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Altmayer Pleads to Lesser Charges in Grundy County Hampton Chronicle Grundy Register TheGraphic-Advocate Eagle Eagle Grove GrundyDows Advocate Times CWL Conservative Chronicle Clarksville Star Register Journal Tribune County Butler Buffalo Tribune Center UPC CODES MID-AMERICA Thursday, July 12, 2018 Serving Grundy County since 1928 Grundy Center, Iowa Volume Paper What Cheer 94 - Number Vine Village 28The Leader Sigourney News-Review www.TheGrundyRegister.comSheffield Press Enterprise Pioneer Sun New Sharon Liberal Opinion Week $1Keota Eagle Newsstand Price Health market, cafe to open in downtown Grundy Center By MICHAELA KENDALL The Grundy Register GRUNDY CENTER - Many locals are already bustling with excitement at the news of a FELIX GRUNDY FESTIVAL 2018 coffee shop opening in down- town Grundy Center, but Na- talie Kracht, owner of Grundy See more photos from the Center’s newest business - The Natural Grind Health Market festival in Section B. and Cafe - says she’s most ex- cited of all to be opening up her business here in town late next month. Kracht, a GCHS graduate, decided to leave the corporate world after working for a health- care company in Des Moines for many years, and pursue her dream of helping others live a healthier, happier life through her own health market and cafe. The Natural Grind, located at 721 G Avenue in the former Ol- ive Branch building, will offer a variety of menu items including hot and cold coffees, special- ty coffees, smoothies, health smoothies, teas, and other health drinks such as wheatgrass shots, kombucha and more. She will also serve a variety of healthy breakfast options, along with the standard breakfast items like muffins, quiches, breakfast sandwiches and more. Kracht says she also plans to offer different health related The Natural Grind Health Market and Cafe, located in downtown items for sale in her shop in- Grundy Center, will open for business in late August. Shown above cluding supplements and vita- are owner Natalie Kracht (second from left), her husband Shawn mins, essential oils, health-re- (left), her daughter Emerson (second from right) and her mother lated books, journals and more. LaVonne (right). (Michaela Kendall/The Grundy Register photo) Kracht says she’s always had a passion for helping others feel And what people don't realize is and wellness coaching on a part happier and healthier. that so much of your mental and time basis, but she’s hoping to “I’ve always been passion- emotional health comes from expand and bring her passion ate about health, but in the last your physical health and what of helping people back to her three to five years I really start- you put into your body. My goal hometown. ed researching holistic health here is to help educate and lead “I hope I can bring some- and eastern versus western people on the right track to feel- thing new and different to medicine,” she said. “I’m not ing better inside and out.” town,” Kracht said. “I also want only passionate about my own After receiving her Master’s to complement and promote health but about my family’s degree in health administra- health, and community health. tion, Kracht now does health See COFFEE SHOP page 2 Conrad native still missing in Hawaii, but hope remains By ROBERT MAHARRY The Grundy Register HONOLULU, HI- A sim- ple text message from Navy sailor Shaun Palmer to his par- ents—“I’m alive and I love you”—has fostered a new sense of optimism among family members that the Conrad native and BCLUW alum will safely return to the Honolulu military base where he’s stationed, but they aren’t counting their chick- ens before they hatch. Palmer, a 24-year-old hospi- tal corpsman whose father Chad and paternal grandmother Carol still live in the area, has not been Altmayer pleads to lesser seen since early Sunday morn- ing after an apparent altercation outside of Kelley O’Neill’s, a charges in Grundy County popular watering hole located U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Shaun Palmer (pictured), a Con- in the Waikiki Beach district. By ROBERT MAHARRY nally charged with three counts rad native, has been missing since early Sunday morning after an The Grundy Register of Enticing a Minor Under the Navy officials reported him apparent altercation outside of a Honolulu bar. His parents and missing after he failed to report GRUNDY CENTER- The Age of 13—Sexual Abuse or grandmother remain hopeful that he will return safely. (Photo via former Ankeny man who is cur- Exploitation (a Class C felony) for duty later in the day. Facebook) “I just don’t understand rently serving a life sentence in and one count of Enticing a Mi- what’s going through his head. Jasper County for attempting nor Under the Age of 16—Sex- ual Purpose (a Class D felony). It just seems out of character,” now resides in the greater Los Mail and the New York Daily to coerce a minor into sexual activity has been convicted of Altmayer, who had no crim- Carol said on Friday morning. Angeles area, has also been ac- News, among others. Carol told four aggravated misdemeanors inal record prior to the string of “We’ve gone through every tive in the effort to locate Shaun The Grundy Register that she over similar incidents in Grun- incidents in Grundy, Jasper and scenario in our heads that isn’t and spread awareness of the rarely watches television save dy County during the summer Monona Counties, has received good, and so we’re just hop- situation on social media. She for “The 700 Club” and wasn’t of 2016. a two-year prison sentence, a ing for the best and asking for could not be reached for imme- aware of the publicity, but she Jeff Lee Altmayer, age 58, $625 suspended fine, a DNA prayers.” diate comment, and Chad indi- just wants to see her grandson pled guilty to four counts of requirement and a $250 civ- According to a Facebook cated that he would be happy safe. The questions of what Attempting to Entice a Minor il penalty for each of the four post, Chad arrived in Honolu- to discuss the matter when the happened, why it happened and Under 16, each an aggravated counts, and a special 10-year lu on Wednesday evening, was ordeal was “100 percent re- whether or not he’s in trouble misdemeanor, after he offered sentence will be added on to his able to confirm that the text solved.” can wait for another day. money to young girls in ex- Jeff Altmayer term in Jasper County. message came from his son and The disappearance has gar- “If that’s all we have to wor- change for “yard work” at his “Looking at the total picture hoped to have him back on the nered national attention from ry about, then that’s a good home. In Grundy County, he bile Home on Highway 20, but of all the offenses, the disposi- base shortly. Palmer’s mother outlets like CBS News, ABC thing,” she said. used the pitch at both the Dike none of the victims agreed to tion was appropriate,” Grundy Elizabeth Diane Unterein, who News, Newsweek, The Daily City Park and the Dietrick Mo- enter his vehicle. He was origi- See ALTMAYER page 3 The Grundy Register, P.O. Box 245, Grundy Center, IA 50638 Phone: (319) 824-6958 • Fax: (319) 824-6288 • E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2 Thursday, July 12, 2018 Grundy NEWS Register www.thegrundyregister.com Coffee shop From page 1 ed workshops and classes in the be hard to take the step into other businesses because I truly space as well. She will also be fear and do something you’ve feel that for one to be success- housing local hair stylist Mad- always dreamed of but have al- ful we all have to be success- ison Hook in a room towards ways been too scared to do, but ful.” the back. I’ve learned to be a little braver Already, Kracht has been “I think it’s really important through my different experi- working with neighboring busi- to work together, and I think ences.” ness owner Jill Krausman, who the community is already no- Kracht says she’s excited to owns the Landmark Bistro. If ticing that and appreciating it,” open for business, and become someone visits the Landmark Kracht said. “I’ve had so much a part of the downtown busi- and wants to order drinks off support from local business ness community. of Kracht’s menu, they can do owners already, it’s amazing; I “I’ve worked out of town that. If someone visits the Nat- think it’s one of the things that and traveled so much for work, ural Grind and wants to order really inspired me to move for- that even though I live here, I some food off of Krausman’s ward with my dream of owning haven’t really been a part of the menu, they can do that, too. my own coffee shop. With their community as much I’d like,” With plenty of extra space encouragement, support and she said. “Now, as I walk down in the back of her building, advice, it’s made me realize I main street, I feel all this wel- Above: The Alley CATS and Main Street Grundy Kracht will be housing Kraus- can do this too.” coming support and warmth. Center are hoping to get the community involved in man's overflow customers. She Kracht plans on opening for I’m so excited to be back and the new art initiative, and invited the public to join in also plans to offer the space as business around August 20.
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