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Iowa’s Coronavirus dashboard today (Wednesday), indicated 26 more deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 since Tuesday’s report, for a total of 1,898. The number of deaths attributed to a pre-existing conditions statewide are 1,227, while deaths at Long-Term Care facilities amount to 905, five more than reported Tuesday. Officials say there are 4,764 new confirmed cases of the virus, for a total since the pandemic began, of 166,021. Cass County has 15 new, Positive cases of COVID, for a total of 606. Double-digit Positive case increases were reported in Adams, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Shelby and Union Counties. There are 110 new cases in Pottawattamie County. There was also one more death reported in each of: Cass County (11 total); Mills County (4 total), and Montgomery County (8 total).
Current Long-Term Care facility (LTC) outbreaks are down slightly, to 101 today. Those care facilities report 3,021 positive cases and 1,317 recoveries. In Cass County, three facilities: Atlantic Specialty Care, The Heritage House, and the Griswold Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, have a combined total of 145 positive cases, with 39 recovered. Harrison County has 298 cases among three facilities, and 234 recovered. (For more data, go to https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/)
A record number of Iowans are hospitalized with COVID-19. Hospitalizations were up from 1,034 Tuesday to 1,190 today. Some hospitals now report being at or near capacity. COVID patients in an ICU amount to 210 (compared to 196 Tuesday). Persons admitted to a hospital since 10-a.m. Tuesday number 230 (compared to 166 previously), and there are 101 patients on a ventilator (compared to 89 Tuesday). In western/southwestern Iowa: there are 59 COVID patients in the hospital (compared to 62 Tuesday); 17 are in an ICU, eight people were admitted (Compared to 4 Tuesday), and there are currently five people on a ventilator (two more than yesterday).
The health department reports 1,059,706 Iowans have been tested for COVID-19. The state received 7,551 lab test results in the previous day, with 2,213 Positive results and 5,319 Negative results (total Negative to-date: 891,899). The IDPH says 104,211 Iowans have recovered from the virus. The State’s Individual Positivity rate is up to 15.7%, and the 14-day rolling average is up to 21.4%. Cass County’s rate is 17.8%. Page County’s rate is 36.5% (the highest in southwest Iowa). Taylor County has a positivity rate of 25.6%. Shelby County 25.3%. Mills County has a 25% positivity rate. Of Iowa’s 99 counties, 92 report 14-day positivity rates above 15%. Only one Iowa county, Ringgold County, reports a 14-day positivity rate below 10%.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases in each county, along with the 24-hour change in case numbers {+#}; the number of persons recovered, and the total number of [deaths] (if any), since the pandemic began,
(Radio Iowa) – As Iowa farmers await passage of the next Farm Bill, they’re also waiting to see who will lead the debate in congress. Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Hill says the Minnesota Democrat who was the long-time chair of the U.S. House Ag Committee lost his bid for re-election. “Colin Petersen did a great job of training folks and leading the committee,” Hill says. “He will be missed.”
Iowa Congressman-elect Randy Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, is hoping to be appointed to the ag committee, but Democrats have a majority of seats in the House — so it’ll be a Democrat with seniority who chairs the panel. Veteran congressmen from California and Georgia are competing to head the committee in 2021. “Most Farm Bills begin in the House,” Hill says. “The House Ag Committee leads in that. Of course, the Senate Ag Committee has a lot of influence.”
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has been a member of the Senate Ag Committee for most of the past 30 years. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has served on the Senate Ag Committee since taking office in 2015. “I think she’ll continue to fight for ethanol and trade and all those issues that are important,” Hill says.
Congress is to produce a new Farm Bill every five years and the next one is to be passed in 2022. Work on the massive bill will start next year.
DORIS F. STENSTROM RICHARDS, 93, of Exira, died Monday, Nov. 9th at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. Graveside services for DORIS STENSTROM RICHARDS will be held 2-p.m. Friday, Nov. 13th in the Orange Township Cemetery in rural Coon Rapids. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
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An open visitation will be held at the funeral home in Thursday, Nov. 12th from Noon until 7-p.m.
DORIS STENSTROM RICHARDS is survived by:
Son: David (Deb) Stenstrom of Exira.
Daughters: Nancy Stenstrom of Louisville, KY and Lori Stenstrom of Henry, IL.
Brother: Dennis (Judy) Storm of Harlan.
Brother-in-law: Gene (Karen) Walker of West Des Moines
3 Grandchildren
other relatives, and friends.
ROBERT “Bob” J. MONAHAN, 64, of Arnolds Park (& formerly of Audubon), died Sunday, Nov. 8th, at Avera McKennan Hospital, in Sioux Falls, SD. A Private, family celebration of life memorial service for BOB MONAHAN will be held at a later date. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Family visitation will be held from 5-until 7-p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12th, at the funeral home.
Burial is in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery, in Audubon.
ROBERT “Bob” MONAHAN is survived by:
His daughters – Erin (T.J.) Bouda, of Ankeny, and Robbi (Kevin) Wittrock, of Audubon.
His son – Riley (Emily) Monahan, of Lakeville, MN.
His brothers – Mark (Kathleen) Monahan, of Severna Park, MD.; Pat (Jan) Monahan, of Spirit Lake, and Tom (Barb) Monahan, of Hutchinson, KS.
His sister – Kathy (Thomas) Ainsworth, of Portland, ME.
7 grandchildren, his girlfriends Marilyn Rowe, of Huntington Beach, CA, other relatives and friends.
WAYNE JOHNSON, 87, of Anita, died Tue., Nov. 10th, at the Exira Care Center. A private, family graveside service for WAYNE JOHNSON will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Anita, with military honors by the Anita American Legion Post #210. Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
WAYNE JOHNSON is survived by:
His wife – Nancy.
His daughters – Vicki (Duane) Murphy, and Kim Olsen.
His son – Todd (Calla) Johnson.
9 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa remains the nation’s top pork producer and 2020 will go down as a record year for pork exports, according to new report from the U-S Meat Export Federation. Pork exports during September bounced ten-percent from a year ago, while the volume rose six-percent. Federation president and C-E-O Dan Halstrom says exports exceeded 563-million dollars, thanks to growth in multiple markets. “Japan, one of our larger value markets, had tremendous growth at about 11-percent,” Halstrom says. “We also had Canada with a record month and then you look at Southeast Asia, you’ve got the Philippines and Vietnam which had tremendous growth. China was up as well, but in terms of the total gain for global exports in the month of September, it was broad-based.”
African Swine Fever, or A-S-F, caused a shake-up this year, and Halstrom says we may see a slight drop in demand for American pork in China in 2021. “We’re going to have a record year in 2020 with China,” Halstrom says. “A lot of that’s from the China situation on ASF, but we’re still forecasting the second-largest year ever in 2021 with about 10- or 15-percent decrease there. The key is expanding the reach of pork globally and remain diversified.”
Closer to home, Halstrom says the United States’ neighbors to the south are also vital to continued growth in pork exports. “Keep in mind that Mexico and Central and South America, Latin America in general went into the COVID-19 lockdowns after the U.S.,” he says. “It was really late May when that all happened. So, they were late to go in and they’re probably a little late coming out, but they will come out and we’re starting to see those signs already.”
Almost one-third of the nation’s hogs are raised in Iowa on some 54-hundred farms. Last year, more than 147-thousand jobs were associated with the Iowa pork industry.
Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in Kansas, have signed the Record of Decision (ROD) for the PCE Former Dry Cleaner Superfund Site, in Atlantic. The ROD outlines the cleanup plan the Agency has chosen for the former dry cleaner site that has groundwater contaminated by tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). The cleanup plan calls for operation of a Groundwater Extraction and Treatment System (GETS) that will remove contamination from the groundwater.
In addition to the GETS, the selected remedy also includes institutional controls (ICs), which consist of legal or administrative actions or requirements imposed on the property to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination or to protect the integrity of remediation. The ICs consist of a city ordinance prohibiting the installation of private drinking water and non-drinking water wells within city limits. The ICs will prevent the ingestion of contaminated groundwater. EPA will also conduct routine groundwater monitoring on a semi-annual basis to evaluate the performance of the GETS and measure the stability of the contaminant plume.
Officials say the objective of the selected remedy is to protect human health and the environment, while restoring the aquifer to beneficial use (i.e., drinking water use) by cleaning up groundwater below maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in a reasonable time frame. The cleanup levels are based on the Safe Drinking Water Act MCL of 5 micrograms per liter for both PCE and TCE. PCE is a nonflammable colorless liquid, used as a dry-cleaning agent and metal degreasing solvent. It is also used as a starting material (building block) for making other chemicals and is used in some consumer products.
TCE is a highly volatile compound that is nonflammable and is a breakdown product of PCE. It is a colorless liquid with a somewhat sweet odor. TCE is used mainly to degrease metal parts, but it is also an ingredient in adhesives, paint removers, typewriter correction fluids, and spot removers. The site was proposed for the National Priorities List (NPL) in September 2015 and was officially listed on the NPL in April 2016.
CARL LEE WAUGH, 93, of Winterset, died Monday, Nov. 9th, at the Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center. A graveside service tribute for CARL WAUGH will be held 10:30-a.m. Friday, Nov. 13th, at the Morrisburg Cemetery in rural Stuart. The family requests masks be worn, & social distancing practiced. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart is assisting the family.
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