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FOR SALE: Electric and acoustic guitars – $40 to $340. Please leave a message with phone number. 712-243-2408.
FOR SALE: WeatherTech floor mats, fit 2016-2018 Chevy Silverado Crew cab, $100. Call 712-249-1939. SOLD!
FOR SALE: 50-gallon L-shaped fuel tank. Fits in the back of a pickup. SOLD!
WANTED: 1) Schafer 3-point post driver. 2) 14ft Red Gate. Call 712-249-0233.
FOR SALE: 11 chihuahua puppies, some 4 weeks, some 3 weeks old, not ready yet. Some are short hair and some are long hair. Call for info. 789-9385.
FOR SALE: a set of torch hoses with gauges. Asking $200. Call 712-323-4890.
WANTED: Good used pickup, 4 wheel drive, extended cab. 249-8225.
FOR SALE: Royal Lace tablecloth, oblong 66″ x 84″. $15.00. Call 712-250-0920.
FOR SALE: Entertainment center. $35 obo. 4ft long 18 inches deep and 29 inches tall. Black entertainment center. Has 4 legs and 2 shelves. One of the pegs for shelves were lost by moving company and I just haven’t replaced. Call 402-890-3990. SOLD!
FOR SALE: Metal doll crib. Great Christmas gift for a little girl. $20. Call 712-249-2823.
FOR SALE: Heirloom Blue Vintage Dresser. 39”W, 20”D, 31 1/2”H. Asking $85. Call 712-249-2823.
FOR SALE: 1) 8-drawer file cabinet with full suspension for $50. 2) GE Electric Dryer for $40. Call 712-243-5447.
FOR SALE: Mercury Sable $300. 712-249-5742.
FOR SALE: Beige Swivel rocker and glider chair, like new condition, best offer. FREE delivery within a 30 mile radius of Exira may be possible. Would make a nice Christmas gift. 712-250-0311.
FOR SALE: I have around 32 to 35 porcelain dolls I would like to sell, am asking 10.00 each, or I would take 125.00 for all, they are in excellent shape and have always been in doll cases, I have pictures if interested, call or text 865-963-7499 Anita area ,would make excellent Christmas gifts!
FOR SALE: Couch and chair. Both are in good condition and are tan in color. $150. Call 712-774-5604. Please leave a message if there is no answer.
Members of the CAM School District’s retiring School Board will hold their last meeting tonight before turning over the reigns to the newly elected Board. During their 6:30-p.m. meeting in the CAM High School Superintendent’s Office, the retiring Board will act on accepting the Abstract of Election and the Treasurer’s Annual report for Fiscal Year 2019. Afterward, the Board will adjourn, and the Annual Organizational meeting of the New Board will be called to Order.
New Board members will be administered the Oath of Office, followed by the election/ Oath of Office to the Board President, Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer. The board will then act on administrative matters, including: The setting of their meeting dates, time and location; naming of depositories…official publications…designation of legal counsel, and other matters.
The Board is also expected to discuss: Facility projects; Open Enrollment applications, and Resignations. They’ll also act on approving the disposal of a bus through sealed bids.
(Submitted By Lora Kanning Cass County Conservation) — August 16, 2008 was my (Lora Kanning’s) first Breakfast with the Birds as our Cass County Naturalist. I remember being excited to have Kay Neuman confirmed for the program with a Great Horned Owl to release in Sunnyside Park. I also remember being disappointed by only 13 people coming out that year to the program. Fast forward 11 years, To August 2019, I was contacted by a homeowner Brenda Nelson who lived south of Atlantic, about a Great Horned Owl who she’s named “Henry” always lived near her property for the past 4 years. At the time, Henry was just oddly hanging out closer to her house instead of the woods, we chatted about how he was acting, all seemed fine. Until 8 days later she contacted me again with a video of him, super close to her house, on the ground, and frankly looked a little roughed up! I loaded up my Conservation vehicle and headed out that morning. After a little bit of poop, and a little chase, I rescued “Henry” and he was safely inside a carrier. I then called Kay Neuman with SOAR- (Saving Our Avian Resources) out of Dedham. I have learned my lesson don’t call Kay until the bird is in the carrier, there has been many a rescue where it takes more people or time to rescue the injured wildlife. When I was catching him, and putting him in the carrier, besides the skunk smell, he had some “extra jewelry” a bird band! Kay was available to meet up and safely transfer him to SOAR’s care. This is an example of a bird band encounter. If you find a banded bird you should report the band number and location to reportband.gov. The band encounter was reported and this great horned owl was banded by Kay before being released on the southwest edge of Atlantic, Iowa… 11 years ago! This is dispersal information, dispersal from release location for this owl, was Sunnyside park to where he was found was about 10 miles. This is important for a raptor rehabilitator to know – great horned owls may not travel or disperse very far from where released. The great horned owl pictured here is that banded owl in a flight pen regaining flight skills.
(HenryFlightPen.jpg Photo credit: SOAR)
Why band birds?
The data collected from the bird bander and from people that have an “encounter” with an already banded bird provide useful information for scientific research and management activities. Bird banding data helps biologists understand dispersal, migration, longevity, behavior, productivity, and more.
This great horned owl’s band encounter adds to the collection of reports for longevity. Curious about how long has a certain species has lived? Visit the BBL longevity search page: https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/longevity/Longevity_main.cfm Great Horned Owls like “Henry” can live up to 30 yrs old in the wild. He is estimated to be approximately 12 years old.
Differences between banding birds and using telemetry?
Both bands and telemetry must be put on the bird by someone with the banding permit. Data collected from band encounters is not (hopefully) quickly known by the bander. With raptors, band encounters may happen through research projects including hawk banding stations, through birds being admitted to a rehabilitator, or by birds being found dead in the field.
A telemetry unit permit is most often associated with a large-scale research project that has substantial funding and partner agencies. Tracking a bird with telemetry varies depending on the type of unit — a UHF unit that can be monitored using a handheld antennae, a telemetry unit that utilizes satellite technology, or a GPS-GSM telemetry system where data points are downloaded when the unit has cellular signal.
But back to “Henry”… Cass County Conservation was given updates on Henry every couple weeks to know his progress. Most likely “Henry” lost a fight with a skunk, Great Horned Owls are the #1 predator of Skunks in Iowa. Recovery from the spray probably directly to the eyes and a head injury. November came around, it started to look like he was getting very close to coming “home” to Cass County. We discussed dates, of course, mother nature with her high wind events pushed off his release a little bit. December 5th 2019 was a great day to come home, of course with the help of SOAR, Cass County Conservation Board and the homeowner Brenda, “Henry” was released right back where we found him. 
We would also like to thank Sandy McCurdy for volunteering to take the photos of the release. “Henry” of course was ready to go, he came right out of the carrier. He flew into the forest and sat in a tree for us for awhile. Checking out that he was back somewhere familiar! You can also checkout his release video on Cass County Conservation’s Facebook Page.
Many times wildlife rescue does not end with a happy story. Which is one of the reasons why we wanted to share “Henry’s” story with the residents of Cass County. Another reason is to raise awareness on how lucky we are in Cass County to have wildlife rehabbers regionally close to us like SOAR. SOAR runs on donations as a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1999 dedicated to saving our avian resources through raptor rehabilitation, education, and research. Your year-end donation will help us, stock freezers with the high quality food needed for our patients and ambassadors, buy blood lead testing supplies, and medications. Coming up on year end donations consider donating to SOAR, www.soarraptors.org.
(Radio Iowa) — An Iowa State University Extension dairy specialist says stress continues to be an issue for milk producers trying to deal with low prices. Larry Tranel is also a psychologist. “We’ve seen a lot of cycles in dairy over time — but we really haven’t seen one that had this big a tail on it where it lasted two, three, four years with the low prices,” Tranel says. “We actually take a look at the stress… even though the dairy prices have come back somewhat — we still find that the stress itself is going to have a pretty long tail on it as families try to recover from it.”
Doctor Tranel says the extended issues with low prices have taken a toll. “I’m seeing a level of stress that I probably haven’t seen in my 30-year career,” according to Tranel. “When we take a look at the magnitude of the stress — I would say it’s at a very a high level for the most part. Some have weathered the storm quite well — but there’s a lot of people that just really have a hard time.” He says dairy farmers are caught between a rock and hard place. “They can’t afford to get out for the assert values, he says, “but they really can’t afford to stay in either because of some cash flow issues that have lingered on for quite some time,” Tranel says.
He says the long-term nature of the dairy industry issues can take a toll. “When people have things we call acute stress — like you have a barn fire or a tragic accident or something just happens real quickly — you don’t have time to prepare for it,” according to Tranel. “But when you have this chronic stress — just day-in day-out for four or five years in a row dealing with that — that’s the kind of stress that eats at peoples nerve endings and gets them more irritable.”
Tranel says one of the techniques he recommends for people dealing with these situations is to write things down. He says it allows them to address the issues and move ahead. “As we do farm couple getaways where we bring in these farm couples to try to deal with communication issues, set goals on the farm, trying to transition themselves out of so much stress — the biggest thing they come back with is the fact that you made us write this down is what got us going to the next step. And if you wouldn’t have made us write this down — we’d be talking about this for the next 20 years,” Tranel says.
Tranel made his comments at the recent Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting.
(Ken Anderson of the Brownfield Network contributed to this story.)
Today: Cloudy & windy w/mixed precip. this morning changing to light snow (Less than 1″). Temps falling from the low 30’s into the upper teens. NW @ 20-40 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 8. NW @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 20. NW @ 10.
Wednesday: Mo. Cldy. High 27.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy. High 35.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic, was 48 Our Low was 28. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 28 and the Low was 6. The record High for Dec. 9th in Atlantic, was 62in 1946. The Record Low was -17 in 1917 & 2005.
348 AM CST Mon Dec 9 2019
Today and tonight: Drizzle or freezing drizzle will be followed by a quick shot of snow later this morning, which may affect the late morning commute. Gusty northwest winds will also develop with gusts up to
35 mph at times.
Tuesday through Sunday: Colder temperatures and the potential for temperatures or wind chills either side of zero are expected Tuesday and Wednesday mornings over northern Iowa.
Mills-Montgomery-Fremont-Page Counties..
…Patchy Dense Fog this Morning…
Areas of dense fog have developed early this morning across portions of far southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa where visibilities have been reduced to a quarter mile or less. These conditions will likely persist through 8 AM, before winds switch to northwest at 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts.
If traveling this morning, be prepared for rapid fluctuations in visibility.
No. 16 Seton Hall lost much more than a game in Ames, as starter Sandro Mamukelashvili broke his right wrist in the first half of a loss at Iowa State.Tyrese Haliburton scored 17 points, George Conditt had a season-high 17 off the bench and the Cyclones knocked off 16th-ranked Seton Hall 76-66 on Sunday for its second straight victory.Rasir Bolton scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half to help the Cyclones avenge an 84-76 loss on Nov. 29 to the Pirates (6-3) in the Bahamas.
Coach Kevin Willard said after the game that it was too soon to know how long Mamukelashvili might be out. “I don’t know for sure. It’s definitely broken. But we … have to go get an MRI tomorrow and let our doctors and radiologists read it,” Willard said. “There’s definitely a break in there, it’s just that we don’t know where it is.”
Seton Hall committed 20 turnovers and was outrebounded 43-40 despite having a major size advantage. The Pirates also gave Iowa State 33 tries from the line, and Cyclones made 26 of them. The Cyclones have been strangely awful at times this season shooting jump shots — even though they supposedly have enough shooters. It’s a problem that Iowa State will need to get sorted out before it threatens to sink their season. On the plus side, the Cyclones were active with their hands in forcing Seton Hall’s bigs to turn it over, and Haliburton delivered yet another signature performance.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Losing on the road to a Big 12 team that had the opportunity to play them 10 days ago shouldn’t cost the Pirates too much. Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum can be a brutal place for opponents — especially one that didn’t necessarily know what it was walking into.
UP NEXT
Seton Hall: At Rutgers on Saturday.
Iowa State: Hosts Iowa on Thursday night.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa (AP) — No. 16 Seton Hall lost much more than a game in Ames, as starter Sandro Mamukelashvili broke his right wrist in the first half of a loss at Iowa State.Tyrese Haliburton scored 17 points, George Conditt had a season-high 17 off the bench and the Cyclones knocked off 16th-ranked Seton Hall 76-66 on Sunday for its second straight victory.Rasir Bolton scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half to help the Cyclones avenge an 84-76 loss on Nov. 29 to the Pirates (6-3) in the Bahamas.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa says its former athletic director Bump Elliott has died. He was 94. Elliott was a star halfback at Michigan who won the Big Ten’s MVP award in 1947. Elliott became Michigan’s coach in 1959 and led the Wolverines for 10 seasons, a tenure that included a Rose Bowl win in 1964. Elliott, who was the Hawkeyes’ athletic director from 1970-1991, was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Bashaud Breeland knocked away Tom Brady’s fourth-down pass to Julian Edelman in the end zone and the Kansas City Chiefs survived a series of mistakes and questionable calls by the officials to hold off the New England Patriots 23-16. Combined with Oakland’s loss to Tennessee the Chiefs clinched the AFC West title. The loss ends the Patriots’ 21-game home win streak in the regular season and playoffs, was tied for the longest in team history. It was the third-longest string in NFL history.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Revolutionary players’ union leader Marvin Miller was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame along with former St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ted Simmons. Miller empowered players to negotiate multimillion-dollar contracts and to play for teams of their own choosing. Miller died at age 95 in 2012. He led the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966-82. He helped players gain the right to free agency after six seasons of big league service, to salary arbitration and to grievance arbitration. He led the union through five work stoppages and was an adviser during three more after he retired.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ted Simmons can thank WAR, on-base percentage and other modern measures of baseball players for helping him reach the Hall of Fame 31 years after he retired. The eight-time All-Star catcher was elected to the Hall of Fame by a veterans committee after falling one vote short two years ago. Simmons received 13 of 16 votes when the modern era committee gathered ahead of the winter meetings. Also elected was former players union chief Marvin Miller. Simmons was primarily a catcher in a 21-year big league career spent with St. Louis, Milwaukee and Atlanta.
UNDATED (AP) — In case you missed it in Week 14 of the NFL regular season: Jimmy Garoppolo turned in a confidence-building, career-burnishing performance to help the San Francisco 49ers come back to edge Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints 48-46 in a thrill-a-minute game. And Jimmy G. seems to be heating up just as Tom Terrific appears to be slowing down. Another top topic after Sunday’s games was the way Tom Brady and the rest of New England’s offense looked in a 23-16 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. The Patriots were hurt by three bad officiating calls.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has reached an agreement with Eliah Drinkwitz to take over the Tigers’ once-proud football program, a person familiar with the hiring tells The Associated Press. The 36-year-old Drinkwitz will become the second-youngest Power Five coach behind Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley. He will replace Barry Odom. He has only one season of head coaching experience, this past season at Appalachian State. His team went 12-1 and won the Sun Belt title. The Mountaineers will play UAB in the New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 21.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Tyson Etienne scored 19 points and had four assists to help lead Wichita State to an 80-61 victory over Oklahoma State. Erik Stevenson had 13 points and six rebounds, while Jaime Echenique also scored 13 points for Wichita State. Jamarius Burton contributed seven points, eight rebounds and 11 assists.
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