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SOLDIER, Iowa (AP) – A body recovered from a lake in western Iowa is believed to be that of a farmer reported missing in November. The body was pulled from a lake at Oldham Recreation Area near Soldier on Saturday. Officials say the body likely is that of 66-year-old Walter Ordway.
In December hunters found a pickup owned by Ordway near the recreation area. The Monona County Sheriff’s Office says it’s believed that Ordway took his dog for an outing to the recreation area on Nov. 17 and that the dog fell through lake ice into the freezing water. The Sheriff’s Office says Ordway may have fallen into the water while trying to rescue his dog. The dog’s body was found nearby.
The 66-year-old Ordway lived in Soldier.
A rental home in Tabor was destroyed by fire Sunday evening. According to reports, the fire started on a porch at 804 Main Street, at around 5-p.m. Six area fire departments responded to the blaze, which was fanned by strong winds and quickly spread from the porch to the roof. It’s believed no one was home at the home, and all the pets inside were saved. No injuries were reported. Firefighters remained on the scene for about 5-hours. The cause remains unknown. The State Fire Marshal’s Office was called-in to investigate.
The Red Cross was assisting the Samantha Bowers family with their immediate needs. The home was owned by Mike Perkins.
DERBY, Iowa – The latest figures show the number of farms in Iowa continues to fall, but that isn’t slowing down a new crop of beginning farmers looking to reverse the trend. About two years ago, Angela Johnson, co-owner of Lucky George Farm, and her husband quit their corporate jobs, cashed out a 401-K and began a conservancy livestock operation outside the town of Derby, in southern Iowa. Johnson says they did so to be able to provide a legacy along with good, healthy food for their children.
“What we’re trying to do is just do everything as natural as possible that would’ve been done in a way with – about 100 years ago or so, our great-great-greats would’ve farmed the way that we do,” says Johnson. “We wanted to do it because we see that that’s the future for our family.”
The Johnsons raise endangered breeds of livestock across multiple species and one of their Large Black pigs was used by a chef who recently won a regional cooking competition. There are many challenges to getting a start in agriculture, from finances to marketing and more. Johnson says key to their growing operation has been the advice and help from other producers and groups, including Practical Farmers of Iowa.
“We have found a network of individuals who are like-minded and willing to accept the challenges through PFI,” Johnson says. “We have networked with other market farmers so that we can learn from them, learn from their mistakes. Our social network has really been the thing that’s helped us along.” According to the USDA, the number of farms in Iowa fell by 500 last year to 88,000, although that is still the third-highest in the country, behind only Missouri and Texas.
(Iowa News Service)
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An effort to improve teen drivers’ road safety by limiting their number of passengers is having little impact, because most parents are signing waivers to opt their 16- or 17-year-olds out of the requirement. For the first six months of an intermediate license, drivers can’t have more than one unrelated minor passenger when driving without adult supervision. But the 2013 law allows parents to make the decision on whether to exempt the child. The Iowa Department of Transportation says about 90 percent of parents signed waivers in 2014.
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) – Officials say a towboat operator inadvertently pumped about 50 gallons of an oil and water mix into the Mississippi River, but the spill has been cleaned up. Moline Fire Department Captain Brian Vyncke tells the Quad-City Times the U.S. Coast Guard determined that oil somehow got mixed in water that was being pumped out of a towboat owned by the Celebration Belle excursion boat Friday afternoon.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Summers will be a steamier in neighborhoods across the country as crews cut down millions of trees in an effort to stay ahead of a small, shiny bug. In cities like Waterloo, Iowa, workers are in the midst of taking out 4,000 ash trees that tower over homes and shade city streets.
ALGONA, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa couple is donating $5 million to build Algona High School’s new performing arts center and auditorium. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports Ed and Betty Wilcox agreed to donate the money over the next five years.
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RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM FOR EXTREME FIRE CONDITIONS….
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR EXTREME FIRE CONDITIONS…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING.
* TIMING…HIGH FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON AND PEAK BY MID AFTERNOON.
* WIND…WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 MPH ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH GUSTS ABOVE 30 MPH AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY…WILL DROP AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 PERCENT BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON.
* FUEL…90 TO 100 PERCENT CURED.
* IMPACTS…ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SPREAD MORE RAPIDLY DUE TO WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS. ANY OUTDOOR BURNING IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED TODAY. COOLER CONDITIONS WITH HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY RETURN BY TUESDAY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW…OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS…LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY…AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.
A brush pile that had been burning for a couple of days was fanned by high winds Sunday afternoon near Lewis, destroying about 40-50 acres of corn stalk rubble. Lewis Assistant Fire Chief Tim Pope said firefighters from Lewis and Atlantic were called to the area off Indian Creek Road between Lansing Road and Highway 6 at around 5:24-p.m., Sunday. No injuries were reported.
(In an update to our earlier online story), Five people were injured during a crash involving a semi and two other vehicles Sunday morning, in Pottawattamie County. The Iowa State Patrol says 24-year old Xinyao Li, 26-year old Gao Tianxiang, 45-year old Bo Yang, and 25-year old Shuo Yang, all of Ames, and 32-year old Juanita Kern, of Grimes, were injured in the crash that took place on I-80 eastbound near the 48.5-mile marker, at around 10:55-a.m.
Officials say a 2007 Toyota Camry driven by Xinyao Li, was traveling westbound in the left lane as a semi was passing her in the right lane. The Toyota went out of control and entered the median into eastbound traffic and sideswiped a 2013 KIA Sorento, driven by Juanita Kern. The KIA came to rest on the ditch, while the Toyota spun around in the eastbound lane and was hit by an eastbound 2015 Freightliner semi, driven by 32-year old Daniel Koller, of Mt. Pleasant.
The Toyota ended up in the median. Four people in the vehicle suffered severe injuries and were transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital, in Atlantic, by Medivac Ambulance. Kern suffered minor injuries, and was also transported to CCMH for treatment. Yang, who was one of the passengers in the Toyota, was later transported by helicopter to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha.
Firefighters from Atlantic were called to provide mutual aid to the Brayton and Exira Fire Departments late Sunday afternoon, in fighting a large grass fire. Atlantic’s grass trucks were called out just after 4-p.m. to 3340 Goldfinch Avenue, about 1.5-miles north of Interstate 80 and a mile east of N-16 (Olive Street). Atlantic fire was told to disregard at 4:19-p.m., as the other crews had the fire under control.
No other information is currently available.
Traffic on Interstate 80 eastbound near the 46 mile marker was at a standstill late Sunday morning due to a three vehicle accident involving a semi. Rescue crews from Avoca and Walnut along with Medivac Ambulance from Atlantic responded to the scene. Some of the victims were said to have been trapped in their vehicle following the crash. At least four people were injured, with those known to have been hurt transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital, in Atlantic. Life Net helicopter landed at the hospital at around 11:40-a.m. and transported at least one of the victims to another, unknown hospital.
Additional information was not available late Sunday afternoon.