(Elk Horn, Iowa) – The Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Community School District’s Board of Education will meet in a regular session 6-p.m. Tuesday, August 15th, in the Conference Room at the High School, in Elk Horn. Here’s their agenda:

I. Call to Order

II. Approve Agenda

III. Welcome Visitors

IV. Recognition and Communication

V. Consent Agenda
A. Minutes – July 18, 2023 Regular Meeting
B. Financial Reports
C. Accounts Payable – Board Bills

VI. Administrative Reports

VII. Discussion Items
A. School Board Election – November 7, 2023
A. The terms of the following Board members expire in 2023:  Jodee Dixon, Terri Harris, Matt Jorgensen, and Joel Schlueter.

Interested candidates should pick up the required documents from the Board Secretary.  Candidates must file an affidavit of candidacy and nomination petitions containing at least 23 signatures.  Signatures may be collected from anywhere in the school district boundaries.  Signers must be eligible electors of the school district. Paperwork must be turned in beginning August 28, 2023 until September 21, 2023 at 5:00 pm with the Board Secretary, or her designee.  Late applications will not be accepted. DO NOT file paperwork with the County Auditor’s Office-it will not be accepted.
B. IASB Annual Convention & Trade Show – November 15-17

VIII. Action Items
A. 2023-2024 Consortium Agreement with Children’s Square & Heartland Family Service within Council Bluffs CSD
B. FFA National Convention Out-of-State Trip – October 31-November3, 2023
C. 2023-2024 Amended Contracts
C. Irene Blazek – Increased TSS amount
Kristen Borkowski – Increased TSS amount
Kevin Brown – Lane changed from BA10 to MA
Niki Cade – Increased TSS amount

D. Personnel Resignations, Hires, & Transfers
i. Resignations
1. Jacki Piva – Associate
ii. Hires
1. Brandon Baggett – Spartan Media
2. Cory Bartz – Building Leadership Team
3. Tom Benton – Weight Room Supervisor
4. Irene Blazek – Mentor
5. Kristen Borkowski – Building Leadership Team, Mentor
6. McKinzie Bricker – NHS
7. Kevin Brown – Head Cross Country
8. Drew Buckholdt – Head Football
9. Jacqui Christensen – Building Leadership Team
10. Ben Hansen – Assistant Football
11. Riann Hansen – Athletic Training
12. Connie Jessen – Building Leadership Team, Instructional Coach
13. Ashley Mether – Building Leadership Team, Mentor
14. Shelli Nelson – Building Leadership Team, Mentor
15. Travis Nelson – Assistant Football
16. Jackie Petersen – Yearbook
17. Jen Petersen – Building Leadership Team, Instructional Coach
18. Tom Petersen – Building Leadership Team, JH Football
19. Derek Reischauer – Head Volleyball
20. Andrea Schwery – JH Volleyball
21. Jordan Webster – Building Leadership Team, Mentor
22. Terry Weisenborn – Building Leadership Team, Assistant Cross Country
23. Megan Wilkerson – Building Leadership Team, Mentor

IX. Adjournment

THE BOARD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE ORDER OF THE AGENDA IF IT WOULD BETTER ACCOMMODATE VISITORS AT A BOARD MEETING.

Next Meeting:  September 19, 2023 – 6:00 pm – Exira-EHK Conference Room, Elk Horn

Monday, August 14, 2023
6:30 PM
CAM High School Media Center
1000 Victory Park Rd., Anita, IA 50020
1 Call to Order
2 Welcome Visitors
3 Agenda Changes
4 Approval of Agenda
5 Consent Agenda
5.1 Approval of Minutes, Bills, Financial Statements
5.2 Open Enrollment
5.3 Resignations
5.4 Contracts
5.5 Volunteers
5.6 Fundraisers
6 Communications
6.1 Public input on non-agenda items
6.2 Correspondence
7 Administrative Reports
8 Discussion/Action items:
8.1 School Board Election Process
8.2 Approval of Board Policies
8.3 Service Agreement with ASPi Solutions, Inc. dba Bound
8.4 Approval of Roof Bids for the Industrial Art Shop
9 Board Reports
10 Adjournment
*Note: The board will tour the Jr./ Sr. High School and Elementary School building following the conclusion of the meeting.

(Cass County, Iowa) – Two men were injured during an accident early this (Sunday) morning, south of Griswold. Griswold Rescue and Cass EMS responded to the scene near 56171 Wichita Road. The call went out from a resident at that location, at around 2:51-a.m.

Both men complained of pain, according to dispatch reports, but the extent of their injuries wasn’t immediately known. Both men were transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak.

Additional information was not readily available

(Massena, Iowa) – One person was injured during a three-wheeled ATV accident late Saturday night, in Cass County (IA). According to dispatch reports from the Cass County Communications Center in Atlantic, the accident occurred at Highway 148 and Clarke Avenue in Massena, at around 10:25-p.m. A man was found laying on the street at that location.

Massena Rescue tiered with Cass EMS to transport the patient to Cass Health before he was flown to a trauma center. Additional information is not available at this time.

(Glidden, Iowa) – A child on a bicycle was seriously injured after being struck by a pickup truck Saturday afternoon, in Carroll County. The Iowa State Patrol reports the unidentified 8-year-old was struck when the bicycle they were riding rode out into the street in Glidden, into the path of a 2023 Chevy Silverado pickup. The driver of the pickup, 63-year-old Thomas Lee Fransen, of Carroll, was unable to avoid the collision.

The juvenile was transported to Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines by Life Flight helicopter. Thomas Fransen was not injured during the accident, which happened at around 1:32-p.m., on Colorado Street, just south of 6th Street, in Glidden.

Deputies with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department assisted at the scene.

(Rural Guthrie Center, Iowa) – An accident involving an SUV Saturday morning, resulted in the death of a juvenile male. The Iowa State Patrol reports the accident happened at 2696 170th Street, as a 2002 Chevy Suburban driven by 45-year-old Shane Ellis, of Guthrie Center, was backing out of a residential driveway at around 9:38-a.m.

The 6-year-old child entered the blind spot at the right rear of the Suburban before the right rear tire of the vehicle struck the unidentified child. The Patrol says Shane Ellis performed life saving measures until rescue crews arrived on the scene. The child was pronounced deceased at the scene, a short time later.

(Greenfield, Iowa) – Adair County Auditor Mandy Berg reminds residents of the County, that Monday, August 28, 2023, is the first day to file nomination papers with the Adair County Auditor, if you intend to run for Mayor or City Council or the School Board Secretary for School Board members.

The candidate filing deadline is 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 21, 2023. The City/School Election will be Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Voter pre-registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. Monday, October 23, 2023. You may file an absentee ballot request with the Adair County Auditor’s office beginning Tuesday, August 29, 2023.

Adair County Courthouse, Greenfield, IA

The deadline to request an absentee ballot be mailed is 5:00 p.m. Monday, October 23, 2023. The last day to vote absentee in the Auditor’s Office is Monday, November 6, 2023 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

(Radio Iowa) – The winner of the Iowa State Fair’s Big Pumpkin contest is 200 pounds heavier than the pig that was crowned as the fair’s Big Boar. Kids, and adults, are lining up to snap photos with the big orange fruit that weighs over 12-hundred pounds. There were 20 entries in this year’s contest and they’re all on display outside the Agriculture Building on the state fairgrounds.

Rhonda Magnusson of Hartford is superintendent of Agriculture and Horticulture Crops at the Iowa State Fair. She says it’s not easy to produce a really huge pumpkin. Growers have to keep the varmints away — and keep the plants supplied with lots of water. “At some point they’ll grow about 40 pounds a day,” Magnussen says. It’s early in the pumpkin growing season and most competitions are held in the fall.

First place pumpkin in 2023 State Fair competition. (RI photo)

“If we had this in the first of October or something, we’d have like over 2000 pound pumpkins,” Magnussen says. The Iowa State Fair started its Big Pumpkin contest nearly 20 years ago and the winners don’t just get bragging rights. There’s an 18-hundred-50 dollar prize.

This year’s winner was grown by a team. Don Young and his son-in-law Tommy Rhodes of Des Moines have won the contest before.

(Radio Iowa) – For Iowans who enjoy growing fruits and veggies in their back yards, it’s almost time to put those home gardens to sleep for the season. Horticulturist Isaac Zaman says once the fall harvests are complete, consider planting some cover grass over your garden.

Any sort of rye or short-lived perennial grasses will do the trick, and he suggests you could also layer your garden with compost or leaf mulch and let it rest over the winter. Zaman says the traditional “three sisters” plantings of corn, beans and squash should be seeing good progress.

Canned Peach Jam (Radio Iowa photo)

Pick those beans now if you want green beans, Zaman says, or let them keep growing if you want harder beans to keep over the winter. At a loss for what to do with all those tasty veggies? Zaman says simple preparations can sometimes be the best ones.

The Iowa State University Extension has a wealth of information online about how to can vegetables, including recipes. Just search for “canning” at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/preserve-taste-summer