Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 5:10 a.m. CDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A workplace safety agency has cited transportation hub Big Soo Terminal in northwestern Iowa for a March incident that killed an employee. The Sioux City Journal reports that Iowa’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found three serious violations following an investigation into the March 28 death of 42-year-old Brian McCormick, a warehouseman and maintenance technician.

NEOLA, Iowa (AP) — Two organizations in the western Iowa community of Neola are trying to improve the lives of the city’s older residents so they’ll remain in town. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Lookout Village and the Neola Betterment Corporation are also aiming to create community growth. The Betterment Corporation, which is essentially a housing board for senior citizens, is planning to build seven cottages, four individual cottages and three duplex units for the area’s older residents wanting to downsize.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is again calling on volunteers to participate in the state’s annual wild turkey survey. Each summer, the department asks for volunteers to participate in the July-August survey. The information is used to monitor trends and manage the state’s turkey population.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The reward fund offered for the safe return of a missing University of Iowa student has grown to more than $332,000. Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa in a news release Thursday that 210 individual donors have contributed to the fund and that Crime Stoppers has passed on more than 935 tips to authorities investigating the disappearance of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A workplace safety agency has cited transportation hub Big Soo Terminal in northwestern Iowa for a March incident that killed an employee. The Sioux City Journal reports that Iowa’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found three serious violations following an investigation into the March 28 death of 42-year-old Brian McCormick, a warehouseman and maintenance technician.
McCormick was engaged in a switching operation with train cars when he was struck and killed by an unmanned rail car.

OSHA cited Big Soo for allowing employees on the rail car platform as rail cars were moving, letting employees move rail cars with the bucket of pay loader and not providing a derailer or bump block for rail cars.
Big Soo Terminal president Doug Palmer said Friday that the company had met with OSHA to discuss steps moving forward.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is again calling on volunteers to participate in the state’s annual wild turkey survey. Each summer, the department asks for volunteers to participate in the July-August survey. The information is used to monitor trends and manage the state’s turkey population.

Participants are asked to keep an eye out for wild turkeys as they work and play in Iowa during July and August. Volunteers are asked to distinguish adult females from males and young poults. They’re then asked to count the number of adults and young turkeys and make a note of the date and the county in which they were seen. That info is then reported to the Wildlife Bureau online using a computer or smartphone.

NEOLA, Iowa (AP) — Two organizations in the western Iowa community of Neola are trying to improve the lives of the city’s older residents so they’ll remain in town. Lookout Village and the Neola Betterment Corporation are also aiming to create community growth, The Daily Nonpareil reported .

Betterment Corporation, which is essentially a housing board for senior citizens, was able to build a six-unit apartment building for seniors in the 1980s using money raised from an annual community celebration, a $20,000 grant, private donations and a no-interest federal loan, said Anna Killpack, who serves with both organizations.
Now the organization is planning to build seven cottages, four individual cottages and three duplex units for the area’s older residents wanting to downsize.

“We would like to start the infrastructure work on the site we’ve purchased for the cottage this fall, but that is going to be tight,” Killpack said. “If we don’t get that work done this fall, we’ll certainly get it done in the spring.”

Lookout Village is a nonprofit program that provides services to its community members, according to Killpack. Memberships in Lookout Village are available to seniors and persons with long-term and/or short-term disabilities. Lookout Village also hosts a walking club, tours area museums and holds other activities such as bingo to encourage social connections.

Memberships range from $27 to $275 per year. There are currently 18 members signed up for Lookout Village, and the group has been growing at a rate of one new member per week, on average, Killpack said.

“We’re an organization of neighbors helping neighbors,” she said. “We do things like help rake leaves, cook a meal or take a member to an appointment.”

The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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Road Race Registration at Atlantic City Park, 7 to 7:45 a.m.
Tractor Ride Registration with coffee and rolls at Cass County Fairgrounds, 7 a.m.
Road Race Begins at Sixth and Poplar Street, 8 a.m.
Hy-Vee Pancake Breakfast at Atlantic City Park, 8 a.m.
Tractor Ride begins at Cass County Fairgrounds, 8 a.m.
Motorcycle Show Registration at Seventh Street and Chestnut Street, 8 a.m. to noon
Car Show Registration at Third Street and Chestnut Street, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Craft Show at Fifth Street, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Activity Booths open at Atlantic City Park, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Kids’ Bike Ride at Schildberg Recreation Area-west parking lot, 10:30 a.m.
Pony Rides at Sixth Street and Popular Street, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.- $5 each
Family Carnival at Sixth Street and Popular Street, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.-includes games, dunk tank and ticket booth-tickets $50 cent
Live Entertainment at AM Cohron Main Stage, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.- Villa Dance Company, 11 to 11:45 a.m.; Salute Gymnastics, 11:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.; Dance Atlantic, 12:40 to 1:25 p.m.; Reese DeArmant, 1:30 to 1:45 p.m.; Jason Button, 1:50 to 2:05 p.m.; Elyssa Amdor, 2:10 to 2:25 p.m.; BJ Hart, 2:30 to 2:45 p.m.; Alyssa Neal, 2:50 to 3:05 p.m.; Mike and Nancy Gibson, 3:10 to 3:25 p.m.; Reagan Watson, 3:30 to 3:55 p.m.; Sarah Selders, 4 to 4:30 p.m.; BJ Hart, 4:30 to 5 p.m.
Pedal Tractor Pull at Sixth Street and Chestnut Street, 1 p.m.
Atlantic BPW Bingo at Atlantic City Park, 1 p.m.
Motorcycle Show Award at Seventh Street and Chestnut Street, 3:30 p.m.
50/50 Raffle announcement at AM Cohron Main Stage, 3:45 p.m.
Car Show Awards at Chestnut Street in front of Atlantic Motor Supply, 4 p.m.

Red Oak Police, Friday evening, arrested on a drug charge, a man from Pottawattamie County. 27-year old Cody Alan Hunkins, of Council Bluffs, was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense, after his vehicle was pulled over at Highway 34 and O Avenue at around 5:37-p.m.  Hunkins was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 cash bond.

Officials with the Adams County Sheriff’s Department have released a list of numerous persons arrested this past week (Aug. 6th-thru 11th). Most recently, at around 11:30-p.m. Friday, Adams County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for traveling 84 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. Upon further investigation, K9 Baxo was deployed on the vehicle and gave a positive indication to the odor of narcotics. A used hypodermic needle was located in the vehicle. While speaking with the driver, Jacqueline Svoboda of Lincoln, NE, she admitted to recently having heroin in the vehicle. Svoboda was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and cited for excessive speed.

On Thursday, Adams County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle operated by Bailey Tupper of Omaha, NE. While speaking with Tupper, a baggie of a substance believed to be marijuana was observed in the back seat in plain view. Upon further investigation, Tupper was placed under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Three people were arrested Tuesday, in Adams County: Nathaniel Teeters was arrested on Adams County warrants for Gathering Where Controlled Substances Unlawfully Used, Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or subsequent offense (marijuana), Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or subsequent offense (methamphetamine), and Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs. The charges stem from a search warrant conducted at 500 4th Street in Nodaway on July 20th; Rosaline Stalker of Corning, was arrested on a charge of Interference with Official Acts; and, Shawn Kammerer, of Villisca, was arrested Tuesday, on an Adams County warrant for Probation Violation.

And on Monday, Adams County Deputies arrested Michael Longcor, of Henderson,  for Gathering Where Controlled Substances Unlawfully Used. The arrest stems from a search warrant conducted at 2575 Elm Avenue on June 29th.

(Radio Iowa) — Today (Saturday), is August 11th — or eight-one-one — which coincides with the three-digit telephone number Iowans need to call before they do any late summer digging in their yards. Seth Hale is spokesman for Iowa One Call. He says on this date, they’ll be doing a promotion to remind people across the state of Iowa, to call at least 48 hours before they dig. That includes any project, planting a tree, putting in a new mailbox, installing a fence, and also the big projects that professional excavators are doing.”

The goal of Iowa One Call, he says, it damage prevention. “There’s tens of thousands of miles of pipelines for gas and electric and communications and internet and water,” Hale says. “By not calling, you put yourself at risk of not knowing exactly where those utilities may be.”  By calling that single phone number of eight-one-one at least 48 hours before digging, that gives all of the utilities time to mark your yard, either with spray paint or colored flags, exactly where their lines are buried.

“Striking those utilities can put you at a safety risk,” Hale says. “Beyond that, your community and neighborhood may be at risk to lose service, to lose power, to not have natural gas, to not have water going to their homes and businesses. Making that call is vitally important not only for the people doing the work but for everybody else around.”

About 500-thousand calls were made to Iowa One Call last year, resulting in about two-and-a-half million “locate requests” from utilities. On the web at www.iowaonecall.com

Authorities say speed and alcohol are likely factors in the fatal motorcycle accident late Friday night, in central Iowa’s Jasper County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2001 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling east on Highway 6 just before 11-p.m., when it failed to properly execute a curve in the road. The cycle struck a mailbox and vaulted off a driveway before crashing.

One person died at the scene, another was flown by Mercy One helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. No names have been released.