Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played Friday, December 16th.
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Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played Friday, December 16th.
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A study finds rural areas across the Midwest are losing residents, especially in vital age groups. Jon Bailey, research director at the Center for Rural Affairs, says the center’s latest report shows many areas of the region are being caught between “bookend generations” of the youngest and oldest segments of the population. “A major implication is that both of those, the youngest and oldest generations, tend to need more services than the middle-age, working generation,” Bailey says. “You have needs for schools and health care and other social and human services that go for the youngest and oldest in our population.”
Bailey says without the working generation, those between the ages of 25 and 55, it would be difficult to fund vital services in rural areas.”That’s a huge issue for rural communities,” he says. “How are they going to keep up the services that our youngest and our oldest need when the people who work and pay the taxes are increasingly going to larger communities and decreasing in numbers in rural places?” Bailey says significant federal policy changes are needed to help rural areas bridge the growing gap. He says, “There’s policy investments we can take, both at the state, local and federal levels, on how to make more investments in rural places to create more businesses and create more jobs and a lot of it is to just take advantage of the advantages that rural communities have.”
The report recommends a Rural Renewal Initiative be created in the next farm bill, and that Congress commit 500-million dollars over five years to a Community Prosperity Fund to help rural areas stabilize. The Center for Rural Affairs is based in Lyons, Nebraska.
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A woman from Redfield was injured during a rollover accident Monday morning, in Dallas County. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 46-year old Dawn Marie Merrell, of Redfield, who was wearing her seatbelt, was transported to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, after the pickup she was driving went out of control on an icy eastbound Highway 6/I-80, at the intersection with Dallas County Road P-58, or about two-miles east of the Earlham exit. The accident happened at around 6:50-a.m.
The woman’s 2001 Chevy Silverado pickup entered the south ditch and rolled onto its side before coming to rest on its wheels. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1,500.
Jim Field speaks with Susan Oliver about some 4-H History.
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Line 9″ x 13″ pan with soda crackers, covering all the surface. Drizzle melted margarine over the crackers. Cover with brown sugar – just scatter the sugar. Bake 10-12 minutes in 325 degree oven. Watch carefully – you just want the margarine and brown sugar to melt together. Turn off oven, scatter the bags of chocolate chips over the crackers and return the pan to the oven for approximately two minutes. Spread the melted chips over the crackers, scatter nuts over chocolate. Break into serving pieces. Tastes like a heath bar.
Mix together the margarine and sugar, I use mixer. Add eggs and beat well. The add flour, salt and baking powder. Save one cup of mixture for topping. Spread cherry pie mix over bottom of pan; dot the extra cup of batter over the top of cherries. Use a fork to spread. Bake in 300 degree oven for 40 minutes. Can frost, drizzle lightly over the top when cool.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Deon Mitchell and Austin Pehl scored 13 points apiece to lead seven double-figure scorers for Northern Iowa in an 84-48 victory over Loras on Monday night.
Chip Rank added 12 points for the Panthers (10-1), who ran their winning streak to nine in a row. Marc Sonnen had 11, and Matt Morrison, Seth Tuttle and Anthony James scored 10 apiece.
Tim Kelly scored 11 points for the Division III Duhawks (2-8), who lost their fifth straight.
The Panthers shot 52 percent (29 of 56) and went 11 of 20 from 3-point distance. The Duhawks were limited to 35 percent shooting (18 of 51).
Northern Iowa forced 16 turnovers, committing only five, and turned that into a 27-3 edge on points off turnovers.
The Panthers reached 10-1 for just the sixth time in school history.