Private plane makes emergency landing in Bremer County cornfield
A Cessna P206 piloted by 71 year old Charles Crume Jr. from Minnesota to Tennessee diverted to a rural Bremer County cornfield north of 200 Street near Denver at about 11 45 am Monday. No injuries were reported and a passenger Margaret Crume, 47, also from Oak Ridge Tennessee, was aboard. The two are described as related but the exact relation was not released.
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Bremer County
Charles Crume Jr
Oak Ridge
Turkey Valley levy defeat and aftermath documented
The Turkey Valley physical plant and equipment levy failed 134 to 134 after two additional ballots were counted. A yes would have raised the levy from 67 to 92 cents per thousand, funding services, equipment, and at least one school bus. a new furnace may also be needed. In Dubuque, George Roy Waller, 22, died in a silage wagon accident on the family farm south of the city. West Nile cases in Iowa rose to eight with two new infections, a 48 year old man and a 66 year old woman, one hospitalized and later released. Illinois deaths rose to 18. Counties affected in Iowa include Lee, Henry, Polk, Jones and Wright.
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Turkey Valley
Chickasaw
Dubuque
George Roy Waller
Dubuque County
Illinois
Iowa
Teale
Lee
Henry
Polk
Jones
Wright
Livestock matrix stirs debate on hog expansion rules
In Clear Lake Iowa the EPC and an ad hoc committee debated whether large hog grower expansions require neighbor approval and what fraction must consent. A second question asked how to verify a producer's pledge not to feed non therapeutic antibiotics to dogs. No decision was reached.
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Marlene Lucas
Gazette
Clear Lake
Commission
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
EPC
Young Cedar Rapids girl alerts neighbors to roof fire
Four year old Madyson Walker spotted a neighbor’s roof on fire at 4516 Ozark Street NE. Ardis Filer contacted the fire department after a girl warned her. The overheated motor caused the blaze. firefighters checked for embers and the damage was minor. The Walkers had a previous house fire years ago due to an oven malfunction.
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Dick Hogan
Gazette
EDAR
Ardis Filer
Fire Department
Ardis
Madison
Carolyn Walker
Filers
Carolyn
Madyson
Harkin camp calls ad a fraud
A television ad for Rep. Greg Ganske’s Senate bid features an actress posing as a longtime Harkin supporter. The Harkin camp denounces the spot as fraudulent claiming it misleads voters about social security and elderly program protection.
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Harkin Camp
Des Moines
Greg Ganske
Senate
Tom Harkin
Joel Hannah
Iowa
Republican Party
Harkin
Jeff Link
Vinton WWII service scroll found and displayed in town
Names such as Acuff Alpers Birker Bolenbaugh Byam Davis Dulin and others from Vinton High School served in World War II. The service scroll bought by the 1943 44 student council hung in a 1940s memorial and later turned up in East Elementary attic before being cleaned and placed on display at Nature's Corner.
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Acuff
Alpers
V Birker
Bolenbaugh
Byam
Davis
Dulin
Vinton
Vinton High School
V.H.S
East Elementary
Mike Elwick
Cindy
Nature’s Corner
Cindy Elwick
Old East School
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Clowe
Vinton High
Geater
Greenwood
Happel
Ramblin
Dave Rasdal
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