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CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) – The University of Iowa and state prison officials are testing a certificate program that includes sessions at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the series is the first official academic cooperation between the Iowa City-based university and the prison facility. It builds on the institutional relationship developed by music professor Mary Cohen, who leads a choir composed of community members and inmates.
The center’s programs coordinator, Kat Litchfield, says the long-term goal remains to develop a program through which inmates could earn college credit for courses taken in the prison. She says she’d like the university eventually offer something similar to the Liberal Arts in Prison Program already in place at Grinnell College.
Republican Congressman David Young has developed a new plan for distributing a block of federal dollars reserved for water quality improvement projects. Young hopes to tack his idea onto the next Farm Bill and change the way money in the U-S-D-A’s already-existing “Environmental Quality Incentive Program” is distributed. “You’ve heard of precision agriculture. I see this as precision conservation,” Young says. “What it does is it targets funds in a new way, a new approach from this EQIP account, to watersheds.”
Young got input from a variety of groups that are often at odds — including the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Farmers Union as well as the Des Moines Water Works and the Iowa Department of Agriculture. “We’ve had the debate in Iowa about water quality and so I thought to myself: ‘What is there that maybe I could do or congress could do at the federal level to help with this issue?'” Young said. “…There’s a way to target existing federal funds.”
Young envisions communities, farmers, researchers and other stakeholders developing a “precision conservation plan” for watersheds in order to qualify for any federal EQIP grants in that area. Young says states should provide matching funds and the projects should be monitored to find out which conservation methods are most effective.
(Radio Iowa)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Officials say Iowa’s 2017 composite ACT score dropped to 21.9 from 22.1 for the class of 2016. Score reports released Wednesday from Iowa City-based ACT also say 24 Iowa students scored a perfect 36 in tests taken in spring, compared with 10 last year. Two-thirds of Iowa students who graduated in 2017 took the college entrance exam, compared with 60 percent nationally.
ACT says 56 percent of the Iowa students indicated they plan to attend college and earn bachelor’s degrees, and 27 percent said they’ll seek graduate or professional degrees. Nationally, 41 percent said they’ll seek bachelor’s degrees and 34 percent graduate or professional degrees.
VALONDA M. NELSON, 91, of Exira, died Aug. 26th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for VALONDA NELSON will be he held 2-p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9th, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is from 1-p.m. Saturday until the time of service at 2-p.m.
Burial will be in the Exira Cemetery.
VALONDA NELSON is survived by:
Her great-nieces and their children, other relatives and friends, as well as her faithful dog, “Mitzy.”
DELVAN D. OLSEN, 68, of Audubon, died Wed., Sept. 6th, at the Friendship Home, in Audubon. Funeral services for DELVAN OLSEN will be held 1:30-p.m. Friday, Sept. 8th, at the Kessler Funeral Home, in Audubon.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is from 1-p.m. Friday, until the time of service at 1:30.
Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery, in Audubon.
DELVAN OLSEN is survived by:
His aunts Lowene Christensen, of Carroll & Ruth Olsen, of Exira, as well as numerous cousins and their families.
MELADEE L. BRAHMS, 54, of Wiota, died Monday, Sept. 4th, at her home south of Wiota. Memorial services for MELADEE BRAHMS will be held 7-p.m. Friday, Sept. 8th, at the Anita Legion Hall, in Anita. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home has the arrangements.
MELADEE BRAHMS is survived by:
Her husband – Shawn Brahms, of Wiota.
Police in Red Oak, Wednesday evening, arrested 53-year old David Allen Welch, of Red Oak. Welch was taken into custody at around 5:50-p.m. for an alleged Violation of a No Contact Order. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 bond.
Today: Areas of fog this morning; otherwise Mostly sunny. High 76. SW @ 5-10.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 52. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 83. S/SE @ 5-10.
Tom. Night: Mo. Clear. Low 58
Saturday: Mo. Sunny. High 82
Sunday: Mo. Sunny. High 81.
Monday: Mo. Sunny High 81.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 70. Our Low this morning (as of 5-a.m.) was 40. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 78 and the low was 65. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 98 in 1893. The Record Low for this date was 34 in 1956.
(re-posted 9/7, w/corrections to Montgomery County candidate summary)
Patrons of area school districts will be heading to the polls Tuesday, Sept. 12th, to cast their ballots for school board members and, in some cases, bond issues. Here’s a look at some of the Counties where elections are being held….
In Adams County, there are three positions to fill for At-Large Director seats on the Corning Community School District Board of Education. Two candidates have filed nomination papers: Howard Anderson and Scott Shuey. The polls will be open from Noon until 8-p.m. If you have questions as to where you will be voting, call the Adams County Auditor’s Office at 641-322-3340.
In Montgomery County,there are three vacancies on the Red Oak School Board. Candidates include incumbents, Bret Blackman and Kathy Walker, along with newcomer Roger Carlson. Four candidates are running for three vacancies on the Stanton School Board: Incumbents Brian Bates and Mark Lindgren, along with Travis Taylor, and Amy Tibben. In the Villisca School District, incumbent Leland Shipley and Terry Dalton are looking to fill two vacancies on the Board. Voters in Montgomery County also get to decide the fate of a Public Measure that calls for the renewal of a 6-cent per thousand dollar Instructional Support Levy on assessed property value, for each of the next 10-years. The levy would begin July 1st, 2018, and is with regard to instructional equipment for Southwestern Community College, Merged Area 14.
And, in Audubon County, there are no contested races. Sarah Asmus and Heath R. Hansen are unopposed for two, At-Large seats on the Audubon School Board. And, Tamie Fahn, Patrick Greving, as well as Kevin Petersen, are unopposed in their bid for three, At-Large seats on the Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton School Board.
In Shelby County, five people are running for two At-Large Board of Educations seats in the IKM-Manning School District. The candidates include Kathleen Blake, Mike Blum, Sam Hansen, Brandi Perdew, and Lucas Potthoff. Ron Reischl is unopposed in the Director of District 2B, but in Director District 1B, Larry Blake and Amy Fermeding are vying for one open seat on the Board. Jim Knott is unopposed for DMACC Director District 3, and Randy Pash is the lone candidate for IWCC in District 9.
No contested races will take place in the Harlan Community School District election, where: Al Hazelton is running for Director District number 1 seat; Amy J. Rueschenberg is running in District 2; Lonnie Muxfeldt is the lone candidate for Director/District 3, and Jessica Anderson in on the ballot for Director/Distrcit 4.
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