Lavon Eblen speaks with Karla Akers, Tobacco Prevention and Care for Yourself Coordinator, about the Sisterhood of the Red Dress.
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Jim Field speaks with Bob Drogo about advances in rural telephone coops and Griswold Broadband.
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Cook first 7 ingredients in small amount of water. Mash salmon in separate pan. Add enough water to make soupy. Season with salt, pepper and garlic salt. Add oleo; simmer. Add to vegetables when vegetables are half cooked. When vegetables are cooked, add Carnation milk and enough whole milk to amount of soup desired.
Combine beef, egg, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, salt, onion and pepper; mix well. Shape into balls; brown in oil. Drain. Warm 1 tablespoon oil and pineapple juice over low heat. Mix cornstarch and sugar; add soy sauce, vinegar and water. Add to pineapple juice mixture. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add pineapple and meatballs; heat through. Serve.
A Council Bluffs care facility has been fined nearly $62,000 by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after a resident allegedly contracted gangrene following a fall and broken leg, and died. The Des Moines Register says the Regency Rehab and Skilled Nursing Center was also cited for 23 other violations during the past 12 months, including failing to follow physicians’ orders, but no fines were imposed for those alleged violations.
According to the report, the resident who died at the care facilty, had suffered a broken leg in September. A doctor gave the Regency staff instructions to keep an immobilizing device on the resident’s leg, to allow the bone to heal. He told inspectors that he assumed Regency staff would know to remove the device temporarily, to assess the resident’s skin and bathe the leg, as required.
The staff however, apparently failed to remove the device, and also applied ice to an open wound on the resident’s heel, constricting the blood vessels, and slowing the flow of blood to that area. In October, the resident was admitted to a hospital, with the foot apparently consumed by gangrene. State records said the foot was nearly black, due to “Negligence/no blood flow.” The resident died on October 27th.
Other, recent sanctions against Iowa Nursing Homes, include the Friendship Home in Audubon being fined $8,000 by the State, after a resident fell to the floor in a lounge area, and was knocked unconscious. The resident allegedly suffered a fractured hip, facial injuries and bruises to the head. State records say the resident died shortly after undergoing surgery to repair the hip.
Many locations in Iowa and Nebraska broke record high temperatures Monday, including here in Atlantic. The temperature at the KJAN studios (The OFFICIAL National Weather Service reporting station for the community), reached 65-degrees, which shattered the old record of 58, set 24-years ago (1988). Other sites broke records dating back more than 80-years. Lincoln, NE., reached a high of 71, Monday. The old record was 60, in 1931.
In Omaha, the previous record of 60 in 1974, was beat by 9-degrees (69), Monday. Sioux City set a record high temperature for January 30th, when the thermometer reached 65-degrees, breaking the record of 57 set in 1964. And, Des Moines also reached 65, which surpassed the old record high of 57, set in 1988.
Brad Small, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Johnston, says Ottumwa reached 65, breaking the old record of 59. Lamoni saw 63 degrees, knocking off the old record by three degrees. Webster City reached a high of 59, breaking the old record of 53 set in 1931. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says “it’s been a January for the ages.” That’s because Iowa has a 60-degree day in January about once every 10 years. There have been three so far this month, with a chance to hit 60 or higher somewhere in the state today.
The forecast temperature in Atlantic today, is 58. That would tie a record high set on this date, in 1892. There’s the possibility of snow, by Friday.