Sheriff’s officials in Mills County say a Council Bluffs man was arrested Sunday evening on an assault charge. 76-year old Randers Benedict Strand, Jr., was arrested at around 6:45-p.m. His bond was set at $300. And, 21-year old Joshua Scott Roop, of Lincoln, NE, was arrested Friday morning at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, on a warrant for OWI/1st Offense. His bond was set at $1,000.
An educational event scheduled to take place Thursday, July 18th, will teach parents, community volunteers, teachers and anyone who works with children, how to protect them, and those persons who care or educate children. The “Safe Community” program will be held from 5:30-until 7-p.m. at Iowa Western Community College (705 Walnut St.), in Atlantic.
The program is being provided by the Cass County Child Abuse Prevention Council. To pre-register, or for more information, call 712-243-8006, extension 3375.
An educational workshop taking place over the course of six-weeks beginning next Monday, July 8th in Red Oak, is being offered to provide caregivers with tools necessary to take care of yourself, so you are better prepared to take good care of your loved one. Participants in the Powerful Tools for Caregivers program will learn how to: reduce stress, improve self-confidence, better communicate your feelings, balance your life, increase ability to make tough decisions and locate helpful resources. The six-week course was offered in Atlantic this past winter. Participants who missed their chance to attend at that time may be interested in attending an upcoming training being held in this area.
Iowa State University Extension & Outreach is sponsoring Powerful Tools for Caregivers in Red Oak this July-August. Classes consist of six, 2-½ hour sessions held once a week. Two trained leaders, Charlotte (Kay) Myers, and Sandra McKinnon, extension family life specialist, conduct each class. Interactive lessons, discussions and brainstorming help you take the “tools” you choose and put them into action for your life.
Sessions are scheduled every Monday for six weeks beginning on July 8. Classes will be held at the Montgomery County Extension Office in Red Oak from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. There is a $30.00 fee for the program. Participants receive a Caregiver Helpbook (a $30 value). To register, contact the Montgomery County Extension Office at 712-623-2592. More information is available at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/montgomery.
The Cass County Extension office is also looking for local individuals interested in being trained to deliver this program regularly in the CassCounty and surrounding areas. A trainer stipend and expense reimbursement is available. For more information, please call 712-243-1132 or visit www.extension.iastate.edu/cass.
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The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports one person was treated for unknown injuries following an accident Friday afternoon on the south side of Corning. The accident involving vehicles driven by 52-year old Brian Hanson and 19-year old Cody Morris, took place at around 2:10-p.m. Friday, at the intersection of Highway 34 and Loomis Avenue.
Officials say Hanson was traveling west on Highway 34 when his 2000 Lexus hit the driver’s side door of Morris’ 2000 Pontiac Sunfire, as Morris was turning to travel east onto Highway 34 from Loomis Avenue. Morris was treated for his injuries, while Hanson was uninjured.
Today: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Independence Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. South wind 5 to 11 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 85.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 88. Breezy.
Softball Scores…
Hawkeye 10
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Hawkeye 10
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After many months of drought followed by Iowa’s wettest spring on record, the month of June wrapped up as one of the more “normal” months we’ve had in some time. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the past month saw both temperatures and precipitation that were nearly dead on. Rainfall averaged about 5″ for the month and 5.02″ is normal for June, while temperatures were only about a half-degree cooler than normal. While the precipitation may have balanced out statewide as being near-average, Hillaker says the amount of rainfall some areas of Iowa received during the month was anything but common.
Northeastern parts of Iowa saw a lot of rain and flooding while one community in Allamakee County had almost 14″ of rain during June. That’s a far cry from many parts of southeast Iowa and far western Iowa, some areas of which only got 2″ of rain during the month, less than half the norm. Likewise, while temperatures averaged out to being essentially normal for June, the mercury was up and down all during the month.
June started off very cool with the first 10 days of the month all below-normal while much of the rest of the month was abnormally warm. Temperature extremes during the month ranged from 94-degrees in Sioux City on June 21st down to only 37-degrees on June 3rd in Elkader, one of the coldest June readings in Iowa in many years. As for the month ahead, Hillaker says Iowa could be in for near-normal temperatures and precipitation during July. High temperatures this week will be in the 70s and 80s. Last year at this time, highs soared in the 90s across the state in what was the beginning of one of the hottest Julys in Iowa history.
The month of June was slightly wetter and cooler than normal, here in Atlantic. According to weather data compiled here at the KJAN studios (The official National Weather Service reporting site for Atlantic), rainfall for the month amounted to 5.03-inches, which was just .05″ (five one-hundredths of an inch) above the average of 4.98″.
The average high temperature for the month was 80 (normal average is 83), and the average low was 56 (normally, 59). Precipitation thus far this year (from January through June, including melted snowfall), amounts to 18.68″ (normal precip. for the period is 16.91″).
(Radio Iowa/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson)
Monday’s Games (7/1/13)
Iowa 4, Memphis 2
Omaha 2, New Orleans 1, 12 innings
Tuesday’s Games (7/2/13)
Memphis at Iowa, 7:05 p.m.
New Orleans at Omaha, 7:05 p.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The recent defeat of the House farm bill highlights how Congress’ country-city political marriage is becoming another victim of partisan politics in polarizing times. And the divorce throws into doubt the future of sweeping agriculture and nutrition spending. Newly emboldened conservative groups pressured Republican House members from rural states last month with radio ads and email blitzes to oppose the five-year, $940 billion bill. They call its proposed cuts to food stamps too little.
Democrats in urban districts that are home to food-stamp recipients refused to make cuts they call too deep. Each party was fearful of angering their core supporters — the height of partisanship over a measure that long had been immune. Pennsylvania Democratic congresswoman Allyson Schwartz says the lack of cooperation wouldn’t have happened in past years.
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