The Stanton Community School District Board of Education has selected a new Superintendent for the District. During a special meeting this (Monday) morning, the Board voted unanimously to hire Terry Christie for the top position in the District for the 2012-2013 school year. Christie is a retired Superintendent with 11 years of experience at three different schools. He’s expected to begin his duties in an official capacity, on Tuesday. Christie succeeds retired Superintendent Judd Ashley.
Officials with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach say they want to hear from Iowans about how Iowa State in partnership with counties can best serve citizens. Five town hall meetings have been scheduled across the state, including a meeting in Atlantic on September 10th. The session takes place at the Cass County ISU Extension and Outreach Office, located at 805 West 10th Street, beginning at 10:30-a.m. Other meetings will take place in Ames, Storm Lake, Oskaloosa and Waterloo.
Cathann Kress, ISU Extension and Outreach vice president, and Terry Maloy, Iowa Association of County Extension Councils executive director, will participate in the conversations with Iowans. Kress says they are committed to listening to Iowans as ISU Extension carries out its mission. She says they want to gather feedback about what they’re doing well, where they need to improve, and what needs to be addressed. Kress says “All Iowans – citizens, community leaders, decision makers, partners, staff and extension council members – are welcome” to attend the meetings.
For more information about the town hall meetings or specific locations, please contact the Guthrie County Extension and Outreach Office at 641-747-2276.
ROBERT DALE “Paint Man” BLAIR, 87, of Marion (formerly of the Harlan/Council Bluffs area), died Sun., Aug, 19th, at Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Graveside services for ROBERT BLAIR will be held 1-p.m. Thu., Aug. 23rd, at the Harlan Cemetery. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan is in charge of the arrangements.
ROBERT BLAIR is survived by:
His wife – Lois Blair, of Marion, IA.
His sons – Craig (Vivian) Blair, of Marion, & Keith Blair, of Flandreau, SD.
His daughters – Deb (Mike) Burdette, & Lori Huffman, all of Boone.
His sister – Arletha Hockett, of Tennant.
11 grandchildren & many great-grandchildren.
Jim Field and Chris Parks talk about visiting the State Fair and seeing the one man band.
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Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call as Adair-Casey Won 52-26 over CAM in a game played August 17, 2012 in Anita.
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DIXIE LOU SPENCER, 79, of Hamlin, died Fri., Aug. 17th, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon. Per her wishes, cremation has taken place and a private family graveside service for DIXIE LOU SPENCER will be held at a later date. Hockenberry-England Funeral Home in Audubon is assisting the family with the arrangements.
DIXIE LOU SPENCER is survived by:
Her children – Norman Spencer of Coon Rapids; Vicki Blum of Omaha; Valerie Stetzel of Brayton; Don (Sue) Spencer of Ames, and Jeff Spencer of Hamlin.
Her sister – Carol Ann (Junior) Fleming of Audubon.
Her brothers – Jim (Elsie) Weaver of Indianola; Phil (Marty) Weaver of Norwalk, and Alan (Shelly) Weaver of Indianola.
12 grandchildren & 10 great-grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
Baby Boomers should call their doctor now and arrange to be tested for Hepatitis C. The Centers for Disease Control is making that recommendation after seeing a doubling of hepatitis c deaths since the late 1990′s. Dr. Mark Mailliard is a University of Nebraska gastroenterologist and says one in 30 Baby Boomers have been infected and that population is five times more likely than others to be infected with this virus. He says around half the population doesn’t know they have the condition, or about 2-million people.
Hepatitis C can cause one-out-of five patients to develop scarring of the liver, and one in 50 to 100 patients will develop liver cancer. Dr. Mailliard says treatment for Hep-C is available if detected early. If it’s not detected, the consequences could prove fatal. He says 15,000 people will die from it annually after 2020. He says since treatment is effective, they’re trying to identify the patients, now.
Mailliard says most patients who acquired it when they were in their 20′s have no symptoms until their 50′s. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 is recommended to get the one-time blood test. Hep-C is spread blood-to-blood. Mailliard says it’s thought that Baby Boomers have had more “risky behavior” overall than other age groups, that have resulted in their infections. He says up to this point, just doing the testing based upon identification of risk factors, have missed millions of people who have it. That’s why officials recommend persons born between 1945 and 1965, get tested.
Of more than 3-million Americans thought to be infected, two-thirds are in the Baby Boomer age group.
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Researchers at Iowa State University are on the verge of marketing a new product that promises to add more value to ethanol production. Hans van Leeuwen is a civil, construction and environmental engineering professor at ISU. He’s leading a team that’s converting ethanol leftovers into a food-grade fungus. “It’s turned out to be an excellent feed for poultry and it is also suitable for pigs,” van Leeuwen says. “We have conducted some extensive pig feeding trials and we are in the process of doing some more.”
The ISU researchers have produced the “MycoMeal” in a pilot plant in Nevada. Much of the stillage leftover from ethanol production is already turned into distillers dried grains that are sold as feed for cattle. Adding fungus to the remaining liquid from the stillage produces the MycoMeal. “This particular fungal material has a very high protein content and more importantly, some specific essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by the pigs,” van Leeuwen says. The researchers are still studying how MycoMeal effects tissue growth and intestinal health in pigs, but van Leeuwen says it could replace other forms of food for animals.
“It’s equivalent, more or less, to soy meal, which is more valuable that distillers dried grain. It could also possibly substitute for fish meal, which is even more expensive,” van Leeuwen says. “Fish meal sells for about $1,500 a ton, so if we can achieve substitution of all or part of the fish meal, that would certainly go a long way in making the ethanol plants more profitable.” Van Leeuwen believes MycoMeal could eventually prove beneficial to more than just ethanol, pig and poultry producers.
“When you think that millions of people die annually as a result of malnutrition in underdeveloped countries, particularly in tropical Africa, there’s a possibility of supplementing the diets of these people with this high protein, high essential amino acid MycoMeal,” van Leeuwen said. The production technology could save United States ethanol producers up to $800 million a year in energy costs, according to van Leeuwen. He also said the technology can produce ethanol co-products worth another $800 million or more per year, depending on how it is used and marketed. The fungi-production process has two patents pending.
(Radio Iowa)
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