Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning, Monday (today) released the results of this past Saturday’s Biennial Lighted Halloween Campgroud contest at Cold Springs Park, in Lewis. Kanning reports 137 people voted for their favorite site, and the first place winner was Site 1: The Brock family.

The Brock Family

Second place went to Site 3: The Dougherty family. The third place winner was Site 4: The Sandbothe family, and the fourth place finisher was site 2: by the Frisbie Family.

The Dougherty Family

The Sandbothe Family

Kanning says also, the Cass County Conservation Board would like to thank business sponsor Cappel’s Ace Hardware who donated the prizes for the Lighted Halloween Campground. The Board would also like to thank everyone who signed up to decorate a site, and thank you for sharing your Halloween décor with everyone!

The Lighted Halloween Campground will be held again, in 2022!

(Radio Iowa) – “World Polio Day” was observed this past weekend, marking the near eradication of the fatal disease. Siouxland district health director, Kevin Grieme says there are parallels between the polio outbreak in the 1950s in Iowa and the current COVID-19 pandemic. “The first efforts that they took a look at, is they wanted to protect the health care industry — the health care providers. They were truly concerned about having nurses available. Because there were also some fears, concerns and some reservations of treating case of polio — because there wasn’t a lot know of it at that time,” Grieme says. “Two was the ability of the health care community to absorb the potential cases that come in.”

Sioux City was the site of a major out break with the first polio case reported May 1st of 1952, although the disease had been around since the 1930s. Grieme says nearly 16-thousand local children gamma globulin to help treat the disease and Sioux City was one of three sites chosen nationally to take part in what was the largest field test in medical history. “People were scared for one purpose — and that was simply to fight the disease. And I think we find ourselves at that sort of crossroads. And I think the wearing of the masks, looking at ourselves, our personal behaviors,” Grieme says.

He says the series of recommendations given to prevent polio are much the same as we hear for coronavirus. “Wash hands and face before eating. Teach children to keep their hands away from their mouths. Use only clean food and beverages. “Avoid over fatigue and chilling — these often predispose to polio.Keep away from people with respiratory infections — polio often starts as colds, keep way from crowds,” Grieme read. Grieme says one unusual possible cure was quickly disproven. “Do not use D-D-T as a polio preventative measure. It’s been shown to have effect with insects and mosquitoes, but it has not been show to have affect with cases of polio,” Grieme says.

Around five-thousand Woodbury County children were part of a nationwide test of the Salk vaccine to stop the pandemic, and many patients were hospitalized in “iron lungs” to help with their breathing — similar to the respirators used for today’s COVID patients. Sioux City reported its last case of polio in 1967– 15 years after the local pandemic began

(Radio Iowa) – A Rockwell City man was airlifted to a Sioux City hospital after authorities say swallowed about an ounce of methamphetamine during a traffic stop. The Sac County Sheriff’s Office reports a deputy pulled over the vehicle at approximately 12:53 a.m. on Saturday morning south of Sac City. The deputy had noticed an equipment violation and received consent to search the car. As the deputy approached the passenger side, 46-year-old Cristian Lee Garrett was asked to step out of the car.

Garrett was acting irrationally and talking about dying. He then began to scream, saying he was going to die because he had eaten the large amount of methamphetamine. He was transported to Loring Hospital in Sac City by Sac County Emergency Medical Services and later airlifted out. The driver, 31-year-old Matt Olson of Breda, was charged with fraudulent use of a registration.