Jim Field visits with Cass County Health System Senior Life Solutions Program Director Karmen Roland about Mental Health Awareness Month in May and the added stress from COVID-19.
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Jim Field visits with Cass County Health System Senior Life Solutions Program Director Karmen Roland about Mental Health Awareness Month in May and the added stress from COVID-19.
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The Creston Police Department reports a woman from Adair County was arrested Tuesday morning at the Union County Law Enforcement Center. 21-year old Brianna Lawson, of Greenfield, was arrested on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Violation of a Protection Order. During the course of her arrest, Lawson was additionally charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance 2nd Offense and Possession of Paraphernalia. She was released from the Union County Jail on a Promise to Appear on all charges.
The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.
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The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Atlantic High School Principal Heather McKay, today (Wednesday), outlined the current plans for Prom, Senior Class Night, Senior Cruise Night (in place of traditional Drumline March), and Commencement.
Prom Information:
Prom has been rescheduled for July 11. If restrictions have been lifted AHS will host the event with all of its activities. This is dependent upon guidance from Governor Reynolds, the IDPH, and the CDC. Our final decision will be made on June 30. If we cannot have it on July 11, it will not be rescheduled.
Senior Class Night Information:
Senior Class Night will be shown/live-streamed on www.kjan.com through the KJAN website and will take place Thursday, May 21 at 6 PM. Only designated personnel will be present for the stream. If you miss the live-stream, it will be archived on the district’s website and the district Facebook page. Please join AHS staff remotely that evening as Atlantic students are honored for their hard work and dedication.
Commencement Information:
Atlantic Community Schools desires to have a traditional in-person ceremony for the Class of 2020. That ceremony has been rescheduled to Sunday, July 19 at 2 PM in the AHS gymnasium. Commencement rehearsal will be Wednesday, July 15 at 10 AM in the high school gymnasium. This all is dependent upon guidance from Governor Reynolds, the IDPH, and the CDC. Our final decision will be made on July 8.
Sunday, May 24: A commencement ceremony will be conducted as originally scheduled for Sunday, May 24 at 2:00 p.m. and will take place via a digital format provided by Jostens. At 2 PM on Sunday, May 24, you can enter a previously supplied password that will be sent from me and view the ceremony from the convenience of your home or any remote location. The ceremony will be archived on the district Facebook and web page. School officials will be asking for your help to make this experience as authentic as possible. District personnel considered many options for electronic graduation and believe this is the most personable.
Graduates will be staggered so sanitizing procedures can be implemented between each individual. Graduates and guests will enter through the front entrance auditorium doors. The exit door will be stage right – we will guide you through this process.
Details:
“Drumline March” Cruise Night Information:
A tradition AHS started several years ago was a final march through the schools. This will be modified with a cruise through town.
Today: A slight chance of isolated showers this morning; Partly cloudy to cloudy. High near 59. NW @ 10.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 38.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered afternoon showers. High 64. S @ 10.
Friday: Light rain ending in the morning; P/Cldy. High 58.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/a chance of showers, late. High 64.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 59. Our Low this morning, 35. The High last year on this date was 67 and the Low was 47. The record High for May 6th was 97 in 1934. The record Low was 23 in 1891.
GLEA MICKELSEN, 102, of Atlantic, died Tuesday, May 5th, at the Allen House in Atlantic. Graveside services for GLEA MICKELSEN will be held on Monday, May 11th at 2:00 p.m. at the Atlantic Cemetery. Social distancing guidelines will be followed. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements. A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date.
Online condolences may be left at www.hockenberryfamilycare.com
GLEA MICKELSEN is survived by:
Daughter: Linda (Gary) Lensch of Atlantic.
2 Grandchildren
6 Great-Grandchildren
DOROTHY A. WOLF, 80, of Exira, died Sunday, May 4th, at home. A private family funeral service for DOROTHY WOLF will be held at the Kessler Funeral Home, in Exira.
Visitation is open at the funeral home from 8-a.m. until 8-p.m., Friday, May 8th.
Burial is in the Exira Cemetery.
DOROTHY WOLF is survived by:
Her daughter – Shanna Wolf, of Minneapolis, MN.
Her brother – Richard (Marilyn) Petersen.
Her sister – Judy Wheeler, of Exira.
Her in-laws, other relatives, and friends.
(Radio Iowa) — One of the country’s largest Latino organizations is calling for a boycott of processed meat, due to outbreaks of the coronavirus at meat packing plants. The League of United Latin American Citizens — also known as LULAC (LOO-lack) is calling on consumers to join their “Meatless May” campaign. Joe Henry leads the Des Moines chapter of LULAC.
“This is again the time for people in America to speak up…for safety and health procedures for these workers,” Henry says, “to make sure that we have justice in the workplace.” Henry and other advocates say in addition to COVID-19 testing for all employees at food processing plants, the corporate owners of the plants should provide paid sick leave and slow down production lines so workers can stand farther apart.
State officials announced yesterday (Tuesday) that 16-hundred-53 employees at FOUR meat packing plants in Columbus Junction, Tama, Waterloo and Perry have tested positive for COVID-19. Henry says that means the relatives of those workers are at risk of contracting the virus. “Aunts and uncles in these homes, grandparents are becoming infected and then having to go the hospitals,” Henry says, “and so it’s tragic.”
State officials reported yesterday (Tuesday) that for the first time, more than 400 Iowans were hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 and about a quarter of those patients were on ventilators.