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Wednesday News, April 18th

Plymouth County Authorities Release Information On Monday Accidents

(Le Mars) — Plymouth County authorities have released the information regarding the Monday morning accident that happened at the junction of 250th Street and Lake Avenue. The accident happened at about 8:05 a.m. approximately three miles
southeast of Merrill. According to the accident report, 53 year old Shelly Stabe of Merrill was driving northbound on Lake Avenue entering the intersection of Lake Avenue and 250th street. Meanwhile the second vehicle, being driven by 17 year old Melinda Zubrod of Merrill was heading east on 250th Street. The Stabe vehicle struck the side of the Zubrod vehicle, after Zubrod admitted to failure to stop at a posted stop sign. Both vehicles ended up in the northeast corner ditch. Stabe was transported to the Unity Point-St. Lukes hospital in Sioux City, by the Hinton Ambulance. Zubrod and an 11-year old passenger in the Zubrod
vehicle traveled to St. Lukes by private vehicle. They both suffered minor injuries.

 

 

Monday Morning Highway 3 Accident

(Remsen) — A second accident happened Monday morning on Highway 3, just about a quarter of a mile west of Remsen. The Iowa State Patrol investigated the one- vehicle accident. 43 year old Tammy Nilles of Remsen lost control of her vehicle
when she hit a patch of ice on the roadway. Nilles broke off a “No Passing Zone” sign, and entered the south ditch. Nilles had only minor injuries. The accident happened at about 8:15 Monday morning.

 

 

Farmers’ Cooperative Donates To Local Educational Entities

(Le Mars) — Three separate entities are the benefactors of donations made Tuesday morning by the Farmers’ Cooperative Elevator of Craig. A total of $8,500 was donated. Doug Schurr, the general manager of the grain elevator says the board of directors wants to help support local efforts that focus on education, and especially agriculture education.

The organizations that received donations include the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee with its agricultural education display, “aROUND the farm in the BARN.” Jordan Sitzmann is the Vice President of the Chamber of
Commerce Agriculture Division, and received the contribution of $1,500.

Four students, along with instructor Paul Fischer of the Le Mars Community High School Technical and Industrial organization accepted a donation of $2,000 from the Craig Cooperative Elevator.

The final donation was given to the Siouxland Ag in the Classroom. Accepting the $5,000 donation was Siouxland Ag in the Classroom board member, Shirley Schroeder
of Remsen.

Schurr says in years past, the Farmers’ Cooperative Elevator has donated money to area FFA chapters, as well as, to local fire departments.

 

 

Le Mars Rotary Honors Physical Therapist As “Citizen of the Year”

(Le Mars) — The Le Mars Rotary Organization held its annual banquet last evening at the Brown’s Event Center. The Rotarian’s awarded its first ever “Citizen of the Year” honor to a physical therapist that says she enjoys helping others.
Jacyln Ver Mulm is a Le Mars native who has been on numerous mission trips to Romania and Viet Nam. During these mission trips, she distributes wheel chairs to the needy and handicapped. She uses her physical therapy experience to adjust the wheelchairs to the fit the needs of the users. The missions have been part of Hope Haven International, in which the Sioux Falls Rotary organization assisted. Van Mulm is set to travel on yet another mission trip within the next few days. This time to Israel.

Le Mars Rotary president, Paul Jacobson, right, presents the first “Citizen of the Year” award to Jacyln Ver Mulm.

Ver Mulm explains the purpose of the upcoming mission trip to Israel.

Ver Mulm says she got interested in misson work, because she enjoys helping others.

Becky Klohs presents the “Rotarian of the Year Award To Angela Kneip.

The Le Mars Rotary also awarded its “Rotarian of the Year” honor to Angela Kniep.

 

 

Farmers Anxious To Get Started With Field Work

(Le Mars) –– Farmers are feeling anxious to begin spring field work, but Mother Nature has other ideas, with recent snowfalls, and continued cold temperatures.
When farmers look at the calendar, it says it’s time to conduct spring field work. But when they look outside, they see April snow storms, and wet fields.
Iowa State University Extension Crops Specialist, Joel DeJong says due to the cold soil temperatures, farmers are limited on what they can do.

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DeJong says soil temperatures need to be at least 50 degrees and climbing for suitable conditions for corn and soybeans. He says if we would begin having outside air temperatures to be in the 60’s for a period of about a week, we may begin to see the soil temperatures rise enough to germinate the corn seed.
However, DeJong says farmers may not have that much patience.

The crops specialist says the good news farmers can take away about this year’s field conditions is that we do have either adequate, or surplus, levels of moisture.

DeJong says it was the amount of moisture level reserves in our sub-soils from last year that helped sustain the crop during the dry period of June and July.