Jim Field visits with City of Adair Mayor John Larsen about the drive to build a new Community Center.
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Jim Field visits with City of Adair Mayor John Larsen about the drive to build a new Community Center.
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The 7:07-a.m. broadcast News with Ric Hanson.
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A traffic stop late Tuesday night in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a woman from Pottawattamie County. Authorities say a vehicle driven by 53-year-old Brenda Lee Marco, of Council Bluffs, was pulled over at Highway 34 and N. 4th Street in Red Oak. During an investigation, Marco was arrested for and charged with:
Marco was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.
DOROTHY PURDY, 91, of Fontanelle, died July 5, 2020, at the Mercy Hospice House in Johnston. A Celebration of Life service for DOROTHY PURDY will be held 2-p.m. Saturday, July 31st, at the United Methodist Church (at 510 First Street) in Fontanelle, with a time of fellowship & refreshments (including some of Dorothy’s recipes). A short program will follow at approximately 3:30 p.m. (The church is handicap-accessible and air conditioned) Steen Funeral Home in Fontanelle is in charge of the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Good Samaritan Society, Alzheimer’s Association and to possible others.
DOROTHY PURDY is survived by:
Her sons – Roland (Earlene) Purdy, of Greenfield; Randy (Marcia) Purdy, of Boone; Rich (Rhonda) Purdy, of Treynor; and Jeff (Annette) Purdy, of Polk City.
Her daughter – Julie (Gene) Guenther, of Britt.
Her sister – Connie Townsend of Hunt, Texas.
16 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
(Radio Iowa) – Congressman Randy Feenstra has gotten language included in a House ag bill for wildfires and hurricanes that would also cover the 2020 derecho-related losses. “I am very pleased to see the committee come together working on this bipartisan legislation for our farmers and our producers. I am also so very pleased to see the legislation include production losses caused by high winds and derechos,” Feenstra says. Feenstra has been pushing for several months to get the derecho coverage after the derecho caused the loss of 850-thousand acres of crops.
“This was the most costly thunderstorm in U-S history — costing about seven-point-five BILLION (dollars). I am very pleased that our committee is continuing these efforts to ensure that Iowa farmers and farmers across the country receive disaster relief they need to offset these massive losses by these events,” Feenstra says. Feenstra is a Republican from Hull.
Today: *HEAT ADVISORY from 10-am to 9-pm*Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. Heat index values as high as 105. S/SW @ 10-15 mph.
Tonight: Clear to partly cloudy. Low around 74. S @ 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms possible. High around 93. Heat index values as high as 101. SW-N @ 5-10.
Friday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 87.
Saturday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of showers and thunderstorms. High 83.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 92. Our Low was 64. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 87 and the Low was 57. The Record High on this date was 105 in 1935. The Record Low was 43 in 2013.
(Des Moines, Iowa) – Gov. Kim Reynolds, Tuesday, issued a statement with regard to new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging. In a press release, Reynolds said “The Biden Administration’s new COVID-19 guidance telling fully vaccinated Iowans to now wear masks is not only counterproductive to our vaccination efforts, but also not grounded in reality or common sense. I’m concerned that this guidance will be used as a vehicle to mandate masks in states and schools across the country, something I do not support.”
Scientists cited new information about the ability of the delta variant to spread among vaccinated people. The CDC also recommended indoor masks for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status.
Reynolds went on to say, “The vaccine remains our strongest tool to combat COVID-19, which is why we are going to continue to encourage everyone to get the vaccine,” Reynolds said. “I am proud that we recently put new laws in place that will protect Iowans against unnecessary government mandates in our schools and local governments. As I have throughout this pandemic, I trust Iowans to do the right thing.”
The new guidance from the CDC follows recent decisions in Los Angeles and St. Louis to revert to indoor mask mandates amid a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that have been especially high in the South.
Nearly half of all Iowa counties, including Cass-Adair-Audubon-Adams, have levels of COVID-19 transmission high enough to be included in new indoor masking guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal agency updated its guidance to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors while in areas with “substantial” and “high” transmission rates of COVID-19.
According to the agency’s map, which covers transmission data collected through Sunday, 46 Iowa counties were in either of those two categories.
Iowa’s largest county, Polk, home to its largest city, Des Moines, was not included among that list as of Tuesday. However, a number of other counties have either “substantial” or “high” transmission rates according to the agency.
Those counties with high transmission rates (in this area) include: Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Harris and Ringgold. Montgomery County has a “substantial” transmission rate.
(Radio Iowa) – A Poweshiek County judge is deciding whether Cristhian Bahena Rivera should get a new trial on his first-degree murder conviction in the July 2018 death of Mollie Tibbetts. Bahena Rivera and his attorneys were in Montezuma today (Tuesday)arguing there is new evidence that clears their client. Nate Maki, who is currently doing time in Oakdale for domestic violence, says an inmate he met in the Keokuk County Jail in 2020, Gavin Jones, claimed he was the real killer of Mollie Tibbetts.
Under cross-examination, prosecutor Scott Brown asked Maki if he knew where Jones was at the time Tibbetts was murdered.
Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Trent Vileta was questioned by Brown about the investigation into Tibbetts’ death and Bahena Rivera leading law enforcement to her body.
He had to actually point out the direction in a very large cornfield to us.” Judge Joel Yates says he will issue a written ruling on a new trial for Bahena Rivera as soon as possible.