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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to Environmental Protection Agency decisions allowing an increase in ethanol content in gasoline. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said trade associations of engine manufacturers, food producers and petroleum producers did not have standing to sue because they failed to show that their members are harmed by the EPA action.
In two decisions, the agency approved the introduction of a gasoline blend of up to 15 percent ethanol for use in light-duty vehicles from model-year 2001 and later. The national gasoline supply is largely a blend with 10 percent ethanol. Ethanol producers, who sought the 15 percent option, say the ruling keeps a pathway open that could enable ethanol demand to expand.
Iowa Congressman Steve King said Friday, that he will be honoring Sioux City resident and wounded Vietnam Army Veteran, Dennis Roberts on Tuesday, August 21st, with medals Roberts did not formally receive previously for his service. The ceremony takes place at 12:30-p.m., in Congressman King’s office in Sioux City. Roberts is slated to receive the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, the Air-, Army Commendation-, National Defense- and other, similar medals, in addition to his Combat Infantryman badge, and sharpshooter badge and rifle bar.
Roberts served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from March 1969 to June 1970. During that year he was a reconnaissance scout assigned to search and destroy missions with the 101 St. Airborne Divisions. On Christmas Day in 1969, his 25 member platoon landed and split up into groups. The landing zone or “L-Z” was hot, with the soldiers came under enemy fire. In the fire-fight, Roberts came into contact with a booby trap. The explosion blew-off his right thumb. Shrapnel also pierced hit his right arm and lower back. Roberts suffers from permanent loss of hand motion as a result of his injuries.
DELORES P. COURCIER, 83, of Griswold, died Sat., Aug. 18th, at the Griswold Care Center. Graveside services for DELORES COURCIER will be held 11-a.m. Tue., Aug. 21st, at the Pleasant Township Cemetery south of Griswold. Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold has the arrangements.
An open visitation will be held at the funeral home after Noon, on Monday (Aug. 20th).
Relatives and friends of Delores Courcier will gather at the funeral home in Griswold beginning at 10-a.m. Tuesday, and will go into procession to the Pleasant Township Cemetery.
DOLORES COURCIER is survived by:
Her daughters – Bett Johnson, of LaVista, NE, & Sue Davis, of Red Oak.
Her sister – Virginia Pendgraft, of Council Bluffs.
Her brother – Jack Graham, of Lebanon, TN.
4 grandchildren & several great-grandchildren.
ERNESTINE HILEY, 84, of Avoca, died Fri., Aug. 17th, at the Avoca Nursing & Rehab Center. Funeral services for ERNESTINE HILEY will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Aug. 22nd, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca.
The family will greet friends at the funeral home, from 9-am to 10:30-a.m. Wednesday (prior to the service)
Burial will be in the Oakland Cemetery at Quincy, in Adams County.
ERNESTINE HILEY is survived by:
Her nieces and nephews.
Discussion between the driver of a pickup and her passenger Friday afternoon about a turkey in a field, resulted in a rollover accident southeast of Red Oak. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department says Mary K. Bailey and her passenger, Erica R. Jackson, both of Red Oak, suffered from minor injuries following the accident, which happened at around 6:30-p.m., near the intersection of 210th and K Avenue.
Officials say Bailey was driving a 1993 Chevy pickup southbound on K Avenue and speaking with Jackson. The discussion was about a turkey Jackson saw in a field on the east side of the road. When Bailey turned to look at the wild bird, she missed her turn onto eastbound 210th Street. When she realized her mistake and attempted to negotiate the turn, the pickup skidded off the south side of the road, entered a ditch and rolled onto its side. The damage was estimated at $3,000.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa is weighing future bids for Olympic trials after turning a $300,000 profit by hosting the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials this year. The Iowa City Press-Citizen says the success of the event has organizers looking ahead to the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. Associate athletics director Rick Klatt says the wrestling trials attracted over 14,000 fans and shattered the trials’ previous attendance records. The newspaper says the university spent $690,000 to host to the two-day event in April, including $300,000 to secure the rights. Iowa pulled in $994,000 in income. The surplus will be used to pay for a 7-foot bronze statue of former Hawkeye wrestling coach Dan Gable and upgrades to the wrestling program’s facilities.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says it has received scattered reports of dead deer around water sources this summer. D-N-R wildlife research supervisor, Willie Suchy, says they believe the dead deer are due to a disease called E-H-D. “Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, ant it’s a virus that’s transmitted by a biting midge. And in dry years deer get concentrated around somewhat limited water and if they happen to be going to a water source where the midges are around and they get infected, then you can have a more significant die off than that local area and that’s what we’re seeing,” according to Suchy. He says they are asking the public to report any deer that are dead or don’t appear to be acting normally.
He says you should call your local D-N-R officer if you see something like this. “The other thing is we are always on the lookout for animals that are diseased and sick. And right now if it’s E-H-D there’s not much you can do, the disease will take its course. But there are other things we can monitor for,” he says. Suchy says the deaths due to E-H-D don’t pose a major threat to the deer population. “At this point it’s above what we normally would see and this is kind of what we would be expecting with the dry weather,” Suchy says. He says the last big outbreak of 1988 and deer numbers then were down a little bit, but he says they bounce back.
The disease has also shown up in Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri and Michigan. E-H-D remains active until rain disperses the deer or a heavy frost kills the midges.
(Radio Iowa)
Some two-thousand volunteers will be painting several dozen homes in Council Bluffs and Omaha today (Saturday) as part of a community-wide beautification and weatherization effort. Tom Pettigrew is executive director of the 24th annual Brush-Up Paint-A-Thon. He says it helps low-income elderly residents and people with disabilities to maintain their properties. Out of some 210 applications, about 75 houses will be painted. Nearly 75 companies, businesses and individuals donated all the materials that are being used for the project.
Pettigrew explained the qualifications for getting your home’s exterior freshened up with a new coat of paint: You need to be over 62 years old or be permanently disabled at any age, you must own the home, no rentals, and meet certain financial guidelines. Some volunteers started earlier in the week with scraping off the old, flaking paint and getting the houses coated with a primer.
They’ll prime any bare wood, put down a top coat of paint and then caulk, too, to weatherize the homes. In the past 24 years, more than 24-hundred homes in the metro area have been painted by volunteers through the program.
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