LaVon Eblen visits with ISU professor Alison St. Germain about a program called, “The Adventure Comes to You,” on Thursday, May 18 at 9:00 am at the Cass County Community Center in Atlantic.
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DEAN ALAN OSEN, 78, of Guthrie Center, died Wed., May 10th, at the Stuart Community Care Center. Memorial services for DEAN OSEN will be held 10-a.m. Saturday, May 13th, at the Twigg Funeral Home in Panora.
Inurnment will take place at a later date.
DEAN ALAN OSEN is survived by:
His sons – Brian (Kimberly) Osen, of Yuma, AZ., & Dave (Liz) Osen, of Guthrie Center.
His daughter – Laurie (Richard) Spencer, of Osceola (IA).
The Shelby County Emergency Management Agency reports 660th Street, between Hazel and Ironwood Roads, is set to close Monday, May 15th, for a scheduled bridge replacement project. The road will remain closed in that location for about 10-weeks. Emergency responders and other who normally travel 660th Street in Shelby County in that area, should plan to take alternate routes.
A traffic stop on vehicle traveling without its headlights on early this (Thursday) morning in Pottawattamie County, resulted in the arrest of a Council Bluffs man on a charge of OWI. Sheriff’s officials say Deputy Zach Norman saw the Chrysler 300 in the vicinity of Highway 92 and the South Expressway at around 2:45-a.m., and conducted a traffic stop. An investigation resulted in the arrest of 71-year old Dwayne Edward Sanders, of Council Bluffs, for OWI/1st offense.
Despite Wednesday’s heavy rain in parts of the state, Iowa State University Extension crop specialist Joel DeJong says Iowa’s farmers have been making good progress since the weekend U-S-D-A report that showed about half the state’s corn crop was in the ground.
“We’ve had magnificent days since Sunday,” DeJong says. “There’s been estimates that we’re planting well over a million acres a day in Iowa, probably closer to a million-and-a-half if you do the math, maybe even close to two-million acres a day. We’re making tremendous progress.”
The forecast calls for warmer temperatures for most of the state through the weekend, into the 70s and 80s, with no more chances for rain until Tuesday. With the warm-up, DeJong says corn that was planted a month ago is beginning to appear. “For those producers who planted in very early April, the 11th and 12th of April, we had a few people that planted then, that corn should be up by now,” DeJong says. “We saw some emergence for those hybrids last week, but we hadn’t accumulated a lot of growing days until we got into late last week.”
Corn planted around the 23rd and 24th of April should be emerging very soon. In recent weeks, Iowa has seen early spring snowstorms, wet conditions and very cold temperatures, which has been difficult for the emerging corn plants. “They struggled. You can see tissue damage from those 22-degree temperatures and the really cold nights we had in the mix,” DeJong says. “You can see tissue damage on the chute but it looks like most of them did get above ground and they’re leafing out okay. I’ve heard a couple of reports from a county that says the cold really did mess up the germination and we’ve had some real problems.”
DeJong says it’s likely a majority of the state’s corn farmers will not have to replant their seed.
(Radio Iowa)
Deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday evening, arrested 19-year old Seth Dewayne Strong, of Elk Horn, following a traffic stop on Highway 173. Strong was charged with Driving with a suspended license, and failure to provide financial liability. He was transported to the Shelby County Jail and released this (Thursday) morning, after being given a date to appear in court.
And, late Tuesday night, Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 39 year old Jeffrey Lee Simpson, of Carroll, on outstanding warrants for two counts of Violation of Probation. Simpson was being held in the Shelby County Jail on $50,000 bond.
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Jim Field visits with 2017 Riverside High School seniors Lucas Wilbur, Brent Pendgraft and Hannah Seifert.
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Officials with the Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund handed out three, $750 scholarships to graduating Atlantic High School Seniors during “Senior Night,” Wednesday evening. The committee ,which consists of friends of Trevor, chose Catherine Leonard, Taylor Kirchner and Zac Stork as recipients of the scholarships. Fund spokesperson Melanie Petty says “The Trevor Frederickson Fund congratulates all of the graduates, and wishes you a blessed future as you continue on in your college education.”
The fund which was originally started in hopes of handing out scholarships each year has grown into so much more for our community. 
In fact, the Fund has given out over $150,000 since 2009, looks forward to doing so for many years.
Petty says “We are only able to accomplish these things because of the great support of friends, family and local businesses. Thank you all for supporting us!”
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