If you were listening to our live broadcast from the Cass County Fair in Atlantic Sunday evening, you would have heard breaking news about the FFA Food Stand. Gary Miller, CAM FFA Advisor told KJAN’s Jim Field during the FFA News and Judging Results portion of our broadcast, that fundraising efforts to replace the aging FFA Food Stand received a big boost, thanks to a surprise donation.

Miller announced Darrin and Melanie Petty, with the Frederickon Foundation, presented FFA officials with a check for $5,000 toward the fund needed to build a new FFA Foodstand. Miller said the Cass County FFA is extremely grateful to receive the funds from the Petty’s, and others who have pledged a contribution to replace the building sometime over the next couple of years.

The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund was started to give back to the community Trevor loved by offering scholarships to graduating Atlantic High School students and support other things that meant a lot to Trevor.

Police in Red Oak report a teenager was cited for Minor in Possession of Tobacco/1st offense and for not wearing his seat belt, following a traffic stop Sunday afternoon. During the routine traffic stop for a seat belt violation that took place at around 4:15-p.m., an officer observed 17-year old Josiah Prokes allegedly smoking a cigarette. The teen was released on the citations and will appear before the magistrate or juvenile court judge at a later date.

The Iowa D-N-R continues adding to the G-P-S information that’s available for the state’s lakes. Fisheries Research Technician, Lewis Bruce, says they now have information on rock or brush piles and other habitat areas in the lakes that you can access online. “What this file allows you to do is download all the coordinates across the entire state onto hand-held G-P-S units, fish finders, anything that you can download G-P-S coordinates into. Once you have those points downloaded, once you go to a lake, those coordinates are going to show up,” Bruce says. He says it helps anglers zero in on the best spots for their favorite type of fish.

“If you’re fishing for say bluegills, it will allow you to find spawning beds. If you’re fishing for walleyes, you’ll be able to look for rock reefs,” Bruce explains. “Basically it’s gonna allow you to hit the water running instead of having to look for all these different sites on the lake.” So, is modern technology giving away all those deeply held secrets about the best fishing spots gained through years of knowledge. “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. There’s always going to be those piles that are off on an edge or those locations that everybody kind of hones in on on their own after being on the lake for awhile. It’s going to bring out a lot of points and ultimately will probably spread the fishing out more because there are going to be areas that people weren’t aware of originally,” Bruce says.

There’s now a lot of information available to help you find fish, but Bruce says that doesn’t guarantee that you will be successful. “Just because you are sitting over the structure doesn’t mean they are going to bite,” he says. “It seems like it can be more frustrating sometimes when you have all the technology available. You can see the fish there, you can see your lure there and they are just looking at it.” Bruce says the information should cut down on the time it takes to get into position to catch fish.

“You know, our ultimate goal is to shorten the time between bites and give anglers all the opportunities that they can for catching fish,” Bruce says. “And ultimately we are putting a lot of the angler’s money into fish habitat and they should be the ones to benefit from it.” To find the habitat coordinates, go to the D-N-R’s website at: www.iowadnr.gov.

(Radio Iowa)

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Newly released records show that a 39-year-old man was shocked with stun guns at least 15 times before his death as Worth County Sheriff’s deputies tried to subdue him. The Des Moines Register filed a lawsuit to obtain the records from the Sept. 22 incident in Northwood after the officers were officially cleared of any wrongdoing. The deputies shocked Michael Zubrod after finding him beating his girlfriend with a hammer and scissors. He also attacked a deputy.

CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) — One small northwest Iowa town is preparing to deal with the loss of 450 jobs this fall when the Tyson Foods plant in Cherokee closes, and business owners are worrying about what it will mean. The Tyson plant is the second-largest employer in Cherokee.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa inmate who was sentenced to life in prison has died less than a year being granted compassionate release because she was dying. Friends and family members say Kristina Fetters died Sunday. Fetters was diagnosed with Stage 4 inoperable breast cancer last September, when she was imprisoned at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. The 34-year-old Fetters was 15 when she entered prison for a 1995 first-degree murder conviction in the death of her great-aunt in 1994.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A small plane has to be towed to the airport on a truck after safely landing on an eastern Iowa road. The Black Hawk County Sheriff’s office said the plane flying from Longmont, Colorado, to an annual air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, when it had engine trouble around 8 p.m. Saturday. So 49-year-old Michael Hickman and his 22-year-old son James had to land the plane on a road north of the Waterloo Regional Airport. No one was injured and the plane wasn’t damaged.

(Updated 9:35-a.m.)

One person was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic early this (Sunday) morning following a rollover accident a couple of miles southeast of Wiota. According to dispatch reports, a woman went to a farmhouse just south of 390th Street and Independence Road at around 3:15-a.m. and reported she was in a vehicle that had been involved in an accident.

Deputies found the car upside down and were initially unable to determine if there were any other persons in the vehicle because the top was crushed. They saw footprints leading from the car into a field.
Anita Rescue and Wiota 1st Responders were called to the scene and used a thermal imaging device to help search for other, possible victims. None were found, and after doing some checking, deputies determined the woman appeared to have been alone in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Quist told KJAN News the woman, whose identity has not yet been released, was cited for Failure to Maintain Control and Having No Proof of Insurance. An additional charge of OWI is pending the results of chemical tests given to the woman at the hospital.

Additional information is expected to be released on Monday.

Police in Red Oak say a man from Missouri was arrested late Saturday night for Public Intoxication. 36-year old Paul Michael Campbell, of St. Joseph, MO., was arrested at around 11:30-p.m. after officers responded to a residence in the 1600 block of east Summit Street. Campbell was being held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center on $300 cash bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A narrowly focused medical marijuana law just took effect in Iowa, but advocates are already hoping they can expand access to the drug for the chronically ill.

State lawmakers this year approved legislation allowing the use of oil derived from marijuana to treat chronic epilepsy. The law was driven largely by mothers of children with epilepsy. It lays out strict criteria, including acquiring a registration card through the state and buying the oil in another state that produces it.

State Sen. Joe Bolkcom, a Democrat from Iowa City, says he hopes this bill is a first step toward a more comprehensive medical marijuana law. He hopes to get bipartisan support for legislation in 2015.
A spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad says Iowa should be cautious about expanding the law.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Human Services Department says changes in the federal farm bills means that about 1,100 Iowa businesses must pay for equipment and supplies, or pay transaction fees, in order to accept food stamp payments. The agency says Iowa can no longer use federal funds to provide equipment and pay transaction costs for retailers who average at least $100 a month in food stamp transactions.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Polk County Jail has joined a growing list of law enforcement agencies no longer holding immigrants in jail without a warrant if they’re suspected of being in the country illegally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being scrutinized for asking local agencies to hold such individuals for two additional days to give federal agents time to investigate and, if needed, start deportation steps.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two 19-year-old Des Moines men have been sentenced to up to 50 years in prison for the beating death of another man last year. James Alon Shorter and Yarvon Nathaniel Russell were convicted in the August beating death of Richard Daughenbaugh, who authorities say was killed after honking his horn at a group of men. One other man also was convicted in the case.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Habitat for Humanity has received a bit of charity of its own. The Dubuque farm supply business Theisen’s has donated tools to the house-building nonprofit to replace stolen equipment. Tools valued at more than $3,800 were stolen from the group, which says its insurance costs would be unaffordable if its policy extended to cover its tools.

Authorities in Lenox report a Union County man was arrested early Saturday morning following a disturbance at a local bar. At around 1:30am, police were dispatched to the Dally Post bar. Officials determined 29-year old Joshua Weeks, of Creston, had entered the bar in an allegedly highly intoxicated condition, and confronted another patron.

Weeks was arrested on a charge of public intoxication and transported to the Taylor County Jail.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – Officials in western Iowa will consider seeking a $200,000 state grant to help remove invasive trees and plants taking over a Council Bluffs park. The Daily Nonpareil reports that non-native trees and plants – like black locust, buckthorn and Ohio buckeye- have crowded out native species in Fairmount Park. Parks Director Larry Foster will ask the Council Bluffs City Council on Monday give him the go-ahead to seek the grant.

Foster wants a 28-acre section of the park to go back to oak savannah and understory trees, as well as Loess prairies. Wood chips from the removed trees would be used to surface a nature trail within the park that would connect with a nearby neighborhood trail to the restored area