LaVon Eblen visits with Brett Simpson about the Walnut Sesquicentennial activities.
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DES MOINES– Gov. Kim Reynolds, Thursday, announced her appointment of James Daane as a district court judge in Judicial Election District 3B. Daane, of Sioux City, Iowa, currently practices law with Mayne, Hindman, Daane, Parry & Wingert in Sioux City. Daane received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of South Dakota.
Daane fills the vacancy created by the upcoming retirement of District Court Judge Duane E. Hoffmeyer. Judicial Election District 3B includes Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, and Woodbury counties.
Sheriff’s Deputies in Page County arrested a man from Shenandoah, Thursday. Authorities say 38-year-old Aaron Duwayne Childs was arrested on a Page County Warrant for Violation of Probation. The original charge for the probation stems from a conviction of Receipt, Transportation, or Possession of a Firearm by a felon. Childs was taken into custody about eight-miles northeast of Essex, in the 1300 block of K Avenue, rural Page County.
He was transported to the Page County Jail, and was being held on a $5,000 cash-only bond, pending further court proceedings.
(Ames, Iowa) – Don’t let your prized possessions end up as debris that could cause a crash on the highway. That’s the word from the Iowa Department of Transportation. It’s moving season for some Iowa college students. For many, that means asserting your adulthood by trying to get as much stuff into or on top of a vehicle as possible and moving it from point A to point B with minimal assistance. The DOT says “Hopefully, you will heed the advice of folks who have successfully executed multiple moves and make sure that all your belongings are securely attached inside your vehicle or in the bed of a truck. What might seem like a small loss to you when your plastic lawn chair ends up on the highway, could become a major issue if a driver hits the chair and crashes, potentially injuring (or worse) people.”
I-DOT offers these Quick tips:
And, here’s a link to a great resource on how to make sure all your stuff makes it safely to your destination – https://www.tciteam.com/secure-your-load/
So far in 2021, there have been 176 deaths in traffic crashes. That is an increase of 11 since last Friday. To see statistics published daily by the Office of Driver Services, go to the daily fatality report at https://www.iowadot.gov/mvd/stats/daily.pdf
(Radio Iowa) – Dusty Hill, the bearded bassist from Z-Z Top who died this week, made one of his last public appearances in Manchester, Iowa. Kurt Palmer is the Delaware County Fair Board’s president. “Our hearts just go out to the family and the band mates and the crew,” he says. “To have him be able to be playing on our stage just a couple of weeks ago, it is mind blowing a little bit and it is hard to kind of grasp that.”
The July 16th concert at the Delaware County Fair was the first stop in the band’s latest tour. Hill died in his sleep Wednesday at the age of 72, just days after he took a leave of absence from the band due to a hip issue. Delaware County Fair Manager Jeannie Domeyer says a survey of fairgoers a couple of years ago found the legendary band was one of the top acts people locally wanted to see. “And so when we told the world we were going to make it happen, there was just a big air of excitement about it,” she says. Domeyer says nearly five-thousand fans were there for Z-Z Top’s performance in Manchester. “It was actually the first concert that they had done since they had been shut down during the pandemic and so they were excited to get back on the stage. We worked with management quite heavily because they were working through things that you have to work through when you haven’t been on the road in a really long time and so I’m just really grateful that we worked so well together and that hopefully he just had a great experience here being back on the road again.”
Palmer, the fair board’s president, says the grandstand was packed and the parking lots were overflowing. “We had three months to sell tickets and that was a little bit of concern possibly right at the beginning (with) a shorter amount of window space,” Palmer says, “but man, the community really wanted to see this band.” Palmer says the band was great to work with. “They’re a band that’s been doing it for 50 years and most of their crew members have been with them for 30+ years,” Palmer says. “They always just kept on telling us: ‘Hey, we’re here for you guys to just put on a show. you tell us what you want.'”
Drummer Frank Beard, lead vocalist Billy Gibbons and Hill formed Z-Z Top in 1969 in Houston. Their 1983 album “Eliminator” sold more than 10 million copies. It included the hit “Sharp Dressed Man” which was used 30 years later as the theme song for the “Duck Dynasty” T-V series.
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(Radio Iowa) – A second person has been charged with murder in the 2020 death of a Lake Park woman. Twenty-four-year-old Justice Berntson was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in connection slaying of 25-year-old Angel Bastman. Bastman’s body was found in her Lake Park home on December 22nd but a vehicle listed in her name was missing from the scene which led to a search that ended a few days later when Berntson is said to have been found driving the vehicle and ultimately led police on a pursuit.
Berntson and 26-year-old Allison Decker, who was charged with first-degree murder in the case earlier this week, are both being held in the Dickinson County Jail on one million dollars bond.
The broadcast News at 8:07-a.m., with Ric Hanson.
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Jim Field visits with Cass County Fair Prince Garrett Reynolds, Cass County Fair King Craig Alan Becker, Cass County Fair Princess Caroline Pellett and Cass County Fair Queen Emily Plagman.
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