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Today: Variably cloudy skies w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 81. SW @ 10-15.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. Low 68. S-SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Clear to Partly Cloudy. High 83. NW @ 5-10.
Tom. Night: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers & t-storms. Low 68.
Friday: Mo. Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 78.
Saturday: Mostly Sunny. High 75.
Sunday: Mo. Sunny. High 79.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 91.Our 24-hour Low was 71. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 84 and the low was 65. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 98 in 1893. The Record Low was 34 in 1956.
As we come upon the 15-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on our nation, the Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency and others recognize September as National Preparedness Month. Disasters can and will happen, it’s a matter of when and where they strike next. Being prepared not only lessens the risk for severe injuries or loss of property, but makes you a better Iowan for acknowledging those risks and being prepared for any type of emergency.
Montgomery County Emergency Management Director Brian Hamman says there are several simple steps that can ensure that you, your family and your place of business are prepared. Those steps include making an emergency plan, building an emergency kit and being aware of the hazards in your area that could impact you.
For more preparedness tips, visit www.beready.iowa.gov Preparedness information will also be posted throughout the month on the Montgomery County EMA Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/MontgomeryEMA
For more information on Preparedness Month sponsors, visit:
Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management, www.homelandsecurity.iowa.gov
Iowa Emergency Management Association, www.iowaema.com
Safeguard Iowa Partnership, www.safeguardiowa.org
National Weather Service Des Moines, www.weather.gov/dmx
Governor Terry Branstad leaves today (Wednesday) for a two-day trip to Atlanta. It’s another business prospecting venture for the governor. “The companies we call on, on these trips, are confidential,” Branstad says. Branstad is revealing “most” of the Atlanta-based companies he’ll visit already have operations in Iowa, so he’ll be talking with “decision-makers” about expanding in Iowa.
“I think these calls are important,” Branstad says, “and I’ve done this throughout my tenure as governor and they’ve led to some good things happening.” About five million people live in the Atlanta metro. The typical commute for the average Atlanta worker is 13 miles — the longest in the country. A recent Texas A-and-M study found Atlanta drivers spend 52 HOURS every year, stuck in rush hour traffic.
“One of the benefits we do have in Iowa is a very short commute time and we don’t have the congestion and the cost of living that are true in a lot of other places in the country,” Branstad says. According to the U.S. Census Burea, the longest commute times in Iowa are in rural areas.
The average Guthrie County worker spends 27 minutes on the drive to work. Workers in Iowa’s largest county — Polk County — have an average commute time of 19 minutes. Forty-seven of Iowa’s 99 counties have a longer commute time than Polk County.
(Radio Iowa)
The dream of buying a home in rural Iowa is getting cheaper. Home mortgage rates from the U-S-D-A’s Rural Development Agency have dropped to just below 2.875%. Krista Mettscher, a rural housing specialist with the agency, says there are income and other limits with the low rate, but even those with credit issues could qualify.
“Generally speaking, if you have a credit score of about 640, you can get in with some reduced documentation,” Metscher says. “We can do some loans with credit scores under the 640, it just may take a little additional documentation.” Mettscher says some people could find even lower rates. “You can qualify for a subsidized interest rate based on your household size and income,” she says. “You might even qualify for anything from the 2.875 down to a 1% interest rate on a 33-year loan.”
The program is available in most rural communities across the region. http://eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov
(Radio Iowa)
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Pleasant Valley |
2 | Dowling WDM |
3 | Valley WDM |
4 | Prairie CR |
5 | Waukee |
6 | Iowa City West |
7 | Johnston |
8 | Indianola |
9 | Iowa City-City High |
10 | Cedar Falls |
11 | Urbandale |
12 | Muscatine |
13 | Linn-Mar |
14 | Ankeny |
15 | Dubuque Hempstead |
Teams to Watch
Ankeny Centennial
Cedar Rapids, Washington
Dubuque Senior
Epworth, Western Dubuque
Sioux City, North
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Johnston |
2 | Iowa City West |
3 | Iowa City City High |
4 | Ankeny Centennial |
5 | Cedar Falls |
6 | Waukee |
7 | Dowling WDM |
8 | Dubuque Senior |
9 | Pleasant Valley |
10 | Linn-Mar |
11 | Dubuque Hempstead |
12 | Bettendorf |
13 | Muscatine |
14 | Roosevelt DM |
15 | Ankeny |
Teams to Watch
Ames
Cedar Rapids, Kennedy
North Scott Eldridge
Urbandale
Valley WDM
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Mount Vernon-Lisbon |
2 | Dallas Center-Grimes |
3 | Grinnell |
4 | Gilbert |
5 | Marion |
6 | Mount Pleasant |
7 | Decorah |
8 | Pella |
9 | Cedar Rapids Xavier |
10 | Dubuque Wahlert |
11 | Spirit Lake |
12 | Carlisle |
13 | Waverly Shell Rock |
14 | Humboldt |
15 | Atlantic |
Teams to Watch
Bondurant-Farrar
Glenwood
Oskaloosa
Sioux City Heelan
Webster City
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Gilbert |
2 | Decorah |
3 | DCG |
4 | Pella |
5 | Assumption |
6 | Wahlert |
7 | Bishop-Heelan |
8 | Ft. Madison |
9 | Marion |
10 | Humboldt |
11 | Charles City |
12 | Denison-Schleswig |
13 | Spencer |
14 | North Polk |
15 | Mt.Vernon-Lisbon |
Teams to Watch
Ballard
Center Point-Urbana
Spirit Lake
Winterset
Xavier, Cedar Rapids
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Garner Hayfield Ventura |
2 | Unity Christian |
3 | Mid Prairie Wellman |
4 | South Hamilton |
5 | Western Christian |
6 | Aplington Parkersburg |
7 | Clear Lake |
8 | George Little Rock |
9 | East Marshall LeGrand |
10 | Anamosa |
11 | South Winnesheik |
12 | Tipton |
13 | Monticello |
14 | Dike New Hartford |
15 | Davis County |
Teams to Watch
CMB
Ogden
Sioux Center
Waukon
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Monticello |
2 | South Winneshiek |
3 | Pocahontas |
4 | Mid Prairie |
5 | Okoboji |
6 | Cascade |
7 | Emmetsburg |
8 | Unity Christian |
9 | CMB |
10 | Osage |
11 | Shenandoah |
12 | Western Christian |
13 | Clear Lake |
14 | Aplington Parkersburg |
15 | Iowa City Regina |
Teams to Watch
Dike-New Hartford
KP-WC
Mediapolis
North Cedar
Underwood
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Nodaway Valley |
2 | Pekin |
3 | Denver |
4 | Panorama |
5 | Eagle Grove |
6 | Boyer Valley |
7 | West Central Valley |
8 | Trinity Christian |
9 | Tri Center |
10 | Starmont |
11 | West Fork |
12 | Calamus Wheatland |
13 | Marquette |
14 | Newman Mason City |
15 | Colo Nesco |
Teams to Watch
Bellevue
BCLUW
Central Elkader
Dunkerton
Wapello
Rank | School |
---|---|
1 | Central Elkader |
2 | Pekin |
3 | North Linn |
4 | Saint Edmond |
5 | Hudson |
6 | Newman |
7 | Panorama |
8 | Denver |
9 | West Fork |
10 | Jesup |
11 | Alta Aurelia |
12 | Treynor |
13 | Colo Nesco |
14 | Edgewood Colesburg |
15 | ACGC |
Teams to Watch
Durant
Maple Valley Athton Oto
Marquette
Saint Ansgar
Starmont
VIOLA M. HASS, 88, of Harlan, died Sunday, Sept. 4th, in Manilla. Funeral services for VIOLA HASS will be held 10:30-a.m. Friday, Sept. 9th, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, in Harlan. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday, Sept. 8th, from 2-until 8-p.m., with the family greeting friends from 5-until 7-p.m.
Burial will be in the Nishnabotna Cemetery in Manilla.
VIOLA HASS is survived by:
Her husband – Lester Hass, of Harlan.
Her daughter – Linda (Jim) Fisher, of Dayton, TX.
4 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, other relatives, and friends.