Remsen Teacher To Be Receive “Excellence in Education” Award
(Oyens) — An Oyens St. Catherine’s Kindergarten teacher as part of the Remsen St. Mary’s school will receive special recognition during the Bishop’s 20th annual dinner scheduled for Saturday evening at Sioux City. Vicki Heeren will receive the prestigious “Excellence in Education” award. Bishop R. Walker Nickless will present the award to Heeren. Vicki Heeren is in her 31st year of teaching and is very honored to have received the award.
Heeren went on to talk about her education philosophy when it comes to teaching kindergartners.
Catholic education plays an important role in Hereen’s life and teaching style, with her main goal when teach revolving around a faith-based view point.
NBC’s Today Show and Weather Channel Weatherman Al Roker is scheduled to be the featured speaker at this year’s 20th annual Bishop’s Dinner.
Sioux City Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A judge has sentenced a Sioux City man to life in prison for the shooting death of a man in the western Iowa city of Sloan.
Timothy Schroeder was sentenced Friday to the life term after a jury found him guilty in July of first-degree murder in the January 2015 death of 29-year-old Dustin Wilder in his Sloan home.
Schroeder’s wife, Amanda Schroeder, had testified the couple gave Wilder a ride home from a bar in the early morning. She was in another room when she heard a gunshot from the kitchen. She looked into the kitchen and saw Wilder on the floor and her husband holding a handgun.
A dog sitter found Wilder unconscious hours later. Authorities declared him dead at the scene.
HOULIHAN HONORED BY HER HOMETOWN
OLYMPIC RUNNER SHELBY HOULIHAN OF SIOUX CITY WAS HONORED FOR HER PERFORMANCE IN RIO AT THURSDAY NIGHT’S SIOUXLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER.
HOULIHAN ARRIVED BACK IN SIOUX CITY WEDNESDAY, AND SAYS SHE WAS OVERWHELMED BY THE SUPPORT FROM HER HOMETOWN:
HOULIHAN FINISHED 11TH OVERALL IN THE 5000 METER FINALS AT THE RIO OLYMPICS.
SHE IS AN EAST HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, AND ALL-AMERICAN RUNNER AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Iowa State President Damages School Plane
AMES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa State University is confirming its president was returning from an 11-day personal trip to North Carolina when he damaged one of its airplanes in a rough landing.
The school said late Friday that President Steven Leath reimbursed the school $1,100 for some costs of the July 2015 trip to Ashe County, North Carolina, where he owns a home and helps manage a Christmas tree farm.
The school said Leath had reimbursed it for three other personal fights to North Carolina, including one last month. In each case, the school said the trips “involved donor contacts” and personal business.
The university’s Cirrus SR22 suffered $12,000 in damage to its wings when Leath, a pilot, roughly landed at in Illinois airport on his way back. The university paid the repair costs.
Report: 31% Of Iowa Soybeans Fed To Iowa Pigs
An analysis of how Iowa’s soybean production is utilized finds that nearly one of every four rows of soybeans is fed to the more than 38 million pigs raised annually in the state. Aaron Putze (PUTT-zee) is director of communications for the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA), which conducted the study.
Putze says. That’s one reason why ISA backed Prestage (PRESS-tidge) Foods’ recent efforts to locate a new pork processing facility in Iowa.
Putze says pig production creates a market for 2.7 million tons of soybean meal per year, or 31 percent of all soybeans processed in the state. Poultry, including laying hens, broilers and turkeys, account for another 6.4 percent of meal usage.
