The Coca-Cola Days Committee of the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that the 2011 “Coca-Cola Days” t-shirt is now available. The theme for this year’s event is “Celebrate with Coca-Cola: 125 Years of Fun!” The shirts are black and available in both long and short sleeves.

Short sleeves are $16 and long sleeves are $22, and prices include tax. Ann McCurdy, Executive Director of the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce, says “The design this year has a more vintage feel, which goes along well with the 125th anniversary of Coca-Cola.” The 2011 brochure and raffle tickets for a one-of-a-kind Diet Coke machine will both be available by the end of the month. 

Coca-Cola Days is held annually on the 4th weekend of September, making it September 23-24 this year. The event draws collectors from across the country to Atlantic to show, swap and sell memorabilia. The event also includes a tailgate dinner and parade.

For more information about Coca-Cola Days, please contact the Chamber at

243.3017.

Iowa’s largest utility says it is -not- switching off the lights in one of the state’s smallest towns, left nearly vacant after many residents fled approaching flood waters. Tina Potthoff, spokeswoman for MidAmerican Energy, says she wants to separate fact from fiction as the Missouri River rises and swallows up more acres in southwest Iowa.

“There’s been a lot of rumors circulating that we are shutting off power,” Potthoff says. “That is not the case. We are monitoring the situation on an hourly and daily basis. At this time, we do not have plans to shut off the power in Hamburg.” Potthoff says MidAmerican will only cut off the electricity in certain cases — at the request of the customer, if the utility determines the situation is hazardous or if city or emergency officials make the request.

(Matt Kelley/Radio Iowa)

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) – The Missouri River is now expected to rise 2-feet higher at Blair, Neb., than experts predicted previously. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it revised its prediction for the river near Blair because of new information it received about how fast the water is moving at that point.

The Corps now says the river will rise to between 32 and 34 feet next week after releases from Gavins Point Dam increase to 150,000 cubic feet per second. The river at Blair was already at 30.16 feet Friday. That’s well above the flood stage of 26.5 feet.

The Corps says the gauge at Blair doesn’t collect data on the flow rate, so a team was sent out to collect that. This adjustment doesn’t affect other locations on the river.