Living History Farms postpones land sale amid debt drive
Living History Farms board voted to postpone a planned sale of about 35 acres to raise funds for debt retirement. The group launched a statewide campaign seeking more than 1 million dollars to finance a 1.8 million visitor center and other exhibits west of Des Moines, while keeping options open for a future sale.
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DES Moines
Living History Farms
William Murray
United States
Murray
Iowa native among Grenada Rangers honored at Savannah ceremony
In Savannah base ceremonies Hunter's Rangers saluted five fallen members from 1983 Grenada invasion. The Harpers Ferry Iowa native Pvt Russell L. Robinson joined Sgt Randy E. Cline Cloverdale Indiana Sgt Mark A. Rademacher East Aurora New York Spec4 Mark O. Yamane Seattle and Pvt Marlin R. Maynard Altus Arkansas in the memorial. About 300 Rangers paraded as 18 Americans died and 8 000 troops participated facing Cuban and Grenadian forces.
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Grenada
Point Salines
Richard B. Cayton
75Th Rangers
Cayton
Hunter Army Air Field
Savannah
Caribbean Islands
Hunter Base
Randy E. Cline
Cloverdale
Ind
Mark A. Ra
Alden Mayor faces charges over minor sexual content and theft
Alden Mayor Jeffrey Fiscus, ages 30 or 31, is accused in Hardin County of showing pornographic movies to youths 14 to 17, furnishing beer, and giving a school gas key to obtain about 100 gallons of gasoline valued at $101. A Oct. 27 preliminary hearing is set in Iowa Falls magistrate court.
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ALDEN
Jeffrey Fiscus
Fiscus
Iowa Falls
Hardin County
Jon Heitland
Heitland
Iowa
Stoner
Parlor raiders strike in Iowa Great Lakes area
Two massage parlors in Arnolds Park were raided and four women arrested on prostitution or pimping charges after a six month undercover operation. Managers named as Beaubien and Rudock. Additional lottery results noted with next week’s prize.
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Arnolds Park
Iowa Great Lakes
Dickinson County
John L. Sandy
Iowa State Patrol
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
DCI
Sandy
Frenchie’s Parlour
Hilltop Cosmopolitan Health Salon
West Lake Okoboji
Alice Beaubien
Beth Rudock
Beaubien
Hilltop Cosmopolitan
Rudock
Frenchie’s
Rhonda Stolpe
Omaha, Neb
Monica Benson
Minneapolis
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Perry
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Dumont
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