LaVon Eblen visits with Sharon Winterboer of the Audubon Country Players.
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LaVon Eblen visits with Sharon Winterboer of the Audubon Country Players.
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A crowd of about 70 people showed-up at the Bridgewater Community Building Tuesday evening, to partake in an organizational meeting designed to spark community support for ridding the town of drug dealers and users. Doug Miller is the spokesperson for “Take Back Bridgewater, Iowa,” an initiative he created after he became aware of an Adair County road rock pile with the word “Meth” spray painted on it, and an arrow pointing toward Bridgewater. (click on the left side of the audio bars below to hear his comments)
Miller says he can’t solve the problem alone, he needs to have volunteers and support from the community and that’s what he’s seeing since he created a Facebook page for the initiative, and especially the overwhelming support it garnered during Tuesday night’s meeting.
Miller says he never underestimates the citizens of the community that he’s lived in and worked in for most of his life.
The drug user/dealer community is not going down without a fight, though. Miller says when a central Iowa television station was in-town prior to the meeting Tuesday night, a loud train horn went off. The catch is…no train goes through or near Bridgewater. There hasn’t been railroad activity for years, because the tracks are long gone.
Miller says the horn can be heard up to five-miles away. It is loud and obnoxious, and an investigation is underway into who is setting off the siren.
He says the community will continue to find ways to fight meth and drug use. Miller said a planning committee meeting will be held within the next two weeks to put together an action plan. The next meeting will be an open session, with invitations going out to Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater and City Council members, so the committee can ask questions, not to “Put them on the hot seat.”
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Iowa is the nation’s top soybean producer and the state’s growers are poised for an excellent year ahead, according to predictions from the U-S Department of Agriculture. Market analyst Rachel Trego says soybeans are forecast to buck all trends expected for the rest of the major grains and oilseeds in the 2017 growing season. “Planted area is set to decline except for soybeans,” Trego says. “Supplies declining except for soybeans, exports declining except for soybeans, domestic use declining except for soybeans, stocks decline except for soybeans.”
The general outlook for all grains and oilseeds will be modestly higher prices. Iowa’s -other- top crop, corn, does not have as bright a future, according to the agency’s predictions. Trego says corn acreage, supplies, exports and stocks are all expected to fall. “Planted area is forecast down 4%,” Trego says. “The yield is forecast down 2% from the record set in 2016-17. With lower expected harvest area and reduced yields, this results in production being down seven-percent.”
While corn production in general should be down in the year ahead, exports may drop even further. “These are forecast to decline nearly 15% to 1.9-billion bushels,” she says. “Ending stocks are thus set to decline, however, they do remain relatively robust with stocks to use at nearly 15-percent.”
One of few bright spots on the report, the USDA projects a small increase in the season average farm prices.
(Radio Iowa)
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Jim Field visits with Wallace Foundation President Brent Bierbaum about their upcoming annual meeting on Saturday, March 4.
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Police in Creston, Tuesday afternoon, arrested a man on a meth-related charge. 29-year old Julian Allison, of Creston, was arrested at 1100 W. Adair on a charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance with the Intent to Sell or Manufacture – Methamphetamine, over 5 grams. Allison was being held in the Union County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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