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Class 1-A
Region 1 at LeMars
Singles
Mara Pirscoveanu (Denison-Schleswig) over Emily Ahlers (LeMars Community) 6/2, 6/0
Doubles
Hanna Schoning & Ryan Petievich (Spirit Lake-Okoboji) over Amber Hrabijk & Jackie Ingram (Denison-Schleswig) 6/4, 3/6, 6/0
Region 2 at Red Oak
Singles
Kate Walker (Red Oak) over Jana King (Glenwood) 6/2, 6/1
Doubles
Grace Blomstedt & Micayla Taylor (Red Oak) over Kayla Rogers & Sarah Cabeen (Clarinda) 0/6, 6/1, 6/2
Region 3 at Norwalk
Doubles
Jenna Taylor & Alli Thomsen (Creston/Orient Macksburg) over Caitlin McIlraby & Sydney Dunphy (Creston/Orient Macksburg) 6/3, 6/2
Class 2-A
Region 3 at Urbandale
Singles
Abby Bergsten (Lewis Central) over Olivia Coe (Centennial) 6/3, 6/0
ALL CLASSES
State Singles & Doubles –June 4, Thursday and June 5 Friday
Class 2-A @ Iowa City Class 1-A @ Ankeny
Farm income is falling for many growers in Iowa and across the region as credit conditions weaken. Nathan Kauffman, the Omaha branch executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, says lower crop prices and high input costs have cut profit margins and raised concerns about the ability of farmers to repay loans down the road. “In the last several years, profits have been so good in agriculture that a lot of people have been making pretty good money,” Kauffman says. “Now, a lot of bankers and other lenders are looking at where the risks are, wanting to understand what level of working capital do their borrowers have, is it sufficient to get them through these times?”
Recent years have brought many producers across the Midwest severe droughts and flooding while commodity prices rebounded only slightly after dramatic drops, while facing higher costs for seed, fertilizer and chemicals. It’s left many farmers short on cash. “Operating loans have picked up because of lower incomes,” Kauffman says. “There has been a need for more financing of some of those short-term expenditures and I think we’re seeing more lenders that just want to be cautious and recognizing things are still pretty good overall and they have been very good, but being cautious about what that means for the next year or so.”
Kauffman says cropland values edged down in the first quarter this year while pastureland values held firm. “The land that’s very high quality still does seem to be selling quite well,” Kauffman says. “The land that is maybe not quite as good, we do see some variation there. There are stories of no sales at auctions, we see other weaknesses in that side of the land market but overall, there has been a bit of downward pressure because of the lower incomes.”
Profit margins in the livestock industry have remained stable, but he says most bankers don’t think farm income or credit conditions will improve in the next three months.
(Radio Iowa)
Opponents of Governor Branstad’s push to close the two state-run Mental Health Institutes in southern Iowa delivered 25-hundred petitions signatures to the governor’s office Thursday morning. Matt Sinovic is executive director of Progress Iowa, the group that organized the online petition drive. “This happened over the last week or so, so it’s been a very quick turn-around for these signers and we expect more to sign,” Sinovic told reporters. “But we saw Governor Branstad was signing this proclamation today and thought this would be an appropriate time to make these voices heard.”
Branstad held a brief midday ceremony to sign a “Mental Health Month” proclamation. “Frankly, the governor signing this proclamation is laughable,” Sinovic says. “He’s putting these policies in place that hurts Iowans and now he’s taking a curtain call, pretending to be in favor of quality mental health care. I mean, it’s ridiculous.” Sinovic says there is currently no plan in place to care for the acutely ill Iowans who depend upon the state-run Mental Health Institutes for care they cannot get elsewhere at privately-run facilities.
Branstad says his critics just want to “protect the status quo.” “What we’re doing in Iowa is really long overdue,” Branstad says. “Many other states have done it before.” Branstad’s state budget plan released in January did not include any operating funds to keep the Mental Health Institutes in Clarinda and Mount Pleasant open past June 30th.
Legislators are still wrangling over budget details, but it’s unlikely Branstad will accept any plan that keeps the two facilities open indefinitely.
(Radio Iowa)
Police in Red Oak report a man from Pottawattamie County was arrested Thursday on a Red Oak P-D warrant for Burglary, stemming from an incident that took place in Sept., 2013. 22-year old Timothy Gene Humphrey, of Council Bluffs, at a residential correctional facility in Council Bluffs. Humphrey was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $5,000 cash bond.
DON R. LAURITSEN, 80, of Hamlin, died Wed., May 20th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for DON LAURITSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., May 27th, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is at 6-p.m. Tue., May 26th.
Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Audubon.
DON LAURITSEN is survived by:
His wife – Joan Lauritsen, of Hamlin.
His sons – Scott Lauritsen, and Daren Lauritsen, both of Exira; Dean Lauritsen, of Audubon; and Steven (Sherri) Lauritsen, of Pella.
His daughter – Diane (Tom) Law, of Omaha.
His step-children: Cathy Crees, of Bondurant; Dan (Natalie) Crees, of Harlan; Lauri (Jeff) Bates, of Atlanta, GA., and Jeff (Staci) Crees, of Earlham.
His sister – Dorothy Ann (Arnold) Larsen, of Ft. Collins, CO.
12 grandchildren, 11 step-grandchildren, 2 step great-grandchildren, his brothers-in-law, other relatives, and friends.
A traffic stop Thursday evening in Villisca, resulted in the driver of the vehicle being arrested for Driving While Revoked. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department reports 39-year old Jason William McCollum, of Villisca, was pulled over at around 7:30-p.m. and following an investigation, was taken into custody. McCollum was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says an investigation into tires slashed Wednesday afternoon on a vehicle at the Southwest Valley High School in Corning, has resulted in an arrest. 18-year old Jaden Deanna Lynn Baker, of Villisca, was taken into custody at around 8:20-p.m. Thursday, and charged with Criminal Mischief in the 3rd degree. Baker was arrested after security camera video showed her allegedly punching holes in all four tires of a vehicle. Her bond was set at $1,000.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 6 to 11 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. South southwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming southeast in the evening.
Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. South southeast wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday Night: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Low around 60. South southeast wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday: Showers and thunderstorms. High near 70. Southeast wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a low around 60. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Memorial Day: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74.
Mills County officials are putting together a campaign to educate the public on the avian flu as the county prepares to bury chickens affected by the disease. The remains of chickens killed by the flu will be buried in a landfill outside Malvern. The County said in a news release “Any risk to humans from this influenza is very low. No human infections have been detected, and there are no food safety risks for the consumer.”
The Mills County Planning Group for the avian flu has offered educational information, available at birdflu.millscoia.us, while there will also be a town hall meeting in Malvern on the issue. Officials said the county will release more information on the town hall meeting once details have been confirmed.
Residents seeking more information are also able to call the state avian flu concern hotline at (800) 447-1985.
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