TOWER INCIDENT
Plymouth County Authorities were called this morning to the site of a television tower near Hinton. The Sheriffs Department was called after the report of a man who climbed the KCAU TV tower, three miles south east of Hinton.
KCAU Channel 9 TV in Sioux City had to go off the air briefly late Thursday morning because a 16-year-old male climbed the broadcast tower in rural Plymouth County.
The Plymouth County Sheriff and Iowa State Patrol responded to the scene. The teen made it up the tower and was reportedly live streaming from the top of the broadcast tower.
KCAU cut the power to the tower to prevent possible electrocution of the teen.
Plymouth County authorities were able to convince the teen to come down, and he met them at a platform over halfway up the tower, where he was brought down.
The teen was taken to the Plymouth County Jail where he faces possible charges.
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Plymouth County Authorities were called this morning to the site of a television tower near Hinton. The Sheriffs Department was called after the report of a man who allegedly tried to climb the KCAU TV tower, three miles southeast of Hinton. The Sioux City-based station went off the air to assist with the incident. The tower was built in 1965, and stands 2-thousand feet high.
HINTON BOND ISSUE
Voters in the Hinton Community School District will decide a special bond issue election on November 5th. They will consider the question of whether to authorize general obiligation bonds in an amount not to exceed eleven point nine million dollars ($11,900,000) for facility infrastructure and learning environment improvements.
An open house and tour opportunity will take place this evening (Oct. 24) at the high school gymnasium from 6:30 until 8 p.m. Superintendent Ken Slater will give a short presentation at 6:30 with an opportunity for questions and a building tour to follow.
KLEM will present a special program next week on Tuesday, October 29 starting at 10:30 a.m. featuring an informational interview with Slater and board president Kyle Hoefling.
GROUP HOPES TO REACH 2022 PEOPLE FLAGGED ON IOWA VOTER LISTS
The League of United Latin American Citizens is asking Iowa’s secretary of state for his list of over two-thousand people who’ve registered to vote, but will be required to cast provisional ballots. Secretary of State Paul Pate says his office has not confirmed if the people on that list may have become U-S citizens since the 2012 election. Joe Henry, Iowa political director for the League of United Latin American Citizens, says many or all of these people Pate has flagged on Iowa voter registration lists may have been legal residents when they got an Iowa driver’s license, but have become U-S citizens in the past 12 years. Henry says by forcing two-thousand-plus people to cast provisional ballots, their votes will not be counted unless they return to their county auditor’s office after the election with proof that they’re a citizen. Pate’s announcement on Tuesday indicated he has referred the names of 154 people to Iowa’s attorney general for a citizenship check to see if they were not U-S citizens when they registered to vote over the past 12 years.
IOWA’S A.G. LEADS GROUP SEEKING END TO MASSACHUSETTS PORK LAW
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is part of a legal effort to block regulations in Massachusetts that ban the sale of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces. In July, a federal judge upheld a ballot initiative approved in 2016 by 77 percent of Massachusetts voters. It prohibits the sale of pork as well as veal and eggs from animals raised in confinements that don’t meet certain space requirements. Bird is leading a coalition of 22 state attorneys general who signed onto a brief calling that approach unworkable for pork producers and an economic hardship for consumers who will pay higher prices. Bird says Iowans don’t tell people in Massachusetts how to fish for lobsters and they don’t need to tell Iowans how to raise pigs.
FIRE RESCUE EXERCISE
Last night, Le Mars Fire Rescue held a training exercise. The scenario was a structure fire in a multi-story building, with a baby trapped inside. Their aerial truck was used in the search and rescue simulation.
Photos by Brian Nitzschke
SIOUX CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE
Law enforcement crisis negotiators from around Iowa are in Sioux City this week, training and competing against each other. as part of the 11th annual Iowa Hostage and Crisis Negotiator Conference and Competition:
Sgt. Michael Clyde of the Iowa State Patrol is one of the event leaders:
Those teams all deal with the same scenario in the judged competition:
Sgt. Clyde says an officer with a script portrays the upset father so each team hears the same scenario, which is judged on several response criteria:
The teams are judged on each criteria from one to 9 points with one the lowest. Clyde says it’s all about the training, but there are some bragging rights:
Attendees at the three day conference also had case studies and debriefs from nationally recognized experts in the field of crisis/hostage negotiations. The event concludes today in Sioux City.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY FARMER HONORED
John Schneider of rural Oyens was honored Wednesday as the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce 2024 4th Quarter Boss of the Quarter. The Schneider family hosted a coffee in Le Mars to celebrate the family’s homestead, the M.P. Bogh farm in Fredonia Township. The land was purchased by John’s great grandfather in 1884. The Boss of the Quarter honor came as a complete surprise to John. Schneider, his wife Carol, Daughter Jo Ellen, and grandson Andrew live on the family farm. John is President of Schneider Swine, Inc. He has raised pigs since he was a 10-year-old 4-H member.
IDA COUNTY FATALITY
A Holstein man died and two were injured Wednesday in a pickup – semi crash in Ida County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident occurred at a rural intersection north of Battle Creek around 6 pm. A semi-trailer had slowed to turn west at an intersection, when the trailer was stuck by a pickup which was trailing the semi. The pickup driver, 29 year old Joshua Fowler of Holstein, was entrapped in the pickup. He died at the scene. Two passengers in the pickup – both juveniles, were hospitalized. One of the juveniles was airlifted to MercyOne in Sioux City. None of the occupants of the pickup were wearing seat belts. The driver of the semi, 74 year old Donald Schultz of Battle Creek, was hospitalized with minor injuries.
IOWA’S A.G. LEADS GROUP SEEKING END TO MASSACHUSETTS PORK LAW
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is part of a legal effort to block regulations in Massachusetts that ban the sale of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces. In July, a federal judge upheld a ballot initiative approved in 2016 by 77 percent of Massachusetts voters. It prohibits the sale of pork as well as veal and eggs from animals raised in confinements that don’t meet certain space requirements. Bird is leading a coalition of 22 state attorneys general who signed onto a brief calling that approach unworkable for pork producers and an economic hardship for consumers who will pay higher prices. Bird says Iowans don’t tell people in Massachusetts how to fish for lobsters and they don’t need to tell Iowans how to raise pigs.
