(Clarinda, Iowa) – The Page County Sheriff’s Office has released a report on arrests:

4/28/2024 Alec James Kalkas (29) of Glenwood Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for driving while suspended, possession of a controlled substance (X2).
4/28/2024 Jeremy Wayne Liford (33) of Clarinda Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for an active warrant for failure to appear. Arrested by the Page County Sheriff’ s Office.
4/29/2024 David Alfonso Clark (44) of Red Oak Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for an active warrant for violation of probation. Arrested by the Page County Sheriff’s Office.
4/30/2024 Michael Lloyd Harms (54) of Shenandoah Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail to serve time.
5/1/2024 Robert Edward Anderson (46) of Essex Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail to serve time.
5/1/2024 Devin Lee Carnes (18) of Clarinda Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for an active warrant for assault. Arrested by the Page County Sheriff’s Office.
5/2/2024 David Alfonso Clark (44) of Red Oak Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail to serve time.
5/3/2024 Clinton Keith Glasgo (47) of Essex Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for an active warrant for failure to appear. Arrested by the Page County Sheriff’s Office.
5/3/2024 Eric Michael Kievit (35) of Essex Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for domestic abuse. Arrested by the Page County Sheriff’ s Office. Assisted by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Essex City Maintenance Crew and Page County Citizens.
5/3/2024 Matthew John Stubbendieck (48) of Essex Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail to serve time.
5/3/2024 Jaylenna Marie Sheperd (30) of Clarinda Iowa. Booked into the Page County Jail for burglary

*A charge is merely an accusation and that the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports four recent arrests:

• Tuesday afternoon (May 7th), 43-year-old Daniel Charles Thomas, of Glenwood, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Violation of Probation. Bond was set at $10,000.
• Last Saturday (May 4th), 35-year-old Joseph Lewell Dale Norton, of Independence, MO, was arrested for Public Intoxication. (Bond $300)
• On May 2nd, 40-year-old Jamie Lee Stephens, of Macedonia, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, with bond set at $1,000.
• And, on April 30th, 29-year-old Alec James Kalkas, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office for an alleged violation of the State’s Sex Offender Registry. His bond was set at $2,000.

(Des Moines, Iowa [Iowa News Service]) – A Des Moines-based farm co-op is taking high-tech sports-training into the country and has hired an athletic physician to do it. The field of high-tech sports training is usually reserved for athletes and other high-level performers but the mindset is taking a dramatic turn, as the Landus Co-op in Des Moines has hired a physician.

Dr. Dehra Harris has spent much of her medical career training the Toronto Blue Jays minor-league baseball players and is bringing those skills to the Iowa countryside. Harris said she has always been drawn to helping people who have to perform physically to make a living. “You don’t have days off. You can’t take it easy, right?” Harris pointed out. “It’s that ‘rub some dirt on it’ kind of world. And to be able to take the things that we’ve been learning, in sports and in medicine, and apply it to this group is just an incredible opportunity.”

Harris explained she will start by listening to farmers’ physical needs, then developing proper nutrition and recovery programs even if it means responding to a farmer who’s delivering a calf at three in the morning, and whatever else it takes to help with America’s ag production backbone. Harris noted her regimen will not stop with physical training. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports suicide rates are nearly twice as high for farmers compared to the general public. The threat was most severe during the pandemic.

Harris will design wellness plans for farmers’ mental health, although she noted getting the information might not be easy. “I love it when I talk to farmers because I’m going to hear all about their family,” Harris added. “I’ll hear about everything to do with their farm but I’m also not going to hear a lot about what they need. So, we think that the strategies that are actually going to work best here are actually to approach this as a family, and see what the needs are for the whole unit.”

Landus is among the first co-ops in the country to take the new approach.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak say no injuries were reported following a collision Tuesday morning at N. 1st and E. Joy Streets. The accident happened at around 7:30-a.m., when the driver of a van – 27-year-old Guadalupe Ramos-Lopez, of Red Oak – failed to yield to the vehicle on her right, a 2001 Hyundai Elantra, driven by 26-year-old Angel Girouex, of Red Oak. Authorities say Girouex was traveling south on N 1st street, at the same time Ramos-Lopez was traveling westbound on E. Joy Street.

The collision occurred at the uncontrolled intersection, where drivers must yield to the vehicle on their right. Ramos-Lopez’ 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan struck the car on the driver’s side, causing an estimated $8,500 damage altogether, according to the Police report. Both vehicles had to be towed from the scene.

Ramos-Lopez was cited for Failure to Yield.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle collision in Atlantic this (Wednesday) morning. The crash occurred at around 7:50-a.m., at S.W. 7th (Highway 6) and W. 15th Streets. A report on injuries was not immediately available. (Photo courtesy of Chris Parks)

(Creston, Iowa) – Police in Creston report the arrest of a man from Lorimor. Authorities say 56-year-old Jorge Luis Gonzalez was arrested at the Creston Vet Clinic, on a Union County warrant for Theft in the 5th Degree. Gonzalez was taken to Union County Jail, and later released after posting a $300 cash or surety bond.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Sustained high wind Tuesday evening, in Atlantic, caused damage to trees, property and infrastructure. According to the National Weather Service’ wind gauge at the airport, winds at around at around 6:15-p.m. went from 15-to as high as 59-miles per hour by 6:35-p.m. The winds caused multiple tree limbs to come crashing down, in one case, falling on a parked van. The wind storm also resulted in downed power and cable-TV lines. Crews from the Atlantic Street Department were working diligently Tuesday, to remove the trees from the roads.

Other storm damage was reported in Oakland, where shingles were torn-off of a roof. The Weather Service had issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of northeastern Cass, northwestern Adair, parts of Audubon and Guthrie County, after the storm passed through Atlantic. In Greenfield, there were reports of tree branches snapped and on the ground.

There were no reports of injuries. In the storm’s aftermath, many in the area noticed a full rainbow. Miranda Olson sent us this photo:

MINDEN, Iowa [KETV] — The mayor of Minden, Iowa, says funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, can’t come fast enough. Last Thursday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds requested an expedited Presidential Disaster Declaration for nine counties, including Pottawattamie, where Minden is. Mayor Kevin Zimmerman said the state and county can only do so much.

KETV in Omaha reports FEMA Region 7 external affairs director Michael Cappannari said damage assessments in Mills County are complete. On Tuesday, FEMA looked at damage in Shelby and Pottawattamie counties. Cappannari said the assessments should be done by Wednesday. That’s when communities like Minden will be one step closer to getting federal funds.

(Omaha/Valley, NE.) – Officials with the National Weather Service in Omaha, Tuesday, reported that on Monday, May 6, three Tornadoes swept through a portion of southwest Iowa. Tornado number 1 (rated an EF-2) touched down near Glenwood at approximately 8:48 p.m. It was 250 yards wide and carried wind speeds as high as 110 miles per hour. It traveled northeast for 5.66 miles before lifting at 8:55 pm.

The second tornado (an EF-1) touched down at around 9:07-p.m.near Carson and Macedonia. It was approximately 200 yards wide and carried with it 93 mile per hour winds. It was on the ground for 1.53 miles.

The third and final tornado (Also an EF-1) touched down at around 9:13-p.m. Tuesday, east of Minden and Shelby. The Weather Service says it was 450 yards wide and had winds of up to 110 miles per hour. The twister traveled northeast for 4.05 miles, and lifted at 9:19 pm.

(Radio Iowa) – There have already been 14 motorcyclists killed in accidents this year and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and the Iowa D-O-T are trying to raise awareness of the problem. G-T-S-B spokesperson, Colleen Powell, says some people are not following basic safety rules.

“We know speed has been a factor even in our passenger cars, that people are just driving way too, fast excessive speeding. We may also be seeing that on motorcycles people being distracted,” she says. Powell says being distracted in a car or on a motorcycle can lead to bad results as you need to have all your attention focused on driving. She says there’s also another trend in the motorcycle deaths.

“Seventy-four percent of our motorcycle fatalities are unhelmeted, and that’s compared to the national average which sits closer to 38 percent,” She says. “So we’re almost double here in our state.”Powell says motorcyclists can give themselves more protection with a helmet. “We’re one of three states without a helmet law — right now people’s choice but we always encourage people to be protected, the same way we encourage people to wear seatbelts when they’re in a vehicle,” Powell says.

Motorcycles make up three tenths of one percent of all registered vehicles in the state, and point-33 percent of all vehicle miles traveled. But last year motorcycle deaths accounted for 16 percent of total traffic fatalities.