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05/18/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-AM
(LE MARS)--RECOGNITION OF VETERANS WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THE MEMORIAL DAY "AVENUE OF FLAGS" PROGRAM ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IN LE MARS.
THE ANNUAL EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY WASMER POST 241 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION.
THE LEGION PROVIDES COLOR GUARDS AND 21-GUN SALUTES FOR EVENTS SUCH AS THE DEDICATION OF A NEW GRAVE MARKER FOR PRIVATE DALE KUNKEL WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II. THE CEREMONY WAS IN CALVARY CEMETERY FRIDAY NIGHT IN LE MARS. LARRY BAER IS COMMANDER OF WASMER POST 241.
"I'D LIKE TO REPEAT SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID MANY TIMES," BAER SAID. "A VETERAN SOME TIME IN HIS OR HER LIFE WILL WRITE A BLANK CHECK UP TO THE AMOUNT AND TO THEIR LIFE TO THE UNITED STATES. DALE KUNKEL WROTE THAT CHECK AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE STAND HERE TODAY IN FREEDOM."
BAER SAYS MEMBERS OF THE POST PARTICIPATE IN DIFFERENT HONOR GUARDS.
"WE DO ANYWHERE FROM 20 AND FORTY FUNERALS EVERY YEAR," BAER SAYS. "THOSE ARE FULL MILITARY FUNERALS THAT WE DO. WE PARTICIPATE IN PARADES AND WE RAISE THE COLORS."
WITH ABOUT 600 MEMBERS, THE AMERICAN LEGION POST IN LE MARS IS PART OF 15-HUNDRED POSTS IN THE NATION WITH THREE-MILLION LEGION MEMBERS.
(LE MARS)--A CONCEPT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES IMPACTING THE LE MARS SENIOR CENTER, FLOYD VALLEY APARTMENTS AND ST. JOSEPH CHURCH IS AN AGENDA ITEM FOR TOMORROW'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THE CONCEPT INVOLVES ACCESS, PARKING, AND DRAINAGE CHANGES AT THE THREE PROPERTIES.
LEW WEINBERG, OWNER OF FLOYD VALLEY APARTMENTS, WANTS AN EXISTING LAND LEASE REVISED. HE HAS OBTAINED LE MARS HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMSSION APPROVAL TO PLACE FLOYD VALLEY APARTMENTS ON THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC PLACES AND PLANS A MAJOR RENOVATION PROJECT NEXT YEAR. ACCORDING TO THE COUNCIL AGENDA, WEINBERG PLANS TO BUILD A NEW PARKING LOT AND WANTS THE SOUTH ACCESS ROAD ELIMINATED, CONTROLLED DRAINAGE AND BETTER FIRE FLOWS.
ST. JOSEPH WILL BE BUILDING A NEW CHURCH AND IS REQUESTING YOERGER DRIVE BE MADE A PUBLIC ROAD AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE SENIOR CENTER. YOERGER DRIVE IS NOW A PRIVATE ACCESS ROAD TO A PARKING LOT SERVING GEHLEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND THE CHURCH.
NEEDS FOR THE SENIOR CENTER INCLUDE "AT GRADE" ACCESS, TWO-WAY TRAFFIC FLOW, BETTER DRAINAGE AND FIRE FLOWS.
FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL, WHILE NOT NECESSARILY AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED CHANGES, IS ASKING THAT A 20-FOOT ALLEY ACCESS BE MAINTAINED AND DOES NOT WANT ADDITIONAL STORM WATER DRAINAGE ONTO THE HOSPITAL PROPERTY. (NEWS REPORT BY LARRY SCHMITZ OF KLEM NEWS)
(SIOUX CITY)--A CASTANA MAN DIED AFTER HIS PICKUP TRUCK WAS STRUCK BY A CAR IN SIOUX CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
SIOUX CITY POLICE AND THE IOWA STATE PATROL RESPONDED TO THE ACCIDENT ON INTERSTATE 29, SOUTH OF SINGING HILLS.
POLICE REPORT A CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN NORTH WHEN THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL . THE CAR CROSSED THE CENTER MEDIAN AND STRUCK THE PICKUP WHICH WAS BEING DRIVEN SOUTH ON INTERSTATE 29.
THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP, 61-YEAR-OLD THOMAS BLOYER OF CASTANA, WAS TRAPPED IN THE PICKUP AND DIED.
THE DRIVER OF THE CAR HAD MINIMAL INJURIES AND TRANSPORTED HIMSELF TO A SIOUX CITY HOSPITAL. POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THE NAME OF THE DRIVER OF THE CAR. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL BEING INVESTIGATED.
(IDA GROVE)--TWO IDA COUNTY MEN ARE IN THE IDA COUNTY JAIL ON DRUG CHARGES.
ACCORDING TO IDA COUNTY SHERIFF WADE HARRIMAN, 50-YEAR-OLD ANDREW LEONARD JOHNSON OF ARTHUR ON FRIDAY WAS CHARGED WITH MANUFACTURING METHAMPHETAMINE AND POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY. BOTH CHARGES AGAINST JOHNSON ARE FELONIES. HE WAS BEING HELD IN THE IDA COUNTY JAIL ON 50-THOUSAND DOLLARS BOND.
AUTHORITIES ALSO ARRESTED 21-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN ALBERT REITZ OF BATTLE CREEK ON A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO MANUFACTURE METHAMPHETAMINE WHICH IS A FELONY.
REITZ WAS ARRESTED BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE FRIDAY AND WAS HELD ON 50-THOUSAND DOLLARS BOND.
(Harlan)--A rural Cherokee man is charged with trying to kidnap a 12-year-old girl from Irwin in western Iowa's Shelby County.
According to the Shelby County Sheriff's office, tips from the public led to the arrest Friday evening of 64-year-old Marc Elliot Nelson of Cherokee. Nelson was taken into custody at his residence in Cherokee County and charged with attempted enticement of a minor and assault with the intent to commit sexual abuse. Both charges are aggravated misdemeanors. Nelson was being held in the Shelby County jail on four-thousand dollars bond.
According to authorities, two search warrants were served on Nelson at the time of his arrest and investigators collected evidence from the home. In all, three females reported a male matching Nelson's description approached them Thursday afternoon. The incidents allegedly occurred in Irwin, Manilla, and Westside. The sheriff's report did not indicate whether Nelson would be charged in connection with the two remaining incidents. (Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic/Radio Iowa)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A Texas company looking to build a $10 billion oil refinery in southeastern South Dakota and opponents who say it will emit too many pollutants will face off this week.
At stake is an air-quality permit that Hyperion Refining officials have called a ``critical hurdle' that would allow the company to shore up agreements with construction companies and pursue financing.
The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources issued a draft permit in September, and both sides will get a chance to make their formal arguments during a hearing set to begin Tuesday in Pierre.
Hyperion says demand for gasoline and distillate in South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa in 2006 was almost 300,000 barrels per day, yet there are no refineries in the tri-state area.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The Army Corps of Engineers will go ahead with a planned spring pulse on the Missouri River to help the endangered pallid sturgeon.
Extra water will be released into the river at Gavins Point Dam, near the Nebraska-South Dakota border, starting at noon Monday.
A spring pulse is meant to replicate what once was a natural occurrence when melting snow caused a heavy flow of water downstream. Drought that lowered the water level in upstream reservoirs has frequently halted spring surges that were authorized in 2003 in an Amended Biological Opinion from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
It's only the third time since 2003 that the corps will be able to release any extra water.
A spring pulse planned for March was canceled due to heavy rainfall.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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