Police in Atlantic report a Walnut man was arrested on a theft charge, Tuesday. 39-year old Donald Hanna was charged with 4th degree Theft (shoplifting). Hanna was brought to the Cass County Jail and held pending an appearance before the magistrate.
Police in Atlantic report a Walnut man was arrested on a theft charge, Tuesday. 39-year old Donald Hanna was charged with 4th degree Theft (shoplifting). Hanna was brought to the Cass County Jail and held pending an appearance before the magistrate.
Nearly three dozen children are abused every day in Iowa and the month of April is set aside to raise awareness about the problem. Sara Welch, spokesperson for Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, says many communities will be taking part in activities to highlight what residents can do to support prevention efforts. “Throughout the state you’ll see people planting pinwheel gardens, you’ll see family resource fairs, and you’ll see people just trying to engage the community in this effort,” Welch said.
The month of April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. According to the most recent data available, just over 11,700 kids were abused in Iowa in 2011. That was down slightly from 2010. The organization Prevent Child Abuse Iowa has been in existence since 1975. “We are currently in 95 counties throughout Iowa providing services such as crisis care nursery and parent support groups,” Welch said. “We’re doing parent development — where an educator is going into the home and actually working with the family and helping them connect with resources and monitor their child’s development.”
Some of the organization’s special events planned this month include a “family night” at the Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines on April 12 and $5 tickets to an Iowa Cubs game on April 29. “For all those events, we’re going to be handing out pinwheels – which, for us, is a symbol of the happy childhood that every child deserves. We’re going to have parenting information, community resources, and we’ll just providing a lot of fun activities for families and getting the community out to show their support,” Welch said.
Here in Cass County, as we mentioned in a report last month, the Cass County Child Abuse Prevention Council will hold community “Lunch and Learn” sessions from Noon until 1-p.m., on April 11th and 25th, at the Atlantic Public Library. The April 11th program will be presented by Sarah Herzberg, with Southwest Iowa Mental Health. It’s entitled “Raising children in a violent world,” and includes a free reading program, for children ages three and older. The April 25th program “Children learn what they live,” will be presented by Billie Jo Clausen, from the Green Hills Area Education Agency.
More information about Prevent Child Abuse Iowa is available at www.pcaiowa.org or by calling 1-800-CHILDREN.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN News)
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The Iowa DNR says the annual “Prairie Chicken Festival” will be held at Grand River Grasslands Bird Conservation Area, two miles west and one mile south of Kellerton, in Ringgold County, on April 6th. Viewing will begin before dawn and last until the birds diminish their courtship dancing and booming, around 9:30 a.m.
Prairie Chickens have been reintroduced to the area and each spring their courtship dances occur where their booming calls resonate across southern Iowa hills and valleys. The site provides a wildlife viewing platform, and spotting scopes and binoculars will be available.
“It is really quite a show and something that was lost to the Iowa landscape during the 1950s,” said Pat Schlarbaum, with the DNR’s Wildlife Diversity Program. Coffee and light breakfast foods will be available.
For more information, contact Ringgold County Conservation Board Director Kate Zimmerman at 641-464-2787.
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Council Bluffs officials are unveiling plans for a two-week celebration this summer to debut the community’s newest attraction. Larry Foster, director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, says the massive River’s Edge Park will open on Memorial Day weekend to much fanfare — and all events are free. “We’re showing concerts and movies and soccer and sports activities and family things,” Foster says. “It’s a real facility actually for the entire Midwest.” The event is being called Loessfest, after the region’s rolling Loess Hills. The string of entertainment will kick off May 25th with a free concert by The Beach Boys. “We have a great product,” Foster says. “We have a great place. We have a great river. We have a great park. We’re going to have a great series of events to open it up.”
There will be several more concerts, sporting events and entertainment for the celebration, running from Memorial weekend through June 8th. A unique, interactive light display will debut on May 25th on the park’s five-acre Great Lawn. The permanent display, entitled Rays, is a half-million dollar installation, an eight-minute light show that repeats on the hour and half-hour. This is the first Loessfest, what’s planned to be an annual event.
(Radio Iowa)
ERNA J. LANGE, 99, of Elk Horn, died Tue., April 2nd, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital, in Atlantic. Funeral services for ERNA LANGE will be held 11-a.m. Mon., April 8th, at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Visitation will be held at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church on Monday (April 8th), one-hour prior to the service (10am-to 11am).
Burial will be in the Jacksonville Cemetery at Jacksonville.
ERNA LANGE is survived by:
Her step-son: Gail (Annabelle) Lange, of Atlantic.
6 step-grandchildren, 15 step great-grandchildren, and 20 step great-great grandchildren.
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