Plymouth County 4-H And FFA Animal Exhibit Auction To Be Held On-line
(Le Mars) — On normal years, the Monday following the Plymouth County Fair is the 4-H and FFA animal livestock exhibit auction which allows exhibitors to collect a premium for their animal exhibits. This year, due to the COVID-19 virus, and much like the Plymouth County Fair Wood Carving and Life
Skills Training Center Quilt auction, instead of holding a live auction, the animals will be up for auction on-line. Bruce Brock of the Brock Auction Company explains.
Some people may be a bit suspicious with on-line auctions since they may be unfamiliar with the procedure. However, Brock says with an on-line auction, you usually have more people participating, and certainly a wider range.
Tri-State Cruisers Car Show To Be At Total Motors
(Le Mars) — Among all the summer events that have been postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus, one event has remained, and that is the Tri-State Cruisers held each Wednesday evening. This coming Wednesday, the
hot-rods, muscle cars, antique and vintage autos, along with the classics from a by-gone era will be on display at Total Motors in Le Mars. Mitch Christoffel says the event draws several participants and spectators.
As the Tri-State name implies, the classic cars will arrive from several miles within the Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota region.
The car show will get started at 5:00 p.m. and continue until 9:00 p.m. Christoffel says Total Motors will be handing out some sweet treats to the visitors of the car show.
Christoffel says anyone with a classic car are welcomed to attend the event, regardless of whether you are a member of the Tri-State Cruisers Association.
The Total Motors official says employees and signs will be posted to help guide exhibitors and visitors the traffic pattern for the car show into the auto dealership lot. Christoffel says all the cars for sale will be cleared of the lot allowing for more space for exhibitors and visitors. The Tri- State Cruisers car show has free admission. Christoffel says efforts are being planned to have the classic cars form a parade and travel past each of the Le Mars’ long-term nursing care facilities so the residents will have an opportunity to see the cars.
Doctors Request Mandatory Face Mask Mandate
(Des Moines) — Physicians from around the state gathered on the Iowa Capitol steps this past weekend to call on Governor Reynolds to either issue a statewide mask mandate — or at least allow local officials to require face coverings in public
places. Dr. Brian Privett, an ophthalmologist in Cedar Rapids, is president of the Iowa Medical Society.
Austin Baeth, an internal medicine doctor from Des Moines, says Iowa is one of only two states in the country without a public policy on masks.
Iowa Public Health Association Lina Tucker-Reinders says too many Iowans are not wearing a mask in public.
Last Thursday, Reynolds said a lot of the states with a mask mandate aren’t enforcing it.
Reynolds says she’ll continue with a public service campaign encouraging Iowans to “mask up” as an effective way to slow the spread of Covid-19, but she says while medical professionals say mask use is effective, there are people who “would tell you just the opposite.”
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Study Shows People Disapprove Of Reynolds’ Job Handling The COVID-19 Pandemic
(Des Moines, IA) — A just-released study shows Iowa residents aren’t happy with the way Governor Kim Reynolds has handled the coronavirus pandemic.
Only 28 percent of Iowans approve of the state’s response. That was the lowest approval figure for any of the country’s 50 governors. Three months ago Reynolds’ approval rating was 52 percent. The numbers reveal that Iowa is one of only four states where the governors’ approach is less popular than the way the pandemic is being handled nationally. Thirty-two-percent of the
people polled approve of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Iowa Man Given Life Sentence For Child Sexual Assaults
(Omaha, NE) — An Iowa man will spend the rest of his life in a Nebraska prison for sexually assaulting three children. One 15-year-old girl says the assaults had been going on for years. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Mark of Elkhorn pleaded guilty to six counts. When investigators searched his home, computer and cell phone they found more victims and disturbing pictures and
videos. They say they believe Mark hid cameras in bedrooms and secretly videotaped a teenage girl having sex with a teenage boy.
Bloomfield Mother Can’t See Her Children After Playing A Role In Daughter’s Sex Abuse
(Bloomfield, IA) — The 20-year prison sentence handed to a Bloomfield mother has been suspended, but she won’t be allowed to have any contact with her children for five years. Kendra Hoover was sentenced for playing a role in her daughter’s sexual abuse. Her common-law husband videotaped himself violently raping the daughter. Hoover was charged after investigators found out she had watched the video of the assaults and still left Crook alone with the girl and the couple’s other children. Crook was convicted on federal charges and is serving a 120-year sentence.
Man Who Killed Iowa Couple Among 2 Facing Federal Execution
(Washington, DC) — A man who killed an Iowa couple in Texas is among two facing a federal execution. Forty-year-old Christopher Vialva was found guilty of the kidnapping and murder at Fort Hood, Texas in 1999. He and William Emmett LeCroy will be put to death next month. Youth ministers Todd
and Stacie Bagley had stopped to use a payphone in Killeen, Texas when they agreed to give Vialva and two others a ride. The Bagleys were both shot in the head, their bodies placed in the trunk of their car, and it was set on fire.
