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LaVon Eblen visits with Frank and Kim Spillers of Global Horizons about their community conversations.
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Iowa farmers are moving into their fields to harvest crops. Despite some wet conditions across sections of the state last week, a new report shows Iowa farmers made progress in harvesting corn and soybeans.The USDA’s survey indicates six-percent of the Iowa corn crop and 16-percent of the soybean crop had been harvested through October 1. The corn harvest is nearly two weeks behind average, while the collection of soybeans is just three days behind average. The USDA rates 60-percent of corn crop in good to excellent condition, while 61-percent of the state’s soybean crop is rated good to excellent.
(Radio Iowa)
(UPDATE 10/4/17– The truck was found by a Clearfield resident. It is no longer missing. Thanks for keeping an eye out!)
The Union County Sheriff’s Office says a Creston man’s pickup was stolen sometime between 8-p.m. Monday and 6-a.m. today (Tuesday). The red, 2011 Ford Ranger pickup with Iowa license plate 023 YXL was taken while it was parked at the man’s residence located in the 2300 block of High & Dry Road, in Creston. The pickup has a silver toolbox mounted in the bed. The loss was estimated at $10, 500. If anyone has any information with regard to the theft or location of the vehicle, please call the Union County Sheriff’s Office at 1-641-782-8402, or your local law enforcement agency.
A vehicle ended-up in a Union County Lake Monday night, after the driver, who authorities say was speeding and operating in a reckless or careless manner, lost control of the vehicle he was driving. The Union County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened at around 11:17-p.m., Monday, as 20-year old Darian Scott Stone, of Davenport, was driving a 2004 Ford Taurus. Stone was traveling around the McKinley Lake gravel spillway in Creston, when he lost control of the car, which entered the lake on the west side. Stone, and his passenger were not injured during the incident. Damage to the car was estimated at $5,000. Stone was cited for Failure to have a valid driver’s license.
The Nodaway Valley Wolverines swept the podium at their home cross country meet on Monday night.
On the boys side the Wolverines coasted to the title with 19 points. They had 6 of the top 10 runners. Earlham was runner-up with 76 points. Brycen Wallace won the race, Josh Baudler was 2nd, Skyler Rawlings 3rd, and Tyler Breheny was 4th. Ben Breheny came in 9th while Joel Blazek was 10th and Austin Lundy was 13th.
In the girls race Nodaway Valley scored 78 points to edge out Earlham for the team title by a point. Regan Weinheimer led the Wolverines with a 4th place finish, Sophia Broers was 5th and Mallory Kuhns came in 11th.
A traffic stop on a speeding SUV Sunday morning in Pottawattamie County, resulted in the arrest of a Minnesota man on a drug charges. A Sheriff’s Deputy stopped the SUV on Interstate 80 eastbound a little after 9-a.m. Sunday, near Council Bluffs. Authorities say a “free air sniff” by a Police Service Dog around the vehicle, resulted in the animal alerting to the presence of narcotics inside the vehicle. A search was conducted, during which 10.8-pounds of marijuana was found in the cargo area of the SUV. The weed was in several containers located in a black duffle bag. The driver of the vehicle, 47-year old Michael Steve Gudowski, of New Hope, MN., was placed under arrest for Possession with the Intent to Deliver or Distribute, Marijuana.
And, a man from Oakland was arrested at around 9:15-a.m. Monday, after Deputies investigated a reported Theft from the Casey’s Store, in Oakland. 18-year old Tristan Michael Herrera allegedly took a can or dispenser of Butane valued at $2.39. Herrera was arrested for Theft in the 5th Degree.
Woodbine hosted a Co-Ed cross country meet on Monday night and the meet also served has the Rolling Valley Conference Championships.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Rolling Valley Girls Team
Rolling Valley Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Rolling Valley Boys Team
Rolling Valley Boys Individual
Full Results: WoodbineXC
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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September wrapped up as a very warm, dry month for Iowa, an about-face from the month before. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says during the last week in the month, Iowans endured temperatures much warmer than normal, well into the 90s in many areas. “The month started out rather on the cooler side. The first seven or eight days, temperatures were well below normal,” Hillaker says. “The rest of the month, with a few small exceptions, was very much on the warmer side. The month as a whole ended up being about 4 degrees above normal for temperatures.”
It ended up being the 11th warmest September in Iowa out of 145 years of record-keeping. Coincidentally, the prior month was the 12th coolest August in Iowa on record. The hottest day of September fell on the 23rd when Iowa City reported 95 degrees, while the coldest report was 35 degrees, both on September 7th in Stanley and on September 30th in Cresco. Rainfall during September was widely varied across Iowa.
“A very dry first half of the month, very little rain anywhere in the state the first half of September,” Hillaker says, “but the rainfall became much more common in the second half of the month, though most areas ended up well below normal.”
While the Fairfield and Ottumwa area was among the driest areas in the state, a storm system on September 20th into the 21st dumped almost eight inches of rain on that area. It ended up making Fairfield/Ottumwa the wettest area in Iowa for September, with nearly nine inches of rain during the month. Burlington had the least rain with only five-hundredths of an inch for the month. As for the month ahead, Hillaker says October promises to be a bit wetter than usual and a potential rollercoaster for temperatures. “Expecting temperatures to average warmer than normal for the month of October, although it does look like we’ll have a fairly cool period for the second week in the month,” Hillaker says. “It’s expected to warm up again after that. On rainfall, it’s slightly favoring above-normal precipitation.”
He says substantial rainfall is possible during this first week in the month. The month of September in Atlantic was nearly five-degrees warmer than normal for a High and three-degrees warmer than the average Low. It was deficient in the form of rainfall, however. Weather data compiled here at KJAN (the official National Weather Service records-keeping site for Atlantic) show the Average High for the month was 81, which was 4.6-degrees warmer than the norm of 76.4. The hottest day was Sept. 22nd, at 92 degrees. The Average Low was 54.1-degrees, which was 2-degrees above the norm of 51.1. The coolest mornings were on the 6th and 7th, when our Low dropped to 40.
Our normal High for the month of October in Atlantic, is 64, while the average Low is 39. Rainfall during the month amounted to 1.65 inches. We normally see 3.81 inches. The most amount of rain (.72″) fell on the 25th. Rainfall in October typically amounts to 2.76″ in Atlantic.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN records)