George, Iowa — The a cappella singing group, Tonic Sol FA will be appearing in George Monday evening as a fundraiser for the George-Little Rock Schools Foundation. Monday evening’s show will be held at 7:30 in the George-Little Rock High School Auditorium.
Greg is one of the members of Tonic Sol FA, and he says the group, which is a trio, actually began as a quintet.
He tells us a little bit about what we’ll see at Monday night’s performance.
But, he says, Tonic Sol FA does more than just, in his words, “stand up there and sing for an hour and a half.”
Tickets for Monday night’s show are $27.50 for adults, and $20 for current George-Little Rock students, and can be purchased at Northwest Consultants in George, Frontier Bank in Little Rock, or online at www.tonicsolfa.com
Sheldon, Iowa — A husband-wife chiropractic team who opened a clinic this summer in Sheldon celebrated their new business on Friday with a ribbon cutting.
Doctors Ryan and Patience Skrenes opened Choice Chiropractic in July.
At the ribbon cutting, Scott Wynja spoke on behalf of the city of Sheldon.
Sheldon Chamber and Development Executive Director Curt Strouth spoke on behalf of the SCDC.
Skip Tanner spoke on behalf of the Sheldon Ambassadors.
Dr. Ryan Skrenes tells us about the business.
He says they also have another treatment option available.
He says their hours are Mondays from 8 AM to 6 PM, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8 to 5, and Fridays from 8 to noon.
You can reach them to make an appointment at 712-324-5313. Also check out their facebook page for more information. Just look for Choice Chiropractic. Choice Chiropractic is located at 712 Fourth Avenue in Sheldon.
Alton, Iowa — Northwest Iowa had a somewhat surprising bout with severe weather on Friday night.
It’s not known at this time how many of these tornadoes were separate tornadoes and how many were different reports of the same tornado.
But it all started when a tornado was reported by a member of the public near Alton at about 5:46 PM. Three minutes later, at 5:49 PM, the National Weather Service received a report of a tornado a mile northeast of Orange City, which was called in by law enforcement. An officer also called in a funnel cloud, one mile south-southeast of Brunsville at three minutes before six. At 6:01 PM, a storm chaser called in a report of a tornado a mile northeast of Hospers. Also near Hospers, a storm spotter called in a report of a funnel cloud three miles east of that town at 6:05. Three minutes later a funnel cloud was reported by law enforcement a mile west of Meriden. At 6:36 PM another funnel cloud report was received from a spotter. This one was said to be six miles south of Alton. The final report in northwest Iowa was at 6:39 PM, of a tornado two miles north of Larrabee. It was reported by law enforcement that that storm lifted a roof off of a house.
Sioux County Emergency Management Director Nate Huizenga has also reported that a machine shed sustained major damage a mile south of Alton. No injuries were reported
Orange City, Iowa — A 19-year old Hawarden man who escaped from the Sheldon Residential Treatment Facility in August of this year is now in custody after being on the lam Thursday.
The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office reports that 19-year old Kyle Bottorff was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison earlier this week. But he failed to report to the Sioux County Jail on time to begin his sentence.
Sioux County Chief Deputy Nate Huizenga says that deputies were looking for Bottorff on Thursday and a Nixle alert was sent out to the public because they had received information that stated that Bottorff was suicidal. Huizenga says that just before 8 PM, Bottorff turned himself in at the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office and the alert was canceled. He says Bottorff was charged with Failure To Appear.
Sioux County Attorney Thomas Kunstle says that Bottorff had originally pled guilty to six counts of Burglary in the Third Degree, in connection with numerous burglaries in the Hawarden area. Kunstle says each count was a class D felony. Kunstle says Bottorff was originally given a 10-year suspended prison sentence and required to reside at the Sheldon RTF. Kunstle says that, on August 28th of this year, Bottorff was discovered to have escaped from the RTF.
Kunstle says Bottorff appeared in Sioux County District Court in Orange City Monday, where he received the 10-year sentence for violating the probation that had originally sent him to the Sheldon RTF. He says Bottorff was ordered to report to the Sioux County Jail before being transferred to the Iowa Department of Corrections.
Sheldon, Iowa — More than three weeks without rainfall came to an end in Sheldon during the 24-hour period ending at 7 am Friday.
At 7 o’clock Friday morning the official National Weather Service 24-hour precipitation reading was measured at the KIWA studios to be .35″. By mid-morning, close to an additional half inch of rain had fallen.
Sheldon’s official National Weather Service Weather Observer is Frank Luepke. He says today’s rain is the first we’ve seen since late September.
Luepke says that, although Sheldon has never seen an October with no rainfall, we have come close.
He says that the dry period we’ve experienced this month compares to October, 2010.
Luepke says that, judging by the forecast for the remainder of the month, this October probably won’t end up with as much total rainfall as 2010, however.
Cherokee, Iowa — A district judge who is the former Lyon County Attorney has dismissed a case against the Iowa Utilities Board, saying that the plaintiffs in the case had not availed themselves of all of the remedies available to them before filing a lawsuit against the board. Judge Carl Petersen
The proposed “Dakota Access Pipeline” would cut diagonally across Iowa from the northwest to the southeast, crossing Lyon, Sioux and O’Brien Counties among others. The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) is expected to decide in December or January whether the project may proceed.
The board is considering whether to grant eminent domain requests to Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, so the company can acquire land and pump crude oil from fields in North Dakota to a terminal in Illinois. Opponents of the pipeline have raised environmental concerns.
The suit was filed by several landowners against the IUB saying farmland cannot be taken for eminent domain unless it is for a public utility.
Judge Carl J. Petersen wrote in his decision:
“As all of Petitioners’ potential wrongs are provided for in the relevant statute, intended for review by IUB, and are subject to application for judicial review following IUB’s decision, the wrongs are adequately addressed through the administrative process.”
Judge Peterson did not rule whether the company is eligible to use eminent domain for the proposed pipeline.
The Iowa Utilities Board has scheduled November 12 for public comment and November 16 for an evidentiary hearing. Both will take place at the Boone County Fairgrounds Community Building in Boone. Energy Transfer Partners wants the pipeline operational by the end of 2016.
George, Iowa — The a cappella singing group, Tonic Sol FA will be appearing in George Monday evening as a fundraiser for the George-Little Rock Schools Foundation. Monday evening’s show will be held at 7:30 in the George-Little Rock High School Auditorium.
