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Lone Tree Teacher Wins Voter Registration Award HOSTETLER CELEBRATE LEADS YOUR SWEEP VOTE! 1B 8A KALONA, WELLMAN, RIVERSIDE & LONE TREE $1.25 Mid-Prairie 49 Lone Tree 66 Alburnett 40 8 Central Lee 7 W-MU 36 Highland 19 AROUND TOWN Lone Tree teacher wins voter registration award BY MOLLY ROBERTS and her dedication to it wasn’t The News just in Iowa, she was a national LONE TREE leader. She also started the na- tional League of Women Vot- Rural Health and Safety Iowa Secretary of State Paul ers—that’s an Iowa person do- of Eastern Iowa and Mercy Pate attended the Lone Tree ing that. That speaks a lot for Iowa City are partnering school board meeting on Oct. Iowa’s achievements and the 14 to award high school social to bring a mobile clinic to fact that we have great lead- studies teacher Mick Dickin- Kalona to provide free CO- ers… that’s what I tell my chil- son with the Carrie Chapman dren and grandchildren, that VID-19 testing to qualifying Catt Award, which he earned I want them to have a vision, patients. The clinic will be by registering 97% of Lone dedication and commitment to in the parking lot of Mercy Tree’s eligible seniors to vote doing something like she has in the upcoming election. Family Medicine Kalona on done.” Pate introduced the voter Pate was instrumental in help- Oct. 27 from 3-5 p.m. registration initiative in Sep- ing to pass legislation that al- For More information tember 2019. Lone Tree was lows 17-year-old Iowans regis- about symptoms, screening, one of 18 high schools in Iowa ter and vote in primary races to meet or exceed the 90% and who should be tested, as long as they would be 18 by benchmark. the time of the general election. see page 8A. The award is named after This legislation passed in May Iowa’s most famous suffragette 2017 but did not go into effect who grew up in Charles City until Jan. 1, 2019. and was instrumental in the “The trend we’re seeing is passing of the 19th Amendment that more and more elections 100 years ago. are razor-thin victories, and Construction began on MOLLY ROBERTS/THE NEWS “Carrie Chapman Catt Vine Ave (W-64), north of Secretary of State Paul Pate (right) presents Lone Tree High School spent 33 years fighting for right Hwy 22, on Oct. 19 and will social studies teacher Mick Dickinson with the Carrie Chapman Catt for women to vote,” Pate said. SEE LONE TREE | PAGE 2A continue for about 30 work- Award for registering 97% of eligible seniors to vote. “Her leadership, her vision ing days, dependent on weather and other factors. The project involves Boxes of non-perishable food available at Shelter B three box culvert exten- BY MOLLY ROBERTS the spring and summer and Individuals and families In other business, the city sions with associated grad- The News will continue to make the food can pick up their boxes from council unanimously passed a ing and seeding. The work KALONA available at Shelter B until it is 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 21. If resolution award the construc- will require temporary gone. there are any remaining boxes, tion contract for work on 5th The City of Kalona will pro- The boxes have been orga- they will be made available Street to LL Pelling Co, who shoulder closures with flag- vide boxes of non-perishable nized to include a variety and again on Thursday, Oct. 22 and were the only bidders. The gers, when necessary, to di- food on a first-come-first-serve, balance of food. Currently, longer as needed. work will include removing rect traffic through the con- honor-system basis at Shel- “We ask people to just be the city distributes about 8-10 old asphalt, milling and replac- ter B in the Kalona City Park responsible and take what struction zone. boxes a week on an on-call ba- ing asphalt on 5th Street be- beginning on the morning of you need – if you don’t need The work is part of Wash- tween E Avenue and J Avenue Wednesday, Oct. 21. The city sis, but hopes distributing the it, don’t take it,” city adminis- ington County’s Five-Year currently has 50-60 large box- items at Shelter B will make trator Ryan Schlabaugh said. es of food items left over from them available to a larger num- Road Improvement plan. “There’s going to be other peo- SEE KALONA | PAGE 2A the pop-up pantries held over ber of people in need. More information available ple who need it, too.” at www.washingtonroads. org. KALONACADE ROLLS THROUGH TOWN Riverside Council hears feedback on parking rules The Washington County BY CHRISTOPHER BORRO cause they didn’t want any of Conservation Board will The News us to park there, ever, and we shut off water to the camp- RIVERSIDE all said that’s not reasonable,” she said. ground, shower house and At their regular meeting She told the council how Mary Marr Lodge in the on Oct. 19, the Riverside City the proposed changes would coming weeks. At this time, Council held a public hearing leave her unable to host fam- regarding proposed changes there is not a definitive ily gatherings or church group to parking regulations. The meetings, and that many of her date as the decision will be changes would add a 25-foot neighbors also expressed con- weather-dependent. no parking zone around most cern over the proposed restric- city intersections, as well as tions. restrict parking on Ash, Ella, The council voted to con- Elm and Schnoebelen streets. tinue allowing parking on “When the school went in… Schnoebelen outside of the re- all of us who lived there un- stricted hours. Iowa State senator and derstood we needed room for Other residents said they the buses to get up and down US Representative candi- were confused as to why their there,” said Christine Kirk- streets were chosen. date Mariannette Miller- wood, a resident on Schnoe- “I see on this map that Meeks will attend a meet- belen St. “It’s a narrow street, you’ve got Elm St. highlighted and-great at the Washington so we could not have parking that says, ‘No parking both PHOTOGRAPHER/THE NEWS [because of] the buses. Every- GOP headquarters on Oct. The Easter Bunny rides down B Ave with Lyndon Hershberger of sides.’ How did that come one was okay with that.” about?” resident Nate Kasdorf 29 at 9 a.m. Kalona Chocolates during the Kalonacade on Saturday, Oct. 17. Or- Kirkwood said parking is asked. “I’ve lived there for thir- The headquarters will ganized by the Kalona Area Chamber of Commerce, the Kalonacade currently prohibited on week- ty plus years and we’ve never days from 2 a.m. to 6 p.m. with also host a watch party for featured businesses parading through downtown Kalona to promote had a problem, now all of a sud- their goods and services. Participating organizations included: the the exception of holidays, and the final presidential debate den there’s a problem? I mean, Washington County Sherrifs Office, Hills Bank, Mid-Prairie Commu- that such a time slot works I don’t understand how we’re on Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. Refresh- nity School District, Farmer’s Hen House, Reliable Tires and Ser- well for both school buses and all going to park in our yards. ments will be available. vice, First Class Apparel, Southeast Iowa Insurance, Sinclair Tractor, the residents. It’s impossible,” he said. “That was an agreement The headquarters is lo- Kalonial Transport, Beatty-Peterseim Funeral and Monument Ser- that was hashed out between cated at 101 W Washington vices, Kalona Chocolates, RJP Electric and Finish Line Technology. those of us who lived [there] SEE RIVERSIDE | PAGE 2A St, Washington IA, 52353. and the council at the time, be- OPEN HOUSES KALONAREALTY.COM $ $ 221 1ST ST. / P.O. BOX 711 TINA HERSHBERGER 315,000 215,000 KALONA, IA BROKER, OWNER 2204 135th Dr., Unit #1 • Kalona 214 N. Lincoln St. • Keota 319-656-5299 319-936-0525 Saturday, Oct. 24 • 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 • 1 - 2:30 p.m. LICENSED TO SELL REAL ESTATE IN IOWA PAGE 2A | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 NEWS THE NEWS Wellman council approves sanitation Supervisors acknowledge ordinance, street light placement road grant, DVIP Month BY MARY ZIELINSKI the transfer of ownership of a BY JOHN BUTTERS builders asked for a security neighbors. Correspondent ambulance from the city to the Correspondent light to be placed near a drive- Council members agreed For the fifth year, Wash- county. way. that the 13-acre site was large WELLMAN ington County has received a Riverside is now contract- Council members said there enough to accommodate a $10,000 grant from the Depart- ing with the county for ambu- The Wellman City Council was several good reasons to dozen chickens but had reser- ment of Transportation’s Liv- lance services for its residents approved the first reading of put a streetlight near the prop- vations about allowing excep- ing Roadway Trust Fund to aid and the vehicle will no longer an ordinance related to the col- erty including visibility for tions. They said they would with roadside vegetation man- be needed or used by the city. lection of the city’s solid waste The transfer of ownership also house numbers for emergency grant the request with a provi- agement. and recycling agreement with involves maintenance and op- responders, illumination for sion to review the decision if The grant, approved Sept.
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