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The Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold a special session this morning, beginning at 9 o’clock in their Board Room at the courthouse, in Greenfield. The Board is expected to hear several budget requests for Fiscal Year 2015, including, but not limited to, those from the: Library; Tourism Dept.; County Attorney; Sheriff; Social Services, Board of Supervisors and Data Processing Departments, along with the Adair County Conservation Dept.
Those requests will be followed by a Budget Work Session at 10:30.
The Audubon City Council is set to meet tonight during a regular session that begins at 7-p.m. On their agenda is receipt of the proposed Library Budget, and an audit report from Schroer & Associates. The Council will also discuss Run-off elections prior to their adjournment.
The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will meet during a regular session tonight, at the high school. During their 7:30-p.m. session in the Media Center, the Board will receive special presentations with regard to the Middle School Mock Trial, and, the old school boilers.
On the consent agenda, is approval of: Contacts and/or Letters of Assignment; Contracts for General Education and Special Ed; Volunteer coaches positions and any resignations. Other action items include: Approve of Schuler Principal James Northwick as the District’s Homeless Coordinator; The loan of Indian artifacts to the Cass County Historical Museum; The AHS Science curriculum proposal; Board Polices, series 500 and 600, and, a Financial Advisory Services Contract with Piper Jaffray.
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Iowa is the nation’s number-one pork producer so it’s only logical that the country’s biggest pork trade show is held here, too. The Iowa Pork Congress is scheduled for the middle of next week in Des Moines. Ron Birkenholz, spokesman for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, says the event will draw large crowds over its two-day run. “We generally attract about 5,000 people, producers, allied business representatives, students, educators and not just from Iowa either, around the Midwest,” Birkenholz says.
There will be a variety of seminars focusing on the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, the economic outlook for the pork industry, the Affordable Care Act and, of course, plenty of pork-related products. “We like to call it the largest winter swine trade show in the country,” he says. “We’ll pack Hy-Vee Hall with about 300 exhibitors and just about anything a pork producer or anyone involved in the pork industry would ever need.” The Iowa Pork Congress runs January 22nd and 23rd at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines.
Learn more at: www.iowaporkcongress.org
(Radio Iowa)
NORMA SUMMERS, 83, of Atlantic, died Sun., Jan. 12th, at home. Memorial services for NORMA SUMMERS will be held 6-p.m. Fri., Jan. 17th, at Zion Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
The family will greet friends in the Zion Lutheran Church fellowship hall following the Memorial service.
Burial will be at a later date in the Logan Cemetery.
Memorials may be directed to the Mayo Clinic or Wounded Warriors.
NORMA SUMMERS is survived by:
Her children – Vicki LeMay, of Pella; Diane (Mike) Leslie,of Shelby, & David (Shelly) Summers, of Iowa City.
9 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, & 8 step great-grandchildren.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported late Sunday night a boil advisory has been lifted for the Harrison County city of Pisgah. The boil advisory had been issued following loss of pressure in the entire system Thursday evening. An electrical contact on one of the pumps tripped out and prevented the wells from turning on.
The electrical problem has been repaired and pressure has been restored, but the drop that occurred in water pressure could have possibly allowed bacteria to enter the drinking water. The water has been sampled and determined to be safe.