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Police in Creston report four, recent arrests. Early Sunday morning, 26-year old Ian Christopher Gepner, of Corning, was arrested in Creston for Public Intoxication. His bond was set at $300. Saturday night, 29-year old Jeffery Paul Kay, Jr., of Duncan, OK., was arrested for OWI/3rd offense. He was later released on a $5,000 bond.
Last Friday night, 20-year old Dakota Dean Rosch, of Creston, was arrested for OWI/1st Offense. He was later released on $1,000 bond. And, Friday morning, Creston Police arrested 37-year old David Carlson Wallander, of Thayer, on a Union County warrant for Contempt of Court – Resistance to an Order or Process of District Court, for Failure to Appear on Child Support matters. Wallander was later released on $500 cash bond.
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Today: Partly Cloudy. High 63. SE winds @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cloudy. Low 46. SE @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Cldy w/rain. High 53. E/SE @ 10-20.
Wednesday: P/Cldy w/a few sprinkles. High 50.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 55.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 64. Our 24-hour Low ending at 7-a.m. today was 29. Last year on this date, our High was 76 and the Low was 46. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on Oct. 26th was 84 in 1956. The All-Time record low was 14 in 1980. Sunrise today is at 7:43, and sunset tonight will take place at 6:23.
A traffic stop early this (Monday) morning, in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of the driver of the vehicle on an OWI charge. Police say 43-year old Abner Garcia, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 2:50-a.m. near the intersection of Highway 34 and Eastern Street. Garcia was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.
The director of the Iowa Water Center says the state’s farmers are losing more than one-BILLION dollars a year in revenue due to soil erosion. Rick Cruse, who’s also an agronomy professor at Iowa State University, is part of a team of scientists working on what’s called the Iowa Daily Erosion Project. Cruse says that billion-dollar figure is a very conservative estimate of Iowa’s annual losses.
Cruse says, “We’ve looked at our estimates of soil erosion since we broke the prairie in Iowa, and based on the erosion estimates since that time and up until now, we’ve lost somewhere around six-and-a-half to seven inches on average across the state.” The research dates all the way back to 1850 and determined that more than a half-foot of topsoil has been lost in the past 16-plus decades of Iowa farming.
While six or seven inches of dirt may not sound like much, Cruse says the rich, black topsoil is what enables Iowa to be one of the world’s leaders in food production. When the precious soil is whittled away, so is Iowa’s livelihood. “The soil changes as you go down and at deeper depths,” Cruse says. “Most people understand, if you try to grow grass on a construction site or you try to grow grass or a garden in that subsoil material that’s left over after they scrape the topsoil, that’s essentially the same thing we see in the fields if soil continues to erode and we take that topsoil away.”
Many incentive programs are in place and farming techniques are being used that are designed to slow erosion, but Cruse says none of them have fixed the problem. “We need perennials in some parts of the landscape in Iowa if soil loss is going to be reduced to an acceptable level,” Cruse says. “The question you asked is, are these (programs) working, they’re working, they’re helping, but all of these are parts of a system. Any one thing alone is not the answer but putting the pieces together is.”
The Iowa Daily Erosion Project is made up of scientists from I-S-U, the University of Iowa, Colorado State University, the National Soil Erosion Research Lab, and the USDA National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment.
(Radio Iowa)
MAXINE HANDLOS, 92, of Manning, died Sat., Oct. 24th, at the Manning Plaza Nursing Home. A Mass of Christian Burial of MAXINE HANDLOS will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Oct. 28th, at the Sacred Heart Church, in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5-p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27th, where a Rosary and Prayer service will be held at 7-p.m.; Visitation will resume 9-a.m. Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Church.
Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, in Manning.
MAXINE HANDLOS is survived by:
Her daughters – Joyce Lauda, of Omaha, and Janelle Wilkins, of Gilbert, AZ.
Her sister – Ardella Willenborg, of Manning.
3 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Sheriff’s officials in Fremont County report a man who allegedly entered a residence several times over the past month and stole money and frozen meat, was arrested following an investigation into a burglary and theft that began Friday morning. The burglary and thefts occurred at 1128 305th Avenue. During the investigation, 27-year old Jeffery Greene, of Malvern, was contacted and admitted to the crimes. Greene was arrested for three counts of Burglary and on one count of Theft in the 2nd Degree. He was being held in the Fremont County Jail on $10,000 bond.
The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office reports a woman and her dog were injured in a crash Saturday afternoon on the southbound exit ramp of Exit 1 off Interstate 29. Authorities say a semi operated by 24-year old Dexter Williams, of Raeford, NC., and owned by the Schneider National out of Gary, IN., was parked on the shoulder of the off ramp, off the traveled portion of the road, when a 1993 Ford F-150 pickup took the off-ramp and ran into the back of the semi. The accident happened at around 2:25-p.m., Saturday.
The driver of pickup, 72-year old Sharon Allumbaugh, of Shambaugh, suffered incapacitating injuries and was transported by Riverton Rescue to the Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg. A dog located in the pickup suffered life-threatening injuries, and was extricated by Hamburg firefighters before being transported to the Fremont County Vet Clinic by deputies.
Officials say seat belts were in use prior to the accident, and alcohol was NOT believed to be a factor in the crash. Instead, deputies believe a possible medical issue was the cause. Damage to the semi was estimated at $1,500. The pickup was a total loss. Charges are pending.
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