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-- Fairfield Ledger Mt. Pleasant News Washington Evening Journal -- Classifieds Jobs Real Estate Buy Photos -- Public Notices Weather Account Subscribe E-edition Home News Sports Lifestyles Opinion Obituaries Special Sections Search Account Subscribe -- Subscribe E-edition Search Home News Sports Lifestyles Opinion Obituaries Special Sections Classifieds Jobs Real Estate Public Notices Weather Fairfield Ledger Mt. Pleasant News -- -- Top Stories -- Mt. Pleaant Children's Museum reopens Aug. 24 Thursday, August 13, 2020 By Ashley Duong, The Union News -- MT. PLEASANT - Building robots, playing with Legos and examining a tyrannosaurus-rex footprint are just several things kids will be able to do at Mt. Pleasant Public Library's new Children's ... -- Fairfield filmmakers honored by Iowa Motion Picture ... -- Thursday, August 13, 2020 Andy Hallman News -- FAIRFIELD – Fairfield residents were well represented among the winners of the Iowa Motion Picture Association’s virtual awards ceremony held Saturday. Fair Field Productions, which is producing the Fairfield History Series, won eight awards for its most recent film “A Place to Grow.” Werner Elmker received an award for his ongoing video series on YouTube called “Planet Fairfield.” Luke Stenger won two Awards of Excellence, the highest honor given, in the categories of web series and corporate and community marketing. The eight categories “A Place to Grow” won awards for were best documentary, editing (by Ed Murphy), direction (Dick DeAngelis), director of photography (Jason Strong), educational production, original music score, soundtrack audio mix (Tim Britton) and voice over narration (Dick DeAngelis). The film “A Place to Grow” is about the history of agriculture in Jefferson County and is the third film in the eight-part Fairfield History Series. DeAngelis noted that each film in the series has won more awards than the film from the previous year. This year the production company won four achievement awards and four awards for excellence, compared to one achievement award and one award for excellence for the first film, and two achievement awards and one award for excellence for the second film. “Our team is getting better,” DeAngelis said. “For many films, the filmmaker sits back and talks about it for a couple of years. We take one to two weeks off and then keep going on the next.” DeAngelis said he hopes the production company will be “pretty good at this” by the time it makes the eighth film in the series. Jason Strong remarked that while getting awards is not his main goal, “I have to admit it feels pretty good getting one. Knowing your work stood out amongst many makes all the long hours worth it.” Stenger won for his web series called “theSteng Show” which features weekly conversation swith guests that he said is akin to that of pioneer podcaster Joe Rogan. His corporate and community marketing video highlighted the newly established Fairfield Mind & Body yoga studio created by Andrea Palladino. “Being recognized by a panel of judges always feels great, but in truth my stiffest competition is YouTube itself and the proof is in the pudding,” Stenger said. “There’s so much entertainment on the internet these days; I’m just trying to produce quality content that I myself would want to watch and listen to. On my YouTube channel, “theSteng”, I’m uploading constantly uploading new content and refining my craft. I feel honored to be a part of such outstanding filmmakers in the local community.” Elmker said he thinks a large part of the credit for the success of his series “Planet Fairfield” goes to the “wonderful people, skies, plants and wildlife of Fairfield, who are the main actors of these videos.” He is happy to note that a lot of people have moved to Fairfield because of videos like these. -- FAIRFIELD - Fairfield residents were well represented among the winners of the Iowa Motion Picture ... -- Reynolds issues disaster proclamation for 14 counties ... Thursday, August 13, 2020 News -- Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation that includes Washington county in response to a severe weather system that moved across Iowa and caused widespread damage on Monday. The proclamation allows state resources to be utilized to respond to and recover from the effects of this severe weather. The proclamation activates the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program for qualifying residents, along with the Disaster Case Management Program, for all these counties as well as Boone and Clinton counties, which were previously declared to be in a state of disaster emergency. Other counties included in the proclamation are Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Greene, Hardin, Iowa, Jasper, Linn, Muscatine, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott and Tama counties Reynolds previously declared a disaster and activated the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program and the Disaster Case Management Program, for Dallas, Johnson, Marshall and Story counties. Proclamations may be issued for additional counties. The Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program provides grants of up to $5,000 for households with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level or a maximum annual income of $43,440 for a family of three. Grants are available for home or car repairs, replacement of clothing or food, and temporary housing expenses. Original receipts are required for those seeking reimbursement for actual expenses related to storm recovery. The grant application and instructions are available on the Iowa Department of Human Services website. Potential applicants have 45 days from the date of the proclamation to submit a claim. Disaster Case Management is a program to address serious needs to overcome a disaster-related hardship, injury or adverse condition. Disaster case managers work with clients to create a disaster recovery plan and provide guidance, advice and referral to obtain a service or resource. There are no income eligibility requirements for this program; it closes 180 days from the date of the governor’s proclamation. For information on the Disaster Case Management Program, contact your local community action association or visit www.iowacommunityaction.org. The suspension of regulatory provisions pertaining to weight limits and hours of service for disaster repair crews and drivers delivering goods and services and the movement of loads related to responding to the severe storm system throughout the state of Iowa remains in effect. Iowa residents of counties impacted by the recent severe weather are asked to report damage to help local and state officials better understand the damage sustained. Damage to property, roads, utilities and other storm-related information may be reported. This information will be collected by the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and shared with local emergency management agencies. -- Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation that includes Washington county in response to ... -- Contact tracers are virus detectives Thursday, August 13, 2020 Andy Hallman News -- FAIRFIELD – Jefferson County Public Health Administrator Chris Estle said last week her office has done contact tracing on 82 positive COVID-19 cases in the county. Contact tracing involves asking those who test positive for COVID-19 to name the people they have come into contact with in the past 10 days. Public health gets phone numbers for those people and notifies them that they have come into contact with a person known to have COVID-19. The public health department tells them the date they came into contact with the person but they do not reveal the person’s identity. Estle said the department does not reveal the names of positive cases for privacy reaso...