Joining us on this friday morning. Im lukas voss. The Sioux City Catholic Diocese is planning major changes for siouxland parishioners. Dozens of churches will no longer host sunday mass. Its in response to a decline in people heading to church on sundays. And fewer priests trying to take care of more churches. Abc9 news anchor Jenna Rehnstrom has more about the potential impact. Father lingle says, simply put, we have too many sunday masses in too many places that are too sparcly attended. Father brent lingle tells me leading up to thursdays announcement, hes been praying for peace for the diocese he serves. But, he knows changes are neccessary to navigate the decreasing number of prits and also declining numbers of people theyre serving. Father lingle, i look at my brother priests who are facing retirement age and i know they work hard and i know were spending more time in our cars than we are doing ministry, so im about the process because as we look forward, i think its going to re
Jonathan walsh went digging for answers in boston heights. Reporter you have lived here how long . All my life. Reporter 76yearold Mary Griffith owns these two homes side by side. She showed me the well that shes used for decades and still does. Its been very good for the reporter she was a bit surprised when she got a 27 bill from cleveland water. How can i be getting a water bill when i still have my well and no pipes down to the house or anything . Reporter you see, theres some development happening across the street. Reporter did they put these fire hydrants in here . Yes. Reporter as a part of all that a water line did go in at the row. However, mary told us she isnt even hooked up yet, but then she received two more 27 bills totaling 81. I feel like where do i turn . Reporter were not just talking about three bills for this house. Six total bills. She says 30 to 50 phone calls later to Customer Service and shes still getting stonewalled. Its very, very difficult. You either get a
Police tried to help the Iowa Department of Human Services enforce a court order to remove the 3 year old and 1 year old girls from the home. So their well evaluated. 3 the children werent there, and no members of the family would cooperate. This morning banks was jailed fororcontempt of court. 3 a search of the grandmothers home resulted in her arrest for conspiring to send the children out of state. An alert was sent out advising the childrens lives may be in danger. Just after 6 tonight. Storm lake Police Confirmed the girls have been found safe. Banks isiseing heldldithout bond. Pamons bond is set at 20 thousand dollars. 3 3 the cost of getting caught by one of those red light or speed cameras in sioux city may be going down. The cameras have been at the center of various lawsuits over their legality. Tonight the Council Agreed to amend its contract w wh the owner of the cameras. A Company Called redflex traffic systems. The change allows the city or red flex to provide a 90 day no
It means a lot, means a lot. Great program in an effortrto provide these dodo with a safe environment, the department of corrections started a new project, called hounds of hope. A team effort with noahs hope Animal Rescue of sioux city and partners for patriots. I mean these guys are very very passionate about training these dogs. I mean they love these dogs just like we do. These guys are doing outstanding with him just outstandingngyou know. Thth programamruns sev days a week, where 12 inmatep are signed to work from 6 to 11 in the morning, then at 12 30 to 4 30 in the afternoon, and last shift at 5 30 to about 9 30 in the evening. And theyre teaming up with partners for patriots, a Nonprofit Organization that trains service dogs for disabled veterans. Inmates tell me, the program is a winwin for them. It helps us with our attitudes. Encourages us to change our ways because if we can work with ououattitudes in here. Out there we can control them better with human beings hard time an
Other forces in the syrian stronghold of f raqqa this week have killededore than two dozen isis militants. Jonathan vigliotti cbs 3 news paris. 3 france has stepped up its airstrikes against isis in syria since those terror attacks last wewe. Yesterday the ench Aircraft Carrier Charles De Gaulle left to help French Military operations in syria. 3 and right now. A man from iowa is walking from normandy to paris. He started his journey for climate awareness. Because of the u n Climate Summit thatll be held in france at the end of the month. Ed fallon started walkininnovember 11th. He was in the town of bin oo vill benouville. France. When paris was attacked. But his walking partners wife and child got into paris and were staying in a hotel not far from where the attacks happened. Luckily. They were luckily safe and able to join the walking journey y o days later. Thats when ed said they stumbled onto a vigil with two thousand people. 3 the thing i got was, you know, we arent going to qui