IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa rowing team is set to travel to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Chase on Sunday Nov. 5. Iowa will compete against a stacked field consisting of, No. 3 Princeton and No. 8 Penn, as well as Big Ten rivals, No. 15 Rutgers and No. 17 Indiana.
The Hawkeyes will compete in three eight’s in the women’s open race event on Sunday at 10 a.m. (ET), followed by six four’s in the women’s open four category at 1:20pm Eastern.
Both open events will be 3-mile time trials and there will be a total of 51 eight’s and 35 fours racing in the Princeton Chase.
Quoting Head Coach Jeff Garbutt
“We are excited to get the opportunity to test our progress as a program against some of the best competition in the country. We look to build off our progress from last season and get a better sense of what we still need to work on as we head into winter training to reach our goals as a program in 2024.”
The ACGC have had a perfect season up to this point. The Chargers advanced into the quarterfinals this week by defeating Lynville-Sully 29-8 last Friday night. The Chargers got off to a slow start on the cold and windy Friday evening but were able to push 15 points onto the board in the third quarter to push their lead to 29-0 before Lynville-Sully then scored late to avoid being shutout. The Chargers got contributions from every player who stepped on the field. The Chargers were led by the rushing attack of Mike Fuller who had 160 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries, Anthany Solorzano who had 110 yards on 17 carries, and Jathan South who had 60 yards but punched in two touchdowns. The Chargers total for the game had 60 carries, 360 yards, and 4 touchdowns. This is nothing new for the Chargers as they have just 4 total pass attempts in their last 4 games played. Head Coach Cody Matthewson credits the offensive line and receivers for buying into the system that they play and all 11 guys on the field doing their job.
Coach Matthewson was very happy with how his team came out and played and blocking out some of the outside noise that has started around this Chargers team the deeper they continue to advance.
Now that the Chargers are onto the quarterfinals this week where they will play the 10-0 Madrid Tigers in a heavy weight fight to advance to the semi-final held at the UNI dome. This match is a bit close and personal for Head Coach Cody Matthewson as his dad coached at Madrid for 23 years, he played his high school ball for the Tigers and says he knows everything about this Tigers team.
Both the Chargers and the Tigers play very similar styles of football wanting to pound the run game and trying to avoid throwing the football. The Chargers have just 4 passes over their last 4 games and the Tigers have just 10 pass attempts over their last four games. This is going to be a game where it comes down to the very end in a tough physical battle and Coach Matthewson knows that every yard will matter in this heavy weight fight.
With so much on the line Friday night this will be one of the best games around the State of Iowa. Only one of these teams can move on to the semifinals at the UNI dome next week and more than likely this game will come down to the final possession of the night. The Chargers and Tigers kick off at 7:00pm at the Guthrie Center with the pregame show starting at 6:00pm here on KJAN.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Nov. 1, 2023 – If you travel on U.S. 30 west of Glidden you need to be aware of a construction project that may slow down your trip. Beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 6, the Iowa Department of Transportation will close U.S. 30 west of Glidden in Carroll County for culvert replacement.
U.S. 30 traffic will be detoured on Carroll County roads N-38, E-26, and N-41. The detour is expected to be in place until Nov. 12, weather permitting.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 9:03-a.m. today (Wednesday), in Red Oak, resulted in an arrest. According to Red Oak Police, 32-year-old Jessica Lynn Hardman, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 1200 block of N. 1st Street, on a charge of Driving Under Suspension. Hardman was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on bond amounting to $491.25.
(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, today (Wednesday), approved the renewal of a liquor license for the 4-H Building on the Adair County Fairgrounds, and a Right-Of-Way contract for the N24 Prussia (Township) culvert project. Adair County Engineer Nick Kauffman shared the details…
Kauffman said also, he was satisfied with a Purple Wave Auction of some of the Adair County Secondary Roads Department equipment.
Kauffman said he held interviews Monday with two people who then accepted offers for positions within the County Roads Department. Their pre-employment paperwork is in the process of being filled-out and filed. And, he spoke with regard to project updates and other Secondary Roads Dept. activities.
Kerry Aistrope, with ISU Extension, presented a report to the Supervisors, along with an invoice for a grant reimbursement, with regard to 4-H Summer Camps.
In addition to the popular grilled cheese sandwich camp, there was a pizza challenge for the younger kids.
“All-in-All,” she said, “We did 19 total camps this year,” including an Adair Library Camp, where the younger kids read a book and work on some crafts. Next summer, she said, they hope to conduct a similar camp for the Stuart Library. The summer 4-H interns conducted the day-camps last June and much of the summer in other areas, such as the Adair County Fair. Kerry said “They were immensely important to us.”
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COLONEL DeWAYNE ORVILLE “Bud” SUNDERMAN, 84, of Colorado Springs, CO, died Oct. 4, 2023. A Graveside service with military honors for COL. DeWAYNE “Bud” SUNDERMAN will be held 10:30-a.m. Saturday, November 4, 2023, in the Atlantic Cemetery, Field of Glory Section. Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Following the graveside service, a luncheon visitation will take place in the reception room of the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic.
BUD SUNDERMAN is survived by:
His sons – Thomas Sunderman, of Colorado Springs, CO; and Robert (Denise) Sunderman, of Somers, WI.
3 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildrens, his sister-in-law Sheryl Sunderman, of Atlantic, and many other friends and family.
[UPDATED] (Radio Iowa) – A special investigation by the state auditor’s office has found a former state employee failed to deposit thousands of dollars in fees and taxes and received unauthorized gifts — including ring-side access to an event in Denver. Dawn Chamberlain was a program planner in the Iowa Athletic Commission, which oversees mixed martial arts as well as professional boxing and kickboxing and pro wrestling in Iowa. State Auditor Rob Sand says his staff has identified over 17-thousand dollars in state license fees and taxes that were either not collected or not deposited during Chamberlain’s time in the job.
“The bottom line here is that taxpayers missed out on money that was due to the State of Iowa, where this public employee was instead getting gifts and benefits on the side,” Sand says. “That looks to me to be a pretty clear quid pro quo.” On November 15th of last year, Chamberlain’s agency got a call from someone who said Chamberlain was “taking money under the table” and, after an internal investigation, Chamberlain was fired a month later. “Absolutely an extraordinary tip. We don’t see situations like this in Iowa very often,” Sand said. “This is good evidence of exactly why we ask people to report things to us. If you see something, say something.” Sand says a promoter for an event at Wells Fargo Arena wrote a 43-hundred dollar check to Chamberlain to cover pay for event officials — and Chamberlain deposited it in her own account. Sand says that’s a huge red flag.
“There shouldn’t be anyone working in the state of Iowa who thinks writing a check to a public employee for doing something related to their job is ever acceptable,” Sand says. Auditors found Chamberlain used her Venmo account to pay some event officials and Chamberlain told investigators she paid the rest of the fees in cash. The special investigation says Chamberlain attended sporting events without seeking approval from her supervisors — including a World Boxing Association event in Jefferson where she presented the winner with a championship belt.
“I think this is a clear case of someone who was getting far too into the potential personal benefits of her job and ignoring her personal obligations to be a fair and impartial employee the who was serving taxpayers,” Sand says. The report from the auditor’s office indicates Chamberlain received at least 17-hundred dollars in unauthorized gifts for trips she took to events in Colorado and Michigan.
According to the report, Chamberlain told investigators everyone else in the office accepts insane amounts of gifts. The state auditor’s report indicates officials in the agency are not aware of any other employee accepting gifts.
(Radio Iowa) – The University of Northern Iowa will work with four other schools to address climate change in Alaska over the next four years. The Cedar Falls institution is getting a near-14-million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the social and economic impacts of climate change on the Aleutian Islands’ indigenous population. Professor Andrey Petrov, director of U-N-I’s Arctic Center, says most of his team’s scientific work will go toward goals beyond the initial grant. “We think of this project not just like one big thing that happens in four years,” Petrov says. “We really think of it as a foundation for a long-term study that creates local capacity. The main problem in these local communities is they don’t have the local capacity to study what they want to study.”
Petrov says one of the goals is to bring sustainable employment and education to the area. “That would establish a network of local community research leads that would provide training and opportunities within the project,” he says, “but hopefully, other agencies will see it as a chance to develop a workforce in Alaska.”
The U-N-I group will look to recruit, train and educate research team leads from local populations as part of a workforce development initiative. The center will launch the project November 15th.
(by Grant Winterer, Iowa Public Radio)