Sheila Brummer

Sioux City

Reporter at Iowa Public Radio

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After starting new lives in Iowa, some Ukrainian refugees fear deportation

1 month ago | iowapublicradio.org | Sheila Brummer

At a grocery store on the main street of Orange City, a customer mulled over jars of jam through the hum of a refrigerator filled with meats and cheeses. “I haven’t tried the strawberry, or the raspberry, but I love the black currant,” said Lynn Vander Broek, an Orange City resident. This isn’t a typical market. On the shelves of Schedryck, there’s dried squid, pickled squash and sunflower oils — all products of Ukraine. The store also stocks food from other European countries.
GOODALL HONORS TANZANIA MIRACLE KIDS IN SIOUX CITY

1 month ago | ksux.com | Sheila Brummer

WORLD-FAMOUS CONSERVATIONIST JANE GOODALL HONORED THE ONLY THREE SURVIVORS OF A SCHOOL BUS CRASH IN TANZANIA DURING A SPEECH IN SIOUX CITY SUNDAY. ALMOST EIGHT YEARS AGO, MISSIONARIES FROM SIOUX CITY SAVED THE STUDENTS, WHO WERE LATER FLOWN TO SIOUX CITY FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE “MIRACLE KIDS.”. WILSON TARIMO IS NOW 20 YEARS OLD AND RETURNED TO SIOUX CITY IN 2022 TO ATTEND COLLEGE:https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TARIMO.mp3TARIMO OC……….LIFE WORTH LIVING.
GOODALL HONORS TANZANIA MIRACLE KIDS IN SIOUX CITY

1 month ago | kscj.com | Woody Gottburg |Sheila Brummer

WORLD-FAMOUS CONSERVATIONIST JANE GOODALL HONORED THE ONLY THREE SURVIVORS OF A SCHOOL BUS CRASH IN TANZANIA DURING A SPEECH IN SIOUX CITY SUNDAY. ALMOST EIGHT YEARS AGO, MISSIONARIES FROM SIOUX CITY SAVED THE STUDENTS, WHO WERE LATER FLOWN TO SIOUX CITY FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE “MIRACLE KIDS.”. WILSON TARIMO IS NOW 20 YEARS OLD AND RETURNED TO SIOUX CITY IN 2022 TO ATTEND COLLEGE: https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TARIMO.mp3TARIMO OC……….LIFE WORTH LIVING.
Family pushes for awareness for a 1992 Iowa cold case

1 month ago | iowapublicradio.org | Sheila Brummer

Danielle LaPointe of Santee, Nebraska, was just five years old when her aunt Lori Ann DeCora died at the age of 24. DeCora was a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. “She was a very social, extroverted person," LaPointe said. "She was friendly and a lot of people liked her."DeCora attended a house party on Sioux City’s west side in February of 1992. A group chased her outside where she was beaten and stabbed. She died five weeks later. “She did not know those people,” LaPointe said.
Some Iowa school districts close due to spikes in cold and flu cases, causing high levels of absent students | Iowa Public Radio

2 months ago | iowapublicradio.org | Sheila Brummer

Iowa HHS reported an increase in student sicknesses across the state this week. A few schools even closed because of high levels of absenteeism.
Pardoned Iowan wants restitution after the Jan. 6 insurrection

Jan 24, 2025 | tspr.org | Sheila Brummer |Grant Gerlock

Rader said he’s not surprised that he and more than 1,500 other Jan. 6 defendants, including 10 Iowans, were cleared of their crimes. “When you usually get a full pardon, it’s a statement saying they should have never been here in the first place,” Rader said. “It was a wrong, wrongful conviction and prosecution.”A federal judge sentenced Rader of Sioux City to three months in prison plus three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to illegally entering the U.S. Capitol.
Disability advocates call for an end to paying disabled workers less than minimum wage | Iowa Public Radio

Jan 24, 2025 | iowapublicradio.org | Sheila Brummer

The federal government is looking at doing away with a program that allows employers to pay people with disabilities less than the minimum wage.
A cold case arrest brings awareness to the plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Jan 13, 2025 | iowapublicradio.org | Sheila Brummer

For more than forty years, family members of Terri McCauley wished and pushed for justice in the death of the 18-year-old member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. “She could have been a successful person, a Native female, who could have made a big difference in this community. And unfortunately, that was taken from her,” Joshua Taylor, nephew and family spokesperson, said. McCauley disappeared after a night with friends in the fall of 1983.
REYNOLDS SURVEYS CORRECTIONVILLE FLOOD RECOVERY

Dec 10, 2024 | ksux.com | Sheila Brummer |John Holmes

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS RETURNED TO NORTHWEST IOWA MONDAY TO CHECK ON THE PROGRESS OF DISASTER RECOVERY AFTER HISTORIC FLOODING HIT EARLY THIS SUMMER. SHE FIRST TOURED CORRECTIONVILLE IN WOODBURY COUNTY WITH MAYOR KEN BAUER. IT WAS HER FIRST VISIT TO THE TOWN SINCE IT WAS FLOODED BY THE LITTLE SIOUX RIVER. https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CORR4.mp3CORR4 OC……….HOPEFULLY GROW” :10MAYOR KEN BAUER IS STILL TRYING TO CALCULATE THE TOTAL COST TO HIS COMMUNITY.
REYNOLDS SURVEYS CORRECTIONVILLE FLOOD RECOVERY

Dec 10, 2024 | kscj.com | Woody Gottburg |Sheila Brummer |John Holmes

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS RETURNED TO NORTHWEST IOWA MONDAY TO CHECK ON THE PROGRESS OF DISASTER RECOVERY AFTER HISTORIC FLOODING HIT EARLY THIS SUMMER. SHE FIRST TOURED CORRECTIONVILLE IN WOODBURY COUNTY WITH MAYOR KEN BAUER. IT WAS HER FIRST VISIT TO THE TOWN SINCE IT WAS FLOODED BY THE LITTLE SIOUX RIVER. https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CORR4.mp3CORR4 OC……….HOPEFULLY GROW” :10MAYOR KEN BAUER IS STILL TRYING TO CALCULATE THE TOTAL COST TO HIS COMMUNITY.