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07/17/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-AM
(LE MARS)--OPERATIONS ARE RETURNED TO NEAR NORMAL A MONTH AFTER A DELUGE OF WATER FORCED THE CLERK OF COURT IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY INTO TEMPORARY QUARTERS.
SUPERVISORS HAVE SAID A COURTHOUSE ROOF DRAIN BLOCKED WITH A PLASTIC DRINK BOTTLE CAUSED THE WATER DAMAGE IN THE THIRD FLOOR CLERK'S OFFICE. .
HUNDREDS OF COURT FILES WERE TEMPORARILY BOXED AND RELOCATED TO HALLWAYS OUTSIDE THE CLERK'S OFFICE. COURT EMPLOYEES WORKED FROM A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE'S CHAMBER AND AN OFFICE OUTSIDE A DISTRICT ASSOCIATE COURTROOM WHILE REPAIRS WERE BEING MADE.
CLERK OF COURT CHARLENE PETERSON SAYS THE STAFF RETURNED TO THEIR OFFICE LOCATION MONDAY. PETERSON SAYS THE CLERK'S OFFICE DIDN'T LOSE ANYTHING IN THE MOVE TO TEMPORARY QUARTERS AND BACK AND KEPT FUNCTIONING. IN HER WORDS, "ALL IN ALL A VERY BAD SCENARIO TURNED OUT OKAY FOR US."
THE CARPET IN THE OFFICE IS REPLACED, AND ALL BUT THREE DAMAGED CEILING TILES WERE BACK IN PLACE.
THE PROCESS OF REPAIRS AND RETURNING TO THE COURT OFFICE SPACE WAS COMPLETED AS SCHEDULED.
A DAMAGE CLAIM HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE COUNTY'S INSURANCE REPRESENTATIVE, ROB BIXENMAN OF LE MARS INSURANCE AGENCY.
(DES MOINES)--SIOUX CITY BUSINESSMAN BOB VANDER PLAATS LEADS POTENTIAL COMPETITORS FOR THE 2010 IOWA GOVERNOR'S RACE IN A NEW POLL.
RESULTS OF THE BY VOTER CONSUMER RESEARCH WERE RELEASED BY JODY TYMESON WHO CHAIRS BOB VANDER PLAATS' STATE COMMITTEE.
TYMESON SAYS THE POLLING OF THE POTENTIAL G-O-P PRIMARY SHOWS VANDER PLAATS AS THE FRONT RUNNER WITH 46 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG REGISTERED G-O-P VOTERS.
THE FIRST PLACE RANKING FOR VANDER PLAATS, A PLYMOUTH COUNTY RESIDENT, IS FOLLOWED BY 27 PERCENT UNDECIDED AND 14 PERCENT FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS RANTS OF SIOUX CITY. CHRISTIAN FONG OF CEDAR RAPIDS AND SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER PAUL MCKINLEY OF CORYDON EACH HAD THREE PERCENT.
(LE MARS)--TWO PEOPLE WERE INJURED AFTER A PICKUP TRUCK AND A CAR COLLIDED ABOUT EIGHT MILES SOUTH OF LE MARS THURSDAY. .
THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE RESPONDED TO THE ACCIDENT ABOUT 10 THURSDAY MORNING.
ACCORDING TO THE DEPUTY'S REPORT, A CAR DRIVEN BY 22-YEAR-OLD TYLER SITZMANN WAS TRAVELING WEST ON 270TH STREET APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION WITH NOBLE AVENUE. A PICKUP TRUCK DRIVEN BY 20-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN EMBREY OF LE MARS WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON NOBLE AVENUE APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION WITH 270TH STREET.
THE VEHICLES DRIVEN BY SITZMANN AND EMBREY COLLIDED IN THE UNCONTROLLED INTERSECTION. SITZMANN AND EMBREY WERE TAKEN TO FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL BY LE MARS AMBULANCE.
(Undated)--State gambling regulators have agreed to consider casino applications for additional casinos. However, it likely will be next year before the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission makes any decisions.
Folks from five Iowa counties who hope to land a casino in their area made a pitch to state gambling regulators Thursday, but there were critics, too, who said current casinos would see their profits slide if new casinos open in Iowa. The largest contingent of casino boosters came from far northwest Iowa to support a proposed Lyon County casino.
Twenty-eight people wearing bright green t-shirts boarded a bus in Larchwood at 1:30 Thursday morning to attend the Racing and Gaming Commission meeting in suburban Des Moines. Jeff Gallagher of Larchwood is president of the Lyon County Riverboat Foundation.
"This project would have a significant impact on tourism and would be by far the most relevant project proposed for the state, "Gallagher said. "...The Lyon County resort would provide an opportunity to significantly increase Iowa's (tax) revenue from an out-of-state source." The proposed casino would lie near the Iowa/South Dakota border and would be just one mile from the Minnesota border.
Sioux City Mayor Mike Hobart suggested a casino in Lyon County would create an "imbalance" in northwest Iowa and eat into the profits of the casino in Sioux City. "We are in a depressed economy right now, especially in northwestern Iowa. Casino Omaha is currently undergoing some financial problems," Hobart said. "I believe that we are saturated in that side of the state." Gallagher, the casino-backer from Larchwood in Lyon County, offered a rebuttal.
"When looking at the market studies, the market strength of this project is not to the south, but to the west and to the north," Gallagher said. "To the south, the closest Iowa casino is an hour and a half away." That would be the Argosy casino, in Sioux City.
Sioux City's mayor told state regulators that if Lyon County becomes home to a new casino, South Dakota might retaliate and put one a short drive away in Sioux Falls. "South Dakota already has casino gaming in their state," Hobart said. "It's not a stretch of the imagination to see that they would easily be able to create competition in the Sioux Falls area."
Debi Durham, president of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce, argued a new casino in northwest Iowa would "saturate" the market and depress profits for the Argosy-owned casino in Sioux City. "There's been an attempt to minimize or even downplay the impact," Durham said. "...What clearly cannot be denied is there will be an impact, an adverse impact, to Argosy, Sioux City, Woodbury County...At a time when balancing governmental budgets is challenging enough, further reduction in revenues will most likely lead to either a decrease in services and/or higher taxes."
Other casino backers got to speak during a public comment period at the Racing and Gaming Commission meeting. (News report by Radio Iowa)
(SIOUX CITY)—100 YEARS AFTER A MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE GRADUATE HELPED FOUND A UNIVERSITY IN CHINA, THE TWO INSTITUTIONS HAVE RENEWED THEIR TIES.
MORNINGSIDE AND HWA NAN WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY IN FUZHOU, CHINA HAVE AGREED TO INSTITUTE A TWO-WAY EXCHANGE PROGRAM THAT BEGINS THIS MONTH.
EIGHT RECENT GRADUATES OF WHA NAN WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY WERE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN SIOUX CITY YESTERDAY TO BEGIN 13 TO 14 MONTHS OF STUDY AT MORNINGSIDE THAT WILL LEAD TO A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. IN TURN, A MORNINGSIDE PROFESSOR AND THREE MORNINGSIDE STUDENTS ARRIVED IN FUZHOU JULY 3RD TO BEGIN A MONTH-LONG STINT, TEACHING ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE COURSES.
THE EIGHT CHINESE STUDENTS WILL BEGIN CLASSES AT MORNINGSIDE NEXT MONDAY.
LYDIA TRIMBLE, A 1904 MORNINGSIDE GRADUATE, WAS INVOLVED WITH THE FOUNDING OF HWA NAN IN 1908 BY THE WOMEN’S FOREIGN MINISTRY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AND SERVED AS THE SCHOOL’S FIRST PRESIDENT. (NEWS REPORT BY LARRY SCHMITZ OF KLEM NEWS)
(SIOUX CITY)--A KANSAS CITY MAN WILL SERVE UP TO 20 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR A DRUG CONVICTION.
THE U-S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE REPORTS 28-YEAR-OLD MAURICE HALTWIANGER WAS SENTENCED AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO DISTRIBUTE CRACK COCAINE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CRACK.
COURT RECORDS INDICATE HE ADMITTED HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE CONSPIRACY FROM 2005 THROUGH MARCH OF 2007 TO DISTRIBUTE CRACK COCAINE IN SIOUX CITY BY BUS FROM KANSAS CITY.
HE'S BEING HELD BY THE U-S MARSHAL'S SERVICE UNTIL HE'S TAKEN TO A FEDERAL PRISON.
(DES MOINES)--SCHALLER RESIDENTS ARE BEING TOLD TO BOIL CITY WATER THAT'S USED FOR DRINKING OR COOKING.
THE BOIL ADVISORY WAS ISSUED BY THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES THURSDAY. SCHALLER'S WATER WAS SHUT OFF TO REPAIR A HYDRANT BREAK.
DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION FOLLOWING A LOSS OF PRESSURE, THE D-N-R RECOMMENDS SCHALLER RESIDENTS BOIL THE WATER USED FOR DRINKING, COOKING OR ANY OTHER HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) The company building a pipeline that's crossing through the eastern Dakotas is shutting down its office in Aberdeen, S.D., and moving operations to Spencer, northwest of Sioux Falls, as construction moves south.
TransCanada Corp. spokesman Jeff Rauh says that the number of workers based in Aberdeen will continue to drop. At one time more than 600 workers were there.
The Keystone pipeline will move crude oil along a 2,148-mile route from Hardisty, Alberta, to U.S. markets in Illinois and Oklahoma. Rauh says the company expects oil to flow through the pipeline by the end of the year.
In Beadle County, some landowners are upset that pipeline-related traffic has ripped up roads. County Highway Superintendent Jerry Batien says wet weather has hampered road repairs, but TransCanada will be dealing with the problem.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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