Hawkeye Ten
Red Oak 2, Atlantic 0
Lewis Central 6, Shenandoah 4
Western Iowa Conference
Lenox 11, Audubon 0
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 19, Mount Ayr 10
Raccoon River Conference
Ballard 8, Carroll 2
Boone 8, #10 Bondurant-Farrar 6
Carlisle 2, ADM 1
#2 Dallas Center-Grimes 6, #1 North Polk 5
Pride of Iowa Conference
Nodaway Valley 7, Wayne 6
Martensdale-St Marys 13, GMG 5
Hawkeye Ten
#8 Clarinda 8, Harlan 1
#8 Clarinda 7, Harlan 2
Lewis Central 3, Shenandoah @ 1
Atlantic @ Red Oak – The game is Postponed til July 8th.
Western Iowa Conference
Logan-Magnolia 12, Stanton 0
#4 Audubon 12, Lenox 0
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 9, IKM-Manning 6
Madrid 4, CAM 0
Corner Conference
#13 Griswold 6, #7 West Monona 5
Bedford 13, Fremont-Mills 1
West Central Activities Conference
#1 Van Meter 11, Saydel 0 (NC)
Ogden 6, Panorama 3
#10 Interstate-35 14, Pleasantville 4
(Radio Iowa) – The governor is extending the disaster proclamation for Sioux, Cherokee, and Sac counties for a full month due to confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in all three counties. State veterinarian Dr. Jeff Kaisand says state and federal teams are working closely to trace how the 11 recent bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle herds in northwest Iowa may be linked to things like dairy workers, feed, delivery trucks, or wild birds flying through the area. “We are trying as hard as we can right now to identify — with producers’ cooperation — what those connections are and it may not just be one thing,” Kaisand says. “That’s why it’s very important that producers put biosecurity plans in place on their farm and looking at how they are connected to the outside world.”
While much is being learned about the virus and how it spreads, Kaisand says many new questions continue to emerge. “For weeks, the virus can be found in the milk of cows, so any type of contact with infected milk, whether it’s a cow going through a milking parlor, any contact with milk,” Kaisand says, “so we do know there’s cow-to-cow transmission and movements of cows from an infected farm to another farm can carry the virus.” Starting July First, the state will require all dairy exhibitors to complete bird flu testing within seven days of moving to an exhibition, like at county fairs, to minimize the potential spread of the virus. Researchers are puzzled by cases where there’s been no movement of cattle from farm-to-farm and bio-security measures were followed, yet the virus has spread.
“What’s circulating in dairies has been found in what’s called pari-domestic birds, starlings and grackles,” Kaisand says. “It’s not as of yet — and it may be because we haven’t tested enough wild birds — but it’s not been found in the migratory birds, so whether that’s a pathway, we’re also not sure.”
The governor’s extension of the disaster proclamation for the three counties through July 26th allows state resources to be used to help with tracking and monitoring, rapid detection, containment, disposal, and disinfection.
(Radio Iowa) – A coalition of local economic development, municipal and business leaders in Perry have worked together for several months to help the city prepare for today’s (Friday) closing of the Tyson plant. Perry City manager Sven Peterson says their efforts until now have focused on helping the workers. “We’re going to be moving into a strategic planning process that will be very action focused to be able to really have a very accountable and mindful process for us to move forward as a community together,” he says. Peterson says they now want to find a way to keep the workers in Perry.
“From closing day on we’re really going to be focusing on the next phase of repair of kind of making sure that we can do as much as we possibly can to replace those jobs that were lost,” he says. Peterson says the plant has some 13-hundred employees and it is estimated that 800 live in Perry and there are 300 kids in the school system with parents at the plant. Peterson says part of the effort is to get another business into town with jobs for those workers.
“We’ve been working pretty heavily with Tyson trying to get them as many contacts as possible that might be interested in the Tyson facility,” Peterson says. “But then we’ve also been really pushing and advertising our industrial park on the east side of town.” He says the industrial park has some opportunities for business. Peterson says they are not going to let the closing get the community down.
“We could kind of take this as a major blow to the community or look at it as an opportunity. And we’ve definitely had our fair share of difficult situations in the past, but in the end we have never backed down from a challenge and you know, we’ve always come out stronger as a result,” Peterson says. While they have know about the closing for months, they now have to deal with the reality of it. He says the emotions vary widely.
“Overall, I think everybody is in a different stage, whether it’s specific employees losing their jobs, other business owners in the community, wondering maybe how it might affect their business. But overall, I think it’s kind of just a, yep, this is happening and we’re going to be moving forward and we’re going to be able to be maintaining ourselves in a strong, resilient manner moving forward,” he says.
Peterson is a Perry native and says they have gotten a lot of help from the state and officials in nearby cities and counties in trying to deal with the closing.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds believes the burgeoning market for hemp-infused candies, drinks and other products is taking advantage of the 2018 Farm Bill’s hemp provision. “I had issues with this bill from the beginning. It was never designed to do that, it was the intent of the hemp bill. It was actually another commodity for our farmers. That was actually the intent,” Reynolds says. New regulations on these products begin in July that only allow people who are 21 and older to buy the hemp infused items. And the state will restrict the potency of these products to four milligrams of T-H-C per serving or ten milligrams per container.
Reynolds visited Alcohol & Drug Dependency Services of Southeast Iowa in Keokuk, and says the state regulations address the issues that the Farm Bill didn’t. “It didn’t deal with minors and their access to T-H-C. This mixing T-H-C with alcohol. That’s a dangerous combination. I’m at a recovery center and we want to make sure people are informed,” she says.
Two Iowa companies which make the hemp infused products are suing the state over the new regulations. The lawsuit says the regulations would criminalize 80 percent of their current inventories. Neither company sells products that mix T-H-C and alcohol.
Today: Mostly cloudy & breezy w/a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 84. South winds @ 15-30 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight: Mo. Cldy w/a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 9pm. Low around 68.
Tomorrow: Sunny & breezy, with a high near 79. N/NW winds 10-20 mph.
Tom. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 76.
Monday: Mo. Cldy & windy, w/a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 80.
Tuesday: Partly sunny w/a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 89.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 78. The Low was 64. As of overnight rainfall in Atlantic, at KJAN, amounted to .22″. This day last year in Atlantic the high was 91 and the low 65. The Record High in Atlantic on June 28th, was 103 in 1936. The Record Low was 50, in 1896 & 2006. Sunrise today: 5:48 am. Sunset: 8:58 pm.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Supreme Court has announced it will issue a ruling this (Friday) morning on a law that would ban most abortions in Iowa. Attorney General Brenna Bird spoke about the case at a rally last weekend. “Our office made all of the legal arguments to uphold our ‘Heartbeat Law,’ so I ask you this: pray for justice,” Bird said and the crowd applauded “We know the law is on our side. We absolutely do.”
Opponents of the law held an online discussion last (Thursday) night. Jennifer Konfrst, the leader of Democrats in the Iowa House, was the host. “This week has been a whirlwind of emotions,” she said. “I go from dread to hope to motivated to sad to angry. It’s just really hard to believe a ban could really be here in Iowa.” Mazie Stilwell of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa says the court may or may not answer all the questions surrounding this case. “It’s really hard to overstate the gravity of the moment that we’re in,” Stilwell said.
Governor Reynolds called the legislature into special session last July and signed the law, which bans abortions after fetal activity can be detected, around the sixth week of a pregnancy. There would be exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. A district court judge issued an injunction after a lawsuit was filed and the six week ban has not been enforced
Several Drake Relays regulars will be heading to the Paris Olympics this summer. The U-S Track and Field Olympic Trials wind down this weekend in Eugene, Oregon. Blake Boldon is director of the Drake Relays.
Boldon says three of the top four finishers in the men’s pole vault are regulars at the Drake Relays.
The Lenox Tigers baseball team had an 11-0 shutout victory against the Audubon Wheelers on Thursday night. From the first inning with a passed ball run to put the Tigers up 1-0, Audubon never looked comfortable throughout the evening. In the top of the 2nd Lenox acquired 3 runs from 3 walks, 2 batters hit by a pitch, and a RBI single to put them up 4-0 over the Wheelers. The downward trend continued for Audubon as they could only muster up 3 hits at the plate and showed signs of frustration during the entirety of the game. Things completely tipped in favor for Lenox in the top of the 5th as they were leading 5-0. The inning started off strongly for Audubon as pitcher Brody Schultes retired the first two batters he faced. With one out to go, the Tigers stayed patient at the plate getting back-to-back walks to put two runners on and with an RBI single from Wylie Brokaw things started to fall apart for the Wheelers. Lenox had a total of 5 base hits and 3 walks to collect 6 runs and ultimately the win. Gabe Funk came out in the bottom of the 5th to retire the side and give the Tigers the run rule victory.
Lenox starting pitcher Gabe Funk had a nice day on the mound giving up no runs, 3 hits, 3 strikeouts, and 1 walk. Audubon’s best batter on the day was Carson Mike who had a walk and a base hit. Wheeler head coach Eric Borkowski’s message to his team after the game was learning how to accept making mistakes and continue to stay focused.
Coach Borkowski’s one positive takeaway from the game was the way his team was able to make solid contact with the ball.
One theme the that the Wheelers need to embrace is learning to overcome mistakes. If the Wheelers can, they can keep their heads up high with 4 games left on the regular season schedule.
The loss drops Audubon to 1-22-1 and they head to Martensdale-St. Mary’s on Monday. Lenox improves to 16-6 with the victory and will play Central Decatur on Friday.
(Radio Iowa) – The Northeast Iowa Community College Board of Trustees has voted for a second time to fire president Herbert Riedel after an appeal ruling. And independent administrative law judge determined the Board of Trustees was justified in terminating Reidel’s contract, an action the board took in March. Riedel appealed the decision, and after Thursday’s hearing, the Trustees voted unanimously to terminate his contract.
Reidel was placed on administrative leave in October of last year. In a letter to the editor of the Driftless Journal, Riedel claimed he was put on leave as retaliation for complaints he made about Trustee Chair Jim Anderson.
The college stated the decision came down to issues raised during his initial evaluation and complaints regarding hiring practices and treatment of administrative staff.
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