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STATE CENTER, Iowa (KCCI) — A State Center man is grappling with the loss of his woodworking warehouse just months after his son died in a car crash. Barry York is a sixth-generation woodworker. He told KCCI ever since his ancestors came to Davis County in 1846, there’s been a carpenter in the family.On Thanksgiving Day, his warehouse was destroyed in a fire.
According to the State Center Police Department, the Marshall County Communications Center received a report of a commercial structure fire in State Center around noon on Nov. 23. Firefighters from State Center, Rhodes, Melbourne, Colorado, and Clemons responded. Barry York said there is $200,000-$250,000 in damage. Investigators will be at the warehouse Thursday to try to figure out the cause of the fire. York said his business would make anything and everything out of wood. It was a well-known trade in the community.
His son, 43-year-old Bruce York, of Ames, was his longtime business partner, making him a seventh-generation woodworker. Barry York said he was planning on passing the business to his son once he was done. But Bruce was killed in a car crash just months ago. The wreck happened around 8:40 a.m. on July 6 on the south side of State Center. Troopers say a pickup driven by Bruce York was attempting to make a turn when it was struck by another vehicle. The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said the younger York was pronounced dead on the scene.
FORT DODGE, Iowa — Fort Dodge police are working to figure out if a threat made at Walmart is credible. Police confirm a picture was posted on social media, showing a threat written on a bathroom stall. The threat says they will “shoot it up tomorrow” (with Tuesday’s date). It also said “good luck” and included vulgarity. Investigators are working to find out who wrote the message. They have extra patrols at the store.
SANTA ANA, California (KCRG) – A John Doe homicide victim who was discovered 49 years ago in southern California has finally been identified. KCRG reports the victim was from eastern Iowa. Authorities in California, say that on September 14th, 1974, a deceased teenage male was located near an off-road. Authorities at the time determined his death to be accidental, due to alcohol and diazepam intoxication in his system. They also determined he died 3 to 5 days before his body was found. At the time, officials were unable to establish his identity. Then, in 1980, Orange County, California, Homicide investigators noted that there were other young male deaths in 1978 due to alcohol and diazepam intoxication in that same area. The deaths were classified as homicides.
In 1983, Randy Steven Kraft, later known as the “Scorecard Killer” was arrested for murder after a highway patrol officer conducted a traffic stop on Kraft and located a deceased male in the front passenger seat. In the trunk of Kraft’s vehicle was a coded list believed to be upwards of 67 victims. John Doe was believed to be an early victim of his. Kraft was eventually convicted of 16 murders and sentenced to death. He is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison.
Michael Ray Schlicht was found dead on the side of a freeway in 1974 in Orange County. He is believed to be among the first victims of Randy Kraft — a notorious 1970s-era serial killer dubbed the “Scorecard Killer” — according to law enforcement. (Photo via the Orange County [CA] Sheriff’s Dept.)
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department says that family members have been notified and are in the process of having a headstone installed to mark his final resting place. Investigators are continuing to work on Michael’s case. Anyone with information related to this case is encouraged to contact Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS or crimestoppers.org.
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(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University’s Extension Department has grants available for organizations to use to grow vegetables for food banks. Katie Sorrell is the coordinator for the “Growing Together Iowa” grant program. “Communities either start a garden or they convert a previous community garden. And all of the produce grown at these gardens is donated to local food pantries, along with nutrition education materials,” she says. Sorrell says Grow Together was created after they got a grant to educate people on the SNAP program, which used to be known as food stamps.
“Back in 2016, we were brainstorming how can we combine this nutrition education grant we have along with the Master Gardener Program. And that’s where we dreamed up this growing together Iowa program” Sorrell says. “So it’s been going on, this will be our eighth year as we enter into 2024.” The funding from the U-S-D-A provide for grants of up to four-thousand dollars. “The county extension office staff work closely with Master Gardeners and with staff at the local food pantry, and usually they create a new garden, whether that’s with raised garden beds or an in-ground garden, specifically for that donation piece,” she explains. Sorrell says the food grown in the gardens is popular.
“When we asked food pantry clients, what would you most like to see in the food pantry? Like what foods would you most want to have? Fresh fruits and vegetables are almost always at the top of the list because all cultures use fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s not tied with a certain culture,” she says. Sorrell says having the fresh fruits and vegetables at the food pantries gives people a healthy option, and it frees up food dollars they can spend on other items. They had 33 Growing Together Iowa county projects in 2023. “And they donated to 100 pantries. And you won’t believe this, they donated 103-thousand pounds of fresh produce to local pantries,” Sorrell says.
December 18th is the deadline to sign up. You can find the application on the I-S-U Extension website.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 46. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. West southwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming north northeast in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tom. Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. North northeast wind 10-20 mph.
Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 37.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 36. The Low was 5. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 36 and the Low was 15. The Record High on Nov. 29th in Atlantic, was 71, in 1998. The Record Low was -8 in 1891. Sunrise is at 7:24. Sunset at 4:51.
(Radio Iowa) – The husband of a Sioux City woman convicted of voter fraud says he intends to complete his term on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors. Jeremy Taylor’s term ends next year. His wife was convicted last week of illegally collecting votes in Sioux City’s Vietnamese community for her husband when he was running for office in 2020. Mathew Ung, chairman of the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors, is among those who’ve called on Taylor to resign.
“Three of us have made public comment on this matter,” Ung says, “which is as good as a proclamation at a board meeting.” During Tuesday’s Woodbury County Board of Supervisors meeting, Ung again questioned whether Taylor was unaware of his wife’s election-related activities. “It’s hard to imagine a world where what actions and steps that were taken by one were not known by the other and that is where there’s a lot of public heartburn,” Ung says. Taylor has agreed to step down from his role as vice chair of the county board.
“But I will work hard to continue to complete my term and then I will focus on my family, because this has been very hard on them,” Taylor said. Taylor and his wife are the parents of six children. Woodbury County Auditor Pat Gill is calling on the board to ask Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird to investigate both Jeremy and Kim Taylor’s activities during the primary and general elections in 2020.
Taylor, who is a Republican, has accused Gill, who is a Democrat, of trying to get him fired from his job in the Sioux City school district while he was deployed to Iraq. Taylor is an Iowa National Guard chaplain. Taylor did resign from the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors in early 2020 after the address listed on his voter registration was successfully challenged. Taylor lost a bid for congress in the June Primary that year, then was reelected to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors in November of 2020.