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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A 42-year-old Sioux City man has been accused of using a belt on his daughter after she refused to do laundry. Court records say Ricardo Cordova-Larios is charged with child endangerment causing injury. He was arrested Sunday. Jail records show he remained in custody Wednesday. Court documents say bruises on the 14-year-old girl’s back, neck and upper torso matched the outline of a belt.
Jim Field visits with Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning about an upcoming wildflower walk and the native plant sale.
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AKRON, Iowa (AP) – The impending loss of three longtime doctors has upset many of their patients in the small northwest Iowa community of Akron. The Sioux City Journal reports that some local residents have started a petition drive aimed at keeping Dr. Cynthia Wolf and her husband, Dr. David Wolff, and Dr. Allison Schoenfelder, practicing at Akron Mercy Medical Clinic.
The doctors have told Mercy officials that they won’t be renewing contracts that expire June 30. They have declined to comment publicly about their intentions.
A community corporation owns the clinic, which is leased by Sioux City-based Mercy Medical Center. Mercy Medical Center spokesman Dave Smetter says Mercy “will continue operation of the Akron clinic with qualified physicians going forward.”
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Many farmers are anxious to start planting, but an Iowa State University crops specialist says farmers may want to wait at least another week for some warmer weather so the soil can warm up. Joel DeJong works in northwest Iowa and says you need soil temperatures above 50 degrees, and while the air temperature rose a little this past weekend, temperatures then dropped off.”We’ve had average daily temperatures significantly lower than 50 degrees the last couple of days. So, we’re starting to see that temperature drop. In almost all cases up here it is lower than 50. We use 50 as that starting point. We want it to be 50 degrees and warmer, to really get going, because it takes 50 degrees temperature for that seed to really do much of anything,” DeJong says.
DeJong says there were some farmers who had planted their corn by this time last year, and for some it worked out well, while others encountered some problems. “Sometimes the old timers tell me that we need a good warm rain. We really haven’t had a good warm rain to warm things up either. So, that’s part of the mix. The profile still remains fairly cool. It’s not awful though. We see lots of cases with today’s hybrids and today’s seed treatments, we can tolerate some cooler temperatures than we have historically,” DeJong says.
He says there was a lot of corn planted on the 11th and 12th of April last year, and most of that, particularly the western half of the area did pretty well. He says the research indicates April 15th through May 8th is a planting range where they’ll get from 98 to 100 percent of the typical yield if planting in good conditions. “We can extend that range from 95 to 100 percent range. You never know what each year is going to bring? Some we can expand that range, others we need to shrink that range a little. But that’s kind of the general,” DeJong says. ” We have a nice window of opportunity. Most producers only take about five…six…seven days to plant. We have some larger producers that take more. So, we’re really early, and more than likely in this part of the state, we will get that window of opportunity in that ideal time period again.”
The Iowa State University Crops Specialist says sometimes if farmers till their ground during wet conditions, it could lead to soil compacting, and the bottom of the disk zone getting smeared. “We need to be a little cautious with that. If its too wet and we smear that gets hard and dries out and then we have roots having trouble to penetrating that. So, we need to watch that zone a little bit too,” DeJong says.
The weekly crop report from the U-S-D-A released Monday show no planting yet in the state.
(Radio Iowa)
The number of Olympic athletes who will take part in this month’s Drake Relays is nearing 50. That includes a star studded women’s 15-hundred meter field that includes Webster City native and three time Olympian Jenny Simpson. Drake Relays director Blake Bolden says Simpson will be joined by Sioux City native Shelby Houlihan, who competed at the Rio Olympics in the 5,000 meters.
Boilden says the field is so strong for that event he had to put together a waiting list. The Drake Relays are April 26-29.
(Learfield Sports)
An Iowa State football player is preparing for life after football. Redshirt senior defensive back Evrett Edwards got a special pass to spend the day on the floor of the Iowa Senate. He started five games for the Cyclones last season after coming to Iowa State as a graduate transfer from Duke. “I’m enjoying it a lot. This is an amazing opportunity.”
Edwards was the guest of Senate President Jack Whitver of Ankeny in the Iowa Senate, Tuesday. Whitver is a former wide receiver for the Cyclones. “I was partnered with him in a mentee-mentor relationship program at Iowa State with current players and former players and he has an interest in politics,” Whitver said during welcoming remarks on Tuesday.
Edwards, a native of Texas, graduated from Duke University in three years with a degree in international comparative studies. He played two seasons for the Blue Devils and got to I-S-U with two years of eligibility remaining. “I’m currently enrolled at Iowa State in the community and regional planning masters program,” he says.
Edwards, who speaks Spanish, French AND English, says his trip to the state capitol is helping him understand how politics actually works. Edwards played in a dozen I-S-U games last season. He’s credited with 52 tackles for the season and an interception. He had eight solo tackles in the Baylor game.
(Learfield Sports)