There is a new top ranked team in class 2A in the latest Radio Iowa highschool football poll. Defending champion West Lyon has moved to the top of the 2A poll, edgingout second ranked Iowa Falls in a close vote after previously top rankedSigourney Keota lost to North Cedar. Emmetsburg is up a spot to third,Dike-New Hartford and Dyersville Beckman complete the top five. The othertop ranked teams remains the same. West Marshall is on top in 1A for thesecond straight week, Riceville is second followed by Conrad BCLUW, Postvilleand Sumner. West Bend Mallard is top ranked in class A, Madrid is second.Lynnville-Sully, Manning and Southeast Warren complete the top five. IowaCity West remains top ranked in 4A followed by Iowa City High then its WestDes Moines Valley, Bettendorf and Cedar Falls. Hrlan is top rated in 3A.Mount Pleasant is second, West Delaware, Clear Lake and Washington completethe top five…………..Governor Tom Vilsack met with the staff and management of the statepenitentiary in Fort Madison today. The meeting follows the stabbing of aprison guard and criticism by Corrections Director “Kip” Kautzky that theprison staff failed to follow procedures designed to protect their ownsafety. Vilsack says he believes the discussion was good and both sides arefocused on what’s best for the state. Vilsack downplayed the trouble at the”Fort.” Vilsack says it’s not an easy job keeping a lid on the state’s onlymaximum-security prison.Vilsack says the meeting at Fort Madison had been scheduled before thestabbing incident and was not a result of the controversy raised since thestabbing……………………………………………………………….A crowd of around 40 people attended the Jasper County Board of Supervisorsmeeting this morning to show support for a hog confinement operation outsideof Mitchelville. A group opposed to Tim Van Wyk’s operation says it iscausing high levels of nitrates in the Walnut and Camp Creek watersheds.Supporters today said the high nitrate levels could be due to a nearbylandfill or fertilizer applied to farm fields. Van Wyke invited thesupervisors to tour his 38-hundred head operation.Prairie City farmer Mark Wiggins presented the board with a petition insupport of all aspects of agriculture in Iowa. Wiggins says the state istrying to lure other businesses into the state and should do the same foragriculture.The supervisors voted to send a letter to the Iowa Department of NaturalResources asking them to study how the manure runoff might impact the twowatersheds. Randy Van, KCOB, Newton………………………………………………………………..The question of where and how hard Hurricane Floyd will hit the Floridacoast is still swirling in the air, but Iowa American Red Cross Volunteersare on the way to help. Emergency Services Director Lori Glover of theCentral Iowa Red Cross Chapter, says Iowa help is on the road.Two Emergency Response Vehicles from Iowa left this morning to wait inAtlanta, Georgia until they’re need in Florida. Another “ERV” will leavetonite or tomorrow morning for Atlanta. Glover says they’re also nine staffmembers who will head to Atlanta to wait for the storm to hit.Forecasters expect Floyd to move parallel to the Florida coastlinebefore making landfall in Georgia or South Carolina. But, they warn itcould hit anywhere from central Florida northward. More than two-millionpeople in the Southeast have been told to move inland to avoid the storm……………………………………………………………….The University of Iowa is screening children for reading and writingdifficulties this month. Dr. Ann Michael, director of the Wendell JohnsonSpeech and Hearing Center, says this is the first in a series of preventionprogramsThe free screenings target children between the ages of four-and-a-half tosix through a series of activities. The center staff can then judge if thechild is a candidate for reading and writing trouble.State officials say two areas of Iowa experienced unhealthy smog earlierthis month. Department of Natural Resources spokesman Brian Button says thehigh levels hit Cedar Rapids September 2nd and 4th — and were recorded inthe Quad Cities and Clinton areas Labor Day Weekend. Button says there are acouple of reasons for the problems.There are new, stricter federal guidelines for monitoring the air qualityand the state has more monitors working. Button says smog is ozone hangingaround near the ground. He says the right combination of conditions createsthe problem.Button says continued smog can lead to violations of the Federal Clean AirAct.
