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A southwest Iowa man died Saturday afternoon, after the truck he was driving was struck by a BNSF train in northwest Missouri’s Atchinson County. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, 52-year-old Troy L. Landess, of Clarinda, was driving a 2009 Mack truck eastbound on a private levy access road five-miles south of Rock Port, and had attempted to cross a private railroad crossing that was controlled only by a stop sign, when the truck was hit on its passenger side by the northbound locomotive. The accident happened at around 2:30-p.m.
The Patrol says Landess was partially ejected from the truck during the collision. The vehicle came to rest down an embankment, while the train came to stop on the tracks. The Train Engineer, 55-year old Daniel F. Peterson, of Beatrice, NE., was not injured.
Landess was transported to the Nemaha County, MO., Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Atchison County Sheriff’s Department and Burlington Northern Railroad Police assisted at the scene.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday, will hold an in-person and electronic meeting (Via Zoom) [Meeting ID: 138 870 131 Password: 012064 ], beginning at 9-a.m. On their agenda is action on a Resolution assigning a county-held tax sale certificate to the City of Atlantic, and enter into an agreement to abate taxes, if Atlantic acquires ownership of the parcel (#303003963001000). The Board will also review and change the compensation rate for County Engineer Trent Wolken, following last week’s closed session for his six-month performance review.
The Board will act on entering into an agreement to compromise tax and abate interest, penalty and cost and assign tax sale certificates to private citizen on County Held Tax Sale Certificates for a parcel in Block 6, the 2nd Addition, in Cumberland. (More specifically: Certificates 2007-71 and 2018-118 S50’ N80’ of Block 6, 2nd Addition, Cumberland)
In other business, the Supervisors will act on a Resolution placing Stop signs at the intersection of 595th Street and Lansing Road. Last week, Jon Schwanke asked the Board to consider a stop sign or signs at the “Blind” intersection located at the top of a hill. It was noted the site had become a dangerous corner due to increased traffic associated with the opening of a new rock quarry. The Board concluded after considerable discussion last week, that a Stop sign is needed.
And, the Board of Supervisors will discuss the closing of a County Roadway at 570th Street and the I-80 underpass. The Iowa DOT plans to make I-80 a six-lane highway, which requires the closure of some underpasses. As an incentive, they are offering the County about $1.5-million dollars to close the road. After much discussion last week, including sharing of concerns from land owners and residents in the area, located both north- and south- of I-80, the Board decided to continue those discussions at future meetings, including the one set for Tuesday.
Caring for another individual can be challenging and rewarding and has been especially hard during Covid-19. Officials with Connections Area Agency on Aging ask, “Do you know someone, or are you, caring for an older individual? Do they live in Adair, Adams, Cass, Cherokee, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Harrison, Ida, Pottawattamie, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page, Plymouth, Ringgold, Shelby, Taylor, Union or Woodbury county?”
If so, the Agency we would like to hear about that caregiver. How do they take care of themselves and manage the stress? Connections will be honoring the great work of caregivers during National Family Caregiver Month – November 2020. Please share, in 250 words or less, how the awesome caregiver you’re writing about does with their caregiving duties.
Mail or e-mail submissions to:
Jan Schnack, Family Caregiver Specialist,
Connections Area Agency on Aging,
231 S. Main Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
or JSchnack@connectionsaaa.org
All caregivers submitted will be honored during November.
Atlantic’s Community Protection Committee will meet 5:30-p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 29), in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. On their agenda for discussion with regard to:
The CPC will forward its recommendation on each of those matters to the City Council, for consideration at their next meeting on Oct. 7th.
Iowa health officials say the state has confirmed another 611 positive COVID-19 cases and two more deaths as of today (10-a.m. Monday). Iowa currently has confirmed 1,317 COVID-19 deaths and 86,840 cases. There have been 9,556 Lab results returned since 10-a.m. Sunday, for a total of 786,014. Of the latest results, 9,106 came back Negative for COVID-19 (for a total of 697,239), and 443 were positive, for a 14-day rolling average of 11.1%. The number of Iowans who have recovered from the virus is 66,191.
Locally, increases in the number of new, positive cases of COVID-19 can be found in: Audubon County (+2, for a total of 84); Guthrie County (+3, total 248); Harrison County (+19, total 249); Madison County (+3, total 223); Mills County (+1, 181 total); Pottawattamie County (+4, total of 2,141); and Shelby County (+1, for a total of 268).
State data shows hospitalizations are on the rise in Iowa. There are 353 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 343 the previous day. That’s the highest number of hospitalized patients since May 29. Hospitalizations in Iowa reached a low in late June at 118. Hospitalizations have been steadily increasing since September 19, when the reported number was 269. There are currently 96 patients in intensive care, up from 89 the previous day. There are 39 patients on ventilators, up from 34 the previous day. There were 57 patients admitted in the last 24 hours, unchanged from the previous day. IDPH reported approximately 3,010 available hospital beds, with 434 ICU beds and 775 ventilators available.
In western/southwest Iowa, 15 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 (2 more than on Sunday), six are in an ICU (1 more than previous), three were admitted since yesterday, and no one was on a ventilator. There are currently 50 long-term care facilities reporting coronavirus outbreaks in Iowa, a number unchanged since Friday. IDPH reported 1,069 positive cases and 656 recoveries within those facilities. There have been 685 deaths in Iowa’s long-term care facilities.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases in each county, the number of persons recovered, and the total number of [deaths] (if any), since the pandemic began:
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s two Republican U.S. Senators are praising the president’s choice of Amy Coney Barrett for the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Senator Chuck Grassley says Barrett is eminently qualified and Grassley says she doesn’t deserve to the kind of “shenanigans” that happened after President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the court in 2018. Senator Joni Ernst says Barrett is an experienced jurist and a working mom of seven who joins a growing, but still to small list of women nominated to be judges in the federal court system.
Both Grassley and Ernst are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel’s scheduled to start hearings on Barrett’s nomination on October 12th. Doug Emhoff, the husband of vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, suggested during a weekend appearance in Iowa that Senator Harris would have much to say about Barrett during Senate debate. “She’ll be squarely in the fight to stop McConnell from jamming through a justice who will overturn the Affordable Care Act, just when we need it most,” he said.
Emhoff spoke at “drive in” campaign rally in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. Jill Biden, the wife of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, spoke at the rally, too, pledging that her husband would preserve the Affordable Care Act if elected. “He has spent his entire career listening, standing up to bullies and bringing people together,” Biden said.
Polls suggest Iowa’s six electoral college votes are up for grabs. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, campaigned in Iowa last week and Vice President Mike Pence will campaign here this Thursday, October 1st.
(Radio Iowa) – The race in Iowa’s second congressional district to replace retiring Democratic Congressman Dave Loebsack is considered one of the country’s most competitive. Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa, an eye doctor, is making her fourth try for a seat in the U.S. House. On a recent Saturday morning, Miller-Meeks was at a Jasper County G-O-P fundraiser that featured a trap shooting competition. Miller-Meeks is not quite five foot tall and used a youth shotgun. “It’s shorter. It has less of a kick,” Miller-Meeks said. “…This one’s easier for me to handle.” Miller-Meeks told the crowd at the fundraiser that as one of eight kids, her parents scoffed at her dream of becoming a doctor. “My rebellion was to leave home at 16, get a job, enroll in San Antonio Community College, enlist in the Army at age 18, work and go to school until I got a degree in nursing so I could work at night,” Miller-Meeks said.
” Kept going to school, got a masters in education. Ultimately was able to…graduate from medical school, then I came in Iowa to do my residency…and now I’m a state senator.” Like other Republicans, Miller-Meeks has been actively campaigning since this spring, once businesses reopened after being closed due to the pandemic. “I really missed being able to interact with people and just listening, being there, being attentive,” Miller-Meeks. “…You can do that and be at a respectful distance.”
Democratic candidate Rita Hart of Wheatland has mainly held online events. “I certainly don’t want to be in a situation where I’m regretting that we had a public event of any kind,” Hart said. In mid-September, Hart began holding “backyard talks” in the district. Her first was in Ottumwa, Hart stood in the middle of a dozen people spread out in a circle. Hart, a former teacher and one-term state senator, was the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2018 nominee for lieutenant governor. She told the group in Ottumwa about growing up as one of nine kids on a dairy farm.
“I tell people I had the great advantage growing up of being raised by a strong Democratic father and strong Republican mother and that was such an advantage in my life because I learned how to stand up for what I believe in,” Hart said, “but I also learned to listen to the other side.”
The second district covers the southeast quadrant of the state and current voter registration data shows there are 26-thousand more Democrats than Republicans in the district. Barack Obama won the district twice. Donald Trump won it in 2016.
ROSE MARY LEIB, 89, of Panora, died Saturday, Sept. 26th, at the Guthrie County Hospital. Graveside services for ROSE MARY LEIB will be held 2:30-p.m. Tue., Sept. 29th, in the Union Cemetery at Guthrie Center. Twigg Funeral Home in Guthrie Center has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Tue., Sept. 29th, from Noon until 2-p.m.
ROSE MARY LEIB is survived by:
Her son – Randy (Tina) Leib, of Panora.
Her daughters – Rhonda Leib, of MD., & Robin Leib, of Panora.
and 5 grandchildren.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) — All the playoff matchups in Major League Baseball have been set. The expanded 16-team field was filled out on the final day of this pandemic-altered season. The Milwaukee Brewers got a playoff spot despite a losing record, and so did Houston. The St. Louis Cardinals also advanced with a win. The best-of-three wild-card round begins Tuesday with four American League games. In a marquee matchup, Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Indians faces Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees. The National League games start Wednesday, when the Brewers play at Dodger Stadium. There will be no fans permitted in ballparks for the opening round.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harrison Bader tripled and homered to help the St. Louis Cardinals clinch a postseason berth on the final day of the regular season with a 5-2 win over Milwaukee, and the Brewers also earned a playoff spot Sunday via help on the West Coast moments later. St. Louis will be the fifth seed in the NL and will open a three-game wild-card series at San Diego on Wednesday. By winning, the Cardinals avoided having to travel to Detroit for two makeup games Monday. The Brewers will be the eighth seed after the San Diego Padres beat San Francisco 5-4.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Singer finished his rookie season with a stellar performance, Alex Gordon wrapped up his long Royals career with a fond farewell and Kansas City ended its season with a 3-1 win over the Detroit Tigers. Adalberto Mondesi and Ryan McBroom homered for the Royals, who finished just above the last-place Tigers in the AL Central in their first season under manager Mike Matheny.
UNDATED (AP) — The Minnesota Twins clinched baseball’s final available division title, taking the AL Central when the Chicago White Sox lost to the Cubs, 10-8. The Twins needed the Cubs to beat their crosstown rivals following Minnesota’s 5-3 loss to Cincinnati.
ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Foles replaced Mitchell Trubisky in the third quarter and tossed three touchdown passes over the final 6 1/2 minutes of the Chicago Bears’ wild 30-26 comeback win over the Falcons in Atlanta. The Bears improved to 3-0 for the first time since 2013 after becoming the latest team to rally from a huge second-half deficit versus Atlanta. The Falcons are the first team in NFL history to lose back-to-back games in which it led by 15 or more points in the final period.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Aaron Rodgers passed for 283 yards and three touchdowns, and the Green Bay Packers remained unbeaten with a 37-30 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
Stephen Gostkowski made his career-high sixth field goal of game, a 55-yarder with 1:48 left that lifted undefeated Tennessee to a 31-30 victory over the Vikings. Derrick Henry rushed for 119 yards and two third-quarter touchdowns while Ryan Tannehill passed for 321 yards for another comeback after trailing most of the game.
UNDATED (AP) — The relationship between Andy Reid and John Harbaugh grew roots in Philadelphia, and the two successful NFL coaches have remained friends despite competing against each other for supremacy in the AFC. Harbaugh used much of the knowledge he absorbed during his 10-year run as an Eagles assistant under Reid to become a successful head coach with the Baltimore Ravens. Although Reid and Harbaugh stay in close contact, communication was put on hold in the days leading up to the Monday night showdown between Reid’s defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Ravens, who have won 14 straight regular-season games.