(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors are set to meet 8:30-a.m. Tuesday, July 12th, in the courthouse Meeting Room in Red Oak. Their agenda is as follows:

1. Call meeting to order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll call of members
4. Approval of Agenda – Order at discretion of Chairman
5. Read minutes as presented. Chairman to call for any additions/corrections to said minutes
6. Board chairman will ask the audience for any comments, limited to two minutes per person.
7. Supervisors: Weekly committee/assignment updates
8. Secondary Roads Update
a. Sign Letter of Support for an Iowa DNR County Creek Sign Application
b. SWIPCO presentation regarding proposal to update the Comprehensive County Plan, discussion, and action as necessary
9. New Business
a. 8:45 a.m Auditor position discussion, and action as necessary
b. Resolution 22-19 Appropriations Resolution
c. Resolution 22-20 Interfund Operating Transfers
d. Letter of Support for Nishna Productions for Nonprofit Innovation Infrastructure Fund, discussion and action as necessary
e. Sheriff’s Report of Fees for June 2022, in the amount of $14,033.60
f. Claims payable on Wednesday, July 13, 2022
g. Recorder’s Report of Fees for June 2022, in the amount of $29,147.62
h. Treasurer’s ending fund balance for June, 2022, in the amount of $11,737,532.51
10. Discuss and start agenda items for next meeting
11. Announcements – The next regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
12. Adjournment
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(UPDATED) (Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting beginning at 9:15-a.m. Tuesday (July 12), in Atlantic. The meeting takes place in the Supervisor’s Board Room at the Cass County Courthouse. Here’s a look at what to expect….

(WTA = When time allows; WA = when available)
9:15 Call meeting to order
Approve Agenda
Approve Prior Meeting Minutes
PUBLIC COMMENT:
WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Cumberland Youth Program ARPA Request – Debra Brown
WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Cass County Environmental Control Agency – Adopt Resolution No 2022-035 Cass County Environmental Control Agency – Not to Exceed $194,082 Solid Waste Facilities Revenue Capital Loan Notes. Resolution consenting to the issuance of Solid Waste Facilities Revenue Capital Loan Note by the Board of the Cass County Environmental Control Agency for the purpose of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, repair, extension or improvement of all or part of the Cass County Environmental Control Agency Solid Waste Facilities System under the terms of the 28E Agreement, and related matters.
WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Hitchcock House Roof Repair

WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Approval of new Treasurer’s Office employee

WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Treasurer’s office to promote three hourly employees to Deputy status
WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Receive certifications from county officers for base salaries of their deputies and certify base salaries of deputies to the county auditor

WTA DISCUSSION/ACTION: Determine the compensation of ‘other employees’
WA/WTA REPORT: Cass County Conservation Report
WA/WTA DISUSSION: Cass County Engineer – Secondary Roads Update
WA/WTA ACTION: Appoint Massena Township Trustee
WA/WTA ACTION: Appoint Washington Township Trustee and Clerk
WA/WTA Committee Meeting Reports
WA/WTA Reports Filed
WA/WTA ACTION: Approve claims
WTA Adjournment

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(Anita, Iowa) – The CAM School District’s Board of Education will hold their regular monthly meeting, tonight. Their session in the High School Superintendent’s Office in Anita, begins at 6:30-p.m. Here’s a look at the agenda:

1 Call to Order
2 Welcome visitors
3 Agenda Changes
4 Approval of Agenda
5 Consent Agenda
5.1 Approval of Minutes, Bills, Financial Statements
5.2 Open Enrollments
5.3 Resignations
5.4 Contracts
5.5 Fundraisers
5.6 Volunteers
6 Communications
6.1 Public input on non-agenda items
6.2 Correspondence
7 Administrative Reports
8 Discussion/Action items:
8.1 Approval of Board Policy 900 Series
8.2 Approve Staff & Student Handbooks
8.3 Approve Daycare Agreement
8.4 Approve Girls Wrestling Sharing Agreement
8.5 Approval of disposal of school bus
8.6 Approve Sharing Agreements with Nodaway Valley (HR, Building & Grounds, SBO, Superintendent)
8.7 Board Report
9 Adjournment

Mission of the CAM Community School District
“The mission of the CAM Community School District is to develop in all students the knowledge and skills required to be life-long learners and responsible citizens in an ever-changing society.”

(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – For the second year in a row, Guthrie County ISU Extension & Outreach is offering the Wild Places in Guthrie County tourism event! Each year they select five different locations in Guthrie County to explore. A flyer provides you coordinates to each location and a list of a few activities that you can do once you get to each location. “We try to find different areas around that county that hit on recreation, history, and places that you might not even know about and then we create an educational video for each location with the help of local experts,” said Mollie Clark, Youth Coordinator.

With this event, you can really go at your own pace once you have the flyer with the information on it. First pick one of the mystery locations to visit then follow the coordinates to get there. Once you have arrived at the location find the flyer with QR codes on them. Scan the large QR code to watch a video to learn more about the site you are visiting. Make sure to take some time to explore each site, there are suggestions listed with each location on the flyer. Pick a new site and repeat this adventure until you hit all five locations! Make sure to scan the QR code to check in at each site so we can track how many people participate.

Guthrie County Extension is offering a mystery prize to two lucky people. To be entered in a drawing for a prize take a picture at each location. Post your pictures on Facebook, tag Guthrie County Extension, and #GuthrieCountyWildThings. If you post entries at all five locations, you’ll receive 5 extra entries. All entries will be due by July 18th, 2022.

“We had a few different goals with this event when we started it in 2021. We hope to help stimulate the local economy by promoting tourist locations, provide a family friendly all ages event to the citizens of Guthrie County and surrounding areas, and get people outdoors exploring the different amenities that Guthrie County has to offer. We had a great response last year and are excited to be able to bring it back for a second year,” said Krista Downing, Program Coordinator.

For more information or to download the flyer for this year, please visit our website at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/guthrie/. If you have any questions about the tourism event please feel free to reach out to the Guthrie County ISU Extension office at 641-747-2276.

(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department report two recent arrests. On Saturday (July 9), 39-year-old Angel Valdovinos Rodriquez, of Creston, was arrested for Driving while Barred. Rodriquez was transported to the Union County Jail, and later released on a $2,000 cash or surety bond. And, Friday morning, 40-year-old Jessie Wade Stauffer, of Creston, was arrested in the parking lot of Hanson Fitness. Stauffer was charged with Driving while Barred. He was transported to the Union County Jail and later was released on bond.

Creston Police said also, 44-year-old Kameo Margaret Smith, of Creston, was cited Friday afternoon, for having an Animal running at Large. Smith was cited and released from the scene.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Police in Council Bluffs are reminding motorists that beginning today (Monday, July 11th), Madison Avenue will be closed between the I-80 on/off ramps for approximately five days for resurfacing. Access will be allowed to the I-80 westbound on ramp from southbound Madison Ave only and I-80 eastbound traffic will be able to exit to Madison Ave directed toward Valley View Dr. The I-80 eastbound on ramp and I-80 westbound off ramp will be closed. Mall Drive will be the designated detour route for local traffic.

Monday – July 11th

7:00am-3:00pm Senior Day Activities

7:30am Swine Show

8:00am Tractor Ride / Tractor Show

11:00am Rabbit and Small Pet Show (or following conclusion of Swine show)

1:00pm Livestock Judging Contest

1:00pm-4:30pm Antique Day

5:00pm Pedal Pull (check-in at 4:30pm)

5:00pm Rural Development BBQ

6:00pm 4-H Foundation and State Fair Awards – Fashion Show, Share the Fun, Working Exhibits

7:00pm Rodeo (T&C Rodeo Company)

(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Red Oak Police Department reports a man was arrested for OWI/1st offense, following a traffic stop Sunday morning. 52-year-old Brian Keith Hale, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 4:10-a.m., in the 1400 block of N. Broadway Street. Hale was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa State Fair’s C-E-O and a key official in the Iowa COUNTY fair circuit say concerts are a growing emphasis to spur fair attendance. Tom Barnes, executive secretary of the Mighty Howard County Fair, is also executive director of the Association of Iowa Fairs.  “There’s a lot of other things at the fair that we want to brag about and push, but we’ve got to get the people there first,” Barnes says, “and that’s what the concerts will do.”

Rodeos and race track events were the bread and butter of county fairs not too many years ago, according to Barnes, but a handful of county fairs started emphasizing concert entertainment about eight years ago and the trend spread. “Fairs were seeing what their neighbors were doing and now we’re seeing a lot of even small county fairs throwing a small-dollar concert,” Barnes says. “It gives the community something else to come to the fair for.” Gary Slater, the General Manager and C-E-O of the Iowa State Fair, says about 10 percent of people who attend the Iowa State Fair go to a show at the Grandstand — but the performances matter to those who do NOT attend a concert.

“That’s the pulse of the Fair,” Slater says. “Whether you attend the Grandstand or not, you like to know what’s going on and you like the Fair to pull those popular entertainers.” The Fair spent a million dollars renovating the Grandstand stage in 2018, to meet artists’ expectations for video screens, lighting and sound systems. “We had to get into that business or else they wouldn’t come to an outdoor state fair venue,” Slater says. “…It’s an expensive thing.”

Every concert-goer has to buy a ticket to enter the fairgrounds and Slater says when expenses and profits are calculated from the Grandstand, they aim to break even. The 2022 Iowa State Fair runs from August 11th through the 21st this year.

Here’s a list of area County Fairs:

• The Adams County Fair concludes its full, 5-day run, on Tuesday
• Audubon, July 13-17
• Shelby County Fair, July 13-18
• Montgomery County Fair, July 19-24
• Adair, July 20-24
• Pottawattamie County Fair, July 20-24
• Cass, July 27-Aug. 2
• Guthrie County Fair, Sept. 1st thru the 5th