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X-FINITY Series Race To The Chase Heads For Watkins Glen

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With the 2016 season now well into its second half, X-FINITY Series drivers are heading into their first road-course weekend of the season as they set their sights on Saturday’s Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International.  This year marks the first time the elimination-style “Chase” format that’s been used by the Sprint Cup Series the past two seasons will also be implemented in the X-FINITY Series.  Twelve drivers will qualify and if the post-season began today, the field would consist of rookies Erik Jones, Brandon Jones and Brennan Poole … Elliott Sadler, Daniel Suarez, Ty Dillon, Justin Allgaier, Brendan Gaughan, Darrell Wallace Junior, Ryan Reed, Ryan Sieg and Blake Koch … who leads Ross Chastain and Jeremy Clements by twenty-four points in the fight for the final “playoff” spot with seven races remaining in the regular season.   The post-season Chase will begin September 24th in Sparta, Kentucky … Erik Jones leads all series regulars with three wins while Sadler currently sits atop the regular-season standings, fourteen points ahead of second-place Suarez.

August 3rd: On This Day

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On this day in 1995, Shania Twain‘s “Any Man of Mine” was the most popular song in the country for a second straight week. The song was the second single from Twain’s second studio album The Woman in Me.

The song was nominated for Grammy’s for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

It won Single of the Year at both the Canadian Country Music Awards and Country Music Radio Awards in 1995, as well as the Country Single of the Year at the 1996 Jukebox Awards and Song of the Year at the 1996 RPM Big Country Music Awards.

Soil Testing Basics Presentation

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Join ISUEO Field Agronomist, Rebecca Ahlers, to learn how to sample soil for testing.  She’ll indicate what these test results mean on Monday, September 12 at 6 pm at the Mahaska County Extension office, 212 North I Street, Oskaloosa.  This presentation is for anyone wishing to learn about soil testing; farmers and gardeners.

 

While Iowa soil is often very fertile; however, specific locations, may have conditions which can be improved with proper supplemental fertilization.  Proper soil sampling insures accurate  results leading to improved soil fertility.  With soil test results, farmers and gardeners alike can fertilize to their soil and crop’s needs.

 

Please register for this free presentation by calling 641-673-5841 or emailing striegel@iastate.edu by Friday September 9.  For more information about this or other Mahaska County Extension programming, please contact Mahaska County Extension or visit our website www.extension.iastate.edu/mahaska

 

Chris Buescher Scores His First Career Sprint Cup Win

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Chris Buescher scored his first career Sprint Cup Series win in Monday’s rain-delayed Pennsylvania 400 when the race was called due to fog and an approaching storm on lap 138. Buescher battled back from a cut tire under green that put him in the back and opened up the need for pit strategy on a day that every team was racing the weather as hard as any competitor. As a green flag cycle of pit stops was nearing its end, Buescher and his Front Row Motorsports team chose to stay out as fog begin to build around the track hopeful for a stoppage. That stoppage came when spotters no longer could see turn 1. The race was then called after an hour and 20 minute red flag where the cars ended up being covered up on pit road because of weather in the area. Brad Keselowski who had been on an off-sequence pit strategy all afternoon, finished second. Regan Smith, who also had yet to pit, finished third for his first top five since 2012, and first since joining Tommy Baldwin Racing at the start of the season. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart rounded out the top five. Joey Logano led a race high thirty-eight laps, but was forced to the garage for repairs on lap 106 after contact with Chase Elliott. Kyle Larson led thirty-seven laps and looked to have a car that would have competed for the win but fell back after contact with Austin Dillon while battling for the lead around the halfway mark. Larson would eventually work pit strategy to race back to finish sixth, while Dillon would finish thirteenth. The fast and furious racing to halfway and then to beat the impending weather produced nineteen lead changes among eleven drivers, and was slowed for caution seven times for thirty-one laps.

August 2nd: On This Day

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On this day in 2005, Faith Hill released her sixth album Fireflies. The album featured the number one song “Mississippi Girl”. “Mississippi Girl” along with four other hits helped the album reach #1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart.

Fireflies was Hill’s third #1 album and has gone on to be Certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA.

Jasper Sheriff’s Office Actively Seeking Man With Several Warrants

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The Jasper Sheriff’s Office is actively seeking Nicholas Craig Hartgers, DOB 08-11-1987.

Hartgers is a white male, 6-00 tall, 160 lbs. with numerous tattoos.

Hartgers is currently wanted on several warrants for his arrest, issued out of Jasper County. Hartgers is also a suspect in numerous burglaries in the Jasper County area. Hartgers may be armed and should be considered dangerous.

Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to contact the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office at 641-792-5912.

Release provided by John R. Halferty, Sheriff

Maren Morris Joins Fellow Rising Female Stars For “Women Of Country Music Roundtable”

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Six of country music’s rising female stars recently came together to talk about a host of topics in Billboard’s “Women of Country Music Roundtable.” Kacey Musgraves, CAM, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, Aubrie Sellers, and Margo Price were all on hand to discuss everything from topics related to being a woman in country music today to the presidential election and politics.

Football Season Nears, 28 Area Teams Will Battle On Gridiron

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With the summer sports season now behind us, we now focus on the upcoming fall season and the excitement of football.

In 2016, the Mahaska Zone Network will again be covering 28 football teams representing 29 area schools in 11 districts in six classes.

In Class 4A, the Ottumwa Bulldogs are the lone area team, and they are in a very difficult District 8. They will be competing with Burlington, Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Iowa City West, Linn-Mar, and Cedar Rapids Prairie.

Class 3A has a boatload of teams including two-time defending state champion Pella.

Oskaloosa is in District 5 and will be relishing a fresh start with new Head Coach Jake Jenkins. The Indians are joined by area teams Fairfield and Washington. The other teams in District 5 are Fort Madison, Keokuk, Mount Pleasant, Solon, and West Burlington/Notre Dame, who have bumped up from spending last year in Class 2A.

Pella is in District 6, looking for their third consecutive state title. It won’t be easy to even finish among the top teams in the district, as the team the Dutch beat in the championship game last year, Norwalk, is also in District 6. Grinnell and Knoxville join Pella as area teams. The non-area teams include Bondurant-Farrar, Carlisle, Nevada, North Polk, along with Norwalk.

Mid-Prairie is the only area team that plays in Class 2A District 5. They’ll try to get back to ranked territory as they were in the beginning of last season. They will face Anamosa, Camanche, Mediapolis, Mount Vernon, Northeast (Goose Lake), West Liberty, and Williamsburg in district play.

District 6 in Class 2A has several area teams headlined by perennial contender Albia. The Blue Demons lost some key pieces, including stud running back Carter Isley, but could again compete at the top of the district. They are joined by Centerville, Davis County, PCM, and Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont, who jumps up from Class 1A. The non-area teams include Central Lee, Clarke, and Chariton, who drops from being a Class 3A playoff team last year.

Class 1A is the smallest class in terms of our area schools, as there is only three that we are covering.

In District 4, Sigourney/Keota will look to compete for a playoff spot. The Savage Cobras will again be playing against powerhouse Iowa City Regina, and will also face Columbus Community, Highland, Louisa-Muscatine, Wapello, Wilton, and Van Buren, who struggled as a Class A team last year.

There are two area teams in District 5, and both will look to be playoff teams. Pella Christian will bring back the dangerous duo of quarterback David Kacmarynski and athlete Levi Jungling as they look to make a deep playoff run. They’ll be challenged by Pleasantville, who will need to address a few open slots from key contributors if they want to improve on their success in Class A last year. Those two teams will have to play well, as the district is tough with the likes of Central Decatur, Des Moines Christian, Interstate-35, Mount Ayr, Woodward Academy, and Woodward-Granger all in the district.

BGM is the only area team representing the MZN area in Class A District 5. The Bears will be among the top contenders, but will have a gauntlet of tough competition all season long. They will face Belle Plaine, Colfax-Mingo, Gladbrook-Reinbeck, GMG (Garwin), Grand View Christian School, Hudson, and North Tama (Traer).

District 6 will be much busier in terms of area schools. 2015 playoff teams Lynnville-Sully, Montezuma, and Pekin will join with Cardinal and North Mahaska to make up a handful of area teams. Danville, New London, and Winfield-Mount Union round out the District 6 list.

Finally, in 8-Player football, there are two more districts with area teams.

English Valleys is going in alone in District 4 against six non-area schools. The Bears will look to improve from a couple of down years against Cedar Valley Christian, Easton Valley, Iowa Valley, Lone Tree, Midland, Springville, and WACO (Wayland).

District 5 has four area teams in 8-Player ball. Moravia had a great year last year, but after losing star quarterback Briar Cochran, they’ll have a tough go to repeat that success. Twin Cedars brings back several top athletes, and Melcher-Dallas and Tri-County are looking to build on young cores. They will not have an easy ride through their schedules as top teams Colo-Nesco and HLV await. Meskwaki Settlement School will also be in the mix at the top of the district, and Seymour/Moulton-Udell rounds out the district.

We will have plenty of football coverage spanning all of these area teams on radiokmzn.com as the season heats up.

We will continue to preview these districts with our area teams as time gets closer to kickoff for Week 1 on August 26.

Be on the lookout for the official release of the Mahaska Zone Network Game of the Week schedule, which will be coming later this week on radiokmzn.com.

Mahaska County Board Eye County Issues

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Mahaska County Board of Supervisors met on Monday, Aug. 1 in a regular meeting.
Present were Recorder Sue Brown, Chair Willie Van Weelden, Vice Char Mike Vander Molen and Supervisor Mark Doland. Several items were approved in quick fashion, including the agenda and the minutes from the meeting of July 18. The bills from July were approved, and it was moved to accept the fourth quarter report from the Sheriff’s office.
Additionally, it was approved to cancel outstanding disbursements from fiscal year 14­15. “There are a couple of checks that were never cashed,” said Van Weeldenn, to the tune of $284.
A request from Co­Line Welding for a fireworks application was approved. Additionally, a liquor license, Class B Native Wine Permit, was approved for Frisian Farms Cheese.
There was a payroll change in the Sheriff’s department. The hiring of Benjamin Johnson as a Sheriff’s deputy was approved.
Due to some storm damage from July 13, 2016, there were some insurance claims turned in. “It’s not in our plan that we pay for these out of insurance,” said Van Weelden. “Even though it’s not part of the polic, it doesn’t mean that we can’t reimburse some or all of the cost,” said Vander Molen. “My biggest issue is with the employees who were parked in the lot, who suffered damage and are out of pocket” due to tiles that came off the courthouse roof.
There were three employee ­owned cars that suffered damage, parked on the north side of the building. Troy Bemis, Maintenance Director/Safety Coordinator stated that the tiles that did the damage were probably tiles from the north side, which were attached with nails and not among those that were repaired or replaced in 2015.
“If it was some of the tiles we had repaired, I can see us maybe not reimbursing them, but I know we strategically decided to not do the entire roof and that carries some of the risk, as we knew the tiles were more likely to [come off],” said Vander Molen, who made a motion to reimburse the three vehicles damaged by the storm of July 13, which passed.
In the case of a Secondary Roads employee requesting leave without pay, was brought by Dave Shanahan, County Engineer, before the Supervisors. After some discussion, it was decided to follow guidelines set forth in the handbook, which states that the employee must first exhaust their Shanahan also initiated discussion regarding a recent Secondary Roads retiree’s pro­rata vacation pay. Due to some uncertainty regarding what was stated in a union contract that was not renewed for the next year and county policy, the topic was tabled. “I’ll go visit with him, [see what] other options are acceptable and still be within the code and not effect the county policy, because if you do that for one, you’ve got to do it for everybody and we as an agency can’t afford to do that,” said Shanahan. “But it was one of those where there was really no clear­cut answer because of the fact that there were so many variables at the time of discussion.”
The floor was then opened for public comments. “I am representing a marathon,” said a female speaker. “Gov. Brandstad has signed a proclamation on the 26th of April, that the counties in Iowa could read the scripture audibly from Genesis to Revelation on the county courthouse properties throughout the whole state. It’s called the 99 County Bible­Reading Marathon.”
Fifty counties participated over the Fourth of July weekend, and there has been an extension so the remaining counties can participate in September. The marathon will begin onSept. 8 and continue through Sept. 11. “We have obtained insurance to cover this, if there is a question on insurance, and we would like permission to do this” said the speaker. “We are not going to go ahead until we have permission.” Vander Molen didn’t see that the item needed to be put on the next agenda for a vote. “You’re welcome to assemble as you wish,” he said. Another speaker stated that it was mandated by the state that they need permission to do the event. “We need to follow the proper steps,” he said, “so we’ve got this all in line.”
Van Weelden was going to check with some of the other counties that had participated in the marathon and see what they did, but barring any unforeseen circumstances, the group could proceed.
Story provided by the Oskaloosa Herald

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