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3 arrests in Mills County

News

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports three recent arrests. On Monday, 47-year old John Ray Nolan Jr., of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail on a Mills County warrant for Violation of Probation. His bond was set at $5,000. That same day, 35-year old Cherokee Nicole Tuttle, also of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pott. County Jail, on a Mills County warrant for in the Theft 2nd Degree. Her bond was also set at $5,000.

And, on Tuesday, 35-year old Zachary Robert Jones, of Council Bluffs, was arrested following a traffic stop in Mills County, on a warrant out of Pottawattamie County. He was being held without bond.

Iowa DCI Makes Arrest in Union County Homicide Investigation

News

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), along with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Tuesday, arrested 43-year old Jennifer Jean Hartley, of Thayer,  on a charge of Murder in the First Degree, a class A Felony, in the death investigation of Loretta Dillinger.

On December 2nd, 2015, a hunter located a decomposed body in a pond at 1024 Redwood Avenue near the Union County and Madison County line. The Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny performed an autopsy and determined the body to be that of 37-year old Loretta Dillinger.

Jennifer Jean Hartley

Jennifer Jean Hartley

Through the investigation, DCI Agents determined that Jennifer Hartley acted with Jerry Dillinger to kill Loretta Dillinger. Hartley was part of a plan to have Loretta set fire to two residences, one in Greenfield and one in Thayer. Hartley provided her pistol to Jerry Dillinger to kill Loretta so she wouldn’t disclose any information about the fires. After the fires and death of Dillinger, Hartley knowingly helped conceal Loretta’s death.

Jennifer Hartley is being held in the Ringgold County Jail on $1 million cash-only bond. Jerry Dillinger plead two counts of first degree murder back in January. He was found dead in his jail cell last month, in what officials at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Oakdale said, was an apparent suicide.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23rd

Trading Post

March 23rd, 2016 by Jim Field

FOR SALE:  John Deere T-10 riding lawn mower, 48″ deck, in A-1 condition.  Asking $400.  Call 243-2860.

WANTED:  a small garden-type tractor with side mount for a sickle-type mower and a rear attachment for a regular mower deck and a mulching-type attachment.  Call 712-769-2387.

WANTED: 20″x 20″, 3″ thick foam. 243-5759 or 249-2591.

Backyard & Beyond 3-23-2016

Backyard and Beyond, Podcasts

March 23rd, 2016 by Jim Field

LaVon Eblen talks about eggs.

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Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce Announces Details for New Campaigns

News

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Officials with the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce have announced a new program helps to better the community and bring fun for the whole family. The Chamber is unveil two new campaigns for the year. The Explore, Discover, Share
campaign to raise community awareness, and, the Passport to the Atlantic Area, a shopping incentive program to encourage shopping local.

The goal of the Explore, Discover, Share campaign is to build community awareness and pride by exploring the community and then sharing those experiences. The campaign will kick off in June and continue through November and include multi-media marketing and an Explorer Challenge to engage community members.

Community members will be encouraged to visit participating locations, take a photo and learn something new to share. Participants will upload their photos and experiences to a dedicated website by clicking on the business they visited. Community members will use the same website and vote on their favorite photos. Prizes will be given throughout the campaign to participants with the most photos and votes with a grand prize winner at the end of the campaign.

Chamber businesses and tourist attractions that purchase sponsorships will be a part of the campaign, each receiving an Explore, Discover, Share sign or decal to designate them as a participant. The success of the campaign will be determined by the amount of overall support and excitement within the Chamber membership and community.

The Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce partnered with several retail based businesses to create a Shop Local campaign for the entire year including the Passport to the Atlantic Area. The year-long campaign will educate the community on why it is important to shop local. Shopping local keeps dollars in our community; supports families, employees and business owners; provides you with great customer service and selection; benefits local schools and community projects; and encourages Atlantic’s unique character.

The Passport to the Atlantic Area gives shoppers an additional incentive to keep their dollars in the community. The Passport to the Atlantic Area is a shopping reward program to entice community members to shop at the participating businesses. The more you shop at the participating business the better your chance is to win Passport Dollars to spend.

The Passport program will kick off in late May or early June. Passports will be available for pick at all the participating businesses. Participants will receive stamps in the amount of purchases made at the local businesses. Once a participant’s passport is complete, they have the option to return the passport to the Chamber or participating businesses to be entered into a monthly drawing to win Passport Dollars, only redeemable at participating businesses. At the end of the year, all the completed passports will be eligible for a Grand Prize drawing.

Details regarding participating businesses and attractions for the campaigns will be released at a later date.

(Podcast) KJAN 8-a.m. News, 3/23/2016

News, Podcasts

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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Harlan Girls Compete at Bob Prince Early Bird Invite

Sports

March 23rd, 2016 by admin

The Harlan Track and Field teams competed Tuesday at the Bob Prince Early Bird Invite at USD in Vermillion, South Dakota.

Girls

400m

3rd Payten Hoegh, Harlan, 1:04.52

800m

6th  Deena Hayes, Harlan, 2:48.42

60M Hurdles

1st  Allison Bruck, Harlan, 9.42

3,000m

6th, Greichaly Kaster, Harlan, 12:33.79

High Jump

5th Taylor Frederick, Harlan, J4-08.00, 1.42m

Long Jump

9th Savannah Parman, Harlan, 4.41m, 14-05.75

Shot Put
4th  Gillian Streit, Harlan, 10.14m, 33-03.25

4×200

4th Harlan ‘A’  1:54.944
1) Bruck, Allison 2) Hansen, Chole 3) Larsen, Lexi 4) Frederick, Taylor

4×400

9th: Harlan ‘A’  4:35.852

1) Larsen, Lexi 2) Hoegh, Baylee 3) Bruck, Allison 4) Frederick, Taylor
Boys
400m
9th Erik Dawson-Anderson, Harlan, 57.83
Shot Put
3rd  John Bieker, Harlan, 50-00.75
5th Dylan Ferguson, Harlan, 47-11.00
7th Curtis Schnack, Harlan, 45-06.50

Iowa near top in payments for wind turbines

Ag/Outdoor, News

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has released information showing Iowa ranks second in the nation for the amount of money paid to landowners for the placement of wind turbines. AWEA’s Manager of Industry Data and Analysis , John Hensley, helped work up the numbers. “Across the United States there were more than 222 million dollars paid in land-lease agreements to local land owners who had wind projects on their site,” Hensley says. “And Iowa is certainly near the top. We’re showing more than 10 million dollars paid out on an annual basis to these landowners.”

Iowa is one of six states with more than 10 million dollars in payment, with Texas ranked number one, followed by Iowa, California, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Kansas. AWEA figures show Iowa produced 31 percent of its electricity from wind last year. Hensley says the payments are kept confidential, but they have a good estimate of how much is being paid. “They are generally designed similar to a royalty payment based on the output of the machine at the site. Or, it could also be based on just a raw capacity amount — so you’ve got a two megawatt turbine, and a two megawatt turbine pays out a certain amount per year. They are typically private negotiations and contract structures between the project developer and the land owner,” Hensley says.

He says the revenue is important as about 70 percent of rural wind farms in the U-S are located in low-income counties. “I think this is a really important piece of that economic picture that really goes a long way to show the rural impacts that wind has across the country. We are looking property tax revenues that can go a long way to help schools in those local areas,” Hensley says. Hensley says the payments are vital to many land owners.

He says it helps them make ends meet, and helps them keep the ranches and farms in the family. AWEA will release more information on the impact of wind farms in its upcoming annual report — including job numbers, state-by-state comparisons, and the overall picture of the wind industry.

(Radio Iowa)

State preps for return of avian influenza

Ag/Outdoor, News

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

With spring’s arrival, Iowa poultry producers are on alert for a possible return of avian influenza which decimated the state’s flocks last year. State officials are taking steps to more efficiently euthanize birds if the disease strikes again. Joyce Flinn, head of the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, says the necessary equipment is being stored in safe places around the state.

“We continue to coordinate with the Iowa Department of Ag and Land Stewardship for a possible avian influenza response,” Flinn says. State Emergency Management helped coordinate the response last year, which included hauling water to affected areas to mix with foam to kill birds, and coordinating haz mat teams for cleanup. If there’s another outbreak, Flinn says they’re ready.

“Our preparations for avian influenza include prestaging of equipment around the state that can be used in the euthanasia of birds,” Flinn says. “The ready access to this equipment will aid in quick, humane euthanasia to help contain the spread of the disease.” Spring migration may re-create last year’s conditions that lead to a widespread outbreak. Some 34-million birds on 77 Iowa farms had to be destroyed after contracting the virus.

(Radio Iowa)

(Podcast) KJAN Morning Sports report, 3/23/2016

Podcasts, Sports

March 23rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Jim Field.

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