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Voters in Shelby are being asked to head to the polls next Tuesday, to cast their ballots during a Special Election for the City Council. There are four candidates vying for two open City Council seats. The candidates include: Donovan Dontje; Steve Myers; Robert Morton, and Karen Schlueter.
The polls will be open from Noon until 8-p.m. Tuesday, July 10th, at the Shelby Community Building.
The City Council in Walnut will hold their regularly scheduled meeting this (Thursday) evening. On their agenda is: Discussion about the Well Project; discussion and possible action on the first reading of an ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances, by amending the provisions pertaining to Water Rates for service; Discuss of the Minimum Maintenance Ordinance (With officials from SWIPCO); Discussion of a plaque honoring Eldon Ranney; Quarterly inspections of City Property; and other matters.
The meeting takes place at the Walnut City Hall, beginning at 5-p.m.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is asking turkey hunters and others to help them get an accurate count on the number of birds roaming the woods in Iowa. Wildlife biologist Jim Coffey says they have made it easy for you to report what you see. He says they have an area on their website where you can go in and report turkey sightings in the months of July and August. The D-N-R has mailed survey cards to select turkey hunters who are asked to provide the date and county in which the turkey was seen, if it was an adult female or adult male, and whether there are young poults (baby turkeys). “That helps us gauge what we are going to predict for next year’s supply of turkeys,” Coffey says.
Coffey says the weather, available nesting areas and other things can all impact the number of turkeys who are born and survive each year. He says by seeing the number of young birds they can get an idea of what hunters can expect. There is a link to an online survey and survey card on the D-N-R’s website at www.iowadnr.gov.
(Radio Iowa)
The largest pork producer in Iowa is announcing a new commitment to odor reduction and farm beautification. John Stinn, the environment project manager for Iowa Falls-based Iowa Select Farms, says to cut down on the smell, they’ll be putting up what’s called an electrostatic precipitator fence on all new company-owned farms. “Basically how that works is, we string a couple of high-voltage wires right after the fans on the end of the barn so as the dust particles leave the barn, they’ll be charged by that fence and they’ll impact our green screen fence that will grab onto those charged particles and prevent them from leaving the farm,” Stinn says. “By reducing the dust that leaves the farm, we also reduce the odor.”
On the beautification side of the effort, the company plans to plant tree wind breaks. Stinn says the dual effort will involve all of the new Iowa Select Farm facilities that are under construction. “All the farms that we are building this summer, we are committed to putting both tree wind breaks and also this electrostatic fence on them as well,” he says. The first of the new facilities was recently dedicated near Williams in Hamilton County at the Hale Finisher site. Iowa Select Farms has 800 farms in 50 counties, marketing more than four-million hogs a year.
(Radio Iowa)
CASEY S. BOLICK, 29, of Audubon, died June 30th, in Webster County. Funeral services for CASEY BOLICK will be held 10:30-a.m. Saturday, July 7th, at the Gray Heritage Rose Garden (In Gray, IA). Seating is limited, to please bring your lawn chairs and blankets to sit on. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is 4-p.m. Friday, July 6th.
Burial will be in the Gray Cemetery, west of Gray.
CASEY BOLICK is survived by:
His parents – John (Lori) Bolick, of Gray.
His brothers – Johnny (Kristi) Bolick, of Hickory, NC. and Cale Bolick (Amber Libke), of Carroll.
His love – Kenedee Turner, of Audubon.
other relatives and many friends.
A man from Warren County was arrested Wednesday night on alcohol and drug charges in Adams County. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports 19-year old Andrew Mellencamp, of Prole, was arrested following a traffic stop, at around 10:30-p.m. He was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense, and Possession of a Controlled Substance. Mellencamp was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms, mainly this morning. High 84. N @ 5-10.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 64. N @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 84. N@ 5-10.
Saturday & Sunday: P/Cldy. Highs in the mid-80’s.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 91. Our Low this morning (as of 5:15-a.m.) was 69. Last year on this date our High was 89 and the Low was 64. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 107 in 1911. The Record Low was 41 in 1972.
(Radio Iowa) — An exhibit showcasing the history of 6-on-6 girls basketball in Iowa is in the midst of a six-city tour across the state. It was 25 years ago this year that Iowa’s final 6-on-6 state tournament was held. University of Iowa professor Susan Birrell is co-curator of the exhibit, which was first put on display in Mount Vernon in March. “At Mount Vernon, we were met at the door before the exhibit even opened on the first day by women who were eager to see the exhibit and share their own stories,” Birrell said.
The exhibit was moved to Ottumwa in May and is now on display in Guthrie Center through August 5. Julie Goodrich-Blake donated photos and other items to the exhibit. She played for Adel in the 1970s when her team made it to the finals of the state tournament two years in a row, losing both of those games. During her junior and senior years, Goodrich-Blake received fan mail from around the state and was a superstar in
Julie Goodrich, Adel, launches shot at state tournament
her small town in Dallas County. “We were treated like royalty, really,” Goodrich-Blake recalled. “We had so much success and the people of the community enjoyed watching us.”
Current University of Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder played 6-on-6 hoops for Linn-Mar in the late 1970s. Her teams never made it to the state tournament, but Bluder has fond memories of the pageantry put on display at Vet’s Auditorium in Des Moines. “Every year, we’d go and watch the state tournament and see all the glamour – and it was packed,” Bluder said. “The guys would come out in their tuxedos and clean the floor at halftime. The spotlights would come on and they’d announce the all-tournament teams and the people being inducted into the hall-of-fame. The whole thing was marvelous.”
Although the 6-on-6 game wasn’t unique to Iowa, support of the sport was extraordinary – both in terms of fans and organization. Iowa has the longest running state tournament dedicated to high school girls, with the first unsanctioned tournament held in 1920. Goodrich-Blake, who went on to play at Iowa State University, said she feels lucky that she grew up where she did. “My mother and grandmother played basketball, my aunts played, so I didn’t realize other girls my age weren’t getting to play across the country. It wasn’t novel to go out for basketball at Adel because everybody else had played before,” Goodrich-Blake said.
Iowa was one of the last two states to play 6-on-6 basketball (Oklahoma held its last 6-on-6 tournament in 1995). Each team in the 6-on-6 game had three guards on one side of the court and three forwards on the other. Shelly Lucas was a guard for the New London Tigerettes in the early 1980s. “I didn’t know it was unusual that I never got to score any points. I took a lot of pride in my defensive skills,” Lucas said. “My school was never a noteworthy school, we didn’t make it to state or anything like that. We were playing because it was fun to play and that’s what you did when you grew up in Iowa.”
Lucas, now a professor at Boise State University, earned a PhD at the University of Iowa in 2001. Her dissertation examined the controversy over switching Iowa high school girls’ basketball from a six-player to a five-player game. The traveling exhibit, currently in Guthrie Center, will make three more tour stops between August and the end of the year in Jefferson, Ames, and Conrad.
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LINK:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/celebrating-girls-and-womens-sport-in-iowa/
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa school district is hiring more security personnel after receiving special permission to spend $1.1 million beyond state spending limits. The Davenport Community School District received approval Tuesday from the School Budget Review Committee to hire 18 unarmed security supervisors, even as the district works to cut spending in other areas. Davenport’s plan comes as schools across Iowa are working to comply with a new law requiring security plans by next summer.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City officials are closing a merry-go-round, train and other amusement rides that for 60 years have been part of childhood in the community. The Iowa City Parks and Recreation announced Monday that the rides in Lower City Park will permanently close on Sept. 23. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the department will be offering free rides on weekends in August and September to commemorate the closure.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation for Franklin County in north-central Iowa. The proclamation issued Tuesday is in response to flooding and severe weather that began in mid-June. The proclamation allows state resources to be used to aid in recovery efforts and activates a program to give some residents grants of up to $5,000 for home and car repairs and other expenses.
CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Officials in central Iowa say flooding from heavy rains this past weekend damaged the Clive Library and the Clive Aquatic Center. The Polk County Emergency Management Agency said in a news release Tuesday that the library and aquatic center had closed because of damage from storm water. Both have since reopened. A special flood-debris pickup has also been scheduled for Clive, a suburb of Des Moines, on Friday for residents and businesses in some areas.
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