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Iowa livestock confinement and commercial manure applicators should start to plan now for taking their required training to renew their certificates. Jeff Prier, at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says testing will begin early next month. “It starts in January and it runs through February for most of the confinement applicators,” Prier says. “The commercial guys, there’s basically two days that they can get video or live training. It’s a three-hour class that the commercial guys sit through and it’s a two-hour class that the confinement people sit through.”
Prier says classes will be offered at locations all over the state. “There’s different county extension offices that they can call into to make a reservation so there’s enough seating,” Prier says, while there are day and night classes available for the confinement applicators. Prier says there are a couple of reasons why applicators need to take the training course. “The most important reason is that state law requires it,” Prier says. “The second reason to get certified is there’s a lot of knowledge gained on how to handle spills and respond so you minimize the impact to the environment which sometimes minimizes the impact to your pocketbook.”
The Iowa D-N-R certified 2,538 commercial and 2,310 confinement site manure applicators in 2013. Learn more about the training at www.iowacnaa.org or by contacting your nearest Iowa State University Extension Office.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs are sending eight players to the Pro Bowl after going from 2-14 last year to 11-5 this year and the No. 5 seed in the playoffs heading into Sunday’s regular-season finale in San Diego.
The NFL announced the rosters Friday night for the Jan. 26 game at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii.
Kansas City will be represented by running back Jamaal Charles, left tackle Branden Albert, safety Eric Berry, cornerback Brandon Flowers, defensive tackle Dontari Poe, linebackers Justin Houston and Tamba Hali, and punt returner Dexter McCluster.
That’s the highest number of Chiefs going to the Pro Bowl since the 2003 season, when they had nine. The Chiefs started 9-0 that year, just as they did this season, and lost in the divisional round of the playoffs to Indianapolis.
The Iowa chapter of the American Red Cross is wrapping up a busy 2013. It was a year of deadly tornadoes, fierce wildfires, and destructive floods around the United States. The regional communication officer for the Red Cross, Kara Kelly, says nearly 1,600 Iowans volunteered to help recovery efforts. “We sent a pretty large number of people, 21 volunteers, to the flooding in Colorado in the fall and we sent about 16 people to central and southern Illinois to assist with the tornadoes that happened in October,” Kelly says. However, most of the volunteer efforts take place within Iowa assisting people displaced by house fires.
“Normally what we do is attend to immediate needs, so generally it’s lodging, food, and clothing right away, then we’ll have a Red Cross caseworker meet with the family in the next couple of days and go over what a recovery plan would be,” Kelly says. The Red Cross responded to more than 400 house fires in the state during 2013.
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The Council Bluffs Police Department reports an attempted robbery and subsequent arrest on Friday (12/27/13).
At approximately 1:12pm 33-year old Kelton E Houts of Carter Lake entered the Union Pharmacy at 235 West Broadway in Council Bluffs and demanded that the clerk give him all of the Oxycotin they had and claimed he had a gun but never displayed it. Houts was given a bottle of the drug and as he attempted to exit the store he was pursued by employees that were able to catch him and hold him on the ground until officers arrived.
Houts was arrested and a BB pistol with CO2 cartridges were found on him and the pills were recovered. Officers also located Houts’ vehicle a short distance away and it has been secured pending processing.
Houts was first taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment of minor injuries he received during the scuffle with store employees. He was later taken to the Criminal Investigation Division where he provided detectives with a statement that led officers to believe he is linked to several other Robbery’s in the metro area. Houts was booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail on one count of 1st Degree Robbery with additional charges pending.
MARGARET PRINGNITZ, 76, of Anita died on Friday, December 27th at her home in Anita. Memorial services for MARGARET PRINGNITZ will be held 2-p.m. Thu., Jan. 2nd, at Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Anita.
Visitation with the family will be held from 12:30-until 1:30-p.m. Thursday (prior to the service), at the funeral home. Refreshments will be served at her home (206 Cherry St.), following the Committal Service.
Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery.
MARGARET PRINGNITZ is survived by:
Her daughters – Cathy and Paula Pringnitz, both of Anita.
Her son – Randy (Becky) Pringnitz, of Leanour, TX.
Her brother – Paul Hadley, of Romford, England.
3 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren and 2 step great-grandchildren.
MILDRED “MILLIE” SAUNDERS, 56, of Des Moines (Formerly of Manning) died Friday, December 27th at home in Des Moines. Funeral Services for MILLIE SAUNDERS are pending at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 53. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of snow showers and freezing drizzle before midnight, then a chance of flurries and freezing drizzle between midnight and 3am, then scattered flurries after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 6. Wind chill values as low as -10. Windy, with a south southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north northwest 20 to 25 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny and cold, with a temperature falling to around 3 by 9am. Wind chill values as low as -20. Windy, with a north northwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -3. Wind chill values as low as -15. North northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 14. South southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 15.
New Year’s Day: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 16.
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One person was killed and another injured during a head-on collision Friday afternoon, in Union County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 22-year old Samantha Neely, of Creston, died from injuries she suffered in a collision between her car and a pickup driven by 24-year old Brittany Marshall, of Clearfield. The accident happened just before 3-p.m. Friday on Highway 34, about 2-miles north of Kent, or about a mile east of the Adams/Union County line.
Officials say Marshall was driving a 2007 Dodge Ram pickup westbound on Highway 34, when she reached into the back seat.The truck crossed the center line of the road and hit an eastbound 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Neely. Following the collision, the pickup came to rest in the south ditch, while the car stopped on the shoulder of the road. Both women were wearing their seat belts.
Marshall suffered serious injuries and was transported by Union County Rescue to the hospital in Creston. Neely died at the scene. A passenger in the pickup was not injured.
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