Police in Creston report two arrests took place Thursday. At around 12:30-a.m., 55-year old Robert Edward McCrory, of Greenfield, was arrested at 210 N. Oak St, in Creston. He was taken into custody on a Probation Violation Warrant. McCrory was being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 and a $2,000 cash or surety
bond.

And, at around 845-p.m., Thursday, Creston Police arrested 29-year old Lisa Joanne Squibbs, at her home in Creston, for Disorderly Conduct and Public Intoxication. She was released from the Union County Jail upon paying a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

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(Washington, DC, June 22, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the suspension of all imports of fresh beef from Brazil because of recurring concerns about the safety of the products intended for the American market.  The suspension of shipments will remain in place until the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture takes corrective action which the USDA finds satisfactory.

Since March, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has been inspecting 100 percent of all meat products arriving in the United States from Brazil.  FSIS has refused entry to 11 percent of Brazilian fresh beef products.   That figure is substantially higher than the rejection rate of one percent of shipments from the rest of the world.  Since implementation of the increased inspection, FSIS has refused entry to 106 lots (approximately 1.9 million pounds) of Brazilian beef products due to public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues. It is important to note that none of the rejected lots made it into the U.S. market.

The Brazilian government had pledged to address those concerns, including by self-suspending five facilities from shipping beef to the United States.  Today’s action to suspend all fresh beef shipments from Brazil supersedes the self-suspension.

Secretary Perdue issued the following statement:

“Ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply is one of our critical missions, and it’s one we undertake with great seriousness.  Although international trade is an important part of what we do at USDA, and Brazil has long been one of our partners, my first priority is to protect American consumers. That’s what we’ve done by halting the import of Brazilian fresh beef.  I commend the work of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service for painstakingly safeguarding the food we serve our families.”

A Hamburg man was arrested Wednesday after an investigation into a social media post about a minivan “cutting cookies” around the Main Street flagpole in Hamburg, and the same vehicle driving extremely fast and attempting to “power slide”past the library. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office says 20-year old Alexander Matthew Crook was arrested for Reckless Driving. He was later released after appearing before a magistrate.

Alexander M. Crook

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports one person was arrested on drug charges early Wednesday morning. At around 3:20-a.m., Deputies with the Page County Sheriff’s Office were patrolling Nodaway Valley Park, a county owned park, located approximately 1 mile northeast of Clarinda. The park adheres to state regulations on times that it is open for visitors.  3:20 in the morning is a time that the park is closed for visitors.

Deputies located a Dodge Durango with no plates parked in an area not designated for camping.  In the vehicle was a male later identified as 32-year old Joshua Dean Cooney, of Bedford.  Cooney appeared to be asleep. Drug paraphernalia was observed in the view by the Deputies, who woke Cooney up.  He was subsequently arrested on charges of Possession of drug paraphernalia, Possession of a controlled substance (Marijuana), and Possession of a controlled substance (Methamphetamine).

Cooney was transported to the Page County Jail.  He was unable to post $2000 bond, and was held while awaiting appearance in front of a Magistrate.

Cooney

A Des Moines man was arrested in Audubon County on multiple drug charges after a traffic stop in Exira on Wednesday night. At 8:00pm Audubon County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 33-year-old Justin Taylor Cannon of Des Moines for Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Marijuana. K-9 Axel alerted and found the narcotics in the vehicle during the traffic stop. Cannon was taken to the Audubon County Jail, appeared before the magistrate, and was released.

The 2017 Cass County Relay for Life is ready for a night of remembrance and celebration on Friday, June 23rd at the Atlantic High School. Relay Coordinator Carole Schuler says the night will begin for area Cancer Survivors at 4:30pm with check in for the Survivor meal.

This year’s event will have some exciting new additions. One of those changes will be a special pennant ceremony that will take place at the beginning of the event at 6:00pm on the high school track.

The pennant ceremony will replace the traditional luminary ceremony in order to allow more people to hear those names of loved ones being remembered and honored. For pennants that are purchased the rest of the night another reading will take place before the band takes the stage for evening entertainment.

Jett Black will perform beginning at about 7:30pm.  Villa Dance will also provide entertainment on the stage beginning at 6:45pm.

The survivor lap will follow the opening pennant ceremony to celebrate another year for all survivors involved.

Relay is a family friendly event with kids activities, walking the track to support the fight, education tent for cancer support and healthy lifestyle information, and other fun fundraising events through the night. Food will be available to purchase from Troublesome Creek BBQ, Atlantic Kiwanis, and Lewis Life Preservers with a portion of proceeds going back to Relay.

A tractor ride will also be going on throughout the day and that begins with registration at 8:00am at the Cass County Fairgrounds with the ride leaving at 9:00am.

Find out more about Cass County Relay for Life on Facebook: Relay for Life Cass County, Iowa or on the web at www.relayforlife.org/casscountyia Listen to Jim Field’s Full interview with Carole Schuler on our Heartbeat Today program below.

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A cattle industry analyst says this spring’s unexpected cattle market turnaround bodes well for the future of the industry. Doctor Nevil (NEV-ul) Speer, CEO of Agri-Clear, was the keynote speaker at an Iowa Cattlemen’s Association regional BeefMeet event in Creston this week. He says the fact that this spring’s cattle market rally was driven by increased consumer demand for beef is a very positive sign.

Speer points to two positive indicators that the increase in demand is “real.”

The other positive indicator, according to Speer, is the new record for the choice-select spread, at a higher level of beef production versus last year’s record high.

The challenge, Speer added, is to keep producing high quality beef that’s increasingly consistent. In addition to Tuesday’s event in Creston, the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association hosted regional BeefMeet events earlier this month in Dubuque and Ottumwa. Another BeefMeet is scheduled for today (Thursday) in Le Mars.

(Radio Iowa/Reporting by Ken Anderson, Brownfield Ag News)

A survey by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources found no discernible damage to wildlife after a large milk spill in Adair County near Fontanelle.  Dan Olson with the D-N-R says an accident led to the milk leaking out of a tanker truck into an unnamed tributary which flowed into the Middle Nodaway River. Olson says it created a 50-yard plume in the water, but he found no visible damage.

The accident happened along Highway 92 Sunday and Olson says the flow of the water probably helped dilute the milk.

He says it’s not the milk itself that poses a danger, but the reaction created as the milk breaks down.

Olson says this was a little different from the spills he normally investigates.

The Wisconsin-based transport company used a vacuum truck to clean up some of the spilled milk from a ditch. Olson says he’s still waiting to see the weight tickets from the vehicles to try and determine exactly how much milk may have spilled into the waterway. The tanker could have been carrying as much as 75-hundred gallons of milk.

(Radio Iowa)

The Creston Police Department reports two arrests Wednesday night and another early Thursday morning.

At 10:20pm Officers arrested 30-year-old Crystal Estell and 22-year-old Katelyn Armstrong, both of Creston, in the 200 block of South Lincoln Street on the charge of Disorderly Conduct. Both were later released from the Union County Jail on $300 bond each.

Early this (Thursday) morning at 12:30am Officers arrested 55-year-old Robert McCrory of Greenfield at 210 North Oak Street. McCroy was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd Offense.  He was also arrested on a Union County Warrant for Violation of Probation on the original charge of Possesion of a Controlled Substance 2nd Offense. He was taken to the Union County Jail and held awaiting a bond hearing.