UPDATE (1:30-p.m.) – A 17-year old Clarinda teen missing since about 8-p.m. Sunday has been located and returned to the custody of her parents. Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports Brandi Novak is safe, and the Clarinda Police Department thanks the public for their assistance.

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The Clarinda Police Department is asking for your help in locating a white teenage female who was last seen at around 8-p.m. Sunday at her home in Clarinda. 17-year old Brandi Regina Novak is 5-feet 5-inches tall and weighs about 175-pounds. She has shoulder length black hair, which is usually pulled up, brown eyes and glasses.

Brandi was last seen wearing a gray tank top trimmed in red, and blue jeans. If you know her whereabouts, please contact the Clarinda Police Department at 712-542-2194. Officials say foul play is not suspected.

Brandi Novak

Officials with the Atlantic Community School District report the District is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children up to age 18, without charge and are the same for all children, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. The program runs May 31st through August 1st (they will be closed July 3rd and 4th for the holiday)

Meals will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis at the Schuler Elementary School. Breakfast will be served from 9-until 10-a.m., and lunch from 11-to 12:30-p.m.  Participants are asked to enter through the back door of Schuler, and follow the signs.

The Atlantic School District is also in dire need of volunteers to serve meals for one and a half-hours every day, Monday through Friday. If you’re interested, call the Food Service Department at 243-5369, and ask to speak with DeeAnn.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – University of Iowa biomedical engineering students have helped an 8-year-old boy who was born without most of his right arm to ride a bike. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that Jonny Cole was having difficulty learning to ride because neither he nor his father, Douglas Cole, could figure out how to keep him balanced long enough to move a bike forward.

Douglas, a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the University of Iowa, asked the university’s machine shop last summer to help him design and 3-D print an adaptive device that would help Jonny ride. They referred him to the biomedical engineering program, where four students decided to help.

Alicia Truka says the group developed a “one-jointed arm for his bike.” The handlebar attachment helps him balance and steer.

The Atlantic Police Department reports three arrests and  two accidents took place over the past few days. Saturday afternoon, a vehicle driven by Erica Klever, of Atlantic, was traveling north at the stop light from the Wal-Mart parking lot, waiting to turn left onto 7th Street. A vehicle driven by Jackson Heithoff, of Anita, was traveling east on 7th Street and failed to obey the stop light before striking Klever’s vehicle. Klever was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Damage to the vehicles amounted to $14,000.

No serious injuries were reported following an accident Friday morning at the intersection of Highway 6 (7th Street) and 22nd Street. Officials say a vehicle driven by Richard Anstey, of Cumberland, was traveling south on Highway 6 at around 8-a.m., and yielding to northbound traffic to make a left turn onto 22nd Street, when his vehicle was struck from behind. The driver of the other vehicle was identified as Edward Burton, of Littleton, CO. Burton was cited for Failure to Maintain a Reasonable and Proper Speed. Damage from the collision amounted to $8,000.

Atlantic Police arrested 48-year old Kevin Scott, of Madisonville, KY, Saturday. Scott was taken into custody on a Kentucky warrant for Failure to Appear. He was booked into the Cass County Jail. 21-year old Angel Knowles, of Atlantic, was arrested Friday, in Atlantic. Knowles was taken into custody on a Cass County warrant for OWI and booked into the Cass County Jail. And, 47-year old Craig Griffin, of Atlantic, was arrested April 26th in Atlantic, on a Cass County warrant for Failure to Appear in Court in a Child Support matter. He was also booked into the Cass County Jail.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports 33-year old Daniel Eugene Long, Sr., of Atlantic, was arrested Thursday, on three District Court warrants for Failure to Appear. Long was taken to the Cass County Jail where he remains held on $15,000 bond.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says one person was injured during one of two accidents that took place on Friday. An unidentified passenger in a 1998 Buick LeSabre was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital by Anita Rescue, after the car was struck from behind by a 1997 Dodge pickup. The accident happened at around 5:13-p.m., Friday, at the intersection of 710th Street and White Pole Road. The impact caused the  car to strike a concrete culvert.

The driver of the pickup was identified as 30-year old Myles Daniel McDermott, of Atlantic, while the car’s driver was identified as 68-year old Ronald John Kelly, of Wiota. Damage from the crash amounted to $3,250. Deputies cited McDermott for Following Too Close.

The second accident happened at around 8:45-a.m., Friday, in the parking lot of the Cumberland Baptist Church. Officials say a2013 Chevy Silverado owned by Black Hills Energy was parked in the lot when it was struck sometime between 8:45 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. in the right front fender. Damage to the vehicle is estimated at $1,000.

Two people were arrested in Pottawattamie County early Saturday morning following an investigation into an allegedly drunk or impaired driver. The Sheriff’s Office says at around 2:23-a.m., 43-year old Dawn Louise Lindsey, of Minden, was allegedly driving a vehicle all over Interstate 80 at about mile marker 23, and almost hit a truck.  A Deputy located the woman at her residence in Minden, and determined she displayed signs of impairment. She was asked to submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test, but refused to do so.

Authorities say Lindsey’s boyfriend, Paul Wayne Carlson, allegedly tried to obstruct and interfere with the OWI investigation. He was taken into custody for Interference with Official Acts. Lindsey allegedly tried to obstruct and interfere with the investigation as Carlson was being taken into custody, by trying to hit the Deputy while Carlson was resisting arrest. She was arrested for OWI/1st offense and Interference with Official Acts.

The Pott. County Sheriff’s Office said also, two people currently being held in the Pottawattamie County Jail, were served warrants for their arrest. 21-year old Jordyn Michelle Joslin, of Council Bluffs, was served with a warrant for Probation Violation, and, 41-year old Raymond Michael Stark, of Council Bluffs, was served with warrants for: Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree; Theft in the 3rd Degree – 2 counts; Burglary in the 3rd Degree – 3 counts; and, Theft in the 2nd Degree – 2 counts.

More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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The Atlantic City Council will meet in a regular session 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, at City Hall. During their session, the Council is expected to hear a presentation from Trees Forever spokesperson Dolly Bergmann, with regard to the Trees Forever conference she attended, in Des Moines. Bergmann will also present the Council with a Tree City USA flag. The City has the distinction of holding the designation for the past two decades.

The Council will also act on an order to close the 100 block of Chestnut Street from the Rock Island Depot to 2nd Street, on Saturday Sept. 2nd, from 4:30-p.m. to Midnight, for the Atlantic 1st Responders Family Night Out. The event will be free and open to the public, with family-friendly activities and a meal. The night will finish with a performance by the “John Doe” band from Omaha, and a beer garden.The Night Out is a way to say “Thank you” to the community that shows it always “Have our back,”and is intended to show they have our backs, too.

The Atlantic 1st Responders sold tee shirts this past fall as part of a fundraising for the event. Another fundraiser is a golf tournament to be held July 7th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club. That event is also open to the public and features a meal, silent auction, and gun raffle.

The Atlantic City Council will also act on an order approving an Engineering Agreement with Snyder and Associates for the AMU (Atlantic Municipal Utilities) North Well Field Trail Paving Project. And, they’ll hold the third and final reading of an Ordinance pertaining to Separation Distances for pesticide application that applies to persons in the area of E. 3rd Street place, with regard to hazardous materials clean-up caused by a decades old plume of dry cleaning chemical clean-up.

Another part of the meeting will be a Public Forum from a group of citizens who may be present to present a petition for the removal of poultry from a portion of the City Code. And, the Council will recognize the Atlantic Police Reserves with an Oustanding Service Award.

Starting on this May Day (Monday), Triple-A members in Iowa will be able to take advantage of a new type of service. The auto club’s Gail Weinholzer says if you’re out bicycling anywhere in the state and have some type of mechanical trouble, you’ll be able to call for a tow truck. So, why is the auto club getting involved with bicycles. “We all use multiple modes of travel,” Weinholzer says. “Yes, we’re an automobile association but a lot of our members bicycle and a lot of our members would appreciate this type of service.”

The service technicians won’t change your bike tire for you if you have a flat, but they will give you and your bike a lift back to your car, home or — if necessary — to a bike shop. “While we will try and fix cars on the roadside, we will not attempt to fix bikes, but we will tow you for however long your membership is good for,” Weinholzer says. “If it’s a Classic membership, we’ll tow you up to five miles; a Plus membership, up to 100 miles; and a Premier membership, up to 200 miles.”

If your two-wheeler leaves you stranded on a bike trail, you’ll need to get to the nearest road.  “We have to be able to access you via our tow trucks and they’re not off-road vehicles,” Weinholzer says. “If you’re halfway climbing up a mountain on a mountain bike, you’re going to have to walk the bike down the hill.”

Whether riding for sport, recreation or exercise, she says it’s important for cyclists to know bicycles are considered vehicles and they’re now covered under a club membership.

(Radio Iowa)