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The Hawkeye Ten Conference Cross Country Championships were held on Thursday in Clarinda. Glenwood took both the girls and boys team titles. Raegan Andersen of Denison-Schleswig was the girls individual champ and Mason Parks of Glenwood won the boys race.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Chris Parks visits with Joyce Goff of the Lewis Life Preservers about the Fall Festival on Saturday to help raise funds for Relay for Life.
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Police in Creston say 35-year old Mark Thomas Gladson, of Macksburg, was arrested at the around 3:25-a.m. today (Friday), for Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Paraphernalia. Gladson was being held in the Union County Jail on $1,300 bond. At around 12:50-a.m. today (Friday), Creston Police arrested 32-year old Jesse Edward Ramey, of Orient, for OWI 1st. Ramey was later released on $1,000 bond.
And, at around 3:30-p.m. Thursday, 19-year old Buay Kong Chuol, of Creston, was arrested on a Polk County Warrant for Burglary in the 3rd Degree. Chuol was transported to the Union County Jail and held, pending transport back to Polk County by Polk County Sheriff’s Deputies.
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Active weather is on the way. The National Weather Service in Des Moines says scattered thunderstorms will return this afternoon and become more numerous later tonight over the southern counties. A few storms may produce large hail tonight over the south half of the area (including: Audubon-Guthrie-Dallas-Cass-Adair-Madison–Adams-Union-Taylor-Ringgold-Counties). Isolated severe storms are possible late this afternoon and tonight for the far west and southwest counties.
Saturday looks wet most of the day with a period of stronger thunderstorms in late afternoon and evening hours. A slight risk of severe thunderstorms is now forecast for the far south Saturday, with a marginal risk to near Interstate 80. Expect a wide range in temperatures from northwest to southeast today and Saturday. Strong northwest winds Saturday night will usher in much colder air by Sunday into Monday morning. Highs Sunday will only reach the 50s most areas. Lows Monday morning will fall to the 30s to lower 40s.
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission heard formal presentations at their meeting Thursday from the two groups which did market surveys to determine the impact of the proposals for a new casino in Cedar Rapids. The studies by White Sand Gaming and Marquette Advisors were released earlier this month. Racing and Gaming Commission administrator Brian Ohorilko says the presentations were important to fill in any blanks. All in all it was a good opportunity to hear how those market studies came out and allow for commission members to get any additional questions answered that they might have,” Ohorilko says.
The two studies came to similar conclusions that a casino in Cedar Rapids would have an impact on existing casinos by taking away some of their revenue. Ohorilko says the studies are one of the final pieces of information needed to make a decision on any new license. He says the decision will be made at the November 16th meeting in Dubuque after the commission reviews all the information that they’ve received since the process started in July. Ohorilko says they also received information Thursday on the background investigations of the two casino groups which submitted three proposals for the casino. He says those investigations were positive and things will proceed.
“A decision will be made one way or the other — obviously we can’t speculate on what the outcome will be — but there will be a decision made at that November commission meeting,” Ohorilko says. The commission met Thursday at the casino in Emmetsburg.
(Radio Iowa)
Today: Mostly cloudy w/a chance of light rain. High 62. NE @ 10-20 w/gusts to 25.
Tonight: Cloudy w/a 60% chance of rain. Low 54. NE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Cloudy showers & thunderstorms. High 69. E winds @ 5-10 becoming W this afternoon.
Tom. Night: Skies gradually clearining. Low 41.
Sunday: Becoming Mostly Sunny. High around 56.
Monday: Mostly sunny. High 65.
Tuesday: Mo. Sunny. High 69
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 66. Our Low this morning: 48. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 60 and the low was 27. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 88 in 1975. The Record Low for this date was 15 in 1907.
(Radio Iowa) — A new report predicts this year’s corn and soybean harvests in Iowa will fall short of records set last year. The USDA report is based on conditions as of October 1. The forecast calls for the corn yield in Iowa to average 191 bushels per acre, up four bushels per acre from the September forecast but down 12 bushels per acre from last year. Overall, Iowa corn production is forecast at 2.46 billion bushels.
If the prediction holds, it would mark the third highest yield and production on record behind 2016 and ’15. Soybean production is forecast at 557 million bushels, with a yield of 56 bushels per acre. If realized, it would be the second highest production on record behind last year. The yield forecast would be the third highest on record. Last year, the average soybean yield in Iowa was 60 bushels per acre.
More info. online at https://www.nass.usda.gov