(Radio Iowa) – The 28th Waterloo Honor Flight is flying out of the Waterloo Airport early this (Wednesday) morning, headed for the nation’s capitol. Flight organizer Craig White says the flight was scheduled to leave at 6:30 A-M, and it will be a long, memorable day for some 90 Vietnam and Korean War veterans headed to Washington, D-C.

David Seckar of Charles City is making his first Honor Flight and served in the Air Force during the Vietnam era.

Scott Lake of Waterloo, along with his brothers Steve and Tim, all served in the Army and are making the trip together.

The veterans are being accompanied by some 70 guardians. Their itinerary includes the Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, the Women’s Museum, and the WWII Memorial, as well as the Lincoln, Vietnam, Korean, Martin Luther King and Air Force memorials. The Honor Flight is scheduled to return to Waterloo by around 9:30 p.m.

(Radio Iowa) – The parent company of Larson Doors is announcing the closure of its manufacturing plant in the northern Iowa town of Lake Mills, eliminating about 200 jobs. Company officials told employees about the move at the end of Tuesday’s daytime shift. The final shift for the day shift will be November 18th, while the night shift is done immediately. Larson Doors was purchased by Fortune Brands Home & Security of Deerfield, Illinois in November 2020.

A statement from Fortune Brands says the company conducted a reduction in force impacting positions across the organization, which included the closure of the Lake Mills facility as well as plants in Grand Prairie, Texas and Senatobia, Mississippi. The company says the decision was based on continued efforts to mitigate external economic risks, an assessment of the industry, and the evolution of the organization to best align with its growth strategy.

The company says they are committed to helping all of its displaced workers throughout the process.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 35-year-old Thomas James Delgado, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:25-p.m. Tuesday, in Red Oak. Thomas was taken into custody in the 200 block of S. 2nd Street, on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault by impeding the flow of air and/or blood. He was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.

(Redfield, Iowa) – A collision in Dallas County, east of Redfield, late Tuesday morning , left one person dead and two others, including a child, injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by 97-year-old Arnold Philip Whitney, of Redfield, was southbound on I Avenue, when Whitney failed to yield as he proceeded to turn east onto Old Highway 6.

A 2018 KIA Sorento traveling east on Old Highway 6 and driven by 76-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Lyon, of Adel, struck the van in the rear, sending it into the westbound lane, directly into the path of a westbound 2010 Honda Odyssey van, driven by 34-year-old Savannah Louise Corbett, of Adel. The crash happened at around 11:15-a.m.

The Dodge and the Honda collided in the westbound lane before the Caravan came to rest in the north ditch. The Honda van spun around and came to rest facing east, in the westbound lane. The Patrol says Arnold Whitney died at the scene. Corbett, and her 11-year-old passenger, Olivia Corbett, were injured and transported to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines by Dallas County EMS.

All of the crash victims were wearing their seat belts. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.