Lavon Eblen continues her discussion with Judy Marnin of Anita about getting to know about gypsies.
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ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) – A car stolen in 1999 has turned up in a northwest Iowa pond. Sioux City television station KCAU says workers excavating the pond near Orange City found the car on Dec. 5. A member of the Sioux County dive team got into the icy water to hook a cable to the vehicle so it could be pulled out.
Jim Pottebaum, of the Orange City Police Department, says investigators aren’t sure how the car got into the pond but have learned that it was reported stolen at Dordt College in Sioux Center 14 years ago.
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No injuries were reported following an accident that occurred at around 3-p.m. Monday, here in Atlantic. The Police Department says vehicles driven by Dennis Toepfer, of Atlantic, and Steven Scheuring, of Defiance, collided at the intersection of 7th and Olive Streets, when Toepfer rear-ended Scheuring’s vehicle, as both were traveling westbound on 7th. When Toepfer didn’t see the vehicle in front of him was stopped at the red light due to the sun blinding him, he ran into the rear of the vehicle, causing a total of $4,000 damage. Toepfer was cited for failure to maintain control and reduce speed.
The Atlantic Police Department reports three people were arrested Monday. 30-year old Randi Shafer, of Atlantic, was arrested on a Cass County warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance. And, 29-year old Daniel Long, and 20-year old Taylor Short, both of Leon, were arrested on charges of Theft in the 2nd degree. All three of the individuals were booked into the Cass County Jail.
Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors explore the new Cass County Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Center. Complete with a new pool and many other tools for assisting a rehabilitation patient, the team at the center have many areas of expertise including speech, occupational and physical therapy.
Melt chips together – add can of sweetened condensed milk – add walnuts – pour into a greased round cake pan (place your empty can in center and mold chocolate around it to make a wreath – decorate with red and green cherries or gumdrops.
The Iowa Department of Transportation plans to start a five-year plan to spread out the renewal dates for driver’s licenses. D-O-T Motor Vehicle Division director, Mark Lowe, says it’s part of the effort to transition from five-year to eight-year licenses as directed by lawmakers. “Right now we have really significant swings in our renewal volumes and we are in a peak year right now. They range from as high as 530-thousand in some years down to about 275-thousand,” Lowe says.
In order to spread out the renewals, licenses will be issued with four different lengths. “The system will assign a person a five, six, seven or eight year license according to the percentages we determine for each year,” Lowe explains. “By the time we get to the end of it starting in 2019, we will have a very even distribution across an eight-year renewal cycle.” The hope is the even distribution of renewals will also make it so the lines at the driver’s license station aren’t longer in one year than another.
“When we have those big swings, it really strains our service delivery in those peak years, and then in low years we are really understaffed,” Lowe says. “So by evening that out we’ll be able to even out our resource distribution and provided better service at the same time.” He says knowing how many staff to have on hand will save them money. There are some restrictions on the eight-year license as the regulations regarding drivers under 18 and temporary foreign nationals will stay in place. Some of the state’s oldest drivers will not be eligible for a long-term license.
“If you are 72 or over, then the maximum license we can issue you is two years,” Lowe says. He says that’s a safety issue as they find drivers over 72 start to have more accidents and they want to assess their overall condition to drive more frequently. Lowe says they will still face another peak period of license renewals before the plan starts to even things out. “We will see early on the predominance of five-year licenses and then in 2017 we are going to see a shift to a predominance of eight-year licenses,” Lowe says.
It doesn’t matter how many years you get on your new license, the cost will stay at four dollars for each year. The D-O-T estimates the changes will save drivers three-point-four million dollars annually in reduced travel and time to get licenses. And it’s expected to save the department about one-point-eight-million dollars annually in production costs for licenses. For more information, got to the Iowa D-O-T’s website at: www.iowadot.gov.
(Radio Iowa)