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Police in Creston are reporting two recent arrests. Early today (Thursday) 28-year old Jacob Loew, of Creston, was arrested on a Madison County warrant for Probation Violation. He remained in the Union County Jail this morning, while awaiting transport to Madison County by their Deputy.
And, at around 12:40-p.m. Wednesday, Creston Police arrested 30-year old Nicholas Crenshaw, of Orient, for Theft in the 4th Degree. He was taken into custody at the Union County Law Enforcement Center and held on a $1,000 bond.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) – The University of Iowa and state prison officials are testing a certificate program that includes sessions at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the series is the first official academic cooperation between the Iowa City-based university and the prison facility. It builds on the institutional relationship developed by music professor Mary Cohen, who leads a choir composed of community members and inmates.
The center’s programs coordinator, Kat Litchfield, says the long-term goal remains to develop a program through which inmates could earn college credit for courses taken in the prison. She says she’d like the university eventually offer something similar to the Liberal Arts in Prison Program already in place at Grinnell College.
Republican Congressman David Young has developed a new plan for distributing a block of federal dollars reserved for water quality improvement projects. Young hopes to tack his idea onto the next Farm Bill and change the way money in the U-S-D-A’s already-existing “Environmental Quality Incentive Program” is distributed. “You’ve heard of precision agriculture. I see this as precision conservation,” Young says. “What it does is it targets funds in a new way, a new approach from this EQIP account, to watersheds.”
Young got input from a variety of groups that are often at odds — including the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Farmers Union as well as the Des Moines Water Works and the Iowa Department of Agriculture. “We’ve had the debate in Iowa about water quality and so I thought to myself: ‘What is there that maybe I could do or congress could do at the federal level to help with this issue?'” Young said. “…There’s a way to target existing federal funds.”
Young envisions communities, farmers, researchers and other stakeholders developing a “precision conservation plan” for watersheds in order to qualify for any federal EQIP grants in that area. Young says states should provide matching funds and the projects should be monitored to find out which conservation methods are most effective.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Officials say Iowa’s 2017 composite ACT score dropped to 21.9 from 22.1 for the class of 2016. Score reports released Wednesday from Iowa City-based ACT also say 24 Iowa students scored a perfect 36 in tests taken in spring, compared with 10 last year. Two-thirds of Iowa students who graduated in 2017 took the college entrance exam, compared with 60 percent nationally.
ACT says 56 percent of the Iowa students indicated they plan to attend college and earn bachelor’s degrees, and 27 percent said they’ll seek graduate or professional degrees. Nationally, 41 percent said they’ll seek bachelor’s degrees and 34 percent graduate or professional degrees.
VALONDA M. NELSON, 91, of Exira, died Aug. 26th, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for VALONDA NELSON will be he held 2-p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9th, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is from 1-p.m. Saturday until the time of service at 2-p.m.
Burial will be in the Exira Cemetery.
VALONDA NELSON is survived by:
Her great-nieces and their children, other relatives and friends, as well as her faithful dog, “Mitzy.”
DELVAN D. OLSEN, 68, of Audubon, died Wed., Sept. 6th, at the Friendship Home, in Audubon. Funeral services for DELVAN OLSEN will be held 1:30-p.m. Friday, Sept. 8th, at the Kessler Funeral Home, in Audubon.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is from 1-p.m. Friday, until the time of service at 1:30.
Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery, in Audubon.
DELVAN OLSEN is survived by:
His aunts Lowene Christensen, of Carroll & Ruth Olsen, of Exira, as well as numerous cousins and their families.
MELADEE L. BRAHMS, 54, of Wiota, died Monday, Sept. 4th, at her home south of Wiota. Memorial services for MELADEE BRAHMS will be held 7-p.m. Friday, Sept. 8th, at the Anita Legion Hall, in Anita. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home has the arrangements.
MELADEE BRAHMS is survived by:
Her husband – Shawn Brahms, of Wiota.
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