Jim Field visits with Gail Butler about the Atlantic Elks Bike Rodeo during Produce in the Park on Thursday, June 16 at 5:00 pm.
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Jim Field visits with Gail Butler about the Atlantic Elks Bike Rodeo during Produce in the Park on Thursday, June 16 at 5:00 pm.
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(Radio Iowa) – The report on vehicle travel from the D-O-T is showing some impact on the state roadways. Stuart Anderson told the Transportation Commission Monday that municipal traffic in recent months has lagged behind pre-pandemic levels — reflecting long-term trends now of more teleworking. “We did see in April an across the board and drop of about two percent in traffic counts statewide. And that was was really across the board and between rural and municipal,” Anderson says. Anderson says the higher cost of driving is likely behind the drop.
“That correlates really well with when we started seeing the big bump in fuel prices. That’s not inconsistent with what we saw the last time we saw a big increase in fuel prices back in the 2008-2009 time frame when I think traffic dropped to about five percent,” he says. He says the work-from-home trend is probably why the gas impact isn’t a big this time. “We may see a little more moderate of a drop since we already have a lot of people teleworking. So maybe that will temper this a little bit,” Anderson says. May traffic counts didn’t drop as much as April, and Anderson speculates that’s due to Memorial Day travel.
“Kin of the desire to travel over the Memorial Day weekend overrode the fuel price concerns. So maybe that’s a little bit of what we’re seeing in May, June data will be more perhaps meaningful about if there’s some more significant trends in travel based on fuel prices,” he says. Anderson says that’s very likely as gas prices have continued moving up after the holiday and into June.
(Radio Iowa) – A delegation of Iowa Department of Corrections staff have just returned from a trip to Poland for an international conference on prisons. Tennie Carlson, of Stratford, is a corrections officer with the Second Judicial District Department of Correctional Services. Carlson first went to Poland in 2019 as part of the Polish-American Development Council, which deals with the mental health of inmates. Carlson says, “It was my first opportunity to travel to Poland and educate them on the risk assessment that the Department of Corrections uses in assessing our clientele to determine their risk factors, their return to the community, if they’re likely to reoffend and that type of thing.” Carlson says Poland wants to bring its prison system up to modern standards, and doing a risk assessment is a big part of that.
“Poland does not have the luxury of those assessments so they really crave that information,” Carlson says. “They want to know more. They want to educate themselves on identifying those risks and then treating those offenders or clients according to their risk.” Offering an inmate too much help upon their release can backfire, she says. “Statistics show that if you offer low-risk clients a lot of services, they’re more likely to become more criminal,” Carlson says. “So you want to make sure that your dosage of treatment matches their area of risk and their need of risk. Iowa does a great job of identifying that and providing the correct dosage of treatment to our offenders.”
Carlson says a delegation of Polish prison officials will be visiting Iowa in the fall to take tours and exchange more ideas.
RONALD LEE MATHIASEN, 85, of Harlan, died Sunday, June 12th, at the Elm Crest Retirement Community. Funeral services for RONALD MATHIASEN will be held 10-a.m. Thursday, June 16th, at the First Methodist Church in Harlan. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Wed., June 15th, from 5-until 7-p.m.
Burial is in the Harlan Cemetery.
RONALD MATHIASEN is survived by:
His son – Curt Mathiasen, of Harlan.
His daughter – Suzanne (Kevin) Goshorn, of Harlan.
His sisters – Rosemary Petersen, of Elk Horn (IA), & Ann Wendt, of Omaha.
2 grandchildren and his sister-in-law, Jo Mathiasen, of Harlan.
Today: Partly-to Mostly Sunny and hot. High near 97. Heat index values as high as 104. S/SW @ 15-25 w/gusts to near 40 possible. **HEAT ADVISORY until 7-p.m.**
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms developing late. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 72. S @ 10. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Tomorrow: Showers ending early. Becoming P/Cldy. High 86. Winds becoming N @ 10-15.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 89.
Friday: P/Cldy. High near 90.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 100 (this beat the old record High of 96 set in 1987). Our Low this morning, 79. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 92 and the Low was 53. The Record High on this date was 97 in 1987. The Record Low was 41 in 1933.
(Winterset, Iowa) – Three members of the Madison County Ambulance Service are no longer employed with the county. According to KCCI, the county Board of Supervisors last week, voted to let go of Director Tadd Davis. Davis was put on administrative leave in May pending an investigation.
Two other employees also faced investigation, but their names were never disclosed. Last week, employee Bryan Snyder resigned from the service and Kayla Whitten had her employment terminated.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds has signed two bills into law that are designed to address a lack of treatment options for Iowans seeking mental health care services. One bill sets up a loan repayment program for students who agree to work in an underserved are of Iowa after they get a degree in the mental health field. Representative Timi Brown-Powers of Waterloo says it will hopefully boost the number of mental health professionals working in rural Iowa.
“Right now we are only meeting 40% of the need of mental health folks in the state of Iowa, so this bill through student aid, I hope, will expand feet on the ground, hands in the air for our folks with mental illness,” Brown-Powers said. The other new law will let a state board issue provisional licenses to doctoral students in psychology — so they can practice during their internship with a license psychologist.
Senator Jeff Edler of State Center says it’s another in a long line of bills that have addressed the workforce shortage in the mental health field. “You know this will help provide avenues for treatment for people in mental health distress,” Edler says.
Governor Kim Reynolds signed a total of 21 bills into law on Monday. One will let adults with liability insurance drive all-terrain vehicles on two-lane primary highways — if the A-T-V is equipped with headlights. Another will increase the state incentive to school districts that share superintendents, special education directors and school resource officers.
PRISCILLA McCLELLAND, 81, of Greenfield, died Monday, June 13, 2022, at the Community Care Center in Stuart. Funeral services for PRISCILLA McCLELLAND will be held 1:30-p.m. Saturday, June 18th, at the Greenfield United Methodist Church. Lamb Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.
The family will greet friends on Friday, June 17, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Lamb Funeral Home in Greenfield.
Burial is in the Greenfield Cemetery.
Memorials may be directed to the Priscilla McClelland Memorial Fund to be established by the family at a later date.
PRISCILLA McCLELLAND is survived by:
Her daughter – Lori (Mark) Ramsey, of Greenfield.
Her son – Steven McClelland, of Urbandale.
4 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.lambfuneralhomes.com.
(Shelby, Iowa) – Shelby County Emergency Management Coordinator Alex Londo reports that at around 6:24-a.m., Monday, the Shelby County 911 Center was notified of a structure fire on Des Moines Street, in Shelby, and that there were possibly people inside the residence.
Shelby Fire and Rescue, Minden Fire and Rescue, Medivac, Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, and Shelby County EMA responded. Two people were transported to the hospital. The fire is currently under investigation by the State Fire Marshalls Office.
Additional details were not released.
SOFTBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Shenandoah 1, Atlantic 0 (A: Zoey Kirchhoff 12 K’s, 4 hits and 1 run allowed)
Atlantic 8, Shenandoah 1 (A: Jada Jensen 3-4 with 2 doubles. Madison Huddleson bases loaded 3 RBI triple. Riley Wood 2 RBI double and 9 K’s in the circle)
Denison-Schleswig 5, Clarinda 2
Clarinda 7, Denison-Schleswig 4
Creston 15, Kuemper Catholic 14 (10 innings)
Creston 9, Kuemper Catholic 1
Glenwood 5, Harlan 0
Harlan 9, Glenwood 8
St. Albert 23, Red Oak 8
St. Albert 15, Red Oak 0
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 4, Tri-Center 2
Audubon 14, Riverside 1
Riverside 6, Audubon 5
Logan-Magnolia 12, Treynor 1
Underwood 5, Missouri Valley 4
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 8, Ar-We-Va 7
Boyer Valley 15, Whiting 1
Exira-EHK 13, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
Woodbine 10, West Harrison 0
Corner Conference
Fremont-Mills 12. Essex 2
Griswold 11, Stanton 1 (G: Karly Millikan 9 K’s, 2 hits allowed. Makenna Askeland 3-3 with two doubles, 3 RBI, 2 runs. Brenna Rossell 3-3 with 2 RBI and 3 runs.)
Sidney 15. East Mills 5
Pride of Iowa Conference
Bedford 6, Lamoni 4
Central Decatur 10, Moulton-Udell 3
East Union 10, Orient-Macksburg 0
Twin Cedars 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 0
Southeast Warren 12, Melcher-Dallas 0
Wayne 10, Murray 0
Other Scores
West Central Valley 15, Panorama 5
Winterset 10, Carroll 0
BASEBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 15, Shenandoah 2
Atlantic 12, Shenandoah 3
Clarinda 15, Denison-Schleswig 0
Clarinda 13, Denison-Schleswig 3
Creston 6, Kuemper Catholic 5
Kuemper Catholic 12, Creston 2
Harlan 7, Glenwood 3
Harlan 19, Glenwood 12
St. Albert 17, Red Oak 5
St. Albert 7, Red Oak 3
Western Iowa Conference
Audubon 10, Riverside 5
Treynor 15, Logan-Magnolia 0
Tri-Center 16, AHSTW 3
Underwood 8, Missouri Valley 1
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 10, Ar-We-Va 0 (C: Joe Kauffmann 3 hits, 2 RBI, 2 runs. Cade Ticknor 2 RBI, 1 run, 8 K’s)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 16, Exira-EHK 3
Woodbine 2, West Harrison 0
Corner Conference
Fremont-Mills 16, Essex 0
Fremont-Mills 30, Essex 3
Sidney 9, East Mills 8
Stanton 23, Griswold 2
Pride of Iowa Conference
Bondurant-Farrar 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 1
Central Decatur 25, Moulton-Udell 1
Roland-Story 5, Lenox 2
Roland-Story 13, Lenox 10
Southeast Warren 21, Melcher-Dallas 3
Wayne 23, Murray 8
Other Scores
ACGC 5, Woodward-Granger 1
Winterset 9, Carroll 1