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Merry Christmas!

As Christmas draws near, one staple of many Siouxland households is a tree. Whether it’s real, fake or improvised; its holiday symbolism is hard to ignore. Holidaydecorations can evoke childhood memories, simpler times or maybe just quality times with family and/or friends. Any way you spin it, decorating as part of your own holiday traditions is a fun way to welcome in the New Year. And to celebrate a successful 2011, we’d like you to send us your photos of what you are undertaking this holiday season. We have been asking for trees but that isn’t the only thing we are looking for. How you celebrate is what we are after. Take your holiday pictures and send post them to our Facebook wall or email them to roconnor@ktiv.com and we’ll feature them on an upcoming morning show. We’ll try to notify you if your picture was chosen but the easiest way to find out is to tune in! Here are a few of the pictures we have received so far.
This was a photo submitted by Amy & Matt Anderson of Sioux City.

This picture was sent in by Heather Claussen of Caroll, Neb.Like going to the zoo...you can look, but can't touch the pretties!She said its like going to the zoo. You can look, but can't touch the pretties!This was sent in to News 4 by Patti Boltz

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This post was written by Kyle Martens on November 30, 2011

New faces in KTIV’s newsroom

Siouxland’s News Channel is ecstatic to welcome severalnew members to the KTIV family this week! Angela DeHarty, Mark Victoria, Rebecca Varilek, Jacob Peklo, Kaitlin Stevens and Steve Long are all new additions to our Emmy award winning news team.

Angela is a former intern at News 4 and recent graduate from the University of Northern Iowa. She’ll be taking charge of producing News 4 at six and News 4 at ten. Mark Victoria is product of the Windy City and a former chef! You’ll see him out and about in Siouxland reporting as one of our many talented Multi-Media Journalists. Rebecca Varilek could best be described a Jill of all trades. She’s spent the last four year covering KSU sports after serveral ventures in news.

Steve Long & Kaitlin Stevens are two of the newer additions to our team. As content manager, Steve will help keep the news gears greased by tracking down stories and working directly with our viewers. We are excited to have him aboard! Kaitlin will be taking over as producer of News 4 Today. After a few weeks with Al Joens,Christy Batien and Riley O’Connor she may be having too much fun at work! Last but not least, our most recent addition is Jacob Peklo. Jacob has several journalism degrees and has even interned for ESPN-1000 inChicago.

We’d like to welcome all of our new team members and we’re excited to have you aboard as we move in 2012!

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This post was written by Kyle Martens on November 22, 2011

Asteroid scoots harmlessly past earth?

NASA said it’s nothing to worry about, but Tuesday evening an asteroid a quarter-mile wide zipped by Earth barely 200,000 miles away. That’s closer than the moon. Scientists had been watching it for six years, but said you’ll need at least a six-inch telescope and a good sky chart to spot it.

That was an excerpt from a larger article published by the Associated Press Tuesday.  Looking at the image NASA released, it’s easy to see why many folks weren’t worried about the projectile.

 Another picture sent in by a newspotter paints a much differnt scenario of what could have happened.

Picture taken from a Dish Network satellite.

 I’m glad the rock sailed on by but it definitely got me thinking!

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This post was written by Kyle Martens on November 9, 2011