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Jim Field and Chris Parks discuss some of the fun numbers and stats behind the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
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A teenaged driver from Glenwood died at a hospital in Omaha following a crash Thursday night in Mills County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 17-year old Tanner Porter, who was wearing his seat belt, died at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after being flown from the scene of the crash off of 221st Street.
Authorities say Porter was traveling south on 221st Street in a 1997 Dodge pickup at around 8:15-p.m., when the vehicle left the road to the right and went out of control. The pickup rolled several times and hit a power pole before coming to rest in the west ditch.
A pair of national hunting organizations is announcing plans to hold their annual joint expo in Iowa next year. Des Moines is the 2015 host for the National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic. Rehan Nana is a spokesman for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever. “Iowa has a great outdoor heritage and this is our third time we’re going to be in Iowa for National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic,” Nana says. “It’s the only city we’ve been in three times and we had such a great time the past two, we want to make it back for number three.”
It was a natural move to return to the Hawkeye State for the event, he says, as Iowa has more chapters of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever than any other state — 104 chapters — with some 20-thousand members. “If you’re a pheasant hunter, if you’re an outdoors person at all, this is the best show for you,” Nana says. “Really from wild game cooking to bird dogs to habitat conservation and habitat management, all things under the sun.” Last month, Milwaukee hosted this year’s show. Des Moines last hosted the show in 2010. At that event, U-S Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Conservation Reserve Program general signup #39. That C-R-P effort has served as one of the U-S-D-A’s most successful conservation programs.
Nana says a significant sum of money has been invested in wildlife habitat projects in Iowa through the years. “Since 1985, there’s been over $45-million spent in Iowa based on all of our chapters’ efforts for over 111,000 habitat projects. That’s more than 1.1-million acres for wildlife there.” The event is planned for Iowa’s capitol city February 20-22 of 2015. Learn more at the website: www.pheasantfest.org
(Radio Iowa)
VEDA C. LARSEN, 86, of Audubon, died Wed., March 19th, at the Friendship Home in Audubon. Funeral services for VEDA LARSEN will be held 2-p.m. Sat., March 22nd, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
A family visitation will be from 12:30-p.m until the time of service, on Saturday at the Exira Lutheran Church.
Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery at Audubon.
VEDA LARSEN is survived by:
Her children – Eldon (Margo) Larsen, of Elk Horn; Janice (Richard) Emery, of Hamlin; Janet (Rick) Hansen, of Audubon and Janell (Tom) Bluml, of Audubon.
Her brother – Richard Anderson & fiance’ Loureen Sherod, of Brayton.
Her sister – Lola Bennett, of Carroll.
9 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, 3 step great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.
Police in Red Oak arrested 23-year old Devin Alexander Davis, of Red Oak, late Thursday night. Davis was taken into custody a residence in the 700 block of north Broadway Street, on a valid Montgomery County warrant charging him with Violation of his probation. Davis was being held in the Montgomery County jail on $15,000 cash bond.
HAROLD LITTLEFIELD, 86, of Exira, died Wed., March 19th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for HAROLD LITTLEFIELD will be held 10:30-a.m. Sat., March 22nd, at the Exira Christian Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present at 5-p.m. today (Friday, 3/21).
Burial will be in the Exira Cemetery.
HAROLD LITTLEFIELD is survived by:
His wife – Lavonne Littlefield, of Exira.
His children – Faye (Steve) Hays, of Newark, OH; Ted Littlefield & girlfriend Sylvia Edwards, of Phoenix, AZ; and Lori Jo Littlefield & Dennis Marquart, of Waterloo.
8 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, his sisters-in-laws, other relatives & friends.