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OA-BCIG hosted the Co-Ed Bob Saunders Invitational on Monday night in Ida Grove.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Full results: OABCIGBobSaunders2017
The Western Iowa Conference Cross Country Championships were held on Monday night at Treynor Recreation Area. Logan-Magnolia took the girls team title and Tri-Center won the boys crown.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Full results: WIC2017XC
Skyscan Forecast – Dan Hicks – Tuesday, 10/10/17
Today: Cloudy w/rain. High 48. N @ 10-20.
Tonight: Cloudy to P/Cdy. Low 37. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Morning fog; P/Cldy. High 58. SE @ 5-10.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High around 70.
Friday: P/Cloudy to cloudy. High around 72.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 65. Our Low this morning (as of 5:50-a.m.) was 39. 24-hour Rainfall as of 7-a.m. was .57″. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 66 and the low was 56. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 96 in 1893. The Record Low for this date was 17 in 1906.
Senator Chuck Grassley has some advice for President Trump and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker: “Both ought to cool it.” Grassley was quizzed by reporters from N-B-C and W-H-O Television yesterday (Monday) about what the two Republicans said of one another on Sunday. Trump claimed Corker decided against seeking reelection because Trump wouldn’t support him. Corker then spoke with The New York Times and unleashed a torrent of criticism, suggested Trump “may be setting the U.S. on the path to World War III.”
Grassley told the reporters in Boone yesterday (Monday) that this very public feud won’t hurt progress on issues like tax reform. “Definitely not, you see, because the president is in the executive branch and we are in the legislature branch…As long as we do our job, it’s doesn’t matter what the president does, only if he doesn’t sign what we send to him,” Grassley said. “That’s the only place where he’s involved.”
Grassley says he’s got “more important things to do” than try to referee the conflict between Trump and the Tennessee senator. Grassley spoke with N-B-C and W-H-O Television after holding a town-hall meeting in Boone.
(Radio Iowa)
The leader of the U.S. Dairy Export Council says he’s making changes to the organization’s marketing strategy. CEO Tom Vilsack says he’d like to increase export sales by five-percent, bringing the total to 20-percent of U.S. dairy production.
“To do that requires us to have more presence in some of these emerging markets, more people on the ground figuring out what the market needs, what the market wants, figuring out ways in which we can innovate appropriately to meet that market demand,” Vilsack said. Although the boost in manpower in developing markets will cost money, Vilsack is promising producers they won’t see changes in the dairy checkoff program.
“This is not about increasing the checkoff. This is about using the resources that are available from the checkoff in the most efficient and effective way possible,” Vilsack said. “And, certainly within our own USDEC budget, we are re-prioritizing to be able to put more resources, for example, into that Mexican market which is so important.”
USDEC CEO Tom Vilsack (L) and Dairy Management Inc CEO Tom Gallagher address media at 2017 World Dairy Expo
The 66-year-old Vilsack added along with cutting ineffective marketing programs, the council will examine revenue streams.
“We also have dues-paying members, 120 members or so of our organization. There hasn’t been a dues increase for at least 10 years, so there’s a possibility that we would look at our dues structure. That’s a small percentage of our budget, but an important part of it,” Vilsack said. “And, we obviously want to make a case to the U.S. Government to continue to fund and maybe even increase the MAP (Market Access Program) funding, the foreign market development funding (and) the market assistance programs.”
Vilsack served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for eight years before starting his new job with the U.S. Dairy Export Council in February. Vilsack was Iowa’s governor from 1999 to 2007. He made his comments in an interview with Brownfield Ag News at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Iowa typically ranks among the top 15 states in terms of annual dairy production.
(Radio Iowa, w/Thanks to Larry Lee, Brownfield Ag News)
The head of a mental health crisis center in southern Iowa expects it to close at the end of the month due to a lack of funding. Jackie Sharp is executive director of Oak Place in Centerville. She says after a grant ran out, the regional mental health authority has refused to fill the funding gap. And state officials haven’t set up rules that would let Oak Place bill Medicaid for services to patients.
“I don’t put a lot of faith in us continuing after October 31st,” Sharp says. “I think my alternate plan is to take care of the graduates that we’ve had and help my staff transition.” The center opened three years ago and has won praise for providing economical care in rural Iowa, where mental health treatment options are scarce.
“Without funding, we’re closed,” Sharp says. “And I have a fear for the other 10 crisis stabilization homes in the state, that they will follow our lead and close due to lack of funding.” Sharp made her comments on Iowa Public Radio’s “River to River” program.
The Centerville facility serves patients from Appanoose County and three other neighboring counties. Advocates say once the center closes, the state will pay about 900-dollars-per-day for psychiatric hospital stays for a Medicaid patient who’d get significantly less expensive care, closer to home, in Centerville.
(Radio Iowa)
Western Iowa Conference Tournament First Round/Quarterfinals
(3-1) Griswold 22-25-25-25, Riverside, Oakland 25-17-16-22
(3-2) IKM-Manning 25-14-22-25-15, Logan-Magnolia 14-25-25-22-11
(3-0) Missouri Valley 25-25-25, AHSTW 14-16-14
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Underwood 23-18-15
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Griswold 7-18-14
(3-0) Underwood 25-25-25, Audubon 17-13-20
Pride of Iowa Conference Tournament
Pool A
(2-1) Nodaway Valley 15-25-15, I-35 25-23-12
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Interstate 35, Truro 11-19
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Nodaway Valley 20-13
Pool B
(2-0) Lenox 25-25, Martensdale-St Marys 21-23
(2-0) Southwest Valley 25-25, Martensdale-St Marys 10-14
(2-0) Southwest Valley 25-28, Lenox 18-26
Pool C
(2-0) Bedford 25-25, Wayne 19-20
(2-0) Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 25-25, Bedford 17-21
(2-0) Southeast Warren 25-25, Wayne 11-12
Pool D
(2-0) East Union 25-25, Pleasantville 17-20
(2-1) Central Decatur 25-23-16, East Union 18-25-14
(2-0) Central Decatur 25-25, Pleasantville 12-15
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