Chris Parks speaks with some of the top graduating seniors from Griswold High School: Anna Kelley, Lydia Greiman, and Hayden Smith.
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Chris Parks speaks with some of the top graduating seniors from Griswold High School: Anna Kelley, Lydia Greiman, and Hayden Smith.
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The Creston Police Department reports two recent arrests and a vehicle burglary. Authorities say 43-year-old Jennifer Rose Schaecher, of Greenfield, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center around 12:10-a.m. today (Friday). She was taken into custody on a Union County warrant for Theft in the 3rd Degree, and Trespass. Schaecher posted a $2,000 bond, and was released.
And, at around 9:20-a.m. Thursday, 27-year-old Marston Shane Randolph, of Alabama, was arrested in Creston for Violation of No Contact Protective Order. He was taken to the Union County Jail and later released on a Promise to Appear in court. Authorities said also, a woman residing in the 900 block of W. Adair Street, in Creston, reported Thursday morning, that someone had stolen keys, gift cards, and a boys baseball bat from her vehicle. The loss was estimated at $500.
The Iowa State Patrol reports two Ringgold County women were injured during an SUV rollover accident Thursday afternoon, in Decatur County. The Patrol says a 1995 Chevy Blazer driven by 50-year-old Debra Sue Percifield and accompanied by 20-year-old Crystal Hughes, both of Mount Ayr, was traveling westbound on Highway 69, west of Davis City, when the SUV drove off the road and onto the right shoulder. Percifield tried to come back onto the road, but she over-corrected and lost control.
The vehicle slid-off the road and entered the left ditch before rolling over and coming to rest on the passenger side. Percifield – who wore a seat belt – was transported by LifeFlight to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Hughes was transported by a family member in a third-party vehicle, to the Decatur County Hospital. She was not wearing a seat belt. A report the extent of the women’s injuries was not available.
Former Minnesota tight end Ko Kieft of Sioux Center could be a late round N-F-L Draft choice this weekend. Kieft created a name for himself with his ability to run block for a Minnesota team that was one of the top rushing squads in the country in each of the past two years. He has turned heads to the N-F-L scouts because of his dominating run blocking from the tight end position, with one scouting service labeling him the top run-blocking tight end in the nation last season. Kieft had 12 career receptions, including two touchdowns with the Golden Gophers. One of those TDs came against Iowa last year in Iowa City.
If he doesn’t get drafted this weekend, Kieft will certainly get a shot with an N-F-L team as a free agent signing. Since the end of the 2021 football season, Kieft has been working out in Minneapolis in preparation for his shot in pro football. Kieft says his toughness is the result of his upbringing.
Kieft says he visited Sioux Center a couple of months ago.
Kieft says wrestling in high school helped him become a better football player.
In front of family and friends Concordia-St. Paul sophomore Arika Robinson claimed the Drake Relays heptathlon title. Robinson won four of seven events to finish with 5029 points.
Robinson dominated the sprints and jumps. She won the long jump and the high jump.
Offensive tackle Trevor Penning became the first UNI player selected in the first round of the NFL Draft after being taken by the New Orleans Saints with the 19th pick. Penning joined family and friends at a watch party in Clear Lake.
Penning has been known for playing with a nasty streak.
UNI coach Mark Farley on having a first round pick.
Farley on what it means for the program.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/showers ending this morning; P/Cldy to Cldy this afternoon, w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 70. SE @ 15-25 mph.
Tonight: Mo. Cldy w/shwrs & tstrms. Low 52. S @ 10-15 mph.
Tomorrow: Shwrs & tstrms ending, becoming P/Cldy. High 58. W @ 20-35 mph.
Sunday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High around 60.
Monday: Mo. Cldy w/shwrs & tstrms. High near 62.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 74. Our Low was 50. Rainfall overnight through early this morning amounted to .8″ (8/10 of an inch). Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 78 and the Low was 35. The Record High was 93 in 1987, and the Record Low was 22, in 1958.
(Radio Iowa) – The snow is finally gone and what’s now being found along many Iowa roadways isn’t pretty. Hamilton County Sheriff Doug Timmons says he’s hearing frequent complaints from residents about garbage dumping in ditches.
“If we are able to figure out who it is, you will be charged,” Sheriff Timmons says. “We’ve also had complaints of people dumping tires out in the ditches. If we’re able to identify who’s doing that, you will be charged criminally, be put in jail, plus a fine and plus landfill fees.” That can be an expensive, embarrassing predicament when there’s a clear, better option to illegal dumping.
“There’s been a big increase in that,” Timmons says. “Go to the landfill. A pickup load, I believe it’s right around $10. You can get rid of a whole pickup load of stuff at the landfill and keep Hamilton County looking good.”
To report illegal dumping in Iowa, call 800-NOLITTR. The Keep Iowa Beautiful hotline offers options to report littering and information on how to adopt a roadway, park, river, lake or other public area.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Walleye Challenge — a statewide catch-and-release fishing tournament — starts this Sunday, May 1st. There are weekly prizes over the next two months, but the ultimate catch will be the data entered in a smart phone app. Sean Simmons is president of MyCatch — the app for recording the location where the walleye are caught and a photo of the fish before it’s released it back into the water.
“This is an experiment,” Simmons says. “We’re going to see how well we can collect data across the state and see if this will be a useful tool to help the Iowa DNR to get a better state of the walleye fishery.” One key part of the tournament is taking a photo to show the size of walleye being caught in Iowa. Simmons says participants can use a tape measure or what’s called a bump board.
“It’s like a yard stick with a bump at the zero,” Simmons says. “So you put the nose of the fish against the bump and you take a picture of the fish on the bump board.” A team will review the photos and determine if the fish meets the guidelines of the contest. There will be a live leaderboard on the app, showing who has caught the largest walleye. Simmons stresses that the goal isn’t to pull a lot of walleye out of circulation, however.
“We’re not against harvesting, but because we’re running this across the state and encouraging people to report as many fish as they can catch, we don’t want to unnecessarily deplete the resource,” Simmons says. “so the idea is to promote the release of the fish shortly after you catch them.” Staff in state-run fisheries stock walleye in lakes across the state and conduct surveys in a handful of lakes and rivers to try to estimate the walleye population. Simmons is providing his app to the State of Iowa to not only collect data on the size of walleye that are caught over the next two months — but anglers are being asked to type in where they caught their fish. Simmons says secret fishing spots will stay secret.
“We will identify which water body it’s in, like the Des Moines River or the Rathbun Reservoir,” he says, “but the exact location is never revealed publicly.” Simmons says the important part of the tournament is collecting as much information as possible, so prizes aren’t necessarily going to go to the person who catches the largest fish — and there will be prizes for people who don’t catch ANY fish. The MyCatch app has been used for several competitive fishing tournaments in Canada and at a few locations in the United States.
“Ran the Ontario Ice Fishing Challenge where towns across Ontario competed to see who would be the ice fishing capital of Ontario,” Simmons says. The MyCatch app handled over 700 participants who caught-and-released 12-thousand striped bass in the Miramachi Cup in New Brunswick last October.
You can find information about the Iowa Walleye Challenge on www.radioiowa.com.