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The Guthrie County Fair is underway in Guthrie Center, through Sept. 5th. Gate admission daily is $10. Carnival rides and Grandstand entertainment are FREE.
Today’s schedule (Sept. 3rd) includes:
8:00 AM 4-H/FFA Swine Show
8:30 AM 4-H/FFA Horse Show
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM 4-H/FFA Education Center Open
12:30 PM 4-H/FFA Sheep & Goat Show
6:00 PM Clover Kids Show
7:00 PM Rodeo at the Grandstand (Presented by Grand River Rodeo)
This weekend’s activities include:
Saturday, Sept. 4th –
10:00 AM Parade
5:00 PM Tractor & Pickup Truck pulls (at the Grandstand)
Sunday, Sept. 5
6:00 PM Queen Coronation (Grandstand)
7:00 PM Figure 8 races (Grandstand)
For more information, see the Guthrie County Fair website, or follow them on Facebook.
West Central Valley XC Meet
09/02/2021
Girls Team Scores
Girls Individual Top Ten
Boys Team Scoring
Boys Individual Top Ten
(Radio Iowa) – The pheasant season last year saw hunters take the second-highest number of pheasants in more than ten years — and the numbers are lining up for a repeat. D-N-R wildlife biologist, Todd Bogenschutz oversees the roadside survey and says one area stood out. “Up in the northwest, it could be some of the best hunting they’ve seen in years,” he says. Southeastern and eastern Iowa saw fewer birds in this year’s survey — while the overall outlook pretty much mirrored 2020. Bogenschutz says in 2020 they average 20-point-three birds on each route and this year they average 20-point-one birds.
The results showed three of the nine regions — northwest, north-central, west-central averaged at or more than 30 birds on each route — which hasn’t happened since 2007. Bogenschutz says the spring season is always key in determining how many new birds live into the fall. “I think the nesting season overall was generally pretty good. But last winter was particularly tough on southern Iowa,” according to Bogenschutz. “we had snow, and then it warmed up and melted, and then we went sub-zero and got some freezing rain and that happened a couple of times — to the point that by the end of February in southeast Iowa, full-grown adults were walking on top of the snow, and not breaking through.”
Bogenschutz says he’s not too concerned about the recent flooding, as flooding has the most impact in the spring nesting period. “So, April into May and maybe the first part of June. After that flooding doesn’t have near the impact once the chicks are out and grown up a little bit,” Bogenschutz says. “The flooding we had in July and August shouldn’t have hurt the newly hatched chicks as much.” He expects at minimum a repeat of the pheasant harvest from last year. “I’m expecting we’ll have a harvest of around that 250 to 300-thousand mark again,” Bogenschutz says.
The pheasant season opens on October 30th and runs through January 10th.
(Radio Iowa) – College football season opens in Iowa tomorrow (Saturday) and buses carrying two Iowa teams will also carry new branding. The Iowa Soybean Association and the Iowa Biodiesel Board are partnering with Windstar, the bus company that provides transportation for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa State Cyclones. Iowa Biodiesel Board executive director Grant Kimberley says the buses run on biodiesel and it says so in big letters down the side. “These buses transport these teams to home games to the stadium and away games, as well,” Kimberley says. “It’s not just for football season, it’s also utilized at other times of the year for some of the other sports teams. These buses get some miles on them and they go all across the country.”
He says the partnership and the rebranding of the buses is a great way to educate people about biodiesel. “We can reach a wide audience this way,” Kimberley says. “People that may not normally see a lot about agriculture or about biofuels. It’s a way to get a good cross-section of people.” The Hawkeye and Cyclone team buses have a broad reach, all the while advertising one of Iowa’s biggest biofuels. “People told me that they’ve seen these buses in places like Los Angeles and Denver and even driving by the Capitol in Washington D.C.,” Kimberley says. “They do get around a lot of different places and that’s why we think it’s a great partnership with the university.”
Iowa’s farmers are expected to harvest more than 525-million bushels of soybeans this fall. Every bushel will enhance Iowa’s standing as the nation’s top producer of biodiesel.
IRENE M. LARSEN, 96, of Elk Horn, died Thursday, Sept. 2nd, in Elk Horn. Funeral services for IRENE LARSEN will be held 1-p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8th, at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home, in Harlan has the arrangements. Masks are recommended and will be available.
Friends may call at the church from 11-a.m. until 1-p.m., Wednesday; Online condolences may be left at www.burmeisterjohannsen.com.
Burial is in the Elk Horn Lutheran Cemetery.
IRENE LARSEN is survived by:
Her daughters – Angela (Dennis) Hemminger of Blair, NE. Lynda Martin of Exira.
Her son – Eugene Larsen of Exira.
Her sisters – Harriet Campbell of Audubon. Shirley (Martin) Nelson of Elk Horn.
6 Grandchildren, several Great-Grandchildren & Great-Great-Grandchildren, other Relatives, and Friends
MARVIN ALLEN PIITTMANN, 86, of Avoca, died Aug. 30th, at Myrtue Medical Center, in Harlan. Memorial services for MARVIN PIITTMANN will be held 2-p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Avoca.
Burial is in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.
MARVIN PIITTMANN is survived by:
His wife – Barbara [Wendt] Piittmann, of Avoca.
His son – Troy Piittmann, of Avoca.
His daughter – Audra (Russ Dickerson) Piittmann, of Boone.
DAVID W. SCHRAMPFER, 79, of Exira, died Wed., Sept. 1st, at Accura Healthcare, in Manning. A Celebration of Life for DAVID SCHRAMPFER will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Sept. 8th, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Family visitation at the funeral home is on Tue., Sept. 7th, from 5-until 7-p.m.
Burial, at a later date, is in the Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, in Cedar Rapids.
DAVID SCHRAMPFER is survived by:
His wife – Joan Schrampfer, of Exira.
His daughters – Denise ( Lonn) Kilworth, of Exira, and Debra (& wife Sherrie) Campbell, of Omaha.
His sister – Marian (Rudy) Hesla, of Waterville, Iowa.
3 grandchildren, his sisters-in-law, other relatives & friends.
Today: Any showers will be ending this morning; Partly cloudy. High near 80. NW @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy w/isolated showers late. Low 63. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/isolated morning showers. High 81. NW @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 82.
Monday (Labor Day): P/Cldy High 86.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 75. We received .28″ rain overnight into early this morning. Our Low was 65. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 91 and the Low was 52. The Record High on this date was 102 in 1937. The Record Low was 32 in 1974.
(Radio Iowa) – Congresswoman Cindy Axne, a Democrat from West Des Moines, says she’d like to see a proposed tax change get rolled back, so it only applies to the country’s richest families. President Biden has proposed treating the transfer of inherited property as if it were a sale, so capital gains taxes would be collected. Individuals would be able to inherit a million dollars worth of property and couples up to two million dollars worth of land or buildings, but Axne says that’s not a big enough exemption for family farms.
“Let’s say the farm was, I don’t know, $1000 an acre when they first got it and now it’s $7000 — so it’s a $6000 increase per acre and they’ve got 500 acres. You’re talking a lot of money that you’ve got to pay the taxes on. If you do that, you may end up having to sell some of the land to pay the taxes,” Axne says. “What we don’t want is to sell family farms.”
Axne says small business owners also could be prevented from passing their business onto the next generation. “I look at this as a Main Street issue,” Axne says, “and we’ve got to get this fixed.” Axne says it’s not just an issue in rural America. She cites as an example a couple who bought a property in the Bronx and have run a bodega for decades, as they would be unlikely to be able to pass the small convenience store onto their children or grandchildren.
“Let’s say they bought it back in the day for a couple of hundred thousand dollars 50 years ago and now with all the gentrification, everything in the Bronx, it could be worth $4 million,” Axne says. “They will not be able to pay the taxes on $3.8 million. Who’s going to come in there? 7-Eleven — it’s going to be a large company — so this is an issue across this country.”
Axne made her comments after a meeting in Adel with representatives of more than a dozen farm and ag-related organizations.
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