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IATC Individual Cross Country Rankings 10/20/2020

Sports

October 20th, 2020 by admin

The Iowa Association of Track Coaches has released their weekly update to the individual cross country rankings. Here is a look at the area ranked runners.

Class 4A Boys

23. Ethan Eichorn, Lewis Central
28. Aidan Booton, CB Thomas Jefferson

Class 3A Boys

8. Craig Alan Becker, Atlantic
9. Trey Gross, Harlan
20. Andrew Smith, Glenwood

Class 3A Girls

12. Braelyn Baker, Creston
16. Emma Hughes, Glenwood
21. Taylor McCreedy, Atlantic

Class 2A Boys

9. Cole Dooley, Treynor
11. Baylor Bergren, Red Oak

Class 2A Girls

8. Ella Waddle, Panorama
18. Mayson Hartley, Clarinda

Class 1A Boys

8. Jayden Dickson, Earlham
16. Zach Dixon, Earlham
17. Quentin Dreyer, IKM-Manning
21. Trevin Suhr, ACGC
24. Toby Bower, Nodaway Valley
27. Doug Berg, Nodaway Valley
29. Brett McGee, Tri-Center

Class 1A Girls

4 Peyton Pogge, Tri-Center
6. Courtney Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia
9. Lily Dixon, Earlham
16. Sophia Broers, Nodaway Valley
20. Rylee Sloss, ACGC
24. Reese Duncan, St. Albert
30. Mya Moss, Logan-Manolia

Full rankings HERE.

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Final IGHSAU Volleyball Rankings 10/19/2020

Sports

October 20th, 2020 by admin

2020 FINAL Iowa High School Volleyball Rankings
Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union
Monday, October 19

Class 1A
No. School Record LW
1 Janesville 25-4 1
2 Wapsie Valley 17-7 2
3 Gehlen Catholic 21-5 3
4 Gladbrook-Reinbeck 29-2 4
5 Southeast Warren 23-0 7
6 Newell-Fonda 25-3 8
7 Springville 24-4 5
8 Holy Trinity Catholic 25-9 6
9 Saint Ansgar 19-4 9
10 Lisbon 24-4 12
11 New London 19-7 10
12 Coon Rapids-Bayard 15-3 11
13 North Butler 21-5 14
14 Burlington Notre Dame 13-5 NR
15 East Mills 22-2 15
Dropped Out: WACO (13)

Class 2A
No. School Record LW
1 Western Christian 29-9 1
2 Wilton 29-3 2
3 Dike-New Hartford 26-4 3
4 Boyden-Hull 21-7 4
5 East Sac County 21-0 5
6 Denver 30-5 7
7 Sumner-Fredericksburg 24-7 8
8 Beckman Catholic 28-9 9
9 Underwood 24-5 6
10 Hudson 26-7 10
11 Van Meter 16-3 12
12 Columbus Catholic 18-15 11
13 Jesup 15-12 13
14 West Branch 18-12 14
15 Aplington-Parkersburg 16-11 15
Dropped Out: None

Class 3A
No. School Record LW
1 Osage 28-2 1
2 Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 24-2 2
3 Mount Vernon 27-6 3
4 Davenport Assumption 19-2 6
5 Unity Christian 20-5 4
6 MOC-Floyd Valley 22-4 7
7 Union 29-9 5
8 West Liberty 24-6 9
9 Red Oak 27-4 8
10 Humboldt 30-3 11
11 Kuemper Catholic 20-10 NR
12 Roland-Story 22-7 12
13 Independence 23-7 10
14 Sioux Center 21-11 13
15 Forest City 18-9 15
Dropped Out: Cherokee (14)

Class 4A
No. School Record LW
1 Cedar Rapids Xavier 21-6 1
2 Waverly-Shell Rock 37-8 6
3 North Scott 20-4 4
4 Glenwood 30-2 3
5 Western Dubuque 22-10 5
6 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 21-6 2
7 Marion 20-11 7
8 West Delaware 26-11 8
9 Clear Creek-Amana 25-6 11
10 Gilbert 24-9 9
11 Clinton 17-12 12
12 Lewis Central 17-6 NR
13 Carroll 22-10 15
14 Pella 22-11 NR
15 Oskaloosa 20-7 13
Dropped Out: Dallas Center-Grimes (10)

Class 5A
No. School Record LW
1 Dowling Catholic 19-2 1
2 Ankeny 18-2 2
3 Pleasant Valley 18-1 4
4 West Des Moines Valley 17-6 5
5 Iowa City Liberty 20-2 6
6 Cedar Falls 25-5 3
7 Ankeny Centennial 14-9 7
8 Dubuque Hempstead 18-5 8
9 Urbandale 10-7 9
10 Sioux City East 21-6 15
11 Dubuque Senior 17-9 10
12 Johnston 18-14 NR
13 Des Moines Roosevelt 7-4 13
14 Bettendorf 11-6 11
15 Cedar Rapids Prairie 18-14 12
Dropped Out: Muscatine (14

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Iowa State Athletics COVID-19 Update

Sports

October 20th, 2020 by admin

AMES, Iowa – Updated COVID-19 testing results by the Iowa State Athletics Department.

Oct. 12-18
Total Tests         Athletes             Staff      Total Positive    Athlete Pos.      Staff Pos.       %Pos.
724                      567                      157        2                           1                          1                             0.28

June 8-Oct. 18
Total Tests         Athletes             Staff      Total Positive    Athlete Pos.      Staff Pos.       %Pos.
6,382                   4,716                   1,671    62                        56                        6                             0.97

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Another wind turbine blade breaks off in central Iowa

News

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

PATON, Iowa (AP) — For the second time in as many months, a huge blade has broken off from its wind turbine in central Iowa. Television station KCCI reports the latest incident happened Thursday near Paton in Green County. No one was hurt. That follows a similar incident in mid-September, when another blade dropped from a turbine near Adel and crashed into a corn field. Officials say the blades are 177 feet long and weigh 18,000 pounds.

Mid-American Energy tells the station that in both cases, the blades were equipped with a specific type of lightning protection system. MidAmerican said such incidents are “extremely rare,” but acknowledged that even one incident is unacceptable.

 

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Atlantic FFA member presents at the Global Youth Institute

Ag/Outdoor, News

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Atlantic FFA Advisor Eric Miller reports club FFA member Malena Woodward presented a paper virtually to the Global Youth Institute on Tuesday, October 13th. Woodward’s paper was on malnutrition in Puerto Rico and provided several options to help solve this issue that affects 1.5 million Puerto Rican’s every year. Malena’s solutions included additional education for school age students with an emphasis on growing food on the island. Puerto Rico imports 85% of the food they need every year.

Malena Woodward (Photo submitted)

Malena said, “I really enjoyed the presentations, I thought it was interesting hearing the ideas of other students and experts trying to solve world hunger as well as hearing their input and giving me more ideas about my topic “. In addition to this experience Malena earned 2 scholarships for Iowa State University. The first was for $500 for participating in the Iowa Youth Institute in April and the second was for $2,000 for participating in the Global Youth Institute this week.

Malena had 8 other students in her roundtable discussion from 5 different states and 1 student from China. Each of these individuals had presentations on Water & Sanitation issues in Ireland, Infectious Disease in Burundi, Sustainable Agriculture in Guatemala, the Education Gap in El Salvador, Climate Volatility in Bangladesh, War and Conflict in Yemen, Policy and Governmental Conflict in Zimbabwe and Water Scarcity in Uganda.

Not only did Malena present to a group of students, she spoke to and was given feedback from 3 distinguished experts in a variety of different fields. Dr. Ruth MacDonald Iowa State University Professor and Chair, Food Science and Human Nutrition. Dr. Glenn Gregorio Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)Director and Mr. Stan Carlson Former Canadian diplomat and United Nations Official.

On Friday the Global Youth Institute wrapped up with a keynote address by His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan and a round table discussion with all of the student participants and more than a dozen government officials CEO’s of nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 business leaders from all over the world.

ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD PRIZE: The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. The Prize was founded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Since then, the World Food Prize has honored 50 outstanding individuals who have made vital contributions throughout the world. The World Food Prize annually hosts the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium and a variety of youth education programs to help further the discussion on cutting-edge global food security issues and inspire the next generation to end hunger.

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ETHEL HANDLEY, 96, of Greenfield (Mass of Christian Burial 10/24/20)

Obituaries

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

ETHEL HANDLEY, 96, of Greenfield, died Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at the Adair County Memorial Hospital in Greenfield.  A Mass of Christian Burial for ETHEL HANDLEY will be held 10:30-a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24th, at St. John’s Catholic Church in Greenfield. Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements. Due to state and federal guidance on gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the family, church and funeral home requests masks must be worn and social distancing to be practiced.

Visitation at the funeral home, is open from 4-p.m. until 7-p.m., Friday (Oct. 23).; Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com

Burial is in the Greenfield Cemetery.

Memorials may be directed to the Ethel Handley Memorial Fund, to be established by the family.

ETHEL HANDLEY is survived by:

Her daughter – Carol (Virgil) Baudler.

8 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; 3 great-great grandchildren; her in-laws, other relatives and many friends.

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JAY KELLY PATRICK O’BRIEN, 62, of Council Bluffs, formerly of Atlantic (10-24-2020)

Obituaries

October 20th, 2020 by Jim Field

JAY KELLY PATRICK O’BRIEN, 62, of Council Bluffs, formerly of Atlantic, died September 14, 2020, in Fort Dodge.  A Celebration of Life service for JAY KELLY PATRICK O’BRIEN will be held Saturday (October 24th), from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Iron Specialties, Inc. in Atlantic (410 E. 3rd Street). Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Fort Dodge has the arrangements.

A private burial will be held at Evergreen Cemetery in Anita.

The Grandchildren of Jay would respectfully ask you to stay home if you have had exposure within the last 14 days or are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19.

If you are unable to attend but would like to send your condolences, please address 1815 Bristol Drive, Dubuque, IA, 52001.

JAY KELLY PATRICK O’BRIEN is survived by:

Children: Sierra (Russell) Milam of Dubuque; Kyler O’Brien of Council Bluffs

Siblings:  Denise (Larry Harris) O’Brien of Atlantic; Jacinta Ahrens of Island Pond, Vermont; John (Gina) O’Brien of Fort Dodge; Mark (Trish) O’Brien of Atlantic; Tim (Chris) O’ Brien of Waverly; Laurine Price of Atlantic.

3 Grandchildren

 

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Harvesting of derecho crops has mixed outcome

Ag/Outdoor

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The recovery of crops damaged by the derecho in August has been a mixed bag as the harvest nears its end. An estimated three-point-six (3.6) million acres of corn in Iowa got slammed by winds up to 100 miles-an-hour. That left stalks almost flat to the ground and others remained standing with a pronounced tilt. At the Key Cooperative in Kelly, agronomist Ben Hollingshead says some farmers gave up on the damaged crops to focus on preparing fields for next year — but many did attempt to harvest what they could.

“Some of it they might only have got half of it picked up, some of it they did a little better–was it the hybrid, the technique, they kind of got what they got. There’s an infinite number of variables,” according to Hollingshead. He says there’s not any one factor that can be cited with helping a certain field come out better than another. “Whether it regards a choice to do termination or whether it’s a particular hybrid was worse on the wind, I can generally find something to counter that immediately in some other area,” Hollingshead says.

He says most damaged fields were covered by crop insurance, which farmers told him they were grateful to have.

(By Amy Mayer,| Iowa Public Radio)

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Griswold School Board news: Spending Authority beats projections

News

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Griswold School District Superintendent Dave Henrichs reports the district’s spending authority has beaten 2016 financial projections. Spending Authority is the amount a district has the “right” to spend, but it does not mean it intends to do so. Four-years ago, Hendrichs said, it looked as though the District would have a substantial negative balance by 2020.

In other business, Henrichs said the Board approved Video Streaming Compensation for Teachers who have overseen the Communications Arts program, which includes live streaming of events. The grant has expired, and the Board agreed to compensate those teachers $25 per hour for their after-hours work. The Board also approved the 2020-21 Certified Enrollment Report, which Henrichs says shows the number of kids residing in the District, is 452 (down 5 from last year). The other enrollment number is called “Beds” (Basic Educational Data Survey).

Henrichs said they predicted the number would be around 15. Henrichs said also, the Board approved the offering of an Early Retirement package.

And, the Griswold School Board, Monday, approved the purchase and installation of a 12-foot by 18-foot roll-up flag that would be displayed

The flag was ordered today [Today]. They hope to have it installed by the start of the winter sports season.

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Unemployment drops below 5 percent in September

News

October 20th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped by more than one percent in September. Iowa Workforce Development reports the September rate is four-point-seven percent — down from six percent in August. It is the fifth consecutive month the state unemployment rate has dropped since peaking at 11 percent in April during the height of the pandemic. The number of unemployed Iowans is estimated at 111-thousand-400 lower than that April peak.

Leisure and hospitality gained the most jobs in September at 41-hundred — and Workforce Development says those were predominantly jobs at eating and drinking establishments. I-W-D says there are 64-thousand job openings across the state.

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