Jim Field speaks with Jill Madsen, member of the Little Mermaid Trail Committee, about park improvements at The Little Mermaid Park and progress on the larger Little Mermaid Trail project. You can call 712-773-HANS to hear the stories involved in the project.
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Police in Red Oak report three arrests occurred on Tuesday. Officials say 19-year old Marissa Lynn Sherman and 20-year old Jeremy Joel Navarette, both of Villisca, were charged with 5th degree theft for allegedly taking $15 worth of items from the Dollar General Store in Red Oak. Police say Navarette took the items, while Sherman acted as an alleged accomplice. The pair were arrested at around 1:10-p.m. and held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond each.
And, just before 8-p.m. Tuesday, 29-year old Jeremiah Gray Grayeagle, of Villisca, was arrested in Red Oak for a parole violation, based on a valid Montgomery County warrant. Grayeagle was processed at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and then released on his own recognizance.
RITA D. BRIGGS, 88, of Audubon, died Mon., Dec. 9th, at the Friendship Home in Audubon. A Mass of Christian Burial service for RITA BRIGGS will be held 10:30-a.m. Fri., Dec. 13th, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present from 5-8pm Thursday, and a Rosary is at 6:30-p.m.
Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Audubon.
RITA D. BRIGGS is survived by:
Her children – Robert “Bob” Briggs, of Atlantic, GA., & Charlotte (Dean) Fett, of Audubon.
2 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, her in-laws, other relatives and friends.
RAYMOND HOWARD, 82, formerly of Menlo, died Mon., Dec. 9th, in Barryville, AR. Funeral services for RAYMOND HOWARD will be held 10-a.m. Sat., Dec. 14th, at the Menlo United Methodist Church. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 6-to 8-pm Friday. Online condolences may be left at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com.
Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Menlo.
Today: Sunny and cold, with a steady temperature around 7. Wind chill values as low as -15. North northwest wind 8 to 14 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a temperature rising to around 8 by 5am. Wind chill values as low as -15. South southwest wind 6 to 11 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 28. Wind chill values as low as -10. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 13. Wind chill values as low as 5. South southwest wind around 8 mph.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 28. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.
Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 17.
Saturday: Cloudy, with a high near 22.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials are turning to social media to answer questions about the state’s wildlife. The state Department of Natural Resources says wildlife supervisors will be on the social networking site Facebook on Dec. 19 to answer questions.
Karen Kinkead and Willie Suchy of the Wildlife Diversity Program will monitor a specific post for questions on anything ranging from animals in a backyard to out in the field. People can also post questions ahead of time on the agency’s page.
The pair will answer questions between noon and 2:30 p.m.
Thousands of commercial property owners in Iowa face an important deadline in five weeks, as they have to submt an application for the new tax credit Iowa policymakers have established. Courtney Kay-Decker is director of the Iowa Department of Revenue. “Just like when you first buy your house, you have to apply for the homestead credit, this is the first time that you’re going to be eligible for the commercial property tax credit and you have to apply,” Kay-Decker says, “and it’s by January 15th.” Some counties have the applications available online, which others require commercial property owners to submit paper forms.
“Each county is doing it slightly differently, because it’s local government,” Kay-Decker says. Commercial property owners who fail to meet that January 15th deadline will have to wait another year to apply for the credit. The governor and legislators hammered out a deal this spring which would reduce commercial property tax RATES in Iowa by 10 percent within three years, but the plan also created a new property tax credit for commercial property. Counties will get 50-million dollars from the state to create that tax credit at the local level. That means math must be done to calculate how to divvy up that money and determine how much the credit will be worth to each individual commercial property owner.
“So we’re working on software between the Department of Revenue and all of local governments which involves not only the assessors…but also the treasurers and the auditors to come up with how to do it, the technology to do it,” she says. “We’re, in fact, testing right now.” That computer software is being tested today (Wednesday) by officials in each of the 99 counties as well as the Iowa Department of Revenue. Kay-Decker says commercial property owners will find out in August or September how much of a credit they’ll receive.
(Radio Iowa)
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