The senior quarterback had a part in four touchdowns in a win over Atlantic. Uphoff completed eight of 11 passes for 108 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 116 yards and a score.
Class 2A: Drake Ferch, West Marshall
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The senior running back rushed for 148 yards and three touchdowns in a victory over Bondurant-Farrar. Ferch also collected 12 tackles on defense and handles the team’s punting duties.
Class 1A: Brandon McGinty, Manson-Northwest Webster
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The junior running back rushed for 207 yards and scored four touchdowns in a victory over Audubon. McGinty doubles as a defensive back and registered six tackles and an interception.
Class A: Mike Long, B-G-M (Brooklyn)
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The senior running back carried the ball 33 times for 248 yards and a touchdown in a win over arch rival H-L-V of Victor. Long also collected nine tackles as a defensive end including two for a loss.
Eight-man: Kaleb Buhrow, West Central (Maynard)
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The senior rushed for 273 yards and scored four touchdowns in a victory over Dunkerton. He was also a factor on defense with nine tackles and he recovered a fumble.
Clinton County judge approves settlement in Wal-Mart case
October 14, 2009 By
It took eight years to get through the court system, but a Clinton County judge has approved an $11-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over alleged wage violations by Wal-Mart. The case started in 2001 when two former hourly employees of the Wal-Mart in Clinton filed a lawsuit claiming the company failed to compensate workers for off-the-clock work and overtime, altered employee time records and prevented employees from taking lunch and rest breaks.
The lawsuit was one of 63 pending cases in 42 states against Wal-Mart. The settlement in the Iowa case was granted final approval on Tuesday. The case involved over 97,000 former and current hourly employees who worked at Wal-Mart stores and Sams Club stores in Iowa between June 5, 1999, and May 9, 2009. The lawsuit claimed the company failed to compensate employees for off-the-clock work and overtime, altered employee time records and prevented employees from taking lunch and rest breaks.
Those affected must file a claim and could received from $25 dollars to $300 with an average expected to be just over $100. In addition to the monetary terms of the settlement, Wal-Mart agreed to Iowa store technology upgrades to prevent hourly employees from working off the clock and during breaks.
Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Ark., continues to deny allegations that the company violated its own policies and state law by failing to pay its employees for all time they worked.
Details of the settlement are available on-line at “walmartiaclassaction.com“.
Contributed by Dave Vickers, KROS, Clinton
World Food Prize winner credits mother for inspiration
October 14, 2009 By
The winner of the 2009 World Food Prize is reflecting on his childhood as he’s honored this week in Iowa. Gebisa Ejeta grew up in an Ethiopian village completely cut off from the outside world, where agriculture was practiced much as it had been thousands of years earlier. He says it was his illiterate mother who imagined a better life for him through education.
“I doubt if she ever imagined that I would have a university education or would go outside the country and become a professor at Purdue University,” Ejeta said. “But, she knew if I just followed what she told me, that I would be different and I would have a different life than the people around us.”
The 59-year-old Ejeta says he may use the 250-thousand dollar World Food Prize award as seed money for an education foundation. Ejeta says he and his five children recognize how their lives have been impacted by education, and they want to give similar opportunities to other children in small African villages. Ejeta will receive the award during a ceremony Thursday night at the Iowa State Capitol. The Purdue University professor is being recognized for his work creating new drought-tolerant and weed-resistant sorghum varieties. He made his comments during an appearance on Iowa Public Radio program The Exchange.
