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The Creston Police Department reports several recent arrests. At around 3-a.m. Sunday, 21-year old Kendrick Davis, of Creston, was arrested on charges of Theft in the 2nd and Burglary 2nd Degrees. Davis was later released from the Union County Jail on a $15,000 bond. At around 10:15-a.m. Sunday, 37-year old Becky Bochniak, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. She was released from the Union County Jail on a $300 bond. Sunday afternoon, 45-year old Douglas Stevens, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Barred. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $2000 bond. And, Sunday evening, 35-year old Leslie Smith, of Mount Ayr, was arrested in Creston for Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs and Driving While Suspended. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $1300 bond.
43-year old Jeffrey John Henkelman, of Osceola, was arrested Sunday afternoon in Creston, on a warrant for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree along with urinating/or defecating in Public. He was later released on a $300 bond.
46-year old Jay Rains, of Creston, was arrested Saturday evening, for Public Intoxication. He was later released on a $300 bond. Friday night, 52-year old Craig Cottrell, of Creston, was arrested for Simple Assault. He was released on a Promise to Appear.
Creston Police received five reports of break-in’s and/or vandalism over the past few days. This past Friday: a Creston man reported that during the overnight hours of Thursday into Friday, someone broke into his residence and stole DVDS, a 24 inch TV, 2 DVD players. Estimated loss of $420; The Casey’s store on New York Ave. in Creston reported to Police Friday, that recently someone had vandalized the West Side of the building with Orange Spray Paint. Estimated damage of $50; and, a Creston woman reported that during the overnight hours Thursday into Friday, someone entered the garage at her residence in the 700 block of N. Poplar in Creston, and stole a Dewalt Radio and Dewalt Air Compressor. The loss was estimated at $450.
And, Saturday evening, a Creston man reported to Police that someone had entered his home in the 300 block of S. Vine Street, and stole a handgun that was in a locked case. The loss was estimated at $200.
Authorities say a man has drowned in northwest Missouri while attempting to retrieve a boat that was adrift on the Missouri River. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as 30-year-old Benjamin Hirner, of Mokane, MO. The patrol says he went into the water Friday just north of where the Nishnabotna River flows into the Missouri River in Atchison County. A Nebraska Air National Guard helicopter flew him to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was pronounced dead. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources also assisted at the scene.
A central Iowa police officer shot an armed man who allegedly led authorities on a high-speed chase on Interstate 235 in the Des Moines area. The Des Moines Register reports that an unidentified Clive police officer shot the suspect early Saturday morning. Authorities say police tried to pull over a gray Dodge Charger shortly after 2:30 a.m., but the driver refused to stop and drove into Des Moines.
The vehicle later crashed and two men exited the vehicle and ran off into a neighborhood. The officer shot one suspect after he allegedly brandished a weapon.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Members of the CAM School District’s retiring School Board will hold their last meeting tonight before turning over the reigns to the newly elected Board. During their 6:30-p.m. meeting in the CAM High School Superintendent’s Office, the retiring Board will act on accepting the Abstract of Election and the Treasurer’s Annual report for Fiscal Year 2019. Afterward, the Board will adjourn, and the Annual Organizational meeting of the New Board will be called to Order.
New Board members will be administered the Oath of Office, followed by the election/ Oath of Office to the Board President, Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer. The board will then act on administrative matters, including: The setting of their meeting dates, time and location; naming of depositories…official publications…designation of legal counsel, and other matters.
The Board is also expected to discuss: Facility projects; Open Enrollment applications, and Resignations. They’ll also act on approving the disposal of a bus through sealed bids.
(Submitted By Lora Kanning Cass County Conservation) — August 16, 2008 was my (Lora Kanning’s) first Breakfast with the Birds as our Cass County Naturalist. I remember being excited to have Kay Neuman confirmed for the program with a Great Horned Owl to release in Sunnyside Park. I also remember being disappointed by only 13 people coming out that year to the program. Fast forward 11 years, To August 2019, I was contacted by a homeowner Brenda Nelson who lived south of Atlantic, about a Great Horned Owl who she’s named “Henry” always lived near her property for the past 4 years. At the time, Henry was just oddly hanging out closer to her house instead of the woods, we chatted about how he was acting, all seemed fine. Until 8 days later she contacted me again with a video of him, super close to her house, on the ground, and frankly looked a little roughed up! I loaded up my Conservation vehicle and headed out that morning. After a little bit of poop, and a little chase, I rescued “Henry” and he was safely inside a carrier. I then called Kay Neuman with SOAR- (Saving Our Avian Resources) out of Dedham. I have learned my lesson don’t call Kay until the bird is in the carrier, there has been many a rescue where it takes more people or time to rescue the injured wildlife. When I was catching him, and putting him in the carrier, besides the skunk smell, he had some “extra jewelry” a bird band! Kay was available to meet up and safely transfer him to SOAR’s care. This is an example of a bird band encounter. If you find a banded bird you should report the band number and location to reportband.gov. The band encounter was reported and this great horned owl was banded by Kay before being released on the southwest edge of Atlantic, Iowa… 11 years ago! This is dispersal information, dispersal from release location for this owl, was Sunnyside park to where he was found was about 10 miles. This is important for a raptor rehabilitator to know – great horned owls may not travel or disperse very far from where released. The great horned owl pictured here is that banded owl in a flight pen regaining flight skills.
Why band birds?
The data collected from the bird bander and from people that have an “encounter” with an already banded bird provide useful information for scientific research and management activities. Bird banding data helps biologists understand dispersal, migration, longevity, behavior, productivity, and more.
This great horned owl’s band encounter adds to the collection of reports for longevity. Curious about how long has a certain species has lived? Visit the BBL longevity search page: https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/longevity/Longevity_main.cfm Great Horned Owls like “Henry” can live up to 30 yrs old in the wild. He is estimated to be approximately 12 years old.
Differences between banding birds and using telemetry?
Both bands and telemetry must be put on the bird by someone with the banding permit. Data collected from band encounters is not (hopefully) quickly known by the bander. With raptors, band encounters may happen through research projects including hawk banding stations, through birds being admitted to a rehabilitator, or by birds being found dead in the field.
A telemetry unit permit is most often associated with a large-scale research project that has substantial funding and partner agencies. Tracking a bird with telemetry varies depending on the type of unit — a UHF unit that can be monitored using a handheld antennae, a telemetry unit that utilizes satellite technology, or a GPS-GSM telemetry system where data points are downloaded when the unit has cellular signal.
But back to “Henry”… Cass County Conservation was given updates on Henry every couple weeks to know his progress. Most likely “Henry” lost a fight with a skunk, Great Horned Owls are the #1 predator of Skunks in Iowa. Recovery from the spray probably directly to the eyes and a head injury. November came around, it started to look like he was getting very close to coming “home” to Cass County. We discussed dates, of course, mother nature with her high wind events pushed off his release a little bit. December 5th 2019 was a great day to come home, of course with the help of SOAR, Cass County Conservation Board and the homeowner Brenda, “Henry” was released right back where we found him. We would also like to thank Sandy McCurdy for volunteering to take the photos of the release. “Henry” of course was ready to go, he came right out of the carrier. He flew into the forest and sat in a tree for us for awhile. Checking out that he was back somewhere familiar! You can also checkout his release video on Cass County Conservation’s Facebook Page.
Many times wildlife rescue does not end with a happy story. Which is one of the reasons why we wanted to share “Henry’s” story with the residents of Cass County. Another reason is to raise awareness on how lucky we are in Cass County to have wildlife rehabbers regionally close to us like SOAR. SOAR runs on donations as a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1999 dedicated to saving our avian resources through raptor rehabilitation, education, and research. Your year-end donation will help us, stock freezers with the high quality food needed for our patients and ambassadors, buy blood lead testing supplies, and medications. Coming up on year end donations consider donating to SOAR, www.soarraptors.org.
(Radio Iowa) — An Iowa State University Extension dairy specialist says stress continues to be an issue for milk producers trying to deal with low prices. Larry Tranel is also a psychologist. “We’ve seen a lot of cycles in dairy over time — but we really haven’t seen one that had this big a tail on it where it lasted two, three, four years with the low prices,” Tranel says. “We actually take a look at the stress… even though the dairy prices have come back somewhat — we still find that the stress itself is going to have a pretty long tail on it as families try to recover from it.”
Doctor Tranel says the extended issues with low prices have taken a toll. “I’m seeing a level of stress that I probably haven’t seen in my 30-year career,” according to Tranel. “When we take a look at the magnitude of the stress — I would say it’s at a very a high level for the most part. Some have weathered the storm quite well — but there’s a lot of people that just really have a hard time.” He says dairy farmers are caught between a rock and hard place. “They can’t afford to get out for the assert values, he says, “but they really can’t afford to stay in either because of some cash flow issues that have lingered on for quite some time,” Tranel says.
He says the long-term nature of the dairy industry issues can take a toll. “When people have things we call acute stress — like you have a barn fire or a tragic accident or something just happens real quickly — you don’t have time to prepare for it,” according to Tranel. “But when you have this chronic stress — just day-in day-out for four or five years in a row dealing with that — that’s the kind of stress that eats at peoples nerve endings and gets them more irritable.”
Tranel says one of the techniques he recommends for people dealing with these situations is to write things down. He says it allows them to address the issues and move ahead. “As we do farm couple getaways where we bring in these farm couples to try to deal with communication issues, set goals on the farm, trying to transition themselves out of so much stress — the biggest thing they come back with is the fact that you made us write this down is what got us going to the next step. And if you wouldn’t have made us write this down — we’d be talking about this for the next 20 years,” Tranel says.
Tranel made his comments at the recent Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting.
(Ken Anderson of the Brownfield Network contributed to this story.)