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Today: Partly Cloudy. High around 40. NW @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 22. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 47.
Saturday: P/Cldy. High around 47.
Sunday: Mostly Cloudy w/a chance of light rain. High 42.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 37. The 24-hour Low ending at 7-a.m. today was 17. Last year on this date we reached 58 for a High and 30 was the low. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on this date was 58 in 1931 & 2015, while the Record Low was -23 in 1915.
CHESTER “CHET” CHRISTENSEN, 87, of Audubon, died Tue., Jan. 26th, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for CHET CHRISTENSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., Feb. 1st, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present 5-p.m. Sun., Jan. 31st.
Burial will be in the Hamlin Lutheran Cemetery, east of Hamlin.
CHESTER “CHET” CHRISTENSEN is survived by:
His sons – David (Karla) Christensen; Keith (Lana) Christensen; Chris (Kristy) Christensen, and Mike Christensen.
His son-in-law: Dennis Olesen
22 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren, his sister-in-law Sara Christensen, his very good friends Penny LaFoy & Bob Soll, other relatives and friends.
The Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce introduced their 2016 campaign “Explore, Discover, Share” at their Annual Dinner last weekend. The campaign will kick off in April and will focus on attractions and businesses throughout Cass County.
The Explore, Discover, Share campaign will encourage residents and visitors to explore local businesses and attractions to discover something new. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness for all the great businesses, interesting history and exciting experiences available in Atlantic and Cass County.
Chamber officials say community members and visitors that share their photos and experiences will be part of the Explorer Challenge contest and will be eligible to win prizes throughout the campaign. People will submit their photos and experiences of designated places on www.atlanticiowa.com to be entered into the contest, and those photos will be shared on social media.
Chamber businesses and attractions that purchase sponsorships will be a part of the campaign, each receiving an “Explore, Discover, Share” sign or decal to designate them as a participant. Everyone has a story to tell and something to share and the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce hopes to have an endless list of businesses and attractions participate.
The success of the campaign will be determined by the amount of overall support and excitement within the Chamber membership and community.
Off to their best start in the Big Ten since 1970 the third ranked Iowa Hawkeyes face a huge test this evening with a visit to eighth ranked Maryland. The Terrapins are 6-2 in the league race and sophomore Melo Trimble is one of the top point guards in the country.
Iowa coach Fran McCaffery McCaffery says road wins are special and the Hawkeyes have won their last six Big Ten road games dating back to last season. Iowa’s ranking is the highest since since 1987. McCaffery says he does not pay attention to preseason rankings and this one is no different.
It will be the only regular season meeting between Iowa and Maryland. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins at 5-p.m., with tipoff in the XFINITY Center 6:05-p.m.
(Learfield Sports)
Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a woman on drug and other charges, Wednesday night. Authorities say 42-year old Lorena Rene Jennings, of Essex, was taken into custody at around 11:05-p.m. in the 2400 block of Highway 48. Jennings was brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and charged with OWI/Drugged – 1st Offense, Child Endangerment, Unlawful Possession of Prescription Medication, and Driving While Suspended. Her bond was set at $2,000.
There’s still much work left to do, but two major hurdles have been overcome with regard to the a Whole Grade Sharing Agreement between the Guthrie Center and Adair-Casey School District. Wednesday night (1/27), the Guthrie Center School Board approved the 5-year agreement, which will become effective July 1st. The Adair-Casey Board had previously approved the agreement during their meeting on Jan. 20th.
School officials say the agreement will mean more, and varied course opportunities for students, including some courses not previously being added. The agreement stipulates each district will maintain its own kindergarten-6th grade program. 7th and 8th grade students will attend class at Adair-Casey. 9th-12th graders will attend high school in Guthrie Center.
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State women’s basketball team (11-8, 3-5 Big 12) lost to TCU (12-8, 4-5 Big 12), 72-62 on Wednesday night in Hilton Coliseum. According to Cyclones.com, Freshman Bridget Carleton paced the Cyclones, as she put up 23 points and 11 rebounds in the outing. Zahna Medley was TCU’s top scorer with 22 points on the night.
Iowa State will face Oklahoma at home on Saturday, Jan. 30. Tip between the Cyclones and Sooners will be at 1 p.m.
EARLY THIS MORNING…CLEAR. NOT AS COLD. WEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S.
The American Wind Energy Association’s fourth quarter report shows Iowa has moved one rung from the top when it comes to producing power from the wind. AWEA manager of data and analysis, John Hensley. “We actually saw Iowa move past California into second place in our state rankings. Iowa now has more than six-thousand megawatts of installed capacity,” Hensley says. “We saw somewhere in the realm of about 300 megawatts come online in the state in the fourth quarter that helped push it up in the rankings.”
Iowa moved past California by 104 megawatts, but would have to triple its output to overtake top-ranked Texas — which has nearly 18-thousand megawatts. Hensley says Iowa was part of a trend that saw more wind turbines come online across the country. “The fourth quarter of 2015 was actually are second strongest quarter on record,” Hensley says. “We installed five-thousand megawatts, second only to the fourth quarter of 2012. So, a lot of strong momentum going into the end of the year.” He says wind will account for around one-third the electric power produced in Iowa.
“Back at the end of 2014, wind was providing 28-point-five percent of the state’s electricity-mix with windpower….The full results are not out for the year yet, but we do expect it to come into that 30 percent threshold,” Hensley says. He says Iowa has a lot of advantages when it comes to wind power. “Iowa is just a really attractive place for wind energy developers to install new projects,” according to Hensley. “It’s a state with a sort of strong, favorable policy environment, combined with a really great wind energy resource.”
And he says Iowa’s location is good for distributing the wind power. Hensley says improved technology has helped lower the cost of installing wind power, and that has helped continue the expansion of capacity. “The primary innovations that we’ve seen are taller towers — so getting the machine actually higher up into the air — and the advent of longer blades. These long blades have a larger rotor diameter, which allows them to capture more wind resources than they did before,” Hensley says.
AWEA figures show there are now 74-thousand-472 megawatts of installed wind capacity in the United States and more than 52-thousand operating wind turbines.
(Radio Iowa)
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