following what the roadside counts showed – better hunting in northern Iowa with lots of young birds out there,” Bogenschutz said. Last year, more than 83,000 hunters harvested over 590,000 roosters, providing an estimated economic impact of $180 million in Iowa.
Photo courtesy of the Iowa DNR.
The Iowa DNR and Pheasants Forever are celebrating 100 years of pheasant hunting in the Hawkeye State. The first season was held Oct. 20-22, 1925, when 13 counties in north central Iowa were opened to pheasant hunting. Hunters were allowed a three-rooster limit, for a half-day of hunting. An estimated 75,000 hunters participated.
Information on places to hunt, the August roadside survey results and more is available online by clicking the 100 Years of Pheasant Hunting graphic at www.iowadnr.gov/pheasantsurvey.
(Atlantic,Iowa) – You don’t have to go all-out for your Thanksgiving meal, Thursday, and you don’t even have to do the dishes, if you attend the FREE 3rd Annual Community Thanksgiving meal Thursday, in Atlantic. The event – with all the traditional fixings, including turkey, ham, dressing and pie, takes place from 11-a.m. Until 4-p.m. At the Cass County Community Center (next to the Fairgrounds), at 805 W, 10th Street.
Take-out meals and delivery are available in Atlantic, and there are drop locations in Wiota, Anita, Cumberland, Massena, Lewis, Griswold, Marne, Walnut, Elk Horn and Exira (By pre-order only). To order to go meals on Thanksgiving please call or text message 712-250-1599 by no later than 5-p.m. On Wednesday (Nov. 27). Last year over 500 meals were served. Kristen Holaday-Brooks with Holaday Baking Company is serving the meal, thanks to numerous sponsors. Kristin’s family has hosted the event since its inception.
The first family was served after consulting with the Atlantic School District to see who needed the most help on Thanksgiving. From there, the need grew to multiple families.
The first year, she said, they were just trying to figure out the logistics of serving numerous people. They ended-up served about 450 meals.
As of last week, there were at least 159 meals ordered for delivery and the drop locations. The meat for the meal is smoked by Troublesome Creek Cattle Company in Exira, the week before the meal. Every meal is homemade.
Their job is made easier thanks to the use of an industrial potato peeler. The Atlantic Bottling Company has donated all of the drinks for the event. That’s also included with deliveries. The deliveries are handled by volunteers. Again, deliveries are made by pre-order only. For more information, call or text Anna at 712-250-1599, or visit the holadaybakingcompany’s Facebook page.
Keshon Gilbert had 24 points and fifth ranked Iowa State took advantage of a flagrant foul by Dayton in the final minute of the game to beat the Flyers 89-84 at the Maui Invitational. The Cyclones got 30 points from its bench to move to 4-1.
That’s ISU coach T.J. Otzelberger. The Cyclones trailed by as many as nine in the opening half before scoring 52 second half points.
Iowa State plays Big 12 foe Colorado later today in the fifth place game.
Iowa outscored South Carolina Upstate 14-0 to open the game and cruised to a 110-77 win in Iowa City. Sophomore guard Brock Harding led the Hawkeyes with 20 points and added 10 assists.
It is the second straight game that Harding has posted a career high. He had 19 in last week’s loss to Utah State.
The Hawkeyes are off until next Tuesday’s Big Ten opener at home against Northwestern.
(Radio Iowa) – We could find out who will be the new lieutenant governor sometime next month. Governor Kim Reynolds was asked Tuesday about her decision to replace Adam Gregg who left in September. “Soon, really soon. So it in the next couple of weeks, probably we’ll have a decision,” Reynolds says. Reynolds has been busy with the fall campaign, the Republican Governors Association, and a trade trip to India. “So it’s just been a crazy timeline, but, and we want to do it right and so, but we’re really close,” she says. Reynolds says she has completed all of the interviews of candidates for the job.
“You know, I’m not going to give you the number that we’ve interviewed, but we’ve talked to several people,” Reynolds says. Gregg resigned as lieutenant governor to take over as the leader of the Iowa Bankers Association. The president of the Iowa Senate is next in line of succession until a new lieutenant governor is named by Reynolds.
[UPDATED] (Radio Iowa) – A group of nurses from four central Iowa hospitals is trying to form a union. Hundreds of nurses work at UnityPoint hospitals in Des Moines and West Des Moines. An online petition indicates a group of them is working to have the Teamsters union represent nurses at Methodist, Lutheran and Blank Children’s Hospitals in downtown Des Moines and Methodist West Hospital in West Des Moines. The petition says they’re seeking safe staffing ratios as well as better insurance benefits, pay and improved working conditions to improve the health and safety of both patients and registered nurses. UnityPoint executives say they are taking steps to support their nurses and learn from their feedback.
There are several steps before employees at a workplace can join a union. Thirty percent of employees in the group must agree to hold an election by signing cards that are presented to the National Labor Relations Board. Then a majority of all employees who would be represented have to vote to join the union. The Teamsters Union represents about 50-thousand U-S health care workers. That includes nearly 10-thousand nurses at a group of Michigan hospitals who voted earlier this month to join the union. The Service Employees International Union represents about 38-hundred employees who work at University of Iowa Health Care’s hospitals and clinics in Iowa City and Coralville.
(Rockwell City, Iowa) – The Calhoun County Attorney’s Office, Tuesday, said a man from Minnesota was sentenced to 25-years in prison, for sexually abusing a 13-year-old child in rural Manson, on July 27th, 2024. 37-year-old Troy James Holicky, of Lamberton, MN, received the maximum sentence for the crime, and was ordered to be placed on the sex offender registry for life. Under Iowa law, he must serve 70-percent of his 25-year sentence, before he is eligible for parole.
The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in its investigation of the matter, by the Rockwell City Police Department. The case was prosecuted by the Calhoun County Attorney’s Office.
Publicly accessible court documents for this case and others, can be found at https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us.
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