🌱 How will IKM-Manning handle Logan-Magnolia’s high-powered offense tonight?

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• How will IKM-Manning handle Logan-Magnolia’s high-powered offense tonight?

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 68 and low of 48 degrees.
• Sunday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 67, low: 38.
• Monday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 65 and low of 48 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• IKM-Manning Looks to Keep Win Streak Alive Against LoMa (1380kcim.com) — IKM-Manning’s football team hosts Logan-Magnolia in a key district showdown in Manning tonight, aiming to extend its win streak after a 21-0 shutout of Akron-Westfield. Coach Cory McCarville highlights the Wolves’ improving young offensive line, a balanced run-pass attack, and a defense focused on pressuring Logan-Magnolia’s timing-based passing game and tracking versatile playmaker Yoder.
   

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📸 Around Manning

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Manning

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Monday October 5

• Football: IKM-Manning vs Ar-We-Va (Junior High)
  IKM-Manning Comm School District Manning, IA 51455
  4:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday October 3

• Volleyball: Tri-Center Volleyball Tournament (Varsity)
  Tri-Center Community Schools Tri-Center High School
  8:30 am

Monday October 5

• Edgar Allen Poe Listen & Discuss: The Fall of the House of Usher
  Carroll Public Library, 118 E 5th St, Carroll
  1:00 pm
• Football: Audubon vs Southwest Valley (Junior High)
  Southwest Valley Junior High Football Field
  4:00 pm
• Football: IKM-Manning vs Ar-We-Va (Junior High)
  IKM-Manning Comm School District Manning, IA 51455
  4:00 pm
• Boys Cross Country: (Varsity)
  Shadow Valley Golf Course
  4:30 pm
• Boys Cross Country: (Junior High)
  Shadow Valley Golf Course
  4:30 pm
• Girls Cross Country: (Varsity)
  Shadow Valley Golf Course
  4:30 pm
• Girls Cross Country: (Junior High)
  Shadow Valley Golf Course
  4:30 pm
• Football: Audubon vs Southwest Valley (Junior Varsity)
  Southwest Valley Junior High Football Field
  6:00 pm
• Football: IKM-Manning vs Nodaway Valley (Junior Varsity)
  Nodaway Valley High School Football Stadium
  6:00 pm

Tuesday October 6

• Girls Swimming & Diving: Boone vs Carroll (Junior Varsity)
  Carroll Recreation Center
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Ag Processing, Inc. posted a job opening for Shift Supervisor in Manning. Apply here.
• Astec Industries posted a job opening for Welder - Hiring Now in Audubon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Manning here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Carroll

• Carroll Arts Council to Host Second Annual ‘A Day in Sherwood Forest' Renaissance Festival This Saturday (1380kcim.com)
• Carroll City Council Approves $165K Digester Lining For Wastewater Treatment Plant (1380kcim.com)
• Two Western Iowa Restaurants are Among Five Iowa Finalists for the IPPA Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin (westerniowatoday.com)

Coon Rapids

• Coon Rapids Bayard Hosts Woodbine in Matchup of Ranked Teams (1380kcim.com)
• In the Sky: Finding October's Queen (sun-courier.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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