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March 2004

UNI baseball team looks to bounce back in conference play

by admin on March 31, 2004

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The UNI baseball team will look to bounce back this weekend when they visit Illinois State in Missouri Valley Conference action. The Panthers are 7-11 overall and 0-4 in the Valley after being swept at seventh rated Wichita State and coach Rick Heller says it won’t get any easier against the Redbirds. He says they’re a good ballclub that’s picked as one of the top three in the league.The series this weekend will conclude a 22-game road swing to open the season for UNI and Heller says they are looking forward to playing at home. He says they’ll be alright and will battle back. He says the last time the went to Wichita and got swept, they came back and beat them to take the conference tournament.The Panthers home opener is next Wednesday against Minnesota.

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Drake takes enteries for road races

by admin 03/31/04 5:01 PM

Drake University is now taking entries for the annual road races held in conjunction with the Drake Relays. Cal Murdoch is the race coordinator, and says the races started in 1969 and are the oldest major road races in Iowa. The races include an eight-kilometer and half-marathon, and includes amateurs and professionals.Murdoch says the races [...]

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Govenor sends letters to ISU teams

by admin 03/31/04 5:00 PM

Iowa’s Governor has sent personal letters to the coaches of the Iowa State mens’ and womens’ basketball teams, congratulating Wayne Morgan and Bill Fennelly on their teams’ post-season successes.Governor Tom Vilsack says he’s “proud of the effort those young people displayed, particularly in the game last night” in the N-I-T final four overtime loss to [...]

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Planets line up for great sky view

by admin 03/31/04 4:58 PM

A central Iowa astronomer says Midwestern stargazers will have an unusual treat over the next week or so. Five planets are visible in the night sky, weather permitting, just after sunset. Doug Rudd, president of the Des Moines Astronomical Society, says it’s rare to see a grouping like this — in fact, there won’t be [...]

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Child abuse victims remembered

by admin 03/31/04 4:56 PM

Volunteers who work with kids in family court plan a vigil at this time tomorrow in Storm Lake. Christi Allender is a Buena Vista University student intern who planned this year’s event for the CASA program.It is for Iowa’s 11 children who died as a result of child abuse last year, and people will [...]

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Group enlists grandparents to help fight drugs

by admin 03/31/04 4:54 PM

A statewide group that seeks to spread an anti-drug message is enlisting the support of Iowa’s older population. Barry Spear, the chairman of the “Partnership for a Drugfree Iowa,” says the group is asking grandparents to talk to their grandkids about the dangers of drugs. He says the new “Power of Grandparents” campaign will [...]

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Senate passes air-quality bill on livestock

by admin 03/31/04 4:53 PM

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that adopts federal air quality standards for large-scale livestock confinements in Iowa. The federal rules come from the Centers for Disease Control, and Senator David Johnson, a republican from Ocheyedan, says it’s “sound science” compared to the stricter rules on hydrogen sulfide and ammonia emissions that were [...]

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