The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests. At around 7-a.m. today (Tuesday), 33-year-old Audrey Elise Martin, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a warrant for Failure to Appear. Her bond was set at $50,000. And, at around 9:25-p.m. Monday, 30-year-old Aaron Ray McDaniel, of Malvern, was arrested for Driving While Revoked or Denied, with bond set at $1,000.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office said also, a woman from Malvern and a passenger in another vehicle, were transported to Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, following an accident Sunday afternoon near 32295 Lambert Avenue. Authorities say a 2012 Chevy driven by 78-year-old Marilyn Hexon, of Malvern, was traveling east on Lambert Avenue out of Malvern. A 1950 Chevy driven by 74-year-old Clifford Leach, of Hastings, was behind Hexon’s vehicle, which was traveling at a slower speed.

Maxson slowed to turn into a driveway. When Leach attempted to pass her vehicle, the two Chevy’s collided. Maxson told authorities she had her turn signal on, but Leach said he didn’t see the light flashing.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – April 12, 2022 – The Iowa Transportation Commission, during their meeting Tuesday morning in Council Bluffs, approved an amended grant for a RISE grant (Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy), to Audubon County.

In Audubon County, a scope of work and grant award change was approved for a modification of the previously awarded Immediate Opportunity RISE grant to remove 100th Street improvements and construct additional intersection improvements to County Road M-66 and 100th Street. Officials say the amendment is necessary to provide improved access to the proposed expansion of Puck Enterprises, a liquid manure application equipment manufacturer. This project is anticipated to be completed by October 2023.

The Commission also approved a grant to Sioux City, for up to $665,264 from the city share of the RISE Fund and $665,264 from the county share of the RISE fund, for a Local Development grant to assist in paving approximately 2,470 feet of Alicia Avenue and construction of a left-turn lane on 225th Street located on the south side of town. This project is necessary to provide access to 37 acres for warehousing purposes. This project is anticipated to be completed by August 2023.

(Anita, Iowa) – The CAM School Board, Monday night, held public hearings on the proposed 2022-23 School Calendar and 2022-23 Certified Budget as published. Superintendent Paul Croghan told KJAN News there were no comments received, therefore the board, in their action segment, approved the School Calendar with very few changes.

The adjusted calendar, he said, calls for the the current school year ending Friday, May 27th with a four-hour early dismissal, due to days missed on account of weather and play-off football.

The 2022-23 calendar includes a two-hour early dismissal on Wednesday’s.

And, they passed the budget, for which the tax asking is slightly lower than last year.

Mr. Croghan said the CAM School Board approved the resignations of ___ staffers.

And, they approved contracts for…..

In other business, the CAM School Board approved a technology purchase amounting to $313,826.25, for teacher laptops, student Chromebooks, an I-Pad, desktops for secretaries, and the nutrition program.

(7-a.m. News) – A traffic stop late Monday night in Creston resulted in the arrest of a woman from Lenox. The Creston Police Dept. says 39-year-old Jennifer Lee Johnson was taken into custody for Driving While Suspended. Johnson was released at the scene with a citation.

(Radio Iowa) – The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital now has new technology to provide dialysis to its smallest patients. Doctor Jennifer Jetton says the machine can provide dialysis for infants weighing between five and 20 pounds. “For those babies, we have not had machines, dialysis machines that have been designed specifically for that size. And we’ve had to make do with equipment that is designed and F-D-A approved for adults,” Jetton says.

The Cardio-Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine (CARPEDIEM) was developed and has been in use in Europe since around 2013, and she says they’ve been just really anxiously waiting to have access to it in the United States. “Just because it is so much smaller. And it is designed specifically for babies in mind. So like the amount of blood that’s out of the body at any one time is much, much smaller than the scales and the accuracy are very precise down to one gram,” she says. Doctor Jetton is a pediatric nephrologist, and says they have been training and establishing protocols for the machine. She says it is not something they will use a lot right away.

“But I think a few times a year is what we are kind of anticipating maybe more than that. I think in the center that first started using it, it started in Cincinnati, children’s they had like one patient, and then all of a sudden they had two and then they had three kids,” she explains. “So again, once you have it, and it’s out there, then the options, you know, cases where it can be beneficial become more, more clear.” Doctor Jetton says the machine helps the babies get through kidney problems. “They’ve developed something called acute kidney injury, where their kidneys are temporarily not working very well. And they need help with getting rid of all the fluids that they need, as part of like their nutrition or medications, and then help with balancing all their body salts like their sodium and potassium,” Jetton says.

She says those are the two main things that the kidneys do normally. Jetton says any new therapy requires lots of preparation before it is put into use. “Anytime you’re talking about a baby within the intensive care unit who’s sick enough to need dialysis, it’s risky. And so there’s a lot of work that goes into training the team and making sure that we’ve thought about safety in every possible way for these kids,” she says.

Jetton says it has been an entire team effort to get the machine and work out all the training and protocols so they can put it into use.