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Police in Shenandoah, Monday afternoon, arrested a man following an investigation into a reported incident of trespassing. Authorities says officers called to the 200 block of North Blossom Street around 12:05 p.m. located a suspect — 29-year-old Daniel Dean Archer, of Shenandoah — and attempted to detain him.
When Archer allegedly resisted arrest, and one officer suffered minor injuries. Archer faces charges that include disorderly conduct and interference with official acts causing bodily injury. He was being held in the Page County Jail on $1,300 bond.
Police in Red Oak, Monday afternoon, arrested a man on a warrant out of Nodaway County, Missouri, for sexual abuse and other charges. Authorities report 53-year-old Richard Eugene Darrell, of Red Oak, was arrested on a warrant charging him with: Sodomy 1st Degree; two counts each of Sexual Abuse 1st Degree and Child Molestation, along with Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a person under the age of 14.
Richard Darrell was held without bond, pending extradition by Nodaway County, Missouri authorities.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Monday’s (July 19th) Des Moines City Council meeting resulted in arrests after protesters disrupted proceedings. It is the third Des Moines City Council meeting in a row to be disrupted by protests. According to KCCI, tensions ramped up after council members voted 4-2 not to allow public comment on items on the consent agenda, some of which were police-related, later voting unanimously to pass the consent agenda.
One of the consent agenda items regarded grant funding for police de-escalation training. Others included grants for police equipment and the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, as well as funding for public safety dispatch software updates. There were at least four arrests after groups began protesting with signs calling to defund the Des Moines Police Department. The arrests began after Mayor Frank Cownie ordered a protester, standing on a chair, to sit down and later leave. The protester remained standing and did not leave.
A previous city council meeting resulted in one arrest. Monday’s meeting resumed after the arrest with discussions on items not related to police. During the public comment section, a number of supporters of law enforcement spoke up as part of a “Back the Blue” group. Others spoke in support of protest groups.
(Radio Iowa) – Demolition is underway at the contaminated property in Des Moines where developers are planning to build a professional soccer stadium. The site is a mile west of Principal Park, where the Iowa Cubs play. Pesticides and car parts were made on the DICO property, leaving behind cancer-causing chemicals. E-P-A spokesperson Ben Washburn says once demolition is finished, a system will be installed to treat polluted groundwater. “And going forward with this upgraded system, it will continue to both protect Des Moines drinking water and continue to clean up the groundwater,” he says.
The E-P-A has capped the area with asphalt and installed treatment wells to contain soil and water contaminated with industrial chemicals. Once all the buildings are down, Washburn says the site will be ready for redevelopment. “We’re going to make sure that the site remains protective of the people that come and use it in the future,” Washburn says, “and part of that is making sure that the remedies that we have in place, whether something that is capped or the groundwater treatment system, remain effective and operational.”
Developers, led by a subsidiary of the company that owns Kum and Go convenience stores, are raising money to build a professional soccer stadium on the DICO site. State officials have approved 23 million dollars in tax rebates for the project. The EPA plans to finish its part of the demolition next month. City officials have said the rest of the site will be clear by the end of the year.
(Greenfield, Iowa) – Preparations have been made, and now the Adair County Fair is set to get underway in full, from now (Tuesday, July 20) through Monday, July 26th, in Greenfield.
On today’s (Tuesday’s) Schedule is:
Today: Patchy fog this morning. Partly Cloudy. High 88. Wind variable at 5-10 mph.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low around 64.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 89. S @ 5-10.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 90.
Friday: P/Cldy. High near 93.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 86. Our Low this morning, 59. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 82 and the Low was 65. The Record High on this date was 109 in 1934. The Record Low was 44 in 1953.
ODA L. CHRISTENSEN, 95, of Kimballton, died Sunday, July 18th, at the Salem Lutheran Home, in Elk Horn. Funeral services for ODA CHRISTENSEN will be held 2-p.m. Wed., July 21st, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kimballton. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
A family visitation will be held at the funeral home this (Tuesday) evening, (7/20/21), from 5-until 7-p.m.
Interment is in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Kimballton.
ODA L. CHRISTENSEN is survived by:
Her daughters – Anina Madsen, of Underwood, and Rebecca (Robert) Delaney, of Greenwood, IN.
Her sons – Jerome Christensen, of Kimballton, and Marcus (Elizabeth) Christensen, of Sherman, IL.
6 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
(Radio Iowa) – A company pursuing a casino license in South Sioux City has presented Nebraska regulators with plans for another casino in northeast Nebraska. The operation in Norfolk would be within about 150 mile radius of four Iowa casinos. The plans from WarHorse Gaming include a horse track that’s five-eights of a mile long and converting Norfolk’s convention center into a casino.
Lance Morgan, C-E-O of Ho-Chunk, Incorporated, the parent company of WarHorse, says “There’s a hotel there. There’s a restaurant, brewery…and they have this 20,000 foot convention center right there.” He says the plans for this race track/casino complex in Norfolk have been in development for four years. “It’s going to be about a $55 million project all in when you actually have the gaming. The track itself is not going to be that much,” he says.
Morgan’s company has also submitted gaming license requests for South Sioux City, Omaha and Lincoln as well as Norfolk. WarHorse estimates it would employ 250 at the Norfolk casino, which would include sports betting as well as other casino-style gaming. Last fall, Nebraska voters approved casino operations at state-licensed horse tracks. As Radio Iowa reported last week, IOWA’s 19 state-licensed casinos took in a record one-and-a-half BILLION dollars in gross revenue for the fiscal year that ended June 30th.
The Hard Rock Casino in Sioux City, which would be closest to the proposed casino in Norfolk, Nebraska, reports 87-million dollars in gross revenue over the past 12 months. The two casinos in Council Bluffs that are closest to pending casino projects in Omaha took in a combined 238 million in gross revenue in the last state fiscal year.
(Radio Iowa) – The latest U-S-D-A report on Iowa crop conditions indicates corn and soybean fields have responded well to recent rain, but more moisture is needed. Last week hail and high winds did damage some Iowa crops last week, but the damage was scattered and not widespread according the U-S-D-A. Under half of Iowa pastures are rated good to excellent and some farmers are feeding their livestock hay to supplement dwindling grazing opportunities.
Topsoil moisture levels are now rated adequate or surplus in 67 percent of the state. The growth of corn and soybeans are ahead of the five-year average, with corn conditions rated 68 percent good to excellent. Soybean condition are rated 66 percent good to excellent.
The U-S-D-A reports hay production is behind normal and the second cutting of alfalfa hay is 63 percent complete statewide. The oat harvest has started in about quarter of the state. Last year Iowa farmers harvested five-point-six MILLION bushels of oats.