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JAMES J. WOLF, 81, of Exira died Saturday, January 28th at his home. Funeral services for JAMES J. WOLF will be held on Wednesday, February 1st at 10:30 am in the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
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Friends may call at the Kessler Funeral Home in Exira.
Family visitation will be held Tuesday at 6:00 pm at the funeral home.
Burial in the Exira Cemetery.
JAMES J. WOLF is survived by:
Wife: Dorothy of Exira.
Daughter: Shanna Wolf of Minneapolis.
Sisters: Betty Simonsen of Exira & Harriet Jayne of Exira.
Brother: Phylip (Jane) Wolf of Mariuonville, MO.
Brothers-in-law: Richard (Marilyn) Petersen of Audubon; Harold Rustvold of Audubon
Sisters-in-law: Judy Wheeler of Exira; Wanda Wolf of Atlantic.
Several nieces, nephews and other relative and many friends.
Police in Creston say a man from Adair County was arrested at around 1:15-a.m. Sunday, for OWI/1st offense and Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense. 26-year old Dakota Gaulden, of Orient, was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.
Also arrested early Sunday morning, was 32-year old Paul Daniels, of Creston. Daniels was charged with Public Intoxication/2nd offense. He was later released on $1,000 bond, also.
One person was arrested in Creston last Friday. At around 11:30-p.m., 31-year old Tashina Martwick, of Creston, was arrested for Domestic Abuse/Simple Assault. She was later released on a Promise to Appear in court.
And, a Creston resident reported to Police early Friday morning, that sometime between midnight and 2:30-a.m., Friday, someone stole cash from a vehicle parked at her residence. The loss was estimated at $140.
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Today: P/Cldy to Cldy. High around 45. S-W @ 10-20.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cloudy. Low 29. NW @ 10-20.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cloudy. High 38. N @ 10-15.
Wednesday: P/Cldy w/flurries. High 30.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High near 31.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 36. Our 24-hour Low (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 28. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 46 and the low was 25. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 65 in 2012. The Record Low was -24 in 1965.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting on Tuesday, this week, instead of Wednesday, because it is the end of the month. During the meeting, a Public Hearing will be held beginning at 8:30-a.m., on a Development Agreement with Elite Octane, LLC, authorizing Tax Increment Payments, and Pledging Certain Tax Increment Revenues to the Payment of the Agreement. The hearing will be followed by action on a Resolution approving the Development Agreement.
Under the Development Agreement the County would provide financial incentives to the Company in the form of incremental property tax payments in an amount not to exceed $8.5-million. The Agreement to make incremental property tax payments will not be a general obligation of the County, but will be payable solely and only from incremental property tax revenues generated within the 2017 Cass County Agribusiness Urban Renewal Area.
Firefighters from Griswold were called to a report of smoke coming from several windows at a home located at 310 5th Street in Griswold, at 8:57-a.m., Saturday. A neighbor saw the smoke and called 9-1-1. Firefighters were able to quickly knock down the flames in the home, which was reportedly under renovation. No injuries were reported, and a cause of the fire was not immediately available. The home sustained extensive smoke damage.
The head of the board that governs Iowa’s three public universities says the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S athletic department may start financing scholarships for students who are NOT athletes. Board of Regents president Bruce Rastettersays the University of Iowa’s president and athletic director are having that discussion now.
“One of the things that isn’t often recognized is that athletic departments do contribute to the university in a significant way,” Rastetter says. “I mean first of all, they pay scholarship dollars on tuition, room and board to the university. Second, it becomes a huge fundraising opportunity at the universities to bring alums, donors in that results in significant investment in the university.”
But Rastetter says there is a “national trend” among premiere university football and basketball programs to help finance other campus priorities. “There are ways that it can enhance the student body, lower student fees, scholarship funds beyond that,” Rastetter says. “But at the end of the day, they need to be careful that they not limit their ability to compete by taking too many dollars and then they won’t have the revenue stream to give the dollars.”
Rastetter made his comments during a weekend appearance on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” program. Rastetter says neither tax dollars or student tuition money is used to finance the athletic programs in Iowa City, Ames or Cedar Falls. Ticket sales and contributions from donors are the sources of income for the Iowa and Iowa State athletic departments. The University of Northern Iowa uses SOME student FEES along with ticket sales and donor money to run the Panther athletic department.
(Radio Iowa)
The president of the board that oversees the University of Iowa is stiff-arming a state legislator’s attempt to forbid the Hawkeyes from hosting a Friday night football game. “The University of Iowa is part of the Big Ten. The Big Ten’s going to have Friday night games. The University of Iowa probably needs to do that.”
That’s Board of Regents president Bruce Rastettter, who says there’s an important tradition of having high school football games on Friday nights in Iowa, but this is a unique situation. The Big Ten plans to schedule six Friday night games per season, though at least the 2022 season. State Representative Peter Cownie of West Des Moines has sponsored a bill that would forbid the Panthers, Cyclones AND the Hawkeyes from hosting home games on a Friday night.
Rastetter said during a weekend appearance on Iowa Public Television that each athletic department should make those kind of scheduling decisions. The bill, if it became law, would ban the Iowa-Nebraska game that has been held on the Friday after Thanksgiving for the past several years.
(Radio Iowa)
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