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Reported tornado damages Panora housing By KYLE WILSON
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A line of violent thunderstorms swept through southwest and central Iowa Sunday producing reported tornadoes and heavy rainfall. Jo Duckworth, emergency management coordinator in Union County, is in Panora this morning where a reported tornado damaged condominiums near Lake Panorama just after 10 p.m. Sunday. No in-
juries have been reported in that possible tornado. Duckworth said she is providing mutual aid there today, doing damage assessDuckworth ments. “I’m just paying it forward. We received a lot of help when we had our tornado in Creston,” Duckworth said. In the Creston News Advertiser
Postponement: The annual Creston Elks Lodge youth track meet scheduled for tonight has been postponed until Wednesday. ■
coverage area, Adair and Clarke counties were hardest hit by Sunday’s storms. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued Sunday afternoon and didn’t expire until 1:30 a.m. today for most of southwest Iowa. Murray and Osceola reported
two inches of rainfall in less than 90 minutes Sunday afternoon. Creston has received two inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, these violent storms produced wind speeds of 60 miles an hour in Union County. Duckworth said no major damage was
HALLELUJAH GIRLS ■ Crest Area Theatre (CAT) held three showings of their play “Hallelujah Girls” over Mother’s Day weekend at Southwestern Community College Performing Arts Center. More than 200 tickets were sold to the play.
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Above, Bunny Sutherland (Julie Weisshaar) tells Sugar Lee Thomkins (Cathy Whited), left, about her plans to tip off the city building inspector about structural problems in the basement of Sugar Lee’s day spa. Pictured right is Bobby Dwayne Dillahunt (Rod Tostenson) Right, Carlene Travis (Jean Sheridan) reacts after Porter Padgett (Wes Ray) gives her a putty knife for an early Christmas present.
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Carlene Travis (Jean Sheridan) reacts to Nita Mooney (Laural Griswold) telling the group how her husband racked up significant charges on their credit card. ■ All photos from the play can be viewed at www.crestonnews.com by clicking on the photos tab at the top of the website.
reported in Creston or the CNA coverage, though. “I’m not aware of any at this point,” Duckworth said. More rainfall is expected in southwest Iowa this afternoon with flash flooding possible. The annual Creston Elks Lodge youth track meet has been postponed until Wednesday. The high temperature today is expected in the low 70s. Tuesday’s forecast is dry, partly cloudy and cooler with a high in the low 60s.
Effigy Mounds report released today (MCT) — The National Park Service has acknowledged that it failed “to uphold the public trust in resource protection” at Effigy Mounds National Monument, near McGregor in northeast Iowa. The admission came after two National Park Service critics — Friends of Effigy Mounds and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — obtained documents relating to what the groups call “one of the biggest and most embarrassing official mass desecrations of Indian prehistoric burial sites.” Those documents, a lightly redacted 723-page transcript of the Park Service’s internal investigation of the matter, will be released to the public on Monday. The Park Service said the investigation, by NPS Special Agent David Barland-Liles, documented numerous failures on the part of former Effigy Mounds National Monument staff to comply with resource protection laws between 1999 and 2009. The investigation identified at least 78 structures, including elevated boardwalks, decks and a machine storage shed, built without first securing clearances under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires federal agencies to consider the effect of projects on “significant historic properties.”
‘An indelible stain’ Effigy Mounds National Monument was established in 1949 specifically to protect the more than 200 prehistoric native American mounds, each in the shape of stylized animals or symbols, considered sacred by the monument’s 12 affiliated tribes, as well as by many non-native Americans. “Our failure to uphold the public trust in resource protection has weakened our relationship with the State Historic Preservation Office, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the American Indian tribes culturally affiliated with the monument, as well as with the general public,” the National Park Service said in a statement.
Southwestern graduation From left, Shannon Andreasen smiles for the camera while Abigail Bakerink, Shanna Bears, Kayla Bobbitt, Rayvonne Brown and Jenna Casey talk and prepare to walk across the stage at Southwestern Community College’s 2014 graduation ceremony Friday. Graduates from the college earned degrees in arts, general studies, science and applied science.
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