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Skyscan forecast & weather data for Atlantic: 5/30/16

Weather

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a 30% chance of scattered showers & thunderstorms, mainly later this afternoon. High 82. S @ 10-15.

Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a 50% chance of scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 64. SE @ 5-10.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a 60% chance of scatt, shwrs & tstrms. High 75. NW @ 10-15.

Wed.-Thu: P/Cldy. Highs in the mid-70’s.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our 24-hour Low thru 5-a.m. today was 57. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 65 and the low was 48. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on this date was 105 in 1934. The Record Low was 33 in 1930.

World War I exhibit now open at Iowa military museum

News

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum is featuring a new exhibit about World War One on this Memorial Day weekend. Bob Holliday is chairman of the museum’s board of directors. “One of the missions of this museum is to honor and recognize any Iowan who’s ever worn a uniform. There’s no distinction made between branch of service or rank. We don’t care if you’re a two-star general or a brand new buck private,” Holliday says. “If you’re an Iowan, we want to recognize you and honor you.”

About 114-thousand Iowans served during what was called “The Great War” and more than 35-hundred of them died. Holliday says today is set aside to honor the war dead. “Memorial Day was born shortly after the Civil War. It was indeed first called Decoration Day,” Holliday says. “It’s a day set aside to remember those who have given their very lives to protect our freedoms and our very way of life. You have to stop and think what these people gave up so we can live the way we do today.”

The museum’s new exhibit focuses on “life in the trenches” in France during World War One. The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum opens today (Monday) at 5 a.m. and closes a 1 p.m. It is located at Camp Dodge in Johnston, the home base for the Iowa National Guard. Holliday says the museum has grown from modest beginnings. “It started with a mandate from the Iowa Legislature in 1986,” Holliday says. “It was located in the basement of the base chapel, a very small room.”

The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum is now a free-standing building that covers 28-thousand square feet.

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa prisoners training rescue dogs to become pets for vets

News

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Four dogs from the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Iowa are living with prison inmates at the Clarinda Correctional Facility as part of a program that will ultimately benefit veterans. The program was launched on May 11 and involves inmates who train the dogs, so they can eventually become well-mannered pets for veterans. The A-R-L’s Mick McAuliffe says the dogs will live with the offenders, in their cell, for six weeks.

“It’s to get these dogs more adoptable…to sit calmly. Our end goal, we’d like to pair these dogs up with…veterans in need. These aren’t service dogs. They are purely trained shelter dogs for companionship and comfort,” McAuliffe says. Eight prisoners were selected for the program — four are primary handlers and four are backup handlers. McAuliffe says the dogs are not aggressive, but do need some intense training.ARL Pets for Vets

“These guys are rough and rowdy,” McAuliffe says. “They’re jumping, pushy, they may mouth you when playing, and they pull extremely hard on leash.” McAuliffe says the ARL has seen the benefit of having offenders work with animals through previous partnerships with the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville and the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City. The program is funded entirely by private donations.

(Radio Iowa)

Kuhn’s RBI double lifts Ohio State past Iowa, 8-7

Sports

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Troy Kuhn hit an RBI double in the top of the ninth inning to earn Ohio State the Big Ten Conference Tournament championship with an 8-7 win over Iowa on Sunday. The tournament title is the first for the fourth-seeded Buckeyes (43-18-1) since 2007, and they earned their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2009 with the league championship.

Ohio State led 7-4 entering the bottom of the eighth inning before the Hawkeyes (30-26) tied the game with three runs. However, Ronnie Dawson singled with two outs in the top of the ninth and Kuhn drove him home for the eventual game-winning run for the Buckeyes. Yianni Pavlopoulos (3-4) earned the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief, while Josh Martsching (2-1) took the loss.

Area baseball & softball scores from Sat., 5/28/16

Sports

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

BASEBALL SCORES
Boone 7, Lewis Central 5
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 9, Missouri Valley 5
East Sac County 15, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 2
Lawton-Bronson 9, Logan-Magnolia 5
Lewis Central 5, Johnston 3
Shenandoah 15, Sidney 0
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 12, Lawton-Bronson 7
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 20, Logan-Magnolia 0
West Monona, Onawa 8, St. Mary’s, Storm Lake 4

SOFTBALL SCORES
A-D-M, Adel 11, Harlan 2
Bedford 6, Clarinda 4
Bedford 9, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 8
Bishop Heelan, Sioux City 4, Charter Oak-Ute 1
Chariton 11, Earlham 8
Charter Oak-Ute 10, Lawton-Bronson 5
Clarinda 13, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 1
Hinton 14, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 4
Lewis Central 5, LeMars 1
Logan-Magnolia 11, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 0
Logan-Magnolia 9, West Monona 0
West Monona 9, Hinton 4
Westwood, Sloan 12, Alta/Aurelia 7
Westwood, Sloan 9, LeMars Gehlen Catholic 2
Westwood, Sloan 9, St. Mary’s, Remsen 1

Iowa early News Headlines: Memorial Day, 5/30/16

News

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A Freedom Rock completed last fall in Cedar Falls has been vandalized days before Memorial Day. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the vandalism occurred Saturday night at the Freedom Rock in Cedar Falls Veterans Park. Spray paint was used to damage the rock, along with a fence and utility box. Greenfield artist Ray “Bubba” Sorensen II painted the rock as part of his effort to create Freedom Rocks in all of Iowa’s 99 counties.

SABULA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old Clinton man has drowned in a lake near Sabula in eastern Iowa. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports Eugene A. Kemp Jr. was pronounced dead at a Clinton hospital. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department says Kemp was taken to the hospital after being found in a small lake Saturday afternoon.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Council Bluffs officials and resident have spent nearly $10,000 on a 3-D image of a historic statue to ensure the artwork can be restored if it’s ever damaged. Residents wanted to be sure the 96-year-old Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial could be restored if it was damaged, so they worked with the city to raise $9,750 for a California company that scanned the sculpture over several weeks, giving officials an exact replica of the artwork.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who was shot to death in Omaha had been acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2001 death of his girlfriend. The Omaha World-Herald reports 40-year-old Carlos A. Alonzo, who was killed early Saturday, was acquitted in 2005 in the death of his girlfriend, Teresa Windham. The 17-year-old Windham disappeared from a Council Bluffs motel where she was staying with Alonzo. Her body was found near Fremont. Prosecutors allege Alonzo killed Windham at the motel, but a judge acquitted him.

Van carrying 13 people rolls over on I-29 in s.w. Iowa, injuring 8

News

May 30th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa State Patrol reports eight people out 13 people riding in a van, were transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, following a rollover accident Saturday afternoon, in Fremont County. None of the victims were wearing seat belts. One of the children was flown from the scene by LifeNet helicopter.

The Patrol says a 1997 Dodge Ram van driven by 38-year old Tomas Matias, of Omaha, was traveling south on Interstate 29 near the Percival exit at around 4:25-p.m. Saturday, when the right rear tire blew out. The van went out of control, entered the median and rolled onto its top.

The Patrol says among the injured was: 1-year old Edwin Garcia-Zacarias; 6-year old Edwardo Garcia-Zacarias; 5-year old Carolina Garcia-Zacarias; 38-year old Hilario Garcia-Paiz; 35-year old Miguel Garcia, and 37-year old Maria Zacarias, all from Omaha.

Man shot to death in Omaha was acquitted of Iowa slaying

News

May 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who was shot to death in Omaha had been acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2001 death of his girlfriend. The Omaha World-Herald reports 40-year-old Carlos A. Alonzo, who was killed early Saturday, was acquitted in 2005 in the death several years earlier of his girlfriend, Teresa Windham.

The 17-year-old Windham disappeared from a Council Bluffs motel where she was staying with Alonzo. Her body was later found near Fremont. Prosecutors allege Alonzo killed Windham at the motel, but a judge acquitted him of the first-degree murder charge. Saturday’s killing was the 11th homicide in Omaha in 2016.

Cedar Falls Freedom Rock vandalized by spray paint

News

May 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A Freedom Rock completed last fall in Cedar Falls has been vandalized days before Memorial Day. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the vandalism occurred Saturday night at the Freedom Rock in Cedar Falls Veterans Park. Spray paint was used to damage the rock, along with a fence and utility box.

Tom Hagarty, commander of the Cedar Falls American Legion No. 237, said a Memorial Day ceremony planned for Sunday night was going ahead. Greenfield artist Ray “Bubba” Sorensen II painted the rock, which includes images of the Five Sullivan Brothers killed in World War II and Taylor Morris, a Navy explosive ordnance disposal expert who lost portions of all four limbs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

Sorensen wants to paint Freedom Rocks in all of Iowa’s 99 counties.

Motorcycle accident northwest of Atlantic, Sunday

News

May 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

(Updated)

One person was injured during a single-vehicle accident northwest of Atlantic, Sunday afternoon. According to Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Ayers, a motorcycle with a single male occupant was rounding a curve eastbound on Highway 83 just east of the intersection with Highway 173 at around 3-p.m, when the cycle left the road and entered a ditch. The cycle flipped end-over-end, ejecting the driver, identified by the State Patrol, as 63-year old Joseph McFarland, of Iowa City. McFarland came to rest under a small tree.

The man was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital. His injuries were described as serious but non-life threatening. Authorities say McFarland was wearing a helmet.

Photos courtesy Cass Co. Sheriff's Deputy Bill Ayers

Photos courtesy Cass Co. Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Ayers

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