(Atlantic, Iowa) – Former President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks to a Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Rally in Atlantic, 2-p.m. Saturday, January 13, 2024. The event takes place at the Cass County Community Center (805 W. 10th St.).

President Trump signed a sweeping new Farm Bill into law that provided support and stability to Iowa’s farmers, expanded crop insurance, significantly increased how much farmers can borrow, and helped open new markets for agricultural goods.

Additional details are posted below:

Timeline of Events

11:00AM – Doors Open and Commitment Kick Off

2:00PM – 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks

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(Radio Iowa) – The Trump campaign event on Friday, January 5th will not be on the Dordt University campus as originally announced and has been moved to an event center in Sioux Center. Dordt University has released a statement, saying these kind of campaign events are intended to be educational and include questions directly from Dordt students to the candidates.

Dordt officials say they were under the impression nothing would not be publicized until a format was agreed to, but the Trump campaign is planning a rally in Sioux Center and the visions Dordt and the Trump campaign had for the event were incongruent.

Earlier this month, Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra hosted four presidential candidates for a forum on the Dordt campus and students submitted questions. In January of 2016, Trump spoke to a crowd on the Dordt campus and delivered the oft-quoted line that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York and shoot somebody and not lose any voters.

(Radio Iowa) – A nonprofit in Muscatine that helps adults with disabilities and the elderly is reopening its holiday fundraiser after vandalism and theft shut it down.

Crossroads Incorporated set up a holiday light show in Muscatine’s Weed Park earlier this month and Marc Hines, the organization’s CEO, says the person who went to flip the switches for Tuesday night’s show discovered the problem.

“She thought: ‘That’s weird. Why isn’t that on?’ and thought maybe is was just rain and went to check at the outlets and saw that, ‘Oh, there’s 500 feet of extension cord not here,’ and go to the next display and it’s gone and the next and
the next and the next.”

Hines estimates up to 80% of the electrical cords for the 40 light displays had been stolen or cut. Hines says a donor in Muscatine reached out after hearing the news and pledged to provide the money to replace all the electrical cords. “Shortly after we made our post that we were going to attempt to reopen, online donations just lit up,” Hines says.

This was the first year for this Illuminate Light Show fundraiser and the organization now expects to exceed its $50,000 goal. “If you would have asked me at 4:30 on Tuesday when we found the problem…’Hey, are you going to do this again next year?’ I probably would have hestitated to give an answer,” Hines says. “It maybe would have been laden with expletives, but by 9:30 yesterday, that tune changed keys really quickly and we’re absolutely resolute not only that we’re going to reopen on Friday and Saturday, but next year I think we’re going to come out guns ablazing.”

This all happened as Hines and his staff responded to an elderly client’s request to stay at home rather than enter a nursing home for end of life care.”It’s been a pretty emotional week, watching people come together around someone like that and what’s happened in the last 48 hours has been a real incredible way to end the year,” Hines says. “…I am glad to sit where I’m sitting today.”

Hines says if the group’s bulk order of electric cords can’t be filled in time, he vows to “clear out the shelves” in every hardware store in the area to get the electrical cords they need to reopen the display Friday night.

(Radio Iowa) – Planners hope the Central Iowa Water Works will be ready to launch on January 1, 2025 and manage the drinking water supply for nearly 19% of Iowa residents.

The West Des Moines Water Works agreed to join the regional drinking water system earlier this month. The new system would manage treatment and transmission of drinking water to 600-thousand people.

“The last couple of years we’ve been working on an agreement that owuld allow the 13 communities that purchase water from the Des Moines Water Works and collectively oversee that operation,” Des Moines Water Works CEO Ted Corrigan said during a recent appearance on Iowa Press on Iowa PBS.

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Member utilities will purchase water at the same wholesale rate and share facilities used to produce drinking water. “If we built it together, we can build it bigger which is cheaper and we can all share the cost savings there,” Corrigan said.

A regional system would better manage water distribution if the drought continues, according to Corrigan. “It’s so much better for us to manage these available water resources cooperatively and collectively, than to start fighting over them,” Corrigan said.

Officials in Bondurant and Altoona have decided to produce their own water.