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A company that’s been in Sioux City for over 20 years is hosting an event this weekend to honor the many farmers they’ve helped over those two decades. Wally Kuntz is the clinical manager for the Sioux City office of Clark and Associates Prosthetics and Orthotics. Kuntz says he grew up on a farm and knows how much pride farmers have in their work. But, it’s also a dangerous job.
“We’ve helped a lot of farmers in the area who suffer from amputation or limb loss,” Kuntz said. “We get them into well-fitting, comfortable prosthesis and get ’em back to working and farming.” Kuntz’s businesses is hosting an “appreciation dinner” for the farmers they’ve served Sunday night in Merrill.
“A lot of people don’t realize how many individuals, whether they’re a farmer or not, are walking around on a prosthetic device,” Kuntz said. The dinner, according to Kuntz, will honor those that push through their disability to stay on the farm. Clark and Associates has seven offices in Iowa. They’re located in Sioux City, Clive, Mason City, Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque.
(Radio Iowa)
Organizers of the world’s largest bacon festival, held every winter here in Iowa, are launching the first-ever bacon festival in Japan — in Iowa’s sister state of Yamanashi. Brooks Reynolds, chairman of the Iowa Bacon Board and co-founder of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, says they’re donating at least one-thousand pounds of Iowa bacon to jump-start the Japanese event in November.
“Twenty percent of Iowa pork is already sent to Japan. They’re one of the largest importers of Iowa pork,” Reynolds says. “We just thought why not try to do what we do here in Iowa — over there?” The Japan Bacon Festival will take place in Kofu, the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture on November 3rd. Those who attend will get to sample Japanese and American-style bacon. There will also be bacon-inspired contests, beverages, music, a chef exchange, and more. Reynolds says, “We’re going to have 20 different food vendors using bacon in various ways, whether it’s bacon yakitori, bacon ramen, or fun, interesting bacon sushi items.”
The Iowans have launched successful bacon festivals elsewhere, including in Keystone, Colorado and in Reykjavik, Iceland. Reynolds says the large shipment of bacon to Japan will arrive with specialty cookbooks to assure the delicacy is prepared just right, a combination of crispy with a little bit of chewy. “I’m going over for 11 days so I’ll be in the Kofu area for a week, working with the various food vendors,” Reynolds says. “If they have any questions or need any help, hopefully I’ll teach them the right way to cook quality bacon.”
The popularity of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, held in downtown Des Moines, has continued growing exponentially year after year. “We started in 2008 with 200 people and for the first six years, we doubled, going from 200 to 400 to 800 to 2,000 to 4,000 to 8,000,” Reynolds says. “This year was our 10th year and we had 11,000 people from 40 states and seven different countries attend the largest bacon festival in the world.”
Next year’s bacon festival is set for February 17th at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. The Japan Bacon Festival was inspired by a historic humanitarian effort in 1959. Japan was devastated by two huge typhoons and Iowa’s response was to airlift 36 breeding hogs and ship 100,000 bushels of corn to help with the recovery. The so-called Iowa Hog Lift is credited with setting the stage for Iowa and Yamanashi becoming Sister States by formal agreement, opening markets in Japan for U-S goods and services, and initiating agricultural cooperative programs between the two nations.
More info. at: www.blueribbonbaconfestival.com
(Radio Iowa)
A man and woman from were arrested this (Saturday) morning in Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. Red Oak Police report 30-year old Tracy Joe North, and 27-year old Holly Irene Gross, both of Red Oak, were taken into custody in the vicinity of N. 5th and E. Coolbaugh Streets, a little after 2-a.m. The pair were being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 cash bond, each.
Today: Mostly sunny. High 83. S @ 5-10.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 62. S/SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 83. S @ 10-20.
Tom. Night: Mo. Clear. Low 61.
Monday & Tuesday: Mo. Sunny. High’s around 84 both days.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 85. Our 24-hour Low as of 5-a.m. today was 48. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 79 and the low was 52. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 100 in 1893. The Record Low for this date was 36 in 1959.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Luke Weaver pitched shutout ball into the sixth inning and also drove in a run Friday night, helping the St. Louis Cardinals improve their postseason hopes with a 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cardinals have won seven of nine, pulling within four games of the NL Central-leading Cubs. St. Louis is even closer in the chase for the second wild-card spot. The Pirates have lost three in a row.
Waver (5-1) has won four straight decisions, not allowing more than two runs in any of them. He gave up seven hits, walked none and struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings. Weaver drove in the Cardinals’ first run with a broken-bat groundout and scored a run. Juan Nicasio made his St. Louis debut and got four outs for his third. The Cardinals got him from Philadelphia for a minor leaguer earlier in the week.
Nicasio pitched most of the season with Pittsburgh before being plucked off waivers by the Phillies in late August. He spent just six days with the Phillies, appearing in two games. Trevor Williams (6-8) allowed four runs in 4 2/3 innings.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:00 a.m. CDT
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Investigators say the former owner of an Iowa boarding school used his position to coerce one teenager into a sexual relationship and others to undress for his arousal. Former Midwest Academy owner Benjamin Trane is charged with third-degree sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by a counselor and child endangerment. He turned himself in Thursday after a 19-month investigation into abuse allegations at the private, for-profit boarding school Trane operated in Keokuk
CRESTON, Iowa (AP) — A southern Iowa high school football coach says five players who appeared in a photo on social media wearing white hoods and waving a Confederate flag next to a burning cross were kicked off the team. Creston/Orient-Macksburg football coach Brian Morrison tells the Des Moines Register that the five Creston High School students are off the team, which played Friday night.
LANSING, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed in a northeastern Iowa farm accident. The Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office says 55-year-old Richard Weber was killed when he was caught in a piece of farm equipment. Another person, identified as 52-year-old Christopher Weber, was seriously injured when he, too, became caught in the forage wagon. The accident occurred around 2 p.m. Thursday about 5 miles (8 kilometers) west-northwest of Lansing.
WINTHROP, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa grain storage facility has been fined $4,000 following the death of a worker in May. The Courier reports that the Iowa Occupational Health and Safety Administration cited the Viafield co-op facility in Winthrop for a serious violation, saying employees weren’t properly trained in safety procedures for clearing jammed spouts. The fine came after 74-year-old James “Jim” Schweitzer was buried while moving soybeans in a grain cart on May 16.
DARWIN CARL BADGER, 81, of Guthrie Center, died Thursday, Sept. 7th, at Methodist Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for DARWIN BADGER will be held 10-a.m. Monday, Sept. 11th, at the Twigg Funeral Home in Panora.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday, from 5-until 7-p.m., with the family present. ; Online condolences may be left at www.twiggfuneralhomes.com.
Burial will be in the West Cemetery at Panora.
DARWIN BADGER is survived by:
His Son – Gordon (Amy) Badger
His Daughters – Cheryl (Frank) Jensen, and Paula (Nick) Fox.