(Atlantic, Iowa) – Cass County Wellness Coordinator Brigham Hoegh reports a free fall walking club that kicked off in Atlantic in early October is still going strong, and anyone interested in walking on Tuesday mornings is invited to join. The two remaining walks scheduled for this fall will be held on Tuesday, November 8 and Tuesday, November 15 from 9:30-10:15 AM. Both walks will start at the Nishna Valley Family YMCA (1100 Maple St. Atlantic, IA 50022). If the weather is nice, the walks will be outdoors, and if not, walkers will walk for free inside the YMCA.

The Nishna Valley Family YMCA has been coordinating the free community walking club, but many organizations have been helping to lead the weekly walks. There is no cost to join the walks, and walkers do not have to be members of the YMCA. The fall walking club kicked off on October 5 as part of the Healthiest State Walk from the YMCA to Harl Holt Park and back along the recently renovated Bull Creek Pathway. That walk was attended by well over 100 people. Information on area recreation opportunities was provided by Atlantic Parks and Rec, Nishna Valley Trails, and the YMCA. Hy-Vee and Fareway provided refreshments.

The Healthiest State Walk is an annual walk with the theme “Walk More. Connect More.”

Over 100 people participated in the October 5 Healthiest State Walk in Atlantic

The Healthiest State Walk is organized by Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with the goal of making Iowa the healthiest state in the nation. As they share on their website, www.IowaHealthiestState.com, there are many benefits to walking including increased energy levels, better sleep, increased blood flow that leads to better cognitive functioning, improved memory, and reduced anxiety and depression.

The YMCA started the walking club this fall based on feedback from area residents that showed interest in opportunities to walk with others. While the walks are scheduled to end on November 15, people interested in leading future weekly walks—whether through the winter or next spring—are encouraged to contact Cass County Wellness Coordinator Brigham
Hoegh at bhoegh@iastate.edu or 712-249-5870.

Tuesday Walking Club
What: Walk more, connect more!
Where: Nishna Valley Family YMCA (1100 Maple Street, Atlantic, IA 50022). Rain location:
inside the YMCA
When: Tuesday, Nov. 8 and Tuesday, Nov. 15, 9:30-10:15 AM.
Who: Everyone is welcome!
Cost: No cost! Walking club registration is encouraged but not required. Register for the walking club at the Nishna Valley Family YMCA website
(http://nishnavalleyymca.com/membership/program-registration.html) or by calling the Y at 712-243-3934.
For information on community wellness events or resources, follow Healthy Cass County on Facebook @HealthyCassCounty.

ATLANTIC, IA (November 6, 2022) – Harvest Market 2022 will be held at the Cass County Community Center on Monday, November 21 from 3-7 pm. Market Manager Brigham Hoegh says you can bring local to your table this holiday season. This fall farmers market is held the Monday before Thanksgiving, so shoppers can pick up premium local produce, local meats, delicious baked goods, and other local foods to enjoy at holiday celebrations. The market also offers handmade craft products including seasonal candles, goat milk soaps, holiday decorations, and gifts.
Harvest Market 2022 vendors confirmed as of November 6 include: Bridgewater Farm, Brun Ko Farm, Sue’s Country Garden, Miss NiNi’s Fine Desserts, Claire’s Cinnamon Rolls, Noble Provisions, The Kringle Man, Hygge Cottage, DezaRae Farm Soaps, Midwest Candles by Brit, Johnna Joy Designs, Piper’s Brae Farm, Wud Bi Tek, JD Crafters, Matilda Dawn Creations,
Atlantic Atlas Cinema, Frosting Inc., Spirits of the Faire, Sweet Sisters Vegan, Harrisdale Farmstead, Donna’s Jewelry, Rolling Acres Farm, and Corn 4 a Cause.

Pim’s Thai Food Truck will be at the market selling dinner to go, so shoppers won’t have to go home without dinner. Harvest Market 2022 will offer both in-person shopping as well as pre-ordering. Pre-order will be available through www.produceintheparkatlanticiowa.com from Nov. 14-19. Pre-ordering is an excellent option for customers who want to plan on a particular food item—such as a favorite pie—as well as customers who are short on time to shop at the market.

Some vendors, such as Miss NiNi’s Fine Desserts and Claire’s Cinnamon Rolls, will only be offering pre-ordered products.

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Don’t miss a reminder to pre-order. Sign up for the Produce in the Park newsletter at www.produceintheparkatlanticiowa.com.

Produce in the Park continues to accept vendor applications to Harvest Market and other holiday farmers markets (Christmas Market Dec. 22, Sweetheart Market Feb. 11, and Spring Celebration Market April 6). For more information visit produceintheparkatlanticiowa.com or contact Market Manager Brigham Hoegh at produceintheparkatlanticiowa@gmail.com or 712-249-5870.

Harvest Market is sponsored by the Atlantic Community Promotion Commission, Cass County Tourism, Deter Motor Co., First Whitney Bank and Trust, Cass Health, Cass County Farm Bureau, and the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce. For the latest information on Harvest Market, follow Produce in the Park on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ProduceInThePark) or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/produceintheparkatlanticia/) or sign up for the Produce in the Park newsletter at www.produceintheparkatlanticiowa.com.

(Radio Iowa) – Five Iowa State University students who served our country in uniform will be honored this (Monday) afternoon with a ceremony in the Gold Star Hall of the Memorial Union. Rita Case, with I-S-U’s military-affiliated Student Center, says more than 600 names of former I-S-U students are carved in the hall’s wall and several veterans are singled out every year.
We read the names and we have history,” Case says. “We research all year on who we pick that year and tell their stories and if their families are nearby, or we can get a hold of a family member, we try to invite those families to come.” The annual ceremony that spotlights the stories of individual veterans began in 2003.  “This is a really meaningful ceremony,” Case says, “and then it makes these names that are on the walls that we walk by come alive.”

The Gold Star Hall’s origins date way back to 1928, when the names of Iowa State students who died in World War One were carved into the walls of the newly opened Memorial Union. Five veterans are being featured this year. This year’s honorees are: Howard Medin of Algona and James R. Davis of Ames, both of whom served in World War Two; Ramon Roderick Davis and Donald Scott Wilkins, both of Ames, both who served in Korea; and Vietnam veteran Ronald Edgar Riede of St. Louis, Missouri. Honoring five veterans is a little unusual for the service.  “We usually only honor about three but we found a new name for the wall when we were researching one of the Davis’s we discovered they had a brother who was lost in the Korean War that was also an Iowa State student that we did not previously have listed on our wall.”

The veterans honored in the hall served in conflicts including: World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, USS Liberty, Iraq and Afghanistan. The ceremony is scheduled for 3:15 P-M. The names and stories of each veteran listed on the wall are available in an online database on the Memorial Union’s Gold Star Hall website: mu.iastate.edu

(Radio Iowa) – With one more day on the campaign trail, Iowa’s top-of-the-ticket candidates are emphasizing national themes. Republicans like Governor Kim Reynolds frame the election as a referendum on President Biden. Here’s Reynolds Sunday night at a rally in Waukee: “Passionate Iowans…have had it with the direction that this president is taking the country and they are not going to take it anymore,” she said, “so thank you for being fired up.”

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, at the same rally, picked up that theme. “This Biden Administration and everybody associated with it…they want to fundamentally change America…We want to preserve America,” Grassley said, to cheers. Abortion has been a major issue for Democrats. Grassley’s opponent, Mike Franken, drew extended cheers at a Des Moines rally for saying he supports a woman’s right to choose.

“In those deeply personal moments, the last person you need in the delivery room are Chuck Grassley, a constitutional lawyer and the federal government,” Franken said. And Deidre DeJear, the Democrat running against Reynolds, criticizes the govenror for asking a judge let a six week abortion ban take effect in Iowa. “Kim Reynolds wants to be in your doctor’s appointment, helping you make the most important, critical, personal decision that a person could possibly make,” DeJear said, “and that is unacceptable.”

Today’s the last day of early voting in Iowa. Tuesday’s Election Day voting begins at Iowa precincts at 7 a.m.  Election officials say it’s too late to mail an absentee ballot, because absentee ballots have to be inside your county auditor’s office by 8 p.m. Tuesday. You may drop off your absentee ballot at your county auditor’s office today (Monday) *OR* turn it in tomorrow (Tuesday) at your precinct, where you’ll be a regular ballot to fill out instead.

(Radio Iowa) – No winning tickets were sold for Saturday’s Powerball drawing and TONIGHT’S (Monday’s) jackpot has now swelled to an estimated one-point-nine BILLION dollars. Three tickets sold in Iowa for SATURDAY’S drawing were one number away from claiming the previous world-record jackpot of one-point-six billion. Those three tickets each matched four of the first five numbers drawn, along with the correct Powerball number.

Iowa Lottery officials say two of those tickets — worth 50-thousand dollars each — were purchased in Clinton and Sabula. The person who bought the other ticket in Sheldon paid a dollar extra for the so-called “Power Play” option and it made their winning ticket worth 150-thousand dollars.

Over five-point-nine MILLION dollars worth of Powerball tickets were sold IN IOWA for Saturday’s drawing. Iowa Lottery officials have released a list of the top 10 retailers for Iowa Lottery sales from Sunday, October 30th through Saturday, November 5th. Half are in the Cedar Rapids-Marion metro and among the 10 top lottery retailers last week, nine are Hy-Vee stores.

(Radio Iowa) – About 160 Iowa National Guard soldiers have begun their year-long deployment to support U.S. and NATO operations in Poland. The soldiers are from the Iowa National Guard’s 1133rd Transportation Company, based in Mason City with a detachment in Iowa City. Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Ben Corell addressed the soldiers during a send-off ceremony Sunday in Mason City.

“We are grateful that each one of you are part of the less than 1% that serve our nation,” Corell said. “We are proud of you and all that you do and we’re thankful for the families that are gathered here today that support you.” Corell had a message for the families in the audience. “I know the mixed emotions you have as we send off these important members of your family,” Corell said. “I know that it is our family members back home who also sacrifice much when our nation calls us away.” Corell described the 1133rd as part of a military tradition that draws its strength from those who volunteer.

“My hope is that the sacrifices made by our all-volunteer force and by our families is recognized for the gift that it truly is for each citizen of our United States,” Corell said. “…You standing in front of me and your families understand this sacrifice. Those who cannot or choose not to serve will never fully understand what it means to have the higher calling and to honorably answer it.”

The 1133rd left Mason City on Sunday headed for Fort Hood in Texas to complete their final training and readiness checks before deploying overseas. The unit was last activated in 2008 to support Operations Noble Eagle, Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 1:25-p.m. Sunday (today) in Red Oak, resulted in an arrest. Police say 36-year-old Katie Marie Pierce, of Red Oak, was arrested for Driving without the owner’s consent (an aggravated misdemeanor). At the time of her arrest, Pierce was allegedly in possession of marijuana and suspected methamphetamine (Serious misdemeanors). She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

(Creston, Iowa) – No injuries were reported but an SUV sustained an estimated $5,000 damage, Sunday afternoon, when the vehicle popped-out of gear and hit a utility pole, in Creston. Authorities say when a 60-year-old woman parked her 2005 Ford Explorer at the First National Bank in Creston, she got out to use the ATM. Her vehicle failed to go into, or stay in park. The SUV rolled across Highway 34 and hit a City of Creston-owned utility pole on the southeast corner of Highway 34 and Sumner Street. The pole sustained minor damage. The accident happened a little after 1-p.m.

No citations were issued.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A teen convicted of killing her rapist escaped custody. The story of Pieper Lewis made national headlines when she was sentenced in September. Jerry Evans, executive director of the 5th Judicial District Dept. of Corrections, confirmed to KCCI Saturday that Lewis escaped custody at 6:19 a.m. on Friday.

Evans said Lewis cut off her tracker but was not sure where she might be headed. Lewis was 15 years old when she admitted she killed 37-year-old Zachary Brooks in Des Moines in 2020. Lewis said she was a victim of human trafficking and said Brooks raped her several times before she killed him.

A Polk County judge sentenced Lewis to five years probation and a deferred judgment.

(Des Moines, Iowa) – Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Safety, Saturday evening, released the names of six law enforcement officers (2 State Troopers and 4 Davenport Police Officers) who were involved in the fatal shooting of a man in Davenport during the early morning hours of October 30th. Authorities say all six have cooperated and have been interviewed by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. (DCI).

They are identified as:
• Trooper Kenneth Voorhees-Iowa State Patrol Six years, six months of law enforcement experience.
• Trooper Dwight Swartz-Iowa State Patrol Five years, six months of law enforcement experience.
• Officer Brandon Askew-Davenport Police Department Ten years of law enforcement experience.
• Officer Mason Pauley-Davenport Police Department One year, eleven months of law enforcement experience.
• Officer Benjamin Betsworth-Davenport Police Department One year, two months of law enforcement experience.
• Officer Zachary Thomas-Bettendorf Police Department Thirteen years, one month of law enforcement experience.

All six remain on leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Once the investigation is complete, the findings will be forward to the Scott County Attorney’s Office and the Iowa Attorney General’s Office for review.

***Original report from the DPS follows***

On Sunday, October 30, 2022, at 2:50 am, multiple agencies were patrolling in the area of 5200 Grand Avenue. Officers initiated a traffic stop, but the driver failed to stop. A pursuit was initiated and ended after the vehicle became inoperable in the area of Kimberly Road and Elmore Avenue.  The occupants of the vehicle fled on foot. During the foot pursuit Officers exchanged gun fire with an occupant and as a result the occupant was pronounced deceased at the scene. The individual involved in the October 30, 2022 shooting was identified as a Davenport resident, 24-year-old Kenneth Jamel Carrol. An autopsy will take place at the Office of the Iowa State Medical Examiner.