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Police in Creston report 40-year old Aaron Riepe, of Creston, was taken into custody, Saturday afternoon. Reipe was arrested at his home, on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Violation of Probation and was additionally charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or subsequent. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.
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(Radio Iowa) — While the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines will not be hosting the state fair this summer, the engine is still running for the big classic car event over the upcoming Fourth of July weekend. Harry Daviess, a spokesman for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, says the 29th annual Speedway Motors Heartland Nationals will be held starting Friday, with a multitude of precautions in place due to COVID-19. “We’re asking our participants and our spectator attendees to bring a personalized, alcohol-based sanitizer,” Daviess says. “We will have many hand washing stations throughout the facility to keep everybody safe. You can bring and wear a mask.”
Masks are optional on the 16-hundred acres of outdoor space, but masks are mandatory if you enter any of the buildings. Thousands of shiny vehicles will be lined up for spectators to admire, including hot rods, trick trucks and muscle cars. Part of the allure of attending the show is chatting with the owners about how they restored the vehicles, and he says the pandemic won’t be able to quash those interactions. “Everybody that’s attending the event, they have a personal responsibility and that responsibility is to stay social distanced,” Daviess says. “You can still talk with somebody and have a conversation about their vehicle from six feet away. We’re not asking people to do anything differently from what they’re doing in the community today.”
Attendance over the three-day event has reached 50-thousand in past years, though the number of show cars on display this year may be somewhat reduced.”We’ve had as many as 4,500 to 5,000 cars and yeah, we’re expecting a slight decrease in attendance just because some people aren’t ready to travel yet, they’re not ready to drive their car 1,000 miles from out of state,” Daviess says. “It’s hard to tell until we do the actual event.”
Many of the traditional features are still planned, including the vendor midway, swap meet, model and pedal car displays, and the fireworks show, as well as Autocross racing events. Daviess says online ticket sales are discounted for advance sales. The Heartland Nationals run through Sunday.
(Updated 10-a.m., 6/29) – The Iowa Department of Public Health, today (Monday), reports 298 new cases of COVID-19 since Sunday, for a total of 28,728. Of that total, 7,148 persons have a pre-existing health condition. Officials say 300,427 Iowans have been tested for the virus, with 271,283 coming up with a negative test result. Three Iowans have died from COVID-19, since Sunday, for a total of 707, with 497 of those having had a pre-existing medical condition. The IDPH says 17,711 Iowans have recovered, and a total of 805,086 assessments have been completed. The state has shown an uptick in positive cases at the end of June, while overall positive cases had been flat or downward trending since early May. Testing levels are at all-time highs for Iowa, averaging more than 5,500 test results per day in the last 7 days.
The number of Long-Term Care (LTC) facility outbreaks is down to 24 as of today (Monday). In those care facilities, 723 people have tested positive, 428 have recovered and 364 have died, which is one more death than reported on Sunday. Iowa’s hospitalization rates continue to show a steady decline since an apparent peak in early May. The State’s RMCC database show: 119 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 (1 more than Sunday), 35 are in an ICU (1 less than yesterday), 19 were admitted to a hospital (4 more than Sunday), and 18 are on a ventilator. The numbers for southwest and western Iowa (RMCC Region 4) have remained essentially unchanged since Sunday (6 hospitalized, 2 in an ICU, 1 admitted [1 more than Sunday]and 1 on a ventilator)
The State’s COVID-19 database shows the following numbers for positive cases and recoveries ( ), with any 24-hour changes marked with an *.
The Iowa Department of Public Health reports the latest data on coronavirus in real time on this website.
(Brownfield Ag News) – The 2020 National FFA Convention and Expo will be held virtually. National FFA CEO Mark Poeschl says at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic the organization began working on two parallel paths- what a reduced-sized convention would look like and what a virtual convention would look like. He said it became clear that hosting a virtual convention was the only reasonable option. “By making the decision now it gives us a full four months to plan what we anticipate will be a truly remarkable virtual experience for many more students across the country,” he says. Poeschl says more details on the program and registration will be released August 12.
“We’ve already been working on what a virtual FFA Blue Room would look like, we’re identifying what we could do in terms of an expo experience, we’re evaluating how we could have some sort of concert experience, as well as what I would consider the normal sessions of keynote speakers, retiring address, and award presentations,” he says. He says the National FFA Organization looks forward to returning to Indianapolis with an in-person convention in 2021 as part of its long-term hosting partnership that will now run through 2033.
The event will be hosted by the 2019-2020 National FFA Officer Team. The team will travel to Indianapolis in July to help with planning. The virtual convention will still take place the week of October 28.
(Brownfield Ag News) – A coalition of U.S. Senators is urging the EPA to reject more than 50 so-called “gap-year” RFS waivers recently requested by oil refiners. In a letter, the Senators say the waiver petitions should not even be entertained because they are inconsistent with the 10th Circuit Court decision, Congressional intent, the EPA’s own guidance, and most importantly the interests of farmers and rural communities who rely on the biofuels industry.
Renewable Fuels Association president Geoff Cooper issued a statement applauding the bipartisan group of Senators for exposing the absurdity of the oil industry’s latest ploy to undermine the Renewable Fuel Standard. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says the sole purpose of the retroactive exemptions is to circumvent the law at the expense of rural families struggling to get back on their feet. She contends there’s no justification for allowing the petitions to hang over the market, saying it injects uncertainty into America’s agricultural recovery. Kurt Kovarik with the National Biodiesel Board says a new flood of unlawful small refinery exemptions is guaranteed to compound the economic challenges soybean farmers and biodiesel producers are facing.
Among the Senators who signed the letter to EPA were Tammy Duckworth and Richard Durbin of Illinois, Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith from Minnesota, Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley of Missouri, Nebraska’s Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Mike Rounds and John Thune of South Dakota, and Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin.
Police in Creston report two separate, non-injury accidents in less than two-hours, Sunday. The first happened at around 4:30-p.m., at the intersection of Adams and Maple Streets. A 1991 Chevy S-10 pickup driven by 51-year old Douglas Daggett, of Creston, was traveling west on W. Adams Street. A 2014 Jeep Patriot driven by 66-year old Anthony Seddon, also from Creston, was traveling east on W. Adams. Both vehicles stopped at the controlled intersection. When Seddon signaled and proceeded to turn north onto N. Maple Street, his vehicle was struck by the pickup. Daggett told police he failed to notice Seddon was signaling to turn, and was looking at a car on Maple Street, when he proceeded into the intersection. Authorities were unable to determine which vehicle was at the intersection first, so it wasn’t known which driver had the right-of-way. No citations were issued. Damage from the collision amounted to $3,100.
The second accident happened a little after 6-p.m. Sunday on Lakeshore Drive, in Creston. Authorities say a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by 46-year old Mitchell Graham, of Creston, was traveling north of Lakeshore Drive. A 2003 Hyundai Tuburon GT driven by 17-year old Foster McCutchan, of Creston, was in a side parking lot on the right right of the road. The teen told police he didn’t see the approaching motorcycle, and turned left onto the road, headed south. Graham tried to avoid the collision. He locked-up the brakes on his motorcycle and skidded, but could not stop in-time before side-swiping the car.
No citations were issued. Damage from the collision amounted to $4,000.
(Radio Iowa) – Many recent protests have left public places marred by spray painted slogans and an Iowa-based company is helping clean it up, in locales ranging from Old Capitol in Iowa City to the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Jeff Gard is spokesman for Natural Soy Products, headquartered in Brooklyn, Iowa. Gard says the company’s Graffiti Remover is made with soybean oil and it’s 100-percent eco-friendly. “The user either sprays it on and depending on the surface, it can be wiped off with a rag or a towel,” Gard says. “Several places that are using our product right now are spraying it on, letting it sit for 10, 15, 20 minutes, and they’re using a high-pressure sprayer to take it off.”
The product is designed to remove spray paint from nearly any surface, including brick and concrete. Gard says their clients include the City of Los Angeles which used it on the L-A Post Office and along the Walk of Fame, while others are much closer to home. “The City of Iowa City, a couple of weeks ago with all the situation going on there, has purchased a substantial amount of our product,” Gard says. “That’s what they’re doing, cleaning up all of the graffiti that’s been tagged on all the local municipalities and the statues and everything.”
The University of Iowa is also a client. The company uses soybean oil in a host of industrial products, including a paint stripper, a concrete sealer and a highway joint compound.
Police in Red Oak report 37-year old Kyle Anthony Zeigler, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 7:25-p.m. Sunday, on a charge of Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Zeigler was transported to the Montgomery COunty Jail and held on a $300 bond. Police report also, 42-year old Pamela Kay Wells, of Red Oak, was arrested today (Monday), a little after 3:20-a.m., for Harassment in the 2nd Degree. She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
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