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Drake golfer competes in regional

May 16, 2006 By

Drake golfer Kane Hanson will compete at the NCAA central regional beginning Thursday in suburban Cleveland. The senior from Fargo, North Dakota finished second at the Missouri Valley Conference meet and earned an at-large bid into the regional.

Hanson says it was a big concern at the end of the year for the team to make it, but once the team didn’t make it he says his chances still looked good with his ranking.

Hanson says the low two individuals whose team did not make it have a chance. He says there’ll be about 100 guys vying for the spot.

Hanson says following graduation he may pursue a professional career, although he plans to play a lot of amateur events this summer before weighing all his options.
If he wants to go pro the career of Zach Johnson shows it can be done. The former Drake standout is now a regular on the PGA Tour.

Hanson says he met with Zach this spring and says Johnson shows that you can play with the top players in the world with a lot of hard work. The first of three rounds of regional play is Thursday.

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Northwest Iowa woman accused of murdering husband

May 16, 2006 By

A northwest Iowa woman who ran a business called “G-String and Things” with her husband is accused of murder following a shooting that happened last (Monday) night. Sixty-three-year old June Betty Lyman of Anthon has been arrested and charged with shooting her husband to death.

At about 8:30 last night, Woodbury County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a shooting and found 64-year-old Leo Stanley Lyman dead in the living room of the couple’s home. Court records indicate the couple had divorced in 1998, but Mrs. Lyman has reportedly told police they remarried. Lyman is being held in a jail in Sioux City.

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Waterloo shows off renovated Iowa Guard facility

May 16, 2006 By

The Iowa National Guard is rededicating its Armory and Readiness Center in Waterloo today (Tuesday). The facility, which is the home of the 133rd Infantry, was built in 1954 and the three-point-three million dollar upgrade expands the center’s space to 35-thousand square feet.

Major Kevin Loney says not only is the building expanding, but so is the number of soldiers. Loney says they’re getting a new forward support company that will bring in male and female soldiers. He says as an infantry unit they now only have male soldiers.

Loney says the center has an I.C.N. room, numerous classrooms and office space, as well as training facilities for guard members. Loney says one of the training systems uses replicas of actual weapons for simulated training. Loney says it’s similar to a Nintendo game system where laser in the guns are linked to sensors to give the soldiers an idea of how well they’re firing their weapons. The renovation has taken nearly four years to complete.

The Armory and training center will be open for the rededication tonight from five to seven p.m. Loney says some of the space in the upgraded center will be available for public use for meetings and other activities now that the renovation is complete.

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John Deere puts its name on sugar cane equipment

May 16, 2006 By

Many Iowans associate John Deere with farm equipment like tractors and combines for working with corn and soybeans, but in some parts of the world, that same John Deere green now means sugar cane. Ken Golden, spokesman for the Quad Cities-based company, says an agri-trade show this week in Brazil marks a debut for Deere.

Deere is moving the Cameco brand to the John Deere green and yellow to strengthen the power of the brand worldwide. Golden says Cameco makes sugar cane harvesting equipment and the company was bought by Deere several years ago. He says Deere bought Cameco in 1998 and is now the leader in sugar cane harvesting as well as in several other areas of harvesting and Deere decided to link all of those lines under the single brand name.

He says the mechanization of sugar cane harvesting is relatively recent, at least compared to agriculture in general. He says putting the John Deere brand on these machines provides an outward signal to customers that the sugar cane harvesting business is fully integrated with other aspects of the world’s leading ag equipment company.

Golden says it’s the first time the green-and-yellow was put on sugar cane harvesting equipment and “it’s an important move for us.” Deere plans to sell the sugar cane harvesting equipment with the new colors in the U.S., too. Louisiana, Florida and Hawaii are three of the top U.S. producers of cane sugar. Brazil is the world’s top sugar producer. The U.S. ranks 10th.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Business

Law officers run torch to raise funds for Special Olympics

May 16, 2006 By

Some law-enforcement officers around Iowa are on the run today, but they’re not chasing suspects. The annual Law Enforcement Torch Run, taking place in several cities around the state, supports the Iowa Special Olympics. Organizer Jeanette Steinfeldt says they began Monday with Torch Run events in Davenport and Bettendorf, and runners hit the road today in Mount Pleasant and the Iowa City area.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be local runs in Grinnell, Newton, Mitchellville, Indianola, and Fort Dodge legs. Steinfeldt says Special Olympics athletes will be running along with the peace officers participating to help raise awareness of Iowa Special Olympics as well as the Law Enforcement Torch Run.

The final leg on Thursday begins at noon in Des Moines’ Nollen Plaza, as law-enforcement officers from around the state carry the Flame of Hope to Ames where the games will open at Hilton Coliseum on May 18. More than three-thousand Special Olympics athletes are competing in the state summer games, which are being held May 18 through the 20th.

That’s right — the “summer” Iowa Special Olympics are going on for three days in May, as Steinfeldt explains they’ve been moved up a bit to make way for another special event. The first-ever Special Olympic National Games will be held in Ames the first full week in July, with three-thousand athletes coming from all over the U.S. to compete July 2-7.

Steinfeldt explains up till now, winners at the state level could advance to world competition, but that meant only one athlete from Iowa participated, and sometimes had to travel to a foreign country. This will give a national-level competition that lots more of the athletes can attend. She says they need volunteers for those games, and anyone interested can sign up or learn more at “2006 National Games dot-org.”

Related web sites:
Iowa Special Olympics

Filed Under: Human Interest

Ranking lists Grassley as 4th most-influential senator

May 16, 2006 By

A new analysis ranks Iowa’s two long-serving United States Senators as having much more influence in Washington than senators who are often in the headlines.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the ex-First Lady who’s considered a leading contender for her party’s presidential nomination in 2008, ranks 41st on the list. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry ranks 61st. Iowa’s two senators rank in front of both of them in terms of influence inside the so-called Beltway because of their tenure, their committee positions, and their ability to get legislation passed.

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican, is in his fifth term and is chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Grassley ranks as the fourth most-powerful United States senator. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin ranks as the 35th most influential and the 13th most-powerful Democrat among the 43 Democrats in the Senate. Harkin is in his fourth term.

On the House side of the ledger, Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle ranks as the 54th most influential House member because of his role as House Budget Committee chairman. You can see the analysis on-line at www.congress.org.

Due to the influence Grassley, Harkin and Nussle weild in Washington, Iowa ranks right up there as having the third most-influential state delegation in congress. Iowa’s other congressmen rank as follows: Leach at #70; Latham at #190; King at #208 and Boswell at #302.

Related web sites:
Congress.org

Filed Under: Politics & Government

Search for new Iowa A.D. will not wait for new president

May 16, 2006 By

The co-chair of a search committee at the University of Iowa says a new athletic director could be hired before a replacement is found for outgoing president David Skorton. Charles Lynch is a professor of epidemiology and is heading up the search to replace Bob Bowlsby, who is leaving to become the AD at Stanford. Lynch says they’ll start the search and see how the candidates feel about the situation.

Lynch says if the lack of a president limits the pool of candidates the AD search could be delayed. He says Bowlsby served 15 years under several presidents so Lynch says they can tell the new A.D. there will be a president in place eventually.

Lynch says the first job for the search committee will be to sift through a pool of candidates. He says they also have to contact people and get people interested and then start the whole process of taking applications and narrowing them down.
U-of-I interim president Gary Fethke says he would like to have a new A.D. named before Bowlsby leaves in August.

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