Three people were hurt during a collision Thursday afternoon northwest of Shenandoah, in Fremont County. Sheriff’s officials say the drivers of the vehicles, 16-year old Judson Krein, of Farragut, and 21-year old Michael Glenn, of Riverton, suffered minor injuries. A passenger in the Glenn vehicle, 23-year old Rebecca Hart, of Sidney, was trapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated by emergency crews. She was transported to the Shenandoah Medical Center by Shenandoah Rescue.

Sheriff’s officials say the accident happened at around 4:15-p.m., as a 2007 Dodge Caliber driven by Krein was traveling north on 370th Avenue, and Glenn was traveling east on 190th, in a 2000 Buick Century. The vehicles collided at the intersection. The impact resulted in Michael Glenn’s vehicle being shoved into the south ditch.

The accident remains under investigation.

Officials with the U-S Army Corps of Engineers are meeting with residents along the Missouri River after this summer’s record flooding to explain plans for next year. At a meeting Thursday in Sioux City, several residents surrounded Jody Farhat (FAR-hat), head of the Corps’ reservoir control office, as she explained how the Corps tried to manage this spring’s massive run-off.

Farhat says the snowpack from the mountains and plains was captured into the reservoir system and it was all accounted for and normal rainfall and even above-normal rainfall could have been handled as there was still storage space. Farhat says in a single weekend, a record rainfall filled the reservoirs and they were left with no alternatives but to further open the floodgates, flooding the basin.

“If you don’t have storage, and we lost that storage because of the rainfall, then basically we had to say how much will our peak inflows be from that mountain snowpack and we’re going to have to pass it through because we have so little storage left,” Farhat says. “The cup is full, whatever comes in is going to have to go out.” Gary Brown, director of the Woodbury County Emergency Services office, says they need better communications from the Corps.

Brown says the Corps needs to do a much better job of letting local governments know what’s coming, as he says they were sometimes hours or days behind the information curve. Brown says the recovery continues in the Sioux City area, but it’s slow going. He says, “There are a lot of people in all three states that aren’t home yet and we’re working to do everything we can to try to get them back home but it’s going to be a long road.” Brown says they have learned some important lessons from this year’s flooding. He says they’re adding personnel and training to be able to run a 112-day emergency operation again, if needed. The Corps will release its 2012 operating plan for the Missouri River in late December or early January.

(Radio Iowa)

This information is provided by Cass Co. Auditor Dale Sunderman….

NOTE: Atlantic polling centers for Ward 1, Ward 4 and Ward 5 open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. and Atlantic polling centers for Ward 2/Grove 2 Township and Ward 3 open at 7:00 A.M. and close at 9:00 P.M. because a Special County Election for Supervisor District Two is being conducted at these two voting centers along with the regular city election while polling centers for all other Cass County cities open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M.  (In accord with Code of Iowa) 

ATLANTIC:  The following Atlantic polling precincts will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M.  Places to vote are:

FIRST WARD  –       Zion Lutheran Church, 9th St between Linn St and Oak St

FOURTH WARD –  United Church of Christ, 1607 Hazel

FIFTH WARD  –      Heritage House, 1200 Brookridge Circle

The following Atlantic polling precincts will open at 7:00 A.M. and close at 9:00 P.M.

SECOND WARD –  Atlantic Public Library, 6^th & Poplar St

THIRD WARD  –  Cass County Community Building, 805 West 10th St

ANITA:  The polling precinct is located at the Anita Community Center, 805 Main St and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

CUMBERLAND:  The polling precinct is located at the Cumberland Community Building, 200 W 2^nd St and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

GRISWOLD:  The polling precinct is located at the Griswold Community Center, 601 2^nd St  and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

LEWIS:  The polling precinct is located at the Lewis City Hall, 416 W Main St and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

MARNE:  The polling precinct is located at the Marne City Hall, 402 Washington and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

MASSENA:  The polling precinct is located at the Massena Public Library, 122 Main St and will open at 12 noon and close at 8:00 P.M. 

WIOTA:  The polling precinct is located at the Wiota City Hall, 311 Center St and will open at 12:00 noon and close at 8:00 P.M.