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10/05/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-AM
(HOSPERS)--PRODUCTION IS EXPECTED TO RESUME LATER THIS WEEK AT A SIOUXLAND MEAT PROCESSING FACILITY.
FIRE DAMAGED PREMIUM IOWA PORK OF HOSPERS SUNDAY. FIRE FIGHTERS FROM HOSPERS WERE JOINED BY ABOUT A HALF DOZEN DEPARTMENTS AFTER THE FIRE WAS REPORTED ABOUT 10:30 SUNDAY MORNING. .
THE PORK PROCESSOR HAS MORE THAN 150 EMPLOYEES.
(LE MARS)--A NEW WAY TO WELCOME PEOPLE TO LE MARS IS IN THE WORKS.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR SCOTT LANGEL SAYS THE COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER DESIGNS FOR FOUR NEW CITY WELCOME SIGNS AS AN AGENDA ITEM AT NOON TUESDAY.
"THANKS TO THE LE MARS DAILY SENTINEL WE'VE GOT COMMUNITY INTEREST IN THAT PROJECT AND WE'VE GOT SOMETHING LIKE NINETEEN DIFFERENT SIGN DESIGNS FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER," LANGEL SAYS. "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA (FOR THE TUESDAY, OCT. 6, 2009) AGENDA SO ALL THE CITIZENS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THAT TOPIC IF YOU COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THE DESIGN OR IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER DESIGN, PLEASE SUBMIT IT TO CITY HALL, WE'LL GET IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL."
LANGEL SAYS CITY WELCOME SIGNS WILL BE PLACED SOUTH OF THE SOUTH HIGHWAY 75 INTERCHANGE; NORTH OF THE NORTH INTERCHANGE; WEST OF THE MIDDLE INTERCHANGE AND EAST OF THE CITY LIMITS ON HIGHWAY THREE. THE EXISTING SOUTH INTERCHANGE SIGN HAS BEEN DOWN ABOUT TWO YEARS.
(LE MARS)—A HUBBARD, NEBRASKA COMPANY IS THE APPARENT LOW BIDDER ON TWO PROPOSED STREET PROJECTS IN LE MARS.
LAST THURSDAY, CITY OFFICIALS OPENED BIDS FOR A CONCRETE OVERLAY PROJECT ON 3RD AVENUE S.E. AND CONSTRUCTION OF A CONNECTOR ROAD FROM HIGHWAY 75 TO HOLTON DRIVE IN SOUTHWEST LE MARS. STEVE HARRIS CONSTRUCTION HAD THE APPARENT LOW BIDS ON BOTH PROJECTS.
THE COMPANY’S BID ON THE 3RD AVENUE S.E. PROJECT WAS JUST OVER $103,000, AND IF ACCEPTED, WOULD BE PAID WITH ROAD USE TAX FUNDS.
THE HARRIS BID ON THE CONNECTOR ROAD, TO BE KNOWN AS BLUE DIAMOND DRIVE, WAS JUST UNDER $275,000 AND WAS THE LOWEST OF SIX BIDS RECEIVED BY THE CITY.
THE CITY HAS APPLIED FOR A STATE GRANT TO PAY FOR HALF OF THE PROJECT’S TOTAL COST, NOW ESTIMATED AT $409,000. ACCORDING TO DISCUSSION AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, IF THE GRANT REQUEST IS NOT APPROVED, THE CITY WOULD ONLY DO ABOUT HALF OF THE PROJECT.
DURING ITS MEETING TOMORROW, THE COUNCIL MAY TABLE ACTION ON THAT PROJECT UNTIL AFTER THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RULES ON THE CITY’S GRANT REQUEST AT A MEETING SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 13TH. THE COUNCIL MAY HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING ON THAT SAME DATE. (NEWS REPORT BY LARRY SCHMITZ FOR KLEM NEWS)
(WASHINGTON)--HOUSING REHAB FUNDS ARE BEING ANNOUNCED FOR SIOUXLAND BY SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY.
GRASSLEY SAYS THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'S OFFICE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDED NEARLY 400-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE STATE THROUGH THE HOUSING PRESERVATION GRANT.
GRASSLEY SAYS THE FUNDS WILL HELP RURAL IOWANS MAKE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS TO THEIR HOUSING.
THE SIOUXLAND INTERSTATE METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL (SIMPCO) WILL RECEIVE 56-THOUSAND 812 DOLLARS TO REHABILITATE OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING IN PLYMOUTH, WOODBURY, CHEROKEE, MONONA AND IDA COUNTIES.
(SPENCER)--ATTRACTIONS AND SUNSHINE ARE CREDITED FOR RECORD ATTENDANCE AT THE 2009 CLAY COUNTY FAIR.
FAIR OFFICIALS REPORT NEARLY 327-THOUSAND PEOPLE PASSED THROUGH THE CLAY COUNTY FAIR GATES SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 2007. ATTENDANCE WAS UP FROM TWO YEARS AGO BY ABOUT 74-HUNDRED PEOPLE.
FAIR SECRETARY-MANAGER PHIL HURST SAYS WHEN THE FAIR WAS PLANNED, THERE WAS A DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER THIS WAS THE YEAR TO SCALE BACK OR IF THIS WAS THE YEAR TO GO ALL OUT. HURST EXPLAINED THE DECISION WAS MADE TO GO ALL OUT AND MAKE IT THE BEST FAIR IT COULD BE.
THE HIGHEST ATTENDED DAY AT THE CLAY COUNTY FAIR IN ITS HISTORY WAS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH WHEN ATTENDANCE REACHED 64-THOUSAND 198 PEOPLE.
THE 2010 CLAY COUNTY FAIR IS SEPTEMBER 11-19TH WITH THE THEME, "THE BEST IT'S EVER BEEN IN 2010."
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by four American Indian tribes from South Dakota and Nebraska in an attempt to stop construction of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline.
It will move crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Kansas, Oklahoma and Illinois.
The $5.2 billion project over more than 2,100 miles will also go through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri.
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Rosebud Sioux, Santee Sioux and Yankton Sioux argued that treaties and federal laws and regulations were broken during the environmental assessment of the route and granting of a permit.
But a judge dismissed the complaint, saying the tribes didn't show a treaty basis or that the government failed in its duties.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A Vermillion lawmaker, state Representative Eldon Nygaard, says he will sponsor an attempt to let adult adoptees in South Dakota obtain their birth records without having to go in front of a judge.
The measure is supported by people who belong to South Dakota Support and Education for Adoption Legislation, also known as South Dakota SEAL.
A similar bill passed both chambers early this year but didn't make it out of a conference committee after it was amended.
State Representative Joni Cutler of Sioux Falls, who was adopted as an infant, says she supports the current law.
South Dakota SEAL members say they are not pitting adoptees' rights against birth parents' rights. Lynne Banks, who has two adopted daughters, says a privacy right for birth parents does not exist in legislation, nor does it exist in adoption contracts.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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