Jim Field visits with Ashley Danielson of the Iowa Department on Aging about the Instructional Campus on Aging Nutrition program. To find out more or to register for the online program, visit: https://acl.gov/senior-nutrition/ican.
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(Creston, Iowa) – A motorcyclist from Missouriwas injured Thursday evening, during a collision in Creston. According to Creston Police, 58-year-old Lori Ann Clayton, of Creston, was driving a 2021 Buick Enclave SUV on Highway 34 east, in Creston, and had stopped to turn north into the Dollar General parking lot. A 2022 Kawasaki motorcycle operated by 32-year-old Anthony William Bigby, of Warrenton, MO., was also eastbound on Highway 34, when the cycle struck the rear of the SUV.
Bigby was transported by ambulance to the hospital in Creston, and subsequently flown by LifeFlight helicopter, to Methodist Hospital, in Des Moines. Damage from the collision amounted to $3,800. No citations were issued.
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Red Oak 5 Atlantic, 4
Creston 2 Denison-Schleswig, 1
Denison-Schleswig 4 Creston, 2
Lewis Central 10 Shenandoah, 2
Clarinda 8 Harlan, 5
Harlan 7 Clarinda, 6
Woodbury Center 8 St. Albert, 3 (NC)
Western Iowa Conference:
Logan-Magnolia 8 Stanton, 7 (NC)
Pride of Iowa Conference:
West Marshall 8 Martensdale, St. Mary’s, 2 (NC)
West Central Conference:
I35 11 Pleasantville, 1
Ogden 11 Panorama, 6
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Atlantic 11 Red Oak, 0
Atlantic 11, Red Oak, 0
Creston 7 Denison-Schleswig, 0
Creston 9 Denison-Schleswig, 2
Lewis Central 4 Shenandoah, 2
Clarinda 12 Harlan, 5
Clarinda 14 Harlan, 4
West Central Conference:
Ogden 9 Panorama, 6
Van Meter 8 Saydel, 7 (NC)
(Radio Iowa) – The summer travel season is starting to pick up with the Independence Day holiday. T-S-A spokesperson, Jessica Mayle (May-lee), works at the state’s busiest airport, and says they one key to successful air travel is to give yourself plenty of time by thinking about every step of your travel journey, not just going through T-S-A, but also parking your car, checking your bag getting to your gate. She says two hours is still the recommended amount of time you should give yourself when you’re flying out. Mayle says they see a lot of people who unintentionally bring items in their bags that can’t be taken on the plane and that can be avoided by starting with an empty bag.
You can learn what is and what isn’t allowed by going to the website, tsa.gov and clicking on the a feature called ‘What can I bring?”.You can type in the name of an item and it will tell you this can go in your checked bags or in your carry on.
(Radio Iowa) – When the full moon rises over Iowa next Monday night, it’ll be the first of what may end up being three “supermoons” in each of the next three months. University of Iowa astronomy professor Casey DeRoo says a supermoon occurs when the moon is closer to the earth in its orbit, making our natural satellite look larger than normal. Next week’s supermoon will appear about five-percent larger, and since it’s closer to us, it’ll be brighter, too.
DeRoo teaches the U-I’s general education course in astronomy for non-majors, and he says if you’d like to start moon gazing, you don’t need a fancy telescope, just using your eyes or even binoculars will offer a spectacular view.
CHARLES SHIRLEY, 85, of Walnut, died Thursday, June 29, 2023, at the Salem Lutheran Home. Per his wishes, no service will be held for CHARLES SHIRLEY. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca is assisting the family.
CHARLES SHIRLEY is survived by:
His sister – Joyce (Marvin).
2 former wives – Barbara, & Trudy Shirley.
His children – Lori (Lee), of Ames, Jolene (David), of Johnstown, CO, and Sam (Brinda) Shirley, of Walnut.
and 4 grandchildren.
(Radio Iowa) – Saturday, July 1st is the day dozens of state laws take effect, including the massive plan to reorganize state government. The number of state agencies is shrinking from 37 to 16. Next week, thousands of state employees will be reporting to new bosses. Another new state law changes child labor guidelines. It means 14 and 15 year olds can work until 11 p.m. for the rest of the summer and until 9 p.m. once school starts. Sixteen and 17 year olds can serve alcohol if they have a parent’s permission. Sixteen and 17 year olds also can work longer hours and in some jobs that were previously off limits.
Today (Friday) just before midnight is the deadline for low income Iowa parents to apply for a state-funded account to cover private school tuition. It will take a while to verify eligibility and whether there’s a spot in a private school for each child. According to the Iowa Department of Education’s website, July 15th is the earliest date the 76-hundred dollars in state funds will be deposited in one of these Education Savings Accounts.
(Radio Iowa) – U-S Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says as the U-S-D-A extends grants and loans for everything from broadband expansion to production of alternative crops, not all that spending has to be tucked into the Farm Bill. “Some of it’s going to be met through the Inflation Reduction Act. Some of it can be met through the normal budget process and some of it can be met by creative use of the Commodity Credit Corporation,” Vilsack says. “…If you use all the tools and all the tools are available, then we can get to a point where we have a Farm Bill that benefits the many and the most and not just the few.”
Congress appears on track to release a first draft of the 2023 Farm Bill this fall, close to the September 30th expiration of the last Farm Bill. Vilsack says it’s always tough to put a Farm Bill together. “Not so much because of the partisan challenges, but because of the geographic and commodity challenges and I think there’s also obviously a challenge relative to the financing of the Farm Bill,” Vilsack says. “but I think there is a genuine commitment on the part of both the House and Senate leadership on the Ag Committees to get to yes.”
The current Farm Bill, approved in late 2018, has provided subsidies for crop insurance, but 75 percent of the spending in the Farm Bill has gone to federal food assistance programs. Some House Republicans want to tighten eligibility for food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Vilsack says the Biden Administration considers the issue to be resolved after new food stamp work requirements were included in last month’s budget deal that raised the federal government’s borrowing limit.
“I think that there are probably some things that could be done to strengthen the states’ administration of SNAP that would help and I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t see that being discussed in the context of the Farm Bill, but I don’t think you’re going to see additional work requirements or things of that nature,” Vilsack says. “I think that issue’s been, as I like to say, snapped shut.”
Vilsack says congress will have to find a way to permanently raise the pay for firefighters in the Forest Service, which is part of the U-S-D-A. The 2021 infrastructure bill provided a temporary fix, but Vilsack says in order to keep enough people on the payroll to fight wildfires, congress has to put more money into the Farm Bill for their pay.
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