(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – The Guthrie Center Community School District’s Board of Education will meet 7-p.m. Thursday (Dec. 28), in the AC/GC High School Media Center, in Guthrie Center. During their Work Session, the Board will discuss preparations for their January 4th meeting.
(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisor’s in Adair County met this (Wednesday) morning in Greenfield. During their short session, the Supervisors approved Claims, Taxable Mileage for Supervisor Jodie Hoadley in the amount of $343.88, and an Actuarial Services Agreement with HUB International. Auditor Mandy Berg and Vice-Chair John Twombly discussed renewal of the agreement.
In other business, the Adair County Supervisors approved a Fiscal year 2024 Budget Amendment. Auditor Berg explained the changes to the published budget are with regard to the sale and purchase of a piece of equipment for the Secondary Roads Department.
The public hearing on the FY24 Budget Amendment is set for January 10th at 9:10 a.m.
The Board also presented long-time County employees Rich Wallace and Loren Long with retirement plaques and celebrated their years of service.
(Radio Iowa) – An animal shelter in northeast Iowa is seeing an unusual spike in its year-end number of animals. The Cedar Bend Humane Society, based in Waterloo, is caring for nearly 500 cats, dogs, and smaller animals. Felicia Arias, the shelter’s volunteer and outreach coordinator, says that number is startlingly high, across the board. “We’re already seeing more than what we’d typically see within a year,” Arias says, “more animals coming in stray or lost, more animals coming in through Animal Control, more medical cases.”
Arias says part of the strangely high number may be related to the so-called return to normalcy, following the COVID-19 pandemic. “It might have something to do with folks going back to work from COVID, animals over that period of time not being as socialized as they normally would when folks were allowed to go out,” she says, “so the quarantine period may have had something to do with it.”
Arias says about half of the shelter’s animals are available for adoption.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa [KETV] — Council Bluffs police identified a man who died after being struck by a car early Sunday morning. Authorities say 74-year-old Juan Avalos died during the accident that happened around 3:20 a.m. near the intersection of Poplar Drive and Birch Street. Avalos was near a vehicle on the street when he was struck. Authorities said the female driver of the car was not injured.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – 2024 Republican presidential candidate and political outsider Vivek Ramaswamy back on the campaign trail after the Christmas holiday with another 33 planned stops in four days across the Hawkeye State as he nears the historic “Double Grassley” milestone. In southwest Iowa, his stops on Thursday include: Council Bluffs; Missouri Valley: Harlan; Audubon, Atlantic, Greenfield and Stuart.
Other western Iowa appearances Thursday, include Jefferson and Rockwell City. For more information or to obtain tickets, visit the candidate’s website.
(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports 24-year-old Dean William Mongar, of Creston, was arrested today (Wednesday), at around 12:36-a.m. Mongar was taken into custody in the 500 block of Levy Street on a charge of Public Intoxication. His bond was set at $300.
A resident of Creston living in the 800 block of W. Adams Street reported to police on Sunday, that someone had entered his home during the night and taken his medications. The loss was estimated at a little more than $31.
(Lewis, Iowa) – You’re invited to join the Southwest Iowa Soil Health (SWISH) group for the second meeting of their winter meeting series. The meeting in Atlantic on Jan. 3, 2024 will feature T.J. Kartes with Saddle Butte Ag. T.J. will be talking about how cover crops can fit into every operation. He will discuss how to get started, how to move forward, and when and how to adapt the plan. Come prepared with all your cover crop questions. The event takes place at the Wallace Learning Center at the Armstrong Research and Demonstration Farm near Lewis (53020 Hitchcock Ave.), from 10-a.m. until Noon on Jan. 3rd.
The meeting is free and open to everyone, so feel free to bring guests. Reservations are not required to attend (note that lunch is not provided but light snacks may be available). If you have questions about the SWISH group, please reach out to Aaron Saeugling, ISU Extension and Outreach Field Agronomist for Southwest Iowa, at 712-243-1132 (or e-mail clonz5@iastate.edu) .
DES MOINES, Iowa – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director in Iowa Theresa Greenfield has announced that the Agency is hiring two Climate Change Fellows in Iowa to help with the record number of applications from farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses seeking funding for clean energy projects under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). USDA is hiring a total of 40 Climate Change Fellows nationwide.
Greenfield says “Iowa ag producers and small business owners are investing in clean energy systems through the REAP program. Their investments are climate smart and will lower their energy costs. These non-partisan positions will help handle the renewable energy portfolio within Rural Development. The Biden-Harris Administration is working to lower energy costs for Iowans.”
The new positions are being funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, and they are part of the USDA Climate Change Fellows Program, which hires new staff with a range of skills to carry out USDA’s activities to address climate change and find solutions to agricultural challenges, enhance economic growth and create new streams of income for farmers, ranchers and producers.
Three of the new positions will report to USDA Rural Development’s national office. To apply, visit this USA Jobs posting.
Initial appointments may be for up to two years. Additional one-year extensions may be made up to four years. Most states will receive additional funds, announced at a later date, to provide REAP technical assistance in addition to these staffing positions.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – A Crop Advantage meeting to provide a solid foundation of current, research-based crop production information, will be held Jan. 18, 2024, in Atlantic. The meeting at the Cass County Community Building (805 W. 10th St.) is designed to help crop producers make smart, informed decisions for their farming operation. The event is hosted by ISU Extension and Outreach. Topics are selected for each meeting site pertaining to field and growing conditions in those areas. Visit www.cropadvantage.org for more information and to register.$75 early registration ends at midnight, Jan. 11th. Late, or on-site registration is $100.
Crop Advantage is supported in-part, by an Iowa Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Professional Development Program mini-grant. Other sponsors include the Iowa Corn and Soybean Associations.
The schedule for the Crop Advantage session in Atlantic is as follows:
8:30 Registration opens
8:55 Welcome – Aaron Saeugling, extension field agronomist
9:00 Grain bags in western Iowa: Bagging profit or storing problems? – Tony
Mensing, extension field agricultural engineer (CM)
10:00 Windbreak School: Establishment, management, and renovation – Billy
Beck, extension forestry specialist (SW)
10:50 Break
11:00 Soybean gall midge – Ashley Dean, extension education specialist,
Entomology (PM)
12:00 Lunch (provided)
12:50 Impacts of cereal rye on nitrogen cycling and crop production: Benefits,
challenges, and potential solutions and opportunities – Richard Roth,
extension nitrogen science specialist (NM)
1:50 Growing season 2024: Current conditions, a final 2023 summary, El Niño
implications and climatological outlooks – Justin Glisan, State Climatologist
of Iowa (CM)
2:50 Break
3:00 Crop markets in 2024: Can we get back to normal? – Chad Hart, extension
crop marketing specialist (CM)
4:00 Iowa Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instruction Course.
Additional fee applies. Applicators must attend the entire meeting
to receive recertification credit. – Aaron Saeugling, extension field
agronomist
5:00 Meeting adjourns
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