Atlantic Mayor Dave Jones is asking for citizens to attend a meeting this (Tuesday) evening at City Hall, to help plan for the City’s Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) Celebration. You’re asked to bring ideas for the event, and to join in on the discussion. The meeting begins at 5:30-p.m.

The Creston Police Department says a man from Orient reported last Friday that various tools were stolen from the back of his truck while is was parked at 211 N. Pine Street, in Creston. The loss was estimated at $350.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Jurors have begun deliberating a verdict in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former Iowa Senate Republican Caucus aide. Kirsten Anderson contends she was fired in 2013 as caucus communications director because she complained that she had been subjected to sexual harassment by male aides and lawmakers for years. In his closing statement Monday afternoon, her attorney said Anderson’s supervisors and elected Republican leaders ignored her concerns, fearing a disruption of the status quo at the Statehouse.

Republican officials deny she was harassed and say she was fired because of poor job performance. The case went to the jury Monday afternoon. The deliberations are expected to resume Tuesday.

Body armor plates manufactured in Centerville, Iowa, were exhibited in Monday’s “Made in America” event at the White House. R-M-A Armament C-E-O Blake Waldrop is featured in a video on the company’s website. “I started this business to help better protect the end user, my fellow Marines, my fellow police officers,” Waldrop says in the video. “I lost a friend in Iraq January 1, 2005. The same plates that were issued then (to soldiers) are issued now. We got in this business to make a better product, to make a superior product.”

The company’s ceramic body armor plates are inserted in what are often called “bullet proof vests.” The factory in Centerville makes about a thousand units a week and they’re sold to police departments throughout the country. One manufacturer from each state was invited to exhibit their product at yesterday’s (Monday’s) event in Washington, D.C.

(Radio Iowa)

There were two fatal accidents in Iowa, Monday, one of which, in Tama County, happened just two days after another fatal accident in the same county. The Iowa State Patrol reports the most recent crash in Tama County took place at around 8:20-p.m. in the 2800 block of 320th Street, in Chelsea. A 2011 Dodge Ram pickup driven by 46-year old Rodney Purk, of Montour, failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the road. The pickup struck a utility pole and rolled onto its top, pinning Purk, and his passenger, 47-year old Grant L. Forrester, of Indianola, inside the vehicle. Both men were wearing their seat belts. Forrester died from his injuries. Purk was transported to a hospital by helicopter. The accident remains under investigation.

The other accident took place at around 3-p.m. Monday, in Fayette County. The State Patrol says a City of West Union Police SUV driven by 23-year old Bryson Hennigar, of West Union, was northbound from the intersection of Highways 159 and 18, while in Emergency status. A 2003 GMC Sonoma, driven by 83 year old Willys Henry Fritz, of West Union, failed to yield the right of away from a stop sign leaving the Quillans parking lot and traveling east across Highway 150. The vehicles collided in the northbound lane of Highway 150. Fritz, who was not wearing a seat belt, died from his injuries. Hennigar, who was also not wearing a seat belt, was treated for injuries and released at the scene.