In the interest of keeping Henry County residents informed, the Henry County Sheriff’s office has requested KILJ post the daily jail count. During the jail referendum campaign it was publicized that the jail would be able to house additional inmates from surrounding counties and this would generate revenue for Henry County.
Date: ____02-04-2022_____
JAIL COUNT
22_ Henry County Inmates
46_ Out of County Contract Inmates
68 _ TOTAL
The Mount Pleasant Board of Education POLICY COMMITTEE will meet at 4:10pm on Friday, February 4, 2022,
Mt. Pleasant CSD – Central Office
1010 East Washington Street – Suite 102
to review/discuss:
Henry County Auditor Shelly Barber reminds everyone that the off year caucuses will be held February 7. Four Henry County officials are up for re-election. They are Treasurer Ana Lair, who has already announced she will not run for another term, Recorder Mindy Fitzgibbon, Attorney Darin Stater and Supervisor Marc Lindeen.
The 2022 Democratic caucuses will be held on Monday, February 7, at 7:00 p.m., at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Mount Pleasant. In addition to party building, the caucuses will determine precinct leadership and elect delegates to the county convention, which is scheduled for Saturday, March 26. This is the first step in working on the state party’s business and kicks off the process of creating a state party platform. The Republican caucuses will also start at 7 pm and will be held at the First United Methodist Church.
The candidate filing periods for the June 7, 2022, Primary Election are:
Federal and State candidate lists will be available and updated throughout the filing period.
| By Sonya Sellmeyer, Consumer Advocacy Officer for the Iowa Insurance Division
February is the month of romance, but love and companionship may also involve a scam. According to the FBI, romance or confidence scams were responsible for over 23,000 reported victims losing over $605 million in 2020, compared to 12,500 victims and $203 million in losses during 2015.
A romance scam is when a swindler uses a fake identity to gain a victim’s trust and affection. The introduction of the new romantic interest or friendship may occur online, via a dating app, social media, random text message, phone call, or email. Usually, the romantic interest never meets in person, though numerous plans for a gathering have been made and rescheduled with excuses. The fake identity could be that of a member of the military, someone wealthy overseas, an overseas construction worker, or one of many other fake personas. These professionals quickly gain a victim’s trust and express many commonalities with their victim. As the relationship evolves the scammer will continue to reel their victim in with promises and gifts of love. After trust is established, the romantic interest develops a story about a sick child, being stranded in a foreign country, legal fees, being held against their will, or other urgent situations where large amounts of money are needed quickly. The scammer may also ask for personal information to steal the victim’s identity or assets, or ask the victim to launder money by transferring or moving money illegally for someone else, also known as a money mule. The senior financial exploitation law recently enacted in Iowa allows brokerage institutions to temporarily freeze an account where they fear the owner may be the victim of a scam and authorizes the IID to investigate reports of suspected financial exploitation. Avoid being a victim by following these simple rules:
The Iowa Fraud Fighter program is a source of information to shield your savings from scammers. You can also increase your financial literacy with the Iowa Insurance Division (IID) Save4Later free educational website. Anyone can be a victim, knowing how to protect yourself is the first step in prevention. ### |
(Photo Courtesy: Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
KILJ — We are just days away from the start of the Road to Wells Fargo, as tournament trail wrestling gets started this Saturday for Class 1A and 2A.
In Class 1A, area wrestlers will compete at English Valleys and Sigourney while Class 2A area programs will wrestle at Benton Community and Solon.
Class 1A, Sectional 13 (English Valleys)
Class 1A, Sectional 14 (Sigourney)
Class 2A, Sectional 15 (Benton)
Class 2A, Sectional 16 (Solon)
Class 3A will have off this weekend before districts next.
Nathan Bloechl and Griffin Humphreys will have coverage on FM 105.5 and kilj.com beginning at noon Saturday.
The state wrestling tournament is set to begin Thursday, February 17th.
Mount Pleasant — Forfeits for Alaina Sunlin and Mia Palumbo and a tech fall win for Joanna Vanderwood propelled Iowa Wesleyan No. 16 ranked women’s wrestling team to a 29-19 win over William Penn last night.
The Tigers are now 2-1 in duals and will travel to Des Moines this weekend for the Grand View University Open.
Wrestling in Des Moines will begin Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m.
The Tigers have two more duals on their schedule before their much anticipated postseason; with action at Missouri Valley College on February 15th and a home date with Central Methodist on February 18th.
Mount Pleasant — The Mount Pleasant girls’ basketball team is back at home tonight when the Panthers host Burlington in a Southeast Conference matchup.
The Grayhounds enter 0-14 while Mount Pleasant is 8-10.
The Panthers have lost two straight since clawing back to .500 — though those losses have came against two ranked opponents in Keokuk and Mediapolis.
Conference Player of the Year Candidate Andrea Lopreato leads the team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.
In her last two against Burlington, the superstar junior is averaging 27.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists.
Kenna Lamm is second on the team at 12.8 points per game, connecting on 33% of her three point shots.
Alexis Standard leads Burlington at 10.8 points per game.
Tonight’s game will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Pleasant High School.
Due to contractual obligations with Hawkeye basketball, there will be no radio for tonight’s game.
KILJ — The Super Conference schedule is preparing it’s teams for postseason play with big games tonight and the Shootout Games this weekend.
Games tonight will be girl-boy doubleheaders with the girls’ starting at 6:00 p.m. and the boys’ at 7:30 p.m.
We’ll unveil the Shootout Games tomorrow. The girls’ Shootout Games will be hosted by the North Division and will be played Friday.
The boys’ will be hosted by the South Division and be played Saturday.
