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The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office Monday (Today), reports the arrest on drug charges, of 32-year old Chad Sheard, of Omaha, Nebraska and 30-year old Danya Schafer, of Springfield, Missouri. Their arrests are the result of an investigation that began at around 8-p.m. Sunday, with a traffic stop in Hamburg, when the deputy noticed a Cadillac SUV with heavy front end damage and a headlight out. The plates on the vehicle came back to a 2005 Buick.
Photos courtesy Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities say paraphernalia, including a white crystal substance, was located along with other items. Sheard and Schafer were both arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and taken to the Fremont County Jail. They were being held on a three-hundred-dollar bond, each.
Five people were arrested on separate charges over the past few days, in Creston. According to Creston Police, there were four arrests on Friday:
And on Saturday, Creston Police arrested 37-year old Keri Lemon, of Creston, for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree. She was cited and released with a Summons to Appear.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:05-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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If you’re looking to take in the holiday season via a brief road trip, consider seeing the Baird Family Christmas Light Display, in rural Montgomery County. Jack Baird has been adding to, and updating the display, since the first display was lit-up about 45 years ago. The family began to work on this year’s display began around the first of October.
This year’s display was first opened to the public on Saturday. Jack Baird says making sure everything is working on the nearly one-quarter of a mile light and display show, is a constant challenge.
Jack Baird checks on the lights during this 2106 file photo from the Baird Facebook page.
When you come to see the display, you’ll stay in your car and be able to drive around to see all the details. The lights are turned on when it turns dark, and remain on until 10-p.m., each night, through New Year’s night. One of Jack’s favorite, new displays to be on the lookout for, is a 14-foot horse and carriage with moving feet and wheels.
The display – which can be seen for miles can be found four-miles west/southwest of Elliott. The address is 1233 E Avenue, rural Red Oak. If there’s severe weather, like a blizzard. The family will notify the media so no one gets caught in a storm. A donation box is available to help with the costs of the display. Baird says all contributions to are put toward the repair/replacement of the lights and for new additions each year. For more information, follow Baird’s Christmas Lights on Facebook.
A reminder from Montgomery County Auditor Stephanie Burke: Today is the last day to request an in-person Absentee ballot for a Special Election that will take place Tuesday, for those persons residing in Montgomery County Board of Supervisors District 1. The election is to fill a vacancy in that District only. The District #1 map can be viewed at www.montgomerycountyia.gov or at the Auditor’s office. Candidates on the ballot include Charla Schmid (Nominated by Petition) and Steve Berendes (Republican).
The polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 15th at the Red Oak Gold Fair Building. Request forms and ballots can be mailed, dropped off at the county Auditor’s office or in the official county drop box located at the courthouse. The Montgomery County Auditor’s Office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M. until 4:30 P.M. If anyone has questions about voter registration, absentee ballots, or voting, call the Auditor’s office (712)-623-5127.
(Radio Iowa) – Holiday shopping is underway from home and out at stores this year, and both methods can cause you some problems if you don’t take the necessary precautions. Le Mars Police Chief Kevin Vande Vegte says if you go out don’t get caught up in the excitement and forget some simple things. “When you are filling up your gas tank at gas stations, make sure that you lock your doors. don’t leave your wallet or purse laying on the seat,” Vande Vegte says. “Do not leave your car unlocked or unoccupied idling in a driveway or at a store.”
He says if you are going to different stores — put the things you have bought in the trunk or out of sight in your car. Vande Vegte says be aware of strangers that may approach you. “Be wary of strangers coming up to your door and asking strange things — they’re probably trying to case you out or get you to look away — and somebody might be on the other side of the car and they might steal something,” he says.
Vande Vegte says home shoppers need to take steps to prevent porch pirates. He says if you are expecting packages from online purchases you might consider getting an outside camera. Or you can put a large decorative piece on the porch which the packages can be hidden behind to keep them out of view of thieves. There are other precautions you can take as well. “If you are expecting a high-dollar item or expecting something to come at a certain time — try to be home or ask somebody to look for the item for you,” Vande Vegte says.
The Le Mars Police Chief also reminds you to not sit out empty boxes with your trash to clue in thieves about items in your home they may be interested in.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowans are invited to an online webinar on winter weather tonight (Monday) being hosted by the National Weather Service office in Johnston. Meteorologist Alex Krull says they’re constantly recruiting weather spotters to help be the eyes and ears for forecasters. “We’ll talk about how we forecast different types of winter precipitation and how we officially report that then to the National Weather Service,” Krull says. “That includes how to properly take a snowfall measurement, if you have any ice on trees or power lines, how you can take a picture and officially report that to the National Weather Service and to be able to identify differences between things like snow, sleet and graupel.”
You don’t know what graupel is? Graupel is considered a soft hail or small snow pellets. Spotter training sessions were cancelled earlier this year due to the pandemic and Krull says these webinars are a good alternative for now. “There are plans to host more online virtual severe weather spotter training sessions come this springtime,” Krull says. “At this time, it doesn’t quite look like we’ll be able to have in-person meetings again, come springtime.”
The webinar is free and runs from 7 to 8 PM. Register to take part here: www.weather.gov/dmx
The latest information from State of Iowa’s coronavirus dashboard (as of 10-a.m. Monday) shows deaths statewide are up by 60, to 3,273. Underlying cause deaths amount to 3,000, while 273 account for contributing factor deaths. Deaths at Long-Term Care facilities account for 1,132 of those who died. In the KJAN listening area, there was one additional death recorded in: Cass (36 total); Shelby (20 total) and Union Counties (11 total). There five additional deaths in Pottawattamie County, for a total to date of 78.
Long-Term Care facility outbreaks are at 144. There are 5,832 positive cases and 2,757 recoveries reported in Iowa’s care facilities. State data shows 1,284,911 Iowans have been tested for coronavirus, with a total of 190,222 recovered. The number of positive COVID-19 cases statewide is up 665 this morning, to 256,913. Iowa reports a 14-day positivity rate of 15.1% and a 7-day rate of 11.1%. In our area, only Pottawattamie County has double-digit new, Positive cases of COVOD-19. There were 20 additional cases reported in Pott. County since 10-a.m. Sunday. All other counties in this area report less than 10 new cases, with most reporting three or less.
Hospitalization data: show 764 Iowans with COVID-19 are in hospitals across the state (that’s up from 749 yesterday); 160 COVID patients remain in an ICU (10 less than Sunday); 76 were admitted (down from 95 on Sunday); 86 are on a ventilator. Hospitalization analysis shows 537 patients had a primary COVID-19 diagnosis, while 227 were hospitalized for another reason but tested positive for the virus. Health department data shows 87% of those hospitalized are 60 or older.
Hospitals in western/southwest Iowa (RMCC Region 4) report: 49 hospitalized (2 more than yesterday); 14 are in an ICU (1 less than previously reported); four were admitted, and six patients are on a ventilator, down two from Sunday.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County; The # of new cases since yesterday {+} – if any; and the total number of deaths in each county to date:
One person died and two others were injured, when a pickup truck struck a car broadside Sunday night, in eastern Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol reports a passenger in a 2009 Toyota Prius, 31-year old Jessica Ann Marie Schulte, of Upper South Amana, died at the scene of the crash at U-S Highway 151 and 120th Street, in Iowa County. The Patrol says the car was traveling south on Highway 151 at around 9:53-p.m., when a westbound 2001 Dodge RAM pickup driven by 33-year old John David Nagel, of Amana, failed to yield.
Nagel, and the driver of the Prius, 25-year old Michael A. Humna, of Amana, were injured and transported by Iowa County Ambulance to a local hospital. The accident remains under investigation.
The Red Oak Police Department reports two arrests overnight Sunday into early this (Monday) morning. At around 11-p.m. Sunday, officers arrested 42-year old Joleen Mary Most, of Carbon, on a Dallas County warrant for Failure to Appear on a Driving While Barred charge. Most was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond. And, at around 1:45-a.m. Monday (Today), 28-year old Nathaniel Lee Romick-Sleep, of Red Oak, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. His bond at the Montgomery County Jail was set at $491.25.