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(Lillie Anderson)
The Creston Police Department reports 47-year old Dennis Speed, of Creston, was arrested Monday morning, on a Union County warrant for Parole Violation. Speed was brought to the Union County Jail and held without bond.
And, a Creston resident reported to police Monday morning, that sometime overnight Sunday into Monday, someone broke out a rear passenger window of her vehicle, and let the air out of the left rear tire. The incident happened while the vehicle was parked outside the woman’s home in the 700 block of W. Jefferson Street. The damage was estimated at $250.
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Today: Areas of morning fog; Partly cloudy. High 68. SW-NW @ 10-20.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 35.
Tomorrow: Area of morning fog; P/Cldy. High near 70. SW @ 15-30
Thursday: P/Cldy. High near 70.
Friday: Cldy, windy, a chance of rain. High early around 50 w/temps falling during the day.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 64. Our Low this morning was 29. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 59 and the low was 42. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 75 in 2001. The Record Low was -7 in 1940.
2016 is the 38th anniversary of the Danish Villages of Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa’s Christmas celebration called Julefest 2016 on November 25th and 26th. 
The important elements of a Danish Christmas – good food, warm hospitality, flickering candles and other decorations – will all be a part of this weekend. There are unique shops, specialty stores, a winery, museums, Christmas exhibits and craft fairs for early holiday shopping, as well as food establishments serving pastries, breads, candies, Danish open faced sandwiches and some Danish specialties. There are over 15 locations offering exquisite one-of-a-kind gifts. Watch out for all the live entertainment on the streets of the Danish Villages.
Again this year, The Annual Naughty or Nisse 5k Polar Run will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. and running from the Little Mermaid in Kimballton to the Danish Windmill in Elk Horn. Runners will be dressed up in Nisse (Elf) Costumes, ugly sweaters, or other silly costumes of their choice for chances to win prizes.
Don’t miss Santa Claus roaming around the Danish Villages as well.
The museums and historic structures welcome visitors with special events and decorations. Come tour the Museum of Danish America and view their new exhibits and the Museum Design Store stocked with tastefully designed merchandise and discounted items. There is also a Lego play area for kids of all ages and complimentary refreshments will be served. The Genealogy Center will be open both Friday and Saturday with Free Admission! Discover how to research and collect information on your Danish family history. Christmas activities will also be available and Pebernødder and wassail will be served. The historic 168 year old Danish Windmill will serve glögg and Danish cheese to visitors and have an old fashion Julemarket. Bedstemor’s House – Danish for Grandmother’s House – will welcome visitors with a warm fire. The parlor’s Christmas tree will be decorated with homemade paper ornaments like Julehjerte, chains, fish, and roses.
The Elk Horn Town Hall features Iowa Homespun Crafters at the 21st Annual “Main Street Country Boutique.” There you will find many unique items, including candles, re-purposed furniture, signs, quilts, handmade wooden furniture, scarves jewelry, baked goods and much more! The Cottonwood Barn’s “Cottonwood Christmas” will be full of vendors, offering a variety of handcrafted items, baked goods, quilts, jewelry, and plenty more. Enjoy the specialty Shops, Winery and Restaurants in the Villages– they’re sure to get you in the holiday spirit and help fill your Christmas list! Unusual and unexpected accessories, decorations, gifts, furniture, and more!
Both Villages will be decorated for Christmas and the streets lined with Danish and American flags. To really get you into the Christmas spirit attend the free, annual Christmas concert, at 7 p.m. followed by traditional dancing and singing around the Christmas tree at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church on Saturday evening.
Julefest is a great way for these proud Danes to show off their Danish heritage to their welcomed guests and to celebrate the opening of the Christmas season in the Danish Villages. Pick up a brochure with a map of the local merchants and happenings at any of the Danish Villages businesses. Contact the Danish Windmill at (800) 451-7960 or visit www.danishvillages.com for an electronic copy of the brochure and more information.
Elk Horn and Kimballton are located in southwest Iowa, off I-80, 6 and 9 miles north of Exit 54 and no passport is required and Jul Love It!
(Press Release)
Iowa is sending some turkeys to Washington, D-C. That’s not a commentary on the recent elections — it’s a big honor for the state’s turkey industry. Iowa Turkey Federation spokesperson, Hailey Grant, says a northwest Iowa farm will supply the turkeys for the annual ceremony where the president pardons the big birds before Thanksgiving. “We’re pretty excited. I think it’s a great honor for Iowa to get to raise these turkeys for the president,” Grant says.
She says the name of the farm and its owner are being kept secret until later this week for security reasons to keep animal rights groups and others from going to the farm. While a national election chooses the politicians who’re sent to White House, the selection of the presidential turkeys are picked by one person. “The chairman of the National Turkey Federation selects the state that will raise the presidential flock and this year Iowa was chosen,” Grant says. ” There’s ten or so states in the U-S that have a pretty large turkey industry — and so if you think once a year the turkey is chosen — that means that every eight to ten years Iowa we might be chosen, so that’s pretty exciting.”
The process is a little more complicated for the turkey producers than picking out a couple of birds and sending them out east. “What they usually do is they pull 20 or so from their normal size flocks and they have a special building built on the farm where those turkeys are raise — just the 20 of them — with people or noise, so they get acclimated with crowds,” Grant explains.
The turkeys that pass the test end up getting pardoned. She says they have a radio playing all the time to generate noise and they end up picking two birds out of the 20 that seem to handle being around people without being skittish are sent to be pardoned.
Grant says the honor is a big boost for the turkey industry after being hit so hard last year by the bird flu. She says Iowa’s industry has rebounded and is back to 100 percent production. Most of the turkeys raised in Iowa do not end up on the Thanksgiving table, they are used for meat in sandwiches in fast-food restaurants.
(Radio Iowa)
The recent spell of warm and sunny weather has allowed many farmers to either finish come very close to completing this year’s harvest. The latest U-S-D-A crop report shows 94 percent of the corn crop has been harvested — and for the first time this year the harvest is not behind the five-year average. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey talked about harvest. “It’s really coming along very good, we have some parts of Iowa that are done, and the tillage is done and fertilizer going on the ground,” Northey says.
He doesn’t expect it to take too much longer before all the combines have finished their work. “We do see a lot of progress, the forecast is good, the conditions are very good now, the corn is drying down and I would imagine within the next week or so there won’t be too many acres left in the field,” Northey says.
The numbers he’s hearing on the harvest are good for corn. “Average yield in Iowa across all acres expected to be199 bushels and acre,” Northey says. “And 59 bushels and acre for soybeans. Again that’s a record.” Northey, who farms near Spirit Lake says his harvest is completed after some weather setbacks.
“We had a little wet spell in the middle, so we had a little bit of mud in the middle. And I had a little too much rain in May when I planted some of the corn, so we had some stand issues. My corn crop wasn’t the best I’ve had — it was a little bit better last year than this years,” Northey says.
The Agriculture Secretary says he has some post-harvest work left to do before wrapping everything up for the years. While harvest is winding down in most of the state, southwest and south central Iowa still have more than 10 percent of the corn crop and almost 10 percent of the soybean crop remaining to be harvested.
(Radio Iowa)
RICHARD R. “Dick” MATTOX, 77, of Earling (& formerly of Shelby), died Monday, in Harlan. Funeral services for RICHARD MATTOX will be held 10:30-a.m. Friday, Nov. 18th, at the 1st Presbyterian Church in Shelby. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Shelby has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday (11/17), from 2-until 9-p.m., with the family greeting friends from 5-until 8-p.m.
Burial will be in the Shelby Cemetery.
RICHARD “Dick” MATTOX is survived by:
His wife – Carol Mattox, of Shelby.
His son – Michael (Shelly) Mattox, of Brooklyn Park, MN.
His daughter – Laura Tennigkeit, of Underwood.
His brother – Marland Mattox, of Omaha
His sister – Marlene (Glen) Hipnar, of Shelby.
5 grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
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