The traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is making a stop in Urbandale this weekend at Living History Farms.
Joy Wehmas, a member of the group “Team Welcome Home Iowa” that helped to coordinate the visit, said it was an awesome sight with so many motorcycles leading the display into the area Wednesday.  Iowans are encouraged to stop by through Sunday to see the half-scale replica wall and the educational display. There are programs held each day at 11:00 am and a military tribute concert at 3:00 pm on Saturday.  The closing ceremony will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon with the display closing at 3:00 pm.  It will be taken down and loaded onto trucks and taken to it’s next location.  Wehmas says it all goes by quickly but is an amazing experience.  To find out more about the exhibit and events at Living History Farm, go online to TeamWelcomeHomeIowa.com.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Opening statements are expected to be delivered Friday in the trial of a man accused of shooting a Sioux City police officer. Isaiah Mothershed has pleaded not guilty two counts of attempted murder and five counts of robbery. Authorities say Mothershed pulled a gun from a couch while his hands were handcuffed behind his back and then shot Officer Ryan Moritz in a leg while being arrested Feb. 7.

Police say that as officers struggled with Mothershed, the gun fired again, wounding Mothershed in a leg. Mothershed also is accused of several robberies and break-ins and of firing a shot at a homeowner who interrupted a break-in.

Members of the Facilities Committee of the Griswold Community School District will hold a work session on Monday, October 3 at 5:00 p.m. at the Griswold Community School District’s Middle School / High School Library for the purpose of assessing current educational facilities.

Tyson Foods says its Tyson Fresh Meats subsidiary in Council Bluffs will spend 27 million dollars to expand production at the plant to be able to make more of its beef and pork products and meal kits that it distributes to grocery stores. A company news release says the expansion will allow them to add 350 jobs to bring the total number of employees to 14-hundred. The company also operates a pepperoni plant in Council Bluffs and a bacon plant in Omaha, for a total of two-thousand employees in the Council Bluffs-Omaha area. Work on the expansion in Council Bluffs is already underway, and the company says it should be completed by July of 2017.

(Radio Iowa)