Macke Motors, working with law enforcement, to offer women’s safety course

For Gus Macke, news about women being assaulted and accosted across Iowa recently got a little personal.
Macke’s granddaughter attends Iowa State University, where a student was attacked and killed earlier this year. That got Macke and his wife, Nancy, thinking about what they could do to help women better defend themselves in the event of an attack, or even prevent the attack in the first place. Macke and several of his staffers, including Krissy Macke and Kelly Addison, met with area law enforcement officers to put together an educational and personal safety course, which will be offered Nov. 7 at Macke Motors in Lake City.
“It used to always be in the city” where attacks happened, Addison said. “Now it is happening here.”
Iowa had two high-profile attacks, both of which resulted in the death of young women, earlier this year. The second happened near Brooklyn, which has just a few hundred fewer residents than Lake City.
Read more in the Oct. 17 edition.