(Radio Iowa) – A time capsule from the cornerstone of a former northeast Iowa church was recently opened to reveal contents that haven’t been seen in nearly a dozen decades. Delaware County Historical Society President Craig Lange says the copper box was salvaged after the Presbyterian Church in Hopkinton was torn down. Lange says the box was placed in the cornerstone 119 years ago. “Some artifacts were still intact in it, a copy of the Delaware County Historical Leader, the Chicago Record Herald, Lenox College days book was still somewhat intact,” Lange says. “Everything else inside of it, unfortunately, has deteriorated over the time.”

The church’s bell was also rescued and that will be incorporated into a new display at the museum. “I want to make a cement box that has brick around the outside from the church,” Lange says. “Hopefully, inside the cement box, we can put a vault in and start a new time capsule. Then we’ll have limestone slabs from the church on top of it, with the bell sitting on top of that.”

Lange says the old church was a big part of the Hopkinton community, so it’s nice that part of it will still remain at the Lenox College campus.

WAUKEE, Iowa (WHO-TV) — A western Iowa allegedly crashed into three Waukee Police vehicles during a chase late Saturday night — causing thousands of dollars in damage. WHO-TV reports that at around 11:37 p.m. an officer with the Waukee Police Department responded to a report of a hit and run involving a tan Jeep Cherokee, court documents state. The officer located that vehicle on Ute. Ave and attempted to perform a traffic stop, but the car sped off and a pursuit ensued.

According to a criminal complaint, the suspect driver, later identified as Cory Hansen, of Adair, hit two police vehicles during the pursuit. Hansen then continued to Linden Drive and Windfield Parkway where he hit another police car head-on, the complaint states. Hansen was transported to a nearby hospital to be evaluated for injuries he sustained in the crash. One officer sustained minor injuries.

Two of the police cars that were hit sustained an estimated $1,000 in damage each and the third patrol car sustained an estimated $10,000 in damage, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office said.

Hansen has been charged with interference with official acts – bodily injury, eluding, failure to provide proof of financial liability – accident, leave scene of accident – property damage only, possession of drug paraphernalia, and fail to obey stop sign/yield right of way.

Hansen was booked into the Dallas County Jail, but has since been released on a $7,500 surety bond. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 1.

(Radio Iowa) – The the Iowa Cyber Hub is launching a “cybersecurity ambassador” program to help educate everyone about threats. Iowa State University Cybersecurity professor, Doug Jacobson says some of the ambassadors will be students. “And they can go out and into the community, then go out into the schools, and really promote the idea of cybersecurity or talk to people about various cybersecurity issues,” he says. They will also have community ambassadors.

“Which are ambassadors that are in an I-T or a cyber field already. And again, arming them with materials and, stuff that they can go out into their community, going to retirement homes, going to other types of venues, and really just trying to get people to be more conscious of the things they can do to be safer online.” Jacobson says. He says they are working through some of the logistics on how the ambassadors will get the word out in their local communities. Jacobson says for some groups it should be easy to do.

“Take a an ambassador chapter in high school, they have a captive audience already,” he says, “they could go talk to students middle school, they could talk to their peers, and go down and talk some the students in the grade schools.” Jacobson leads the Cyber Hub and says they will also have people who can help follow up after the ambassadors meet with groups.  “If questions come across. There’ll be a resource that people can go to, to ask those questions. Because often times you’ll give a presentation and a lot of questions that come up and people will think of things afterwards. And there may be some specific questions. So we’ll have a resource for people to ask those questions,” Jacobson says.

The program will officially launch in one week on October 31st.

(Radio Iowa) – One of this past summer’s biggest movies is proving to be equally big business for Halloween costumes in Iowa. Juanita Cameron, at the Theatrical Shop in West Des Moines, says blonde wigs and pink outfits are top sellers this October. “The first item is Barbie with her companion, Ken,” Cameron says. “Full outfits, cowboy, she has a white hat and he has the shirt with the fringe, and they’re rockin’ it this Halloween.” The dolls will be marking their 65th anniversary next March, and so far, the “Barbie” movie has grossed more than one-point-four billion dollars at the box office. Cameron says other characters from the big screen are continuing to be popular for Halloween costumes.

“People are falling back on the horror thing, Pennywise, Michael Myers and also, Jason, he’s in there, too,” Cameron says, “but they also like that Spiderverse, so the new Spiderman, and also the Ninja Turtles.” Instead of buying costumes off the rack, Cameron says some shoppers are getting quite creative this season. “People are coming in and they’re kind of doing their own thing and makeup,” Cameron says. “They’re making up as characters in their past. Someone actually wanted to be Lucy, when she was eating all the chocolate in the chocolate factory. People are kind of falling back on those type of things.”

Cameron is referring to Lucille Ball and an “I Love Lucy” episode that first aired in 1952.