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(Podcast) KJAN 8-a.m. News, 5/16/19

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May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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ROBERT LEE MEIER, 77, of Irwin (Svcs. 5/20/19)

Obituaries

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

ROBERT LEE MEIER, 77, of Irwin, died Wed., May 15th, at the Manning Regional Healthcare Center. Funeral services for ROBERT MEIER will be held 10-a.m. Monday, May 20th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday, May 19th, from 5-until 8-p.m.

Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Irwin.

ROBERT MEIER is survived by:

His wife – Janet [Best] Meier, of Irwin.

His son – David Meier, of Irwin.

His daughters – Kathy (Kevin Lingle) Freese, and Jenni (Derrick) Clouse, all of Manilla.

His sisters – Rogena Schmidt, of Griswold, and Deanna (Marvin) Huebner, of Persia.

8 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, and his sisters- and brother- in laws.

2019 State Track – Day 1 – Class 2A and 3A

Sports

May 16th, 2019 by admin

Girls 2A Shuttle Hurdle Prelims

Panorama- 13th 1:10.73
Shenandoah- 24th 1:16.08
Underwood- 7th (Erin McMains, Logan Jaoens, Erica Rowe, Avery True) 1:08.84 Qualified

Girls 3A Shuttle Hurdle Prelims

Glenwood- 1st (Audrey Arnold, Marissa Ausdemore, Sami Parr, Elle Scarborough) 1:06.10 Qualified
Harlan- 24th 1:17.41
Denison-Schleswig- 9th 1:07.96

Girls 2A 3000M Run

Ella Waddle, Panorama- 4th 10:51.50
Peyton Pogge, Tri-Center- 3rd 10:46.55
Kate Crawford, ACGC- 2nd 10:37.51
Tori Castle, Treynor- 6th 11:17.93
Madison Schiernbeck, OA-BCIG- 22nd 12:08.94

Girls 3A 3000M Run

Janette Schraft, Glenwood- 1st State Champion 10:35.49
Lucy Borkowski, Harlan- 16th 11:27.24

Boys 2A 3200M Run

Noah Nelsen, ACGC- 8th 9:59.16
Jerry Jorgenson, Treynor- 2nd 9:35.10
Brett McGee, Tri-Center- 14th 10:10.12
Louden Foster, West Central Valley- 10th 10:04.42

Boys 3A 3200M Run

Jalen Petersen, Atlantic- 12th 10:06.85
Trey Gross, Harlan- 20th 10:24.54

Girls 2A 200M Dash Prelims

Anna Winterrowd, OA-BCIG- 3rd Qualifies for Final 26.38
Kassidy Bremer, Panorama- 18th 27.21
Mallory Badding, Kuemper Catholic- 20th 27.32
Megan Carley, Treynor- 5th Qualifies for Final 26:41

Girls 3A 200M Dash Prelims

Alyssa Derby, Atlantic- 17th 27.21
Haley Rasmussen, Atlantic- 10th 26.53

Boys 2A 200M Dash Prelims

Cooper Dejean, OA-BCIG- 17th 23.40
Cam Vanderhoof, Red Oak- 21st 23.66

Boys 3A 200M Dash Prelims

Zade Niklasen, Atlantic- 11th 22.96
Tyler Moen, Atlantic- 7th Qualifies for Final 22.65
Zach Vondra, Glenwood- 22nd 23.54

Girls 2A 4x800M Relay Final

Panorama- 5th (Olivia Steffen, Payton Beckman, Lydia Lindstrom, Gwen Steffen) 9:51.17
ACGC- 20th (Audrey Stowe, Jorja Hoover, Lauryn Embleton, Rylee Sloss)10:24.16
Tri-Center- 12th (Amanda Brich, Lilly Dahir, Presley Pogge, Peyton Pogge)10:10.53
Underwood- 11th (Kaitlyn Sommerfelt, Tessa Helms, Kyla Bildstein, Hannah Bridgewater) 10:08.82

Girls 3A 4x800M Relay Final

Atlantic- 15th (Karsyn Rush, Kennedy Goergen, Madison Botos, Taylor McCreedy) 10:08.54
Glenwood- 11th (Abby McIntyre, Lauren Becker, Erin Schultz, Emma Hughes) 10:02.48
Harlan- 10th (Kaia Bieker, Liv Freund, Abby Alberti, Griechaly Kaster) 10:01.76
Creston- 6th (Makenna Hudson, Peyton Rice, Braelyn Baker, Brielle Baker) 9:50.54

Boys 2A 4x800M Relay Final

Red Oak- 16th (Justin McCunn, Sam Opsomer, Connor Koppa, Bayler Bergren) 8:28.86
MVAOCOU- 6th (Dylan Blake, Kolby Nutt, Cameron O’Connell, Weston Beeson) 8:19.84
Mount Ayr- 18th (Chase Smith, Isaac Timmerman, Trae Ehlen, Nathan Hauge) 8:29.37
Underwood- 2nd (Jalen Humphrey, Scott Pearson, Cal Savin, Brayden Wollan) 8:03.05

Boys 3A 4x800M Relay Final

Glenwood- 22nd (Brett Mower, Sam McIntyre, Mason Parks, Parson Covington) 8:35.41
Atlantic- 4th (Craig Alan Becker, Nathan Behrends, Bradley Dennis, Chase Mullenix) 8:06.88 (Chase Mullenix with a 1:55 anchor leg)

Girls 2A 100M Dash Prelims

Anna Winterrowd, OA-BCIG- 3rd Qualified for Finals. 12.72
Savanna Fuller, ACGC- 22nd 13.51

Girls 3A 100M Dash Prelims

Bailey Ostrander, Glenwood- 19th 13.42

Boys 2A 100M Dash Prelims

Dylan Soper, ACGC- 24th 11.74
Cooper Dejean, OA-BCIG- 8th Qualified for Finals.
Kolton Knop, OA-BCIG- 19th 11.69

Boys 3A 100M Dash Prelims

Christian Stanislav, Glenwood- 17th 11.56

Girls 2A 400M Dash Finals

Olivia Steffen, Panorama- 16th 1:02.00
Jordyn Gilpin, Missouri Valley 20th 1:02.76

Girls 3A 400M Dash Finals

Kennedy Lein, Carroll- 12th 1:01.53
Jaeda Wilson, Glenwood- 7th 1:00.73
Pluma Pross, Atlantic- 15th 1:02.55
Darci Wiseman, Winterset- 13th 1:01.84

Boys 2A 400M Dash Finals

Duke Kyle, Missouri Valley- 20th 53.58
Brayden Wollan, Underwood- 6th 51.00
Sid Schaaf, Treynor- 12th 51.82

Boys 3A 400M Dash Finals

Jack Medlik, Denison-Schleswig- 20th 53.57
Charlie Wiebers, Denison-Schleswig- DQ
Michael Erlmeier, Harlan- 6th 50.13
Zade Niklasen, Atlantic- 11th 50.83
Tyler Moen, Atlantic- 3rd 49.55

Boys 2A Shuttle Hurdle Prelims

Clarinda- 21st (Michael Shull, Aiden Shatava, Ethan Herzberg, Nathan Lindsay) 1:06.56
Mount Ayr- 15th (Kolben Klommhaus, Briar Knapp, Dawson Frost, Keelan Klommhaus) 1:03.69
Shenandoah- 16th (Nick Hunter, Anthony Stogdill, Carter Backus, Riley Backus) 1:04.25
Treynor- 3rd Qualified for Finals (Jack Tiarks, Wyatt James, Sid Schaaf, Jake Fisher) 1:00.43

Boys 3A Shuttle Hurdle Prelims

Harlan- 10th (Jon Owens, Joseph Fah, Connor Bruck, Thomas Fah) 1:02.97

Girls 2A Shot Put

Sara Morales, Shenandoah- 20th 34-06.00
Ashley Vanfossan, Underwood- 23rd- 33-06.00
Madison McDermott, ACGC- 9th 38-00.00
Zoe Rus, Underwood- 6th 39-08.25
Logan Hughes, Shenandoah- 4th 40-02.75

Girls 3A Discus Throw

Lauren Andersen, Harlan- 4th 121-02
Ashley Onken, Carroll- 6th 117-06
Sydney Biermann, Glenwood- 12th 112-10
Kelsey Fields, Creston- 17th 109-06

Boys 2A Long Jump

Kyle Berg, Kuemper Catholic- 6th 21-05.25
Cooper Dejean, OA-BCIG- 5th 21-06.25

Boys 3A High Jump

Troy Feldman, Carroll- 18th 5-09.00
Waw Gach, Denison-Schleswig- 4th 6-07

Boys 2A Shot Put

Quyton Younker, ACGC- 19th 46-09.25
Landon Nelson, Underwood- 11th 48-09.00
Chris Gardner, Underwood- 24th 43-06.50
Ely Fundermann, MVAOCOU- 15th 47-10.50
Kristian Martens, Treynor- 22nd
Brock Fox, Treynor- 9th 49-00.25

Boys 3A Discus

Chase Gladden, Carroll- 13th
Caleb Bieker, Harlan- 6th 156-06
Derec Weyer, Harlan- 3rd 163-04

Girls 2A Long Jump

Kassidy Bremer, Panorama- 9th 16-06.00
Mallory Badding, Kuemper Catholic- 5th 16-08.50
Bailey Beckman, Panorama- 3rd 16-11.25

Girls 3A high Jump

Coryl Matheny, Glenwood- Tie 7th 5-02.00
Taylor Mohr, Carroll- Tie 11th 5-02.00

Report: Iowa’s infrastructure, especially public transit, in critical need of investment

News

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A new report says Iowa’s infrastructure is in urgent need of investment. Paul Skoutelas, president and C-E-O of the American Public Transportation Association, says a study of things like roads, bridges and airports nationwide gives our public transit systems a letter grade of D-minus.  “It’s reflective of the existing condition of our bus fleets and that certainly applies in Iowa, the stations, the facilities in general, and says that we need to make a larger investment,” Skoutelas says.

The study identifies a 232-billion dollar backlog in needed infrastructure investment nationwide, but did not provide a specific figure for Iowa. Skoutelas says some Iowa communities with bus systems haven’t upgraded them in many years, and he singles out Dubuque, Sioux City and Cedar Rapids. Skoutelas says, “As it relates to Iowa, we’re talking about investments to replace their bus fleets, to replace their stations, their facilities that help provide the service every day to their customers.”

While many buses operate on diesel, he says advances with ground transportation, including light rail, are much less reliant on fossil fuels. “We’ve got a big movement going on in the country towards electricification,” Skoutelas says. “More and more cities are going to alternate propulsion systems, whether it’s compressed natural gas and in many cases now, electricification, that takes new investment to make that happen and the infrastructure to support that.”

This spring’s flooding caused significant damage to roads and bridges in Iowa, especially in the southwest. Skoutelas says it’s clear the infrastructure needs to have resiliency built-in in order to weather Mother Nature’s extremes. “That also points to the need to be able to provide emergency-related services,” Skoutelas says. “We’ve had a number of cities and transit agencies that have been called into service in these kinds of situations to do evacuations to make sure people are placed out of harm’s way.”

The report claims an investment in infrastructure brings a four-to-one return in economic activity over the next 20 years.

Five-year transportation plan includes corridor work

News

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — The state Transportation Commission has approved the latest draft of its five-year Transportation Improvement Program. D-O-T spokesman Stuart Anderson says they expect to have around three-point-five BILLION dollars available — which is similar to past years.  “It stays relatively stable from year-to-year. The last significant change in the amount of money that is available for the commission to spend on the state highway system increased back in 2015 when the legislature passed the fuel tax increase And that provided about 100 million dollars a year in additional revenue,” Anderson says.

Some projects are completed and drop out of the plan every year and Anderson says new projects are then added to the fifth year. That includes several corridor projects this year — including the final stretch of two-lane expansion of Highway 61 in southwest Iowa. “A project to build a bypass of Missouri Valley on U-S 30, which would also include not only a bypass, but includes some levee work in the Missouri Valley area, because the bypass would act as a levee. Also allowed them to add the replacement of the Iowa 9 Mississippi River bridge crossing up in Lansing — which would be a joint project with the state of Wisconsin,” Anderson says.

And there is a project planned for Highway 63. “A northwest bypass of the city of Oskaloosa,” according to Anderson, “to try to get some of the semi traffic out of the central business district of the city.” The plan also includes interstate projects that include I-29 reconstruction in Sioux City, six-lane improvements on I-35 in Polk and Story Counties, the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge replacement in Bettendorf, the I-80/380 Interchange reconstruction near Iowa City, six-lane improvements on I-80 in Johnson and Cedar Counties, I-380 in Hiawatha for the Tower Terrace Interchange, and the I-80/I-29 system in Council Bluffs. Millions of dollars in damage was done to road this year by flooding — but Anderson says that is not something that’s included in this plan. “Roads that have been impacted by flooding are typically addressed outside of the five-year program. And those are typically covered with federal emergency relief funding,” Anderson explains.

You can see the entire plan online. “It is available on the Iowa D-O-T website. So, it is available for public review and comment. And all comments will be shared with the commission, and at their meeting June 11th, they will take action on the final five-year program,” Anderson says. A majority of the fund for the highway program comes from the federal government.

(Podcast) KJAN Morning Sports report, 5/16/19

Podcasts, Sports

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

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

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Iowa-based testing company outsourcing jobs to Colorado firm

News

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa City-based testing company ACT intends to outsource more than 100 jobs to a Colorado company. ACT says 115 full-time positions and 40 temporary positions will be eliminated locally. The transition of the work to Startek will begin Aug. 1 and be finished in November. Startek is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

ACT says Startek can provide “a level of service that is no longer possible for a non-specialized company” such as ACT. ACT also says employees who do not find other positions with the company will receive severance packages.

Creston woman & man arrested on drug charges

News

May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

The Creston Police Department reports two people were arrested Wednesday evening on drug charges. 25-year old Marcus Parkhurst and 25-year old Brittanee Short, both of Creston, were taken into custody at around 6:10-p.m. in an apartment located in the 300 block of W. Lucas Street. They were both charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense, cited and released on a Promise to Appear in court.

Authorities said also, a woman reported that sometime between 10-and 10:30-a.m. Wednesday, someone entered her vehicle while it was parked in the 300 block of W. Adams Street. Taken from inside the vehicle, was a purse that contained keys, credit cards, ID and cash. The loss was estimated at $200.

(Podcast) KJAN Morning News & Funeral report, 5/16/2019

News, Podcasts

May 16th, 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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USDA Report 5-16-2019

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

May 16th, 2019 by Jim Field

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