Supervisors To Meet This Morning
(Le Mars) — Plymouth County Board of Supervisors will gather this morning at the County Courthouse for their weekly meeting. The county supervisors have a brief agenda for today. They are expected to approve an extension for the Jauer addition. The county governing board is also expected to approve 2016 Family Farm Tax credit applications. The supervisors will set a date for a public hearing for proposed issuance of education facility revenue bonds by the Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools project. County Engineer Tom Rohe will appear before the supervisors to submit a permit tile crossing for Elgin Township on Lake Avenue. Rohe will also offer an update on the county road and bridge construction projects.
Primebank Adds Three People To Staff
(Le Mars) -—Primebank is pleased to announce the addition of three new members to its Information Systems and Security Department.
Originally from Holdrege, Nebraska, Bob Lee joins Primebank as its Chief Information Officer. Holding a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lee comes to Primebank experienced in the areas of data processing and information systems management.
As Primebank’s new Network Administrator, Terry Christensen brings with him systems analysis and network administration experience from both the financial services and the industrial sectors. Christensen is a graduate of WITCC and holds an AAS degree in Computer Programming.
As Help Desk Specialist, Ryan De Clute rounds out Primebank’s latest additions to their Information Systems and Security team. A native of Michigan, Ryan is an experienced computer and technologies technician.
Gehlen Catholic To Prepare Advent Bags For Elderly
(Le Mars) — As we enter the Advent season, Gehlen Catholic’s preschool through 12th grade students, faculty & staff will continue their focus on service through this year’s Gospel Value, “Without Me You can do Nothing.”
On Wednesday, November 30th, students will again package and distribute nearly 387 Advent gift bags to local shut-ins, assisted living and nursing home residents, regardless of faith.
Prior to Thanksgiving, most Gehlen Catholic students, faculty, and staff personally purchased one or more items for the Advent gift bags. Each gift bag includes lip balm, lotion or sanitizer, socks, a prayer card, and more.
The morning begins with the high school students being paired with selected elementary classrooms to prepare Advent gift bags from 8:35 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. in the Jason Puetz Memorial Gym while the junior high celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation. From 9:30 a.m. to 10:10 a.m., the junior high will be paired with selected elementary classrooms to prepare Advent bags in the gym as the high schoolers will celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Le Mars Chamber To Offer Special Shopping Promotion For Saturday
(Le Mars) — The Saturday following Thanksgiving is known nationwide as “Small Business Saturday”. Shoppers are encouraged to shop at the smaller stores following the frenzy of many of the larger discount box stores on Black Friday. The Le Mars Chamber of Commerce Main Street organization has established a shopping promotion idea to encourage shoppers to look local. Mary Reynolds says between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, shoppers are invited to the Blue Bunny ice cream parlor to pick a ping pong ball.
Reynolds says you don’t necessarily need to use your prize or discount that day, as many of the promotions don’t expire until after Christmas.
The Le Mars Main Street official say the promotion is designed to have people shop locally.
Reynolds says this is the first time the Le Mars Chamber of Commerce has offered such a shopping promotion. She says the Chamber members wanted to having something fun and act as an incentive to promote local shopping.
Maurice Day Care Provider Found Guilty Of Child Endangerment
(Orange City) — A Maurice woman that operated a day care facility has been found guilty of child endangerment causing bodily injury. 33 year old Dianna Winder was found guilty in Sioux County District court on Friday. In addition to the child endangerment causing bodily injury charge, Winder was also found guilty of assault causing bodily injury. The case originated in November of 2015 when a 15-month old child victim was in Winder’s day care. When the mother of the child picked up her son, it was apparent the child had concerning marks on his face. During a brief discussion of possible causes, Winder stated “she promised she didn’t hit the child. The mother took her son to the emergency room where medical professionals examined the child, and then contacted police and social workers, leading to Winder’s arrest in December of 2015. Winder had pled not guilty and the case proceeded to trial where a jury returned the guilty verdicts on both counts. Winder’s sentencing date has been scheduled for January 9th.
State’s Harvest Almost Completed
(Des Moines) — The state’s harvest is nearly complete. According to the weekly crop report by the U-S-D-A, 98 percent of the state’s corn crop has been harvested. Southwest and south central Iowa were still lagging behind with approximately eight percent of the corn crop and five percent of the soybean crop still remaining to be harvested.
City Of Des Moines Issuing Refunds To Residents
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Refunds of the city’s illegal franchise fee are heading to nearly 59,000 current and former Des Moines residents.
Des Moines City Manager Scott Sanders said Monday that the city started to issue and mail the checks Friday.
A 2004 lawsuit said the fee added to MidAmerican Energy customer bills was illegal. A court agreed and ordered $40 million in refunds. It has been four years since the judgment against the city was upheld by the courts.
The final refund amount should be near $32 million after attorney fees and administrative costs are paid.
WWII Marine’s Remains To Be Buried At Arlington
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A U.S. Marine from Oelwein who died fighting a World War II battle on a Pacific Ocean island is scheduled to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington on Monday, the 73rd anniversary of his death.
Pfc. Wilbur Mattern, who was 23 when he died, had been unaccounted for since the Aug. 21, 1943, battle on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, located 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Family members say they believed he had floated out to sea and would never be found.
However, the nonprofit Florida-based History Flight Inc. found a burial site on Betio island in June 2015 recovering the remains of 35 Marines. Dental comparisons and other evidence identified Mattern’s remains.
