An Iowa Western Community College community service project seeks to collect donations of canned food this week, in Atlantic. According to Leigh Ann Wolfe-Dawson, Communications Instructor at the IWCC Atlantic campus, students in the Monday-Wednesday & Friday Public Speaking class created a “Can the Cart” Food Drive to seek donations for the Atlantic Food Pantry. Their project was spurred by a visit to the Food Pantry, in September.

Each day this week (Monday thru Friday) a grocery cart will be in the entryway at the IWCC Cass County Center in Atlantic. A glass jar to collect spare change and monetary donations will be on the IWCC front counter to help Change Hunger too. On Wednesday, October 30th, from 2-until 3-p.m. canned food donations and monetary donations will be accepted in the IWCC parking lot, in Atlantic. Simply drive-up and donate your canned food and/or money, to benefit the Atlantic Food Pantry.

Wolfw-Dawson said their students don’t want anyone to be hungry and they want to do what they Can to help our community and local food pantry. Hy-Vee has graciously let the students borrow a grocery Cart. The goal is to fill that empty grocery cart with canned food and nonperishable items and donate those items and the monetary donations to the Atlantic Food Pantry.

The best Items to donate include: Canned Fruit, Canned Peas, Canned Pork and Beans, Canned Tomato Soup, Canned Chicken Noodle Soup, Canned Tuna, Canned Beef Ravioli, Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, Macaroni and Cheese, Hamburger Helper, Cereal, Sides of Pasta and Sauce, Peanut Butter, Toilet Paper, Liquid Laundry Detergent, and basically anything, including monetary donations.

The Iowa State Patrol says the pursuit of a Ford F-350 pickup that began Sunday morning in Mills County, ended with a crash and the injury of three teens in Montgomery County. Authorities say the pickup, driven by a 16-year old from Carter Lake, was being pursued at around 8:50-a.m. by Mills County Deputies and Glenwood Police, eastbound on Highway 34 from the Glenwood area. The chase entered Montgomery County on Highway 34. When the pickup approached Avenue A, the driver attempted to turn left, but the vehicle was traveling too fast.

The pickup went out of control and entered the north ditch off Highway 34, before striking a culvert and rolling over. The vehicle came to rest on its roof. Three passengers in the vehicle — a 17-year old and two 14-year olds — one of whom was not wearing a seat belt, were transported by Red Oak Rescue to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital. Their names had not released as of Sunday afternoon.

COUNCIL BLUFFS– The Iowa Department of Corrections said Sunday (today), 21-year old Jesse Aron Shipley, who was convicted of Theft 1st Degree and other crimes in Pottawattamie County, failed to report back to the Council Bluffs Residential Facility as required this (Sunday) morning. Shipley is a white male, height 5’11”, and weighs 239 pounds. He was admitted to the work release facility on August 15, 2019.  Persons with information on Shipley’s whereabouts should contact local police.

Jesse Shipley

A public forum featuring candidates for the Atlantic School Board will be held 7-p.m. Monday, in the Atlantic Middle School Auditorium. The candidates for three seats on the Board include Incumbent Jenny Williams, and challengers Mark C. Foegen, Nicholas Hunt, Laura McLean, and Benjamin Winford. At the beginning of the forum, each candidate will provide a brief introduction, with audience questions to follow.

Firefighters from Marne and Atlantic were called to the scene of a vehicle fire Saturday evening on I-80 westbound, just east of mile-marker 51. The incident was reported at around 6:35-p.m. Dispatch reports said the vehicle was being towed by a Dodge Durango, when it erupted into flames for some reason. No one was injured. The right lane was blocked for a time from Exit 46 (County Road M47) to Exit 54 (IA 173 near Marne), while crews worked on putting out the flames and clearing the scene. No other information is currently available.

An accident early Saturday morning in northern Iowa’s Floyd County resulted in one the death of a 9-year old boy, and injuries to four other people. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2015 Ford Taurus driven by 29-year old Jesse Duane Blade, was traveling northbound in Rudd on Glass Avenue at around 6:35-a.m., when Blade failed to stop at the posted intersection with Rudd Park Road. His car struck an eastbound 2003 Ford Windstar van broadside. The driver of the van was identified as 57-year old Ronald Paul Fisher.

Blade, Fisher, and a passenger in the van, 50-year old  Sarah June Fisher, along with 11-year old Aidyn D. Kline, were all injured in the crash. Nine-year old Royce F. Fisher died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

An eastern Iowa couple’s baby gender reveal party went horribly wrong, Saturday afternoon. According to KCCI-TV, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said a 56-year old woman died at the scene, after suffering serious injuries during the gender-reveal announcement. The explosion occurred at around 4-p.m. Saturday at a residence in rural Knoxville. The victim had been struck by a piece of debris. No names have been released.

A traffic stop in Adams County on a vehicle with a faulty brake light, resulted in the arrest at around 2:30-this (Sunday) morning, of a Union County man. Sheriff’s officials say Casey Mitchell, of Thayer, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. Mitchell was also charged with having an Open Container, and Expired Registration.