Most people wait until there is a crisis to plan for long-term care. The Finances of Caregiving is a new series of five 2-hour workshops to help families plan together for the care receiver’s care. The series begins this Thursday, April 7th, at the Montgomery County Extension Office in Red Oak from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.

Long term caregiving has significant financial consequences for caregivers, particularly for women. If it is necessary for the caregiver to leave work or reduce hours, they will need to prepare for retirement while providing care. The Finances of Caregiving program guides you through finding and collecting that information. During the workshop, caregivers and care receivers may create an information binder to help family members when a crisis does occur.

To register, contact the ISU Extension and Outreach office of Montgomery County, 400 Bridge St., Suite 2 in Red Oak, ph. 712-623-2592. A nominal fee covers a financial binder.

The workshop series is sponsored by the ISU Extension and Outreach council of Montgomery County as part of an effort to address family caregiving issues and improve the health of family caregivers and their family members in a holistic way.  The next learning opportunity after this is the Powerful Tools for Caregivers program, a series of six 2-1/2 hour classes designed especially for family caregivers. The series will start in May in Villisca. Dates, times, and location are being firmed up by the coalition.

The Creston Police Department is reporting four recent arrests. Early Sunday morning, 29-year old Casey White, of Creston, was arrested for Public Intoxication and Assault, with Injury. White was later released from the Ringgold County Jail on $1,000 bond. Sunday afternoon, Creston Police arrested 35-year old Brian Whitfield, of Creston, on a charge of Simple Assault. Whitfield was later released on $300 bond.

Saturday night, 39-year old Travis Wambold, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. He was also later released on $300 bond. And, Friday night, 20-year old Haylee Pierce, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. She was later released on $300 bond, as well.

Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a man on an assault charge Sunday night, in Villisca. Authorities say 47-year old Robert Lee Herbst, of Villisca, was arrested for simple assault, following an incident that occurred at around 10:25-p.m. in the 400 block of E. 5th Street, in Villisca. Herbst was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former Council Bluffs pediatrician already in prison for child pornography and child sex abuse will be back in court to face a lawsuit in the case. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Dennis Jones will appear in court on Tuesday.

More than a dozen families filed the lawsuit in 2014 against Jones. Jones was convicted in 2014 of possessing child pornography and lascivious acts with a child. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on each charge to be served simultaneously.

Prosecutors say Jones had an estimated 1.2 million images of child pornography and 9,300 videos of child pornography in his possession — some of those being of his young patients.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Funeral services were held over the weekend for a woman who was killed in a fiery, wrong-way interstate crash that also killed two Des Moines police officers and another driver. The Daily Nonpareil reports that a crowd gathered Saturday to mourn 32-year-old Tosha Nicole Hyatt, of Des Moines, during her funeral and burial in Council Bluffs.

Hyatt was in a police car, being transported from Council Bluffs to Des Moines on an arrest warrant, when the crash occurred March 26th. Des Moines police officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales and Benjamin Beary of Knoxville, the driver of the other vehicle involved, were also killed.

The Reverend Joe Laughlin of Victory Church in Omaha, Nebraska which Hyatt attended as a child, officiated. Laughlin said Hyatt was loved by her friends and family.