(Radio Iowa) – The Davenport Community School District is thanking its two-thousand employees for their hard work during the pandemic. The Board of Education approved incentive pay totaling two-thousand dollars each for all but the top administrators. Jami Weinzierl, the district’s director of human resources and equity, explains the many motivations for the financial reward.

“Due to the lack of substitute teachers, the turnover, the inflation and competing with other organizations for talent because of the increase in wages,” Weinzierl says. “A lot of our staff has had to pick up extra duties and have been extremely flexible in working hard for us.”

The first installment of one-thousand dollars will be paid on March 25th for hourly employees, and April 1st for salaried workers. The second installment of 500-dollars will be paid in the fall, with another 500 next spring. It will cost the district about five-million dollars, with the money coming from the federal pandemic relief program ESSER, Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund.

(Radio Iowa) – The owner of a Marshalltown towing and auto business showed his support on Tuesday for truck drivers who are protesting mask mandates in Canada. Lonnie Hogeland Senior, the owner of L. Hogeland Auto Plaza, held a display of solidarity with the Canadian truckers by parking tow trucks and other vehicles along the property lines of his business. Several trucks were lined up along the edge of Hogeland’s property line, which runs along east Main Street, with their engines running and lights flashing as a means of protesting the current mask mandate in Canada.

In January, a large group began protesting against mandates requiring truckers crossing the U.S./Canadian border to be fully vaccinated. The protest has been dubbed the “Freedom Convoy” by its supporters.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – A motorcycle accident early this (Wednesday) morning in Council Bluffs, resulted in a death and a person with serious injuries. Council Bluffs Police report officers were dispatched at around 2:06-a.m. to the 48.9-mile marker of Interstate 29 northbound, for a report of a motorcycle that left the road and entered a ditch. Upon arrival Police found a man suffering from serious injuries, and a female who had died from her injuries.

The man was transported by Council Bluffs Fire Department personnel to Nebraska Medicine, for treatment. Names of the victims were being withheld, pending notification of family. The accident remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the accident, is asked to call the CB-PD’s Traffic Unit, at 712-328-4948. Callers wishing to remain anonymous can call Crimestoppers at 712-328-7867.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department says a local man reported Tuesday night, that sometime between January 15th and February 15th, someone broke into his storage locker, in Creston. The locker was located at Graphic Displays Self Storage (711 E Clark). A coin counter and loose change were taken. The loss was estimated at $50.

(Corning, Iowa) – Sheriff’s Deputies in Adams County, Tuesday, arrested a man from southeast Iowa’s Henry County. Authorities say 41-year old Steven Dennis Porter, of Hillsboro, was arrested on an Adams County warrant for Sexual Abuse in the 3rd Degree, Lascivious Acts with a Child, and Child Endangerment. Porter was being held without bond in the Adams County Jail.

A Red Oak woman was arrested Tuesday by Adams County Deputies, 43-year old Joleen Mary Most was taken into custody on an Adams County Warrant for Failure to Appear. Most was also being held without bond in the Adams County Jail.