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Local 24-Hour Rainfall Totals Reported at 7:00 am on Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Ag/Outdoor, Weather

May 31st, 2022 by Jim Field

  • KJAN, Atlantic  .56″
  • 7 miles NNE of Atlantic  .44″
  • Massena  .19″
  • Elk Horn  .27″
  • Anita  .36″
  • Audubon  .32″
  • Oakland  .28″
  • Bridgewater  .3″
  • Corning  .44″
  • Villisca  .41″
  • Manning  .06″
  • Red Oak  .35″
  • Clarinda  .53″
  • Carroll  .1″
  • Shenandoah  .3″

Cardinals beat Padres on Memorial Day

Sports

May 31st, 2022 by admin

Paul Goldschmidt blasted a two-run home run in the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-3 on Memorial Day.

Nolan Gorman had three hits, including a home run, and drove in two runs and scored 2. Andre Pallante picked up the win on the hill going 3 1/3 innings with 5 strikeouts and giving up one run.

The Cardinals improved to 27-21 on the season with the victory. The two teams meet again on Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. Pregame on KJAN will start at 5:50 p.m.

Atlantic City Council meeting preview

News

May 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic City Council will meet in a regular session Wednesday, their first for the month of June. Among the action items on their agenda, is

  • An order to set the date of a Public Hearing for Amending the FY 2022 Budget, as June 15, 2022. City Administrator John Lund, in his agenda notes, said “Traditionally, Atlantic only needs one amendment to reconcile our finances. Unfortunately, spending has continued at a pace where a second amendment is going to be necessary.” Lund added, “This will be the first time since I became an employee of the City in March of 2011, that this has been necessary.” He warned that following a “post mortem on the FY 22 Budget, there will be “extensive discussion on revenues and spending this summer and fall, with our Department Heads.””
  • The Council is also expected to hold a Public Hearing on an Ordinance “Adopting the proposed amendments to the City of Atlantic Zoning Code, 2018,” followed by the first reading of the Ordinance, which pertains to signs in residential zones. The Zoning Commission adjusted the language ordinance to allow for “One sign located on the building, and one monument sign, per each street frontage, with each sign not to exceed 24 square feet in surface area, displaying information for churches, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, clubs, offices, libraries or similar uses….such signs may be illuminated.”
  • There will also be a Public Hearing on the sale of City-owned property at 611 Linn Street, as previously mentioned in our newscasts, and, action on a Resolution to sell the lot to Henningsen & Baragary, LLC, for the sum of One-dollar. The buyer has agreed to build a $300,000 home on the parcel, which exceeds the application minimum.

In other business, the Atlantic Mayor Grace Garrett, with the Council’s approval, will proclaim June 13-17, 2022, as Ride Transit Week, in Atlantic. The City has previously agreed to budget $8,000 to help fund the Southwest Iowa Transit Agency (SWITA), which operates under SWIPCO. During FY 2021, SWITA provided more than 377,000 rides, and their buses traveled more than 1.8-million miles, combined.

Iowans are warned to get colon cancer screenings earlier, in mid 40s

News

May 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The guidelines are changing for the age at which people should begin getting screened for colon cancer, which is the third most common cancer in Iowa and the second leading cause of cancer death. Dr. Samir Shah, president of the American College of Gastroenterology, says screenings should now start at age 45, not 50. “Colon cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer death in both men and women and the third-most common cancer in both groups,” Shah says. “It’s so important to screen for it because, of all the major cancers, it’s the most preventable. It can be prevented in 90% of patients with proper screening.”

Beginning the screenings five years earlier raises the chances of survival if cancer is found. He says studies are finding that late-stage colon and rectal cancers are increasing dangerously among younger people. “If you’re 45 and older, call your primary care provider and say ‘It’s time for my colonoscopy,’ and they’ll say, ‘Yep, we’ve been meaning to call you, the guidelines just changed,’ and then they’ll give you a menu of options,” Shah says. “The option that’s the best is the colonoscopy because it’s a one-stop shop. If they find polyps, they will remove them and you’re all set.” For Iowans who would prefer not to start with the colonoscopy, there are other options to screen for the disease.

“You can get a stool-based test to look for either blood in the stool or DNA in the stool that would predict the presence of a polyp or cancer,” he says, “and if that test is positive, then you go for the colonoscopy.” Research shows people younger than 40 experienced the steepest rise in advanced cases of late stage colon and rectal cancers between 2000 and 2016. Shah says starting screening at age 45 improves the chances of finding polyps and cancers sooner and hopefully preventing late stage disease and death.

More info. at gi.org/ColonCancer

Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area: Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Weather

May 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy. High near 80. NW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Fair to Partly cloudy. Low 48. NW @ 10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of scattered afternoon showers. High 70. N @ 10.
Thursday: Mo. Sunny. High 75.
Friday: P/Cldy. High around 78.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 85. Our Low this morning was 60. We received .56″ rain at KJAN in Atlantic, Monday evening and night. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 77 and the Low was 49. The Record High on this date was 101 in 1934. The Record Low was 31 in 1897.

New Iowa law regulates food delivery apps

News

May 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A new state law is establishing new restrictions on food delivery apps like Uber Eats, Grubhub and DoorDash. The companies must have an agreement with a restaurant, bar or diner before their drivers can deliver food and beverages from that business. Jessica Dunker, president and C-E-O of the Iowa Restaurant Association, says that will hopefully stop what the restaurant industry calls pirating.

“It doesn’t let a third party delivery service just take Mike’s logo and take Mike’s menu and put it in their mobile app because a consumer believes you have a relationship and Mike might not have any idea of who it is,” Dunker says. “It also has a certain amount of liability because if somebody runs over someone with a car, it isn’t Mike’s fault.” The law establishes food safety standards for delivery drivers, too.

“You can’t have your pets or your sick children or smoke or vape in the car and that you have a bag that keeps something the temperature it’s supposed to be,” Dunker says. “I mean, it’s really, really basic.” Perhaps most basic of all: the food delivery companies will face fines if drivers are caught eating some of the food they’re supposed to be delivering.

“There is a study. It was conducted by US Foods where they reached out to delivery drivers all over the country and found out 28% of them admitted to, at least once, trying the food before they delivered it,” Dunker says. “We always laugh about this with the association because 28% said: ‘yes,’ but a percentage of them probably thought: ‘I shouldn’t answer this as yes’ on that survey.” Dunker says food third party delivery services really didn’t really help restaurants during the depths of the pandemic and restaurants aren’t making money on food order through a delivery app.

Restaurants are sometimes charged commissions of up to 30 percent on food delivery orders. “Go pick up your food. We would love to have you have carry out. We will bring it to your car. It’s so much better from safety, from cost,” Dunker says. “Just pick up your food.”

Dunker made her comments during a recent appearance on “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S. Some major cities have started regulating what food delivery services may charge restaurants. The companies say their apps are a marketing opportunity, giving restaurants another platform to reach new customers and find new revenue.

Motorcycle accident in eastern Iowa claims the life of a Knoxville woman

News

May 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Knoxville, Iowa) – A motorcycle accident Monday afternoon in Marion County claimed the life of a woman from Knoxville. The Iowa State Patrol reports 37-year-old Holly Jo Hegwood died at the hospital, after she lost control of the 1999 Suzuki cycle she was riding, and crashed into a pickup truck. The accident happened just before 3 p.m. Monday, on the city’s west side.

The driver of the pickup was not injured.

IHSBCA Baseball Rankings 05/30/2022

Sports

May 30th, 2022 by admin

2022 IHSBCA Baseball Rankings

Week 2 (May 30, 2022)

Class 4A

Rank

Team

Record

1

Johnston

9-0

2

Dowling Catholic

5-1

3

Iowa City High

7-2

4

Waukee

7-0

5

Indianola

7-2

6

Urbandale

5-1

7

Waukee Northwest

6-4

8

Cedar Falls

7-1

9

Cedar Rapids Prairie

4-3

10

Sioux City East

7-2

 

Class 3A

Rank

Team

Record

1

Wahlert, Dubuque

8-1

2

Xavier, Cedar Rapids

7-2

3

Grinnell

8-0

4

Marion

6-2

5

Assumption, Davenport

4-3

6

Clear Creek-Amana

5-0

7

Western Dubuque, Epworth

8-1

8

Independence

5-1

9

North Polk

4-0

10

West Delaware

8-1

 

Class 2A

Rank

Team

Record

1

Van Meter

8-0

2

Jesup

2-0

3

Mid-Prairie

2-1

4

Estherville

8-0

5

Clarinda

2-0

6

Beckman, Dyersville

4-5

7

West Marshall

5-3

8

Camanche

1-0

9

Pella Christian

3-0

10

Anamosa

1-1

 

Class 1A

Rank

Team

Record

1

Newman Catholic, Mason City

8-0

2

Kee, Lansing

8-1

3

North Linn

5-0

4

Remsen, St. Mary’s

8-0

5

Don Bosco

6-0

6

New London

3-0

7

Lisbon

1-0

8

South Winneshiek

4-0

9

Woodbury Central

3-1

10

Kingsley-Pierson.                   4-2

Red Oak man arrested on a Felony Forgery charge

News

May 30th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Police in Red Oak, Monday afternoon, arrested 43-year-old Joseph Leeray Bartlett, of Red Oak, on a felony Forgery charge. He was taken into custody following an investigation into a forged check passed at the Hardware Hank Store, in Red Oak. Bartlett was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

Winterset man dies in a Sunday afternoon motorcycle accident

News

May 30th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Winterset, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Madison County said Monday, a Winterset man died during a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon, just south of Winterset. The Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call about the crash occurring in the 2200 block of Highway 169, at around 2:25-p.m.
Responding Deputies found an adult male, identified as 51-year-old Michael Greene, of Winterset, who had suffered life threatening injuries. Greene was eventually flown to a Des Moines hospital where he died from his injuries.
A preliminary investigation shows that Greene was northbound on US Hwy 169 when he struck another motorcycle that was also northbound and slowing down in front of him. The driver of the second motorcycle was identified as 68-year-old Debra Field, of Winterset. Field suffered no known injuries.
The crash comes just days after a separate fatal motorbike crash that occurred in the 600blk of N Cross St in St Charles on May 19, 2022. That crash claimed the life of 56-year-old Jon Vonfeldt , of St Charles. An investigation into that crash suggests mechanical failure caused the front tire to lock up and eject Vonfeldt from his bike which had a small motor.
Vonfeldt was also flown to a Des Moines hospital where he later died from his injuries.