5-20-2024 4:37pm

Patrick Riley Iiams, 30, 404 S Vine was arrested at 102 W Taylor. Iiams was charged on 2 Warrants. 1st is a Union County Warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault-Injury or Mental Illness 1st Offense Bond $2000 cash only. 2nd is Department of Corrections Warrant for Violation of Probation OWI 1st. Iiams is being held in the Union County Jail on no Bond.

5-20-2024 5:29pm

Brandon Hurshel Whitfield, 37, 813 N Sycamore was arrested at the Intersection of Spruce and Prairie. Whitfield was charged with Driving while Suspended. Whitfield cited and released.

5-20-2024 6:52pm

Megan Marie Brown, 43, Lorimor was arrested in the 300 Block North Street. Brown was charged on 2 Union County Warrants. 1st Warrant is for Possession of Controlled Substance Marijuana 1st Offense and Possession of Controlled Substance Methamphetamine 1st Offense Bond $2000. 2nd Warrant Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Bond $300. Brown was taken to the Union County Jail where she was later released on $2300 cash or surety bond.

5-20-2024 8:15pm

Jeffrey Lynn Bandow, 67, 806 Quiet Harbor was arrested at his residence. Bandow was charged on 2 Union County FTA Warrants. 1st Warrant is FTA Operate without Interlock Bond $300 Cash only. 2nd Warrant is FTA Operating while Under the Influence 3rd Offense and Driving while License Denied or Revoked Bond $5000 cash only. Bandow was taken to the Union County Jail where he is being held on $5300 cash only bond.

(Radio Iowa) – The Sioux Center-based Midwest Honor Flight is taking some 255 veterans to Washington D-C today (Tuesday) to visit armed forces memorials. They’re from northwest Iowa as well as South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Since its launch in 2017, Midwest Honor Flight has flown more than 16-hundred veterans to D-C, though board president and C-E-O Aaron Van Beek says a lot has changed since that first flight seven years ago.

“I could get a plane chartered for about $65,000, and now looking at our pricing going into the fall, it’s about double that, and so the price continues to change,” Van Beek says. “But this is a free opportunity, no expense to the veteran for the flight itself, all the meals, all the busing, all the transportation, all that kind of stuff is covered for them.” Van Beek says with six flights scheduled for this year alone, it’s a big bill, but they’ve got it covered.

“Thankfully, we’ve had great sponsors, great donors, great fundraisers,” he says, “and then of course our guardians and crew that go along and volunteer their time, in addition to making a donation to go on those flights.” The tour includes stops at Arlington National Cemetery to see the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Iwo Jima and Air Force Memorials, the Navy Memorial, while the World War Two, Korean War, and Vietnam War Memorials complete the tour. Five of the six flights this year are sponsored, he says, and sponsors provide most of the cost for a flight and receive naming rights.

“We want our veterans to all have the same experience,” Van Beek says, “to be able to see the memorials, to be able to reflect and visit, and to be honored as the heroes that they are.” Van Beek says all veterans from World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam are welcome to apply, but World War Two veterans and veterans with terminal medical diagnoses receive top priority for any flight. He says the waiting list never seems to go below 750, but he doesn’t want that to discourage veterans from applying. Not only does it get a veteran on the list, but Van Beek says it helps with fundraising and obtaining flight sponsors.