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Mills County Sheriff’s report: March 4, 2024

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest at around 7:52-a.m., Thursday, of 31-year-old Davonte Laronne, from Omaha. Laronne was taken into custody in Rock Port, MO., on a Mills County warrant for Violation of Probation. His bond was set at $5,000.

Car jacking victim suffers gunshot wound in Council Bluffs, Sunday night

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

The following is a press release from the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, with regard to a shooting incident during an alleged carjacking incident that took place Sunday night:

Adair County Sheriff’s report for 3/4/24

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Greefield, Iowa) – The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests took place last Thursday, Feb. 29th. 36-year-old Lee Delmar Goll, of Ankeny, was arrested at the Adair County Jail on an Adair County Felony warrant for Harassment in the 1st Degree. Goll was being held without bond in the Adair County Jail until seen by a judge.

And, 44-year-old Tanya Lynn Funke, of Stuart, was arrested Feb. 29th in Casey, for Violation of a No Contact Order/Contempt of Court. She was transported by Adair EMS to the Adair County Hospital, for treatment of a bloody nose and additional medical treatment.The Sheriff’s report noted she showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol, and allegedly under the influence of illegal substances consistent with methamphetamine use.

Once discharged from the hospital, Funke was arrested on the No Contact/Contempt charge, because she was not allowed to be at the residence in Casey, due to alleged offense of Domestic Abuse Assault. She was released March 1st on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

‘Iowa Poll’ finds majority of Iowans have favorable view of AEAs

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A Des Moines Register Mediacom Poll has found 56 percent of Iowans have a favorable opinion of the state’s nine Area Education Agencies. The A-E-As provide special education services, teacher training and other services to Iowa school districts. In early January Governor Kim Reynolds said the A-E-As are failing students with disabilities and she proposed major changes in how A-E-As operate, including an end to some services she says schools can get from the private sector or hire staff to provide. The Iowa House has approved its own bill which would keep the A-E-As the sole provider of special education services for schools. It calls for creation of a task force to study the A-E-As and pushes back the timeline for changes in non-special ed services provided by the A-E-As.

Representative Skyler Wheeler of Hull says he and other House Republicans met with parents, superintendents, A-E-A employees and education groups to get to this point. “We’ve worked diligently and I am proud of the work that we have done,” Wheeler said. “…This bill does not change anything with special education. It does not dismantle the AEA system.” Wheeler says as the parent of a daughter with autism he knows how important A-E-A services are to families and that’s why he used his authority as House Education Committee chairman to permanently table the governor’s plan.

“We killed the other bill and started from scratch,” Wheeler says. “…I, too, have a very high opinion of the AEAs. This bill came to use as a way to look at how do we improve outcomes for our students and specifically students with disabilities.” The bill passed the House late last week with the support of 53 Republicans. Nine Republicans and all Democrats in the House opposed it. Representative Molly Buck, a Democrat from Ankeny, is a teacher who questioned why the governor decided to propose such major changes.

“No one campaigned on this issue. The AEAs were blindsided…and I can tell you schools and teachers felt really blindsided, too.” Senate Republicans have developed their own proposal for A-E-A changes that more closely resembles the governor’s bill. In the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll, 20 percent of those surveyed have an unfavorable view of A-E-As.

Guthrie County February Jail info./stats released

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – Guthrie County Deputy Sheriff/Jail Administrator Jesse Swensen, today (Monday) released the Feb. 2024 Jail stats. Swensen said “February was a decent month. We processed 67 inmates through the facility during the month. We held 36 out of county inmates for different periods of time. We brought in $31,500 from holding out of county inmates.”

Detailed information can be found through the PDF links shown below:

February Monthly Summary

February Average Population

February Billing

Walk-in numbers surprise leaders of eastern Iowa mental health center

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Johnson County’s GuideLink Center is starting its third year of providing mental health and substance abuse treatment and four-thousand admissions later, the data shows more walk-ins than expected. About 700 of the facility’s admissions came from law enforcement, while more than one-thousand came from health care providers. GuideLink’s Faraji Hubbard coordinates recovery at the center.

“Our first responders, our officials are able to connect with individuals who are struggling and they have that option to come to GuideLink,” Hubbard says, “and that is the gift.” Hubbard says instead of inadequate care, jail or a trip to the emergency room, there are options, like a chance to get help. Medical Director Monika Jindal says people are becoming more aware of these services and are making use of them, even outside of a crisis.

“GuideLink was originally designed to be jail diversion and ER diversion, and I think we have done some of that,” Young says, “but I think a lot of what we’re seeing is that the pandemic certainly exacerbated mental health needs.” Over the past three years, some 14-hundred people walked in for service.

WEEK OF MARCH 4, 2024

Trading Post

March 4th, 2024 by Jim Field

FOR SALE:   2 sheds…new in boxes. 6×10 Shelter Logic steel shed- $150; 6×2 Arrow steel shed- $120. Call 712-355-1566

FOR SALE: Roadmaster 26″ boys mountain bike. New aluminum wheels. New tires, chains and cables. $60. Also a 21″ Poulan self propelled mower for $25. Stop by 304 W 13th Street. Ring doorbell on west back door to see items.  SOLD!

FOUND:  A black and grey striped tom cat came to us early this winter and has stayed. Vicinity of 17th and Redwood Atlantic. He has a notched ear so he has been neutered and released. Loves people, dislikes other cats. May have been a house pet because he’s very friendly and is litter trained. Need to find his owner or a nice new home.  Call 243-1109 ask for Kathy.

FOR SALE: A dark wood cart with rollers and shelf. Asking $25. Also a motorized treadmill. Taking offers on the treadmill. Call 712-243-4308

FOR SALE: Skid loaders…Case with new tracks; a walk/ stand behind Bobcat diesel. Asking $17,000 and up. 712-355-1566.

FOR SALE: 1st, 2nd and 3rd cuttings alfalfa. 5’x6′ big round bales. No rain. Located in Brayton area…call 712-249-1807

FOR SALE:  Keshes recurve take down bow right handed.  50lb.  + 21 arrows. New items in packaging.  6 broad heads. Hellfire quick fletch 2″ 3 pack.  Titan 10 pack 100 grain bullet points.
All for $75.00  402-590-6838.

FOR SALE: 2005 Lexus ES 330 good car for Scrap or demo asking $50 or best Offer.  please call 910-581-0485 or 563 876-3183.

Clear Lake CSD receives USDA award for student meal improvements

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2024 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today (Monday) announced that four school districts in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, and Ohio received awards for their trailblazing and innovative efforts to improve the nutritional quality of meals for their students. This announcement was made in front of nearly 850 school nutrition professionals at the School Nutrition Association Legislative Action Conference during National School Breakfast Week. The school districts are the first winners of Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Awards, jointly created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Action for Healthy Kids as part of USDA’s Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, also known as HMI. These awards celebrate school districts who embrace opportunities to take their school meals to the next level.

The four awardees—Clear Lake Community School District in Iowa; Sandy Valley Local School District in Magnolia, Ohio; Petersburg School District in Alaska; and Regional School Unit 89 in Stacyville, Maine—along with 260 other small and/or rural school districts also received HMI grants last summer to enhance the nutritional quality of their school meals.

The Clear Lake Community School District (Iowa) is recognized as a “Lunch Trailblazer” for reducing sodium in their menu items through creative strategies such as sourcing low- or no-sodium products, increasing the use of fresh local foods, and enhancing flavors with custom spice blends. Julie Udelhofen, food service director, Clear Lake Community School District, said “We’ve been hosting monthly taste tests for our students, which feature locally grown foods. These events are a wonderful opportunity to introduce our students to new produce items as well as show our students that their opinions matter to us.”

For more information about the awardees, please visit the HMI Awardee Spotlight webpage.

Clear Lake sets new record for earliest ice-free date

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – For the earliest date on record, the ice has been declared officially out on Clear Lake.  Clear Lake Water Department Superintendent Adam Theiss made the “ice out” declaration on Sunday. It marks the earliest “ice out” date in history, beating the previous record of March 5th in 1931. There had been patches of ice observed on the lake in the last week, holding the ice out declaration back from being declared on an even earlier date.

Last year, the ice was declared officially out on April 5th. The latest Clear Lake has ever been declared “ice out” was April 28th in 1951. Clear Lake was officially declared iced in for the winter season on November 28th.

High Speed chase across 3 eastern Iowa counties over the weekend

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March 4th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa [WHO-TV]— A Marshalltown 18-year-old is facing charges after officials say he led law enforcement on a chase exceeding 120 miles per hour through three counties over the weekend. Around 6:48 p.m. on Saturday a Marshall County deputy noticed a vehicle driven by Anthony Harding traveling at a high rate of speed in the 500 block of South 18th Avenue in Marshalltown.

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy tried to make a traffic stop and the car pulled over and stopped, but Harding sped away when the deputy tried to approach the vehicle. The chase went out of Marshall County and into Grundy County, then back into Marshall County before ending in Tama County. The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said Harding was going faster than 120 miles per hour during the chase. Harding tried to turn off the car’s headlights multiple times to avoid detection, however, the Iowa State Patrol aircraft relayed directions to officers. The vehicle came to a stop when it suffered engine troubles. Harding was arrested at the scene. Two adult passengers and one juvenile passenger were briefly detained but then released after a short investigation.

Harding is facing multiple charges including eluding and operating while intoxicated. He is currently being held in the Marshall County Jail. The Sheriff’s Office said Harding was on a temporary home visit from the Iowa State Training School in Eldora at the time of the incident. He was being held at the facility in the custody of Juvenile Court Services in connection to a separate case.