Six employees at five separate businesses received criminal citations for selling alcohol to minors, last week. Officials with the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force (SWINE) report the citations were issued as part of an undercover operation conducted at a total of eight businesses in Council Bluffs, on Friday, June 3^rd.

Cited for selling alcohol to persons under the age of 21, was: Jenni Null, an employee of Sugars Lounge; Michaela Hotz, an employee of the German Beer Haus; Main Street Tavern employee Brenda Donaldson; Do Rock Inn employees Derek Rodwell and Shelly Biggs; and, J-&-B’s Lounge employee Matthew Way.

Those businesses which were in compliance, and whose employees refused the sale of alcohol to minors, were the Venue, Salty Dog Bar & Grill, and Goofy’s Corner, all in Council Bluffs.

The undercover operation was conducted with the assistance of both an 18-year old female and male. Officials say the compliance checks will continue on an unannounced basis in the near future.

A public hearing will be held Wednesday morning in Atlantic, with regard to a proposed preliminary plat in the Walnut Grove Subdivision, Washington Township. The meeting will be held during the Cass County Board of Supervisor’s meeting, which starts at 9-a.m.

Also on the board’s agenda Wednesday, is action on expense appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012. That includes funding request appropriations. If there is no change from budgeted amounts, no additional action will be necessary.

Other business includes discussion and/or action on: a contract for legal services related to funding for the northwest Water-Sewer extension project; a contract for computer services, FY 2011-2012 (Licensed Code and System Hardware/Network/Software support); certification of county officers’ deputies’ base salaries; and, determining the compensation of “other employees” (other than those who are under a bargaining unit- or other employment- contracts.

The Board will also act on approving a 28-E agreement with Adair County, for service provided by Cass County Engineer Charles Marker.

ADEL, Iowa (AP) – Tubing or sunbathing along central Iowa’s Raccoon River in the nude could soon be against county law.

The Dallas County Board of Supervisors is scheduled Tuesday (today) to consider a new ordinance that would ban nudity in county areas accessible to the public. Board chairman Kim Chapman told The Des Moines Register that county officials have gotten complaints about nudity on the river. Sheriff Chad Leonard asked for the item to be placed on the board agenda.

Harold Wells operates the Raccoon River Retreat Center near Van Meter. He says his guests occasionally sunbathe nude on a nearby sandbar. Wells says people who live along rivers have always stripped occasionally, adding, “I don’t know why there should be an ordinance now.”