ANITA MEAD, 88, of Clarinda died Saturday, November 21st at the Clarinda Regional Health Center Funeral services for ANITA MEAD will be held at a later date. Ritchie Funeral Home of Clarinda is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be given in her name.
Memories and condolences may be shared on the website www.ritchiefuneralhome.com.
ANITA MEAD is survived by:
Son: Thomas Mead of Clarinda
Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren
(Des Moines) – With many holiday gatherings put on hold due to the pandemic, pheasant hunting is one way to keep an annual holiday tradition alive, while staying apart. “Pheasant hunting is a big part of Thanksgiving for many families but with health experts advising against gatherings, this tradition won’t look the same as in year’s past, but it can still be part of the holiday,” said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. He said hunters who do not live in the same house are encouraged to drive separately to the hunting spot and when they arrive, to space out and not congregate while in the field.
What they’ll find in the field is a pheasant season that’s off to a good start. “I’m hearing really good reports, good pheasant numbers from all parts of the state despite the state experiencing an unusual number of days with gale-force winds and temperatures in the 70s,” said Bogenschutz. “Everybody that’s hunting in good cover is finding and getting birds.” That’s good news heading in to the Thanksgiving holiday and might be just enough incentive to delay the trip to the couch until the afternoon hunt is completed.
Iowa’s pheasant season closes Jan. 10, 2021.
Places to Hunt
The Iowa DNR’s online hunting atlas lists nearly 700,000 acres of public hunting land, including 22,000 acres of land enrolled in the popular Iowa Habitat and Access Program (IHAP) allowing hunter access to private land.
Each area on the atlas includes a link to a map with property boundaries, the size of the area, habitat type, species of wildlife likely found, if nontoxic shot is required and more. The map is available as a downloadable pdf that can be printed or saved to a smartphone.
To view the atlas, go to www.iowadnr.gov/hunting and click on Places to Hunt and Shoot in the left column.
DEBRA FOSTUN, 68, of Greenfield, died Sunday, November 22, 2020, at the Mercyone Hospice in Johnston. Funeral services for DEBRA FOSTUN are pending at the Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Church officials say a Roman Catholic professor will return to teaching and the ministry, with restrictions, after an inquiry found he misbehaved sexually in the 1990s but not against minors. A Diocese of Des Moines investigation found that the allegations against the Rev. Robert “Bud” Grant did not involve a minor because the complainant was “above majority age” at the time. The diocese says Grant engaged in behavior in the early 1990s that violated the 6th Commandment ban on adultery and his priestly promises. Grant is expected to return to teaching at St. Ambrose University in Davenport in the spring.
Jiffy Corn Casserole
Ingredients
Cooking spray for baking dish
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted
1 15 oz can whole kernel corn, drained
1 15 oz can creamed corn
1 cup (8 oz) sour cream
1 box (8.5 oz) Jiffy corn muffin mix
Directions
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cot an 8×8 pan with cooking spray.
Mix all ingredients together. Pour into baking dish.
Bake until slightly puffed, golden brown and firm in middle,
45 to 50 minutes.
Allow to cool for about 10 minutes to become firm to serve.
Store leftovers in refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze.
Note: Some similar recipes add 2 beaten eggs and 2 tablespoons sugar.
(Radio Iowa) – Farmers took advantage of good weather last week to wrap up some of the remaining harvest work. The U-S-D-A crop report out Monday shows only scattered cornfields remain to be harvested across the state — amounting to about two percent of the crop. Some of the derecho damaged cornfields still have to be disked down — and the report says some farmers are doing extra tillage in areas where corn was knocked down with the worry that the downed corn will come up as volunteer corn in the spring. The harvest finished up three weeks ahead of last year.
(Radio Iowa) – The state now reports COVID-19 outbreaks in 143 long-term care facilities statewide. Governor Kim Reynolds acknowledges that’s up more than 50 nursing homes from a week ago, with more than 45-hundred residents testing positive — and more than a thousand have died.
The governor says the state’s overall positivity rate is falling, as are the number of hospitalizations due to COVID. At the moment, she says the 18-to-29 year old age group is seeing the most new cases.
(Radio Iowa) – A top official in the Iowa Department of Revenue confirms some Iowa communities are getting early holiday gifts from the state in the form of much larger checks than expected from local option sales taxes. State chief economist Robin Anderson says it’ll be a boom to the budgets in quite a few towns and counties. “Some of the increase does have to do with changes to how we collect sales tax revenue for internet sales,” Anderson says. Estimates are made by the state based on the first three quarters of the previous year, and changes to the economy and our buying habits during this year’s pandemic threw off those estimates. Some counties are now getting what are called “true up” checks in the mail from the state.
“So, if there’s an overshoot or undershoot, we true up those numbers,” Anderson says. “That’s likely what happened with these cities and counties and other local entities that are getting extra paychecks from the state.” Some communities were anticipating state checks of ten-thousand dollars, and they’re instead getting checks of between five and ten times that amount. “The initial data that we had shows flat growth and then growth comes in better than expected throughout the year,” Anderson says. “So really, we’re limited in the data that we have when we develop the forecast. Sometimes, we’re a little bit off and we have to reconcile those numbers.”
The pendulum swings both ways though, as she says some communities are getting less than they originally expected.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Tuesday (Today), said the increases in positive cases of COVID-19 over the last several weeks has resulted in an increased use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), but “thanks to months of procurement and ongoing monitoring and management, Iowa’s PPE stockpile is strong. Jacob Nicholson, a Response Division administrator for the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division (HSEMD), said Iowa analyzed trends in the statewide usage rates and monitored shortages in the supply chain, and the State is well positioned to meet the needs for PPE in the months to come.
(He said gloves and disposable gowns have been in demand, but there is still a 16 months supply of gloves and 18 months supply of gowns in the stockpile, ready to be dispersed.)
In addition, the State has executed contracts with suppliers for those high demand items, with resupply shipments scheduled to be delivered to the HSEMD warehouse every month for the next seven months.
(He said as of this week, the State has completed 2,557 deliveries of PPE and other necessary supplies, totaling 15.7-million individual items.)
Most recently, he said, they’ve worked in partnership with County Emergency Management Coordinators in Pottawattamie, Union and five other Counties, to established seven PPE hubs, or nodes, across the State.
Nicholson says their PPE distribution model will enable requests for supplies to be filled more rapidly than ever before.
Officials with the City of Atlantic said Tuesday (Today), the Atlantic City Hall/Police Department will continue to be closed to the public until December 13th, at which time the closure will be re-evaluated. If you need something, please call 243-3512 (for non-emergencies) to reach the police department, and 243-4810 to reach city hall.
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