Mountain Lake Police Department reported 10 calls in the week of July 2nd to July 7th. Officers responded to two separate burglary alarms that were both false and assisted another agency with removing debris on roadway on Highway 60. Officers had two welfare checks and an officer handled a suicidal person. Officers handled a civil disputed involving child custody, a noise complaint, and a verbal domestic. A citation was issued to an individual for Driving After Revocation.
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Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported on the 9th they had 5 calls. At 5:31am dispatch transferred a 911 call to the MN State Patrol of a homeless male laying or sleeping on the side of the road on MN 60 near Wilder. Deputies responded to a minor two vehicle accident at 8:40am. The Emergency Management, Jackson City officials, and members of the Sheriff’s Office assisted FEMA with tours of Jackson businesses and residences to conduct damage assessments at 9am and then at 1pm Emergency Management, Heron Lake City officials, and members of the Sheriff’s Office assisted FEMA with tours of Heron Lake residences to conduct damage assessments. At 9:04 pm A 45 year old male from Jackson turned himself in at the LEC lobby on two active warrants. The male was served a Sign and Release warrant for Nobles County for Misdemeanor Theft. He was held in jail on an active Mower County warrant for 3rd Degree Damage to Property. He will wait for Mower County to transport him to appear in Court on that warrant.
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Meetings today include:
- Des Moines Valley Health and Human Services Board at 9:00 am at the Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center located at 902 5th Avenue #1, in Windom.
- The Red Rock Central School District Board of Education is holding a work session meeting at 5:30pm in Lamberton, the focus will be on marketing.
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The Minnesota Department of Corrections and Cottonwood County Probation are sponsoring a free public event for adults 18 years of age and older. On Monday July 22nd at 6:15pm at the Windom Community Center a program “HIGH IN PLAIN SIGHT” featuring national speaker, Jermaine Galloway also known as TALL COP will be presenting a program to learn about current drug trends, drug use and abuse indicators in high risk individuals and ways to identify methods of concealment including information on vaping. This is a Free Event and it is asked that you register at www.eventbrite.com to get a headcount for food and snacks that will be provided.
There will also be a professional all day training event on Tuesday July 23rd if you are interested in participating for yourself or business.
Both links are available on the KDOM Website at www.windomradio.com under todays Local Headline News.
The Eventbrite links:
The public event Monday evening July 22nd is:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tall-cop-says-stop-high-in-plain-sight-tickets-817376564307
The professional training event that is all day Tuesday, July 23rd is:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tall-cop-says-stop-high-in-plain-sight-tickets-817409302227
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The Cottonwood County Emergency Management is looking for volunteers that enjoy weather and keeping track of precipitation and logging every rainfall and keeping records. The National Weather Service has started a recruitment campaign for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS). COCORAHS is a community based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds, working together to measure precepatation in their local communities. If you are interested there are four simple steps.
- Register at cocorahs.org
- View online training
- Obtain Authorized Rain Gauge
- Record and Report Observations
The data is used by Meteorologists, Hydrologists, Water Resources/Drought, Research/Event Documentation and much more. You can find out more about the importance of the reported information at the website: www.cocorahs.org
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