| BOYS BASKETBALL |
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| Corner Conference Tournament |
| First Round |
East Mills 47, Sidney 44
Essex 63, Nishnabotna 57
Fremont Mills, Tabor 72, Clarinda Academy 36
Stanton 73, Heartland Christian 10
| GIRLS BASKETBALL |
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| Corner Conference Tournament |
| Semi-Finals |
Essex 51, Nishnabotna 44
Sidney 43, Fremont Mills, Tabor 28
A lifetime sex offender who failed to return to a work release facility last Friday, was apprehended by authorities, Wednesday afternoon. According to a press release from the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC), 26-year-old Ross Michael Clouse was found at a Des Moines residence. He was taken into custody by the Fifth Judicial District Fugitive Unit, with help from the United States Marshall’s Service, and was being held in the Polk County Jail.
Ross M. Clouse
The DOC had placed Clouse on escape status after he failed to return from his place of employment in Guthrie County to the Fort Des Moines Work Release Facility. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office had reported on its social media site that Clouse had removed his GPS tracking bracelet, and tossed it into a roadside ditch northeast of Guthrie Center last Friday.
Clouse was sentenced for third-degree sex abuse and indecent contact with a child on Sept. 30, 2009. His sentence was discharged Feb. 7th, 2014, and a lifetime special supervision sentence began.
After putting his campaign travels on hold following the death of a campaign staffer in an Iowa crash Tuesday on Interstate 80 in Cass County, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson will resume his tour, with campaign stops today (Thursday) in Atlantic and Glenwood. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, will hold “Trust in God” Townhall meetings at the Glenwood Community High School Auditorium from 3-until 4:30-p.m., Thursday, and in Atlantic, at the Cass County Community Center, from 7-until 8:30-p.m.
On Friday, Dr. Carson will make stops in Clarinda, Mt. Ayr and Creston, before heading to Des Moines. His visit to Clarinda is from 8-a.m. to 9-a.m. at the Garrison Coffee House (106 N. 16th St.). In Mt. Ayr, Carson will be at the Ringgold County Hospital, from 11-a.m. until 12:15-p.m., and finally, in Creston, at 213 W. Adams Street, from 1:30-until 2:30-p.m.
Each of the events are free and open to the public.
The Department of Natural Resources is warning everyone to be careful out on the ice covering Iowa’s lakes and rivers after four snowmobiles recently went into the water at the Great Lakes. Conservation officer Steve Reighard, says two sets of snowmobilers got a chilly dip in the water. “There’s a couple of gentlemen that actually rode snowmobiles into it at night, Thursday night. No injuries, they were able to get out. No damage to the sleds other than they had to dry those out also. And then again Saturday morning, two individuals went through,” Reighard says. “And Saturday morning with the cold temperatures there was a thin skim of ice over the open water. We got a little bit of snow cover so it looked like it was solid out there, and they drove out onto that thin ice and broke through. There again, they weren’t injured.”
He says conditions have been different on the lakes this years as the water was high at the start of winter when the lakes started to freeze and continued flowing. “With that current flowing through there, it’s keeping that water open or the ice extremely thin,” Reighard explains. “Plus, the ice never does freeze evenly. There’s a lot of variability out there — I’ve seen it as thick as 13 inches on West Okoboji, and also as thin as three in the last week.”
He says the bridges around the Great Lakes pinches down the flow of the water, which makes it faster and less likely to freeze. Reighard says there are similar situations across the state with the ice this winter. And he says no matter where you go on the ice, the one constant is there is no guarantee of perfectly frozen ice. “It’s not like the ice cubes in your tray in your freezer — and even if you look at those — they don’t always freeze the same either,” he says. “There’s just to many variabilities with water depth, on obstacles underneath the ice, springs, currents, all of those things come into effect.”
Some people are driving vehicles onto the ice to fish, and Reighard says that’s something he never recommends because of the uncertainty of the ice depth.
(Radio Iowa)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More hospitals and ambulances across the state may soon have access to an automated CPR device that health officials say is more consistent than human-performed CPR. The Iowa Department of Public Health has received a $6.3 million grant that will mainly go toward installing automated chest compression devices in ambulances and hospitals around Iowa, and to provide training for their use.
The grant was awarded by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and will be given to the department’s Bureau of Emergency and Trauma Services.
There are now a limited number of the devices in Iowa. The health department says the machines are able to perform longer and more consistent chest compressions compared to people manually performing CPR. The devices cost about $10,000 each.
RONALD JAMES “Jim” WHITE, 73, of Griswold, died Tue., Jan. 19th, at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak. Funeral services for JIM WHITE will be held at 11:00-a.m. Saturday, January 23rd, at the Faith Lutheran Church in Griswold. Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation with the family will be on Friday evening from 5:00 PM until 7:30 PM at the Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold.
Interment will be in the Griswold Cemetery at a later date.
JIM WHITE is survived by:
His wife – Janice, of Griswold.
His daughters – Michelle Moore, of Gallup, NM, and Laura (Clay) Clement, of Hancock.
His brothers – Gary (& wife DJ) White, of Yuma, AZ, and Mick (Susan) White, of Moreno Valley, CA.
His sister – Joyce Clark, of Oakland.
8 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, his sisters-in-law, other relatives, and friends.
The Atlantic City Council, Wednesday, approved a request from the Atlantic Archery Club, to use the second-floor of the City Hall building, for regular archery practice. Councilman Chris Jimerson said the Community Protection Committee met last week to review the proposal, and after City Administrator Lund conferred with the City’s insurance carrier, it was learned use of the facility for archery practice would not impact the City’s insurance rates.
Jimerson said the Club has its own insurance, and there are numerous safety procedures that had previously been established, including a Kevlar net to catch any errant arrows, which he said, is very rare. Issues regarding access and second-floor security, have also been addressed. Practices would take place from 5:30-to 8:30-p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday during the shooting seasons. During off-season months (July-to November), the team would essentially practice two nights per month.
In other business, the Council approved a Resolution “Setting Compensation for the Board of Trustees of Atlantic Municipal Utilities.” The rate of compensation for attending meetings was set at $40. The last time AMU adjusted its compensation was back in the 1990’s, according to Mayor Dave Jones. Jones said the increase comes directly from AMU’s budget, and has no impact on City finances.
The Council also discussed compensation for the City Administrator, as well as the over-all City Compensation Policy and Schedule. Councilperson Kathy Somers said when the City’s Personnel and Finance Committee met Jan. 8th, they discussed pending compensation levels for a number of positions, and two positions stood out: City Administrator and Parks and Recreation Director.
When Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring was hired in June 2011, Herring was paid less than the prior Director, because of the IPERS penalty. Herring was allowed to make only $29,900 per year. Anything more and he would have had to pay a 75-percent penalty on gross wages, to IPERS. The ruling remained in effect until Herring turned 65 in March, 2013. Since then, there has been no further action with regard to pay adjustments based on his labor value, and Herring has only had a Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) each year.
Somers and the Council also discussed John Lund’s compensation package. Both matters have been referred back to the Personnel and Finance Committee, who will make their recommendations to the Council at the next meeting. For the moment though, the Mayor gave Lund permission to plug in “template” numbers so that the budgetary process can continue. The numbers however will not be final, and can be adjusted before the budget is set, but they cannot be raised after the budget is established.
The Council also discussed snow removal on sidewalks. It was suggested residents with complaints about unshoveled walks address those to City Hall for follow-up. Residents who fail to promptly address snow removal will be given a warning for now, and if the sidewalks are not taken care of, the snow will be removed by City personnel, and the property owner will be billed accordingly, just as they would be if grass is not mowed in the spring and summer.
Representatives from 15 small schools in Southwest Iowa met in Griswold Wednesday for a discussion on possible conference realignment. The meeting was a discussion jumping off point for those schools that are interested in the possible benefits of forming a new conference.
Schools invited to the meeting were Southwest Valley, Griswold, Riverside, Clarinda Academy, East Mills, Sidney, Lenox, Bedford, Fremont-Mills, Audubon, CAM, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Exira-EHK, Essex, Stanton, Heartland Christian, and South Page. Clarinda Academy and East Mills were the only two schools without representatives at the Wednesday meeting.
KJAN Sports spoke with Griswold Athletic Director Kevin Whitehill after the meeting and he said it was a positive meeting that was well attended. He emphasized one of the major talking points was the educational aspect of starting a new conference in that schools of similar small size could potentially share teachers or other resources.
Whitehill also felt there could be benefit from the activities and athletics standpoint in having these similar sized schools joined together. When asked if travel was a concern for any schools, Whitehill said that was something that was discussed but that could be helped out by the organization of the conference with the potential for divisions if enough schools are interested. He thought it was a small concern for some schools but not something that was a prohibitive factor in his mind.
Fremont-Mills Athletic Director Jeremy Christiansen has been one of the leaders in this process and he will be the point-man for the next step. Whitehill said schools will now have time to consider a move with their school districts and then let Christiansen now if they want to continue to pursue a change by April 1st.
Whitehill said any changes that would be made wouldn’t happen until the 2017-2018 school year at the earliest.
You can listen to our full discussion with Mr. Whitehill below.
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LARRY ALLEN PATTEN, 74, of Harlan died Thursday, January 14th in Tavares, Florida. Funeral Services for LARRY ALLEN PATTEN will be held on Saturday, January 23rd at 11:00am at Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
Visitation will be held Friday, January 22nd from 5:00pm-7:00pm at Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
LARRY ALLEN PATTEN is survived by:
Wife: Judy Patten of Harlan.
Son: Alan (Stacy) Patten of Oviedo, FL.
Daughter: Amy Jo (Bruce) Placke of Woodland Hills, CA.
Sister: Cheryl (Harold) Dickman of Missouri Valley.
2 Grandchildren
KENNETH ALVIN KUSTER, 91, of Harlan died Tuesday, January 19th at Elm Crest Retirement Community. Mass of Christian Burial for KENNETH ALVIN KUSTER will be held Saturday, January 23rd at 10:30am at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
Visitation will be held Saturday from 9:30am-10:30am at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan.
KENNETH ALVIN KUSTER is survived by:
Sons: Kenneth (Linda) Kuster of East Kingston, NH. Charles (Joanne) Kuster of Johnston.
Daughter: Kathleen (Terry) King of Muncy, IN.
Brother: Robert Kuster of Persia.
Sisters: Mary Jane Barney of Logan. Beverly (James) Nelson of Persia.
7 Grandchildren
1 Great-Grandchildren
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