Jim Field speaks with the Music Director of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as they prepare for touring and a stop at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs.
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Jim Field speaks with the Music Director of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as they prepare for touring and a stop at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs.
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A collision with a deer resulted in a small in-car fire Monday morning in Potttawattamie County, but no one was injured. The Iowa State Patrol says 33-year old Andrea Root, of Persia, was traveling west on Interstate 80 south of Neola, when a deer ran out of a ditch. After the 1996 Buick Park Avenue Root was driving hit the animal, the woman pulled onto the shoulder of the road. While her car was stopped, a small fire developed in the steering column, but was quickly extinguished before it could spread to the rest of the interior.
The accident happened at around 6:45-a.m., Monday.
Funeral services will be held today (Wednesday) at 10:30-a.m., in the East Sac County High School in Lake View, for a Southwestern Community College student who was killed over the weekend in a northern Missouri crash, just two-miles south of the Iowa border. 18-year old Chrystal Olerich was a freshman volleyball player at Southwestern Community College, in Creston. Olerich, of Lake View, 22-year old 2009 SWCC grad Joshua Bix, of Hopkins, and one other person died Saturday, when the pickup truck they were passengers in rolled over. All seven people in the pickup, including the driver, were ejected from the vehicle, as it rolled. None were wearing their seat belts.
Sheriff’s officials say the group had recently left a Halloween party. Alcohol was found at the scene. The driver, 22-year old Scott Woods, of Hopkins, MO., has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of 2nd-degree assault.
An SUV, street lamp and heavy piece of equipment were damaged during an accident Monday afternoon, in Atlantic. According to Atlantic Police, a heavy piece of machinery belonging to Western Engineering stalled while traveling uphill on 10th Street, near the Cass County Community Center.
When the machine began to roll backwards, traveling west on 10th, the unidentified operator bailed out, fearing for his safety. The machine continued rolling down hill, while Western Engineering employees rushed to get people and vehicles out of the way. The machine rolled past the Whetstone car wash, struck a parked SUV and a light pole, and finally came to rest in a ditch at the intersection of Highway 6 and 10th Street.
No injuries were reported. Officials said the SUV and light pole sustained a combined $7,000 damage, while damage to the piece of heavy equipment was estimated at $5,000.
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KENNETH (BEANER) IHNKEN, 79, of Atlantic, died Tue., Nov. 1st, at the Cass County Hospice Center. Services for KENNETH BEANER IHNKEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., Nov. 7th, at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation is open at the funeral home from 8am-5:30pm Fri., Nov. 4th; 8am-Noon Sat., Nov. 5th; and on Sunday, Nov. 6th from 1-5pm, with family visitation from 5-7pm Sunday.
KENNETH IHNKEN is survived by:
His wife – Lois Ihnken.
His sons – Scott (LuAnn) Ihnken and Brian Ihnken, all of Atlantic.
His sisters – Inez Ward, of Ames, and Helen Rossell, of Atlantic.
3 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
GLENN H. STONEBRAKER, 74, of Exira (& formerly of Adair) , died Tue., Nov. 1st, at the Exira Care Center. Funeral services for GLENN STONEBRAKER will be held 10:30-a.m. Thu., Nov. 3rd, at the Exira Lutheran Church. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
Visitation is open at the funeral home, where the family will be present 7-p.m. today (Wed., Nov. 2nd).
Burial will be in the Exira Cemetery.
GLENN STONEBRAKER is survived by:
His wife – Kay Stonebraker, of Cumberland.
His children – Jeanette Stonebraker, of West Des Moines; Jason Stonebraker, of Adair; Lisa (Richard) D. Andersen, of Wiota; Tami Stonebraker, of West Des Moines; Kathy (Kevin) Hemphill, of Sidney.
His brother – Leo (Marjorie) Stonebraker, of Excelsior Spring, MO.
5 grandchildren; other relatives, and friends.
RUBY ANN CRAWLEY, 76, of Audubon, died Sat., Oct. 29th, at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for RUBY CRAWLEY will be help 2-p.m. Sat., Nov. 5th, at the Kessler Funeral Home in Exira.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family will be present 6-pm Fri., Nov. 4th.
Burial will be in St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, west of Exira.
RUBY ANN CRAWLEY is survived by:
Her children – Kathy (Gary) Devilbliss, Sharon Bacon & her significant other, Roger Wright, and Karen Coe, all from Audubon; Melvin Coe, Jr. & his significant other, Kelly Peel, of Atlantic; Sandy Peel of Audubon; Russell Coe & his significant other, Kim Huggins, of Guthrie Center; & Tanya (Tom) Anderson, of Exira.
Her step-children – Robert Crawley, Jr. (Laura), of Audubon; Jim (Helen) Crawley, of Tucson, AZ; Dan Crawley and his wife, and, Tommy Crawley, all from Fremont, NE.
Her twin-sister – Ruth Crouch, of Manilla.
Her brother – Gary (Vickie) Jessen, of Omaha, NE.
21 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, 3 step-great-grandchildren; her in-laws, other realtives, and friends.