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Grant and Ethan Sturm hit the State Tennis court today

Sports

May 28th, 2021 by admin

Boys State Singles and Doubles Tennis Tournaments begin play today and will finish on Saturday. The Class 1A Tournament is being played at Byrnes Park in Waterloo. The Class 2A Tournament is beginning singles play indoors at the University of Iowa’s HTRC at 9:30 a.m. with doubles play still scheduled to play at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids with Coe College on standby as a rain site.

In Class 1A Atlantic’s Grant and Ethan Sturm will be in doubles competition. Their first match will begin around 9:30 a.m. and will be against the duo of Luke Hicks & Carter Soppe of Kuemper Catholic. Other area doubles teams competing include Harrison Dahm & Colin Reis of Denison-Schleswig, Reed Finnegan & Josh Schuster of Shenandoah.

Area singles competitors in 1A are: Nathan Brown of Clarinda, Jeff Miller of St. Albert, Andrew Lawrence of Shenanodah, and Brock Bruns of Harlan.

In Class 2A CB Abraham Lincoln’s Dalton Pregon will compete in singles play.

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Class 2A and 3A girls regional soccer on tap today

Sports

May 28th, 2021 by admin

The first round of play for Class 2A and 3A girls soccer teams is Friday. Winners will advance to regional semifinals next Wednesday, June 2nd. Here’s a look at tonight’s area schedule.

CLASS 2A

Region 1
Spirit Lake @ Sheldon Sibley-Ocheyedan 5:00 p.m.
Storm Lake @ Carroll 6:00 p.m.

Region 2
Denison-Schleswig @ Harlan 5:30 p.m.
Atlantic @ Panorama 6:00 p.m.

CLASS 3A

Region 1
Sioux City West @ Sioux City North 6:00 p.m.

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High School Softball/Baseball Scoreboard 05/28/2021

Sports

May 28th, 2021 by admin

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic @ Denison-Scleswig PPD
Clarinda 8, Shenandoah 6
Creston 12, Red Oak 0
St. Albert 3, Lewis Central 2

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 7, Riverside 6
Treynor @ Audubon PPD
Tri-Center 12, IKM-Manning 7
Underwood 6, Logan-Magnolia 5
West Monona 11, Missouri Valley 1

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 16, East Mills 4
Exira-EHK 8, Kuemper Catholic 4
River Valley 8, West Harrison 4
Woodbine 2, Sidney 0

Pride of Iowa Conference

Lenox 4, Nodaway Valley 1
Southeast Warren 11, East Union 0
Southwest Valley 7, Bedford 4
Wayne 7, Central Decatur 3

Other Scores

CB Abraham Lincoln 3, LeMars 2 (Game 1)
LeMars 6, CB Abraham Lincoln 1 (Game 2)
Melcher-Dallas 3, Twin Cedars 2
Moravia 13, Lamoni 5
Orient-Macksburg at Murray PPD
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at CB Thomas Jefferson (DH) PPD

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic @ Denison-Schleswig PPD
Clarinda 9, Shenandoah 2
Creston 6, Red Oak 2
Lewis Central 6, St. Albert 1

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 7, Riverside 6
Missouri Valley 25, West Monona 1
Treynor at Audubon PPD
Tri-Center 22, IKM-Manning 0
Underwood 10, Logan-Magnolia 1

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 10, East Mills 0
Exira-EHK 14, Griswold 4
Woodbine 7, Sidney 5

Pride of Iowa Conference

Central Decatur 6, Wayne 5
Nodaway Valley 5, Lenox 1
Southeast Warren 11, East Union 1
Southwest Valley 18, Bedford 13

Other Scores

Lamoni 5, Moravia 0
LeMars 13, Abraham Lincoln 1 (Game 1)
LeMars 8, Abraham Lincoln 2 (Game 2)
Melcher-Dallas 11, Twin Cedars 6
Orient-Macksburg at Murray PPD
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at Thomas Jefferson (DH) PPD

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2021 Boys State Golf Day 1 Results

Sports

May 28th, 2021 by admin

Class 1A @ Westwood Golf Course in Newton

Individual Leaders

T1 Hogan Henrich  Newell-Fonda, 12 +5 – –
T1 Lucas Gunderson  Harris-Lake Park, 12 +5 – –
3 Trey Johnson  East Buchanan, Winthrop, 12 +6 – * –
4 Clayton Phillips  New London, 12 +7 – –
5 Michael Bell  North Tama, Traer, 11 +8 – –
T6 Trey Lashbrook  AGWSR, Ackley, 12 +9 – –
T6 Ben Macy  AGWSR, Ackley, 12 +9 – –
T6 Daniel Stahl  AGWSR, Ackley, 11 +9 – –
T6 Jaydon Nabb  North Cedar, Stanwood, 9 +9 – –
T10 Drew Schaeffer  St. Edmond, Fort Dodge, 12 +10

Team Leaders

1 AGWSR, Ackley +49 – –
2 Newell-Fonda +54 – –
3 North Tama, Trear +60 – –
4 East Buchanan, Winthrop +62 – –
5 Fremont-Mills, Tabor +66 – –
6 Newman Catholic, Mason City +69 – –
7 St. Edmond, Fort Dodge +76 – –
8 St. Albert, Council Bluffs +86 – –
9 North Cedar, Stanwood +91 – –

Class 2A @ Lakeside Municipla Golf Course @ Fort Dodge

Individual Leaders

POS
PLAYER
THRU
TOTAL
1 Drew Van Roekel  Boyden-Hull, 11 F * +1
T2 Axton Miller  OABCIG, 9 F +4
T2 Bob Ryan  Tipton, 11 F +4
T2 Bennett Berger  Lake Mills, 11 F * +4
T5 Dexter Whitehill  Grundy Center, 11 F +5
T5 Jake Weissenburger  Des Moines Christian, 11 F +5
T7 Ashton Martens  Grundy Center, 11 F +6
T7 Will Bridges  West Branch, 10 F +6
T9 Dylan Countryman  West Branch, 11 F +7
T9 Grant Caltrider  West Central Valley, Stuart, 11 F +7

Team Leaders

1 Lake Mills F +31
2 West Branch F +33
3 Grundy Center F +34
4 Hudson F +44
5 Boyden-Hull F +45
6 Kuemper Catholic, Carroll F +53
7 Beckman Catholic, Dyersville F +54
T8 Emmetsburg F +55
T8 Western Christian, Hull F +55

Class 3A @ Elmwood Country Club in Marshalltown

Individual Leaders

1 Hogan Hansen  Waverly-Shell Rock, 11 F +2
T2 Jack McCarty  Solon, 9 F +5
T2 Jackson Laven  Spirit Lake, 12 F +5
T2 Brock Snyder  Gilbert, 10 F +5
5 Mason Weeks  Spirit Lake, 12 F +6
6 Davis Korver  MOC-Floyd Valley, 10 F * +7
T7 Joe Currans  Gilbert, 9 F +8
T7 Will Simpson  Pella, 11 F +8
T9 Sawyer Hansen  Gilbert, 11 F +9
T9 Bryce Malchow  Gilbert, 12 F +9

Team Leaders

1 Gilbert F +31
2 Solon F +45
3 Spirit Lake F +48
4 Monticello F +59
5 MOC-Floyd Valley F * +63
6 Knoxville F * +67
7 Clear Lake F * +68
8 ADM-Adel F * +71
9 Oskaloosa F * +86
10 Winterset F * +87

 

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Two lottery games adding more drawings

News

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Powerball and Lucky for Life games are adding more drawings later this year. Iowa Lottery spokesperson, Mary Neubauer says Powerball is going to add a Monday drawing along with the Wednesday and Saturday drawings — while the Lucky For Life game will move from two drawings to a drawing every night.” Powerball is nationwide, while the Lucky For Life game involves Iowa and 15 other states. Neubauer says the changes are in response to the feedback they’ve been getting. “Players are looking for bigger, faster-growing jackpots in games like Powerball and MegaMillions. And so, the change in Powerball is designed to help deliver those bigger, faster-growing jackpots,” Neubauer says. “When you have another drawing in the mix every week it would mean more tickets being sold and that way the jackpot would grow more quickly.”

The big jackpots in the games have lagged since the pandemic.”We’re an instant gratification society — and this is a way to speed up the pace of the games a little bit,” she says. Neubauer says more drawings don’t change your odds of winning a jackpot. “Even though extra drawings are being added in the game — it does not change the rest of the specifics in the game, ” according to Neubauer. “So the prize levels are staying the same, the odds of winning, the ticket price is all the same, it’s just that there will be more drawings per week.”

The Lucky for Life game will change first. “The first daily drawings in that game begin on July 19th. And then the changes in Powerball will occur in August — with Powerball moving to three drawings a week. The first Monday drawing in that game will happen on August 23rd,” she says.

You can win the Powerball jackpot by matching all six numbers selected in the drawing, while the Lucky for Life game gives players a daily shot at winning its top prize of one-thousand dollars a day for the rest of their lives.

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ISU study: Slowing down meatpacking plant line speeds will hurt pork producers

Ag/Outdoor, News

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – An Iowa State University study finds a recent federal court decision forcing the line speeds at meat processing plants to slow down could result in a two-and-a-half percent loss in pork packing capacity nationwide. I-S-U economist Dermot Hayes says without any changes, the ruling will lead to a cut of more than 80-million dollars in income for small pork producers. “We were expecting those plants to be at capacity this fall so those extra hogs are going to have to find a home,” Hayes says. “Packers will have to cancel contracts with producers and push those hogs out and they’ll be transported a couple hundred miles to a plant that is willing to take those hogs, but of course, at a discount.”

Hayes says the new regulations go into effect July 1st, but plants won’t start reaching capacity until September, October or November — which is when the forced slowdowns will hit. “Four or five of the plants have been running at these line speeds for 20 years,” Hayes says, “so it’s not a short-term decision that caused this. It’s one of those laws of unintended consequences. We’ll see it this fall when we traditionally get the most hogs going through the pipeline.” Hayes says if the agency plans to appeal the court’s decision, it’ll need to act quickly.

“The decision that the U.S. Department of Agriculture made to allow higher line speeds under the Clinton administration, the judge just didn’t think they had done a good enough job documenting the impact on worker safety,” Hayes says. “One outcome would be for the USDA to appeal and ask for some time to document the impact on worker safety, if any.”

The National Pork Producers Council is urging the U-S-D-A to appeal the decision. N-P-P-C president Jen Sorenson says the lives of many hog farmers will be upended if the ruling takes effect.

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PAUL DORY, 91, of Bridgewater (Memorial Svc. 6/5/21)

Obituaries

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

PAUL DORY, 91, of Bridgewater, died Sept. 2020. A Memorial service for PAUL DORY will be held 11-a.m. Saturday JUNE 5TH, at Trinity Christian Church in Bridgewater.

A luncheon will be held after the service.

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JOHN EDWIN SHEER, 73, of Bayard (6-1-2021)

Obituaries

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

JOHN EDWIN SHEER, 73, of Bayard died Thursday, May 27th at home.  A graveside service for JOHN SHEER will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. at Highland Township Cemetery near Bayard.  Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Coon Rapids is handling the arrangements.

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Memorials may be mailed to: The family of John Sheer, P.O. Box 20, Bayard, IA  50029.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.dahnandwoodhouse.com

JOHN EDWIN SHEER is survived by:

Wife:  Diana of Bayard.

Daughter:  Jennifer Lloyd of Bayard

Brother:  Wayne Sheer of Davenport.

Sisters-in-law:  Janet Sheer of Kempner, TX and Debbie Smouse of Carroll.

Brother-in-law: Robert Kinnick of Grand Junction

3 Grandchildren

and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area: Friday, May 28, 2021

Weather

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly cloudy w/areas of drizzle this morning. High 59. N @ 10-20.

Tonight: Clearing skies & diminishing winds. Low 35.

Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 68. E @ 5-10.

Sunday: Mo. Cloudy. High 66.

Monday (Memorial Day): Mo. Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 68.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 73. Our Low this morning (as of 4:55-a.m.,) was 45. We received a trace of precipitation this morning, in the form of drizzle. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 81 and the Low was 47. The Record High was 97 in 2018. The Record Low was 29, in 1894.

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Gov. Reynolds signs new Public Health Disaster proclamation

Ag/Outdoor, News

May 28th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES – On Thursday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a new Public Health Disaster proclamation that extends critical regulatory relief for an additional 30 days to those on the frontlines of COVID19 recovery.

The proclamation also continues to extend the waiver on transportation restrictions for overweight loads.

The proclamation can be found online here.

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