Jim Field visits with Ted Robinson about the Atlantic Rotary Club’s Pancake and Sausage Flight Breakfast at the Atlantic Airport on July 4 from 7:00 am – 11:00 am.
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Jim Field visits with Ted Robinson about the Atlantic Rotary Club’s Pancake and Sausage Flight Breakfast at the Atlantic Airport on July 4 from 7:00 am – 11:00 am.
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Weather data compiled at the KJAN Studios for the month of June, show we were a little warmer than normal temperature-wise, but below normal for rainfall, despite two days when we received over 1.5-inches of rain. The average High last month was 85 (two-degrees above normal). The average Low was 61 (also two-degrees above normal). Rainfall amounted to 3.9 inches, as compared to the normal 4.98-inches. We had two significant, separate hail events, on the 7th and 14th.
The hottest June day was on the 13, when we reached 100 degrees. Looking at the norms for July, the High averages 86, the Low 63, and rainfall typically totals just under 5-inches (4.62″). We’ll let you know how the actual numbers fared for July, on August 1st.
(Creston, Iowa) – Police in Creston, Thursday night, arrested a man on an assault charge. 39-year-old David William Fister, of Creston, was arrested at his residence for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st Degree. He was later released from the Union County Jail, on a $300 bond.
It all happened pretty quickly, but the Big Ten will be the first conference to stretch from coast to coast. Thursday, the Big Ten voted to add Southern California and UCLA in 2024.
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said both schools submitted applications for membership and were unanimously approved by the Council of Presidents and Chancellors.
The Pac-12 was apparently caught off-guard by the move as both schools have been members of the conference for nearly 100 years. They will join the Big Ten in 2024 to allow the current Pac-12 media rights deal to expire.
This will expand the Big Ten to 16 teams and becomes the second big conference shift in the last year as Oklahoma and Texas will be moving from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference in 2025.
Iowa State picked up a commitment from a Missouri defensive lineman Thursday. Trevor Buhr, a 6′-4′ 270 pounder selected the Cyclones over offers from Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Central Michigan.
Buhr is the 16th player in the 2023 commitment group for the Cyclones.
247Sports ranks Buhr as the 22nd overall recruit in the 2023 class from Missouri.
Des Moines, Iowa – An eastern Iowa family whose son died in an accident on a water ride in Altoona, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit associated with his death. The suit filed in state court by David and Sabrina Jaramillo, of Cedar Rapids and three of their children, alleges Adventureland Park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides.
The family, including 11-year old Michael Jaramillo, were on the Raging River ride at the park on July 3, 2021, when the raft carrying all six family members flipped over trapping them beneath the water. Michael Jaramillo drowned and other family members were injured.
The family seeks to recover monetary damages for negligence. An attorney for the park says safety has always been a priority and a number of extraordinarily unusual factors came together to cause the accident.
The Department of Natural Resource’s (DNR’s) Derelict Building Grant Program (DBGP) has awarded grants to the Cities of Carson and Griswold. The program was created by statute to help rural communities with populations of 5,000 or less, remove environmental hazards, improve community appearance and minimize costs by recycling and reusing building materials through deconstruction or renovation of abandoned, derelict buildings that have sat vacant for at least 6 months. Established in 2011, the program has assisted 56 communities, diverted over 35,000 tons of materials, and saved over $1 million in landfill disposal costs.
The City of Carson (Pottawattamie County) was awarded $69,891 and $66,884 to abate asbestos and deconstruct old commercial buildings at 119 Broadway Street and 121 Broadway Street. The city plans to develop the space into a new daycare center.
The City of Griswold (Cass County) was awarded $94,625 to abate asbestos and deconstruct an old commercial building. The city plans to develop the space into a new daycare center.
Other grants were provided for the following communities in western Iowa…
City of Mapleton (Monona County) – $22,900 to abate asbestos and deconstruct an old commercial building. City plans to have a new space for commercial redevelopment.
City of Sac City (Sac County) — $80,275 to abate asbestos and deconstruct an old commercial building. City plans to develop the area into a trail head and green space for farmer’s market.
DBGP funding is awarded annually on a competitive basis with cash matches required. Applications for the next funding round will be due on Feb. 24, 2023.
HAWKEYE TEN CONFERENCE
MISSOURI RIVER CONFERENCE
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HAWKEYE TEN CONFERENCE
WESTERN IOWA CONFERENCE
MISSOURI RIVER CONFERENCE
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(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s only national cemetery, created by President Lincoln during the Civil War, is said to be a beautiful, peaceful place, but the street leading to the manicured graveyard is a pot-holed moonscape. Keokuk Mayor Kathie Mahoney is making an appeal for money to replace the eight blocks of road, sidewalks and infrastructure that leads from the town’s Main Street to the federal landmark. “Basically what today is, more than anything, we are trying to create awareness,” Mayor Mahoney says. “We’re asking our government, we’re asking state, federal and our county government, too, and our local government, to help in this project.”
The $3.2-million dollar price tag is a small sum to pay, she says, to honor the six-thousand-plus veterans and their family members for whom it’s the final resting place. “In that group of people is one U.S. Supreme Court justice, Samuel L. Miller,” Mahoney says. “There are 600 Civil War veterans buried in our cemetery. There are eight Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery and there are 11 unknowns. And there are five Civil War generals buried there, too.” During the Civil War, the federal government opened five military hospitals in Keokuk. The sick and wounded were transported to them by riverboats on the Mississippi.
The Keokuk National Cemetery is one of 12 original national cemeteries designated by Congress and it’s on the National Register of Historic Places. The white headstones are all uniform and in neat rows, as it was modeled after Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. “It’s an amazing place. I mean, it takes your breath away,” she says. “We have a ceremony every Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and if you have to speak, it brings you to tears to think about what those people, those soldiers, did for us and how they died for us and then here we are honoring them and the place is just beautiful — and the road is just crappy.”
That road is Keokuk’s South 18th Street, but in a ceremony today, it was renamed “The Road of Honor,” the first step toward renovation.