One of the most important parts of economic development is the growth of new business through entrepreneurship, and Midwest Partnership’s interim CEO, Sarah Gomez says their organization recognizes that with a new award, “The Entrepreneurship of the Year Award is brand new this year, and Midwest Partnership is devoted to providing more of a focus for entrepreneurs and small businesses in the region, and to start we would like to highlight an entrepreneur of the year in the region, and that could be categorized through a work initiative, a community volunteerism, or an entrepreneur with a unique business or service offering.”
If you think you know somebody who would be a good fit for the award, you can now find the nomination application online at
www.midwestpartnership.com, all nominations must be completed and submitted by January, 9th of 2015.
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An Adair man is facing charges of assaulting his 84 year old mother at her home in Menlo. 50 year old Jeff Godron is charged with Assault Causing Injury, a serious misdemeanor, and after being booked into the Guthrie County Jail last Friday on a $1000 bond, it was discovered that Godron had outstanding warrants in Adair County for Willful Injury and Domestic Abuse. Godron remains in the Guthrie County Jail and has a hold placed on him by Adair County for those outstanding warrants.
This is a developing story, Raccoon Valley Radio will provide more information as it becomes available to us.
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The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Department was one of twenty five K9 teams around the country to participate in the Heart of America Police Dog Association’s certification process in Manhattan, Kansas this month. During the course, Guthrie County’s team was certified in numerous areas of police work including tracking, narcotics detection, suspect search, obedience, handler protection and more. On the last day of the certification course, the teams were faced with a difficult scenario involving the apprehension of a barricaded subject inside of a commercial building. The Guthrie County team took 2nd place in the contest out of the 25 teams.
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With the Main Street Iowa facade project and a probable TIF district coming, most of Guthrie Center is under a renovation. However, many, including Mayor Denny Kunkle believe the fresh image of the city could be marred by broken down vehicles perpetually parked on city streets, “It’s an ongoing thing. Every once in a while, somebody parks a vehicle somewhere, and leaves it for extended periods of times. Usually it’s not a big deal, but if it’s been there two or three weeks, people start to complain, so we have to get after them and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Though towing and ticketing is certainly a legal option, Kunkle says he doesn’t necessarily want to go that route right away, though he’s not opposed to getting the police involved, “I’ve always told our police department on issues like that, yeah you’ve got a badge, and you can write a parking ticket, but give them a chance, get a hold of them, give them 24 or 48 hours and give them a chance to move it.”
Kunkle says the issue is problematic around the city, and is more than just a few repeat offenders.
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Joan Becker, mother of the young man who shot and killed legendary coach, Ed Thomas, in Parkersburg, Iowa, will speak in Stuart on Sunday, November 9 at 7 p.m. at West Central Valley High School. Becker will share some of the challenges her family faced in trying to find help for their son, Mark, who has paranoid schizophrenia. According to Becker, “Mental illness touches everyone: our educational system, community, churches, health providers, and beyond.” She will explain how faith and the support of her community has sustained her family through it all.The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will have a resource table at the event. This event is sponsored by the Stuart Public Library. Please call the library for more information at
515-523-2152.
(Special to Raccoon Valley Radio from Stuart Library Director, Sandy Pollard)
