Jim Field speaks with Jeremy Butler about an upcoming event on Saturday, May 4th at the Cass County Community Center called Stepping Up.
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Jim Field speaks with Jeremy Butler about an upcoming event on Saturday, May 4th at the Cass County Community Center called Stepping Up.
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Onawa, Iowa – The public is invited to the 37th Annual Loess Hills Prairie Seminar May 31-June 2, at the Loess Hills Wildlife Management Area, northeast of Onawa. There is no fee to attend. There are more than 40 field sessions and programs covering many topics for participants of all ages. The seminar began in 1977 as part of the Western Hills, now Northwest, Area Education Agency’s role in providing education and training for K-12 educators in the areas of conservation, environmental and science education.
The seminar is regularly attended by 250 to 300 adults and students each year. Participants may attend all of or any part of the seminar’s indoor programs or field sessions. Registration is necessary only if requesting meals or requesting the Missouri River ecology boat tour. Evening programs are held at West Monona High School in Onawa.
Attendees can kick off the seminar by volunteering with prairie management at the Loess Hills Wildlife Management Area by removing shrubs and shade from 9 a.m. to noon on May 31. The project will begin at the campground parking lot. Volunteers should bring sunscreen, bug spray, water, and loppers and hand saw if possible.
For more information on the volunteer project, contact Doug Chafa, wildlife biologist, at 712-420-2437. The Loess Hills Prairie Seminar is sponsored annually by Northwest Area Education Agency, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Monona County Conservation Board, with additional support from many organizations and individuals. For more information, call Gloria Kistner at 800-352-9040, Ext. 6080.
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GAYLORD W. PAULEY, 97, of Las Vegas, NV (& formerly of Harlan), died Tue., April 23rd, in Las Vegas. Funeral services for GAYLORD PAULEY will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., April 29th, at the 1st Baptist Church in Harlan. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements,
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2-to 8-pm on Sun., April 28th, with the family present from 5-to 7pm.
Burial will be in the Nishnabotna Cemetery, in Manilla.
GAYLORD PAULEY is survived by:
His daughters – Maude (Richard) Behrens, of Kingman, AZ; Donna (Kenny) Thraen, of Henderson, NV, & Arlene (Gary) Stotz, of Alpine, CA.
16 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, other relatives, and friends.
Sheriff’s officials in Adams County report the arrest Tuesday of a Corning man on an assault charge. 46-year old Edward Avila was taken into custody at around 6:35-p.m. following an investigation into a physical altercation that took place Monday night. Avila was being held in the Adams County Jail on a charge of Domestic Assault causing bodily injury. His bond was set at $1,000.
A man from Pottawattamie County facing first- and second-degree kidnapping charges associated with an assault and kidnapping last May, is representing himself at his trial. According the the Daily NonPareil, 39-year old Bryan Bey, of Crescent, told jurors being selected Tuesday, that he did not trust authorities, and that the case against him was made up. Bey, and 33-year old Travis Labno, of Omaha, were arrested in connection with the May 31st, 2012 beating of Council Bluffs resident Tabitha Proplesh, who was 29-years old at the time.The charges against Labno were later dropped. He’s expected to testify during the trial.
An Iowa Department of Transportation officers investigating a suspicious truck on the side of the Old Mormon Bridge Road, found Proplesch handcuffed and beaten inside the cab of the vehicle. Bey,told jurors he was rescuing Proplesch when the truck he was driving ran out of gas. Pott. Count Attorney Matt Wilber said Bey punched Proplesch in the face in the early morning hours of May 31 outside an Omaha apartment rented by Labno, and repeatedly beat her over a 12-hour period because he believed she was a police informant.
Bey said he sees himself as some type of a hero. His trial resumes today (Wednesday).
Nearly three-dozen student from Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln High School and nine adults escaped injury when their charter bus collided almost head on with a van Sunday in Colorado. According to the Daily NonPareil, Abraham Lincoln’s Jazz I and Jazz II, along with chaperones and a few other students, were returning from a trip that included performances at contests in Des Moines and Greeley, Colo., and a side trip to Estes Park, Colo., when the accident occurred.
Band Director Mark Mendell told the paper, the coach they were in was traveling east on U.S. Highway 34 between the Colorado cities of Loveland and Greeley when a van crossed the median of the divided highway and crashed into the front corner of the bus next to the driver. Mendell said the bus driver did a good job of anticipating the impending crash, tried to avoid the collision, and was able to maintain control of the vehicle while bringing it to a stop along the shoulder. The driver of the van faces charges, but officials did not indicate at the time what those charges were.
A replacement bus arrived on the scene after about 2 1/12 hours, due to traffic congestion. The bus then took the Abe Lincoln ensemble back to Iowa. Mendell said a nearby convenience store provided the students with free soft drinks while there was a temporary layover due to the crash.