w/ LaVon Eblen speaking with Kay Gerdes, Primghar PUblic Library Board Member, discussing a treasure in the attic
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Safety is important, no matter where you live. Officials with the Cass County Extension Service and Outreach invite area youth to join them for a Rural Safety Day on August 24th from 8:30 AM – 2 PM at the Cass County Fairgrounds. The event is free for all 4-6 graders in Cass County, who will learn how to keep themselves safe while working on or visiting a farm.
Youth will learn about first aid, safety around animals, unexpected hazards, electrical safety and much more. Lunch and resources will be provided by Cass County Extension and Outreach. Whether you’ve spent your entire life on the farm, occasionally visit friends or relatives on the farm, or have never set foot on a farm, there is something for everyone at Rural Safety Day.
To register, contact the Cass County Extension office at 712-243-1132 or xcass@iastate.edu before 4:30 PM on August 22nd. Youth will also need to have a health form on file with the Cass County Extension office to participate. These forms are available in the Extension office, or can be printed using the following link: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/cass/news/rural-saftey-day-set-august-24th.
This year’s Rural Safety Day will be full of hands-on fun and exploration. With the harvest season coming up and youth spending time outdoors in the cool fall weather, plan to attend this educational day for tips on staying safe this fall! Make sure to register by August 22nd to be a part of this fun-filled day.
DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) – The group working to build a 24-field youth baseball and softball complex near the “Field of Dreams” movie site is scaling back initial construction plans. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports dormitories for coaches and players have been removed from the first construction phase. The number of fields in the initial phase also has been reduced from 12 to six.
Denise Stillman is president and chief executive officer of Field of Dreams ownership group Go the Distance Baseball. She says the facility will open in time for the 2014 season, and the 25th anniversary of the movie starring Kevin Costner as an Iowa farmer who carves a baseball diamond out of a cornfield. Stillman says the group limited its plans to ensure the attraction doesn’t “overburden the hotel accommodation system.”
A traveling memorial honoring Iowa’s fallen veterans at the Iowa State Fair this week, and is scheduled be in Council Bluffs and Treynor, afterward. “Remembering Our Fallen” is a 40-by-10-foot display with pictures of Iowa veterans who died in the line of duty. Inlaid on each soldier’s military profile picture is an image provided by the family with memorabilia, red roses and handwritten letters. The memorial was created by Omaha resident Bill Williams and his wife.
“We had read a story about a father who had lost his son and his concern was that he would be forgotten,” Williams says. “That’s when we came up with the idea to create an exhibit of the pictures of the fallen, not to sit in a museum but to travel from town to town.” In 2011, Williams and his wife made the first memorial as a tribute to fallen Nebraska veterans. After officials from Bellevue University saw it, they sponsored exhibits for more states, including Iowa. Williams wants to create memorials for all 50 states.
“We have ten exhibits now and we’ve been notified of four new deaths in those ten states just in the last week and a half,” Williams says. “As soon as we hear about the latest fallen, we’ll find the photo online and we’ll run a picture of it, 8-by-10 or 5-by-7, and then we’ll put it in a frame and it travels with the exhibit.”
Williams only includes veterans killed in action since September 11th, 2001. He says he’ll continue adding soldiers until the United States ceases military operations in Afghanistan. Bob King, executive director of the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs, says unlike most memorials, this one allows the public see the faces of veterans. “You go to the cemetery and there are no faces, but you walk down through here and there’s Paul Fischer’s face and there’s Bruce Smith’s face and there’s David Kirchoff and Michael Deutch and David Resisnski,” King says. “It brings the remembrance a lot, lot closer to home.”
Retired Navy veteran Dean Kluss of Clarion, says the memorial may help people who haven’t served in the military understand the sacrifice soldiers make. Kluss says, “Today, while we’re here at the fair having a good time, there are people that are in harm’s way that potentially may give their life today for us to be able to enjoy these kind of freedoms.”
After the fair ends, the exhibit will move to cities throughout the state including Cedar Falls, Council Bluffs and Treynor.
(Radio Iowa)
(These amounts were reported by National Weather Service cooperative observers, local media, and through other, unofficial sources. 24-hour cutoff time is 7-a.m.)
Atlantic – KJAN (official NWS reporting site): 1.04″ through 8:45-a.m.; 24-hour = .81″)
Massena – .64″ (NWS observer)
Oakland – 1.39″ through 7-a.m. (NWS observer); 1.6″ (citizen report)
Glenwood – 1.10″ (through 6-a.m./NWS observer)
Avoca – .82″ to 1.10″ (various observers)
Wiota – .8″
Shenandoah – 1.33″ (KMA)
Red Oak – 1″
Villisca – 1″
Henderson – .52″
w/Marissa Hovde speaking with Andrea Farrior about animals available for adoption at the Atlantic Animal Shelter
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w/Jim Field speaking with Barb Fuller, ISU Nutrition and Health Program Specialist about preserving the taste of summer
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