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Today: Mostly Cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 60. SE @ 15-25.
Tonight: Showers & occasional thunderstorms. Low 53. SE-NW @10-15.
Tomorrow: Showers ending early; P/Cldy. High 63. N @ 10-15.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High near 70.
Friday: P/Cldy, windy & warmer. High 78.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 64. Our 24-hour Low (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 35. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 64 and the low was 29. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 85 in 1891 & 1940. The Record Low was 14 in 1892.
A task force will meet later this week in Des Moines to discuss how to encourage more Iowans to go to college or get additional training. Fewer than half of Iowa adults have a college degree or some sort of technical certification beyond a high school diploma. Beth Townsend is director of Iowa Workforce Development agency. “The main issue identified by Iowa’s employers today is finding enough qualified and skilled workers who are ready and able to work,” Townsend says, “many of which, as we’ve identified, require education and training beyond high school.”
Iowa’s governor recently set the goal of having 70 percent of Iowa’s workforce getting technical training or going to college after high school. Townsend says educators as well as business and labor leaders have agreed to serve on the task force. “The Future Ready Iowa Alliance initiative is something that we firmly believe is necessary in order to develop the workforce we are going to need in the next 10 years,” Townsend says.
The group will address particular concerns about how minorities, disabled Iowans and former prisoners are able to get the training they need to secure jobs in the future. The “Future Ready Iowa Alliance” will meet for the first time this Friday. The governor has asked this task force to come up with a “strategic plan” by October 31st of NEXT year.
(Radio Iowa)
Atlantic City Administrator John Lund reports Henningsen Construction plans to start milling streets tomorrow (Wednesday), as part of the City’s 2016 Street and Alley Improvement Project. Lund says the best case scenario would be to start paving 10th Street close to November 1st. Once crews get 10th done, Lund says they may leave for a few days to go do work in Anita job and let PCS (Precision Concrete Service, Inc., of Atlantic) stay ahead of them. After that they would come back and do the alleys/parking lots.
Earlier this year, the Atlantic City Council passed a Resolution “Authorizing bids for the 2016 Street and Alley Improvements.” The projects were finalized for the Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Improvement plan. Slightly more than 1.085-million dollars for the projects is being financed by the 2016 bond. $500,-thousand dollars is being used from the Local Option Sales Tax Capital Improvement Streets fund to pay for the remaining projects.
Those projects include:
The Alley’s include those from:
Farmers made more progress with the harvest in the last week. The U-S-D-A crop report says drier weather gave farmers more time in the fields. That led to a jump in the corn harvest from 33 percent last week to 52 percent this week. The soybean harvest moved from 62 percent completed last week, to 77 percent of the beans now in the bin.
The corn harvest is still four days behind the five-year average, and southeast Iowa is the only area of the state where more than two-thirds of the corn crop has been harvested. The soybean harvest is more than one week behind last year, and six days behind the five-year average.
(Radio Iowa)
CLASS 3A – Region 1
Sioux Center vs. MOC-Floyd Valley @ Sioux Center
Spirit Lake vs. East Sac County @ Spirit Lake
CLASS 3A – Region 2
Kuemper Catholic vs. Greene County @ Kuemper
Red Oak vs. Clarinda @ Red Oak
CLASS 4A – Region 2
Lewis Central vs. Harlan @ Lewis Central
Carroll vs. Sgt. Bluff-Luton @ Denison
CLASS 4A – Region 3
Pella vs. Carlisle @ Pella
Norwalk vs. Winterset @ Norwalk
CLASS 5A – Region 2
Ankeny Centennial vs. Des Moines East @ Ankeny Centennial
Johnston vs. Council Bluffs/Thomas Jefferson @ Johnston
Class 1A – Region 2
(3-0) Siouxland Christian def. Westwood (25-11 25-22 25-21)
(3-2) Ar-We-Va def. Boyer Valley (25-20 22-25 25-23 20-25 15-6)
(3-0 Sidney def. West Harrison (25-5 25-8 25-10)
(3-1) Essex def. East Mills (23-25 25-22 25-17 25-23)
Class 1A – Region 3
(3-0) East Union def. Lenox (25-14 25-13 25-23)
(3-0) Grand View Christian def. CAM (25-15 25-20 25-10)
(3-0) Audubon def. Exira (25-12 25-15 25-11)
(3-0) Stanton def. Bedford (25-10 25-16 25-19)
Class 2A – Region 1
(3-1) Missouri Valley def. West Monona (25-19 25-11 21-25 25-22)
(3-0) Underwood def. Logan-Magnolia (25-20 25-19 25-23)
(3-0) Hinton def. West Sioux (25-10 25-11 25-12)
(3-2) Central Lyon def. West Lyon (25-27 -18-25 25-18 25-20 15-9)
Class 2A – Region 2
(3-0) South Hamilton def. Panorama (25-14 25-14 25-10)
(3-0) South Central Calhoun def. IKM-Manning (25-15 26-24 25-21)
(3-0) Unity Christian def. Alta-Aurelia (25-21 25-19 25-10)
(3-1) Ridge View def.. Manson-NW Webster (25-23 17-25 25-17 26-24)
Class 2A – Region 4
(3-0) Tri-Center def. Van Meter (25-14 25-10 25-22)
(3-0) Des Moines Christian def. Madrid (25-8 25-12 25-21)
(3-1) Woodward-Granger def.. Colfax-Mingo ( 25-10 25-23 24-26 25-14)
(3-0) Grundy Center def. Ogden (25-16 25-12 25-11)
Class 2A – Region 5
(3-0) Council Bluffs/St. Albert def. Griswold (25-19 25-12 25-15)
(3-0) Treynor def. Mt. Ayr (25-10 25-13 25-10)
(3-0) Central Decatur def. I-35/Truro (25-19 25-21 25-22)
(3-0) Pella Christian def. North Mahaska (25-21 25-20 25-12)
352 AM CDT TUE OCT 25 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. EAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 30 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…SHOWERS AND PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LIGHT SHOWERS LIKELY AND NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 70S.
Sheriff’s officials in Fremont County say a teenager from Hamburg has died in an ATV accident. The 14-year old male died when the ATV he was riding crashed into a soybean field at around 6:30-p.m., Monday, about three-miles east of Hamburg.
Sheriff’s deputies were assisted at the scene by Shenandoah EMS, Hamburg, Sidney, and Riverton Rescue units, as well as the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Additional information is currently not available.
Council Bluffs Police say an adult female was transported to Creighton CHI in Omaha, after being struck by a car Monday night. Authorities said the woman, who was not carrying any identification and is listed as a “Jane Doe,” was struck by a 2008 Acura as she was walking east on 9th Avenue.
The driver of the car, 54-year old Tamara Chamberland, of Blue Springs, MO., said she noticed the pedestrian walking in the roadway, but was unable to take evasive action in time to avoid striking her. Chamberland was not injured in the crash.
Preliminary investigation indicates that neither speed nor driver impairment appear to be factors in the accident. The Council Bluffs Police Department traffic unit is conducting an investigation into the incident. Any witnesses are asked to call 712-328-4948. Additional information requests should be directed to the traffic unit.
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