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Creston Police report (11/22)

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Updated) — Police in Creston report 45-year old Jason Schlapia, of Creston, was cited Thursday evening, for attempted Theft. He was cited at the Dollar General Store at around 6:30-p.m., and then released. 26-year old Hannah Marie Jackson, of Afton, was arrested Thursday morning at the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston. She was taken into custody for Theft in the 4th Degree, and later released on $100 bond. 32-year old Shaune William Tindle, of Creston, was arrested late Thursday morning at the Union County Courthouse. Tindle was taken into custody on a Ringgold County warrant and transported to the Ringgold County Jail, where his cash-only bond was set at $5,000.

And, Thursday night, 23-year old Keegan Wayne Williams, of Creston, was arrested at the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston, for Theft in the 5th Degree. His bond was set at $300.

Axne to hold “Connect with your Congresswoman” event Saturday, in Atlantic

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Iowa 3rd District Congresswoman Cindy Axne will be in Cass County this Saturday, November 23rd.  Axne will hold a “Connect with your Congresswoman” event in the Media Center at the Atlantic High School (1201 E 14th Street), from 4-until 4:45-p.m. The event is open to the public.

Congresswoman Axne also has stops planned for Saturday in:

Union County – A tour of the ASPIRE Before & After school/Learing Center/Thrift Store/Food Pantry (211 Grace St. in Afton/Union County Fairgrounds) from 9:15-until 10-a.m.

Ringgold County – 10:30-to 11:15-a.m. at Jamie’s Coffee Mill & Deli (118 W. Adams St., Mt. Ayr)

Taylor County – Noon until 12:45-p.m. at Hedgies’ Books, Toys and More (414 Main St., Bedford)

Adams County – From 2:15-p.m. until 3-p.m., for a Freedom Creek Conservation tour (15566 Sycamore Ave., in Prescott)

Adair County – 6-to 6:45-p.m. at the Olive Branch Restaurant in Greenfield ( 108 E. Iowa St.)

(Podcast) KJAN Morning Sports report, 11/22/19

Podcasts, Sports

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.

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(Podcast) KJAN Morning News & Funeral report, 11/22/19

News, Podcasts

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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UI researchers use high-tech cameras to study how children learn words

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — University of Iowa researchers are partnering with schools in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to study how children learn words and form a vocabulary. Bob McMurray, a U-I professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, says the effort is called the Growing Words Project, and it uses sophisticated infrared cameras that carefully track a child’s eye movements. “We know that if you show a child a word or if you say a word to them, it takes about a half-second or more for them to figure out what you mean,” McMurray says. “What are they doing in that half-second? Growing Words is investigating that using eye-tracking where we can trace out, every four milliseconds, what a child is thinking as they listen to or read words.”

Starting in January, the program will be testing about 300 elementary school children in Cedar Rapids and another hundred in Iowa City. The child will place his or her chin in a harness in front of a computer screen rigged with cameras. “They might hear a word like ‘wizard’ or maybe they read it, and on the screen, they see several pictures, things like a wizard, a window, a lizard, and maybe something that’s completely unrelated like table,” McMurray says. “All they have to do is click on the wizard, but they have to find it first and that means they have to start looking around. What we do is we ask, what are they looking at and when?”

Between 12 and 16-percent of Iowa children have some type of learning or reading disorder. “Part of their problem might be that they know the words, they know the letters, but they can’t use that information fast enough to understand a whole sentence or to read a whole sentence or to read a book,” McMurray says. “What we want to do is try to understand how those children — but also how their typically-developing peers — manage to do this so quickly and how they get better at it.”

The program will study about 400 children a year over the next four years using a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. More volunteers are needed in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids at all reading levels in grades one through three. Contact McMurray through the website: https://growingwords.lab.uiowa.edu/

Des Moines airport to offer nonstop flights to Miami

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Airline passengers will soon have the option to take a non-stop flight from Des Moines to Miami. The Des Moines Register reports that American Airlines will offer the summer seasonal service starting June 3. Flights will leave Des Moines on Saturdays and Sundays, and return flights are scheduled for Fridays and Saturdays. It will be the first direct flight from the Des Moines International Airport to Miami International Airport.

Airport communications director Kayla Kovarna says more than 52,000 passengers already travel to the Miami airport from Des Moines each year. The route will help passengers connect with tropical destinations in Jamaica. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale Nov. 25.

Several meth trends at all-time high in Iowa

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — As South Dakota officials attract national attention for their anti-meth campaign, the drug is a growing problem in Iowa as well. Dale Woolery is director of the Iowa Governor’s Office on Drug Control Policy. “We’ve seen an increase in the use of methamphetamine, the availability of methamphetamine, the purity of methamphetamine,” he says. More than 90 people died of a meth overdose last year in Iowa — tying a previous record — and Woolery says there’s been a “surge” in the number of Iowa adults who are using meth.  “It’s so addictive that it’s going to take professional help, in most cases, to stop that use,” Woolery says.

More than 10-thousand Iowans were in a substance abuse treatment program, trying to kick an addiction to meth, in the last state fiscal year. That’s an all-time high. One meth-related trend has subsided, however, as there are few “meth lab” busts in Iowa these days. But Woolery says larger quantities of more potent meth are being smuggled into Iowa.  “I think you could argue that we are being flooded by methamphetamine in some areas,” Woolery says. “We have reports from law enforcement where it used to be ounces of methamphetamine they would seize or deal with. Now it’s in the pounds and that’s pretty common these days.”

Mexico is the number one point of origin for the meth that’s being sold illegally in Iowa today, according to Woolery. “Frankly, we need some assistance on the international front to try and reduce the supply from the point of origin,” Woolery says. The number of meth-related convictions in Iowa courts is growing as well. More than 18 percent of the inmates sent to an Iowa prison in 2017 committed some sort of meth-related offense.

Woolery says it’s not for him to judge whether the controversial “Meth, we’re on it,” slogan South Dakotans adopted for their ANTI-meth campaign is appropriate. BUT Woolery says there should be a sense of urgency to prevent meth use and deal with those who’ve become addicted.

17-year old arrested in Red Oak Thursday

News

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Officers with the Red Oak Police Department, Thursday, arrested a 17-year old, for Interference with Official Acts. The teen was taken into custody in the 2300 block of Eastern Avenue, cited, and released to juvenile courts. No name was released because of the person’s age.

Skyscan Forecast – Friday, Nov. 22nd, 2019

Weather

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy. High 44. N winds at 5-10 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Low 27.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 48. W @ 10-15.

Sunday: P/Cldy. High 54.

Monday: Mo. Cldy w/isolated showers possible. High 45.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 40. Our Low this morning was 17. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 57 and the Low was 24. The record High for Nov. 22nd in Atlantic, was 69 in 1966. The Record Low was -10 in 1937.

ROBERT “BOB” JONES, 75, of Red Oak (Svcs. 11/23/19)

Obituaries

November 22nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

ROBERT “BOB” JONES, 75, of Red Oak, died Thursday, Nov. 21st, at Nebraska Medicine, in Omaha. Funeral services for BOB JONES will be held 10:30 AM Saturday, November 23rd at the Elliott United Methodist Church, in Elliott. Nelson-Boylan-LeRette Funeral Chapel in Red Oak has the arrangements.

Visitation with the family will be held from 5-7 PM today (Friday, November 22) at the funeral home.

Burial will be in the Gomer Cemetery at Wales, Iowa.

Memorials are suggested to the Elliott United Methodist Church.

ROBERT “BOB” JONES is survived by:

His wife – Mary Jones, of Red Oak.

His daughters – Diane (Gordon) Paisley, of Roselle, IL; and Anna (Alberto) LaRosa, of Durham, NC.

His sons – Jim Jones (and special friend Sydney Rhamy) of Elliott; and Jason (Wendy) Jones, of Tiffin.

His sister – Janis Reynolds, of Omaha, NE

His brother – Rex (Marian) Hoffman, of Henderson

9 grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; other relatives, his in-laws, and friends.