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The Nishna Valley YMCA Golf Tournament in Atlantic has been postponed due to rain. The event will be rescheduled.

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Activities at the Cass County Fair continue this weekend, in Atlantic. On today’s schedule:

8:00-a.m. Sheep Show (Outdoor Show Ring) & 4-H Exhibits Open (Community Center)

10:00-a.m. Pet Show (Community Center)

Noon Working Exhbits, Educational Presentations & Extemporaneous Speaking (Community Center)

1:00-p.m. Meat & Dairy Goat Show (Outdoor Show Ring)

3:00-p.m. Livestock Judging Contest (Indoor Show Ring)

4:00-p.m. Youth Water Fights (West of the Grandstand)

6:00-p.m. Tractor Pull (Tractor pull track)

Don’t forget to look for a chainsaw artist, with carvings to be sold after the Parade of Champions Monday evening. Ride wristbands will be on sale this afternoon, and don’t forget there’s lots of great food available, including at the Fair Foodstand, where the Noon Special is Lamb or Ham balls.

Police in Red Oak, Friday night, arrested a man for Public Intoxication. 57-year old Tony Joe Christensen, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8:20-p.m. in the 1500 block of Broadway Street. He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail, and held on a $300 cash bond.

Rita Hart, state Senator and Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor under Iowa Gubernatorial candidate Fred Hubbell, will attend the Cass County Fair, Italian Fest, and Asian Fest today (Saturday), to share the Hubbell-Hart vision to get Iowa growing by putting people first. According to the campaign, Hart will be at the Cass County Democratic Party fair booth in the Commercial Building, at around Noon today.

Senator Rita Hart

Afterward she travels to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, for the two other events. Hart is expected to discuss with fairgoers what her campaign says are cuts in the current administration’s funding for services that Iowans depend on, and Gov. Reynolds’ prioritizing wasteful corporate giveaways.

The Hubbell-Hart campaign says they “Will restore fiscal responsibility to the budget and prioritize investments in health care and education.”

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A former Davenport official who admitted placing a hidden camera in a restroom has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. The Quad-City Times reports 47-year-old Roy DeWitt was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in June to eight counts of invasion of privacy. An arrest affidavit stated that DeWitt, a former city housing programs manager, concealed a digital camera in an employee-only restroom at a city-owned apartment building. The affidavit said eight people were recorded multiple times.

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — A southeast Iowa woman has been accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter. Wapello County records say 22-year-old Kelsie Thomas is charged with first-degree murder and is being held in Wapello County Jail. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says in a news release that Thomas admitted killing her daughter, but the release doesn’t say how the child died.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a gust of wind forced a small plane off a runway as it landed at the Burlington airport in southeast Iowa. The accident occurred around 1 p.m. Thursday, with the single-engine plane ending up on a grassy median. Medics examined the two people who were on the plane, but neither was taken to a hospital. Their names weren’t released.

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — A woman has been accused of stealing from the account of a central Iowa nursing home resident. Jasper County Court records say 36-year-old Christan Maddison is charged with dependent adult abuse-exploitation. Her attorney didn’t return a call Friday. Authorities say the thefts occurred after the woman was granted a power of attorney to handle the nursing home resident’s finances.

A woman who told authorities she looked down to adjust her radio, ended up crashing her car into a guardrail in Union County, this (Friday) afternoon. The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports 22-year old Brenna Lynn Baker, of Creston, suffered possible injuries during the crash, that happened at around 1:15-p.m. on eastbound Highway 25. Baker was driving a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix when the car went out of control. She over-corrected, sending the vehicle into a wire guard rail near Summit Lake. Baker was transported by ambulance to the Creston hospital for treatment of unknown, possible injuries. Authorities say she was wearing her seat belt.

Damage to the car was estimated at $5,000 (a total loss). No citations were issued.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers is asking the public to be on the lookout for two male, Native American students who absconded from the Clarinda Academy early this (Friday) afternoon. One of the students is 16-years old. He stands about 5-feet five-inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. He has short black hair. The other student is 13-years old. He is about five-feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. He has medium length black hair. A description of their clothing was not available.

One of the students is from Rapid City, SD. The other from Minneapolis, MN. Authorities were search a cornfield northeast of the Academy as of 3-p.m. If you see two teens matching the description provided, contact law enforcement, and do not approach them.

The Clarinda Academy is a residential foster care facility that provides residential treatment to at-risk and delinquent male and female youth from several states.

(Radio Iowa) — One week after tornado damage forced the evacuation of its patients to other hospitals, Unity Point Health-Marshalltown reopened its main campus this (Friday) morning. Dustin Wright, the hospital’s Vice President of Operations, says it’s been a long week since 43 residents were moved after last Thursday’s powerful twister.

Wright says “It’s taken some adjustments from all of us but we’re here for the community and we did our best with some limited resources but we’re proud of the work we did in the aftermath of the tornado. We’re excited to be back at the main campus again.” It helped that the hospital has a fairly new medical park on the south side of Marshalltown, a building was not affected by the July 19th tornado.

“We had to cancel a few elective procedures on Monday, but for the most part, we’ve been able to sustain a lot of our operations,” Wright says. One of the hospital’s free-standing clinics in the downtown area, a cardiology clinic, was destroyed by the storm. It is being relocated to part of the main downtown campus and is expected to be seeing patients again by the end of next week. U-S Senator Chuck Grassley visited Marshalltown this (Friday) morning and says he anticipates the federal government will move as quickly as it can to provide disaster relief assistance.

“We’re going to do all we can to respond to the mayor’s request,” Grassley says. “When this assessment by FEMA is done, then we want the president to make sure we get a quick designation and get all the help that would normally go to natural disasters.” Grassley said he could tell from what he first saw after the tornado first hit through today that quite a bit of cleanup had already taken place, adding, he knows there is much more work to be done.