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State Qualifying Cross Country Meets fire up for Class 3A and 4A tonight

Sports

October 20th, 2021 by admin

State Qualifying Cross Country Meets are on tap Wednesday and Thursday for all runners across the state. Wednesday Class 3A and 4A runners will get their shot at trying to earn a spot at the state meet next week. The top three teams and top fifteen individuals will advance on.

In Class 3A Atlantic will run at Winterset. Other teams at that site are ADM, Boone, Clarke, Creston, Dallas Center-Grimes, Harlan, Kuemper Catholic, North Polk, Perry, Saydel, Webster City, and Winterset.

Some other area 3A teams will run at LeMars: Algona, BHRV, Bishop Heelan, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Humboldt, LeMars, MOC-Floyd Valley, Sergeant Bluff-Luton, Sioux Center, Spencer, Spirit Lake Park (Girls), Storm Lake.

2 area Class 4A schools will run at Indianola: CB Abraham Lincoln and CB Thomas Jefferson. Lewis Central will run at Ankeny.

CLASS 4A

CLASS 3A

Meets will start at 4:00 p.m. at all sites this evening.

Playoff Volleyball Schedule 10/20/2021

Sports

October 20th, 2021 by admin

CLASS 1A (Regional Quarterfinals)

Region 2

Fremont-Mills @ St. Albert
Stanton @ Sidney
Tri-Center @ East Mills
Boyer Valley @ Riverside – ON KJAN

Region 3

Audubon @ Ankeny Christian Academy
CAM @ Glidden-Ralston
GMG @ Gladbrook-Reinbeck
Grand View Christian @ BCLUW

Region 8

Seymour @ Holy Trinity Catholic
WACO @ New London
Mount Ayr @ Lamoni
Mormon Trail @ Southeast Warren

CLASS 2A (Regional Quarterfinals)

Region 2

Rock Valley @ Western Christian
West Monona @ Hinton
AHSTW @ Treynor
Underwood @ Missouri Valley

Region 3

Ogden @ South Hardin
Woodward-Granger @ South Hamilton
Panorama @ Southwest Valley
Nodaway Valley @ ACGC

CLASS 3A (Regional Semifinals)

Region 1

Red Oak @ Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Cherokee Washington @ Sioux Center

Region 4

Clarinda @ Des Moines Christian
Nevada @ Roland-Story

Creston woman arrested on drug charges

News

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

The Creston Police Department reports 36-year-old Holly Renee Donehoo, of Creston, was arrested Tuesday night, at her residence. Donehoo was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Controlled Substance Methamphetamine 1st Offense. She was taken to the Union County Jail and later posted a $1,300 bond before being released.

(Podcast) KJAN News, 10/20/2021

News, Podcasts

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Area broadcast News at 7:08-a.m., with Ric Hanson.

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Playoff Volleyball Scoreboard 10/19/2021

Sports

October 20th, 2021 by admin

CLASS 4A

Region 1
(3-0) Lewis Central 25-25-25, LeMars 11-15-13
(3-0) Carroll 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 16-14-22

Region 2
(3-0) ADM 25-25-25, Creston 11-17-13
(3-0) Dallas Center-Grimes 25-25-25, Perry 15-15-7

CLASS 5A

Region 1
(3-0) Sioux City North 25-25-25, Sioux City West 8-17-17

Region 2
(3-0) Des Moines Lincoln 25-25-25, Des Moines North 12-14-23

Union County accident reports

News

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

The Union County Sheriff’s Office says two separate accidents took place Tuesday. Authorities say at around 11:32-p.m. Tuesday, a 2015 Ford F-150 pickup driven by 24-year-old Blaine Andrew Sportsman, of LaClede, Missouri, was traveling westbound on 140th Street in Union County. When Sportsman looked down at his cell phone GPS to see where he was going, the passenger side wheels of the camper his truck was pulling, began to go off the north side of the road, near the ditch. When he tried to get the camper back on the road, it continued towards the ditch before entering, and flipped onto its side.

The flipping action of the camper caused the pickup to flip over as well. Sportsman was wearing a seat belt and was able to safely extricate himself from the pickup. Damage from the accident amount to $20,000 altogether. No citations were issued. And, at around 5:34-p.m., Tuesday, a 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera driven by 42-year-old Jesse White, of Creston, was traveling north on Highway 25. As he was looking at the cornfields, he failed to notice the vehicle in front him, a 2015 RAM pickup – driven by 26-year-old Trevor Blake Luther, of Creston – was slowing down due to a semi hauling crops that was ahead of the pickup. When he finally saw the pickup, White slammed on his brakes, but struck the rear of the pickup truck. He complained of head pain and was transported by ambulance to the hospital in Creston, where he was examined and released. Damage to his car was estimated at $5,000. The pickup sustained $2,000 damage. No citations were issued.

And, the Creston Police Department reports a 2016 Chevy Colorado pickup truck was legally parked in the 100 block of E. Montgomery Street when it was struck on the driver’s side front panel by an unknown vehicle. The other vehicle transferred green paint to the pickup during the collision. The incident, which happened sometime over the previous 24-to 48 hours to Tuesday afternoon, caused an estimated $1,600 damage to the pickup.

Cass County Extension Report 10-20-2021

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

October 20th, 2021 by Jim Field

w/Kate Olson.

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Sioux City group creating Holocaust memorial with a railcar from Atlantic

News

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Sioux City’s railroad museum is refurbishing a vintage boxcar purchase from an Atlantic man, to turn it into a replica of the cattle cars that the Nazis used to transport European Jews to concentration camps. The idea came out of the annual “Tolerance Week” — which for 17 years has annually brought Holocaust survivors to Sioux City to visit local schools to educate children about their history. Boardmember Kelli Erickson explains. “And we all thought, what if we brought a railcar up here, and create a Holocaust museum where it is not just one week? So we are going from one week of education to potentially nine months,” Erickson says.

File Photo – (Left) Matt Merke with the Sioux City Railroad Museum, and Keith Olsen, with Olsen’s BP.

The railcar – formerly owned by Keith Olsen, of Atlantic – will be part of a permanent museum exhibit known as “Holocaust Rails, Desperate Passage.” “And it’s very, very important education for us to share. How did this happen, who are these people, how did people let it happen?,” she says. “There are answers to all of these –and the survivors — the stories of the survivors, very inspiring.” The finished cattle car will be the centerpiece of the only Holocaust exhibit in the midwest. “One survivor has been quoted that the railcar symbolized their transition from being human beings to being numbers that could be disposed of at any time. It’s a hub, the very center of what we’d like to create,” she says.

Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities are partnering in the project. They plan a fundraising campaign for the overall project — and hope to have the exhibit ready by the fall of 2022.

Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area – Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021

Weather

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy to Cloudy. High 63. NW @ 15-25.

Tonight: P/Cldy to cloudy. Low 41. NW @ 10-20.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 58. NW @ 10-20.

Friday: P/Cldy. High 62.

Saturday: P/Cldy. High around 66.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 76. Our Low was 52. We received .05″ rain overnight into early this morning. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 49 and the Low was 33. The Record High on this date was 87 in 1947 & 2003. The Record Low was 14 in 1960.

(Updated) LARRY LUMMUS, 56, of Atlantic (Private services at a later date)

Obituaries

October 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

LARRY LUMMUS, 56, of Atlantic, died Tue., Oct. 19th, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. A private family celebration of life for LARRY LUMMUS will be held at a later date. Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic is assisting the family.

Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.

LARRY LUMMAS is survived by:

His wife – Anna.

His daughter – April (Payton) Shannon, of Atlantic.

His son – Nicholaus Petty, of Atlantic.