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FOR SALE: 2 foot wide by 5 foot tall, adjustable shelf book case. New cost was 30 dollars. I am selling this for 1/2 price at 15.00. The case is in new like condition and has a back strap for fastening to the wall if desired. 712-254-6936 Massena.
FOR SALE: 2001 Silver Chrysler PT Cruiser. Asking $1,100. Please call 712-254-0697 for more info. SOLD!!
FOR SALE: Haier Countertop Dishwasher. Asking $100.00 (Firm). Works Great. Just don’t have the room to keep it. This one from Sears range from $249.00 and up. Stainless Steel inside. Contact # is 712-249-2603.
FOR SALE: Set of cutting torches with tanks. Asking $350 or best offer. Call 712-784-3211 in Hancock. SOLD!!
FOR SALE: new logo Glacier 48 can soft side red Nebraska cooler, $50.00. phone 712-579-5504.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 51. S @ 15-25.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 24. W @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Mo.cloudy w/scattered light rain/drizzle or flurries. High 38. N @10-20.
Wednesday: Mo. Cldy w/light snow or flurries. High 25
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 30.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 35. Our 24-hour Low (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 19. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 38 and the low was 26. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 54 in 1966. The Record Low was -27 in 1982.
Iowa State University is joining a consortium of institutions that will do research and create training programs focused on diseases like Zika and West Nile virus. Ryan Smith, a professor of entomology and head of the I-S-U Medical Entomology Laboratory, says the new alliance is being funded by a ten-million-dollar grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s really meant to address a glaring need that was brought to our attention with the threat of Zika coming to the United States,” Smith says. “The CDC recognized this need for training and having public health professionals train in entomology, so that’s the main focus behind this.”
Smith says researchers on the Ames campus will zero in on enhanced surveillance of West Nile virus transmission and the presence of the invasive Aedes mosquito species in Iowa. “We’ve been engaged in a surveillance program here in Iowa for almost 50 years now and West Nile has been in the state for about the last 15 years,” Smith says. “I think we’ve got a pretty good understanding of how the disease is being transmitted and by which mosquitoes.”
The new consortium is called The Upper Midwestern Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases. Other collaborators include: the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois, Michigan State University and the Minnesota Department of Health.
(Radio Iowa)
The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund has presented a check in the amount of $1,000 to Atlantic High School Athletics Director, Matt Alexander. The donation was to help pay for a spotlight to be used by the Atlantic/CAM wrestling program. The Trojans host district team duals tomorrow (Tuesday) night and will be using the spotlight during the event.
Fund spokesperson Melanie Petty says “We hope that the community will go out and support these wrestlers tomorrow night. This is quite an accomplishment and the boys have worked very hard to get to this point.”
The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund raises all of it’s funds during their annual golf tournament. This years golf tournament will be held on Saturday, August 12th. Plans for the event have already started. The group is always looking for donations to their silent auction and volunteers to work throughout the day. If you’d like to help in any way, please contact Melanie Petty at 249-3696 for further information.
Atlantic had state qualifiers in five events after district swimming meets Saturday.
Damon Miller qualified in two individual events, with the 12th fastest time in the 200 freestyle at 1:45.76, and clocking 11th overall in the 100 freestyle at 47.68.
Junior Nik Landhuis had the 22nd fastest time at 56.30 in the 100 meter backstroke.
Atlantic also placed 21st overall in the 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:31.12, and 22nd in the state in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:21.41.
You’re invited to join Iowa State University Extension & Outreach Field Agronomist, Aaron Saeugling, and Iowa State University Farm Coordinator for Southwest Iowa, Jim Rogers, for a one-hour presentation covering the newest farm trials conducted across the state. The Ag Input Meeting for Montgomery County will be held this Friday, February 10th, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm at the Extension office in Red Oak.
Do you have crop input questions for 2017? Do you wonder what research Iowa State University is doing in southwest Iowa? Do you value independent research results? Would you like to see demonstrations conducted on farm fields? ISU’s Saeugling and Rogers will also answer participants’ questions about crop input in the upcoming growing season.
Ag Input Meetings will be conducted all across southwest Iowa this winter. There will be one held at the Montgomery County Extension Office located at 400 Bridge Street, Suite 2 on Friday, February 10, 2017 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Complementary cookies and coffee will be served. There is no fee to attend and pre-registration is not required.
For more information contact Montgomery County Extension at 712-623-2592.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Marathon dancers have raised nearly $2.6 million for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports the record topped the previous record of more than $2.4 million raised last year. More than 2,300 dancers packed into the main lobby of the Iowa Memorial Union at the university campus in Iowa City. From 7 p.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday, they gave up sleep, caffeine and the luxury of sitting down for 24 hours straight.
A Dance Marathon news release says each dancer raised at least $500 to participate. The money supports pediatric cancer patients at the hospital.
FRANKLIN J. ANDERSEN, 93, of Exira, died Feb. 1st, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for FRANKLIN ANDERSEN will be held 2-p.m. Wed., Feb, 8th, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation begins 5-p.m. Tues., Feb. 7th.
Burial will be in the Exira Cemetery.
FRANKLIN J. ANDERSEN is survived by:
His daughter – Julie Ann Earnhart, of Exira.
2 grandchildren, other relatives, his sister-in-law, and friends.
Early this morning: Mostly clear. Patchy fog early in the morning. Low in the upper 20s. S @ 5 to 10 mph. Today: Partly sunny until late afternoon then becoming cloudy. High around 50. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/a 20% chance of light rain & patchy fog. Low in the mid 30s. Tuesday: Partly sunny. Breezy, colder. High around 40. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy w/a 20% chance of light snow after midnight. Low 15 to 20. NW @ 10 to 15. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. High in the mid 20s.
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