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Poppy Seed Coffee Cake (9-6-2011)

Mom's Tips

September 6th, 2011 by Jim Field

  • 1 package yellow cake mix
  • 1 package instant coconut pudding
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 1/4 cup poppy seed

Mix all ingredients together well for four minutes.  Pour into well greased bread pans or angel food cake pan.  Bake 50 minutes at 350 degrees.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th

Trading Post

September 6th, 2011 by Jim Field

FOR SALE: Women’s leather motorcycle jacket, size 16, zipout liner, zippered vents for cooling, zippered cuffs, 4 pockets. Excellent condition $50.00.

FOR SALE: Brown couch with recliners on each end, matching recliner  $100 OBO.  Entertainment Center $100, OBO  Call or text 712-779-0914.

WANTED: a female kitten free or reasonably priced.  Contact us by e-mailing:  feilmeiercrew2@iowatelecom.net.

YARD SALE: Friday, September 9th from 10-7 pm at 1006 W. 10th St. Multi-family yard sale.

FOR SALE: Large console tv with cupboards, has space above & below for storage. $200. 243-2755

FOR SALE: Pro Force generator 1400 to 1750 watts, like new $150; 13 amp Black & Decker Lazor saw only used once $50; Hitachi Saber saw CR 13 V, like new $150. Must sell items due to health problems. 243-6772.

WANTED: good used cattle panels and good 6 ft. steel posts. 641-788-2167

WANTED: 32″ tv. 243-3396

FOR SALE: Ab lounger $25; tv stand for flat screen tv, can set or hang up to 47″ or bigger $75. 781-2050

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September 6th, 2011 by admin

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IOWA STATE VS. IOWA: A “SELLOUT”

Sports

September 6th, 2011 by Jim Field

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University announced today that Saturday’s game against the University of Iowa will be a sellout.

The only remaining tickets (fewer than 200) are single tickets randomly located throughout the stadium.

“With the late surge of season tickets purchased by Cyclone fans last week and over the weekend, there are only scattered singles available for the game this weekend,” Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard said. “Our attendance should top 55,000 and I can’t imagine there will many college atmospheres rivaling what will take place in Jack Trice Stadium this weekend.”

The largest attendance for an Iowa State vs. Iowa game in Jack Trice Stadium was 54,469 in 1991. The all-time record crowd for an Iowa State home game is 56,795, which was set in 2007 against Northern Iowa.

Saturday Volleyball Tourney Results

Sports

September 6th, 2011 by Jim Field

Missouri Valley Tourney

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS

  • Missouri Valley        5-0
  • Stanton        4-1
  • Boyer Valley       2-3
  • Walnut        2-3
  • Woodbine        2-3
  • West Harrison      0-5

MATCH RESULTS

Missouri Valley beat West Harrison (Mondamin) 25-5, 25-14.
Missouri Valley beat Boyer Valley (Dunlap) 25-7, 25-23.
Missouri Valley beat Stanton 25-13, 25-23.
Missouri Valley beat Woodbine 25-10, 25-17.
Missouri Valley beat Walnut 25-15, 25-10.
Stanton beat Walnut 25-12, 25-14
Stanton beat West Harrison (Mondamin) 25-9, 25-11.
Stanton beat Boyer Valley (Dunlap) 25-11, 25-19.
Stanton beat Woodbine 25-23, 25-18.
Boyer Valley (Dunlap) beat Walnut 25-23, 25-18.
Boyer Valley (Dunlap) beat West Harrison (Mondamin) 25-13, 25-9.
Walnut beat West Harrison (Mondamin) 25-18, 25-23.
Walnut beat Woodbine 18-25, 25-20, 15-9.
Woodbine beat Boyer Valley (Dunlap) 25-14, 25-19.
Woodbine beat West Harrison (Mondamin) 25-12, 25-22.

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

MISSOURI VALLEY:  Courtney Cunard; Carlee McKee; Ashley Nelson.
STANTON:  Ragen Anderson; Carmen Subbert.
BOYER VALLEY:  Codi Block; Madison McDonough.
WALNUT:  Haley Blum.
WOODBINE:  Justina Royer.
WEST HARRISON:  Kylee Pospisil.

Clarinda Invitational
Clarinda 2, St. Albert 1
Clarinda 2, Griswold 0
Clarinda 2, Nishnabotna 0
Clarinda 2, Treynor 0
Clarinda 2, St. Albert 0 (Championship)
Shenandoah 2, East Mills 0
Shenandoah 2, Villisca 1
Shenandoah 2, Treynor 1
Shenandoah 2, Treynor 1 (3rd Place)
Nishnabotna 2, Villisca 1
Nishnabotna 2, East Mills 0
Nishnabotna 2, Griswold 0
St. Albert 2, Griswold 0
St. Albert 2, Nishnabotna 0
St. Albert 2, Shenandoah 0
Treynor 2, Villisca 0
Treynor 2, East Mills 0
Villisca 2, East Mills 1
Villisca 2, Griswold 1

Sioux City North Invitational
Denison-Schleswig 2, Sioux City North 1
Western Christian 2, Denison-Schleswig 0
Sioux City East 2, Denison-Schleswig 0
Sioux City East 2, Denison-Schleswig 1
MOC-Floyd Valley 2, Denison-Schleswig 0
Maple Valley 2, Denison-Schleswig 1
Maple Valley 2, Sioux City East 1
Maple Valley 2, Unity Christian 1
Western Christian 2, Maple Valley 0
Western Christian 2, Maple Valley 0
Sioux Center 2, Maple Valley 0

Southern Cal Tourney
Audubon 2, Eagle Grove 0
Glidden-Ralston 2, Audubon 0
Sioux Central 2, Audubon 0
South Central Calhoun 2, Audubon 0

WDM Valley Tournament
WDM Valley 2, Harlan 0
Dowling Catholic 2, Harlan 1
Des Moines Lincoln 2, Harlan 0
Harlan 2, Des Moines Roosevelt 1
Harlan 2, Des Moines Lincoln 0

Father and son injured in go-cart accident

News

September 6th, 2011 by Ric Hanson

A two-year old Red Oak boy suffered life-threatening injuries during a go-kart accident late Monday night. According to Red Oak Police, Ryan E. Soar and his 35-year old father Shawn Michael Soar, were riding a go-cart at around 9:15-p.m. Monday, when the machine hit a parked car in the 700-block of East Grimes Street. The child was flown by helicopter to a trauma center in Omaha. His father suffered minor injuries and was treated at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital.
Red Oak Police say that alcohol appeared to have played a role in the crash, which remains under investigation.

DNR worries about future

Ag/Outdoor, News

September 6th, 2011 by Ric Hanson

The chief of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources parks bureau says he’s worried a reduction in summer employees over the past few years means fewer young people are getting the experience they need to eventually take on a bigger role with the D-N-R. Kevin Szcodronski says there’s so much competition for the jobs that are open, that they won’t even consider you unless you’ve worked several summers as a seasonal employee.

“It’s pretty common for us when we have one position open that we may have sixty to eighty applicants,” Szcodronski says, “So you can imagine out of eight people it really takes that four year degree and four to five years.” Szcodronski says when the economy improves the department will have a host of vacancies to fill but he worries the talent pool will be shallow.

He says since the cuts have been going on for two or three years, there’s workers that have gone elsewhere and gotten experience or have changed their career completely because they’ve gotten frustrated. Szcodronski says that’s the long term effect that they are not going to realize for years to come. Mike Howell has a Natural Resources degree from Northland College in Wisconsin with an emphasis on wildlife and fisheries ecology. The 26-year-old has spent the past four summers scrounging up any hours he can get in his field. But this summer the D-N-R had few to offer so he was forced to take a lower paying parks job with AmeriCorps. Eventually the state agency got clearance to add more seasonal employees and Howell jumped at the chance.

“Most of my friends that I graduated with in Natural Resources, most of them that I know of have already moved on to other jobs,” Howell says, “Certainly I’m in a lucky position that I have a wife who’s working at a pretty good job too. But if I didn’t, I definitely wouldn’t be able to pay the bills going from seasonal job to seasonal job.” Howell would eventually like to land a permanent position with the D-N-R as a fisheries biologist or technician. Another example of the problem is Brandon Pease. As a college senior in 2008, he interned at Waubonsie state park in Southwest Iowa. Pease got hired on for the summer but was let go when the D-N-R ran out of hours. He spent a few months as a security guard before landing a job with the U-S-D-A’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Page County. Pease says his old boss at the D-N-R is always trying to offer him summer hours but never enough to make ends meet.

“I’m sure there’s maybe kids that are more fortunate enough that are able to work for the D-N-R part time and not need a full time job. But unfortunately I don’t have that luxury so it’s either find a full time job somewhere else or starve to death basically,” Pease said, “So with the budget cuts and everything at the wrong time it just wasn’t a good fit for me.” Howell says he could soon face a similar decision. During the winter he works for a temp agency and each summer it gets harder to leave a decent paying job for seasonal work, especially as the D-N-R offers fewer and fewer hours. Howell figures he can hold out until his wife finishes her pediatric residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals. In the meantime state parks officials hope they can provide the seasonal work that’s necessary to keep people like Howell in the system long enough to join the D-N-R permanently in the future.

(Radio Iowa)

Study finds 1 in 5 western Iowa kids at-risk for hunger

News

September 6th, 2011 by Ric Hanson

A new study shows 20-percent of children in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska are at-risk of going hungry. Susan Ogborn, president and CEO of the Omaha-based Food Bank for the Heartland, says the report contains alarming numbers, especially for those under 18.  “We have far more hungry children in particular than what we think is acceptable,” she says. The study, “Map the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2011,” indicates the most vulnerable people in our region — children — are the ones who are in the toughest situation. Ogborn says many children are facing hunger from the first day they’re brought into the world.

“One out of every two babies being born today is what we call WIC-eligible, that’s Women, Infant and Children, a feeding program for low-income women and their babies,” Ogborn says. “What it looks like is that our up-and-coming population is much hungrier and much poorer than our existing adult population and that’s concerning long-term.” Ogborn says the report shows the food bank will have to work harder to make sure children in the region get the food they need.  “What we will do is try to double our efforts and reach out to areas where we haven’t had contacts yet, particularly in the more rural parts of the state,” she says.

The report shows the most at-risk children for hunger in western Iowa are in Woodbury County, with about 64-hundred, and Pottawattamie County with 44-hundred. The Food Bank for the Heartland is the largest food bank in Nebraska and Iowa, encompassing 93 counties in the two-state region and distributing nine-million pounds of food a year. The agency serves more than 300 food pantries, emergency shelters, after-school programs, senior housing sites and rehabilitation centers.

(Radio Iowa)

Branstad order on lunch may save state $1 million

News

September 6th, 2011 by Ric Hanson

Governor Branstad has issued an order which forbids most state workers from claiming their bill for lunch as an expense unless they’re spending the night away from home. David Roederer, the governor’s budget director, says the old rule allowed a state employee to be reimbursed for lunch if they ate outside the county in which their office was located.  “So if somebody were in Des Moines and went down to Indianola, just a few miles south, and it was over lunch time, since they were in different counties, then the state would reimburse them for that meal,” Roederer says. “What the new policy is is that you must be on a trip that at least requires one overnight before you would be reimbursed for a lunch.” The new policy on lunch reimbursement is “standard practice” in most private companies, according to Roederer.

“We’re estimating that it could save the state taxpayers up to $1 million a year,” Roederer says. There will be a few exceptions to the new policy. State troopers, for example, will still be reimbursed for the lunches they buy while they’re on the road, patrolling their territory. “There will be exceptions made on a case-by-case basis,” Roederer says. The I.R.S. has a complicated set a rules for businesses that reimburse meals for employees, requiring businesses to count some reimbursement as taxable income for the employee if it exceeds 52-dollars per meal. However, there are other rules which let that reimbursement price rise if the meal is consumed in an area where food costs more, like New York City or Aspen, Colorado.

(Radio Iowa)

King says five candidates didn’t sway him one way or another in Monday’s forum

News

September 6th, 2011 by Ric Hanson

Five Republican presidential candidates gathered in South Carolina yesterday (Monday) for a forum and Iowa Congressman Steve King was on the panel, asking questions.  “Hopefully we filled some of the pieces in in the jigsaw puzzle,” King told reporters after the forum. “I was also impressed by the depth of the candidates. When I listened to them talk…even though I know all these candidates, things came out of these candidates that I’ve never heard in the time that I’ve had to be around them.” King posed questions about foreign policy and immigration. King has not endorsed a candidate for 2012 and he told reporters in South Carolina that yesterday’s event didn’t steer him toward or away from a candidate.

“I know I couldn’t stand here and say I didn’t think when Newt Gingrich said the best, first thing to do is pass my repeal of ObamaCare bill, I’m going to fall for that one. That was a good answer,” King said, laughing. “But, not from a substantive way, nothing made it real clear to me.” In addition to Gingrich, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, Texas Congressman Ron Paul and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney attended the event. Governor Rick Perry dropped out at the last minute, returning to Texas to deal with the wildfires there. King hosted his own candidate forum in Iowa back in February and invited South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint to speak as that event’s closer. DeMint returned favor Monday and invited King to be part of the candidate forum DeMint hosted in Columbia, South Carolina.

(Radio Iowa)