Officials with the American Public Works Association or APWA have presented the Harlan City Administrator with an award for being one of the 2014 Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year. The presentation for Terry Cox was held on Tuesday at the Therkildsen Activity Center in Harlan. During the presentation, several guest speakers stood in front of the audience of around 40 people including Harlan Mayor Gene Gettys, Iowa APWA President Tracy Warner and the National APWA President-elect Larry Stephens.

Stephens said in his speech, Cox is one of a select group to win the award. “The Top Ten Award started in 1960 and as you (Gettys) eluded to over the years that’s about 55 years, there have been about 550 recipients of this award and that’s over the last half century. That’s not a lot of people. And in an association that’s nearly 29,000 members and represents the entire public works profession, you are one of a small number of individuals to receive this award.”

The Top Ten Award recognizes those individuals who personify excellence in serving the public interest in the field of public works. Stephens called it the highest award a member of the APWA can receive. Cox was presented a plaque with a medal inside. Cox took to the podium and thanked his staff at city hall, past and current city council members and mayors and all the city officials. Cox has been working with the city of Harlan for 37 years and will receive the same award in front of his peers in Toronto, Canada at a convention in September.

(Joel McCall/KNOD)

Motorcycle enthusiasts will be packing the square in downtown Harlan for the first of this year’s Roar into Harlan celebrations this (Thursday) evening. The annual Roar into Harlan Bike Night on the Square events starts tonight featuring Goozman’s Westside. Motorcycles will fill up the parking around the square along with entertainment, food and drinks and motorcycle games.

Each month until September, a different business from the square will be highlighted. The other Roar into Harlan events are scheduled on the third Thursday of the month, June 19th, July 17th, August 21st and September 18th. You can find more information the Roar into Harlan Facebook page by searching “Roar into Harlan Bike Night.”

(Joel McCall/KNOD)

The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund made its annual book donation to both Washington Elementary and Schuler Elementary.

Shown: Grant Petty, Melanie Petty and Janice Dickerson – school librarian.

Each year the fund donates approximately $1000.00 to help the schools fulfill their wish list for new released books that the kids will enjoy. Reading was always a big part of Trevor’s life so we hope that by keeping the libraries full of current books others will also become avid readers.

An equipment violation that caught the eye of a Page County Sheriff’s Deputy resulted in an arrest, Wednesday. The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports a deputy pulled over a pickup truck at around 7:20-p.m. near 310th and E Avenue, near Northboro. During the traffic stop, it was discovered that the driver, 25-year old Robert Andrew Hall, of rural Coin, was driving under suspension.

Robert Andrew Hall (Page Co. Jail photo)

Hall was taken into custody and brought to the Page County Jail. He later posted a $300 bond, and was released.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports his officers have arrested two people on drug charges. On Wednesday (May 14th), 40-year old Victor Bruce Ingram, of Shenandoah, was arrested for felony delivery of methamphetamine and failure to affix a drug tax stamp. And, on Friday, May 9th, Clarinda Police arrested 37-year old Jason Charles Allison,  of Clarinda, for felony delivery of methamphetamine and failure to affix a drug tax stamp.

Brothers says the incidents are not related. Both Allison and Ingram were transported to the Page County Jail at the time of their arrests and booked in pending review of the cases by the Page County Attorney’s Office regarding the filing of formal charges.