Lavon Eblen speaks about Home Sweet Home with Carol Seddon, Kerry Jepsen, Kim Kappel.
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Jim Field speaks with Nishna Valley Trails President Dave Chase about an update on the Connector trail being built in Atlantic.
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CHARLES EDGAR “ED” FLYNN, JR., 84, of Slate Hill, NY died Monday, August 31st at the Flynn homestead. A celebration of life service for CHARLES EDGAR “ED” FLYNN, JR. will be held on Friday, September 4th at 11:00 am at Cornelius, Dodd & Connell Funeral Home in Middletown, NY.
Following the service, a celebration will be held on the lawn of the Flynn homestead in Slate Hill, NY.
The family asks that you honor Ed’s memory with a random act of kindness.
Condolences may be left online at www.connellfuneralhome.com.
CHARLES EDGAR “ED” FLYNN, JR. is survived by:
Son: Charles Edgar “Chip” Flynn III of Bloomingburg, NY
Daughters: Cheryl “Cherie” Ellen Flynn of Jamestown, NC; Merrie Ann (Rick) Sloth of Elk Horn
Daughter-in-Law: Patricia Flynn of Westtown, NY
Sister-in-Law: Shirley Flynn of Slate Hill
5 Grandchildren
7 Great-Grandchildren
The Red Oak Police made an arrest this (Tuesday) afternoon at 1:45pm of a Red Oak man on two active warrants out of Mills County. Officers arrested 32-year-old Bryan David Sapp Jr. at 106 West Coolbaugh Street in Red Oak on a warrant for Forgery and another for 5th Degree Theft. A $5,000 bond was set for the Forgery charge and Sapp is currently being held in the Montgomery County Jail awaiting extradition to Mills County.
JASON “JAKE” LEE STINN, 35, of Harlan, died Sun., Aug. 30th, at home. Funeral services for JAKE STINN will be held 11:30-a.m. Fri., Sept. 4th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday, from 5-until 9-p.m., with the family greeting friends from 6-until 8-p.m.
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
JASON “JAKE” STINN is survived by:
His mother – Kathaleen [Vandenberg] Stinn, of Harlan.
His father – Lee Stinn, of Harlan.
His brothers – Jerry Stinn, of Nevada, & Tommy Stinn, of Harlan.
His grandmother – Mildred Vandenberg, of Harlan.
and his nephew and niece.
A woman wanted on an Adams County warrant for Assault was arrested Sunday at the Union County Law Enforcement Center. Sheriff’s Officials say 31-year old Taycey Nichole Martin was later released from the Union County Jail on $500 bond.
(12-p.m. News)
Following reports from concerned citizens about a smell near an unnamed creek east of Redfield, officials with the Iowa DNR say they’re investigating a discharge to the creek. DNR staff found material seeping from an old tile line to the creek, which was creating a milk grey color in the creek and the odor. Authorities say it appears the discharge has been ongoing since July, based on comments from citizens.
The discoloration and odors exist along the creek until its confluence with the South Raccoon River. No impacts have been observed in the river. DNR staff are currently working to identify the source of the discharge. Nearby public water supplies have been notified. People and pets should avoid contact with water in the creek
Work on the Nishna Valley Trail Connector Project in Atlantic continues, despite some setbacks in funding for the project. Nishna Valley Trails President Dave Chase told KJAN’s Jim Field on the “Heartbeat Today” program, that progress is being made, and a pedestrian bridge over the Troublesome Creek just west of the KJAN Studios, is closer to reality, but there have been some “bumps in the road,” financially.
Chase said this past week, a couple of major grant applications they were counting on that were pending approval, went unfunded. The applications that were rejected include those from the Wells Fargo and Wellmark Foundations. He said while disappointing, there was no guarantee the grants would have been approved to begin with, and it does NOT stop the project from moving forward.
Work continues on the Nishna Valley Trail connector project near the KJAN studios.
He says also, there are other funding opportunities that they are exploring, and they still feel as good about their financial position, as they did when they “pulled the trigger” on the project in June. Chase says fundraising efforts will continue as well. Individuals and organizations who have already contributed to the project, according to Chase, have promised to do more if needed to help out. He says right now, they’re about $160,000 short of the funds necessary to pay for the project.
Donations for the project are tax deductible, because Nishna Valley Trails is a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization. If you would like to contribute to the cause, mail your donation to P.O. Box 496, Atlantic, IA 50022, or call Dave Chase at 712-249-3059. There are other ways to contribute as well, so give Chase a call to find out more.
Chase said work on clearing the path for the trail is nearly complete, and a pre-construction meeting with contractors was held Monday, with the plan being to start work on the trail and the bridge next Tuesday, which is earlier than anticipated. It’s expected construction will be completed in about 40-days from the start, weather permitting. The trail is expected to be in use later this fall, instead of next spring, as originally anticipated.
BOSTON (AP) – Two Iowa men charged with making online threats of violence at a Pokemon competition in Boston are being held without bail for at least four months. A judge ruled Tuesday that 18-year-old Ames resident Kevin Norton and 27-year-old Boone resident James Stumbo pose a danger to society. Prosecutors say the men made social media threats against at least one competitor at last month’s World Pokemon Championships.
Police found a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in their car. They were arrested at their hotel in Saugus, north of Boston.
Defense attorneys argued that there was no evidence the defendants planned to carry through on any threats. But the judge in his ruling said their online postings weren’t “just kids’ stuff on the computer.”
September is here and Iowa’s chief weather watcher says August was one of the colder, wetter Augusts the state has seen in several years. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the just-concluded month was Iowa’s coolest August since 2009. “On the temperature end of things, we were running about two degrees below normal, mainly thanks to a very cool second half of the month,” Hillaker says. “On the rainfall end, as always, there was a lot of variability across the state, but overall the preliminary statewide average was 5.42 inches of rainfall.”
That’s about one-and-a-quarter inches above normal during August. Here in Atlantic, at the KJAN Studios (The official reporting site for Atlantic), we received 3.88 inches of rain in August, which was a little more than one-half inch above normal. The south-central Iowa town of Albia recorded only about one-and-a-half inches of rain during the month, while Randolph, in southwest Iowa, reported more than 13 inches. Monday marked the end of the three-month summer weather reporting period and Hillaker says the summer of 2015 went out on a cool note.
“Temperatures were a little bit cooler than usual, although June and July, neither one were all that far from normal, but no really hot months this year,” he says. In Atlantic, the average High for August was 83 degrees, which was about 3 degrees cooler than normal, while the average Low of 61 was almost 4 degrees below normal.
Fall will arrive on September 23rd, in a little over three weeks. As for the month ahead, Hillaker says September is starting off warmer-than-normal and humid and it may just stay that way. “The (National) Weather Service’s latest 30-day outlook for September is still favoring above-normal rainfall for much of Iowa and really, much of the central part of the country,” Hillaker says, “and on temperatures, the outlook favors above-normal temperatures.” That’s a flip-flop from the original September outlook which was released about 10 days ago.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN Weather data)
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