Red Oak Police Chief Justin Rhamy reports the Southwest Iowa Squadron of Heroes is planning a “Jail N’ Bail” fundraiser. Area participants have been asked to “volunteer” to be a convict for a day, and raise their bail money to avoid being thrown in the mock “slammer.” The event takes place Sept. 26th at the Red Oak Elk’s Lodge. If you’re asked to “bail” one of the volunteers out, please consider their request, as funds raised go toward the purchase of costumes (alterations, updates, support kits, cooling vests and many related items). Children’s handouts will be ordered also, and begin the process of obtaining an official mode of Superhero transportation.

Since the group formed, there are eight volunteer heroes: Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Thor, Optimus Prime, The Flash, Superman, and Super Girl. Rhamy says they have attended several events and have had overwhelming support from the various communities the Super Heroes have appeared in. The group is strictly voluntary, and all funds raised will be used towards the cause and group’s mission statement of positive interaction with young people (ages 1 to 101) in southwest Iowa.

The volunteer “convicts” will be joining Police and others at the Red Oak Elk’s Lodge throughout the afternoon of Sept. 26th (from Noon to 5-p.m.), to get their official “mug shot” taken. For more information, call 712-623-6500. Checks may be made payable to the Red Oak Elk’s Lodge Super Hero account.

The Creston Police Department reports 24-year old James Cox, of Orient, was arrested in Creston, Monday afternoon. Cox was taken into custody on an Adams County warrant for a Controlled Substance Violation. Cox was turned over to the Adams County Sheriff’s Department.

And, a Creston woman reported Saturday afternoon, that sometime between 2-p.m. Sept. 5th and Noon, Saturday, someone took two concrete lion statues, a statue of a boy and a drill, from 205 N. Chestnut Street. The loss was estimated at $620.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowans are remembering the terrorist attacks 17 years ago today (Tuesday) which claimed the lives of nearly three-thousand people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D-C. Craig Morris, commander of American Legion Post number-88 in Shenandoah, says their Patriot Day events will start out with what’s called the Four Fives. “Which is a striking of the bells, which happens when a firefighter loses his life in the line of duty,” Morris says. “The mayor will present a wreath. We’ll be playing taps. We’ll say the Pledge of Allegiance. We’re just going to be there to remember and to pay tribute to all of our first responders.”

Morris was working in an auto manufacturing plant in Michigan the day of the Nine Eleven attacks.  “We were told that planes were hitting buildings,” Morris says. “Being prior military, I didn’t know if we were under a military attack. Being in Michigan, everybody was panicking, running to the (gas) pumps. It put everybody in quite a panic.” Today’s ceremony is important, he says, in order to remind everyone of the events on that fateful day.  “Those terrorists, they wanted to inflict as much fear into our country,” Morris says. “I still see a lot of that happening today with the hatred. I hope this country hasn’t fallen asleep, because I really believe it can happen again.”

The events are also a tribute, he says, a thank you to every law officer, firefighter and paramedic who’s on the job. “Our first responders need to know that we’re behind them,” he says. “That’s not an easy job to do. We as a nation, we really do need to stay together, united together, and this is a great way to do that.” Shenandoah’s events will begin at 12:10 p-m at the Bogart Park veterans memorial. One guest speaker is Kim Leininger, whose nephew died in the World Trade Center attacks.

In honor of the Atlantic Sesquicentennial, officials with the First Whitney Bank and Trust in Atlantic, will unveil a monument dedicated to the City’s Founder. A ceremony for the bronze statue of Franklin Whitney will take place at about 6-p.m., across from the bank at 3^rd and Chestnut Streets. The statue was created by Scott Smith and Troy Muller, with the First Century Art Guild in Kimballton.

The unveiling is part of a ceremony take thats place from 5-until 7-p.m. The statue is a gift to the City as part of the City’s 150^th Anniversary celebration.

VINTON, Iowa (AP) — A Vinton man who authorities say fired a gun toward officers has been charged with three crimes. The Iowa Public Safety Department says 43-year-old Lyle Fowler on Friday shot toward officers sent to check his welfare. The two officers fired back, but no one was wounded in the exchange. The department says the officers were Sgt. Benjamin Parmater and Patrol Officer Katlyn Schimerowski of the Vinton Police Department.

Benton County court records say Fowler is charged with two counts of armed assault on a peace officer, two counts of interference with official acts and two counts of going armed with intent. Fowler’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 18.

(Radio Iowa) — A few hours after his cordial reception at SWIPCO in Atlantic, Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley’s town hall meeting in Osceola late Monday afternoon was a prime example of the country’s partisan divide. Grassley was asked about tariffs, taxes, criminal justice reform and monopolies, but Grassley’s role in confirming President Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee was the main flash point. The meeting was the final stop in Grassley’s “hold-an-event-in-each-Iowa-county” tour for 2018. He told reporters most didn’t have the same kind of verbal fireworks.

“Obviously, this isn’t a very typical meeting compared to the meetings i have, even other open town meetings. Maybe it was because it was a small room,” Grassley says. “…Most of them, people just want to discuss things.” Grassley, a witness to other moments of national upheaval, predicted this fevered debate will fade — at some point. “Everything heals with time,” Grassley told reporters. “Even death heals with time.”

Grassley had a “blizzard” at Dairy Queen afterwards to mark his 38th consecutive year of completing a “full Grassley.” A tour the involves a stop in each of Iowa’s 99 counties has become known in political circles as the “full Grassley.”

(Radio Iowa) — Republican Governor Kim Reynolds and Democratic challenger Fred Hubbell issued a joint statement last (Monday) night to announce they’ve agreed to debate one another three times on live television in October. The first televised debate between the two candidates will be held October 10th in Des Moines. The second will be October 17th in Sioux City and the third will be in Davenport on October 21st. The two candidates — in their joint statement — said the agreement means “Iowans across the state will have access to a vigorous debate about the future of Iowa.”

Jake Porter, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for governor, tweeted last night that he will host his own events to discuss “real solutions” and he’ll let Hubbell and Reynolds — who he called “the two children” — fight somewhere else.