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Iowa DOT ready to launch its Standing Corn Program

Ag/Outdoor, News

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Fall arrives Thursday and the Iowa Department of Transportation is already looking ahead to winter by signing farmers up for the Standing Corn Program. Scott Suhr,  the D-O-T’s district transportation planner, based in Atlantic, explains how it works: “We actually have this program where we pay farmers to leave corn in their field. The corn that’s left in the field in drifting areas holds the snow back from the roadway and has a benefit to the DOT and to the motorist by keeping the snow off the road.”

The program has been around some 15 years. The agency also pays farmers five-dollars for each bushel of corn left in the field. Once spring arrives, farmers are free to harvest the corn. There is a second installment of the program that involves installing snow fences. Suhr says, “If we have drifting areas along certain highways, you can put up snow fence and we’ll pay the farmers to put that fence up, I think it’s a dollar a foot that we pay out for that.”

The program makes the D-O-T’s work more efficient. “Some of the winters we have in Iowa, you can get a lot of blowing snow and if you have this eight or ten rows of corn that’s holding that snow that’s drifting back from the roadway, then, motorists don’t have to deal with it or our maintenance crews,” Suhr says. “It also helps us clean up these winter storms a lot quicker.”

To qualify, the unpicked corn rows must be nearest to the road and the D-O-T will only compensate farmers for up to 16 rows. There’s no official deadline date for farmers to join, but he says they like to have all the information ready by the time harvest starts — by the first or second week of October.

(Radio Iowa)

High School Volleyball Scoreboard 09/20/2016

Sports

September 21st, 2016 by admin

High School Volleyball Scores
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Hawkeye Ten Conference

St. Albert 25-25-25 Atlantic 4-12-14
Clarinda 3 Shenandoah 0
Glenwood 17-24-25-25-15 Denison-Schleswig 25-26-20-15-12
Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25 Creston 12-11-18
Lewis Central 25-26-25 Harlan 18-24-15

Corner Conference

Essex 25-25-25 South Page 8-9-16
Sidney 25-25-25 East Mills 15-15-20
Stanton 26-25-25 Fremont-Mills 24-15-19

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon 25-25-25 AHSTW 14-12-14
IKM-Manning 23-21-25-25-15 Missouri Valley 25-25-13-11-12
Treynor 25-25-25 Griswold 12-13-17
Tri-Center 25-25-25 Riverside 10-9-8
Underwood 25-22-25-25 Logan-Magnolia 23-25-23-13

Pride of Iowa Conference

East Union 25-25-25 Bedford 6-14-21
Mount Ayr 22-25-25-25 Lenox 25-19-8-18

Rolling Valley Conference

Paton-Churdan 3 Charter Oak-Ute 1

Missouri River Conference

Abraham Lincoln 25-23-25-25 Thomas Jefferson 18-25-13-15
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 25-25-25 Abraham Lincoln 12-16-13

Pacific Junction man injured in Council Bluffs dirt bike chase

News

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

A chase in Pottawattamie County early this (Wednesday) morning ended with one person hospitalized for a head injury. Council Bluffs Police says at around 3:12-a.m., Officers observed three people on dirt bikes driving reckless in the area of 10th and 8th Ave. The individuals also saw the Officers and took off west bound down the alley way.

One of the subjects dropped the dirt bike and fled on foot. The other two subjects fled west bound on dirt bikes through the alley. Officers searching the area located a male subject lying next to a wrecked dirt bike in the 1200 block Alley way between 7th and
8th Ave.

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The driver of the dirt bike was identified as 19-year old Khadin Theisen, of Pacific Junction. Theisen had struck the railroad tracks with the dirt bike, lost control and fell to the ground suffering a head injury. He was transported by the Council Bluffs Fire Department in to University Nebraska Medical Center for treatment. A report on his condition was not immediately available.

The dirt bike was confirmed stolen.

Drake University to lock in tuition for incoming students

News

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Drake University in Des Moines is guaranteeing that next fall’s incoming students will pay the same tuition each year until they graduate. The Des Moines Register reports Drake officials think their Drake Tuition Guarantee program is the first of its kind in the state and also among the private university’s official peer institutions.

Drake President Early “Marty” Martin says the plan is designed to help increase enrollment and improve student retention. Martin says Drake students have seen an annual average increase of 4.5 percent over the past five years.

Tuition for next fall will increase 11 percent, to nearly $39,000 for incoming students and remain the same until those students are awarded their undergraduate degrees.

Flash Flood Watch for part of the KJAN listening area tonight (9/21-22)

Weather

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

AREA COUNTIES: SAC-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FROM 7-P.M. TODAY (WED.) TO 7-P.M. THURSDAY.

* SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER
HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT IN THE HEAVIER
STORMS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER
AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE.

* ROADS MAY BECOME COVERED WITH WATER…AND FAST RISES ON LOCAL
CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.

BRENDA WENDT, 65, of Grant (No formal Svcs.)

Obituaries

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

BRENDA WENDT, 65, of Grant, died Monday, Sept. 19th, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. A visitation for BRENDA WENDT will be held from 3-until 5-p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24th, at Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic. No formal services are planned.

After the family visitation friends are invited to join the family at Camblin Addition at Sunnyside Park in Atlantic until 9:00pm.

Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.

BRENDA WENDT is survived by:

Her husband – David Wendt, of Grant.

Her sons – James Davis, of Des Moines, and Jerry (Amanda) Miller, of Des Moines.

7 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

KJAN listening area weather forecast: 9/21/16

Weather

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

EARLY THIS MORNING…PARTLY CLOUDY. WARMER. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE MID 60S.

SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S.

Polk County man arrested Tuesday afternoon after day-long search in southwest Iowa

News

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Authorities in Montgomery County said Tuesday a central Iowa man thought to be armed and dangerous, and allegedly involved in an assault and the theft of a vehicle, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, following an incident that began nearly 12 hours earlier in southwest Iowa. 30-year old Nicholas Allen Cannon, of Des Moines, was arrested at around 3:30-p.m.

Early Tuesday morning, Cannon was involved in a high-speed pursuit that began in Adams County, and ended with a crash in Red Oak. The incident began at around 3:15-a.m., when Adams County Deputies, who had stopped a separate vehicle for a traffic offense 3 miles east of the Adams/Montgomery County line, saw a vehicle drive by at about 85-miles per hour. The deputies engaged in a pursuit of the speeding car, with speeds approaching 110-miles per hour on Highway 34, as the vehicle entered Montgomery County.

As the pursuit entered Red Oak city limits, Cannon’s vehicle hit a deer. The accident resulted in the vehicle entering a ditch near the intersection of Highway 34 and Eastern Avenue. The vehicle continued westbound in the ditch and barely missed a light pole and stop sign. Cannon jumped out of the vehicle as it crossed over Eastern Avenue going about 40-to 45-miles per hour, and continued to flee on foot. The vehicle continued west across Eastern Avenue, down into the ditch and came to rest about 150-yards southwest of the intersection.

Sheriff’s K9 Units from Montgomery and Cass Counties searched for the suspect for a considerable amount of time before their efforts were called-off. At around 8-a.m., Tuesday, the Montgomery County’s Communication Center received a call regarding a theft of a cell phone from a residence located on 200th Street, about three-quarters of a mile east of Cannon’s last known location. Authorities searched the area but came up empty. They think Cannon used the stolen cell phone to contact an ex-girlfriend in the Des Moines area.

Agencies involved in the search for Cannon included Deputies with the Adams, Montgomery and Cass County Sheriff’s Offices, Cass and Montgomery County K9 Units, and Red Oak Police.

No injuries reported after Cass Co. Deputies’ car hit on Hwy 83

News

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa State Patrol says a Cass County Sheriff’s Office car was struck by a passing vehicle Tuesday afternoon, but no injuries were reported. Authorities say 51-year old Cass County Chief Deputy Sheriff John Westering was stopped in a construction transition area on Highway 83 at 655th Street and waiting for the pilot car, when he observed driving a maroon SUV pass the 2014 Dodge Charger Westering was driving. Westering knew the driver of the car had a revoked license.

When Westering attempted a “boot leg” turn around, his car was hit in the rear driver’s door in the eastbound lane, by a 2014 Chevy Impala driven by 40-year old Daniel Schwarte, of Wiota. The accident happened at around 12:30-p.m., Tuesday.

Cardinals pound Colorado, Cubs handle Cincinatti Tuesday

Sports

September 21st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Cardinals received a great offensive performance from pitcher Adam Wainwright in a 10-5 pounding of Colorado. Wainwright drove in as many runs as he allowed over 5 1/3 innings, hitting a two-run double and a two-run single. Matt Adams and Jedd Gyorko homered for the Cardinals, who have won four straight to catch the Mets and Giants.

The Cubs handled Cincinnati 6-1 to slice their magic number to four for clinching home-field advantage throughout the National League playoffs. Jon Lester laced an RBI double and improved to 18-4 for the NL Central champs by giving up just one run over seven innings. Anthony Rizzo drove in three for the Cubs, who improved to a major league-best 96-55.

Other MLB Scores:

INTERLEAGUE
Final Philadelphia 7 Chi White Sox 6
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Boston 5 Baltimore 2
Final Cleveland 2 Kansas City 1
Final N-Y Yankees 5 Tampa Bay 3
Final Texas 5 L.A. Angels 4
Final Detroit 8 Minnesota 1
Final Houston 2 Oakland 1, 10 Innings
Final Toronto 10 Seattle 2
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Miami 1 Washington 0
Final Atlanta 5 N-Y Mets 4
Final Pittsburgh 6 Milwaukee 3
Final San Francisco 2 L.A. Dodgers 0
Final San Diego 5 Arizona 2