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Buffalo Center Tribune
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Volume 150 • Number 15
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City amends utility rates
Graphic-Advocate
CORRECTION
“Drainage concern comes before County
Grundy Register
Board,” appeared in the March 19 Star and Tribune-Journal. It was Supervisor Rex Ackerman
who was out to look at a culvert Kenn Deike
said was causing issues on his property in rural
Hampton
Plainfield. Another supervisor
was Chronicle
incorrectly
mentioned as having visited the property. The
Star and Tribune-Journal apologize for the error.
Miss Clarksville
sign-up set to begin
It’s that time of year again with Pioneer Days
right around the corner. The Miss Clarksville
committee is seeking young ladies of Clarksville to participate in the 2015 Miss Clarksville competition.
Each contestant must be at least 16 years of
age and not more than 21 years old on or before August 13, 2015, the first day of the Iowa
State Fair. Contestants must never have been
married nor have children. A contestants must
reside in the county she represents or an adjoining county if the majority of her activities
are in the county she represents. Each contestant must be an active member of at least one
service organization.
To sign up, contact Kerry Essink, 319-5968028, or Shelbie Schmidt, 319-239-9676.
Deadline is April 23.
Clarksville Lions Club
pancake breakfast set
for Saturday
The Clarksville Lions Club will be holding a
pancake breakfast on Saturday, April 11, from
7:30-11 a.m. at the Clarksville AMVETS Hall
for a freewill donation.
The menu will consist of pancakes, sausage,
juice, milk and coffee.
Jeff and Renae Hempen will be available to
test the eyes of 2 to 4-year-olds between the
hours of 10-11 a.m.
Proceeds will be used for a scholarship for
a Clarksville senior and other Lions Club programs.
Mark your calendar
for St. John Lutheran
Church Vilmar
pancake supper
1,000 gallons will cost 25 cents
more, $2.25. Beyond 50,000 galEditor
lons, each 1,000 gallons will cost
Clarksville
City
Council 25 cents more, $2.
amended a few utility rates at its
The storm water drainage fee
What Cheer Paper will increase by $1 to $21 per
Monday, April 6 meeting.
The council accepted the city quarter.
clerk’s proposal to increase waCity Clerk Larry Betts estimated
ter rates and storm drainage the water rate increase will bring
fees while decreasing garbage in about $11,000 more per year,
rates. The changes will take effect and that the sewer increase will
May 1.
bring in $8,300 more annually.
Councilman Jeff Kolb said he
Monthly garbage rates will
would like to see the city continue decrease by $1.10 for a 35-galto incorporate a small increase lon cart to $18.50, by 90 cents to
every five years to stay ahead of $23.50 for a 64-gallon cart, by 40
costs as opposed to having to play cents for a 96-gallon cart, and by
catch up and imposing a huge in- 50 cents to $1.25 each for bags.
crease to maintain the water and
• In addition, an ordinance
sewer systems.
increasing quarterly deposits
The resolutions passed unop- by $50 to $200 passed the first
posed.
reading. Ordinances can be read
As for water rates, the rate three times, or if no opposition is
for the first 5,000 gallons will brought, the third reading is someincrease by $2 to $33 per quar- times waived, allowing it to be apter-year. From 5,000 gallons to proved and adopted on the second
50,000 gallons, each additional reading.
Mira Schmitt-Cash
Village Vine
Clarksville school budget
hearing slated this week
Mira Schmitt-Cash
Editor
The Clarksville School District
will hold its budget hearing on
Thursday, April 9.
A legal publication gives the
proposed budget and tax rate.
Clarksville is proposing to levy
$13.57320 per $1,000 assessed
valuation for fiscal 2016, payable
in fall 2015 to spring 2016, about
66 cents higher that taxes due last
fall and this spring. The Clarksville schools taxed at $12.91341
per $1,000 for taxes payable in
2014-2015.
Line item increases over the
last two years appear to be modest. The biggest average percent
increase from 2014-2016 was 7.4
percent, in total support services,
which went from about $1 million
to about $1.2 million.
Debt service for the school
district is estimated to remain at
$50,000, which is no change from
fiscal 2014 actual spending.
The school’s overall income
from property taxes has risen 2.8
percent on average from fiscal
2014 to the 2016 budget estimate.
It’s not clear whether that can be
attributed to a change in assessments, rates, or rollbacks, but it’s
likely a combination of the three.
The Clarksville School Board
will take comments on the proposed budget at a hearing during
the 6:30 p.m. meeting on Thursday, April 9, at the school media
center or “community room.”
St. John’s Lutheran Church Vilmar Brotherhood will be hosting a pancake supper on Friday, April 17, from 5-7 p.m. for a freewill offering. They will be serving potato pancakes,
buttermilk pancakes, sausages, desserts and a
beverage.
New Hartford Lions
Omelet/Pancakes
dinner set for April 19
The New Hartford Lions will be holding their
Omelet and all the Pancakes you can eat meal
on Sunday April 19, from 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
at the New Hartford Community Building.
Cost for the meal is $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12, and $3 for the second omelet.
The Methodist Church Ladies are also having
a Bake Sale!
Trinity Reformed
Church to host salad
supper April 21
The public is welcome at a salad supper
on Tuesday, April 21, at Trinity Reformed
Church in Allison from 5-7 p.m.
The menu includes beefburgers, ham sandwiches, potato salad, variety of other salads,
chips, and beverages for a freewill offering.
Carry-outs are available.
Butler Hall of Fame to
hold annual meeting
The Butler County Hall of Fame Committee
will hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Monday,
April 13, in the Allison Public Library, 412
Third St. in Allison.
In case of inclement weather, be sure to watch
KWWL-TV for any postponement date. The
public is welcome to attend this meeting.
Classifieds ...........................................10
Obituaries ............................................. 5
Public Notices................................... 6, 7
The Iowa National Heritage Foundation bought from Dale Capper the property the DNR is purchasing, shown in red. The DNR
already owns the Neymeyer property listed in the legend.
Purchase to expand Big
Marsh by about 230 acres
Decision comes before Natural
Resource Commission April 9 in Harlan
Mira Schmitt-Cash
Editor
DES MOINES – Adding 229
acres to the Big Marsh Wildlife
Management Area between Allison, Parkersburg and Kelsey is
on the agenda when a state group
meets Thursday, April 9 in Harlan.
The Natural Resource Commission of the Iowa Department of
Natural Resources is slated to purchase the land, which adjoins the
Big Marsh WMA, for $230,000
from Iowa Natural Heritage
Foundation. The price is $5,463
less than the appraised value.
The property contains numerous wetlands (“potholes”) and
drainage ways. Two county roads
provide access to the property,
which has no building improvements.
This tract will provide for native
prairie seeding and for the restora-
tion of several more wetlands.
Two food plots will be established to provide food and winter
cover for upland game.
Except for a few wildlife refuges on which signs are posted
accordingly, in-season hunting
will be allowed on the expanded
Big Marsh area, said Jason Auel,
a wildlife biologist with the DNR.
The Wildlife Bureau will manage the property.
The project has been in the
works since 2012, Auel said.
The nearly level tract is former
row-crop land that the owner
enrolled in July 2014 into a Wetlands Reserve Program easement.
With the land in WRP, the landowner still owned the property
and has had to pay taxes on it. He
thought it was in his best interest
to sell it to the state, Auel said.
The Iowa Natural Heritage
BIG MARSH to page 2
Peyton Thompson, Nashua, communes with the Easter Bunny (played by Terry Roose) at the Clarksville nursing home Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4. (Star photo by Mira Schmitt-Cash)
NWS meteorologist trains storm spotters
70+ attend joint county storm spotter training
Mira Schmitt-Cash
Editor
WAVERLY — Despite advances in
technology, physical storm spotting
remains an important tool for weather
reporting.
“Eyes on the ground are still the best
reports ever invented,” said Ken Harding, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Johnston, at
a training for potential storm spotters,
hosted by Butler and Bremer County
Emergency Management Agencies on
April 2.
Spotters provide reports of severe and
hazardous weather to help meteorologists make life-saving warning decisions, the Weather Service states.
“So many people are involved with
their families, their children, their
church. We need people that are willing
to go out and spot, provide very critical
information for the Weather Service,”
said attendee Eunice Siedsema of Aplington.
The Weather Service developed the
spotter program, SKYWARN, in the
1960s. Some 290,000 spotters have
been trained nationwide.
Firsthand reports lend believability
and accuracy to radar warnings, Harding told the more than 70 attendees.
The Weather Service also receives and
works to weed out fraudulent reports,
Harding said.
Siedsema, a retired nurse, said she
has written down hail sizes and has the
spotter call-in number on speed dial.
She emphasized the importance of a
good weather radio. “I just recently replaced my weather radio, … and now
I feel more secure because I have the
most current, closest information as to
bad weather — or good weather.”
What to look for
Harding said a spotter’s report should
include the date, time and location of
the event, and what type of weather
event occurred.
Until getting the proper terms down
for various weather types, he urged
trainees — “just describe what you’re
seeing.”
When reporting suspected funnel
clouds, notice how close to the ground
it is, also whether it connects to the
clouds. Are the sides fluid like a swirl,
or puffy like a cloud? If the sides are not
forming a drain-type swirl, it is probably another type of storm cloud, which
he called “falsenadoes” — shelf clouds,
wall clouds, and so on.
If it is a funnel cloud, and it’s touching the ground, observe its size, distance, speed
and motion.
All
hail
should be reported,
and
be specific on
hail diameter,
Harding said.
“I
don’t
know what size
your marbles
Harding
are,” he said,
referring to the hail reports.
Other things to note are wind strength,
damage to trees and buildings, and
what could have caused the damage.
Damage, injuries and deaths should
only be reported via means that are not
social media, he said, noting care needs
to be taken before sensitive information
is released to the public.
If it’s flash flooding, report the impact, the water depth, the flow, and the
frequency of flooding in that area.
There’s a difference between spotting
and chasing a storm, Harding said.
“We don’t ask you to chase. We actually have law enforcement that does a
good job of that,” he said.
When spotting, stay 5-7 miles away,
and always have an escape route, Harding said.
Find shelter in a hailstorm. Harding
showed gruesome photos of an Iowa
college’s cross country team member’s
injuries after his team got caught in
sizeable hail.
Flash flooding occurs when storm
drains can’t process the intake fast
enough, and can be dangerous.
If there’s flowing water in a flash
flood, don’t drive into it, Harding said.
He showed a culvert in Cedar Rapids
that had washed away in a flood that
happened within the last few years, and
there was water over the road so people didn’t see that a chunk of road had
washed out, leaving a car-sized hole.
Spotting is done at one’s own risk,
Harding said. Spotters are volunteers,
and there is no workman’s compensation.
Storm spotting is not a license to
break the law — not even traffic laws,
he said.
He said storms here in Iowa tend to
be less photogenic than in the southern
Great Plains states because of more
moisture causing haze in the air.
Clearer skies may contribute to the
great amount of storm chasers in Kansas, Harding said. Kansas proposed
laws to outlaw storm chasing, but the
proposals were struck down, Harding
said.
Fireman’s perspective
Tom Hardy, rural Shell Rock, a member of the Shell Rock Fire Department
since 1958, said he had been spotting
storms for years.
“We kind of live in a remote area, and
anytime you can spot the storms ahead
of time and give people warning (time
to react), that’s the main thing,” he said.
He said the city of Shell Rock heeded
advice years ago to get a tornado siren,
and the Sheriff’s Department is now
hooked up to the siren, as with other
sirens in the county.
He drew attention to the 2008 tornado that tore through Parkersburg
and straight-line winds that devastated
Clarksville last year.
“When we can see this stuff, (we can)
give warning to someone that can’t see
it,” Hardy said.
He said most Butler County fire departments storm-watch.
“It’s been our responsibility (as a fire
department) to go out,” he said. “Usually we don’t go out until the sheriff
will page and say spotters are needed in
the area.
“If we do spot one, we notify Butler
County, they’ll notify Bremer … It’s
an ongoing thing, they trace (storms)
across the countryside.”
STORM SPOTTERS to page 2
NEWS
2 • Thursday, April 9, 2015
• Clarksville Star •
BCCF names grant recipients
The Butler County Community
Foundation has named recipients of
its 2015 grant awards.
The $108,023.58 in funding will
be divided among 32 local entities.
Projects are scored based on factors such as whether the organization
and project serve a large communityneed in Butler County, organizational staying power, project feasibility
and plans for current and ongoing
funding.
Organizations, their projects, and
the BCCF funding recommendation
follow:
• City of Shell Rock, Emergency
Services Building, $14,000;
• City of Parkersburg, fire engine
equipment, $9,320;
• City of Dumont, Fire Department update and replacement 2015,
$8,000;
• City of Bristow, siren project,
$7,500;
• City of Clarksville, Light Up Our
Field, $7,000;
• City of Aplington, park improvements, renovation, $5,500;
• Trinity Reformed Church, Community Daycare, $5,000;
• Butler County, Rolling Prairie
Trail kiosk project, $5,000;
• City of Bristow, Bristow Betterment splash pad, part two, $4,000;
• City of Dumont, wastewater
pumps phase two, $3,500;
• City of Aplington, automatic door
operators at Public Library entrance,
$3,000;
• City of Allison, Wilder Park,
north playground, $2,750;
• City of Allison, Wilder Park amphitheater, $2,750;
• Clarksville Open Door Youth
Center, equipment upgrade project,
$2,600;
• Northeast Iowa Food Bank, backpack program, $2,500;
• City of New Hartford, city park
improvement, $2,225;
• Cedar Valley Friends of the Family, violence prevention education,
$2,000;
• Butler County Development
Corp., county visitor map, $2,000;
• City of Greene, Public Library,
computer replacements, $2,000;
• The Larrabee Center, Waverly,
in-home support services, $2,000;
• City of Clarksville, Fire Department, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) bottles, $1,800;
Community Home Meals
April 12-18
Contact the office at Clarksville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 278-4900, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday if you are interested in
having Home Meals delivered to you.
Sunday: Pork loin, au gratin potatoes,
corn, dinner roll, cream pie;
Monday: Spaghetti bake, garlic
bread, squash, Jell-O cake;
Tuesday: Ranch chicken, mini-baked
potato, baked beans, choc-olate cake;
Wednesday: Cheddar meatloaf, macaroni & corn bake, Key Lime dessert;
Thursday: Pork steak, baked potato/
margarine, three bean sal-ad, rhubarb
crunch;
Friday: Chicken lasagna, garlic bread,
peas, pineapple tidbits;
Saturday: Shepard’s pie, butter
beans, butterscotch pudding.
Hawkeye Valley Agency On Aging
Clarksville Site
Meals are served at Greene Community Center Monday-Friday, for reservations, call 641-8234422. Meals are also served at the Dumont Legion Hall on Wednesdays, for reservations, call
641-857-6231. Home delivered meals are also available. If you are age 60 and over, you may
eat for a contribution, under 60 cost is $6.00. For more information, call 319-272-1767 or toll-free
at 877-538-0508.
Monday, April 13: Oven fried chicken/gravy, whipped potatoes, broccoli,
wheat bread/margarine, fresh fruit;
Alternate B: Spinach & turkey salad/
dressing, no-salt crackers, fresh fruit,
apple juice
Tuesday, April 14: Spanish beef patty, red roasted potatoes, spring vegetables, wheat bread/margarine, peaches/
pineapple; Alternate B: Herbed pork
patty, red roasted potatoes, spring
vegetables, wheat bread/margarine,
peaches/pineapple
Wednesday, April 15: Beef chili,
baked potato/sour cream, tossed salad/
dressing, cornbread/margarine, chocolate chip cookie; Alternate B: Chicken
salad/Ranch dressing, mixed bean
soup, celery sticks, no-salt crackers,
citrus fruit cup
Thursday, April 16: Chicken fettuccini, green beans, stewed tomatoes,
multi-grain bread/margarine, fresh fruit;
Alternate B: Sliced roast beef, Swiss
cheese, tomato wedges, herb potato
salad, multi-grain bread/mustard, fresh
fruit
Friday, April 17: Potato crusted fish/
tartar sauce, macaroni & cheese, lima
beans, multi-grain bread/margarine,
tropical fruit; Alternate B: Oven fried
chicken, macaroni & cheese, lima
beans, multi-grain bread/margarine,
tropical fruit
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• City of Parkersburg, Public Library, programming, $1,764;
• City of New Hartford , Emergency Medical Services, vacuum
splints, $1,615.58;
• Greene Parish Health Project of
Greene, for same, $1,500;
• Hawkeye Valley Area Agency on
Aging, evidence-based health program, $1,500;
• Dike-New Hartford Community
School District, Junior High, $1,468;
• Iowa Legal Aid, computer/software project, $1,175;
• City of Greene, Greene Betterment, directional signage, $1,056;
• Allison Area Foster Parent Support Group, supports and services
for area foster families, $1,000;
• Lutheran Services in Iowa, Fami-
lies Together II in Butler County,
$1,000;
• Access Inc. public transit assistance, $750;
• Aplington AMVET Post 102,
front door, $750
The Butler County Community
Foundation Board is Diane Buss,
Bristow; John Backer, Greene; Virgil Goodrich, Parkersburg; Diane
Harms, Shell Rock; Patty Hummel,
Allison; Mardee Johnson, Aredale;
Jeff Kolb, local administration, Butler County Development Corp. (nonvoting member); Manelva Limburg,
Aplington; Lisa Schmitz, New
Hartford; Deb Swinton, Clarksville;
Rusty Eddy, Parkersburg and Jade
Pecha, Dumont.
Nature Center to offer extended hours
Heery Woods Nature Center will offer additional open hours for the 2015 summer and fall seasons. During the week, the Nature Center is open to the public
any time that there is staff present, usually between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Beginning March 26, the Nature Center will also be open from 4-6 p.m. on
Thursday evenings, Saturdays from 9
a.m. to noon, and on Sundays from 1-4
p.m.
Heery Woods Nature Center houses
the main offices of the Butler County
Conservation Board and offers displays
on Iowa wildlife and habitats.
Nature Center tours and programs,
both on and off-site, are available to
special interest groups including scouts,
youth groups, civic groups, and schools.
Heery Woods Nature Center
For more information or to inquire
about a program for a specific group, contact Naturalist Steve Martin at 319-2781130.
Elm Springs Assisted Living
to host blood drive April 17
The American Red Cross encourages eligible blood donors to make a
difference in the lives of patients this
spring by giving blood. Elm Springs
Independent and Assisted Living, 900
W. Seventh St., Allison, will be hosting
a blood drive on Friday, April 17, from
2-6 p.m.
Donated blood is perishable and
must be constantly replenished to keep
up with the demand. Red blood cells,
with a shelf life of only 42 days, are
the most frequently transfused blood
component, and are always needed by
hospitals.
Eligible donors can give red cells
through either a regular whole blood
donation or a double red cell donation,
where available. Double red cell dona-
tions yield twice the usual amount of
red cells in a single appointment and are
accepted at select donation locations.
Double red cell donors must meet additional eligibility criteria, which will be
determined at the donation appointment.
Donors with all blood types are needed, especially those with types O negative, A negative and B negative. Whole
blood can be donated every 56 days,
and double red cells may be donated
every 112 days, up to three times per
year.
To find a donation opportunity or
make an appointment to give blood,
download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or
call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-7332767).
The New Hartford Lions will be holding their Omelet and all the Pancakes
you can eat meal on Sunday April 19,
from 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the New
Hartford Community Building.
Cost for the meal is $6 for adults, $3
for children under 12, and $3 for the
second omelet.
The Methodist Church Ladies are
also having a bake sale.
The community is welcome to attend
a salad supper on Tuesday, April 21, at
Trinity Reformed Church in Allison
from 5-7 p.m.
The menu includes beefburgers, ham
sandwiches, potato salad, variety of
other salads, chips, and beverages for a
freewill offering. Carry-outs are available.
New Hartford Lions Omelet/Pancakes
dinner set for April 19
Trinity Reformed Church
to host salad supper April 21
BIG MARSH from page 1
Foundation, which partners with the
DNR in many land acquisition projects,
was holding the property until the state
could come up with the money to pay
the foundation, Auel said.
Of the $230,000, $125,000 will come
from the Wildlife Habitat Stamp.
The Wildlife Habitat Stamp is a
stamp hunters purchase from the state
when they buy a hunting license.
The remaining $105,000 will come
from competitive federal funds the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service granted to the
state.
“We applied for that grant from the
federal government and it was to purchase properties like that … in the West
Fork of the Cedar River Watershed,”
Auel said.
Specifically, the funding comes from
the North American Wetlands and Waterfowl Conservation Act, and the watershed is designated Cedar-Wapsi Valley 3.
Incidental closing costs will be the
responsibility of the DNR. No cost of
survey or fencing is anticipated. The
property will remain on the tax rolls.
The Natural Resource Commission
meeting will start at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, April 9, at the Nishna Bend Rec
Area, 516 Maple Road, Harlan.
STORM SPOTTERS from page 1
Hardy also said everyone should
have a weather radio.
“The tornado siren is good, but if
you’re in your house, you actually
don’t hear them sometimes,” he said.
Common Iowa storms
In addition to the spotter how-to,
Harding, who holds a master’s in atmospheric physics form Colorado State,
laid down a wealth of knowledge about
meteorology during the presentation.
For instance, multi-cell cluster storms
are the most common type of storm in
Iowa, Harding said. They bring round
after round of storms in a small area,
and it’s not uncommon of to get 8 inches of rain in one.
A supercell is a type of updraft that
can exceed 100 mph and can produce
extremely large hail.
Classic supercell clouds look like
72 months W/QC
stacked saucers.
A high precipitation supercell is the
most common type seen in Iowa, Harding said. In one, rainfall is generally expected at 4-5 inches an hour, he said.
Harding also cleared up some misconceptions.
Drivers who stop under an underpass,
for instance to avoid hail, put the people
behind them in danger and themselves
in a wind tunnel, he said.
Keep moving, and get to safety.
In a lighting storm, a car is a safe
Shell Rock Park
Warm weather brings
heightened interest in camping
County parks to open about mid-month, barring storms
With the recent warm weather, there
has been an increased interest in camping in the Butler County Parks, Conservation Director Mike Miner says. With
this interest, the amount of inquiries has
also increased as to when county parks
will open for camping.
It is the plan of the Butler County
Conservation Board to have all camping areas open with water and electrical
service turned on by mid-April, Miner
stated. While this is the plan, certain
areas may remain closed or open then
close again due to weather related issues including windstorms, rain or
flooding, he said.
Camping fees for Butler County Con-
servation Board Parks will remain the
same for 2015 with one exception; tents
no longer have a different fee.
Camping fees for Camp Comfort and
Wunsch Memorial Park in Greene are
$10 a night with electricity and $8 a
night without electricity while camping
fees for Shell Rock Park, Heery Woods,
and Beaver Meadows are $12 a night
with electricity and $10 a night without
electricity.
As in past years Wednesday nights are
free camping — excluding holidays.
For more information or to check on
your favorite camping area, contact the
Butler County Conservation Board at
319-278-4237.
Wilder park, located just East of Allison on Highway 3, will open for camping, picnicking and so forth, on Friday,
April 17.
Wilder Park features 52 campsites;
26 with full hook-ups and eight tent
sites. All of the electric sites now have
water.
Amenities include: foot golf, nine
holes of miniature golf, a giant chess
and checker board, three shelters, 18
holes disc golf, a 1.3 mile walking/bike
trail, two fishing ponds, severe storm
shelters, a dump station, Wi-Fi, sand
volley ball, enhanced playground and
wild flower prairies.
Camping rates for 2015 are $10 for
tenting, $14 for electric and water and
$18 for full hook-ups.
There is no charge for any of the amenities.
place not because of the rubber tires but
because the lightning goes around the
metal frame and misses the passenger.
It’s called a Faraday cage, Harding
said.
A Faraday cage is a hollow conductor, in which the charge remains on the
external surface of the cage, according
to the How Stuff Works website.
“It’s not because of the rubber tires,”
Harding said.
ing) I’ve seen,” Siedsema said. “He did
an excellent job.”
For those seeking a greater understanding of storm spotting, Harding
said the spotter training is available
online at weather.gov. For an online
version of spotter training, click the
“information center” tab, select “storm
spotters,” and then in the left menu,
click “NOAA publications,” and scroll
down to “storm spotter materials.”
Wilder Park to open April 17
“This is the most informative (train-
CONGRATULATIONS!
McKenna and
Sarah brought
in a straight “A”
Report Card
from Clarksville
School and each
won $100.00
McKenna Lebeck
Clarksville High School
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Sarah Sundet
Clarksville Middle School
SOCIAL NEWS
• Clarksville Star • Butler County Tribune-Journal •
Thursday, April 9, 2015 •
Clubs & Meetings
500 CARD PARTY
There will be a 500 card party on Friday, April 10, at the Clarksville Public
Library beginning at 7 p.m. The public
is invited to attend.
________
Martha Shaw
80th Birthday Open House
Martha Shaw will be celebrating her 80 birthday with an open house
on Sunday, April 19, from 2-4 p.m. at the Clarksville Church of Christ,
302 S. Elizabeth Street.
Cards may be sent to Martha at 121 E. Wilman St., Clarksville, IA
50619.
th
One month left to apply
for SBA disaster loans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Iowa private nonprofit organizations are under
an April 24 deadline to apply for an
SBA federal disaster loan for economic
injury caused by the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding that occurred on June 14 - 23, 2014.
Private nonprofits that provide essential services of a governmental nature
are eligible for assistance.
Low-interest federal disaster loans
are available in the counties of Butler,
also nearby Chickasaw and Franklin.
According to Garfield, eligible private nonprofits of any size may apply
for SBA Economic Injury Disaster
Loans (EIDLs) of up to $2 million to
help meet working capital needs caused
by the disaster.
“EIDLs may be used to pay fixed
debts, payroll, accounts payable and
other bills that cannot be paid because
of the disaster’s impact. EIDL assistance is available regardless of whether
the PNP suffered any property damage,” Garfield said.
The interest rate is 2.625 percent with
terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and
terms are set by SBA and are based on
each applicant’s financial condition.
Applicants may apply online using
the Electronic Loan Application (ELA)
via SBA’s secure website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela.
Disaster loan information and application forms are also available from
SBA’s Customer Service Center by
calling (800) 659-2955 or emailing
[email protected]. Individuals who are deaf or hardofhearing may call (800) 877-8339. For more
information about SBA’s disaster assistance programs, visit http://www.sba.
gov/disaster.
SHELL ROCK AMERICAN
LEGION AUXILIARY No. 393
The American Legion Auxiliary
No. 393 will meet at the First Baptist
Church, 223 Washington St in the basement. 9:30 a.m. on Thursday April 16.
Hostesses are Carol Ann Kruse and
Claire Osterholm.
—Submitted by Lois Brandos
________
BUTLER BB’S 4-H CLUB
The Butler BB’s 4-H Club held their
March meeting at 3 p.m. at the Community United Methodist Church on
the 22. There were 11 members and
two leaders present. Emily Doty called
the meeting to order. The Pledge of
Allegiance was led by Kayla Jacobs.
Secretary’s minutes were given by Miranda Vance. Treasurer’s report was by
Kayla Jacobs.
Old Business: They discussed how
the soup supper went and decided what
changes would be made for next year.
New Business: The club will be hosting a Mother’s Day table runner work-
Butler County REC
recognizes linemen
America’s electric cooperatives have
designated the second Monday of April
as National Lineman Appreciation Day.
On April 13, 2015, Butler County
REC will honor its hard working linemen who often work in challenging
conditions to keep the lights on.
“Electric linemen do not often receive the recognition they deserve,”
said Craig Codner, CEO. “They work
The Allison Trees Forever Committee reminds homeowners who
plan to plant trees this spring to contact Iowa One Call, either 811, or
1-800-292-8989, at least 48 hours
(excluding Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays) prior to any digging, or
visit http://www.iowaonecall.com.
all hours of the day, often in hazardous
conditions far from their families, going above and beyond to restore power
to their communities. We are proud of
our line crews’ safety records and their
commitment to serve our co-op members. Our linemen, as well as linemen
from across the nation, truly deserve
this special day of recognition. ”
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& SEAMLESS GUTTERS
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shop with the Greene Golden Eagles
4-H Club. The members will bring their
own supplies and a helper if needed.
The supplies will include ½ yard of fabric for the border and the back, 1/3 yard
for the center piece, thread of any color,
and two large buttons. This will be held
at the Community United Methodist
Church on April 19.
The members were asked to think of
two ideas for the parade float and fair
booth ideas for the next meeting. The
fair theme is “Roll With It.” Members
were also reminded to think about and
start 4-H projects for the fair. Emily
Leerhoff and Kayla Jacobs gave a report on their county council meeting
that they attended. All non-livestock
entries will need to be registered online
one week before fair entry day.
The next meeting will be held April
19 at 3 p.m. The sewing workshop will
be that same day at 12:30 p.m.
Morgan Jacobs led the 4-H pledge.
Mallory Hoodjer gave a presentation
on how to make a sock bun and Carlee Doty gave presentation on her fair
project of her family tree and her report. Sierra Vance brought interesting
facts about spring for recreation. Emily
Leerhoff brought root beer floats for
lunch.
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26: “Arming for Armageddon”; and
Sunday, May 3: “The Return of the
King.”
There is no admission fee, and no
offering will be taken. A nursery is
provided and refreshments will be
served after each presentation.
Everyone is invited. The Allison Bible Church is located at 108
Pfaltzgraff Street in Allison. With
questions, call the church phone
319-267-2455.
WAVERLY – Waverly Health Center
(WHC) will offer their monthly Speakers Series on Tuesday, April 21. The
event will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in
Tendrils Rooftop Garden on the WHC
campus.
Jennifer Schneiderman, LISW, GCC, WHC Behavioral Clinic, will present “Keeping Your Cool While Dealing
with Difficult People.” Learn think-
ing and behavior strategies to manage
stress that can be caused by the behavior of others.
This event is free and open to all.
Please park in the Red Lot and enter
through the Tendrils Rooftop Garden
event entrance, located south of the
Center Pharmacy drive-up.
To learn more, call 319- 483-1360.
‘Keeping Your Cool’ is
topic of WHC presentation
Waverly Health
Center to present
‘Health Literacy’
at The W
WAVERLY — Waverly Health
Center (WHC) will offer a lunch n’
learn on Wednesday, April 15. The
event will be held from noon to 1
p.m. at The W in the Wet Classroom,
located to the right of the welcome
desk by the pool.
Kristal Graves, BSN, RN, and Pam
Brahn, BSN, RN-BC – WHC education, will present “Health Literacy
and Where to Get Answers.”
This event is free and open to students and the public. Guests can
bring their lunch and park in the
Wartburg College visitor parking
area on 12th Street.
For more information, call The W
at 319-352-8249.
Holy Humor
Sunday to be
held at Dumont
Reformed
Church April 12
Dumont Reformed Church will
be having their second time doing a service with Holy Humor.
Its origin goes back to the traditions of the early church. Everyone is invited to come and check
out this service.
The Holy Humor Sunday service will begin at 10 a.m. There
will be some jokes incorporated
into the service, games and surprises for people to enjoy, and
lots and lots of butterfly decorations.
Trinity Reformed
Church to hold
Gospel Night Sunday
Trinity Reformed Church in Allison will be having a Gospel Night
at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 12. Praise
the Lord by singing and listening to
a variety of music by Witness Four,
Maddie Poppe, Daniel Derifield, and
other great area musicians and singers. Invite some friends and come
enjoy this special evening.
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Saturday, April 11, 7:30-11:00 a.m.
2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4
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Proceeds used for Clarksville High School Senior
scholarship and other projects including the
Leader Dog School
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Monday - Friday
7:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Saturday
7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
“What in the World Is Going On?,”
a 10-week DVD series is being
shown at Allison Bible Church on
Sunday nights at 6 p.m.
Featuring Dr. David Jeremiah,
senior pastor of Shadow Mountain
Community Church in San Diego,
Calif., this series investigates events
that are happening in the world today. The remaining topics are as
follows: Sunday, April 12: “When
One Man Rules the World”; April
19 “The New Axis of Evil”; April
Thursday Evening Special – Indian Tacos
Wednesday, April 15 – Hot Pork
Allison Variety-Hardware & Floral
Pancake Breakfast
DVD series concludes
May 3 at Allison Bible Church
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Veterans’ and school issues move forward
Our veterans deserve to know all the
benefits and programs they qualify for.
That’s why the Senate Veterans Affairs
Committee voted this week to help veterans access information on ways to apply for benefits.
House File 414 won unanimous approval in the Iowa House on March
17. The bill requires that private individuals or businesses offering to help
veterans get their benefits must give
all prospective clients a written statement disclosing that veterans may apply for these same services at no charge
through a local service organization or
county offices. Before entering into an
agreement or contract, the veteran must
sign the disclosure statement.
The Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs will develop a consumer-friendly
written disclosure for use by private
providers of benefits services for veterans. It will include a statement that
veterans benefits services are offered at
no cost by federally chartered veteran
service organizations and by county
commission of veteran affairs offices,
and will have contact information on
how to access those free services.
A person who violates these requirements faces a maximum civil penalty
of $1,000 for each violation. Any civil
penalties recovered will be deposited in
the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund.
State Revenue
The actual state revenue growth is 2.6
percent, which is $180.9 million. Actual state spending last year was $6.9
billion. The new revenue estimate is
$7.1billion.
Iowa’s Cash Reserve Fund has
$522.2 million. It must equal 7.5 percent of that year’s budget to help cash
flow during the year. When the legislature decided to reform the budget process in the early 1990s, one of the key
elements was ensuring that payments,
especially school aid payments, were
made in a timely manner.
In the 1980s, Iowa did not have a cash
reserve fund and payments to schools
were not made on time. Schools were
forced to borrow money to make payroll as they waited for school aid payments from the state. Schools were
forced to incur additional costs because
of the state’s lack of fiscal responsibility.
The state does not have a $1 billion surplus. In 2013, we had an ending balance of roughly $900 million.
Since then, that revenue has been used
to pay off state debt and invest in key
infrastructure projects for our Regents
institutions and improving water quality. The ending balance is estimated
to be $420 million at the end of fiscal
2015 on June 30. If that money is spent,
there is no automatic source for it to be
replenished.
State demographics
grow stronger,
steadier
New Census data released last week
reveals Iowa’s population has increased
by two percent, or about 60,000, since
For more information on this or other
programs for veterans, contact the Iowa
Department of Veterans Affairs at 515252-4698 or go to www.va.iowa.gov.
In education news, Gov. Terry Branstad’s administration told superintendents last December that they would no
longer get waivers to start school early,
meaning schools would have to start
fall classes during the week of September 1.
Last fall, 67 Iowa school districts
started fall semester classes during the
second week of August.
Senate File 227 is a compromise that
sets the school start date on or after August 23. It was approved this week by
both the House and the Senate.
This legislative compromise ends a
major distraction, which has taken attention away from this session’s most
important, most pressing education issue: Renewing Iowa’s bipartisan commitment to responsibly investing in
our local students and schools. School
funding affects 100 percent of Iowa
schoolchildren, parents and teachers,
2010. About a third of the increase
came from international immigration.
Between 2010 and 2014, the state
gained just over 21,000 residents from
other countries and lost about 4,000
people through domestic migration,
former Iowans leaving for other states.
Data from the Department of Public Health showed that Iowa had only
about 10,000 more births than deaths
in 2013. The new census data suggests
that rate didn’t change much in other
years; as the state saw a net gain of
10,000 births over the last four years
and 21,000 person immigration over
that same period. That is a total increase
of roughly 60,000 residents.
The latest data pegs Iowa’s population at 3,107,126, ranking 30th among
the 50 states. The Census estimates predict the state’s population will be about
3.4 million in 2040.
Dallas County was the 17th fastest
growing county in the country, growing
by 17 percent since the 2010 census.
It added over 11,000 residents in just
four years. The news was less cheerful
for Iowa’s rural areas, as most counties
outside of the state’s 21-county metropolitan areas lost population. But this
year’s growth marks 26 straight years
of population growth in Iowa, which
marks the state’s longest sustained
growth period since 1900.
Reach Rep. Pat Grassley, R-New
Hartford, at the House Switchboard,
515-281-3221, on the farm at 319-9839019, or by email, pat.grassley@legis.
iowa.gov. He serves on the committees
of agriculture (chairman), commerce,
economic growth and ways and means.
Under the Golden Dome Too
By State Representative Linda Upmeyer
House District 54
[email protected]
(515) 281-4618
The warmer temperatures, sporadic
rain showers, and green grass beginning to peek through Iowa’s rich soil,
are all refreshing reminders that spring
certainly has sprung in Iowa.
This week wrapped up the second
legislative funnel, which means in order for a policy bill to remain eligible
for consideration this year, it is required
to have passed either the House or Senate and a committee of the other chamber.
One piece of legislation I am disappointed the Senate chose not to consider was HF 247. This bill passed
with bipartisan support in the House
and would require an asset verification
process for recipients of Medicaid. The
purpose of the proposal is to prevent
fraud, misrepresentation, and the inappropriate use of Iowa’s Medicaid program.
Iowans are a very caring, giving and
sharing group of people. When help
is needed, we answer the call. Iowans
also demand accountability and transparency in their government. HF 247
encompasses these Iowa values.
Eliminating fraud in Medicaid not
only protects the taxpayer’s investment,
but it also means more of the money
that is intended to help those in need,
is actually received by those individuals. I’m perplexed as to why there isn’t
more interest in accomplishing this initiative.
Every year we hear that we need
more money for programs like Medicaid, and while that might be appropriate, we should constantly be vigilant
that the programs aren’t being abused.
The first step before increasing funding
should always be to ensure that taxpayer dollars currently appropriated are
being spent appropriately.
There should be nothing more precious to us, as your elected officials,
than the dollars you send us. When we
have a clear opportunity to reduce the
amount of fraud and inappropriate use
of taxpayer dollars, we have a duty to
do that. It’s easy to spend the money,
but the hard part is ensuring your hardearned tax dollars are being spent wisely. It is our responsibility to do the hard
work and take these necessary steps.
HF 247 would ensure taxpayer dollars are being used in the most efficient
manner possible to help Iowans truly in
need. It is unfortunate the Iowa Senate
chose not to keep this proposal alive.
As we move forward this session, if
you have any questions or feedback
about the issues before us, please do not
hesitate to contact me. I can always be
reached at [email protected].
gov or 515-281-4618.
Reach Iowa Rep. Linda Upmeyer, RClear Lake, the House Switch-board,
515-281-3221, at 641-357-8807 or
email [email protected].
She serves on the administration and
rules committee and the Legislative
Council.
as well as employers and community
leaders. We must provide the funding our schools need to boost student
achievement and keep the best teachers
in our classrooms.
Reach Iowa Sen. Amanda Ragan, DMason City, at the Senate Switchboard,
515-281-3371, at home, 641-424-0874,
or email [email protected].
gov. She serves on the committees of
human resources (vice-chair), agriculture committee (vice-chair), health
and human services appropriations
subcommittee (chairwoman), appropriations, natural resources and environment, rules and administration and
veterans affairs.
County Democrats announce
election and platform results
Butler County Democrats met
March 25, 2015 to hold their Offyear Caucus and Central Committee organizational meeting at the
Allison Public Library community
room.
Officers elected for 2015 were:
David Mansheim of Parkersburg,
chairman, Jami Backer of Greene,
vice-chairwoman, Jane Close of
New Hartford, treasurer, and Ramona Melendy of Dumont, secretary.
Guest speaker was Blair Lauton
from Des Moines with the Run,
Warren, Run campaign. They are
working to have U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren enter the race in Iowa
for the presidential nomination of
the Democratic Party.
The next meeting of the Butler
County Democrats will be at the
Greene Public Library community
room at 7 p.m. on April 22.
Butler Democrats passed several
platform resolutions at the caucus
on issues they felt strongly about.
They voted overwhelmingly to
support raising the Iowa minimum
wage, support funding at least a 4
percent rise in Iowa education fund-
ing, and support additional efforts
to clean up Iowa’s water supplies.
While fully supportive of hunters and responsible gun ownership,
they voted disapproval of current
measures in the Iowa Legislature
which would remove background
checks, allow children of any age
to shoot, make concealed carry permits secret (from the public) and allow silencers.
The group expressed dismay of
Governor Branstad’s closing mental
health facilities, his politicization of
the Board of Regents, his privatizing management of Medicare, and
his lack of supervision of the construction of the new Fort Madison
prison.
Butler Democrats criticized U.S.
Senator Chuck Grassley of New
Hartford as head of the Judiciary
Committee for unreasonably holding up the confirmation of Attorney
General Loretta Lynch. Both Grassley and Senator Joni Ernst were
condemned for signing a letter to
the leaders of Iran to criticize the
U.S. President and sabotage peace
negotiations.
Counties call for backfill
for multi-residential
property tax break
WEST DES MOINES – With the
passage of Senate File 295 in 2013,
a new classification of property
called multi-residential was created. The new class includes apartment complexes, assisted living
facilities, mobile home parks, and
other similar properties.
These properties will benefit from
a legislatively imposed rollback
and an eventual coupling with the
residential class rollback, but local
governments will see a 40-50 percent reduction in the taxable valuation of multi-residential property
over the next eight years.
“Legislatively manipulating the
taxable value of property with no
backfill to local governments for
the reduction in future revenue creates an unfunded mandate,” said
Melvyn Houser, ISAC president
and Pottawattamie County Supervisor. “The loss of taxable value
coupled with rising costs forces
counties to either raise tax rates or
reduce services,” he said.
The Iowa State Association of
Counties is committed to working
with the Legislature to address unfunded and underfunded mandates
that cause a tax burden shift. In
an additional effort to counteract
the loss of taxable value, ISAC is
working to increase the proportion
of user fees retained by counties
when performing services of the
state so these services do not have
to be subsidized by property tax
dollars.
In addition to the fiscal impact,
ISAC has concerns with the admin-
istrative rules addressing the assessment of multiple use properties.
Under the adopted rules assessors
will be charged with determining
the primary use of the property as
a whole if it has multiple uses, such
as a multi-residential component
and a commercial component. The
primary use will determine if the
property as a whole will be classed
and taxed as multi-residential or if
it will have a dual classification.
“Requiring the assessors to determine primary use with no definitive
guidelines when there are clearly
multiple components that should
be classed differently will create inconsistencies and inequities in the
classification and taxation of these
properties,” said ISAC Public Policy Specialist Lucas Beenken.
ISAC supports a simple legislative fix that would allow for dual
classification, regardless of primary
use, so each portion of a multiple
use property could be classified and
taxed based on its own use. This approach ensures businesses are on an
equal playing field and everyone is
paying their fair share of property
taxes.
For more information please visit
ISAC’s website at www.iowacounties.org.
The Iowa State Association of
Counties is a private, nonprofit corporation whose members are county officials from the 99 counties in
Iowa. ISAC’s mission is to promote
effective and responsible county
government for Iowans.
A walk a day
keeps
the
doctor
away.
And
the vet!
The Iowa Senate took a step in
protecting your Second Amendment
rights this week with the passage of
a suppressor bill. However, it clearly
falls short of what Iowans expect us
to do in protecting the gun rights of
law-abiding citizens.
Senate Republicans have listened
to Iowans. The passage of the suppressor bill was a good step. What
I hear from Iowans more than anything is they want their legal rights
to carry permit to be protected and
to be confidential. They believe, as I
do, that they should be able to stand
up and protect themselves and their
families and their property, and to
use their firearm without the fear of
being sued or losing their assets.
Unfortunately this week, the Senate missed its opportunity to pass a
bill to do just that. Senate Democrats
had the opportunity pass comprehensive Second Amendment protections, but chose to play political games with your constitutional
rights.
The Iowa House passed comprehensive gun rights legislation with
bipartisan support with more than 70
votes. This was legislation both parties supported. Gun rights advocates
and law enforcement each offered
their support for the comprehensive
language. However, Senate Democrats demonstrated they did not have
any desire to call up a comprehensive Second Amendment bill.
The majority party in the Senate
instead chose to strip the confidentiality provisions and further restrict
the application and permitting process. All that was left was language
making it legal to possess suppressors.
Unfortunately this suppressor bill
did not go far enough to protect your
Constitutional rights. Senate Democrats chose to put politics before
policy by giving the impression they
care about the Second Amendment,
but this was nothing more than political theater as Senate Democrats
proved by their actions.
Senate Republicans offered several amendments to strengthen the language and protect your constitutional rights. Again, the majority party
failed to allow a vote to be taken on
Senate Republican amendments.
Senate Republicans and I will
continue to fight and defend your
Second Amendment protections and
Constitutional rights.
Let’s make it happen.
Reach Iowa Sen. Bill Dix, R-Shell
Rock, at the Senate Switchboard,
515-281-3371, at 319-269-3664 or
email [email protected]. He
serves on the rules and administration committee.
The Alternative
Fritz Groszkruger
[email protected]
www.alternativebyfritz.com
Statist versus freedom
We are in South Carolina as I write
this. We have family here who deserve
our effort to visit because they’ve
made the trip to our place every year
for 35 years.
Charleston has a huge amount of
history as its foundation. Every historic place we visited was a destination
because of war. History is defined by
war.
Old Santee Canal was the one place
we visited that was built to facilitate
peaceful commerce.
In 1914 Randolph Bourne wrote
“War is the health of the state,” while
observing the fervor leading to our
involvement in World War I (much
of that being a distraction from social
problems here at home and charity for
European banks).
With the United States being a nation at war for nearly its entire history, the state is in exceptionally good
health. Nearly all discussion of issues
revolves around what the state should
do to resolve those issues.
In discussing the recent controversy
in Indiana about “religious freedom,”
we’ve found it difficult to ask why
the state is involved at all, rather than
what the state should do. Our lives are
totally bounded by what the state, or
the common good as forced on us by
the state, allows. Morality and mutual
respect have been replaced by legality.
This has led to a discussion extremely limited in scope, but perceived as all
encompassing. I’ve heard people describe the views on MSNBC and Fox
as being on opposite ends of the scale.
But seldom is a non-state solution ever
discussed. When do you ever hear that
marriage should not be the business of
the state? Why should our personal relationship with our spouse or God be
any business of the state?
I’ve been to weddings recently
where the bride and groom ceremoniously sign a government marriage
certificate. What a way to cheapen a
personal and sacred relationship; having to ask permission of the only entity
in our lives that has a monopoly on the
use of force and has (historically) been
the most destructive organization to
God’s creation.
We didn’t see anarchists burning
thousands of civilians alive throughout the centuries. It was always the
state.
If we are ever going to save this civilization that has produced such abundance in spite of constant aggression
by the state, we need to expand the
dialogue from liberal vs. conservative
to state vs. individual freedom and responsibility, with the state’s only function being protecting individuals from
harm, from outside our borders as well
as within.
From the left and the right every answer to our social ills and poverty is
essentially band-aids on problems created by the state in the first place. The
left and the right should step out of the
Huffington Post and Shawn Hannity
dictates and consider the fact that on a
daily basis we get along just fine when
we respect the quirks of different lifestyles as long as they don’t infringe on
our own.
The extreme sacrifices that are evident at all the historic sites here in
Charleston should not have been made
in vain. We owe it to the memory of
those who served not to bow down to
the state but to stand up to the state.
We need to preserve and protect God’s
creation from those who intend to destroy it by manipulating government
as a force to impose our will on others.
Reach Fritz Groszkruger of rural Hansell
at [email protected] or find his
blog at www.alternativebyfritz.com.
FAITH
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Church Directory
ACKLEYWashington Reformed Church
28182 Birch Ave
Phone # 641-847-2817
Rev. Jack D. Ritsema, Pastor
Service Times: 9:00 a.m. Sunday
School; 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship;
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship.
ALLISONAllison Bible Church
108 Pfaltzgraff St.
Sunday, April 12: 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship
Wednesday, April 15: 7:30 p.m. Bible
Study, Prayer and Fellowship
Allison Congregational Church
Ralph Wedeking Pastor
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Sunday
School & Confirmation Class; 10:00
a.m. Worship Services
St. James Lutheran Church
Pastor Jeffrey A. Blank
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Worship;
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
Monday, April 13: 1:45 p.m. WELCA Host Bingo at Allison Rehab
Center
Tuesday, April 14: 9:00 a.m. SewSew Sisters
Wednesday, April 15: 6:30 p.m. 7 &
8 Confirmation
Thursday, April 16: 9:00 a.m. WIC
Saturday, April 18: 7:00 a.m. Women
& Men’s Bible Study at Elm Springs
Trinity Reformed Church
Pastor Gary Mulder
614 Cherry St.
319-267-2982
Note: Handicap Accessible
Services are broadcast live on
Dumont Cable Channel 998.
On demand at trinref.org
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Worship
Service; 10:00 a.m. Fellowship; 10:30
a.m. Sunday School, 6:00 p.m. Gospel
Night
Wednesday, April 15: 6:30 p.m. Middle School Youth Group; 6:30 p.m.
Youth Group
Thursday, April 16: 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study
APLINGTONHitesville Gospel Hall
R.R., Aplington
Sunday, April 12: 10:00 a.m. Ministry of the Word; 11:00 a.m. Worship;
7:00 p.m. Gospel Service
Wednesday, April 15: 7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting and Bible Study
AREDALE, BRISTOW
AND DUMONTNew Hope Parish
United Methodist Churches
Pastor Ann Donat
Aredale
Service
Dumont
School: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service.
BRISTOWBristow Church of Christ
Justin Briney, Minister
Ph: 641-775-3301
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Coffee
and goodies; 9:30 a.m. Bible School
for all ages; 10:15 a.m. Worship Service; 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship.
Reformed Church, Bristow
Kesley Presbyterian Church
Pastor Tamara Entin
Cell: 515-293-0928
Home: 515-532-2274
at Kesley
CLARKSVILLE –
Peace for your soul,
In a peaceful setting.
Unity Presbyterian Church
Ridge Avenue & 220th St.
One mile south of Hwy. 3
Pastor Christine Kaplunas
Sunday, April 12: 10:00 a.m. Worship Service.
St. John Lutheran Church
204 N. Washington
Pastor Charles R. Underwood
278-4765
Handicap Accessible
School/Adult Book Study; 10:00 a.m.
Worship; 3:30 p.m. Youth Group
Meeting; 5:00 p.m. Senior Youth
Meeting.
Monday, April 13: 7:00 p.m. Bell
Choir.
Wednesday, April 15: 6:00 p.m. 7th
& 8th Grade Confirmation.
Thursday, April 16: 7:00 p.m. Council Meeting.
Saturday, April 18: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
All Age Swim Party @ The W.
Community United
Methodist Church
309 W. Superior Street
Pastor Dan Fernandez
Community-Shell Rock
UMC Office 885-4554
Pastor Dan cell: 515-729-7079
Handicapped Accessible
School; 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship.
School; 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship;
11:30 a.m. Defibrillator Training.
Immanuel United
Church of Christ
Rev. Linda Myren
203 S. Mather Street
319-278-4224
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship; 11:30
a.m. Chimes/Kids’ Alive.
Wednesday, April 15: 9:00 a.m. Bible
Study; 6:30 p.m. Bible Study.
New Life Lutheran
Congregation
Unity Presbyterian Church
Ridge Avenue & 220th St.
One mile south of Hwy. 3
NALC Iowa Mission
Pastor Robert Porisch
1st, 2nd and 5th Sundays;
Galen Eiben, Lay Pastor
3rd and 4th Sundays
Service.
Church of Christ
302 S. Elizabeth Street
Val Swinton, Pastor
278-4416
Sunday, April 12: 8:45 a.m. Coffee &
Donuts; 10:00 a.m. Worship Service;
6:30 p.m. Bible Study.
Wednesday, April 15: 10:30 a.m.
Women’s Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. Sonbeams PK-5th Grade and Adult Bible
Study.
Friday, April 17: 9:00 a.m. Mom’s
Bible Study (childcare available).
DUMONTDumont Reformed Church
(641) 857-3514
Pastors Jeff and April Fiet
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Sunday School for ages 3 through High
School; 10:00 a.m. Holy Humor Sunday, There will be some jokes incorporated into the service, games and
surprises for people to enjoy and lots
and lots of butterfly decorations.
Mondays: 1st Monday of the
Month: 1:00 p.m. Reformed Church
Women (RCW)
Wednesdays: 3:00 p.m. Adults for
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Christ (adult group for ages 18+);
6:00 p.m. Kids for Christ (Middle
School Youth Group for 4th-7th
grade); 7:00 p.m. RCYF (High School
Youth Group for 8th-12th grade)
GREENEFirst Presbyterian Church
319 East Traer Streets
P.O. Box 160
Greene, IA 50636-0160
Cathy Belles, Pastor
[email protected]
Sunday, April 12: 10:30 a.m. Worship, All are welcome!
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Msgr. Walter Brunkan, Pastor
Sunday, April 12: 10:00 a.m. Mass.
St. Peter Lutheran Church
324 E. Traer, Greene
Gary Hatcher, Pastor
641-816-5531
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Worship;
10:00 a.m. Fellowship, Sunday School,
Luther League; 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship with Holy Communion
Wednesday, April 15: 7:00 a.m.
Men’s Bible Study; 6:30 p.m. 7th &
8th Confirmation
Saturday, April 18: 6:00 p.m. Worship
NASHUASt. John’s United Church
of Christ, Pleasant Hill
10009 Union Ave.
Nashua, IA 50658
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(641) 435-4998
Service; 10:30 a.m. Sunday School.
PLAINFIELD –
First Baptist Church
809 Main Street
319-276-4889
Pastor Shawn Geer
School – all ages; 10:30 a.m. Worship;
6:00-7:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Kids
ROCK – Ages 3 years to 6th grade.
United Methodist Church
404 2nd Street
Pastor Catherine Orth
Church - 319-276-3195
Cell – 319-231-2117
Office Hours: Tuesday,
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Thursday, 1-3 p.m.
Sunday, April 12: 9:00 a.m. Worship.
PLEASANT VALLEY –
First United Church of Christ
31015 150th Street, Clarksville
319-276-4443
Rev. Peter Wenzel, Minister
School; 10:00 a.m. Worship.
ROSEVILLESt. Mary Church
Roseville, IA
Msgr. Walter Brunkan, Pastor
Saturdays: 7:00 p.m.
Sundays: 8:30 a.m.
SHELL ROCK –
United Methodist Church
204 S. Prairie Street
Pastor Dan Fernandez
319-885-4554
Service.
First Baptist Church
223 W. Washington Street
Shell Rock, IA 50670
Pastor Alan V. Dicks
School; 10:30 a.m. Worship Service;
6:00 p.m. Sunday Evening Service
Wednesdays: 6:30-8:00 p.m. AWANAS-Bible Verses, Stories, Refreshments
Peace Lutheran Church
(LCMS)
121 East Washington
Pastor Michael Knox
319-231-9761
Sundays 9:30 a.m. KXEL AM
Radio Bible Class
The Double Edged Sword
Saturday, April 11: 7:00 p.m. Worship; 8:00 p.m. Bible Class.
Faith Lutheran Church
422 N. Prairie Street
Pastor Kim Smith
319-885-4547
Email: [email protected]
Service; 10:00 a.m. Sunday School;
10:15 a.m. Contemporary Worship
Service.
Wednesday, April 15: 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship Service.
VILMARSt. John’s Lutheran Church
Pastor Mark Walker
St. John’s is Handicap Accessible.
School, Confirmation; 10:00 a.m.
Worship Service, Coffee and Fellowship
Monday, April 13: 9:00 a.m. Rachel
Circle
Tuesday, April 14: 7:00 p.m. Rebecca Circle
Wednesday, April 15: 6:00 p.m. Confirmation; 7:30 p.m. Choir Practice
Thursday, April 16: 7:00 p.m. Council Meeting
Friday, April 17: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Pancake Supper
Saturday, April 18: 7:00 a.m. Prayer
at Elm Springs
WAVERLYSt. Mary’s Catholic Church
2700 Horton Road
Fr. Dave Schatz
319-352-2493
Eucharistic Liturgies:
Saturday 5:15 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, April 9: 9:00 p.m. Wartburg Mass.
Friday, April 10: 7:00 a.m. Mass.
Saturday, April 11: 9:00 a.m. 1st Eucharist Retreat; Food Bank Collection;
5:15 p.m. Mass/Baptism of Emma
Shekleton.
Sunday, April 12: Food Bank Collection @ Masses; 8:00 a.m. Mass/Children’s Liturgy of the Word; 9:00 a.m.
Youth Music Group; 9:00 a.m. NCYC
Meeting; 10:00 a.m. Mass/Children’s
Liturgy of the Word; 11:00 a.m. Generations of Faith; 12:30 p.m. Marriage
Encounter Meeting; 5:00 p.m. Generations of Faith.
Peace United Church of Christ
1800 11th Street SE
319-352-3151
Pastor Jonathan Hennings
School; 9:30 a.m. Worship Service.
St. John Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod
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a.m. & KWAY, 1470 AM at 8:00 a.m.
Every Sunday
415 4th Street SW
Rev. Matthew Versemann &
Rev. Keith Brustuen
Sunday, April 12: 8:00 a.m. & 10:30
a.m. Worship; 9:15 a.m. Sunday
School & Bible Class.
Wednesday, April 15: 5:30 p.m. Confirmation; 6:00 p.m. Midweek Classes.
Open Bible Church
Pastor Matt Miller
1013 E. Bremer Ave.
Ph: 319-352-2038
Sunday, April 12: 9:30 a.m. Donuts
& Fellowship; 10:00 a.m. Morning
Worship.
April Fool
“Jesus said, ‘You are like white washed tombs, which look beautiful on the
outside, but, on the inside are full of dead people’s bones, and everything
unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous,
but on the inside you are fools, full of hypocrisy and wickedness.’” Matthew
23:27
We’ve all probably fallen victim to being fooled on the first day of April.
Often we can seem the fool because we have fallen for someone taking advantage of the inflated image we have of ourselves. Often we appear the fool
without even realizing it. Jesus was speaking of some religious leaders who
had an inflated image of themselves, as being better than the ordinary person.
They knew how to dress, and behave in just the most proper manner. They
knew how to do the rituals properly. Most other people were not nearly as
outwardly able to appear so proper. Jesus insults these very prestigious persons by saying they are like white washed tombs. They look wonderful on
the outside, but, inside they are quite another picture. They are like a fool in
a silly costume. Jesus makes the point that so often we are so superficial as
to imagine that the exterior is who we really are.
Some years back I was pastor in a small town, and one of our member
families, lived in another town about 30 miles away. They had had a very
unfortunate accident, and one of the problems for them was their garden. It
had become overgrown in the summer, without their being able to tend to it,
because of the handicaps left by the accident. One summer day I drove up to
their place and did some gardening for them. It was a beautiful summer day,
and the time got away from me.
After washing up and starting home I realized I would be late for a dinner
invitation with another church member, a widow, Nancy. Nancy lived between where I’d been gardening, and my home. I noted that I could still be on
time for the evening meal with Nancy if I didn’t drive all the way back home
to change clothes first. So, I stopped, and as she greeted me at the door, I was
on time. The meal was, of course, delicious as usual. I apologized to Nancy
for the clothes I was wearing, which showed the dirt I’d been working in all
day.
Nancy laughed, and said, “Pastor, did you forget I am blind. It does not
matter to me what you are wearing. What matters to me is that you cared
enough to come to see me. I get pretty lonely here sometimes.”
We live in a culture that puts such great emphasis on the outside. What
clothing we wear, jewelry, even tattoos, are supposed to show the world who
we are. But, as Jesus pointed out, we are fools if we believe that. As Jesus
pointed out, as Nancy reminded me, it’s our inner motivations that matter.
Clothing, jewelry, even tattoos go out of fashion. I have an acquaintance
who makes a very good living in Los Angeles, California, removing tattoos,
burns them off. The same for clothing and jewels, what seems fashion today,
seems out of date tomorrow. Only a fool will believe that what is on the outside really shows us the true person. It is, ultimately, what one has faith in,
one’s inmost motives that tell who we are.
—Ralph Wedeking
Pastor, Allison Congregational Church
LaVerne
Louis Rinken
LaVerne Louis Rinken was born November 25, 1942, to Philip and Chris-
tine (Juaret) Rinken and passed away on March 31, 2015, at the Muse Norris
Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City at the age of 72.
LaVerne was raised near Cresco and attended Notre Dame High School
where he graduated in 1962. After graduating from high school he
served in the Marine Corps Reserves.
On June 29, 1963, LaVerne was
united in marriage to Sandra (Bohach) Rinken at Lady of Mt. Carmel
in Lawler, Iowa. To this union five
children were born: Jerome, Allen,
Dale, Debra and Lynn. They lived
near Kendallville and Sumner before
they moved to a farm near Greene in
1971.
LaVerne and his wife milked cows,
raised hogs, and grew corn and soybeans.
LaVerne enjoyed fishing, hunting, trapping, and spending time with his
grandchildren and his great-granddaughter.
LaVerne is survived by his loving wife Sandra; children: Jerome (Jill) of
Denver, Allen (Vicki) of Greene, Dale (Gwen) of Ionia, Debra (Terry) Brase
of Nashua, Lynn (Janet) of Clarksville; 11 grandchildren: Johnna, Jordan,
Jenna, Justin, Jesse, Valerie and Rachel Rinken, Cheyenne Brase, Haley,
Garret and Jayden Rinken; one great-granddaughter, Braylee Ackerman; sister, Marie Neelans of Waterloo; three brothers: Robert (Bonnie) of Decorah,
Gerald of Cresco, and Kenneth (Shirley) of Rochester, Minn.
LaVerne was preceded in death by his parents.
Funeral services were held Friday, April 3, 2015, at St. Mary Catholic
Church, Greene, with Rev. Msgr. Walter Brunkan officiating. Burial was in
the St. Mary Cemetery, Greene.
Those planning an expression of sympathy may direct memorials to the
LaVerne Rinken Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 219, Greene, Iowa 50636
Arrangements were entrusted to Retz Funeral Home, Greene.
Oneta
Ileen Stackhouse
Oneta Ileen Stackhouse, 88, of Hampton, Iowa passed away Sunday, April
5, 2015, at the Mercy Medical Center North Iowa in Mason City, Iowa.
Family will greet friends on Thursday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
the Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton, Iowa. Burial will take place
at the Dumont Cemetery in Dumont, Iowa.
Sietsema Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton is in charge of arrangements.
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ALLISON — Due to an extremely high
volume of wildland and grass fire calls
over the past few days, Butler County
Emergency Management is reiterating
the county’s open burning ordinance.
The burn ordinance, which took effect May 1, 2013, was enacted to get
county citizens to notify the proper
authorities for fires larger than recreational use, Emergency Management
Director Mitch Nordmeyer said.
To cut down on wasted fire department effort in responding to unreported
controlled burns, the fire chiefs of Butler County requested the ordinance in a
unanimous vote at a meeting the previous fall.
The ordinance defines a recreational
fire as anything smaller than a 4-foot
cube.
The ordinance does not stop burning in rural Butler County, Nordmeyer
said; rather it simply states that citizens
must:
• Call the Sheriff’s Office about the
burn, 319-267-2410 and
• Have fire suppression equipment on
hand in case the burn gets out of control. This suppression equipment can
be water tanks, sprayers, tillage equipment, and so forth.
There’s a history behind the ordinance.
The few years leading up to the ordinance had brought an increasing number of false-alarm calls to all 10 county
fire departments for reported fires that
turned out to be controlled burns not
called in to the Sheriff’s Office, Nordmeyer said.
Often, these controlled burns were
Probate
THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT
BUTLER COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OF
Joyce A. Johnson, Deceased
Probate No. ESPR016423
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL,
OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR, AND
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
Joyce A. Johnson, Deceased, who died on or
about March 11, 2015:
Youareherebynotifiedthatonthe18thday
of March, 2015, the last will and testament of
Joyce A. Johnson, deceased, bearing date of
the 9th day of November, 2012, was admitted
to probate in the above named court and that
Brian K. Johnson was appoint-ed executor of
the estate. Any action to set aside the will must
be brought in the district court of said county
within the later to occur of four months from the
date of the second publi-cation of this notice or
one month from the date of mailing of this notice
to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under
the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.
Notice is further given that all per-sons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditorshavingclaimsagainsttheestateshallfile
them with the clerk of the above named district
court, as provided by law, duly authenticated,
forallowance,andunlesssofiledbythelaterto
occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of
mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed
or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.
Datedthis18thdayofMarch,2015.
Brian K. Johnson
Executor of estate
5085thAve.NW
Waverly,IA50677
KarlA.Nelson,ICISPINNo:AT0005659
Attorney for executor
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set-aside acres being burned off, tree
piles, building demolition piles, and so
on. These types of fires can create walls
of flame and thick smoke, circumstances that prompt the general public to call
911 to report a fire out of control.
In the past few years, the Butler
County Sheriff’s Office has sent deputies all over the county on reports of
supposed “un-controlled” burning.
As a result Butler County volunteers
were leaving their jobs to respond to
fires that were monitored and were not
to be fought, he said.
Often this meant fire departments
dousing burns to the chagrin of the person attempting the burn.
“We need to cut down on the number
of false alarms our county fire departments are responding to,” Nordmeyer
continued. “These volunteers are good
enough to give of their time; we need to
make sure it is good use of their time”
and their employer’s time, if they are on
shift, he added.
This ordinance should not be confused with an open burning ban, Nordmeyer said. Burn bans are typically
seen in the spring and fall when conditions are extremely dry. A burn ban
means that open burning of any kind is
prohibited and is a temporary action.
This burn ordinance is a permanent
action that requires notification of proposed burning.
“This ordinance is really simple,”
Nordmeyer, said. “If you’re going to
burn something, all it takes is a phone
call to the Sheriff’s Office to be in compliance. Everyone has time to make one
phone call.”
It also takes fire suppression equipment.
If a fire becomes out of control and
the person holding the burn does not
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Editor
Last week, Butler County Emergency
Management reported an extremely
high volume of wildland and grass
fire calls over the past few days. As of
Monday, the threat had turned to thunderstorms and hail.
From March 23-April 4, there were
22 grass fires in the county and 90 controlled burns, Butler County Sheriff’s
Office dispatch reports show. A burn
ban issued on April 2 had been lifted as
of Tuesday.
As of Monday, a red flag warning for
hot dry weather had dissipated. More
severe thunderstorms were expected
Wednesday and Thursday, with large
hail and damaging winds possible
Tuesday through Sunday, including in
A ban on open burning issued
April 2 in Butler County has been
lifted as of Tuesday.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office
issued the proclamation, at the request of Mitch Nordmeyer, Butler
County Emergency Management
Agency director.
Any violation of the burn ban is
a simple misdemeanor, pursuant to
Iowa Code.
This was separate from the county’s ordinance on burn reporting
and management.
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have any fire suppression visible, they
are considered in non-compliance with
the ordinance. The penalty for noncompliance is $500 for the first offense
and $750 for repeat offenses.
The ordinance has effected some
change.
“Since the ordinance went into effect,
the number of calls into the Sheriff’s
Office has increased drastically,” Nordmeyer said. “But at the same time, the
number of pages to fire departments has
reduced drastically, so I truly believe it’s
working exactly the way we were hoping it would.”
With questions concerning this ordinance, contact the local fire chief or
the Butler County Emergency Management Agency at 319-267-9968.
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The week of March 23-29, nine grass
fires and 51 controlled burns were
called into the Butler County Sheriff’s
Office. Six of that week’s nine grass
fires fell on Saturday, March 28. Controlled burns were the highest on March
27 (15 burns) and March 28 (26 burns).
There was one structure fire.
The week of March 30-April 4, 13
grass fires and 40 controlled burns were
reported to dispatch. The number of
controlled burns rose from nine March
30 to peak at 29 on March 31. The peak
happens to coincide with when the
county burn reporting ordinance and
separate proposed burn ban appeared in
local media.
Another two controlled burns were
reported Wednesday, April 1.
Structures at two addresses caught
fire during the week.
No injuries were reported at any of
the three structure fires named, a dispatcher said.
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Council meeting at 8:09 p.m.
David Kelm, Mayor
Attest: Larry D. Betts, CMC
City Clerk/Treasurer
CITY OF CLARKSVILLE
EXPENDITURES MARCH 2015
Employees-salaries
$13,905.52
Employees-salaries
$12,683.49
Allison Propane-lp gas
$147.00
Boy Scout Troop 53-recycling station $220.00
Brown Supply Co.-parts
$6.52
Butler Co. Solid Waste-landfill
$4,676.75
Butler-Bremer Communications
-phones
$353.71
Casey’s Store-gasoline
$1,407.96
Cenex Fleet-gasoline
$71.09
Central Iowa Distributing-supplies
$153.00
Clarksville Ambulance-training
$80.00
Clarksville Fire Department-cash cd $4,001.72
Clarksville Lumber-supplies
$145.20
Classic Cleaners-services
$42.80
Data Technologies Inc.
-computer software
$11,955.18
Don’s Truck Sales-sander unit
$7,925.00
Emergency Med Products
-med supplies
$264.40
Hoppy’ s Auto-parts
$259.47
Ingram Library-books
$543.51
Jendro Sanitation-garbage pickup $5,692.20
K & S Grocery-supplies
$38.22
Keeling, Charles Jr-utility depoist refund $76.25
Kossuth County Library-training
$25.00
Marco Inc.-copier maint.
$52.32
Mid-America Publishing-publications $455.42
MidAmerican Energy-gas, electric $3,968.09
Myers, Jon-mileage reimbursement $125.35
P & K Midwest-parts
$23.93
Pannoff, Serena-utility depoist refund $101.25
Professional Claims Group
-ambulance billing
$697.84
Redline Auto-repairs
$128.06
Rottink, Blake-ambulance training
$604.50
Sandry Fire Supply-equipment
$217.91
Sam’s Club-supplies
$94.97
Schumacher Elevator-inspection
$243.51
Stevens Law Office-attorney fees
$75.00
TestAmerica-lab test
$80.00
TJ Digital-computer support
$82.50
Trans-Iowa Equipment
-sweeper unit
$15,550.00
UI Health Care-training
$40.00
US Cellular-phones
$399.03
Visa-postage, supplies
$2,258.43
Waverly Health Center-mutual aid
$350.00
Wedeking, Crystal-training, reports
$237.99
Wellmark BSBS-group insurance
$7,162.66
$97,622.75
Total Expenditures For: March
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Emergency Management reminds Butler
County citizens of open burning ordinance
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CITY OF CLARKSVILLE
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
MARCH 30, 2015
The Clarksville City Council met in special
session March 30, 2015, in the City Council
Chambers at 5:00 p.m. with Mayor David Kelm
in the chair and Council members Cathy Cummings, Jeff Kolb, Diane Renning, Travis Sterken, and Val Swinton present.
Mayor Kelm opened the Public Hearing on
the proposed 2015-2016 City Budget Estimate.
The Budget Estimate was considered and
taxpayers for and against said estimate were
heard. There being no written or oral, for or
against the proposed City Budget Estimate, the
Mayor declared the hearing closed.
Motion Renning, Kolb, to adopt Resolution
15-567: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE, IOWA,
ADOPTING THE ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2016.
BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the
City of Clarksville, Iowa: The annual budget
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016 as set
forth in the Budget Summary and in the detailed
budget in support thereof showing the revenue
estimates and appropriation expenditures and
allocations to programs and activities for said
fiscal year are adopted, and the clerk is directed
to make the filings required by law and to set up
his books in accordance with the summary and
details as adopted.
RCV – Ayes: Cummings, Kolb, Renning,
Sterken, Swinton. Nays: None. MC.
Resolution declared adopted, signed by the
Mayor and hereby made a portion of these minutes.
City received sealed bids as advertised for
the City’s Street Sweeper.
Motion Sterken, Swinton, to award bid for the
City Street Sweeper to Scheel Lawn Care of
Fairbank, IA for $1,000.00.
RCV – Ayes: Cummings, Kolb, Renning,
Sterken, Swinton. Nays: None. MC.
Mayor Kelm opened the special meeting for
the purpose of a Strategic Planning Session
with Patrick Callahan, Municipal Consultants.
Patrick went over several issues as: Major Accomplishments - that have been completed in
Clarksville in recent months; Issues and Concerns – to identify programs, initiatives and
projects that will help to resolve or address
these issues and concerns; Capital Projects
and Equipment Purchases – to prioritize future
purchases; Significant Initiatives or Programs
– prioritize potential programs Elected Officials
and Department Heads can attends; Teamwork
Suggestions – things that could be done to enhance communications and teamwork; Final
Comments – Clarksville accomplishments.
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COURTHOUSE
Butler County Courthouse News
CIVIL
The Clerk of Court’s Office filed
one child support order.
SMALL CLAIMS
People’s Savings Bank, Wellsburg,
v. Damion R. Homeister, Aplington.
Judgment for plaintiff for $5,000
with 2.12 percent interest from Oct.
21 plus $85 costs.
Parkersburg Tire & Alignment,
Parkersburg v. Steven Patrick Dean,
Wellsburg. Judgment for plaintiff for
$414.39 with 2.12 percent interest
from Nov. 17 plus $85 costs.
Midland Funding LLC v. Teresa
Irene Rider, Parkersburg. Judgment
for plaintiff for $583.66 plus 2.12
percent interest from Feb. 17 plus
$85 costs.
LVNV Funding, LLC, Golden
Valley, Minn., v. Dustin Brown,
Aredale. Judgment for plaintiff for
$572.88 with 2.12 percent interest
from Feb. 19 plus $85 costs.
LVNV Funding LLC, Golden Valley, Minn v. Patricia Metz, Dumont.
Judgment for plaintiff for $736.58
with 2.12 percent interest from Feb
19 plus $85 costs.
Capital One Bank, Cedar Rapids
v. Bryan Garbes, Shell Rock. Judgment for plaintiff for $1,343.01 with
2.12 percent interest from Feb. 25
plus $85 costs.
Greene Lumber Co. Inc, Greene v.
Gary A. Carlson, Greene. Judgment
for plaintiff for $251.33 with 2.12
percent interest plus $95 costs (certified mail charge).
DISTRICT COURT
Genny Sue Jacobsen, 38, was found
guilty of fourth-degree criminal mischief on Jan. 28 and received a deferred
judgment and one year self-probation.
She was ordered to pay $485.94 restitution, local officials said, which was not
previously reported.
MAGISTRATE COURT
This is posted as follow-up to a
story in the April 2 Tribune-Journal:
Becky Schrage of Allison filed a
written plea of not guilty on March
30 and demanded a jury trial in a
simple misdemeanor charge of harboring a pit bull, a dog breed banned
within city limits.
TRAFFIC
Fees listed, in order, are fines, surcharges and costs.
Driving while license suspended
— Eric Santos Oritz, Lincoln, $250,
$87.50, $60
Failure to maintain safety belts —
Michael Hanson, Clarksville, $50,
$17.50, $60
Failure to provide proof of financial liability — Cody Heath, Clarksville, $375, $131.25, $60
Open container, passenger 21 or
older — Keanu George, Bristow,
$200, $75, $60
Possession/purchase of alcohol
by person 18, 19 or 20, first offense
— Alex Norman Kleinschmidt,
Nashua, $200, $75, $60
Speeding —
25 mph zone, 1-5 over — Jason
Robert Swanson, Waterloo, $20, $7,
$60
55 mph or under zone, 1-5 over,
each $20, $7, $60 — Ronald Lee
Rand, Hampton; Marilyn M. Norton, Clarksville;
55 mph or under zone, 6-10 over,
each $40, $14, $60 — Patricia Irene
Schmoldt, Cedar Falls; Elaine Coblentz, Greene; Rodney D. Ball, Cedar Falls; Carl Lynn Graham, Ackley; Adrian Gonzalez, Joliet, Ill.
55 mph or under zone, 20 or over
— Jamie Marie Frey, Greene, $120,
$47, $60
Violation – financial liability coverage — Jamie Lee Mummelthie,
West Union, $375, $131.25, $60
Butler County District Court
The following cases appeared before District Court Judge Chris Foy
in Butler County District Court in
Allison, IA January 27, 2015:
Kyle D. O’Connor, 30, of Sheffield, IA pled guilty to Criminal
Mischief 4th Degree and was sentenced to serve 365 days in the Butler County Jail with said sentence
suspended and credit given for all
time previously served and was ordered to one year of probation with
the Department of Correctional Services. Mr. O’Connor was ordered to
pay a fine in the amount of $315.00
plus a 35% surcharge including all
applicable charges. Charges initially
filed in June 2014 by Butler County
Sheriff Jason Johnson. County Attorney Greg Lievens appeared for
the State. Brett Schilling represented
the Defendant.
Kyle D. O’Connor, 30, of Sheffield, IA pled guilty to Possession of
a Controlled Substance with Intent to
Deliver-Methamphetamine and was
sentenced to prison for an indeterminate term, not to exceed 10 years
with said sentence suspended and
credit given for all time previously
served and was ordered to three
years of probation with the Department of Correctional Services. Mr.
O’Connor shall abstain from unauthorized use of controlled substances
with driving privileges revoked for
180 days and shall pay a fine in the
amount of $1,000.00 plus a 35%
surcharge including all applicable
charges with said fine and surcharge
suspended. Charges initially filed in
June 2014 by Tim Joebgen, a Peace
Officer with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. County Attorney Greg
Lievens appeared for the State. Brett
Schilling represented the Defendant.
The following cases appeared before Associate District Court Judge
Peter B. Newell in Butler County
District Court in Allison, IA January
28, 2015:
Mischelli L. Ford-Nelson, 31, of
Cedar Falls, IA pled guilty to Driving While Barred and was sentenced
to 4 days in the Butler County Jail
with credit given for all time previously served. Charges initially filed
in June 2014 by Bruce Tierney, a
Peace Officer with the Parkersburg
Police Department. County Attorney
Greg Lievens appeared for the State.
Beth Biwer represented the Defen-
Proceedings
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MINUTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF A
REGULAR MEETING OF THE BUTLER
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELD
ON MARCH 24, 2015.
Meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Chairman Tom Heidenwirth with members Rex Ackerman and Rusty Eddy present. Also present
were Engineer John Riherd, IT Director Sara
Trepp, Sheriff Jason Johnson, Treasurer Vicki
Schoneman, Public Health Director Jennifer
Becker, Recorder Janice Jacobs, Deputy Auditor Mary Brouwer, Rick Swarts, New Hartford, Iowa, Fern Myers, Allison, Iowa and Mira
Schmitt-Cash, Mid-America Publishing.
Minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved as read.
Butler County Years of Service Awards were
presented by Chairman Tom Heidenwirth.
15 Years – Mary Brouwer
20 Years - Jennifer Becker, Calvin Steere
25 Years – Michele Shultz
30 Years – Janice Jacobs, Sara Trepp, Rick
Swarts
40 Years – Vicki Schoneman
Staff meeting was held.
Board approved claims as submitted.
Board acknowledged receipt of Manure Management Plan Annual Updates for Asche East
Finisher Farm; Frances Finisher Farm; Barnett
Finisher Farm; Fink Finisher Farm; Noelck East
Finisher Farm; Noelck West Finisher Farm;
JAART LLC #2; Leon Finisher and Dralle.
Chairman Heidenwirth adjourned the meeting at 10:45 A.M. to Tuesday, March 31, 2015
at 9:00 A.M.
The above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the minutes and proceedings of a regular adjourned meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Butler County, Iowa on March 24, 2015.
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Genny S. Jacobsen, 38, of Charles
City, IA received a deferred judgment for Criminal Mischief in the
Fourth Degree and was placed on self
probation for one year. Ms. Jacobsen
shall pay restitution to the victim
in the amount of $485.94 and shall
pay restitution for court-appointed
attorney fees and court costs. Ms.
Jacobsen is required to personally
appear at a review hearing in July
unless the civil penalty, surcharge,
court costs, attorney’s fees and restitution have been paid in full prior
to review. Charges initially filed in
July 2014 by Dan Cummings, Chief
of Police with the Clarksville Police
Department. County Attorney Greg
Lievens appeared for the State. Beth
Biwer represented the Defendant.
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A firefighter enters a grove fire scene at 27335 Highway 3 on Wednesday, April 1. Allison, Clarksville and
Dumont Fire were among responders at the scene. (Star/TJ photo by Mira Schmitt-Cash)
Nearby buildings spared in
wildland fire on April 1
Allison, Clarksville and Dumont
Fire responded to a wildland fire at
27335 Highway 3 shortly before 2
p.m. on April 1.
A burn pile at 27335 Highway 3
was lit the previous day, March 31.
The residents said they thought it
was extinguished, Fire Chief Jon
Myers said.
Myers said the wind must have
caught some remaining embers and
rekindled flames. Fire damaged
two trees on the east side of the
grove, and singed nearby wagons
and odds and ends.
Some CRP grass was saved from
the flames. Nearby farm buildings
were also spared.
Nearly 4,000 gallons of water
was used to fight the blaze, Myers
said. Because of all the items, this
fire took quite a bit of water to extinguish, he said.
Allison Fire assisted at that call.
The not-entirely-extinguished burn
pile was the story for all three fires
Allison responded to that day, Allison Fire Chief Brad Cooper said.
Countywide, there were five grass
fire calls that day and there had
been six on March 28. The spate of
Area firefighters extinguish a resident’s belongings after grass
fire in a grove at 27335 Highway 3 on Wednesday, April 1. Allison, Clarksville and Dumont Fire were among responders at the
scene. (Star/TJ photo by Mira Schmitt-Cash)
fires in recent days led the county
fire chiefs to vote for a burn ban,
which has since been lifted.
Clarksville and Shell Rock Fire
handled what was the second call
Clarksville took that day at 16193
Quarry Ave. The residents said they
did not know how it started, Myers
said.
Mitch Nordmeyer, Emergency
Mangagement director, said a fire
almost jumped the Shell Rock
River northwest of Clarksville on
Wednesday.
The third fire call Clarksville assisted with was in the Greene and
Allison fire district area. The residents did not know how the fire
started, Myers said.
Butler County Sheriff’s Report
Monday, March 30:
• Officers executed a traffic stop,
assisted with a medical call, and
received reports of nine controlled
burns.
• 9 a.m.: Officers assisted fire personnel with a grass/field fire near the
intersection of 190th St. and Highway 14.
• 12:14 p.m.: Officers were called
to a dog/deer/livestock matter in the
23900 block of 150th St.
• 2:34 p.m.: Officers were called to
a family domestic matter in the 00
block of High School Blvd.
• 3:37 p.m.: Officers assisted fire
personnel in the 300 block of E. Arlington St.
to an alarm in the 11200 block of
Highway 3.
Tuesday, March 31:
• Officers executed a traffic stop
and received reports of 29 controlled
burns.
• 11:13 a.m.: Officers assisted fire
personnel near the intersection of
160th St. and Marsh Ave. Deemed
unfounded.
• 11:26 a.m.: Officers were called
200 block of S. Main St.
• 12:49 p.m.: Officers received a
vandalism report in the 17800 block
of Highway 14.
personnel with a grass/field fire
south of Aplington on County Road
T-19.
personnel with a grass/field fire in
the 3000 block of Olive Ave.
the 22500 block of Jackson Ave.
vandalism report in the 400 block of
S. Fremont St., Clarksville.
• 8:51 p.m.: Officers received a report of a suspicious vehicle near the
intersection of 180th St. and Superior Road.
report of a suspicious vehicle in the
11100 block of Grand Ave.
Wednesday, April 1:
• Officers executed three traffic
stops, assisted with three medical
calls, and received reports of two
controlled burns.
• 7:40 a.m.: Officers were called to
a property damage accident near the
intersection of 235th St. and Union
Ave.
21700 block of Highway 3.
the 16600 block of 225th St.
• 1:24 p.m.: Officers took a report
of a possible fraud in the 31700
block of Beaver Valley St.
personnel with a grass/field fire near
the intersection of Highways 188
and 3.
1000 block of Railroad St.
Franklin County.
the 16100 block of Quarry Ave.
the intersection of 160th St. and
Marsh Ave.
personnel with a structure fire in the
REMEMBER
100 block of N. 2nd St.
Clay Ave.
100 block of N. 2nd St.
Thursday, April 2:
• Officers executed three traffic
stops and assisted with two medical
calls.
• 12:08 a.m.: Officers attempted
to serve a search warrant in the 100
block of N. 2nd St. Unable to locate.
• 9:46 p.m.: Officers received a report of a stolen camera in the 28500
block of Newell Ave., Parkersburg.
Friday, April 3:
• Officers executed two traffic
stops, assisted with two medical
calls, and assisted a motorist.
• 11:31 a.m.: Officers received a
theft report in the 22200 block of
Wrangler Road, Shell Rock.
the intersection of 310th St. and Liberty Ave., Parkersburg.
• 3:09 p.m.: Officers were called to
a dog/deer/livestock matter near the
intersection of 255th St. and Highway 14.
Grand Ave., Greene.
report of a suspicious vehicle in the
20100 block of Evergreen Ave.
to a property damage accident near
the intersection of Butler Ave. and
Highway 188.
Saturday, April 4:
stops and assisted with five medical
calls.
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Clarksville, 101 N Main St. 319-278-4641 • Butler County Tribune-Journal, 422 N Main St. 319-267-2731
the intersection of Highways 3 and
14, Allison.
• 9:51 a.m.: Officers were called to
an alarm in the 900 block of Parriott
St., Aplington.
• 10:31 a.m.: Officers received a
burglary report in the 200 block of
N. Johnson St., Parkersburg.
• 10:38 a.m.: Officers assisted fire
18300 block of Highway 57, Aplington.
to a dog/deer/livestock matter near
the intersection of Highways 3 and
14.
the intersection of 250th St. and Butler Ave., Shell Rock.
• 9:45 p.m.: Officers took a burglary report in the 200 block of S.
4th St.
report of suspicious activity near the
intersection of Colfax St. and Miners St.
Sunday, April 5:
stops.
• 4 p.m.: Officers received a harassment report in the 300 block of
Main St.
personnel near the intersection of
245th St. and Hickory Ave.
Monday, April 6:
stops prior to 9 a.m.
• 1:45 a.m.: Officers performed a
business door check I the 100 block
of N. 2nd St.
• 5:48 a.m.: Officers arrested Ruben Castro and charged with driving
while suspended following a traffic
stop near the intersection of Highway 3 and S. Main St. He was held
for court.
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66. Musical notations
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15. 12th calendar month
17. Greek capital
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21. Philadelphia sandwich
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27. Domesticates
29. Murdered in his bathtub
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35. Double
36. Of one
39. Allow
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43. Dining hall furniture
44. Partition between 2
cavities
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49. Sacred fig tree (alt. sp.)
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person
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TAKING ORDERS for graduation
cakes and cupcakes. Nancy Donavon, 319-278-4754
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BOB’S BARBERSHOP in Dumont will be closed for vacation
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THANK YOU to everyone who
has supported our family since
Kent’s diagnosis in September.
The prayers, encouraging words,
donations of food, trips to appointments and financial assistance
were appreciated. We are grateful for Pastor Jack and Pastor
Boogerd’s prayers and comforting presence. We are grateful to
the community for their support of
the benefit held in Kent’s honor.
We are grateful to the Ackley Ambulance. We are grateful to the
Ackley Fire Department for their
un-wavering support over the last
six months, as well as the moving
tribute coordinated for his funeral.
We are grateful for the funeral
Pastor Jack provided, as well as
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Dental Receptionist
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SPORTS
11
Sommerfelt wins long jump, 400H
NASHUA – Zach Sommerfelt is
already making a mark in the early
outdoor season.
The Clarksville senior went to the
West Fork Early Bird track and field
meet held at Nashua-Plainfield and
won a pair of events on Tuesday,
March 31.
Sommerfelt out-jumped the competition in both the long jump and
the 400 hurdles to take home a pair
of titles in the non-scoring meet.
He leapt 18 feet, 10.5 inches for
his first outdoor effort and finished
the hurdles event in 1 minute, 00.68
seconds to highlight the Indians’ finishes.
Sommerfelt also took second in a
heated race to the finish against West
Fork’s middle distance specialist
Drew Engebretson in the 400-meter
run (53.08 to 54.63).
Hannah Faust nearly completed the
long jump girl-boy sweep at Nashua,
but was runner-up to NorthwoodKensett’s Shelby Low, posting an
effort of 14-10 in the event.
Both James Schellhorn and Faust
also posted third-place finishes at
the meet, the first of the outdoor season on an unseasonably nice day at
Nashua. Schellhorn raced to 5:13.83
in the 1,600 while Faust sprinted to a
time of 29.22 in the 200.
Clarksville’s track teams went to
Denver on Tuesday, April 7 and the
girls’ squad travels to Oelwein on
Thursday, April 9.
West Fork Early Bird
March 31, 2015
Boys Results
(Winner, Clarksville finishes)
High jump – 1. Peyton Twedt (WF) 6-6.
Discus – 1. Tom Yezek (N-K) 162-3.
Shot put – 1. Monty Dye (WF) 41-4.25;
2. Evan Sprung 41-0.25.
Long jump – 1. Zach Sommerfelt
(Clarksville) 18-10.5; 8. Dylan Jacobs
(Clarksville) 16-11.
4x800 – 1. Osage 8:45.27.
3,200 – 1. Peyton Twedt (WF)
10:23.03.
Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. NorthwoodKensett 1:04.26.
100 – 1. Zade McCall (N-P) 11:59.
400 – 1. Drew Engebretson (WF)
53.08; 2. Zach Sommerfelt (Clarksville)
54.63.
4x200 – 1. Northwood-Kensett
1:38.07.
110 hurdles – 1. Sully Reyerson (N-K)
16.90.
1,600 – 1. Jacob Hansen (WF)
4:53.88; 3. James Schellhorn (Clarksville) 5:13.83.
200 – 1. Josh Einertson (N-K) 23.58.
400 hurdles – 1. Zach Sommerfelt
(Clarksville) 1:00.68.
Sprint medley relay – 1. Osage
3:56.38; 7. Clarksville 4:43.75.
800 – 1. Drew Engebretson (WF)
2:03.94; 7. James Schellhorn (Clarksville) 2:20.15.
4x100 – 1. Osage 46.94.
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Clarksville’s Zach Sommerfelt reacts as he lands one of his long
jump attempts at the West Fork Early Bird meet at Nashua on Clarksville’s Jadyn Maiers leads off the distance medley relay at
Tuesday, March 31. Sommerfelt won the event with his best effort the West Fork Early Bird meet held at Nashua on Tuesday, March
of 18 feet, 10.5 inches. (Kristi Nixon photo)
31. (Kristi Nixon photo)
4x400 – 1. Northwood-Kensett 3:39.96;
7. Clarksville 4:16.79.
Girls Results
(Winner, West Fork finishes)
Shot put – 1. Shelby Low (N-K) 32-2.2;
8. Rachel Sundet (Clarksville) 27-3.75.
Long jump – 1. Shelby Low (N-K) 15-0;
2. Hannah Faust (Clarksville) 14-10.
High jump – 1. Courtney Larson (WF)
5-0.
Discus – 1. Dusti Bratrud (N-K) 88-7.
3,000 – 1. Talia Rowe (WF) 11:53.78.
4x800 – 1. Osage 10:46.46.
Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. NorthwoodKensett 1:20.80.
100 – 1. Jamie Jacobs (Osage) 13.37;
5. Rachel Sundet (Clarksville) 14.46.
Distance medley relay – 1. West Fork
(Madison Shreckengost, Hailey Clausen, Sydney Shreckengost, Maddison
Shupe) 4:32.12; 8. Clarksville 5:28.11.
400 – 1. Hattie Davidson (N-K)
1:03.52.
100 hurdles – 1. Lindsey Hemann
(Osage) 17.53.
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200 – 1. Breanna Jacobs (Osage)
25.83; 3. Hannah Faust (Clarksville)
29.22.
400 hurdles – 1. Emily Jorgenson
(Osage) 1:18.90.
Sprint medley relay – 1. Osage 1:57.46;
6. Clarksville 2:11.63.
1,500 – 1. Ellie Friesen (Osage)
4:55.40.
4x100 – 1. Osage 54.60.
4x400 – 1. Osage 4:21.22; 7. Clarksville 5:20.20.
Bowling Scores
By Vicky Malfero
Freeze Frame Bowl – Greene, Iowa
League Bowling Stats
Wednesday Night Mixed Hot Shot
League
Date Bowled: Wednesday, 04/01/15
Week 29 of 30
Wyffel’s Hybrids
35-21
Sonya’s Salon
33.5-22.5
Allison Hardware
29-27
A&M Electric
26.5-29.5
UBTC
24-32
Dralle’sDept. Store
20-36
High Game/Series
Clark Freesemann 202/545, Dick Reser 545, Gordy Smith 206/543, Dave
Iverson 536, Kevin Schafer 531, Isaac
Almelien 530, Mike Salge 528, John
Martin 515, Melinda Ritter 202/506,
Marvin Enabnit 506.
Thursday Night Pin Busters League
Date Bowled: Wednesday, 4/2/15
Week 24 of 24
Coopers
33-15
Curly’s
27-21
Feldmeier’s
25-23
Pioneer
24-24
Freeze Frame
21-27
Emerald Door
14-34
High Game/Series
Clark Freesemann 567, Mike Salge
244/559, Cory Miller 221/558, Curt
Henrichs 544, Dick Lursen 539, Jim
Blockhus 519, John Heeren 507, Jason
Eberline 503.
Congratulations Coopers for winning
second half of the season. Roll off between first and second half winners will
be on Wednesday, April 15.
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The Clover
Connection
Butler
County
Bulletin Rabbit Workshop held
Nancy Jensen
Butler County Program Coordinator
[email protected]
An Awesome Group of 4-H’ers
Earlier this year I was asked by the
State 4-H Office if I’d be willing to
evaluate state recognition applications by reading and scoring written applications and then participating in interviews. Well, of course
I jumped at the chance! I’ve done
Project Awards in the past and have
enjoyed meeting all the 4-H’ers and
talking to them about their passion,
but this year they asked me to do applications for State 4-H Council.
Once I received my nine applications to read and score, back in early
February, I knew I was in trouble!
What an awesome group of kids I
was privileged to get to know and
talk to!
At the beginning of the interview
day, March 28th, I learned there
were over 70 applications for the 40
openings on State Council. Yikes!
That meant almost half of the kids
would not be selected and what a
daunting task to eliminate even one
candidate!
For some, this was the first time
going through the whole process.
A member can decide to apply for
State Council without notifying his/
her CYC and I’m sure some had no
one at all proofread the completed
application.
Each applicant had to answer five
to seven questions about past 4-H
experiences, goals, citizenship and
leadership skills and why he/she
wanted to be on council. Then each
person could add up to two pages of
support material. The support material could be pictures, letters of recommendation or a personal resume.
This helped each interviewer get to
know the applicant a little better and
also gave us a basis for the face-toface questions we wanted to ask.
Each applicant had a ten minute interview, either face-to-face with the
interview team or through a video.
This was by far the best part for me;
did they shake our hands and introduce themselves, ask if they could
have a seat or just come in and sit
down. You can tell a lot from that
first impression. My team was much
more impressed by the teens that
shook our hands and introduced
themselves!
Talking to some of the most outstanding senior 4-Hers in the state
was so much fun! Yes, we had a
job to do, and yes, we had to score
them, but most of all, we just wanted
to talk to them about 4-H and how
they had grown through their years
of participation.
I not only helped select this year’s
State 4-H Council, but I will now be
able to help any Butler County 4-Her
who would like to take advantage of
this experiences in the future. That’s
a WIN-WIN in my book!
Kudos to anyone who applied for
a state recognition award this year;
however, there were no Butler County applicants anywhere on the list!
Let’s see what we can do to change
that next year! If you’re interested
in this opportunity, let Holly or me
know and we will do all we can to
help you along the way, but you
must start now to build your resume
for next year.
Butler County has some awesome
4-Hers very deserving of state recognition so let’s make it happen next
year!
Twenty-five 4-H’ers, along with their parents, attended the Rabbit
Workshop on Saturday, March 29 at the Bremer County fairgrounds. All
members attended sessions on rabbit nutrition, care of rabbits, showmanship, what to take to fair and were able to make a rabbit carrier. Sessions were led by Zach Sauer, Bobbi and Randy Coates, Tracy and Karter
Faust, and Eric Mixdorf. A big thank you to Kathy Meyer for organizing
our workshop!
Farm Bureau gives to county food banks
Dennis White, representing Butler County Farm Bureau, donates
$250 to Marj Krull, Clarksville Food Bank, on March 26. County
Farm Bureau donated the same amount to each of the eight county food banks, those being Shell Rock, Allison, Greene, Dumont,
Parkersburg, Aplington and New Hartford. (Star/TJ photo)
‘Angel Decoding’
book talk slated
The book “Angel Decoding” will
be the focus of a talk by Maria Gurney Peth.
The talk will be at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, at the Greene Public
Library.
“’Angel Decoding’ offers guidance for your life and inspiration
for your soul,” states a book jacket
review by Sonia Choquette, a fellow
author. “Whether you are searching
for a deeper meaning in life, or have
an interest in angels, you will find it
easy to open your heart and spirit to
the lessons in this book.”
The book came out in paperback in
May 2013, according to Amazon.
Peth is an angel decoding therapist
and soul coach based in Waverly.
Visit www.MariaPeth.com for more.
Butler County State Bank Antiques Aquaculture publications
5th Anniversary Open House a resource for farmers
raising and caring for fish
Saturday, April 11, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00p.m.
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Wine Tasting by
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stay current on the areas of fish health,
feeding practices, water quality and water treatment by referring to the standard
operating procedures for aquaculture
outlined in new Iowa State University
Extension and Outreach publications.
The publications are available as free
downloads from the ISU Extension
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“Interest in indoor recirculating aquaculture in the north central part of the
United States has greatly increased in
the past several years,” said D. Allen
Pattillo, extension fisheries specialist.
Recirculating aquaculture is when the
fish tank water is filtered by mechanical and biological processes to create
a highly efficient, bio-secure and environmentally friendly method of livestock production.
A USDA report on the aquaculture
industry released last year showed
that the number of fish farms in Iowa
jumped from 21 in 2005 to 31 in 2013.
“Since fish farm numbers have increased in the past few years, it was
time to get fisheries knowledge in the
producer’s hands,” said Pattillo.
“Aquaculture in the Midwest has
grown and matured in recent years,”
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and the director of the North Central
Regional Aquaculture Center at Iowa
State. “At the same time, people are
eating more fish, and there’s a growing
acceptance of fish as a source of healthy
protein.”
The North Central Regional Aquaculture Center advances emerging
trends in the aquaculture industry and
identifies research questions that will
help the industry progress. The center
gathers input from aquaculture producers in 12 Midwestern states and directs
federal funds to research and extension
projects. The ISU Extension and Outreach Value-Added Agriculture Program and the Agricultural Marketing
Resource Center have closely worked
with NCRAC and provide ongoing
coordination and assistance for Iowa’s
developing aquaculture industry.
The aquaculture publication series
was developed to help educate new and
beginning farmers on critical aspects
of recirculating aquaculture and to get
a jump-start on business planning and
management through fact sheets, standard operating procedures and records
management templates.
Funding for this series was provided
by a USDA Rural Business Enterprise
grant, and with support from the North
Central Regional Aquaculture Center
and Iowa State University Extension
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4H/FFA Market
Lamb/Meat
Goat Weigh-In
set for April 25
Attention all 4-H/FFA members
wanting to exhibit sheep and/or meat
goats at the 2015 Butler County Fair
or the Iowa State Fair! Market lambs
and meat goats must be tagged and
weighed on Saturday, April 25 from
9 - 11 a.m. at the Butler County fairgrounds in Allison. If you haven’t
informed the Butler County Extension Office of your intent to come to
the weigh-in, please give the office a
call by April 20 with the number of
lambs you will be bringing.
All sheep going to the 2015 Iowa
State Fair 4-H Show, whether market, purebred or commercial, must
be weighed, tagged and have retinal
imaging done at $8.00 a head.
The 2015 4H/FFA Sheep/Meat
Goat Show will be held on Thursday, June 25, beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Make plans now to attend!
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Public Safety
program
JOHNSTON – Coy Wiegmann,
from Parkersburg, is among nine
students from the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s 39th Basic Academy who will graduate
on Friday.
Once sworn-in, these recruits
will serve the state as troopers
with the Iowa State Patrol.
Coy will be assigned to District 8, and will reside in Floyd
County. Coy attended Wartburg
College, earning a bachelor’s in
psychology and sociology and
played tennis.
The recruits will be sworn in
as peace officers for Iowa during
the commencement ceremony at
10 a.m., Friday, April 10 at the
Iowa Army National Guard Freedom Center at Camp Dodge.
City Council
reminder
for Lynwood
Cemetery
The Clarksville city council would
like to remind everyone about the
guidelines for having flowers, stands,
and vases at Lynwood Cemetery. All
items that are not on the foundations at
the Lynwood Cemetery must be moved
by April 15, so the maintenance crew
can begin preparations for Memorial
Day.
Please contact Matt Kampman of the
Maintenance Department if you have
questions and for guidance as to how to
have flowers and stands at a gravesite
this summer. Flowers, stands, and vases
can be put on foundations any time of
the year.
They would like to thank you for
your assistance in helping keep Lynwood Cemetery a beautiful cemetery.
COMMUNITY NEWS
The Way It Was
by Dave Clark
50 Years Ago
Spring/Winter 1965
The State Conservation Commission
(now DNR) recently announced that
Fred Daugs of Robbinsdale, MN had
recently broken the Iowa state record in
the rainbow trout division in the Iowa
Official Big Fish Records.
More startling was the fact that Daugs
topped the mark twice within a period
of three days.
On December 22, he caught a sevenpound rainbow to top the old mark of
six-pounds, four ounces. The fish was
caught in Bloody Run Creek in Clayton
County, near Marquette. Two days later
Daugs caught a nine-pound, six ounce
rainbow in French Creek in Allamakee
County. Apparently Mr. Daugs had
some inside information on where a
couple of “retired” brood-trout would
be stocked.
The Big Marsh Conference announced their basketball all-conference
selections this week. Both boys and
girls teams are voted on by the coaches.
CHS placed Susan Wedeking and Judy
Severs on the first team and Marjorie
Harris on the second team.
For the boys John Wedeking was voted to the first team and Galen Hoodjer
on the second team.
Susan and John Wedeking have been
nominated by the Clarksville Community School athletic department for
consideration in a “Future Olympian”
program. Also named in the program
was Gary Freerks, a 1964 graduate of
the Clarksville school.
The nationwide program is under
the sponsorship of the United States
Olympic Committee and is designed
to strengthen this nation’s participation
in Olympic games in the future. School
athletes nominated will receive questionnaires to be returned for consideration for honors to be awarded by the
sponsor. I’m afraid you will have to talk
to Susan or Gary to discover the outcome of their participation.
Ron Hartema of Clarksville is among
the athletes at State College of Iowa to
receive an award. Ron, a junior, was
awarded a varsity letter in football.
(SCI at Cedar Falls had been known as
ISTC and now, of course we know it as
UNI.)
Joseph Dobbins of Hastings, Iowa
has been elected superintendent of the
Clarksville for the 1955-66 school year.
He will succeed Vern Troupe who has
announced his retirement at the end of
this school year, after 41 years of teaching and administration in Iowa schools.
Mr. Troupe was superintendent in
Clarksville twice, 1942-1952-53 and
again from 1956 to the end of the 1965
school year. He was superintendent for
my four years of high school.
Last year a total of $14,642 were paid
in the state for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. There were 4,567 various
licenses sold with one-third of these
for the combination fishing and hunting permits. Seventy-eight trout stamps
were issued for a total of $156.00
and 130 trapping licenses brought in
$314.00. I was unable to find the sales
of licenses for 2014 but number would
far beyond the numbers in 1965.
The most severe storm in several
years struck this area last week. A raging blizzard that lasted two days started
as freezing rain on March 16th. With
zero visibility all state and county snow
plows were called off and many cars
were stranded with occupants trying to
find shelter in farm homes.
A week later roads were still snow
packed and there was considerable concern about flooding when all the snow
starts to melt.
In a later issue of the STAR there were
many reports of the extensive flooding
that occurred in Northern Iowa, due
to the melting snow. Several homes in
this area were flooded and roads were
washed out. Little did they know, at
the time, that some 43 years later this
flooding would be a minor thing compared to what happened in 2008!
Escapes Serious Injury; Gerald
Clarksville Public Library Notes
Kristen Clark, Library Director
Phone & fax 278-1168 • [email protected]
Visit us on-line! www.clarksville.lib.ia.us
Hours: Mon., Wed. 10-6; Tues., Thurs. 10-5; Fri. 10-4; Sat. 10-2
Happy Easter! The kids at last Wednesday’s Story Time were excited with all the goodies that they found inside their eggs!
BOOK CLUB
Reminder…the Book Club will
meet on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30
p.m. to discuss the book “The Kitchen House” by Kathleen Grissom.
Hope you can join us!
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
We had an egg-cellent time at last
Wednesday’s (April 1) Circle of
Friends Story Time. Fourteen kids
hopped into the library for a morning all about Easter, eggs, and bunnies. Miss Kris shared several Easter
books, flannel board rhymes, and the
kids munched on tasty (and chocolaty) egg cookies. The kids did a
great job sitting for the stories, but
the anticipation was getting to be too
much, so it was finally time to hunt
some eggs.
The kids each received a goodie
bag for their treats, we marched up
the stairs, and then they were off
to hunt eggs all around the library.
After everyone found their eggs (all
but one was found), we emptied the
treats into their bags to take home.
And, if you’re wondering about
that lost egg…it was discovered the
next day by a lucky little boy who
was very excited with his find.
NEW FICTION
SPRING into the library to check
out these great new fiction titles!
“Crash & Burn” by Lisa Gardner—
A New Hampshire cop tries to piece
together a mysterious woman’s life
following a car accident and discovers nothing is as it seems.
“Prodigal Son” by Danielle
Steel—Twin boys grow up in the
same family, dramatically different,
until they become bitter enemies.
One good, one bad. One leaves his
peaceful hometown, but when all
else fails, the prodigal son returns,
twenty years later. The reunion of
brothers, sweet and healing at first,
exposes shattering revelations of
good and evil.
“Breaking Creed” by Alex Kava—
Ryder Creed and his dogs have been
making national headlines. They’ve
intercepted several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta’s
airport. But their newfound celebrity
has also garnered some unwanted attention (first in a new series).
“Cane and Abe” by James Grippando—A spellbinding novel of suspense, in which Miami’s top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in
his wife’s disappearance, which may
have a chilling connection to the
woman he can’t forget.
“First Frost” by Sarah Addison
Allen—Take a journey to the small
town of Bascom, N.C., where the
Waverley women are known for
their unusual gifts. And when a
strange, elderly man comes to town
and threatens to disrupt the peaceful Waverley existence, the family
must pull together and rely on each
woman’s unique talents.
Also, look for the Hacker series by
Meredith Wild: books 1-4: “Hardwired,” “Hardpressed,” “Hardline,”
and “Hard Limit.”
Hobson, Clarksville High School student escaped a brush with death Tuesday afternoon when the car he was
driving was struck by a Rock Island
snow plow at the crossing on West Superior Street in town. The street was
snow packed [Hobson,] and being unable to stop, slid into the crossing. The
railroad plow, headed north, was traveling at a slow rate of speed struck the car
just back of the driver’s seat knocking
it across the passing tracks and onto the
right of way on the west side. The car
was badly damaged; Gerald was treated
for minor injuries in the office of Dr. E.
M. Mark.
This near tragedy on Superior Street
at the Rock Island crossing Tuesday
again focuses attention on the need of
adequate crossing signals at this point.
It is a dangerous crossing and the street
carries considerable traffic. Community action to provide protection is needed, Gomer Evans, editorial. Of course
the need was met, eventually, with the
installation of crossing signals.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Raisty like Glendale, California so well they drive all
the way out there every winter to spend
five months. They have been making
the yearly trek since 1925 and have
made 34 rounds trips since that time.
Mr. Raisty started his own threshing business in the Clarksville area in
1896 and for 55 years he operated a
19-horsepower steam engine thresher.
The machine, a familiar sight in Iowa
fields, was retired in honor recently
and is now on display. When combines
took over the job of threshing Iowa oats
and barley, Mr. Raisty also retired, in a
sense.
Quotable Quote:
“Half our life is spent trying to find
something to do with the time we have
rushed through life trying to save.” Will
Rogers
Pathways’ emphasizes the
importance of Iowa’s Social Host Law
Although the law was enacted on
July 1, 2014, there are still some
who are unaware of Iowa’s Social
Host Law.
A “Social Host violation” is defined as a person who is the owner,
is leasing, or has control over the
property that is not a licensed premise, who knowingly allows underage
persons to illegally consume or possess alcohol on the host’s property.
The law does not apply to landlords, property managers, or individuals who consume or possess alcohol in connection with a religious
observance, ceremony or right.
According to the State Law, a first
offense is a simple misdemeanor
and can result in a $200 fine, while a
second or subsequent offense, while
also a misdemeanor, can result in a
$500 fine. However, there is no preemption in Iowa’s Social Host Law;
this means that a county or city can
go beyond the State Law and enforce
stricter laws.
In addition to prohibiting the purchase, attempt to purchase, and possession of alcohol by an individual
under the age of 21, State Law now
prohibits alcohol consumption by
individuals under the age of 21. Exceptions apply for individuals who
consume alcohol in the presence of
a parent in a private home, as well as
use for medicinal purposes.
Vicki Mueller, the prevention department supervisor at Pathways
Use caution on
unprotected streets,
without stop or
yield signs.
Give right-of-way.
Behavioral Services, is requiring the
prevention team at Pathways to provide presentations and informational
brochures to community members
in Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler,
Buchanan, Chickasaw and Grundy
counties about the Social Host Law.
For more information regarding
Iowa’s Social Host Law, or to have
a Pathways representative speak in
your community, please contact the
Pathways main office, at 319-2356571.
You can also learn more about the
services that Pathways offers by visiting our website at http://pathwaysb.org/.
Immanuel UCC Confirmation
Immanuel United Church of Christ, Clarksville, celebrated Confirmation Sunday on March 29, 2015.
Members of the class included Hannah Freerks, Grace DeGroote, Darian Jacobs, Bailey Myers and
Dalton Rinnels. Also pictured is Rev. Linda Myren.
Community
Home Meals
Elm Springs
Assisted Living
to host blood
drive April 17
The American Red Cross encourages eligible blood donors to make a
difference in the lives of patients this
spring by giving blood. Elm Springs
Assisted Independent and Assisted
Living, 900 W. 7th St., Allison, will
be hosting a blood drive on Friday,
April 17, from 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Donated blood is perishable and
must be constantly replenished to
keep up with the demand. Red blood
cells, with a shelf life of only 42
days, are the most frequently transfused blood component, and are always needed by hospitals.
Eligible donors can give red cells
through either a regular whole blood
donation or a double red cell donation, where available. Double red
cell donations yield twice the usual
amount of red cells in a single appointment and are accepted at select
donation locations. Double red cell
donors must meet additional eligibility criteria, which will be determined
at the donation appointment.
Donors with all blood types are
needed, especially those with types
O negative, A negative and B negative. Whole blood can be donated
every 56 days, and double red cells
may be donated every 112 days, up
to three times per year.
To find a donation opportunity or
make an appointment to give blood,
download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or
call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767).
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Cayden Heath and Dawn Bruhn attend the Clarksville Open Door
Youth Center 12th Anniversary and Community Open House on
Saturday, March 28. (Contributed by Lynn Bolin)
Youth Center opens
doors to community
The Clarksville Open Door Youth
Center held its 12th Anniversary and
Community Open House on the morning of Saturday, March 28. Youth and
members of the Board of Directors
met with community members who
stopped by. Both long-time supporters and newcomers enjoyed coffee and
cookies while learning about the mission and vision of the Youth Center.
The mission of the Open Door Youth
Center is to provide a safe, positive,
Christian environment for area youth,
and to promote the building of relationships with family, friends, and community using the model of Jesus Christ.
Board President Lynn Bolin said,
“Thanks to everyone who attended.
We look forward to continuing to work
with the community to make a difference in the lives of youth in and around
Clarksville.”
For more information about the Open
Door Youth Center check out www.
clarksvilleyouthcenter.com or “like” on
Facebook.
Clarksville Preschool and
Kindergarten information needed
Clarksville Elementary School
is looking toward the Fall of 2015
and we need your help in identifying all prospective preschoolers and
kindergartners. Children who will
be 3 or 4 years of age by September 15, 2015, are eligible for the 3
or 4-year-old preschool program and
children who will be 5 years of age
by September 15, 2015 are eligible
for the kindergarten program. Please
call the elementary school office at
278-4560 or mail the following form
to the school by Friday, April 10. An
accurate projection of preschoolers
and kindergartners will be helpful in
meeting staff and facility needs for
next year.
Kindergarten Round-up will be
held on Friday, April 24. Parents will
receive additional information regarding Round-Up by mail after the
school receives your information.
Preschool parents will also receive
further information from the school
by mail. They look forward to hearing from you!
April 12- 18
Contact the office at Clarksville
Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation
Center, 278-4900, between the hours
of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday
through Friday if you are interested
in having Home Meals delivered to
you.
Sunday: Pork loin, au gratin potatoes, corn, dinner roll, cream pie;
Monday: Spaghetti bake, garlic
bread, squash, Jell-O cake;
Tuesday: Ranch chicken, minibaked potato, baked beans, chocolate cake;
Wednesday: Cheddar meatloaf,
macaroni & corn bake, Key Lime
dessert;
Thursday: Pork steak, baked potato/margarine, three bean salad,
rhubarb crunch;
Friday: Chicken lasagna, garlic
bread, peas, pineapple tidbits;
Saturday: Shepard’s pie, butter
beans, butterscotch pudding.
Clarksville citywide
spring garage sales
set for May 16
Clarksville’s annual spring citywide garage sales are set for May 16.
Sign-up begins on Wednesday, April
8 with deadline of May 1.
The Clarksville Commercial Club
is encouraging businesses to join in
the fun of the Spring Garage Sales
on Saturday, May 16. At a recent
Commercial Club meeting it was decided to add a sidewalk sale to the
event. This will give businesses an
opportunity to offer overstock items,
older inventory, store supplies, etc.
that they would like to clear out.
Anyone planning to have a garage
sale at his/her residence or a business
sidewalk sale as part of this event is
asked to sign-up at the Clarksville
Star office. The spring sales always
bring a large crowd of shoppers to
Clarksville. The $5.00 registration
fee helps to cover the cost to put
ads in nearly 20 newspapers around
Northeast Iowa.
Just a reminder that due to changes
at Goodwill Industries, there will
NOT be a truck in town as part of
the event.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Yard and Garden: Control crabgrass
By Greg Wallace
Organizational Advancement
and Richard Jauron
ISU Extension & Outreach
AMES - Spring has sprung, and
yards across the state are getting
greener by the day. That means people are thinking about yard care and
how to control crabgrass, a common
problem. Here are some tips from
Iowa State University Extension and
Outreach horticulturists on controlling crabgrass. To have additional
questions answered, contact the ISU
Hortline at 515-294-3108 or [email protected].
How do I control crabgrass in the
lawn?
Crabgrass is an annual, warmseason grass. Crabgrass seeds germinate over several weeks in spring.
NB Bearcat
Booster Club
can
drive
The North Butler Bearcat Booster
Club will hold its spring can drive on
Saturday morning, April 11. Please
have cans curbside by 8 a.m. If any rural residents would like to donate cans,
please contact either Cory Lubben,
319-269-3292, or John Heeren, 319231-1772, before April 11.
Rain date is April 18.
The North Butler Booster Club appreciates the public’s donations.
— Submitted by Teresa Feldman, NB
Booster Club secretary
However, plants don’t become highly visible in lawns until early summer. Crabgrass grows rapidly during warm summer weather. Growth
slows with the arrival of cooler temperatures in late summer. Plants are
destroyed with the first hard frost in
fall. However, before it dies, a single
crabgrass plant can produce thousands of seeds. The best way to prevent crabgrass infestations is to maintain a
thick, healthy lawn through proper
mowing, irrigation and fertilization. Crabgrass will have a difficult
time germinating and surviving in a
dense stand of turfgrass. Gardeners
who have had crabgrass problems in
recent years will need to apply a preemergence herbicide in spring.
When should I apply a preemergence herbicide to my lawn to control crabgrass?
The keys to successful control of
crabgrass in lawns are correct timing
of the preemergence herbicide application and proper application of the
material. A preemergence herbicide
must be applied before the crabgrass
seeds germinate. If the material is
applied too early, crabgrass seeds
that germinate late in the season
will not be controlled. If applied too
late, some crabgrass seeds will have
already germinated. Preemergence
herbicides usually should be applied
in early to mid-April in southern
Iowa, mid-April to May 1 in central
Iowa and late April to early May in
northern portions of the state. Weather often varies considerably
from year to year in Iowa. Accordingly, gardeners should make minor
adjustments in the timing of the preemergence herbicide application. If
the weather in March and April is
consistently warmer than normal,
apply the preemergence herbicide
early in the normal time period.
Apply the herbicide late in the recommended time period if Iowa is
experiencing a cool early spring. If
you’re still uncertain as to when to
apply the preemergence herbicide,
Mother Nature provides some helpful (colorful) clues. Preemergence
herbicides should be applied when
the forsythia blossoms start dropping or when redbud trees begin to
bloom. Crabgrass seed germination
typically begins after these events. To ensure the herbicide is applied
properly, carefully read and follow
directions on the package. Also,
Share Curiosity.
Read Together.
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Specializing in Siding & Windows • Free Estimates
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319-278-4641
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Hoodjer Excavating
319-278-4994
933 16th St., SW, Box 845
Waverly, IA • 352-3500
General Excavating - basements - sewer & water line
Trucking: Road Rock - Sand - Black Dirt - Fill
Concrete removal/replacement driveways - sidewalks
Cell 319-430-8193
Bob 278-4988
Milt 319-415-4243
Wix Water Works
Allison, Iowa
VA OFFICE HOURS:
Mon,Tue & Wed 7:30-4:00
Phone: (319) 267-9967
FAX: (319) 267-2532
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Commission of
Veteran Affairs
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319-346-9852
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319-278-4959
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• New Septic Systems & Septic Repair
• Basements & Footings
• Grubbing and Clearing
• Water/Sewer Lines
• Trucking - Rock, Dirt,
• Building Pads
Sand, Fill
• Site Prep
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make sure the spreader has been
correctly calibrated and is working
properly.
I would like to sow grass seed in
some bare spots in the lawn. Can I
successfully sow grass seed after the
application of a preemergence herbicide?
Preemergence herbicides, such as
benefin, bensulide and pendimethalin, prevent the germination of
crabgrass seeds in spring. Most preemergence herbicides also prevent
the germination of turfgrass seeds. If
sowing grass seed in spring, the only
preemergence herbicide that can be
used is siduron (Tupersan). Siduron
effectively controls crabgrass without affecting the germination of turfgrass seeds.
Is there a non-chemical way to
control crabgrass in lawns?
Corn gluten meal is an option for
gardeners who prefer a non-chemical alternative. A corn milling byproduct, corn gluten meal inhibits
the root growth of crabgrass seedlings. Unable to develop roots, the
crabgrass seedlings die. Corn gluten
meal is approximately 10 percent
nitrogen by weight, thus making it
a natural “weed and feed” product.
Products containing corn gluten
meal are available at garden centers
and other retailers. Relax away from home!
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Allison, IA 50602
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319-267-2731

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