The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund is once again assisting the Kiwanis Club with their bike helmet project.  Deb Schuler shared that this is the 25th year of the club distributing bike helmets to the local 3rd grade students.  Melanie Petty, Trevor’s mom, said “What a wonderful project this club started to keep kids safe on their bicycles!  Trevor was one of their first recipients and it has always been a great memory of ours and something we look forward to donating to each year.”

Grant Petty presents a check from the Frederickson Foundation to Kiwanis member Deb Schuler. (Photo courtesy Melanie Petty)

Here’s a reminder, the 13th Annual TFred Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, August 14th.  Melanie Petty says “We look forward to a full day of golfing and visiting with friends and family.” Team registration and hole sponsors are open. Simply contact Melanie Petty at 249-3696 to get registered.  All monies raised at the tournament and silent auction are given back to the community that Trevor loved.

Follow the funds activities on local media and FaceBook.  The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund is a 501©3 non-profit organization.

(Radio Iowa) – The last four finalists for the University of Iowa president held an open forum on campus Thursday. Daniel Clay is the current U-I Dean of the College of Education, and he opened by talking about how his dad made it to tenth grade and his mom left high school after they got married. “They didn’t have the knowledge, they didn’t have the money to know about college. But higher ed changed the trajectory of my life — and my extended family,” Clay says.

Clay was asked about his leadership style. “I currently have excellent relationships with people in the business community, and state and local government leadership, and with our students,” according to Clay. “I plan to be present, I plan to be available always, that’s one. Two, I think I would like to have the opportunity to travel around our state more to share more directly with all Iowans the value our university brings to our state.”

Daniel Clay

He was asked about how he would handle free speech on campus. “I think it is important to recognize that sometimes free speech means that we hear things that hurt us — we hear things that we disagree, we hear things that traumatize others. But we simply cannot shout people down and shut them down if we disagree,” Clay says. Clay was also asked about being an on-campus candidate for the job. “I think the biggest challenge for me would be to assume that I know because I’ve been here. I think the most important thing for any president is to spend the first 100 days listening. And not listening to her you stop talking so I can tell you my story — but listening to learn,” Clay says.

Clay will continue meeting with groups on campus today (Friday). The Board of Regents plans to meet on April 29-30th at the University of Iowa to hear from the search committee and interview the finalists, with a selection of the next president on April 30th.

Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County Thursday night, arrested a woman from Red Oak.  Authorities say 24-year-old Savanna Rachelle Abraham was taken into custody at around 9-p.m., on a valid Omaha Police Dept. warrant charging her with two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance. Abraham was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on bond, pending extradition to Nebraska.

(Radio Iowa) – The head of the Iowa Department of Public Health says her own experience with one of the Covid vaccines shows adverse reactions are incredibly rare. During a forum with A-A-R-P members yesterday (Thursday), Kelly Garcia talked about getting the single-dose shot of Johnson and Johnson vaccine in March. It’s the vaccine that’s been on pause after six cases of blood clotting were identified among the seven million doses given.

“I normally don’t talk about myself, but…I have a blood clotting disorder. I’m a woman in the age span of the six women who were affected by the Johnson and Johnson vaccine,” Garcia says. “I took the Johnson and Johnson vaccine…and I am absolutely well and just fine today.” Garcia says European officials lifted their pause on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine because the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risk of blood clots.

“There are side effects in nearly every drug that we take to treat anything,” Garcia says. “But what I want to remind folks is that this is unbelievably rare and the pause was really centered around equipping physicians to recognize if someone had this condition and treat them appropriately.”

The Iowa Department of Public Health’s website (as of 5-p.m. Thursday) showed more than 930-thousand Iowans have completed the two-shot series of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and Garcia says that’s almost half of Iowa’s adult population.

A man from Riverton was arrested April 18th following a brief pursuit. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office reports a Fremont County Deputy was on a traffic stop, when a Nissan Xterra SUV failed to move over and slow down. After the Deputy at the traffic stop notified other deputies with a description of the vehicle, another Fremont County Deputy was able to locate the vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop near the 3700 Block of Highway 2.

William Joseph Estelle

The suspect vehicle led deputies on a short pursuit with speeds reaching 80 miles per hour. The chase ended with the arrest of 45-year-old William Joseph Estelle. He was charged with Eluding, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Methamphetamine, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Estelle was also later charged with Violation of Parole. Fremont County Deputies were assisted by the Page County Sheriff’s Office and the Shenandoah Police Department.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office reports an investigation into a hit-and-run property damage accident late Thursday night in Tabor, resulted in the arrest in Randolph, of 26-year-old Christoper Miller, from Sidney. Miller was arrested for OWI/2nd offense, having no valid driver’s license, no insurance, and striking an unattended vehicle. He was being held at the Fremont County Jail on a $2,000 bond. The Fremont County Sheriff’s K9 Unit assisted in handling the arrest. 

Christopher Miller

Authorities had received a call at around 10:20-p.m. with regard to a vehicle that had been struck at Linden Court in Tabor. A witness advised deputies the vehicle struck a parked motor vehicle and then fled the scene. Deputies were also advised a caller was following the vehicle from the scene. Deputies located the vehicle on Main Street of Randolph.