A Cumberland woman was arrested Wednesday on drug charges. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says 43-year old Tammy Darleen Flathers, faces charges of Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Methamphetamine, and OWI 1st Offense. Flathers was taken to the Cass County Jail and released Thursday, on her own recognizance.
The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports an eastern Iowa man was arrested this week on a drug charge. 23-year old Malcom Marcus Taylor, of Waterloo, was arrested Wednesday night following a traffic stop on Highway 34. Taylor faces a Possession of Controlled Substance charge. His bond was set at $1,000. 20-year old DeCoby Christopher Kennedy, of Cedar Falls, was arrested during the same traffic stop, on a charge of Driving While Revoked and having no S-R 22 insurance.
And, on Thursday, 57-year old Kevin Dean Wolford, of Tabor, was arrested at around 2:20-a.m., on a charge of OWI/1st offense. His bond was set at $1,000.
Jim Field with Atlantic Fire Chief Mark McNeses and Anita Fire Chief Duane Murphy about the Steam train ride fund raiser for the departments on June 8th.
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HARLEY NIELSEN, 87, of Omaha, NE and formerly of Council Bluffs , died Fri., May 17th, at the Hospice House in Omaha, NE. Funeral services for HARLEY NIELSEN will be held at 11:00 AM Wed., May 22nd in the Ohde Funeral Home in Kimballton.
Friends may call the Ohde Funeral Home after 10:00 AM Wed., May 22nd until the time of service.
Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Kimballton.
HARLEY NIELSEN is survived by:
Wife, Bonita Nielsen of Omaha, NE
Daughter, Margaret (Peg) and husband Jerry Stingley of Omaha, NE
Sister, Myrna Criss of Wichita, KS
Sister-in-law, Barbara Nielsen of Wichita, KS
And three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
In the wake of scandals with the I-R-S targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department checking reporters’ phone records, now the E-P-A admits it gave personal information on 80-thousand livestock producers to environmental activist groups. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is preparing legislation to restrict the E-P-A’s ability to release such data. Iowa Cattlemen’s president Ed Greiman, of Garner, says the measure is badly needed to protect producers’ privacy and rights.
“It’s crazy that we’ve got to deal with the EPA this way,” Greiman says. “It’s a good thing Senator Grassley has been working closely with the National Cattlemen who helped him draft this legislation.” Greiman says the personal privacy issue has drifted down to the state level where E-P-A has been overseeing the state Department of Natural Resources’ regulation of confined animal feedlots, or CAFO’s.
“We know the EPA would like for the Iowa DNR to identify all possible CAFOs,” he says. “The real question we have for the Iowa DNR is, okay, where does this information go? The government just cannot be releasing all of our personal information.” The E-P-A was responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council. E-P-A officials admit they released more information than was required. One critic in the U-S Senate, Republican Mike Johanns, of Nebraska, says the EPA is “too cozy” with environmental activist groups.
(Radio Iowa)
The Iowa State Patrol’s District 3 office in Council Bluffs and Post 6 in Spencer are two of seven Posts in Iowa that will be receiving a total of 8 Humvees designed to serve as emergency response vehicles.
The tan-colored Humvees will be added to the State Patrol’s fleet through the military’s 1033 Program, which allow a transfer of military equipment to law enforcement agencies, in order to enhance operations. The vehicles are provided at no cost to the agency.
When a law enforcement agency no longer desires to retain the equipment, the property is returned to the military. Following the acquisition of the Humvees, the Iowa National Guard assisted the Department of Public Safety (DPS) by performing a maintenance inspection of each Humvee, making minimal repairs, and painting the vehicles. General fund dollars were not utilized to support the acquisition. The police equipment used to designate the Humvees as emergency vehicles was previously designated as surplus equipment due to the requirements of our newer Dodge patrol vehicles.
Following the crippling blizzard of December 19 & 20, 2012, DPS Commissioner Brian London asked DPS staff to develop alternatives for members of the Division of Criminal Investigation, Division of Narcotics Enforcement and State Fire Marshal’s Office non-uniformed officers to support the State Patrol Division during disaster operations. During the blizzard, the Department’s non-uniformed officers were unable to support State Troopers as they worked toward rescuing stranded motorists across Iowa. The limitations included the viability and mobility of the non-uniformed officers’ vehicles.
The State Patrol Division will coordinate the readiness of the Humvees and station the vehicles across the state for rapid deployment during blizzards, flooding, tornadoes, and other disaster or critical incident related operations. During these deployments, more than 80 sworn members across Department stand ready to operate the Humvees to augment the Department’s uniformed response. The State Patrol Division’s, Safety Education Unit will also use the Humvees occasionally to advance traffic and highway safety initiatives.
Currently, one Humvee is ready for deployment. Throughout the summer additional Humvees will be painted and up-fitted for deployment across the state. With the exception of Post 1 in Des Moines, the other six Iowa State Patrol Districts (Posts 3,6,8.9, 11 and 12). will receive one Humvee, each. Post 1 will get two of the former military vehicles.
The Humvee is available for viewing and photographs today (Friday, May 17th,) from 1-to 2-pm, at the Oran Pape Public Safety Building, 215 E 7th Street (Des Moines), and on Saturday, from 8-am until Noon, in cooperation with the annual Police Week Bridge display.
Motorcycle enthusiasts rode into Harlan last night (Thursday) for the kickoff of the first Roar into Harlan event of the year.
(photo courtesy of our sister station KNOD)
Roar into Harlan will be featured on the square in downtown Harlan on the 3rd Thursday of the month for the next 4 months. Last night, the Rocking Chair on the east side of the square was the featured business. Mike Wohlhutter, coordinator for the Roar into Harlan, said this month had a patriotic theme. He said “Pastor Furby and Bob Dean and the Logan Legion Riders did the flag folding ceremony. There aren’t to many people around that know what the flag ceremony is. They did a great job explaining it and then Jack Kenkel was here to talk about the Freedom Rock. Our flag from the ceremony will go to the Freedom Rock site in Earling.”
He says he never would have guessed the Roar into Harlan Events would become such a huge success. “This whole deal exploded to something I didn’t figure on and it has all been good. We have had tremendous support from all organizations and citizens. It has been phenomenal.” Wohlhutter and the committee came up with a new concept this year called a Poker walk, “It will be a little different than last year since no one last year had time to do it. This year, you will have the whole season and take your time.”
Next month, Roar into Harlan will feature the kids. “June will be kid’s night. We will have bounce houses and kid orientated type stuff. We will have motorcycles and a guy with a colored printer to take pictures with kids on the bikes.” The motorcycles down on the square last (Thursday) night were able to get in the flag folding ceremony and a few games before the rains came pouring down. The next Roar into Harlan event will be on Thursday, June 20th.
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
Boys district golf meets are scheduled for today to determine the state tournament qualifiers.
In class 3-A, the local meet will be held at the Carroll Country Club. Atlantic, Creston, Winterset, Humboldt and Spirit Lake will compete for the two team spots in the state tournament. Among the individuals competing for four spots to state are Evan Schuler and Sam Markham from Atlantic, Ross Martens of Harlan and Carson Wittington of Creston.
The local class 2-A meet will be held at Lake Panorama National. Treynor, Shenandoah, Tri-Center Panorama, Nodaway Valley Prairie City-Monroe and Des Moines Christian are competing for the two state tourney bids. Individuals vying for the four state tourney bids include: Britton Barrier of Tri-Center, Naye Hill and Trey Robinson of Treynor, Jackson Baker of Shenandoah, Rhyan Klabunde of St. Albert and Reid Cobb of Panorama.
The area class 1-A meet will be held at Crestwood Hills Golf Course in Anita. Teams include: Boyer Valley, West Monona, Charter Oak-Ute, Guthrie Center, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Glidden-Ralston, East Mills, Riverside, Mount Ayr and East Union. Individual golfers looking for those top four spots include: Chris Shroyer and Partick Aherns of Guthrie Center, Chance Lauritsen of Exira/EHK, Jon Smiley of Adair-Casey and Eric Rock of Riverside.
The Boyer Valley Optimist Club in conjunction with the American Cancer Society is stepping up to the plate this weekend to end the fight against cancer. The Boyer Valley Athletic Complex in Dunlap is hosting a double elimination softball tournament along with a kids and adult home run derby and kids activities. The Optimist Club says there are a few spots open for teams to get registered for the softball tournament. The cost is $100 per team with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society.
Connie Elder, a member of the Boyer Valley Optimist Club, says a Boyer Valley student is the inspiration for the event. She says Brayden Shumate and his uncle came up with the idea after the young man was diagnosed with cancer. The Softball Tournament starts at 9-am Saturday with an opening ceremony followed by the 1st game around 9:10. During the entire tournament, there will be a youth home run derby at 10 and again at 1pm, kid’s activities from 11 to 4, a Family Norwegian baseball game at 2pm and an Adult home run derby from 5 to 7pm. The Softball Championship game will be held at 7pm.
Elder says club wanted to do something to show how cancer has affected the Dunlap community. She said several people in Dunlap have been affected by cancer. A banner with pictures of those who have been affected by or died from cancer in the community or their family members will be viewable at the event.
If you would like more information on the Boyer Valley Optimist Club and American Cancer Society softball tournament, contact Eric Shumate at 712-592-9649.
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
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