JAYWALK-A-THON
Gehlen Catholic Schools will hold their third annual Jaywalkathon Friday. It is the school’s second largest fundraiser. The students are encouraged to raise $75 dollars each toward an overall goal of 40-thousand dollars. These monies will be used for art and teaching supplies, technology, fields trips, and more.
The students will also gather special prayer intentions from family, friends and neighbors. During the walk, everyone can gather in prayer. Students will line the track their own prayer intention bags. The event will be at the Gehlen Catholic practice track on Friday. Each grade level will walk for a half hour. Family members and friends will be invited to join students during their walk. To find out more about the walk, and to donate, visit donate.onecause/jaywalkathon.
PIPELINE DISPUTE
There will be a Woodbury County District Court hearing on September 30th concerning a couple’s request that a carbon pipeline developer be at least temporarily barred from conducting surveys on their land. Navigator has sued William and Vicki Hulse of Moville. They accuse the couple of violating a state law that allows its agents to access to land along its proposed pipeline route. The Hulses have filed a counter claim. They argue the law is an unconstitutional taking of private land. Brian Rickert, an attorney for the pipeline developer, is urging the judge to expedite the case.
Brian Jorde, the couple’s attorney, told the judge there’s no legal deadline for completing the land surveys along the pipeline route.
Rickert accused pipeline critics of using the court to try to slow down the project.
Jorde told the judge he’ll be citing a recent Supreme Court opinion on property rights.
Jorde has filed similar claims for landowners in Clay and Butler Counties. Navigator is suing a Sioux Rapids man and two Butler County property owners who have refused to allow the pipeline’s surveyors on their property.
FUEL PRICES RISE
The price of regular unleaded gasoline in Iowa, as of Wednesday, rose by an average 14 cents per gallon, to 3.60.
Triple A Iowa says that’s 61 cents higher than a year ago.
In Plymouth County, the website Gas Buddy shows gasoline prices 10 cents above the statewide average along the Iowa 60/US 75 corridor, and in eastern Plymouth County, at 3.70 a gallon.
CAPITOL RIOT TRIAL
The Capitol Police officer who diverted a mob of rioters away from the U-S Senate on January 6th, 2021 has testified at an Iowa man’s trial in Washington, D-C Wednesday. Doug Jensen of Des Moines is charged with a number of felonies. Video widely broadcast and shared on social media last year showed Jensen leading a line of rioters confronting Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman. Goodman testified that as Jensen and the mob advanced up flights of stairs, ignoring his orders to halt it felt like they were going to rush him any time. Prosecutors say Jensen was among the first ten rioters to breach the Capitol. He was escorted out of the building once, but went back in through a broken window and had to be escorted out a second time.
USS SIOUX CITY CREW
Members of the USS Sioux City will be in Le Mars today. Crew members will be working behind the counter this afternoon, serving ice cream to visitors at the Wells Visitor Center and Ice Cream Parlor. The crew will be wearing their dress uniforms while serving patrons. This is a meet and greet event for the public, to interact with USS Sioux City crew members about their ship and their service.
INTEREST RATE HIKE
The Federal Reserve Wednesday increased the prime interest rate by ¾ of a percent, in order to slow inflation. The rate is now 3.25 percent. This is the fifth interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve since March. Fourth District US Representative Randy Feenstra of Hull says the move “threatens to fuel the ongoing recession” and will increase interest payments on the nation’s debt.
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