Today: Mostly Sunny. High 85. SW @ 5-10.
Tonight: Mostly Clear. Low 57.S/SW @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny. High 87. SW @ 10-15.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy. Low 62.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 88.
Tuesday: P/Cldy. High 88.
Wednesday: P/Sunny w/showers & thunderstorms. High 84.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 77. Our 24-hour Low was 44. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 67 and the low was 36. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 95 in 1915. The Record Low was 23 in 1997.
EVELYN DUSKIN, 95, of Atlantic, died Friday, May 12th, at the Stuart Community Care Center. Funeral services for EVELYN DUSKIN will be held 11-a.m. Tuesday, May 16th, at the Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic.
Visitation with the family is from 6-until 8-p.m. Monday, May 15th, at the funeral home; Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery.
EVELYN DUSKIN is survived by:
Her daughter – Sandra (Bruce) Schmeling, of Casey.
Her daughter-in-law: Karen Duskin.
5 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
RICHARD A. ANDERSEN, 88, of Exira (& formerly of Brayton), died Thursday, May 11th, at the Exira Care Center. Graveside services for RICHARD A. ANDERSEN will be held 2-p.m. Monday, May 15th, at St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, west of Exira. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is at 4-p.m., Sunday.
Burial will be in the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, west of Exira.
RICHARD A. ANDERSEN is survived by:
His wife – Margaret Andersen, of Exira.
His sons – Rex Andersen, of Brayton; Jim Andersen & partner Bobbi, of Exiraa; Richard D. Andersen, of Audubon.
His daughters – Sally Smith, Julie Paulson, Tammy Paulsen & husband Bill Clark, all of Exira.
His brothers – Harvey Andersen, of Exira; Robert (Betty) Andersen, of Des Moines.
His sister – Bertha (Darrell) Schroeder, of Exira.
Numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, other relatives, his sisters-in-law, and friends.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Willson Contreras connected twice for his first career multi-homer game, Eddie Butler threw six scoreless innings in his season debut and the Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis 3-2 Friday, ending the Cardinals’ six-game winning streak. Butler, who pitched the last three seasons with Colorado and was traded to the Cubs before spring training, gave up two hits. He struck out five and walked three.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eric Hosmer delivered another key hit, doubling home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and giving the Kansas City Royals a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles Friday night. Lorenzo Cain singled with one out and Hosmer doubled to right-center field off Vidal Nuno.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s depleted receiving corps lost another player Friday, when the Hawkeyes announced that Jerminic Smith has left the program. Smith caught 23 passes for 314 yards and a pair of touchdowns in 2016 for Iowa. But Smith was suspended for spring workouts because of academics.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Busch picked up right where he left off in the Truck Series at Kansas Speedway. Only three years had passed. Busch hopped into the Number 51 Toyota of his own Kyle Busch Motorsports and roared to the front early Friday night, winning the first two stages before taking advantage of leader Ben Rhodes’s engine trouble in the closing laps.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Ryan Blaney earned his first career pole for the NASCAR Cup race at Kansas Speedway, taking advantage of a traffic jam at inspection that kept 11 cars from getting on the track. Among those who failed to get through Friday were Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Junior, Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne.
A head-on crash in east central Iowa’s Powesheik County has claimed two lives. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened at around 4:10-p.m. Friday, on Highway 146, just south of Interstate 80. Officials say a 2015 Toyota Sienna was traveling north on Highway 146 and a 2003 Oldsmobile Alero was traveling south, when for reasons unknown, the Toyota crossed the center line and struck the Oldsmobile.
Three people were injured in the crash: 69-year old Thomas Taylor, who was driving the Toyota, 67-year old Lourdes Taylor and 59-year old Gloria Smallwood. All three are from Oskaloosa.
The driver of the Oldsmobile, 31-year old Randall Paul, of Grinnell, along with Rosa Santos, of Oskaloosa, died from their injuries at the hospital in Grinnell. All of the victims were wearing their seat belts. The accident remains under investigation.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:00 a.m. CDT
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Utilities Board is defending its decision to spend thousands of dollars sending five employees to a conference in Portland this week. A list of attendees to the National Conference of Regulatory Attorneys shows Iowa and two other states sent five employees. The majority sent none, one or two. The four-day conference, which concluded Wednesday, charged $400 per employee in fees, plus hotel, airfare and meal charges.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has decided to keep open a longtime research center, though he still plans to remove its funding. Branstad used his veto power Friday to cut language in a roughly $7.2 billion state budget that would have eliminated the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. But he kept plans to redirect a tax worth roughly $1.5 million that helps pay for the center. The governor’s staff did not give a reason for the setup.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has rejected the University of Iowa’s request to delay the upcoming trial in a lawsuit filed by former women’s field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum. Judge Eliza Ovrom says Griesbaum’s trial will go ahead June 5 as scheduled. Griesbaum alleges she suffered discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in Athletic Director Gary Barta’s decision to fire her in 2014.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Top lawmakers in Minnesota and Iowa are trying to work out an arrangement allowing Iowa residents to immediately start buying medical marijuana from their northern neighbors. Iowa’s Legislature passed a tightly controlled medical marijuana program but it is still awaiting Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s signature. With Minnesota’s approval, Iowa House Speaker Linda Upmeyer says the arrangement could give sick Iowans immediate access while the state sets up its own program.
Exira-EHK and Boyer Valley were the top two teams at the Class 1A Boys Golf Sectional meet at Griswold Golf and Country Club on Friday. Those two teams advance to the District meet on May 19th at Crestwood Hills Golf Course in Anita.
Team Scores
Individual Scores
The Atlantic boys golf team won their sectional at Majestic Hills Golf Course in Denison on Friday. Jake Olsen led the way for the Trojans, winning the tournament with a 73. Atlantic shot a 310 total to top second-place ADM by 9 strokes.
Atlantic qualifies for the District Meet at home at Atantic Golf and Country Club on the 19th. ADM also advances as a team.
Team Scores
Atlantic Individual Scores: Jake Olsen 73, Ben Renaud 78, Cyle Renaud 78, Zac Stork 81, Matt Gearheart 81, Nate Gifford 82.
Atlantic Head Coach Ed DenBeste: “Another great day to play golf. 75 with a light breeze. Jake played well. Had a great up and down on 18 after hitting over the green. Ben struggled but finished with a birdie and a solid score. Zac had a couple of tough holes but finished fine with 81. Matt got into trouble on 16 with a tough down hill putt that rolled off the green. Had to chip back and then had a hard lip out. Good to see him recover and shot 10 over. Nate had a good round today. Good to see him with an 11 over. Cyle played well. Struggled on the last two holes but still had a great score.
Bigfoot’s been spotted in southern Iowa — the mushroom variety — not the big hairy ape-like creature. The Iowa D-N-R is showing a picture of large morel mushrooms on its Facebook page that was sent in by the daughter of the man who found them in southern Iowa. The D-N-R’s Alan Foster says the large yellow-colored morels are different from their smaller yellow counterparts.
“It’s technically a separate species — at least from the training that I’ve received. It’s a morchella crassipes, more well known as bigfoot,” Foster says. And it’s one that pretty much signals the end of the season in that particular area.” The bigfoots are the last in the line of the morels that pop out in spring.
“With the progression of morel growth, we start with the greys, and then we get the yellows that are typically four to five inches tall. And then we get the bigfoots. Like their name implies, they can be a foot tall and as wide as a pop can,” Foster says. The recent discovery of the monster mushrooms fits in with the way the entire season has gone.
“It’s been a good season, it’s been kind of weird. We had perfect conditions as far as temperatures, daytime, nighttime soil temperatures. Moisture was good. But it was really strange, people were finding greys in southern Iowa while people in central Iowa were finding yellows. Some people were finding decent groups, some people just find ten or 12,” Foster said.
Michaela Welch took this picture of her grandfather, Everett Garr, and the bigfoot morels he found.
I mean, it’s been a solid season, but I wouldn’t say it has been gangbusters.” The area of the state where you hunt mushrooms could dictate how well you did in finding them. “I think with the fluctuation of weather patterns and stuff, certain areas didn’t get what they needed, and certain areas did,” Foster says. If you haven’t been out hunting morels yet this season, time maybe running out.
Foster says this weekend may be about the end unless you can find some in the northern part of the state. He says some of his friends are heading to northeast Iowa this weekend and if they don’t find any mushrooms, they will be done for the season. The photo that’s getting all the attention was sent into the D-N-R from Michaela Welch, and shows her grandfather, Everett Garr, and the bigfoot morels he found in southern Iowa two weeks ago.
(Radio Iowa)
According to several reports former Princeton forward Hans Brase has committed to play for Iowa State
Brase, a graduate transfer, is eligible to play immediately. Brase averaged 11.5 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in his final full season at Princeton. He missed most of the past two seasons with knee injuries.
Brase is the second recent graduate transfer the Cyclones have added after Jeff Beverly of UT San Antonio committed last week.
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