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08/15/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE
(LE MARS)--A PLYMOUTH COUNTY EXTENSION COORDINATOR WILL BEGIN HER DUTIES SEPTEMBER FIRST.
THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL AND IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ANNOUNCED CAROL SCHNEIDER HAS ACCEPTED THE EXTENSION COORDINATOR POSITION. .
SCHNEIDER'S PRIMARY DUTIES WILL BE TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP FOR EXTENSION'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM WITH ONGOING PLANNING AND COORDINATION IN AGRICULTURAL, COMMUNITY, FAMILY AND 4-H AND YOUTH PLANNING.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL CHAIR BRAD HARVEY SAYS SCHNEIDER'S PREVIOUS POSITION WAS ELIMINATED IN THE RESTRUCTURING OF I-S-U EXTENSION AND THE EXTENSION COUNCIL KNEW SCHNEIDER WAS A SUPER EMPLOYEE THE COUNCIL DID NOT WANT TO LOSE.
WITH FUNDING THAT WILL NOW REMAIN IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY, HARVEY EXPLAINS THE COUNTY COUNCIL WAS ABLE TO FUND THE NEW POSITION TO MAKE PLYMOUTH COUNTY'S EXTENSION PROGRAM STRONGER THAN EVER.
SCHNEIDER WILL OVERSEE THE DAILY OPERATIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE AND WORK CLOSELY WITH 4-H COUNTY YOUTH COORDINATOR ANN SCHOENROCK AND OFFICE ASSISTANT JANELLE JOHNSON AS WELL AS OTHER EXTENSION FIELD SPECIALISTS SERVING PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
(ROCK RAPIDS)--THERE'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN A MORE THAN 30-YEAR-OLD COLD CASE IN NORTHWEST IOWA.
THE LYON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS MADE AN ARREST IN THE DEATH OF WILMA NISSEN. THE CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S DECOMPOSED BODY WAS FOUND IN A DITCH NEAR ROCK RAPIDS IN THE FALL 1978. SHE WAS 23.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT BEGAN OFFERING A 10-THOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD AND SET UP A HOTLINE FOR ANONYMOUS INFORMATION.
ON FRIDAY, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE MADE THE FIRST ARREST IN THE COLD CASE. 82-YEAR-OLD JOHN VANGAMMEREN OF OF RURAL INWOOD FACES SIX CHARGES OF PERJURY. ALL THE CHARGES ARE FELONIES.
(DES MOINES)--THE STATE REVENUE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR IS NOT ORDERING CHANGES IN PROPERTY VALUES IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
REVENUE DIRECTOR MARK SCHULING NOTIFIED COUNTY AUDITORS OF ASESSMENT ADJUSTMENTS ON THE VALUE OF AG, COMMERICAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
THE ADJUSTMENT IS KNOWN AS PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX EQUALIZATION. THE PROCESS IS DONE EVERY TWO YEARS. THE CHANGE WILL AFFECT VALUES AS OF JANUARY FIRST OF THIS YEAR.
THERE WAS NO ORDER TO ADJUST THE VALUES OF ANY OF THE THREE CLASSES OF PROPERTY IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY. CHEROKEE COUNTY IS REQUIRED TO RAISE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 15 PERCENT. NO CHANGES WERE ORDERED IN SIOUX,O'BRIEN OR LYON COUNTY.
AGRICULTURAL EQUALIZATION ORDERED IN WOODBURY COUNTY IS 47 PERCENT.
FINAL ORDERS WILL BE ISSUED IN OCTOBER.
(SPIRIT LAKE)-A REPORT OF DEAD FISH ALONG THE SHORELINE OF SPIRIT LAKE HAS BEEN TRACED TO A DROP IN OXYGEN LEVELS.
SPIRIT LAKE FISHERIES BIOLOGIST FOR THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MIKE HAWKINS SAYS THE FISH KILL WAS REPORTED THURSDAY.
AN ESTIMATED 500 TO 600 WALLEYES WERE FOUND DEAD ALONG THE SOUTHEAST SHORELINE OF SPIRIT LAKE.
HAWKINS SAYS OXYGEN SAGS CAN HAPPEN VERY RAPIDLY AND SMALL FISH ARE VULNERABLE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T ESCAPE QUICKLY ENOUGH.
THE FISH HATCHERY DRAWS WATER IN THE AREA WHERE THE FISH KILL OCCURRED AND NOTED LOWER OXYGEN LEVELS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS COMING INTO THE HATCHERY.
ACCORDING TO HAWKINS, THIS IS IN NO WAY RELATED TO THE WASTEWATER RELEASE LAST WEEK. HE EXPLAINS THAT LEAK TURNED OUT TO BE VERY SMALL AND WAS STOPPED IMMEDIATELY.
(SUPERIOR)--A FIRST-IN-THE-NATION PROJECT OF RENEWABLES SERVING RENEWABLES WILL BE DEDICATED NEXT WEEK.
IOWA LAKES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE'S WIND FARMS ON HIGHWAY 71, WEST OF SUPERIOR, ARE TWO, SEVEN-TURBINE WIND FARMS.
IOWA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE PLACED THE WIND FARMS AT THAT LOCATION TO PROVIDE POWER TO ADJOINING ETHANOL PLANTS.
THE WIND PROJECT BEGAN WITH PLANNING BY THE IOWA LAKES BOARD WHO IDENTIFIED NORTHWEST IOWA'S WINDY CONDITIONS AS A RESOURCE THE COOPERATIVE SHOULD USE TO HELP DIVERSIFY REVENUE. THE WIND FARMS BEGAN GENERATING POWER IN LATE MARCH.
SPEAKERS AT THE DEDICATION AUGUST 20TH AT 10 A-M ARE SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY, CONGRESSMAN TOM LATHAM AND STATE SENATOR JACK KIBBIE.
(Kiron)--Congressman Steve King says the debate over health care reform is at a level of intensity that's nearly as high as debates over immigration. King, a Republican from Kiron (KY-run), rejects the idea a so-called "public option" is needed as competition for private insurance plans.
"I'd point out that there are a little bit more than 1300 health insurance companies in America and a combination of policies of around 100,000 different varieties," King says.
King advocates lifting restrictions so every health insurance company can sell policies nationwide. While King says he agrees health care costs are too high, King says he doesn't buy the Obama Administration's claim that as many as 47 million Americans are uninsured.
"By the time you subtract from that number those that are eligible for, say, a government benefit like Medicaid, for example, that don't sign up; those that make over $75,000 a year that should be able to take care of themselves; and those that are illegal and those that are newly arriving immigrants that have an obligation to take care of themselves for the first five years you take that 47 million number down to about 12 million according to a Senate Finance Committee report," King says. "And that's less than four percent of the population in the United States."
King made his comments Friday on "The Exchange" on Iowa Public Radio. (News report by Radio Iowa)
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