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Update Your Account Moved? Credit card number changed? Update your subscription information online. Pay Your Bill Need to make a payment? Pay your subscription bill online. Going on vacation? We got you covered. As the pandemic stretches into its second year, the Register is reminiscing about some of the businesses that closed in the Des Moines metro in 2021. Some of the non-essential business- es that shuttered their doors in March 2020 reopened to customers with extra stimulus checks to spend, while others remained permanently closed.

Nation- ally, around of businesses that ini- tially closed have since reopened. This year retail outlets from an 80- year-old barber to a haberdashery start- ed by a survivor of the Holocaust per- manently closed their doors. Here are retailers that have closed in the metro in 2021: After surviving four years at the Da- chau Concentration Camp, Polish immi- grant Fred Badower opened his mens- wear haberdashery in 1950, in his west-side Des Moines home and later in the Shops at Roosevelt. After a destroyed the shop in 1953, Badower swore to reopen in all its glory. Hitler took away all I had, but after the war I started with my 10 and built a he told the Des Moines Register after the still have my 10 and start again, lit- tle by little, and some day have a shop After a second, separate wrecked havoc on the store, Badower moved the business to 2817 Ingersoll Ave.

in 1961. By the early 1990s, he and his wife, Ann, sold the store to a Des Moines business- man, who sold it to the Midwest Cloth- iers group in 1995. Tim Sitzmann, CEO of Midwest Clothiers, told the Register in February that the pandemic had a lasting on retail stores across the country. all he said. a re- ality of the Badowers remained open as the hab- erdashery worked to sell its remaining inventory.

According to its Facebook page, last day was June 5. Barber Stylists Uptown Before his retirement from Barber Stylists Uptown, Sam Reese might have been the longest working barber in Des Moines. Reese worked at the barbershop in the Uptown Center shopping complex at 42nd Street and University Avenue since he was just 19. On Sept. 1, he hung up the barbering shears after 62 years of cutting hair.

Barber Stylists Uptown opened in the mid-1940s but Reese started at the shop in 1959, eventually becoming the owner. Reese partially decided to retire as the pandemic deterred some of his de- voted clientele, he told the Register in January. He said around two-thirds of his customers skipped their regular ap- pointments. got people I seen for eight or nine months, just because apprehensive about this he said last January. Shortly after retiring, Reese died on Sept.

21, 2021 at age 81. According to his obituary, Reese continued his barbering services for clients in his home on Grand Avenue. this time, I would like to thank my children, my family, friends and busi- ness family for the blessed life they have Reese included in his obit- uary. Video Warehouse Remember movie rental stores? While Video Warehouse closed in February, the Des Moines institution outlasted many national rental compa- nies as the rise of streaming services such as and Hulu pushed the business model out of popularity. Video Warehouse opened at 5801 Franklin Ave.

in 1986, serving thou- sands of customers throughout the dec- ades. Once, there were 30 Video Ware- house locations in Iowa. Jon Fridley, who managed the store, told the Register last year that the pan- demic was the straw that broke the back as customers succumbed to subscription streaming services. once they go to the streaming services, hard to get them Fridley said. Family Video Once operating 800 video rental stores at its peak, Family Video presi- dent Keith Hoogland announced in a statement Jan.

5 the inten- tions to close its remaining locations. Illinois-based Family Video had al- ready shuttered six of its Iowa stores in September 2020, including locations on the south side of Des Moines, in Urban- dale, Boone and Indianola. The former West Des Moines store on Merle Hay Road was the Family Video location standing in the Des Moines metro. impact of COVID-19, not only in foot but also in the lack of movie releases, pushed us to the end of an Hoogland wrote in the statement. Still closed: Fleur Cinema While other movie theaters in the Des Moines metro reopened to cinephiles and popcorn lovers, Fleur Cinema Cafe at 4545 Fleur Drive remains closed since March 2020 with no scheduled showtimes on the near horizon.

In July 2021, several entertainment venue operators attributed delayed re- openings to the slow distribution of funds from the Shuttered Venue Opera- tors Grant, distributed by the Small Business Administration. Lisa Glas with Coppola Enterprises, which manages the property where the Fleur is located, told the Register in July that managers of the theater did not want to comment if Fleur applied for the grant. SBA records showed Raccoon River Investments, a picture theater with the same address as Coppola, 4521 Fleur Drive, received a $215,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. Glas to the Register that Fleur is not permanently closed. In July she said the theater is, to monitor the environment and will make an announcement as soon as we can en- sure Fleur Cinema did not return a mes- sage from the Register for this article.

The locally owned movie theater opened in October 2001 and in 2017 Cos- mopolitan crowned Fleur as the theater in Iowa for screening foreign, and Hollywood that Des Moines residents al- ways at a typical Hannah Rodriguez covers retail for the Register. Reach her at herodri- or on Twitter Metro retailers that closed in 2021 Pandemic led to permanent closing of some outlets Hannah Rodriguez Des Moines Register USA TODAY NETWORK Sam Reese retired after working as a barber for 62 year. He closed his barber shop in the Uptown Center. KELSEY REGISTER An armed California man was been arrested recently in Iowa while allegedly on his way to the White House. Police say the man had an assault ri- and ammunition in his possession, as well as a that named Presi- dent Joe Biden; Dr.

Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor; Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, formerly known as Facebook; and former presi- dents Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama. He was pulled over while driving eastbound on Interstate 80 on Dec. 21 after police observed him driving ag- gressively, according to a criminal com- plaint. Police suspected he may be plan- ning criminal activity due to the behavior. During the stop, he gan talking about his disapproval for government due to the sex abuse of chil- dren, some of which that has occurred by President he said.

The California man was taken to the Cass County for further questioning. During an interview, the man alleg- edly told authorities worked at a grocery store in Merced, California, un- til two months ago and that his em- ployment was a until called upon by God to combat evil demons in the White according to the criminal complaint. Police say the man said he believed is the only person remaining who can free the United States of evil and it is necessary for him to kill those in posi- tions of and thus allegedly be- gan gathering equipment to carry out the deed, including an assault with magazines, ammunition, body armor, medical supplies, dark clothing, a grap- pling hook, food and cash, according to the complaint. In the cell phone, to which he allegedly granted investigators access, police discovered detailed notes on a life defense plans for and to The man allegedly told to police that he left his home in Sacramento on Dec. 18 to drive straight to the White House to kill people in power, and added that he would not have stopped if he had not been pulled over by the authorities, the complaint details.

Police say the man allegedly com- piled his of people to kill via videos on TikTok. The man allegedly stated he would kill Biden unless the president promised to comply with the demands, the complaint added. Police allege the man provided de- tails on how he planned to gain access to the White House, including a perceived in White House security, the complaint states. concluding the interview, (the man) stated that nothing would stop him from carrying out his plan of gain- ing access to the White House and kill- ing the persons on his The man allegedly said that if re- leased from custody, he would immedi- ately resume traveling to the White House in Washington, D.C. and whatever it to complete his Secret Service Special Agent Justin Lar- son wrote in the complaint.

man) stated that he has no intention of re- turning to California to see his family because he plans on dying while ing evil demons at the White The attorneys a no- tice Thursday that he intends to rely on an insanity defense at trial. The QAnon conspiracy theory holds the false belief that high-level govern- ment Democrats and celebrities are secretly engaged in child sex traf- The man has been charged with one count of threats to a former president, according to the criminal complaint, al- though possible additional charges could be added by a grand jury in a later indictment. Iowa court records show the man also was cited for speeding in Cass County. Californian allegedly planning to kill Biden, Fauci arrested in Iowa Andrea May Sahouri Des Moines Register USA TODAY NETWORK Police allege the man provided details on how he planned to gain access to the White House, including a perceived in White House security..