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(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Police in Council Bluffs are reminding motorists that beginning today (Monday, July 11th), Madison Avenue will be closed between the I-80 on/off ramps for approximately five days for resurfacing. Access will be allowed to the I-80 westbound on ramp from southbound Madison Ave only and I-80 eastbound traffic will be able to exit to Madison Ave directed toward Valley View Dr. The I-80 eastbound on ramp and I-80 westbound off ramp will be closed. Mall Drive will be the designated detour route for local traffic.
Monday – July 11th
7:00am-3:00pm Senior Day Activities
7:30am Swine Show
8:00am Tractor Ride / Tractor Show
11:00am Rabbit and Small Pet Show (or following conclusion of Swine show)
1:00pm Livestock Judging Contest
1:00pm-4:30pm Antique Day
5:00pm Pedal Pull (check-in at 4:30pm)
5:00pm Rural Development BBQ
6:00pm 4-H Foundation and State Fair Awards – Fashion Show, Share the Fun, Working Exhibits
7:00pm Rodeo (T&C Rodeo Company)
(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Red Oak Police Department reports a man was arrested for OWI/1st offense, following a traffic stop Sunday morning. 52-year-old Brian Keith Hale, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 4:10-a.m., in the 1400 block of N. Broadway Street. Hale was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa State Fair’s C-E-O and a key official in the Iowa COUNTY fair circuit say concerts are a growing emphasis to spur fair attendance. Tom Barnes, executive secretary of the Mighty Howard County Fair, is also executive director of the Association of Iowa Fairs. “There’s a lot of other things at the fair that we want to brag about and push, but we’ve got to get the people there first,” Barnes says, “and that’s what the concerts will do.”
Rodeos and race track events were the bread and butter of county fairs not too many years ago, according to Barnes, but a handful of county fairs started emphasizing concert entertainment about eight years ago and the trend spread. “Fairs were seeing what their neighbors were doing and now we’re seeing a lot of even small county fairs throwing a small-dollar concert,” Barnes says. “It gives the community something else to come to the fair for.” Gary Slater, the General Manager and C-E-O of the Iowa State Fair, says about 10 percent of people who attend the Iowa State Fair go to a show at the Grandstand — but the performances matter to those who do NOT attend a concert.
“That’s the pulse of the Fair,” Slater says. “Whether you attend the Grandstand or not, you like to know what’s going on and you like the Fair to pull those popular entertainers.” The Fair spent a million dollars renovating the Grandstand stage in 2018, to meet artists’ expectations for video screens, lighting and sound systems. “We had to get into that business or else they wouldn’t come to an outdoor state fair venue,” Slater says. “…It’s an expensive thing.”
Every concert-goer has to buy a ticket to enter the fairgrounds and Slater says when expenses and profits are calculated from the Grandstand, they aim to break even. The 2022 Iowa State Fair runs from August 11th through the 21st this year.
Here’s a list of area County Fairs:
(Atlantic, Iowa) – Bryan York of Atlantic was recently selected as the first recipient of the Delores & Gail Nelson Cass County 4-H Scholarship. The scholarship was established to honor the Nelsons’ strong support of the Cass County 4-H program throughout their lives, both as youth members and adult volunteers. The scholarship is for a Cass County 4-H’er who has been active in 4-H and has demonstrated strong leadership skills. The student must be enrolled as an incoming freshman at a four-year college or university in the state of Iowa.
Bryan has been an active member of the Bear Grove Blazers 4-H club for 10 years.
He has participated in fair projects in the areas of Photography, Home Improvement, Visual Arts, Sewing, Food and Nutrition, Gardening, and Woodworking. He has been active in his club community service projects, served in every office and currently is his club president. At the county level, Bryan is on the Youth Council and the Youth Action Committee. He has also participated in the SOFA and State 4-H conference trips multiple times and has received three project awards while in high school. Bryan will be a freshman computer engineering student at Iowa State University this fall.
(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County, Friday, said a woman was arrested Thursday at a casino, for Public Intoxication. Authorities say 20-year-old Taylor Adams was arrested at Harrahs Stir Cove, after Deputies were notified by security that a female in the crowd didn’t have a wristband and was possibly underage holding an alcoholic drink. Adams was transported to the Pottawattamie County Jail and later released.
And, Pott. County Deputies arrested 32-year-old Jeffrey Kyle Peters, Thursday, following a traffic stop on Interstate 29 at mile marker 66 (just south of Honey Creek). Peters was charged with Driving While Barred and later released.
(Corning, Iowa) – The Adams County Fair, “Memories in the Making,” continues its run through Tuesday, in Corning. Here’s what’s on the schedule for today (Sunday, July 10th):
8:00am 5K Color Run (registration at 7:30am)
8:30am Sheep/Goat/Alpaca Show
9:00am Fair Fundraiser Breakfast
9:00am Open Pet Show
12:00pm Fair Parade:
1:00pm Poultry Skillathon
2:00pm Puppet Show
3:00pm Baby Contest (registration at 2:30pm)
3:30pm Family Fair Tours
4:00pm Puppet Show
5:00pm Quilts of Valor
7:00pm Dairyland Donkey Ball
(Dallas County, Iowa) – A collision Friday night on Interstate 80 near Van Meter resulted in a woman from Norwalk (Iowa) being flown to a hospital in Des Moines. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2019 Freightliner semi driven by 26-year-old Devon Clarke, from Kissimmee, FL, was traveling east on I-80 at around 11:20-p.m., at the same time a 2017 Chevy Equinox driven by 25-year-old Madison Stogdill, of Norwalk, was traveling WEST, IN THE EASTBOUND LANE.
The SUV struck a bridge and rolled over before it was struck by the semi. Stogdill was transported by Mercy One Helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. The crash remains under investigation. Multiple agencies assisted at the scene.
The State Patrol reports also, a collision between two motorcycles in northeast Iowa late Saturday morning, resulted in injuries to one of the motorcycle riders. A 2008 Triumph motorcycle operated by 53-year-old Chad Ernst, of Garber (Iowa), and a 2013 Harley Davidson cycle being operated by 56-year-old Daniel Helle, of Solon, were both southbound on Hilton Road in Clayton County, just north of Highway 3, when one of the cycles struck the other in the rear.
The crash happened at around 11:17-a.m. The Patrol says Chad Ernst was transported by Edgewood Ambulance to the hospital in Manchester.
The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, Edgewood Fire, and Edgewood Ambulance.