REYNOLDS, GREGG VISIT NORTHWEST IOWA
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Lt. Governor Adam Gregg are visiting three flood-stricken northwest Iowa Counties today. This afternoon, she will be at the Rock Valley City office. Later, she will be at the Spencer City Hall, and at the fire station in Sioux Rapids, in Buena Vista County.
CARROLL COUNTY FATAL ACCIDENT
A Kingsley man was involved in a fatal collision in Carroll County Tuesday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol says a semi tractor driven by 63 year old Michael O’Keefe of Kingsley was travelling north on a county road and failed to stop at a stop sign. A pickup driven by 65 year old Ronald Eischeid of Carroll crashed into the semi tractor, and came to rest in a ditch. Eischeid WAS wearing a seat belt, but died at the scene of the accident. O’Keefe was not injured. The accident occurred four miles northeast of Carroll.
RURAL ALTON INJURY ACCIDENT
Two people were injured Tuesday, afternoon when two pickups collided at a rural intersection a mile east of Alton. The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office were called to the intersection of Kingbird and 450th Street. A pickup driven east on 150th by 24 year old Cesar Salazar of Granville collided with a pickup driven by 27 year old Karibeth Larson of Hardy, Iowa, who was driving south on Kingbird Avenue. Both drivers were transported by ambulance to Orange City Area Health System for treatment of injuries. Damage to both Ford F150’s were estimated at $45,000 each.
WOODBURY COUNTY APPROVED FOR INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE UNDER THE JUNE PRESIDENTIAL MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION
Gov. Kim Reynolds Monday announced the approval of Woodbury County for Individual Assistance under the previously approved Major Disaster Declaration, for Iowa Counties where significant damage was sustained from severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred June 16, 2024, and continuing.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Individual Assistance Program is already activated for the following counties: Plymouth, Sioux, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Clay, Emmet, Lyon, and O’Brien Counties.
STATE PROGRAM GIVES GRANTS TO 13 SMALL MEAT PROCESSORS
Thirteen businesses will get state money this year from a fund designed to help small-scale meat processors. Iowa Economic Development Authority spokesperson Kanan Kappleman says the grants total more than 970-thousand dollars.
Kappleman says the money is often used for buying equipment.
Kappelman says the fund was created after the need was revealed for these type of processors when the large-scale meat processors were shut down during the pandemic. She says there are just a few requirements to get the grants.
There also some limits on the amount of the grants.
There were five projects that requested grants that didn’t win awards this year.
Grant recipients include two northwest Iowa meat processors:
Friedrichsen Meat Company LLC Sutherland project cost $200,000; grant awarded: $100,000
Jakes Meat Market Sibley project cost $60,418; grant awarded: $30,209
MEETINGS IN 23 COUNTIES ON EXPANDING SUMMIT CARBON PIPELINE PROJECT
Public meetings are scheduled in 23 counties for review of the Summit Carbon Solutions plan to expand its proposed pipeline to more ethanol plants. State regulators have already granted Summit approval to build along its original 688 mile route through the state — but only if regulators in neighboring states approve the pipeline’s route outside of Iowa. The Iowa Capital Dispatch was first to report public hearings are now scheduled in to discuss extending the pipeline another 340 miles. The expansion represents Summit’s agreements with ethanol plants that had been linked to the abandoned Navigator C-O-2 pipeline project. The hearings about Summit’s pipeline project expansion start in late August and the last one will be held on September 30th.
Here is the list of hearings in northwest Iowa.
– Sept. 17 at 6 p.m. in Clay County: Occasions, First Avenue East, Spencer
– Sept. 18 at noon in Osceola County: Melvin American Legion Community Building, 225 Main Street, Melvin
– Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. in O’Brien County: Primghar Community Building, 215 First St. SE., Primghar
– Sept. 19 at noon in Sioux County: Prairie Winds Event Center, 908 Eighth St. SE, Orange City
– Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. in Ida County: Cobblestone Inn & Suites, 2011 Indorf Ave., Holstein
– Sept. 20 at noon in Buena Vista County: Cobblestone Ballroom, 98 Lakeshore Drive, Lakeside
