Aug. 26 Daily Umbrella: DART bus catches fire; towering wall of dust rolls through metro Phoenix; why can’t you find any lions a

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Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Good morning to you!

My sister recently sent me this picture of my father, his three siblings and their parents, likely taken sometime in the late 1940s. She told me it was hung on the living room wall at our grandparents’ home for years. I had not seen it before, as Grandpa died before I was born, and Grandma died when I was 2.

Of the six people in the photo, three were smiling. The other three were quite stern. Two were in their military uniforms. The others were in their Sunday best. The picture was out of focus. The paper is cracked. The details are fuzzy. Regardless, it is one of the few photos of my father’s family, and I cherish it.

In those days, and for decades after, cameras were simply not commonplace. Developing film was expensive, too. They didn’t take a dozen shots to get one good one like we do today. Photos could be manually touched up by the professionals, but there was no cropping or adjusting or photoshopping on a mobile phone or a home computer. They simply waited with anticipation to get the photos back from the lab, and they took the bad shots with the good ones.

I learned to roll and develop film in the darkrooms on my college campus. Those were necessary tasks for journalists to learn at the time. Years later, when I published an auto magazine, I took thousands of photos of cars for sale. In the beginning, we developed our own film and made prints. Later, we outsourced that. Eventually, we experimented with video and digital technology. All those changes occurred in just three years. It was a developing time, to be sure.

The newspapers I managed in the 1990s were still developing film. The sports photographers especially did not want to let go of that process. In time, though, they did.

This past year, in America alone, more than 1.93 trillion photos were taken — 94% of them with a smartphone. That’s 5.3 billion photos a day… 3.7 million photos per hour… 400 million photos per minute… 61 photos per second.

The average person in the U.S. now takes 20 photos a day, and the number of photos indexed by Google at the end of 2024 was more than 136 billion. More than 14 billion photos are shared every day across social networks and messengers.

Somehow, Grandma and Grandpa Goodman must have seen this all coming. That explains why they were not smiling.

Have a terrific Tuesday, and thanks for reading.

Shane Goodman
Publisher
Big Green Umbrella Media
shane@dmcityview.com
515-953-4822, ext. 305
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FROM KCCI: Authorities say report of 'active shooter' on Iowa State University campus is false. Authorities are investigating what they say is a false report of an active shooter on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. Students returned to classes at ISU on Monday — as well as the state's other regent universities, the University of Iowa in Iowa City and the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: DSM man’s probation for vehicular homicide revoked after caught driving under the influence again. A 19-year-old’s vehicular homicide sentence was revoked after he was caught driving under the influence a second time. Back in October 2024, now 19-year-old Lonnie Ray Hayes pled guilty to vehicular homicide by operating while intoxicated for a 2023 crash that killed 35-year-old Des Moines resident Roberto Eduardo Rodriguez-Peterson. According to the Polk County Attorney’s Office, Hayes admitted to being high on marijuana and driving over 70 mph on East 14th Street when he collided with Rodriguez-Peterson’s car. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: DART bus catches fire near Altoona Walmart, no injuries reported. A Des Moines Area Regional Transport Authority (DART) bus caught fire in Altoona Monday afternoon, but no injuries were reported. DART officials said the driver noticed smoke as the bus was arriving at the Altoona Walmart from downtown Des Moines (Route 99), and they pulled the bus over. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Australia accuses Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks and expels ambassador. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE NATION: Towering wall of dust rolls through metro Phoenix, leaving thousands without power. A powerful storm kicked up a towering wall of dust that rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday, darkening the sky, blinding drivers, knocking out power and grounding flights at one of the nation’s busiest airports. ... READ MORE

FROM AROUND THE STATE: Family of Kansas State QB apologizes for fight following Wildcats’ loss to Iowa State in Ireland. The family of Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson has apologized for the physical fight Johnson’s father and brother were reported to have had following No. 17 Wildcats’ loss to No. 22 Iowa State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Ireland on Saturday. Video of the fight quickly went viral on social media. ... READ MORE

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Tuesday Touts

Caviar gets to hang out with the cool kids on their yachts but uni is the roe that can take your tasting experience to other worldly places — especially when it's fresh from the sea urchin womb like this dish at Masao. Yes, that is osetra caviar in a supporting role.

Restaurant Week bargains are gone for a year now but is there a better deal anytime than Taco Tuesday in Des Moines' great taquerias? This pair of tacos, one shredded beef and one marinated pork, cost $1.50 each on Tuesday at Los Laureles.

Deals today
• Mickey's Irish Pub (50 S.E. Laurel St., Waukee) has a special $7 half-pound burger with a side all day Tuesday.

• Kelly's Little Nipper (1701 E. Grand Ave.) offers a Tendy's Tuesday tenderloin basket with a drink for $11.50.

• Hy-Vee Market Grilles are running a breakfast special Monday through Friday of buy a breakfast, get one half priced.

• Eastside Eddie's (3517 E. 26th St., Des Moines) has a Tuesday special cheeseburger with fries, tots or salad and a drink for $10.

• Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines) offers $7 breakfasts and $8 burgers Tuesdays.

• Pelican Post (265 50th St., West Des Moines) offers a special smashburger with cheese, fries and a draft beer for $10 on Tuesdays.

• Johnny's Italian Steakhouses have a beef stroganoff special on Tuesdays, $14 including beverage.

• Smoking Goat Pub (3015 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines) hosts 222 BBQ today from 5-9 p.m.

• Gateway Market will sample wine 4-6 p.m. for a free tasting on Tuesday.

• Red Robin stores are featuring a $10 cheeseburger with an "endless side" on Tuesdays.

• Jethro's Tuesday special is 2 pounds of bone-in smoked wings for the price of one. Because tonight is an Indiana WNBA game night, the West Des Moines Jethro's has a "Fever Reliever" special of any two appetizers on the Happy Hour menu and two pints of domestic beer for $22.

• Paula's (524 Elm St., Valley Junction) runs a Tuesday special pulled pork sandwich with fries and drink for $13.50 till Labor Day.

• Kids meals are half price till 2 p.m. today at Machine Shed (11151 Hickman Road, Urbandale).

• Taco Tuesday brings serious discounts to Mariscos El Pirata (6050 S.E. 14th St., Des Moines), La Familia (1610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines), all Taco John's, all Abelardo's, all Fernando’s, Malo (900 Mulberry St., Des Moines), Beaver Tap (4050 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines), Los Laureles (1518 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines), Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines), The Continental (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines), Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines) and Faustino’s (4944 Franklin Ave., Des Moines).

• Today is beef and noodles day at Maxie's Supper Club (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines).

• Django (1420 Locust St., Des Moines) has happy hour all night Tuesdays. That means super deals on oysters, shrimp, duck frites, poutine, charcuterie, cheese boards, beers, wine and classic martinis.

• Sully's (806 First St., West Des Moines) has a burger basket special for $12 today.

• Destination Grille (2491 E. First St., Grimes) hosts a Tuesday Burger and Beer special - half-pound burger, chips and dip, with a tap beer of choice $15.

• The Station on Ingersoll (3124 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) has a tenderloin Tuesday special with BPT and fries for $10.

• Curbin Cuisine (1325 S.W. Oralabor Drive, Ankeny) offers cheeseburgers and fries for $7.99 on Tuesdays.

• G Mig’s (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction) offers a Tuesday special 8-ounce prime sirloin, baked potato, mixed vegetables and garlic bread for 19.95.

• Haiku (1350 31st St., Des Moines) offers free fried tofu/miso with lunch entrees today.

• Angry Goldfish (2301 S.W. Ninth, Des Moines) has $10 burger and fries and a drink on Tuesdays.

• Hy-Vee Market Grilles are offering a tenderloin Tuesday special with potato salad for $7.

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

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Stauch cites benefits of Des Moines Kennel Club

By Jackie Wilson

James Stauch, president of the Des Moines Kennel Club, with his boxer, Kylo.

For 100 years, the Des Moines Kennel Club has hosted dog shows in the Des Mones metro. This year’s event features a celebrity dog, Bing, along with approximately 1,000 other dogs representing 150 breeds.

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Sitting around a campfire, toasting s’mores, telling stories and visiting with friends and family after a day of enjoying nature and exploring the big outdoors. Ah, the joys of camping! And you don’t have to hike into the woods — covered in bug spray — and pitch a tent to partake in the fun. Those who prefer to make the trip with a camper share why they like to have some of the conveniences of home — bed, bathroom, air conditioner and more — on the trip with them.

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2016: Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits during national anthem. At an NFL preseason game on August 26, 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains seated as other players stand to observe the national anthem. This simple action, which Kaepernick makes no attempt to broadcast to the public, gives rise to a controversy that will bring to light the racial tensions within American sports, determine the fate of Kaepernick’s football career and reverberate across the sporting world for years to come. ... READ MORE

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The answer to the last riddle: What did one boat say to the other boat? Are you interested in a little row-mance? - Gail Tomlinson. Or, Boats don’t talk! They just “wave.” - Bill Snyder.

Today's riddle: Why can’t you find any lions after August?

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