The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest on Tuesday of 45-year-old Keyla Rae Churchill of Council Bluffs for Theft in the 5th Degree. Churchill was arrested in the 2400 block of North 8th Street in Red Oak. She was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.
(Radio Iowa) – State climatologist Justin Glisan says as we move into fall there’s a clear signal on the outlook for September, October, and November. “We are seeing an elevated signal for warmer conditions for much of the Midwest — including Iowa. And then no clear signal on the precipitation front,” he says. Glisan says the long-term outlook for September shows an equal chance of warm or cool, and wet or dry. “If we look at those short-term outlooks that get us into the middle of the month, we do see an elevated chance of cooler than normal temperatures — and that’s coupled with a slightly elevated drier signal,” according to Glisan. 
Glisan says a little dry weather would not be a bad thing. “Those types of conditions would be great for harvest, we don’t want to get wet as we start to get the combines out into the fields,” Glisan says. “But we do want to replenish subsoil moisture profiles as we complete harvest and get into the later part of fall and into winter for the next growing season.”
Fall begins on September 22nd.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The recent rains and more moderate temperatures make this Fall a great time for gardening projects. Cass County Master Gardeners are inviting you to their third annual Fall Plant Sale, set for Saturday morning, September 18, at the Cass County Community Center, 805 W 10th Street, on the fairgrounds in Atlantic. The sale will be open to the public to purchase divided perennials suitable for fall planting. The sale begins at 8 AM, and will be held in the front parking lot of the Cass County Community Center on the fairgrounds in Atlantic. Interested gardeners are encouraged to arrive early for best plant selection, as the annual spring and fall sales occasionally sell out before 10 AM.
Plants expected to be on the sale include iris (bearded and Siberian), peonies, daylilies, and spring-flowering bulbs, along with perennials such as hostas, perennial geranium, bachelor buttons, baptista, sedums, garden mum, rudbeckia and more. There will also be a large collection of frog garden decor, along with pots, houseplants, and possibly some garden tools and other decor.
Bulbs bring spring color! The Cass County Master Gardeners added a bulb sale to the fall plant sale last year, and are bringing it back in 2021 due to overwhelming support! The bulb sale for this year will feature mixtures of tulip or allium bulbs for fall planting and spring color. The sale is now open to the public for pre-order, with delivery by the end of October, in plenty of time for fall planting. Order forms are available at the Cass County Extension office, or online at www.extension.iastate.edu/cass. Orders will also be taken at the plant sale on the 18th, if not already sold out.
The bulbs will be freshly dug from the gardens of Van Engelen, Inc., in Connecticut, and shipped in bulk to the Cass County Master Gardeners. The bulbs are expected to arrive by the end of October, and are available now to pre-order with five bulbs to a bag, with each bag of tulip mixture or allium mixture selling for only $5. Pre-payment is requested at the time of order to guarantee your bulbs. 
Descriptions of bulb mixes available are below, and each bag of 5 will feature a random selection from the colors listed, with no guarantee of any certain colors available.
TULIPS: The Finest Single Tulip Mixture includes: Candy Prince (whisper-pink), Christmas Dream (fuchsia-red), Flair (ruby-red), Purple Prince (Lilac-purple), Red Revival (deep red), and Sunny Prince (pale lemon-yellow). Blooms in mid-April, with plant heights from 14 to 16 inches.
ALLIUMS: Sphaerocephalon (crimson-purple globes), Azureum (cornflower-blue orbs of starry florets), Nigrum (white spheres with pale green eyes) and Ostara (wide dark purple globes). Plants range from 16 to 24 inches in height, with blooms from 1 to 6 inches in width. Bloom times May to July.
Many favorite perennials work well for fall dividing and transplanting, including daylilies, peonies, garden phlox, bleeding heart, coneflowers, speedwell, and more. Irises and hostas can also be transplanted successfully in early fall. By dividing the plant when it is not flowering, all the energy it produces can be directed to root and foliage growth, so plants overwinter in place and come back strong in the spring. Additionally, the cooler weather is easier on the plants (and the gardener!), and the plants generally do not use as much water as in spring and summer. Plants should be placed in the ground as early in fall as possible, but most can be successfully planted up until the ground freezes. The plants should also be adequately watered until the ground freezes, and covered with mulch to reduce moisture loss through the winter; particularly important steps as we are still emerging from a drought this year.
The Master Gardeners will bring perennials dug and divided from their own gardens to the fall plant sale. Community residents are also welcome to donate plants, and members may even help you dig! Please call in advance and make arrangements to drop off donated plants before the date of the plant sale.
To donate items, to order bulbs, or for more information about these events and other Master Gardener activities in Cass County, please call the Cass County Extension Office at 712-243-1132, email Cass County Extension Director and Master Gardener Coordinator Kate Olson at keolson@iastate.edu or visit www.extension.iastate.edu/cass. You are also invited to follow the Cass County Master Gardeners Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CassCoMG to keep up with local events and tips for gardening!
Members of the Atlantic School Board will meet in a regular session 6-p.m. Wednesday, at the Schuler Elementary School Media Center**. Consent Agenda items for approval include:
Contract Recommendations for:
Action items on their agenda include:
**The meeting is available for viewing on YouTube, at https://youtu.be/wpTtf4tYz1E
(Radio Iowa) – A funeral is scheduled for Friday, September 17th in Omaha for the Iowa native who is among the 13 U.S. soldiers killed last month in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport. Marine Corporal Daegan Page grew up in Red Oak and Omaha. The flight carrying him to Eppley Airfield in Omaha is scheduled to land THIS Friday afternoon, according to the tribute page Page’s family established on Facebook. Senator Joni Ernst is from Red Oak and knows the family well. She has talked with Page’s grandmother. “His family just wanted me to share with everyone just what an exceptional young man he was. His grandma kept saying over and over again: ‘He was an amazing young man,’ and he truly was,” Ernst says. “She emphasized that he went into the Marines. He wanted to serve, so he was a tough Marine, but on the interior he was just someone who wanted to help. He was very soft-hearted.”
The funeral on the 17th of September will be held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Omaha. The time and location for a visitation will be announced later. “We just want people to remember that behind every soul that we’ve lost in Afghanistan is a human being that is now gone and a family that is left hurting,” Ernst says.
Daegan Page. (Photo from the FB memorial page.)
Ernst says Montgomery County has a long record of military service and sacrifice. Red Oak lost more soldiers in World War II, per capita, than any other city in America.
Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report numerous arrests from over the past week. At around 3:30-a.m. Sunday, 23-year-old Delani Catherine Kern was arrested following a traffic stop in Council Bluffs, for Failure to use headlights, having improper rear lamps, and OWI/1st offense. At around 3:15-a.m., a Pott. County Sheriff’s deputy arrested 53-year-old Anthony Curtis Martinez, of Omaha, for Providing False Identification information. His bond was set at $300. And, 37-year-old Joshua Jay Moraine, was arrested for Driving while license denied, suspended, cancelled or revoked. They were taken into custody after the deputy noticed two vehicles in the Tractor Supply parking lot on Veterans Memorial Highway and the South Expressway, and proceeded to investigate. One of the vehicles was pulling a trailer.
Late Saturday night, 31-year-old Zachary David Schwager was arrested in Council Bluffs, for OWI/2nd offense. His arrest followed a traffic stop on a vehicle that was unable to maintain lanes on Wabash Avenue. At around 12:20-a.m. Saturday, 27-year-old Ariana Jade Hoersch, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Violation of Probation, and 60-year-old John Lee Carlson was arrested for Driving while barred/habitual offender. They were arrested after a deputy saw a Jeep parked on the traveled portion of Hamlet Lane, and an investigation was conducted.
Friday evening, a Pott. County deputy attempted to stop a car with paper license plates, in the 31,000 block of Tamarack. Following a brief pursuit, 33-year-old Cassandra J. Farfalla was arrested for eluding, reckless driving, and operating a non-registered vehicle. And, Friday afternoon, 46-year-old Tracey Lyn Klahn was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, after she turned herself in on a valid Council Bluffs Police Department warrant. She was transported to the Pott. County Jail to be booked-in.
Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater reports six arrests took place over the past week. Late Friday night, 34-year-old Shaune William Tindle, of Creston, was arrested near Stuart on a Union County felony warrant, and driving under suspension. He was cited on the driving under suspension charge and released immediately into the custody of the Union County Sheriff’s Office. Friday afternoon, 26-year-old Logan Christopher Partlow, of Stuart, was arrested in Stuart on an Adair County warrant for Failure to Appear at a “show cause” hearing. Partlow was briefly detained for fingerprinting, and then released.
36-year-old Sherrece Patricia Kilgore, of Bridgewater, was arrested Sept. 1st in Bridgewater, on an Adair County warrant for Failure to contact her presentence investigator, with regard to a Possession of a controlled substance/3rd or subsequent offense, charge. Kilgore was held under the warrant until she submitted the required PreSentence Investigation (PSI) information to the Dept. of Corrections, and also submitted to a PSI interview with the DOC. She was released after being fingerprinted.
On Aug. 31st, 29-year-old Mitchell Martin Ullmann, of Colorado Springs, CO., was arrested by the Iowa State Patrol, on I-80 in Adair County. Ullman was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Inside Ullmann’s Mazda CX-6, which was pulled over for speeding, the Trooper found several full plastic and glass jars with raw marijuana, several containers of synthetic marijuana, several pipes, one bong, and several rolling papers. Ullmann was later released from the Adair County Jail on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.
And, there were two arrests August 29th in Adair County: Just before 3-a.m., 44-year-old Jason Richard Berendes, of Red Oak, was arrested at Nodaway Lake, for Violation of a No Contact Order. He was released August 31st on a $500 cash only bond; And, at around 1:40-a.m., Aug. 29th, 28-year-old Shannon Elizabeth Reimers, of Des Moines, was arrested following a traffic stop, near Orient. Reimers was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense after brief pursuit that followed her allegedly running a stop sign. A breath test registered .143%, or nearly twice the legal limit for intoxication. Reimers was later released with a citation to appear in court.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is praising President Biden for signing an executive order based on a bill Grassley co-sponsored to boost the transparency of government records about the Nine Eleven attacks. Grassley says the move is designed to help people who want to sue Saudi Arabia for whatever role that nation may have played in the attacks 20 years ago this week. “The reason they can’t move forward with the lawsuit is these documents are still classified,” Grassley says. “Under the president’s executive order or under our legislation, these documents would be made public.”
President Biden’s order is based on the bipartisan September 11th Transparency Act, which requires federal agencies to conduct a declassification review of records related to the attacks. Grassley says it’s time for all of those documents to be opened. “After 20 years, they ought to be, not just for the sake of the lawsuit moving forward,” Grassley says. “A lawsuit is a lawsuit. They may have all the information they need and they still may not be able to make a case but they ought to be able to try to make a case. But also, for the principle of transparency in government.”
Grassley says the public has long waited for a full picture of everything that led up to the attacks, “including everyone involved in funding, planning and perpetrating these horrific acts of terrorism.” “What’s wrong, after 20 years of secrecy about this, making that public? Nothing,” Grassley says. He says he’s “grateful” for the executive order as it will begin to “pull back the curtain on the 9/11 records so that victims’ families, survivors and all Americans can expeditiously get the answers and justice they deserve.”
(Radio Iowa) – A small plane crashed Monday afternoon in the northwest Iowa’s Plymouth County about five miles east of Kingsley. The airplane crash was reported to the Plymouth County Communication at about 3:12 p.m. The plane had the pilot and his passenger, and fortunately, both did not suffer any injuries. The plane was located upside down about 75 yards in a cornfield. Law enforcement agencies have contacted the Sioux City Tower and the FAA.
The crash scene is being secured until the conclusion of the investigation. The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office and Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Kingsley Fire and Ambulance Department, and the Iowa State Patrol all responded to the scene.
The broadcast News at 8:05-a.m., with Ric Hanson.
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