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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa public schools have a new database to report and track bullying incidents in detail as they happen throughout the year. The Iowa Department of Education launched the database on Friday. The state has relied on one annual set of reports, logged under four labels, each spring to track bullying in schools. That was prompted in 2007 by a state anti-bullying and anti-harassment law. The new database will have schools report bullying based on one or more of 17 student traits explicitly named in state law – including sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or political belief.
Officials with the Iowa Farm Bureau have announced Sawmill Hollow in Missouri Valley, the country’s first aronia berry farm, is this month’s Iowa Farm Bureau Renew Rural Iowa entrepreneur award winner.
The organic berry operation is a family farm run by Vaughn and Cindy Pittz and their son, Andrew. In 1997, the Pittzes planted 207 aronia berry plants and have since expanded the farm to 26 acres and more than 13,000 plants. The berries, also known as black chokeberries, can be made into a variety of products, including syrup, sauce, powders and wine.
After looking into a number of value-added ideas, ranging from Christmas trees to pumpkin patches, the family found aronia berries offered the best potential.The business is a benefit to Iowa’s ag industry and to the Missouri Valley economy with its annual festival. Sawmill Hollow’s fifth annual North American Aronia Festival is this weekend, Sept. 15-16, featuring children’s activities, wine tasting, recipe contest, farming and gardening workshops and more. (For a full schedule, go to http://sawmillhollow.com/.)
Renew Rural Iowa (RRI) is an Iowa Farm Bureau Federation initiative supporting new and existing businesses through education, mentoring and financial resources. To learn more, visit www.renewruraliowa.com.
Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played in Council Bluffs.
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Here’s the (podcast) forecast for Atlantic & the KJAN listening area, along with the weather data for Atlantic, from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson….
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An Iowa man who brought the world to thousands of Iowa students over three decades will be remembered in Stuart this weekend. Al Bell traveled all over the planet and filmed his adventures, then visited schools across Iowa and made grand presentations. His daughter, Becky Bell-Greenstreet, says the film festival of her father’s work is the second one they’ve held in the past few years. Bell-Greenstreet says Sunday’s event will feature films that were not shown two years ago as there’s now a complete film library of her dad’s movies. Bell made his appearances in schools across Iowa between 1949 and 1979, highlighting his trips to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
She says her father was always well-received whenever he visited a rural Iowa school. “Those gyms and auditoriums were just packed to the rafters,” with kids from kindergarten through high school in one assembly, she says, “and my dad’s job was to teach them about a particular country. She says her dad would go all out for the films and for the assemblies. He would come out in costume and taught the students words in foreign tongues while the movies were well-produced and funny, artistic and sometimes bringing screams of surprise from students. T
he Al Bell Film Festival will be held at the Saints Center in Stuart, opening at noon, with artifacts, costumes, photos, foreign dolls, original posters and films on display. Films will be shown at 1 and 3 PM. Learn more at: “www.albellremembered.com”
(Radio Iowa)
GLEN D. CLEMSEN, 83, of Exira, died Thu., Sept. 13th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for GLEN CLEMSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., Sept. 17th, at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where a family visitation is from 6-8pm Sun. (9/16).
Burial will be in the Elk Horn Lutheran Cemetery.
GLEN CLEMSEN is survived by:
His wife – Rosa Clemsen, of Exira.
His children – Laurie Towne, of Ft. Dodge; Bryan (Shari) Clemsen, of Brayton; Susan (Steve) Finn, of Harlan; Jan Clemsen, of West Des Moines; and Joy (John) Gajda, of Lindenhurst, IL.
His brothers – Virgil (Vi) Clemsen, of Coon Rapids, & Lyle (Jane) Clemsen, of Clarion, IA.
15 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren, other relatives & friends.