(Radio Iowa) – The deadline is approaching to submit nominations for the 2024 Iowan of the Day Awards at the Iowa State Fair. Ten people will be singled out for the title during this year’s August event. The fair’s Chloe Hamaker says the Iowan of the Day program is an opportunity to recognize those people who are positively impacting their towns and their neighbors.

Winners of the Iowan of the Day receive a day of recognition at the fair, gate admission for four, 200-dollars in cash, use of a golf cart at the fair, V-I-P parking, and more. Hamaker says they have seen individuals from six to 90 years old receive the recognition.

Nominations from 2021, 2022 and 2023 will also be reconsidered. While there are no age limitations, Hamaker says nominees do need to be Iowa residents, and nominating someone is easy.

Nomination forms are available at blueribbonfoundation.org. All nominations are due by July 1st.

(Clive, Iowa) – The 2nd annual BBQ & Brew at the Ballpark takes place this Saturday, June 22 at Principal Park in Des Moines. Attendees can consume numerous offerings of delicious Iowa pork, sample Iowa craft beers and ciders, learn barbecue tips from a grill master, vote for their favorites in the Backyard BBQ Contest, meet local celebrities, and enjoy live music performances.

Your purchase of a ticket gets you all of that, and you’ll also be helping fight food insecurity in our state. Proceeds from BBQ & Brew at the Ballpark will benefit Iowa food banks, who are struggling to keep up with demand from families in need.

Linda Gorkow, Executive Director of the Iowa Food Bank Association, said “In the state of Iowa, we have an increase in food insecurity. Pork is a very valuable protein and every ounce makes a difference. 10 percent of Iowans are food insecure. The Iowa Food Bank Association works with 1,200 pantries across the state of Iowa and six food banks. We all work to help serve, and we couldn’t do it without friends like the Iowa Pork Producers and every individual that donates.”

Advance tickets cost just $20 at IowaPork.org. The second Annual BBQ & Brew at the Ballpark begins at 2pm Saturday, brought to you by the Iowa Pork Producers Association and Iowa Cubs, there is something for everyone at this event.

30 backyard barbecuers will be competing for more than $10,000 in cash prizes. For attendees, you get to sample the competitors’ delicious pork, plus Smokey D’s BBQ & Berkwood Farms will provide grilled pork loin sandwiches, and you receive 15 samples of beer from Iowa’s top craft breweries. Netflix Barbecue Showdown Champion Thryon Mathews, an Iowa resident, will be offering grilling tips in his Barbeque Boot Camp.

A panel of celebrity judges will pick their favorite pork offering from the 30 competitors. Iowa musicians will be performing throughout the event. Raffle prizes, including a Traeger grill, a Blackstone grill, Iowa Cubs package, and more will be available.  Attendees who prefer not to partake in the “brew” portion of BBQ & Brew can get in for just $15. Kids 5 and under get in free.

Fareway Stores is also serving as a sponsor of BBQ & Brew at the Ballpark and will provide resources and support for the donations to local food pantries. Visit IowaPork.org to purchase your ticket today. Tickets are $20 in advance, $30 at the door.

(Radio Iowa) – A man from Pocahontas has been charged with stealing livestock and a number of other felonies after an investigation involving law enforcement agencies in eight northwest Iowa counties. Twenty-six-year-old Corey Edward Goeders (GOH-ders) was arrested Friday, and has been released on bond.

According to the Palo Alto County Sheriff, investigators linked Goeders to livestock thefts that primarily took place between June of last year and February of this year. Goeders faces 20 felony charges. He’s been accused of money laundering, tax evasion and ongoing criminal conduct and as well as theft.

Sheriffs’ departments in Palo Alto, Kossuth, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Clay, Pocahontas, Webster and Woodbury Counties all worked on the cases against Goeders, as did agents from the Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Iowa Department of Revenue.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports the arrest this (Wednesday) morning, of 22-year-old Christopher Gage Selvy, of Creston. He was taken into custody following a traffic stop, and charged with OWI/1st offense. Selvy was later released on a $1,000 bond (Cash or surety).

Tuesday evening, 34-year-old Dustin Levi Grout, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault – with injury or mental illness – 1st offense Grout was being held in the Union County Jail without bond, until seen by a magistrate.

And, at around 11:20-am. Tuesday, 22-year-old Jessie Lynne Martin, of Creston, was cited and issued a summons to appear in court, on a charge of allowing an animal to run At Large, while she was located at 800 W. Montgomery Street, in Creston.

Researchers in Iowa say changes in an Alzheimer’s patients’ brain can occur at least 20 years before they are diagnosed with the disease. They’re calling for more education about early warning signs of dementia during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. There are at least seven million people age 65 and older in the U-S living with Alzheimer’s, 62-thousand of them are in Iowa. Abby Miesner with the Alzheimer’s Association of Iowa says despite time and money being spent on research, the risk is going up at a younger age, and the numbers are discouraging.

Miesner says those numbers hold true across the board for Blacks and Latinos as well. She adds now that doctors know signs and symptoms could start to occur at an earlier age they are paying attention to signs sooner. Miesner says occasionally misplacing your keys or forgetting why you went into a room are not always cause for concern, but repeatedly forgetting things that are part of your everyday life could be.

Meisner adds earlier detection gives doctors a chance to intervene sooner in a patient’s life.

All of those things can be controlled by developing healthy habits. But a 2022 Alzheimer’s Association report shows 60-percent of people will put off seeing a doctor if they develop symptoms early on, waiting until the symptoms worsen, or family and friends encourage them to seek treatment. The Association is holding educational events statewide all month.

(Iowa News Service)

It’s been a wet spring in Iowa but water utilities in the Des Moines metro area are asking people to save water because of high nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. For now, Des Moines Water Works C-E-O Ted Corrigan says tap water is held below the legal limit by running a nitrate removal facility and mixing in low-nitrate water from wells and reservoirs. As people start watering lawns and demand increases, Corrigan says those low-nitrate sources won’t keep up.

The two rivers are a major source of drinking water for around 600-thousand people in central Iowa. The current filtration process simply won’t be able to meet demand, he says, as water use typically rises during the summer months.

Corrigan says Des Moines and other members of the Central Iowa Water Works are asking people to not over-water their lawns. If drinking water comes close to violating the nitrate standard, he says people can expect to see mandatory restrictions.

(Grant Gerlock, Iowa Public Radio via Radio Iowa)

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says there is a good possibility the U-S Supreme Court will review an appeal from Iowa or two other states that have passed immigration enforcement laws.

Earlier this week a federal judge in Des Moines issued an order temporarily blocking enforcement of Iowa’s illegal reentry law. It would let Iowa officials arrest and deport immigrants who’ve previously been deported or were denied entry to the U-S. Bird is appealing that ruling to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.

The U-S Justice Department and civil rights groups filed lawsuits arguing the federal government has sole authority to enforce immigration laws and the state law that was to go into effect July 1st is unconstitutional. The lawsuits cite a 2012 U-S Supreme Court ruling that overturned an Arizona law that would have given Arizona police authority to arrest undocumented immigrants suspected of committing any crime that made them eligible for deportation.

The Arizona law that was overturned also sought to make it a state crime for unauthorized immigrants to fail to have some sort of government-issued I-D. Emma Winger, an attorney with the American Immigration Council, says Iowa’s law could lead to deporting people who’ve obtained legal residency or asylum in the U.S. after being deported.

(Radio Iowa) – FEMA has opened up three more Disaster Recovery Centers in Clarke, Polk and Pottawattamie counties. FEMA Spokesman John Mills says these centers add more options for people dealing with storm damage.

Mills says anyone who was hit by a storm in the federal disaster areas should talk to FEMA.

Assistance is available in Adair, Montgomery, Polk and Story County for the May 20th to 31st storms. FEMA funding is also available for homeowners and renters in Clarke, Harrison, Mills, Polk, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Shelby and Union counties for the April 26-27th tornadoes and storms.

Mill says you should take photos of any damage you may have from the storms.

The phone number to call is 800-621-FEMA (3362). You can also go online at DisasterAssistance.gov, or use the FEMA app. Mills says some people hit in the first round of storms may now have information that can lead to assistance.

Recovery specialists from the U-S Small Business Administration will also be at the disaster recovery centers to provide information on available services. The new disaster recovery centers are at the Clarke County Annex Building 109 South Main Street Osceola; the Riley Resource Group in Polk County at 4400 E. University Ave. Pleasant Hil; and in Pottawattamie County at the Charles E. Lakin Human Services Campus North Parking Lot 815 North 16th Street Council Bluffs.

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(Glenwood, Iowa) – Police in Glenwood report two arrests: On Monday, 31-year-old Dakota Haner, of Pisgah, was arrested on a Harrison County Warrant. His bond was set at $500. And, today (Tuesday), 44-year-old Barbara Riley, of Glenwood, was arrested for driving while barred. Her bond was set at $2,000.