(Radio Iowa) – The deadline is approaching to submit nominations for the 2024 Iowan of the Day Awards at the Iowa State Fair. Ten people will be singled out for the title during this year’s August event. The fair’s Chloe Hamaker says the Iowan of the Day program is an opportunity to recognize those people who are positively impacting their towns and their neighbors.

Winners of the Iowan of the Day receive a day of recognition at the fair, gate admission for four, 200-dollars in cash, use of a golf cart at the fair, V-I-P parking, and more. Hamaker says they have seen individuals from six to 90 years old receive the recognition.

Nominations from 2021, 2022 and 2023 will also be reconsidered. While there are no age limitations, Hamaker says nominees do need to be Iowa residents, and nominating someone is easy.

Nomination forms are available at blueribbonfoundation.org. All nominations are due by July 1st.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports the arrest this (Wednesday) morning, of 22-year-old Christopher Gage Selvy, of Creston. He was taken into custody following a traffic stop, and charged with OWI/1st offense. Selvy was later released on a $1,000 bond (Cash or surety).

Tuesday evening, 34-year-old Dustin Levi Grout, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault – with injury or mental illness – 1st offense Grout was being held in the Union County Jail without bond, until seen by a magistrate.

And, at around 11:20-am. Tuesday, 22-year-old Jessie Lynne Martin, of Creston, was cited and issued a summons to appear in court, on a charge of allowing an animal to run At Large, while she was located at 800 W. Montgomery Street, in Creston.

Researchers in Iowa say changes in an Alzheimer’s patients’ brain can occur at least 20 years before they are diagnosed with the disease. They’re calling for more education about early warning signs of dementia during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. There are at least seven million people age 65 and older in the U-S living with Alzheimer’s, 62-thousand of them are in Iowa. Abby Miesner with the Alzheimer’s Association of Iowa says despite time and money being spent on research, the risk is going up at a younger age, and the numbers are discouraging.

Miesner says those numbers hold true across the board for Blacks and Latinos as well. She adds now that doctors know signs and symptoms could start to occur at an earlier age they are paying attention to signs sooner. Miesner says occasionally misplacing your keys or forgetting why you went into a room are not always cause for concern, but repeatedly forgetting things that are part of your everyday life could be.

Meisner adds earlier detection gives doctors a chance to intervene sooner in a patient’s life.

All of those things can be controlled by developing healthy habits. But a 2022 Alzheimer’s Association report shows 60-percent of people will put off seeing a doctor if they develop symptoms early on, waiting until the symptoms worsen, or family and friends encourage them to seek treatment. The Association is holding educational events statewide all month.

(Iowa News Service)