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09/04/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-PM
(STORM LAKE)--A REMBRANDT MAN IS CHARGED FOR THE DEATH OF HIS SON AFTER A HEAD-ON FATAL COLLISION SOUTH OF SIOUX RAPIDS IN JULY.
THE IOWA STATE PATROL TODAY RELEASED INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARREST OF 39-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW WRATHER OF REMBRANDT.
THE PATROL REPORTS WRATHER IS CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE BY MOTOR VEHICLE, SERIOUS INJURY BY MOTOR VEHICLE AND CHILD ENDANGERMENT RESULTING IN DEATH.
WRATHER'S SON, 10-YEAR-OLD GAVIN WRATHER OF ORANGE CITY, WAS A PASSENGER IN A CAR DRIVEN BY HIS FATHER THAT COLLIDED WITH A VAN DRIVEN BY 48-YEAR-OLD ANTHONY BROKOVEC OF RUTHVEN. BROKOVEC WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
ACCORDING TO THE PATROL, MATTHEW WRATHER IS ACCUSED OF DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED, WITH A SUSPENDED DRIVER'S LICENSE, WITHOUT LIABILITY INSURANCE, WITH FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION, AND LEFT OF CENTER.
WRATHER WAS BOOKED INTO THE BUENA VISTA COUNTY JAIL YESTERDAY AND WAS RELEASED ON BOND LAST NIGHT.
THE STATE PATROL AND BUENA VISTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE INVESTIGATED THE ACCIDENT.
(SIOUX CITY)--RAIN SET A RECORD AT SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT THURSDAY.
ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS, SIOUX GATEWAY RECEIVED THREE INCHES AND SEVEN-HUNDREDTHS. THIS SET A NEW DAILY RECORD RAINFALL. THE LAST RECORD WAS ABOUT HALF AN INCH LESS-2.61 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ON THE THIRD OF SEPTEMBER IN 1949.
KLEM RECORDED EIGHT-TENTHS OF AN INCH YESTERDAY.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) At least one Iowa school district has decided against allowing its students to hear President Barack Obama's pep talk on education.
According to the White House, the president will speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. However, dozens of parents in Sioux City have called with concerns, and at least a half dozen calls have been made to principals in West Des Moines and Des Moines.
Norwalk teachers were told by Norwalk Superintendent Denny Wulf not to allow students to watch the speech live, although they can record it and use excerpts.
Ranking Republican on the Iowa House Education Committee, Mike May, says he understands the concerns, but children should hear the speech if it's nonpolitical. He adds being challenged by people like President Obama is a good thing.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
(Little Sioux)--As many as a thousand volunteers will be tackling dozens of chores, big and small at the Little Sioux Boy Scout Camp . Four scouts were killed, dozens hurt, when a tornado hit the camp in June of 2008. Jeff Parness, spokesman for the New York Says Thank You Foundation, says his team is in Harrison County through Sunday.
Parness says, "We're going to help rebuild the camp." Three of the Boy Scouts who died in the storm were Nebraskans, all from Omaha; the fourth boy was Aaron Eilerts of Eagle Grove, Iowa. Hundreds of trees were toppled in the storm and several camp buildings were flattened. Parness says the volunteers will be building a chapel on the site of the lodge where the four boys were killed using lumber from those trees. He explains their motivation for coming to Iowa.
Parness says, "After Nine Eleven, in the days and weeks that followed, we had so much support from people all around the United States, folks from Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, just all across America who poured into New York to help us, that our foundation was formed to honor all of that generosity and to pay it forward." He says it's an amazing team that continues to grow. They're joined by disaster survivors from all communities around the U-S that they helped on previous anniversaries of Nine Eleven.
Parness says, "Every year, on the Nine Eleven anniversary, we send volunteers from New York to help rebuild communities hit by disaster as our way of saying thank you and celebrating the kindliness and neighborliness and humanity that we experienced not just as New Yorkers, but as a nation, and not just on Nine Eleven but on Nine Twelve." For more information or to make a tax-deductible donation, visit: www.newyorksaysthankyou.org(News report by Radio Iowa)
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) Runners and walkers can take part in a 5K on Saturday and help suicide prevention efforts at the University of South Dakota.
The third annual Nikki's Fund 5K Run/Walk starts at 9 a.m. at Prentis Park in Vermillion.
It's one of several campus activities to increase suicide awareness and raise money to help USD students who are depressed or having suicidal thoughts.
Nikki's Fund was created in memory of Nicole Vallie Harris, who committed suicide in 2005. She's the daughter of Janine Harris, manager of the Al Neuharth Media Center at USD.
Registration is $10.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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