(Radio Iowa) – A fourth candidate has announced he intends to compete in the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2022 Primary for U.S. Senate — and the chance to challenge Republican Chuck Grassley’s bid for an eight term. Seventy-one-year-old Bob Krause of Burlington ran unsuccessfully for the party’s Senate nomination in 2010 AND 2016. He’s released a recorded statement on YouTube. “I was eight years old when Grassley was first elected to the Iowa House…and then I saw him move on to the U.S. House and the United States Senate,” Krause said, “and 41 years later I can tell you those 41 years were not good for Iowa and they were not good for the nation.”

Bob Krause (Ballotopedia.org photo)

Former Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids, former Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer and Glenn Hurst, a doctor from Minden, are the three candidates who announced they’re seeking the spot on the ballot to challenge Grassley next year. Krause says he’s running because he fears Republicans will try to sabotage the 2022 election. “We are in the midst of a gathering storm and this election is about saving our democracy from destruction,” Krause said. “Simply put, I can to be part of the solution.”

Krause announced in 2013 that he would run for governor, but he endorsed another candidate a few months later and did not file the paperwork to have his name on the 2014 primary ballot. In the 1970s, Krause served three terms in the state legislature. In 1978, he ran for state treasurer, losing to the Republican incumbent.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports Deputies responded Wednesday to a residence in the 700 block of Iowa Avenue, in College Springs. The call was in reference to  a family disturbance. During the investigation, a resident of the residence, 49-year-old Steven Dean Lundvall, was arrested on a Nodaway County, Missouri warrant for Failure to appear, on original charges of DWI and Resisting / Interfering with Arrest for a Felony.

Steven Dean Lundvall

Lundvall was transported to the Page County Jail and held without bond, pending extradition hearings for transfer to Missouri.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Atlantic Rising will host their 3rd Annual Trivia Night Fundraiser on Friday, October 15th at the Cass County Community Center. The organization started the event to raise funds for their Christmas Box program. Social Chair Kelsey Beschorner says “This event has been very successful in the past. In 2019, we had 13 teams register and were able to raise over $2,000 for the program. We hope to exceed that this year due to the number of nominations tripling in 2020.”  Beschorner says their goal “Is to have everyone come out to enjoy a fun night while raising money for a project that does so much good for our community.”

The event will include eight rounds of ten questions each. Categories range from math to music to Saturday Night Live and everything in between. There is a prize awarded to the winning team. Teams are also encouraged to create team themes to add to the fun of the evening. A prize is awarded to the best team theme and is chosen by the staff at the Community Center. As an added fundraiser boost, a 50/50 raffle tickets will be available for $5 a ticket or $15 for 4 tickets.

Freshly popped popcorn and a water/coffee station available all night along with the Community Center’s cash bar open for all other beverage needs. For more information on Trivia Night or to register a team, contact Kelsey Beschorner at the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce at 712-243-3017 or visit www.atlanticiowa.com.

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Coralville – The Iowa Department of Corrections today (Thursday) said 24-year-old Markez Fox, who was convicted of Assault While Participating in a Johnson County Felony, failed to the Coralville Residential Facility as required, Wednesday. Fox is a Black male, height 5′ 10″, and weighs 190 pounds. He was admitted to the work release facility on 9/15/21.

Markez Fox

Persons with information on Fox’s whereabouts should contact their local police department.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Founders of the Lullabye Foundation acknowledge we’re all aware of how much the Covid pandemic has affected most of our society. But despite Covid and its affects on businesses, schools, activities, and even our churches, from early in 2020 through today, Lullabye has still been able to help many children in need and at risk of slipping through the cracks of our society’s social service safety net. The Foundation serves children in both Iowa and Illinois.

Lullabye Board Members coordinate closely with schools, orphanages, Social Service Agencies, Park Districts, etc. who work with kids, identify needs and address those needs.  The non-profit partners with organizations that genuinely want to help kids and make sure the children they serve receive the goods and services needed to help them be the best they can be – without delay. CEO Pastor Sally Meyer says Lullabye has helped children in Iowa, through:

• Project Sweet Dreams
• Support of Groups of Kids associated with the Atlantic, Iowa, Community Schools
• Speaker’s Bureau—several members of our Lullabye Board are willing to speak at various organizations and events.
• Lullabye’s Jim and Gert Hunt Memorial Golf Tournament
• Bill Of Rights for Kids
• Lullabye’s Gallery of Kids

Other projects include:

+ Going International/ helping many children through the Malawi Orphan Care Project, by feeding, offering spiritual and educational guidance, and sports activities daily to 800 kids.

+ The construction of a playground for the Still Waters Kids Home, Inc, in the Philippines. Their previous playground had been destroyed in a typhoon. The new playground was received with great joy!

+ A substantial gift to CASA of Champaign County went to serve 380 children in Foster Care county-wide. CASA’s mission is to find these children safe, healthy, and permanent homes.

+ Through a school in northern Illinois Lullabye generously supported a family devastated by a fire which took the lives of two young girls and destroyed all the family’s belongings.

+ In Southwest Iowa, school personnel helped the Foundation assist a high school girl whose family could not afford her extracurricular activities. We helped. She then took part in her activities

+ A guidance counselor in a school in northern Illinois alerted Lullabye to a need for dollars to send a homeless and recently orphaned boy to a Park District-provided Summer Camp.

+ Working with one of the Foundation’s Northern Illinois partner schools, we provided dollars for playground equipment geared toward Special Needs Kids.

+ At present, Pastor Meyer says they are looking into the possibility of working with the Cunningham Children’s Home in Urbana, IL.

If you would like to learn more about the Foundation, got to https://www.lullabyefoundation.org/

(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department say a woman from Macksburg reported Wednesday evening, that her cash card was stolen from her vehicle, while it was parked outside the Casey’s General Store, at 102 W. Taylor. No monetary loss was ascertained at the time of the report.

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DES MOINES, Iowa —The Iowa Department of Public Health released new COVID-19 data Wednesday that shows an additional 91 virus deaths. Health officials reported two additional deaths that occurred between May and July, and 89 deaths that occurred between Aug. 4 and Sept. 30. That brings the statewide total to 6,654 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The health department reported fewer positive tests over the last week. There were 9,198 positive tests in the last seven days, down from 9,841 positive tests reported on Monday. A total of 498,638 positive tests have been reported in Iowa since the start of the pandemic.

The state’s 14-day positivity rate dropped from 9.6% to 9.5% since Monday. Those under 18 continue to make up the largest percentage of positive tests in the state at 24%, but make up the smallest percentage of those hospitalized with the virus at 3%. The number of Iowans hospitalized with COVID-19 also declined slightly from 629 to 626. Of those hospitalized with the virus, 74.1% are unvaccinated, while 85.8% of those listed in intensive care with COVID-19 are not vaccinated.

IDPH reports virus outbreaks in 31 long-term care facilities, up from 29 at last report Monday. There have been 3,500,405 vaccine doses administered in Iowa. That means 66.4% of all Iowans over the age of 18 have been fully vaccinated and 68.8% of all Iowans 12 or older have had at least one vaccine dose.

The Iowa Department of Public Health releases new virus data each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

(Radio Iowa) – Two teens have been charged with murder in the investigation of a body found Saturday along a roadway northeast of Estherville. Authorities executed simultaneous search warrants early Wednesday morning at homes in Rockwell City and Estherville which resulted in 19-year-old Connor Uhde and 18-year-old CeJay Van Der Wilt being arrested on first-degree murder charges. The victim was later identified as 20-year-old David McDowell of Estherville. The cause of death has not been released.

Uhde was taken to the Emmet County Jail and Van Der Wilt to Buena Vista County where both were held without bond.