Abc 9s bria bell brings us more. Bria tim and jenna, the Sioux City Public Library and the Convention Center are two prominent places are feeling the effects of vagrancy issues downtown and now both places are looking to stop people from entering if they do not intend to utilize the facilities properly. Its not a good look when you have somebody sleeping at a table, the sioux city library, typically a nice place to enjoy a good book, is unintentionally housing the homeless. The library will allocate nearly 46,000 for additional security options due to the frequent vagrancy issues, but will it be enough . Im not sure that with the money that well be having, that its really going to cover what we really need, says capron. Also facing similar issues, the sioux city Convention Center. So theyve got some problems with people coming in that arent a part of events, but theyre coming in and theyre using some of the Restroom Facilities there. Weve had some issues where they come in and have eat
Temperatures have arrived and the snow is sticking. Over the weekend. Snow fell near the great lakes. And widespread flurries across the northeast. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. Its beginning to look alot like. Winter. Snow falling and plopping the weather is changing on us fast. Just last week near syracuse, new york this is what it looked like. A week later. This. Kennedy lamb mexico new york i woke up this morning and thought it was christmas. It may be the season has already swept from thest into parts of the east. Across upstate new york a blaststf winter bringngg dangerous conditions . More than 50 accidents in syracuse blamed in part on icy roads. Snow. Collecting on this backyard deck. Nine inches so far. And another backyard buried under the snow. Lynnette west resident i have not seen this snow this early in a long time . The snow also falling early in parts of upper michigan. Nats more snow nats . But in grand rapipi. Just plain cold. Natsrace temps in the mid30s didn
Racer is the champ of the and hes from city. Abc9 News Reporter Deborah Souverain has his story inside the dirt track. You can hear the the fans cheering. Air. This is where Chris Abelson feels the most at home. Confident, the trying to anticipate where the other drivers are going to go and where you have the possibility of making a pass, said abelson. Chris abelson went from a dirt track racing fan. To getting behind the wheel himself. Natpop abelson getting into car in his 13 years behind the wheel. Hes racked up. Dozens of awards. And after one failed attempt. He now holds the top title. As the 2015 national modified division champion. Of the International Motor contest association. Which is the largest dirt Race Track Organization in the country. Went for it a little bit last year and ended up fourth in the points and just got lucky this year and got some lucky breaks, said abelson. This video from a 2011 race. Gives a taste of what abelson can deliver on the track. Race car Engine
Iowa. Natpop lenters shooting at target. He just wishes he could go alone. I always have someone go with me in case i get stuck, said lenters. Natpop did you get stuck . Wife pulling lenters wheelchair. The issues begin once he leaves his vehicle. Right now its just paved with these round rocks and my chair does not have much ground clearance. These peebles. Natpop al driving wheelchair over pebbles. Make it hard to get around. And getting comfortable at a nearly impossible. Changing the bench set up here, to something that i can get under with my chair. Its kind of hard to reach, said al lenters. Hes hoping to change all of that by teaming up with the tristate range association. The non profit. Which already works to clean up the range. Plans to make the facility accessible. A double wide parking spot, we are going to make a new entrance off of said parking spot and we are going to pave some access sidewalks and a concrete shooting pad the renovations are being done through volunteer
Shooting range. In case he gets stuck. The range. Is paved with small round pebbles. That make getting around in his chair difficult. Using a shooting bench is also a chalalnge. Changing the bench set up here, to something that i can get under with my chair. Its kind of hard to reach, said al lenters. To fix those issues. Lenters is teaming up with the tristate public range association. Together they plan to make the shooting range handicappedacce ssible. The group has created a gofund me account. To help raise funds for the project. A link to the go fund me account. Is posted on the abc9 facebook page. Tonight at 10 ill more on the project. Reporting live in studio Deborah Souverain abc 9 news. Allison early this morning, s sux city fire and scue responded to a fire at cargill incorporated. Firefighters discovered a small fire that was determined to have been started due to an Electrical Switchgear malfunction. Cargill employees were required to deenergize the equipment before fire cr