Class 1A State Championship
West Sioux, Hawarden 52, Dike-New Hartford 38
Class 2A State Championship
PCM, Monroe 28, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 7
Class 4A State Championship
Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines 22, Cedar Falls 16
Class 1A State Championship
West Sioux, Hawarden 52, Dike-New Hartford 38
Class 2A State Championship
PCM, Monroe 28, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 7
Class 4A State Championship
Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines 22, Cedar Falls 16
Western Iowa Scores…
East Sac County 46, Storm Lake 44
Winterset 54, Interstate 35,Truro 28
NEW YORK (AP) — Iowa learned a lot last season. The Hawkeyes are putting those lessons to good use right now. Tyler Cook scored 26 points, Luka Garza had 22 and Iowa beat Connecticut 91-72 in the 2K Classic championship game on Friday night.
The Hawkeyes went 14-19 last season, losing to Michigan in the Big Ten tournament. But they shot 51 percent (29 for 57) from the field while improving to 4-0 this year. Cook said the biggest difference is the team is more together for this campaign. “We’re more connected on both ends of the floor,” he said. “And we’re playing for one another and our coaching staff and our program with more pride than we did a year ago.”
Garza was named MVP of the tournament. He also joined Cook, UConn’s Eric Cobb, Oregon’s Bol Bol and Syracuse’s Jalen Carey on the all-tournament team. Bol led No. 13 Oregon to an 80-65 victory over No. 15 Syracuse in the consolation game. He finished with 26 points and nine rebounds on his 19th birthday.
Iowa improved to 3-1 all-time against UConn. It was the first meeting between the schools since Iowa’s 70-68 win on Nov. 11, 1999, also at Madison Square Garden.
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — The Paradise Jam tournament resumes Saturday with a pair of consolation-round games at the University of the Virgin Islands’ Sports and Fitness Center.
Old Dominion (1-2) will face Kennesaw State (1-3) in the opening game, while Northern Iowa (1-2) takes on Eastern Kentucky (2-2) in the second game. The semifinals will be played Sunday, with Oregon State (3-0) playing Missouri (2-1) in the opening game, followed by No. 12 Kansas State (3-0) facing Penn (4-0).
The championship game, as well as the other placement games, will be Monday.
A report was released Friday from the State Medical Examiner’s Office with regard to a fatal airplane crash that took place Nov. 9th. Officials said all four victims of the crash died from “multiple blunt force injuries in the setting of carbon monoxide toxicity.”
A distress call from a person on the plane said those on-board thought the pilot, 49-year old Edward Ralph Anderson, of LeMars, had suffered from a heart attack. A student pilot on the plane attempted a landing at the Guthrie County airport near Guthrie Center, but the plane dropped off radar. The wreckage wasn’t found until around 6:30-the next morning, in a cow pasture southwest of Guthrie Center.
In addition to the pilot, 36-year old Patrick Kellen, and 15-year old Samantha Clark, both from Le Mars, along with 28-year old Tyler Douvia, of Merrill, died in the crash. The accident remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — DuPont has agreed to repay Iowa $10.5 million in incentives it received.
The news of the settlement come a year after the company announced it was seeking a buyer for its 30-million gallon, $400 million cellulosic ethanol plant in central Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that the settlement repays all but about $3.7 million it received in incentives in 2011 for the plant in Nevada, Iowa.
The plant made ethanol from corn cobs, stalks and other crop residue before closing the plant last year and laying off 90 workers. DuPont says it’s selling the plant to Verbio North America of Michigan, which plans to invest $35 million to make renewable natural gas from corn stover at the plant, a first for the state.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority board agreed Friday to provide $1.78 million in tax credits to Verbio, which plans to create 44 high-wage jobs.
CLARINDA, Iowa – Iowa Western Community College in Clarinda recently showed off its Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing during recent Manufacturing Day tours for area high school students. The CEAM program partners with area manufacturers to provide hands-on training focused on industry needs, with scholarship money and other financial support enabling southwest Iowa residents to jump-start their careers in the skilled trades.
Photo’s courtesy IWCC
Students from Council Bluffs, Clarinda and South Page toured Iowa Western’s Clarinda Center and nearby Lisle Corp., a 115-year-old specialty tool manufacturer in Clarinda. Lisle Corp. is part of a consortium of four area manufacturers looking to grow a workforce in southwest Iowa for workers interested in high-paying, quality careers.
CEAM brings together Lisle Corp., NSK-AKS Precision Ball Co. and NSK Corp. in Clarinda along with MAHLE Engine Components USA Inc. of Atlantic as partners to grow the available workforce and provide additional training for those companies’ employees. CEAM offers a two-year non-credit certificate program that’s primarily hands-on and focused on industry needs.
The program is open to 15 students each year, with 12 slots earmarked for employees of partnering businesses. After core classes their first year, students choose either an electro-mechanical or a tool and die track for their second year. The field trip allowed the high schoolers to see an alternative pathway to education after high school – one that’s hands-on and focuses on career skills that are immediately applicable.
From November 23rd through December 20th 2018, the Page County Sheriff’s Office is taking gift requests for Operation Blessing. The Page County Sheriff’s Office program will cover children in the communities of Shambaugh, Braddyville, College Springs, Yorktown, Coin, Blanchard, Northboro, and Hepburn as well as the rural areas, of Page County. Ages of children covered by this program are Birth to 15 years of age.
The requests must come from a parent or guardian of the child and can be called into the Page County Sheriff’s Office at 712-542-5193, or reported in person by the parent or guardian at the Page County Sheriff’s Office located at 323 N 15th Street in Clarinda, IA. Each child will be given a first and second choice. It is suggested that a toy and clothing be requested.
Operation Blessing was started in the mid 1980s by the Page County Reserve Deputies to ensure that every child in the rural areas of Page County has the opportunity to receive a gift at Christmas. It has continued every year since for over 30 years. This year the Sheriff’s Office and Reserve program will continue this tradition of ensuring that children in Page County receive a gift for Christmas.
Anyone wishing to donate to the Page County Sheriff’s Office Operation Blessing program can either stop by the Page County Sheriff’s Office or mail the monetary donation to the Page County Sheriff’s Office at 323 North 15th Clarinda, Iowa, 51632. Monetary donations are taken year round at the Office.
The Sheriff’s Office will again this year be delivering the gifts to the children. This will take place on December 21st, 22nd, & or 23rd. The date depends on staffing, call load, and of course weather. Sheriff Lyle Palmer says he “Would like to thank everyone for their donations and support of the program throughout the years, for without monetary donations, this program would not be able to continue.” He also thanked his staff at the Sheriff’s Office for their assistance in everything they do with the program. Palmer says “They go above and beyond with the call taking, shopping, wrapping and organization of this program. They along with the organizations, businesses, and individuals who donate make this program a success every year. THANK YOU!!!”
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — Devon Goodman scored a career-high 27 points, and Penn rallied in the second half to defeat Northern Iowa 78-71 Friday at the Paradise Jam tournament. Down 41-34 with 18:49 left, the Quakers (4-0) fought back to tie the score twice before pulling ahead for good at 58-56 on Bryce Washington’s 3-pointer with 8:56 remaining. Penn would go on to extend its lead to seven points three times in the final 2 minutes.
Washington and Antonio Woods finished with 12 points each, and AJ Brodeur had 11 points for the Quakers, who advance into Sunday’s semifinal round at the University of the Virgin Islands’ Sports and Fitness Center.
AJ Green finished with 21 points, and Wyatt Lohaus and Luke McDonnell added 11 points each for the Panthers (1-2), who will play in the consolation round Saturday.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope and Chief Deputy Steve Owen announced Friday, that The Fremont County Public Health Team provided the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office with three more AED’s (Automated External Defibrillators) that will be placed in Deputy vehicles.
The Fremont County Public Health Team had previously purchased 5 AEDs for the Sheriff’s Office, and saw how great of an asset the AEDs are for public safety. Aistrope said “We will now be able to equip all of our patrol deputies with AEDs and already have one mounted in our new facility.”
The Fremont County Public Health Team works on grants for public health and safety with the State of Iowa Emergency Preparedness group.
Pictured: left to right
Cheif Deputy Steve Owen, Cynthia Hankins, K9 Deputy Zac Buttercase, Jamie Behrends, Brianna Barnett, Jessica Betts, Katie Livingston, and Sheriff Kevin Aistrope.
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