School Superintendent To Serve As Guardian for Immigrant Student
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district and his wife are opening their home to a 17-year-old Guatemalan immigrant after her parents were forced to leave the U.S. because they weren’t in the country legally.
Jennifer Galdames applied for legal residency before her stepfather and mother were forced to return to Guatemala in
October. They took her 8-year-old sister with them.
Jennifer is a year and a half from graduating and didn’t want to move to New Jersey to live with a relative she had never met, so Des Moines Schools Superintendent Tom Ahart and Jami Bassman Ahart offered to take her in and serve as her temporary legal guardians so she can get her high school degree in Iowa.
17 Year Old Sac County Male Dies In Farm Accident
WALL LAKE, Iowa (AP) – Western Iowa authorities say a 17-year-old boy has died in a farm accident.
The Sac County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday that first responders were dispatched around 12:45 p.m. Saturday to the farm northwest of Wall Lake. They found Ethan Nissen in the cab of a farm machine that had rolled
over. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The office says Nissen was scooping manure when the accident occurred.
