(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting beginning at 9-a.m. Tuesday, in the Board Room at the Cass County Courthouse. There are two public hearings and several action items on their agenda, which can be viewed here: Agenda for Publication – 2023.06.27.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Fair doesn’t begin for another month, but that’s not stopping the fairgrounds from being used for an event this weekend. West Central Iowa Pullers and West Central Iowa Garden Tractor Pullers are hosting tractor pull activities this Saturday, at the Cass County Fairgrounds, in Atlantic. Alan Zellmer, with West Central Iowa Pullers, says once again the fairgrounds will serve as the location not only for the sights, sounds and smoke from the tractors as they roar down the track, but for some great food, and fireworks.
Activities begin at 10-a.m., with the Western Iowa Garden Tractor Pulls, out of Denison.
The big tractors are expected to travel on the track at around 4-p.m. Zellmer says there’s a new twist to the tractor pulls this year.
The working tractors will be allowed to pull the skid so that it won’t be hard on the tractor. The main (Sanctioned) tractor pull event will last about three-and a half hours. There are four Classes (categories) of tractors participating: Farm Stock; Altered Farm Class; 3,000 RPM Class, and the 3,200 RPM Class.
The track will be illuminated when it gets dark, for safety reasons. Duke Aerial, in Atlantic, is providing the lights. Zellmer says participants in the big tractor pull event come from all over, including the Sioux City area. The day concludes with a fireworks display by “Wild Willie’s Spectacular Fireworks Show.” In addition, there will be a beer garden, two food trucks, and the Cass County Pork Producers will be serving-up some delicious food and drinks.
There is NO CHARGE to attend the Tractor Pulls, but free-will donations will be accepted. Any leftover proceeds will benefit a fund for the Atlantic Splash Pad Project.
(Radio Iowa) – One person was killed in a house fire over the weekend in Estherville. Estherville Fire Chief Travis Sheridan says shortly after 7:20 AM Saturday, firefighters were called to 219 South 8th Street after a passerby reported smoke coming from the roof. Sheridan says when a fire officer and the Estherville Police Department arrived on scene, they tried to make entry into the home. There was low heavy smoke coming out of the ground floor entry door at that time.
Sheridan says when firefighters arrived on scene they quickly deployed the aerial truck to ventilate the roof and entry teams made advancement into the home. He says it took firefighters around 30 minutes before they were able to locate a 61-year-old male victim, due to the heavy smoke. The name of the victim has not been released.
(Radio Iowa) – A $10,000 donation from former Governor Terry Branstad’s charity is part of the fundraising that’s led to the opening of a fireproof, climate-controlled vault in the Forest City Mansion Museum. Branstad was at the museum Sunday for the vault’s dedication.
“It’s a great homecoming for me,” Branstad said, “a lot of wonderful memories about Forest City representing this area in the legislature (and) of course as lieutenant governor and governor and all the wonderful people, the great teachers I had coaches and just wonderful people of this area.”
Branstad grew up on a farm near Leland and graduated from Forest City High School in 1965. There’s a Branstad room in the museum, “with a lot of the paraphernalia from my time as governor that I’ve been proud to donate,” Branstad said.
Branstad has also donated items from his time as U.S. Ambassador to China. The museum’s new vault will house area newspapers dating back to 1871 as well as other documents and historical items.
(Radio Iowa) – Staff at the National Weather Service office at the Davenport Airport had to leave their posts and seek shelter as a weekend tornado nearly hit their building. Meteorologist Rich Kinney says an E-F-zero twister with winds around 75 miles an hour touched down near the Iowa 80 truck stop in Walcott around 10:30 on Saturday night. While it was a weak tornado, Kinney says it could’ve been a disaster had it struck a few hours earlier in the evening.
“This tornado also tracked over the Davenport Airport where we had a lot of vendors set up for the Quad City Air Show,” Kinney says. “So there was some pretty good damage to canopies, tents, equipment out there. Some of that was also due, of course, to straight line winds.” The tornado followed Interstate 80 eastward and hopped over the town of Mount Joy, carving a ten-mile path over about 15 minutes. Kinney says all of the practice and training paid off as the National Weather Service crew stayed at their computers as long as they could before evacuating as the twister approached.
“We had our staff take shelter in our storm shelter for a few minutes while the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Weather Service office backed us up,” Kinney says. “They actually issued a warning for us, and then when the threat passed, we resumed normal operations.” There’s damage to some houses, buildings, trees and power lines in that area of Scott County but no one was reported hurt. The same storm system brought strong winds to parts of northeast Iowa and dropped tennis ball-sized hail near Ottumwa.
“These tornadoes can develop very quickly, so it’s hard to get a lot of lead time, but our meteorologists were on top of it,” Kinney says. “We issued the warning quickly and were able to provide some heads-up time as this actually moved into a little bit more populated areas north of Davenport.” On the plus side, he says the storms brought some areas of the drought-plagued state up to two inches of rainfall.
(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Glenwood Police Department reports three arrests took place Sunday (June 25):
WILLIAM DEAN ANSTEY, 71, of Cumberland (IA), died March 29, 2023, at The Hospice House in Omaha, NE. A Celebration of the Life of DEAN ANSTEY will be held 5-p.m. Friday, June 30, 2023, at the Cumberland Community Building (Cumberland, IA).
WILLIAM DEAN ANSTEY is survived by:
His daughters – Sarah (Matt) Lundquist, of Corning; Tiffany (Scott) Villotta, of Bennington, NE, and Amy (Patrick) Soukup, of Omaha, NE.
His brothers – Phil Anstey, of Corning; Dennis Anstey, of Ottumwa, and Bob Anstey of Cumberland, IA.
His sisters – Barbara Hoerner, of Mesa, AZ, and Mary Kay Barnes, of Bellevue, NE.
and 6 grandchildren.
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Jim Field visits with Alan Zellmer about the tractor pull event coming up this weekend in Atlantic.
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