Jim Field talks to Audubon Head Wrestling Coach Blane Kerkhoff about the Wheelers competing at the State Team Dual Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines today.
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Jim Field talks to Audubon Head Wrestling Coach Blane Kerkhoff about the Wheelers competing at the State Team Dual Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines today.
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The City of Atlantic’s Parks and Recreation Department’s Board of Directors, Tuesday, approved the contract and plans for a Parks and Rec Office and Maintenance Building. The plans were drawn-up by Snyder and Associates Engineers. Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring said the Building Committee scaled-down the plans from an earlier concept due to costs and other factors. He said the decision was made to change the strategy on how the building would be bid out, which essentially amounts to what Herring calls “A shell,” with basic areas inside, along with alternate options. From there, a cost assessment will be made.
Herring says they have a certain amount of dollars to work with. The total estimated project cost is $311,000, but Herring said the Building Committee hopes to find a way to cut $80,000 from that price tag, by having a skeletal electrical system in the shop area, insulation modifications, plumbing and heating changes, through the use of temporary light fixtures, and gravel in the driveway. Engineering costs have also been reduced due to the changes in the latest design. Herring says he hopes to have the project let for bids soon around March 6th, bid openings on March 27th, and awarding of the project at the City Council’s meeting on April 3rd.
In other business, the Atlantic Parks and Rec Board approved the 2013 Master Plan for the Schildberg Recreation Area. The 2003 plan, which was never actually formalized or presented to the Parks and Rec Board or the City Council for approval, was created by an Ad Hoc group. Herring said the City Council wanted the Parks and Rec Board and Schildberg Recreation Committee to work together and come up with a final plan the Council could also approve.
Some of the changes to the 2003 plan include the addition of future trails, including the addition of a connector to the T-Bone trail, a fishing pier that is handicapped accessible, a proposed dog park, R-V campground and parking area, and more.
Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played at Adair-Casey High School.
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FOR SALE: an older portable Singer sewing machine,with hard-case,and work light.works great. $25 cash. please call 748-3676, leave message if no answer.
FOR SALE: A Maytag gas dryer, cream-colored, $100; Burgundy-colored sofa with loveseat. Measures 8-feet by 6-feet. The sofa folds out into a twin bed. Selling the pair for $350; and, a 2-piece entertainment center (measures 75″x85″x19″). Asking $950. Call 712-249-9126 (in Audubon).
FOR SALE: Dorm refrigerator with freezer, brown, $30; Three piece bedroom set: One tall dresser with 5 drawers, one long dresser with mirror and one night stand with 2 drawers. $55 for all or they can be split up. 402-206-1139 or 712-268-2121 in Exira.
WANTED: WWII Japanese items for sale or donation. 243-4131
FOR TRADE: Tilts custom made couch, light green color, valued at $800, good condition/clean. Trade for a sectional in good condition, brown or tan color of the same value. 254-6774, ask for Don.
WANTED: Used two row tiller, Can be old but needs to run, also looking to purchase quart canning jars. Please text or call 712-308-3871. Located in the Elk Horn/ Kimballton area.
FOR SALE: I have a heavy duty wheel chair for sale. It is 6 months old and asking $300. If interested call 712-249-3266.
LENORD JOSEPH MEAIKE, 56, of Audubon, died Mon., Feb. 11th, at his home in rural Audubon. A Mass of Christian Burial service for LENORD MEAIKE will be held 10-a.m. Fri., Feb. 15th, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where a family visitation is at 6-p.m. Thursday, and a Scripture service takes place at 7-p.m.
Burial will be in the St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Dedham, IA.
LENORD MEAIKE is survived by:
His wife – Jeanne Meaike, of Audubon.
His children – Tyler (Veronica) Meaike, of Audubon; Megan (Coby) Bonney, of Dedham, and Chelsea Meaike & fiance’ Mark McCool, of Coon Rapids.
His brothers -Larry Meaike, of Storres, CT; Lonnie (Kim) Meaike, of Manilla; Lyle (Traci) Meaike, of Beemer, NE, and Lance (Laurie) Meaike, of Audubon.
His sisters – Linda (Jerry) Petersen, of Audubon; Laura (Bill) Fancher, of Audubon, and Louise (Bill) Tarwater, of Guin, AL.
5 grandchildren, his in-laws, other relatives & friends.
The Freese-Notis forecast for Atlantic & the KJAN listening area….
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The Glenwood Community School District’s Board of Education has terminated the contract of Glenwood High School Principal Kerry Newman. The unanimous decision came during a two-hour closed session, Tuesday. According to the Daily NonPareil, Newman had been on paid administrative leave since Jan. 18th. No official reason for the action was given,but during Tuesday’s meeting, the board listed five reasons to terminate Newman’s employment with the district: an inappropriate relationship with a district employee, unprofessional conduct, poor judgement, inappropriate use or misuse of district resources and being a poor and ineffective role model. Newman has five days to request a hearing contesting the termination. Assistant principal Rick Nickerson has taken over in the interim.
Newman denied all the allegations, and she told the newspaper that she would fight to keep her job. Newman, an Omaha native, was a finalist for the School Administrators of Iowa 2012 Secondary Principal of the Year award. She took over as principal in 2003.
Firefighters from across the state traveled to Des Moines Tuesday, to pickup hundreds of free smoke alarms. State Fire Marshal Ray Reynolds purchased the alarms with money from a $245,000 federal grant and a $50,000 grant from State Farm Insurance.
Firefighters and other dignitaries receive and look-over the new fire detectors in Des Moines, Tues. (Radio Iowa photo)
Reynolds has a goal to install smoke alarms in every Iowa home with children. “We’re well on our way to doing that,” Reynolds said. “We have 36,000 smoke alarms installed to date in this two year old project and our goal is to have 50,000 smoke alarms installed by the end of the year.” The grants will eventually cover the cost of roughly 11,600 smoke alarms in 2013. And there’s plenty of demand for those alarms.
“There were 5,000 structure fires in Iowa last year and of those, one in five homes did not have working smoke alarms,” Reynolds said. Firefighters from 18 Iowa cities picked up a total of 3,000 smoke alarms today (Tuesday) as part of Reynolds’ project. Among the firefighters who came to pick up alarms, were those from Denison, Carroll, Breda and Harlan.
Denison Fire Chief Cory Snowgren says the new detectors will help continue his department’s efforts to keep citizens of the community safe. He says they’ve installed over 4,000 detectors in the community, but because there are still some requests to fill, they were happy to pickup more in Des Moines, on Tuesday. The Denison Fire Department received 200 new detectors.
Snowgren says they won’t have any problem finding homes to place them in. He says they have a list of families waiting to receive the potentially life-savings alarms. The Chief says in 2012, Denison had the distinction of having the first two lives saved in the State by fire alarms. The alarm awoke a family at 2-a.m. after a 3-prong device plugged into a space heater started on fire.
(Radio Iowa)