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Atlantic Senior Sarah Fixmer has committed to continue her golf career at Midland University in Fremont, NE. She signed a national letter of intent to play for the Warriors on Wednesday.
Fixmer finished 26th individually at the Girls State Golf Tournament last spring and has been a member of two 3A State Championship teams and one runner-up squad in her three years so far.
Midland University is a member of the GPAC Athletic Conference and has fall and spring golf seasons.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Police in Creston say a woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon on an Adams County warrant. 52-year old Cathy Maynes, of Creston, was arrested on a warrant charging her with Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Maynes was later released from custody on a $300 bond.
And a Creston resident reported to Police Wednesday, that sometime around Feb. 24th, someone entered her home in the 600 block of Wyoming Street, and took a Playstation 3 and two controllers. The loss was estimated at $200.
(7-a.m. News)
The experts predict run-off into the Missouri River system will be above-normal this spring, but the region is -not- expected to be hit with any flooding. Nicole Shorney, a hydraulic engineer with the U-S Army Corps of Engineers, says snow pack is very low in the upper basin due to several warm snaps and the relatively mild winter.
“The heaviest snow liquid contents range from two-to-four inches in some localized areas of central North Dakota, although the heaviest amounts are outside the Missouri River basin,” Shorney says. “Some areas of central Montana and north-central Wyoming also have remaining Plains snow that has less than an inch of liquid content. The rest of the upper basin has no Plains snow remaining.”
Shorney says run-off so far this year has been above-normal. “February run-off was more than double its average due to Plains snow melt from much warmer-than-normal February temperatures,” Shorney says. “Focusing on the March-to-July run-off season, the time when we see our highest run-off, we’re expecting March run-off to be slightly above-average for the upper basin as the remainder of the Plains snow pack enters the system.”
Shorney says they expect slightly above-normal run-off into late spring. “For the Oahe to Sioux City regions, we’re forecasting normal run-off for the April-to-July period,” she says. “Our annual run-off forecast is 29.1-million acre feet or 115-percent of normal.”
Corps officials say all of the water in the flood storage of the reservoirs has been sent downstream. Releases from Gavins Point Dam will increase later this month to support downstream navigation.
(Radio Iowa)
Iowa State coach Steve Prohm believes his team can make a deep run at the Big-12 Tournament in Kansas City. Winners of six of their last seven games the Cyclones open the tournament today (Thursday) against Oklahoma State. The Cyclones beat the Cowboys twice during the regular season and have won the last nine games in the series.
Prohm believes it will be a competitive tournament. Tip off at the Sprint Center is 11:30a.m. The game will be televised by ESPN2.
(Learfield Sports)
The Iowa Hawkeyes will try to play their way into the NCAA field when they open the Big Ten Tournament this (Thursday) evening, against Indiana. The Hawkeyes put themselves into the conversation on the strength of a three game winning streak that saw them finish league play with a record of 10-8.
Iowa coach Fran McCaffery likes the depth on his team but says it is not as big of an advantage in a tournament setting as some believe. The teams met once during the regular season with the Hawkeyes claiming a nail biter in Iowa City.
Listen for the pre-game at 4:30-p.m. here on KJAN, with the tip-off at 5:30.
(Learfield Sports)
MARY LOUISE HANSEN, 97, of Council Bluffs, died Tuesday, March 7th, at Bethany Lutheran Home. A Mass of Christian Burial for MARY LOUISE HANSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Saturday, March 11th, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Walnut. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home, is on Friday, March 10th, from 5-until 8-p.m., with a Prayer Service at 7-p.m.
Burial will be in the St. Patrick’s Cemetery at Walnut.
MARY LOUISE HANSEN is survived by:
Her daughters – Judith (Delbert) Brehmer, of Council Bluffs, & Rosemary (Bill) Steinkamp, of Bellingham, WA.
Her sons – Jerry Hansen, and Ronald (Nancy) Hansen, all of Walnut.
Her brother – Gerald Martin, of Exira.
7 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great grandchildren.
Today: P/Cloudy to Cloudy. High near 50. NE @ 10-15.
Tonight: Mostly Cloudy. Low 22. N @ 15-25.
Tomorrow: Mo. Cloudy. High 34. N @ 15-25.
Tomorrow night: Snow developing mainly after midnight. Low 18.
Saturday: Cloudy w/a 50% chance of snow in the morning. High 28.
Sunday: Cloudy w/a 40% chance of snow or mixed precip. in the afternoon. High 33.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 55. Our Low this morning (as of 5-a.m.) was 29. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 59 and the low was 27. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 76 in 1986. The Record Low was -10 in 1912.