Le Mars Police Department To Start Up “Citizen Academy”
(Le Mars) — The Le Mars Police Department wants to start up a Citizen Academy. Classes would begin on August 21st and continue through September 13th. Le Mars Police Chief Kevin Vande Vegte explains the program.
Interested people need to be at least 21 years of age or older, and either live in. or operate a business within the city limits of Le Mars, or have some credible affiliation with Le Mars. Vande Vegte anticipates several people to apply for the citizen academy.
The Le Mars Police Chief talks about the topics to be covered with the Citizen Academy.
Vande Vegte says those who complete the Police Citizens Academy will be expected to assist officers on some special events.
Vande Vegte says there is no physical endurance testing or registration fees associated with the Citizen Academy. However, background checks will be conducted.
Applications must be submitted to the Le Mars Police Department no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 7th, the same day as “National Night Out” activities.
Farm Income Expected To Drop Even More
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Farmers and agricultural economists are worried that president Donald Trump’s trade, immigration and biofuels policies will cost farms billions of dollars in lost income and force some out of business.
Even before Trump began talking tariffs earlier this year farm income was expected to drop 7 percent from last year to just under $60 billion.
That’s half of farm income reported just five years ago.
In addition to falling corn, soybean and pork prices caused by the tariff dispute, the administration’s ethanol policy has reduced the use of corn by hundreds of millions of bushels, helping to push prices below profitability and immigration actions risk hampering expansion plans in pork industry.
Some are saying the resulting blow to agriculture could create the worst farm financial crisis since the 1980s.
Teenage Father Arrested Following Death Of 8-Month Old Daughter
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A teenage father is facing charges after his 8- month-old girl died after being hospitalized with serious injuries.
Des Moines Police say the girl was taken to the hospital Friday
afternoon with internal injuries and head trauma. She died Saturday evening, and her 17-year-old father was charged with first degree murder and child endangerment.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.
The father turned himself in to authorities early Sunday morning and was arrested.
Army Corps of Engineers To Release More Water From Gavins Point Dam
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The amount of water being released into the lower Missouri River will likely remain above normal throughout the summer and fall to reduce the amount of water held in reservoirs along the river.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers increased the amount of water being released from Gavins Point Dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border in late June because more spring rain and more snow fell in the mountains.
Officials expect the amount of water in the Missouri River this year will be 157 percent of normal.
The releases are expected to remain near 60,000 cubic feet per second through the summer, but they may be adjusted in response to downstream flood concerns.
Roughly 25 percent of the flood storage space in the river’s
reservoirs remains available.
Golfers Struck By Lightning In Central Iowa
COLO, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say two men are recovering after being struck by lightning near a central Iowa golf course.
Story County Sheriff’s deputies tell Des Moines television station
KCCI that the men were in the Twin Anchors Golf Course parking lot near Colo on Friday afternoon when they were struck by lightning.
One man, who is in his 20s, was unresponsive but breathing when he was taken to an Ames hospital. The other man, who is in his 40s, was conscious and alert when he was taken to a Nevada hospital.
Both men had been released from the hospital by Saturday. The younger man says he has nerve damage and loss of hearing in one of his ears from the incident.
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