The Audubon Police Department reports 27-year old Nathan Patrick Kinzie, of Audubon, was arrested Sunday on Public Intoxication and 4th degree Criminal Mischief charges. Officials say Kinzie was asked to leave an Audubon business because he was allegedly intoxicated and acting in a disorderly manner. After being asked to leave, Kinzie allegedly hit and broke the businesses’ front window. He was booked into the Audubon  County Jail and held pending an appearance before the magistrate.

On the heels of the reopening of Interstate 680 in western Iowa, and Highway 175 in northwest Iowa after the destructive flooding that occurred this summer, Governor Branstad today (Monday) announced that $1 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding will be made available to continue the recovery efforts.  

Branstad says “The devastation of the Missouri River flooding this past summer is extreme. By providing the required local match that would otherwise be a burden that the homeowner, city or county would have to bear, we are helping Iowans to move forward with rebuilding not only their homes, but their lives.” 

The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) will provide up to $1 million for the required local match portion that affected cities or counties will need to provide in order to acquire the federal funding offered through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.  The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program assists affected political subdivisions in acquiring property and damaged homes in the flood plain at fair market value.  All properties assisted with the program are in the 100-year flood plain and are deed restricted to be green space. 

The counties of Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie and Woodbury and non-entitlement cities within those counties, are eligible to apply for the funds through the Iowa Homeland Security Emergency Management Division.

The Cass County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday morning in Atlantic, to canvass the results of last Tuesday’s Special Election for the District 2 Supervisor’s seat and City elections in Anita, Cumberland, Griswold, Lewis, Marne, Massena, and Wiota. The canvass begins at 8-a.m. in the Supervisor’s Board Room at the courthouse.

The Board’s regular session will begin at 9-a.m.  Included during the session, is: action on approving the final payment for the Northwest Water and Sewer Project; and, continued discussions with regard to the County’s Indigent Burial  and cell phone policies.  The board will recess at 10:45, to attend the 11-a.m. Quarterly Home Care/Hospice meeting at the Cass County Memorial Hospital.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office says a juvenile reported missing Friday night from Coin, was found safe and sound in nearby College Springs. Authorities say deputies were sent to a home in Coin after the boy’s mother called just after 11-p.m. Friday to report her son had not been seen since 6-a.m. that same day. While deputies were investigating the possibility the juvenile may have been with his father in Missouri, following a custody dispute, they managed to locate the youth in the area. The boy called his mother, who let him stay with a friend for the night, in the College Springs area.

Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer reports two people were arrested early Sunday morning following an investigation into a fight at the Ice House Restaurant, in Clarinda. 38-year old Derek Wayne Freshour, of Villsca was arrested on a felony charge of Assault on a Peace Officer, as well as OWI/1st offense, and Interference With Official Acts. And, 36-year old Heath Patrick Rodney, of Hartford, SD, was arrested on a charge of Public Intoxication and for two-counts of Interference with Official Acts.

The arrests occurred after a Page County Sheriff’s Deputy was called to investigate a fight at the restaurant, at around 1:30-a.m., Sunday. When he arrived, the deputy was directed to a vehicle with three occupants, which was attempting to leave the parking lot. The driver, identified as Freshour, allegedly attempted to use his vehicle to “move the deputy,” as the deputy was ordering the man to stop. Freshour finally obeyed the command, and was taken into custody. He was being held in the Page County Jail on $5,000 bond.

Rodney, who was one of the passengers in the vehicle, was booked into the Page County Jail as well, and later posted a $300 bond. The vehicle’s other passenger, Joshua Edward Simmons, was not charged. The incident remains under investigation.