JENNIFER HOLTZ, 45, of Fort Dodge died September 25, 2024 at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The family of JENNIFER HOLTZ will greet friends at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca, on Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 5-until 7-p.m.m with a time of family sharing at 7-p.m.
JENNIFER HOLTZ is survived by:
Mother: Debra Holtz of Walnut
Sister: Jamie Holtz
Brother: Justin Holtz
Special friend Gary Eddington and a nephew.
ANGELA GRIFFEN, 51, of Avoca died September 28, 2024 at her home. A Celebration of Life service for ANGELA GRIFFEN will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 1:00 pm at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca.
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ANGELA GRIFFEN is survived by:
Husband: Rodney Griffen of Avoca
Daughter: Cassandra (Justin Smith) Griffen of Avoca
Son: Joshua Janson
4 Grandchildren
(iahsaa.org) The first edition of the IHSAA’s 2024 football rankings are available below. The rankings for Class 2A, Class 1A, Class A, and Eight-Player will be determined throughout the 2024 regular season by official rankings committees, as debuted in 2023.
Current district standings are also available below for the listed classes.
The committee rankings for 2A, 1A, A, and 8P will feature a top 10 consensus-built list as compiled by a six-person group: Two former head coaches and one media member, each representing different state regions, and three IHSAA staff members.
The IHSAA will use the rankings as a primary tool for postseason assignments, while maintaining school and geographic considerations.
Ratings Percentage Index lists for Class 5A, Class 4A, and Class 3A will debut following Week 6, on Oct. 7.
The final editions will be following the release of first round playoff matchups.
[UPDATED] (Radio Iowa) – A Sioux City man was found dead in his pickup after it went off Interstate-29 and into the Missouri River Friday. Sioux City Police Sergeant Tom Gill says it happened around 5:30 p-m Friday.
Gill says a passenger in the truck was able to get out and made it to shore.
The driver has been identified as 55-year-old Delana Jackson of Sioux City. The passenger in the truck has not been identified.
(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports a man from Nebraska was arrested Thursday morning (Sept. 26) in Nebraska. 56-year-old James Mut Nyang, of Bellevue, NE, was picked-up from Nebraska authorities, on an Adair County warrant for Violation of Probation. Nyang was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $2,o00 bond.
DONALD JENSEN, 73, of Kimballton, died Saturday, September 28, 2024, at his home. A Celebration of Life Gathering for DONALD JENSEN will be held Friday. Oct. 4, 2024, from 5-p.m. to 7-p.m. at the home of Jeff Jessen, 1485 280th street in Exira. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Private family burial will be held at a later date at the Bethany Lutheran Cemetery in Kimballton.
Memorial contributions may be directed to the family and can be sent in care of Schmidt Family Funeral Home to P.O box 201 Audubon, Iowa 50025.
KIRK D. MATHIS, 71, of Burlington, a Shenandoah native, died September 25, 2024, at his home. Per his wishes, cremation has taken place, and a Memorial service for KIRK D. MATHIS will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, October 12, 2024, at the First United Methodist Church in Shenandoah. Lunning Chapel in Burlington is assisting the family.
A visitation will be held one-hour prior to the service, on Saturday.
Inurnment will be held in Rose Hill Cemetery in Shenandoah.
KIRK D. MATHIS is survived by:
His wife – Karen.
His sons – T.J. (Jill) Mathis, of Danville, IA, and Joel (Becky) Mathis, of Libertyville, IL.
His brothers – Greg (Francoise) Mathis, of Council Bluffs, Tim Mathis, of Shenandoah, and Jeff (Margie) Mathis, of Wellsville, KS.
3 grandchildren, his in-laws, and other relatives.
Online condolences can be made by visiting www.lunningfuneralchapel.com.
(Radio Iowa) – Dozens of utility workers from Iowa are now in Ohio, helping restore electricity to thousands of homes and businesses in areas where the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused widespread damage over the weekend. Geoff Greenwood, a spokesman for MidAmerican Energy, says they sent about 70 line workers and support crews to Cincinnati after staging with their big bucket trucks in Des Moines and Davenport on Friday night.
There are areas of the south and southeastern U-S that were much harder hit by the storm’s remnants than Ohio, and Greenwood says the Iowa crews that are now in the Cincinnati metro are expecting to get another assignment very soon.
It’s still unclear where the Iowa crews will be heading next to lend a hand.
At the peak, about 140-thousand Cincinnati area customers were without power, and by 9 A-M on Monday, only three-thousand or so remained offline, so the Iowa crews should be wrapping up there very soon. While Ohio is a long way from the ocean, the former hurricane still caused severe damage.
Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy serves 820,000 electric customers in Iowa, Illinois and South Dakota, and 797,000 natural gas customers in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds spent about a third of the month of September on a trade mission in India. Reynolds says the groundwork for her meetings was laid decades ago by the Iowa native who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his research that improved wheat and rice yields.
Borlaug took a wheat variety he’d developed to India in the mid-1960s and increased wheat production there by 60 percent.*
Reynolds met with India’s Secretary of Agriculture as well as the country’s Minister for Food Processing and Minister of Commerce. Iowa Corn Growers President Stu Swanson says a memorandum of agreement was signed to promote discussions between Iowa’s and India’s feed sectors.
An Iowa-based start-up company called “Power Pollen” also signed a letter of agreement with an India company called V-R-N Seed that does business in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. Power Pollen, which is based in Ames, has developed a process for collecting pollen, storing it and then applying it to fields to increase production of rice, wheat and corn seeds.
(Radio Iowa) – An analysis from the group Food & Water Watch says Iowa is the top-ranking state for producing manure from livestock feeding operations at 109 billion pounds annually. Amanda Starbuck is the nonprofit organization’s research director.
Starbuck says there is a difference between the two types of waste.
While manure can add nutrients and organic matter to farm fields, Starbuck says the sheer amount of waste is too much for the land to handle.
Food & Water Watch used the latest data from the U-S Census of Ag and the E-P-A’s definition of medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations to develop state rankings and create interactive maps. The 20-year trends across the U-S show fewer farms but larger livestock operations.
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