YMCA Home & Garden Show

by Michael Cooley

The Southern Prairie YMCA Home and Garden Show will be happening Saturday, and organizers are bragging about several features of the event. Jackie Steffen is executive director of the Y. She says you won't want to miss out.

“We've got some hands-on activities,” Steffen tells Creston Radio News. “We've got make it and take it projects that several of our vendors are going to be doing, and virtual shooting range with the DNR. They do that every time we have these home and gardens, and it's a really good draw for both adults and kids.”

Raquel Linch is helping organize the day also. She says there are plenty of workshops that will be available.

“We'll have different demonstrators throughout the day,” says Linch. “We'll have one on Grape Production and Processing, Color in Your Home, Discover the Gardener in You, Creative Camping, and Maintenance for a Healthy Home. So, just in the demonstrations that we'll have throughout the day at the Home and Garden Show, there will be definitely a wide variety, some very interesting programs. Those will be about every 45 minutes. The presentations will be about 30 minutes in length.”

The event will last from 10:00am until 3:00pm. Tickets at the door are $3.

“Your ticket is your passport to some of our recycling services that will be offered that day,” Linch explains. “I think it will be a great addition to our Home and Garden Show. We will have the Shred-It truck, sponsored by Iowa State Savings Bank, where you can bring your confidential papers, take it to the Shred-It truck for safe destruction. Also, e-waste recycling. So many of us with computers changing so frequently, have different computer parts lying around – the monitors, the keyboards, the laptops. So, you'll be able to bring your computer towers, laptops, keyboards, printers for free disposal. Monitors will be ten dollars.”

The vendors will be scattered throughout the building at the YMCA, as well as into the parking lot and near the Southwestern Community College Technical Center. If you can't make it, tune in to Creston Radio, who will be reporting live from the event between 10:00am and noon.

Two Arrests in Clarke County

by Michael Cooley

Authorities with the Clarke County Sheriff's Office report two recent arrest. According to officials, 30-year-old Bradley Bensley of Osceola was taken into custody early on Wednesday morning. Bensley was wanted on a Polk County warrant when he was apprehended just past 2:00pm. He was later released to the custody of Polk County officials.

Meanwhile, a rural Osceola man is out on bond after being arrested early Sunday morning. A report from the Clarke County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Justin Coenen was taken into custody at about 2:45am. He is charged with a first offense OWI and was later released from the Clarke County Jail on $100 cash-only bond.