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BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW + State Track Highlights Page 1B + The Wayne Single Copy $1.00 Sections - 3 Pages - 22 Thursday, May 29, 2014 138th Year - No. 35 Herald Daily updates, video and more on the Web at www.mywaynenews.com Council overturns vicious dog declaration By CLARA OSTEN brought before the city council. nary Clinic, spoke to the council and said "Great Danes Council member Matt Eischeid said he felt that in Of the Herald The owner of the dog, Josh Calken, spoke to the are big, powerful dogs and Roosevelt is muzzled when this instance, "I don't think the dog meets all the re- council at length on Tuesday and noted that the dog, he comes to the clinic to take his mind off what is go- quirements necessary for him to be declared 'vicious.' The actions necessary to deem a dog 'vicious' were a Great Dane, is "not inherently vicious and there has ing on." I applaud the actions of the owners to see that this debated during the May 20 meeting of the Wayne City never been an incident prior to this when the dog acted She noted that the incident was "a mixed thing, be- doesn't happen again." out. I believe in this incident, Roosevelt (the dog) was Council. cause after years and years of working with animals, I Council member Jennifer Sievers said there are "two startled by the child." Council members were faced with making the deci- know that sometimes kids move fast and if a parent is sides to the story and accidents happen. Kids need to sion on whether or not a dog that injured a five-year Calken said he and his wife are "sorry this happened not watching closely, things happen." be educated on how to approach animals and I don't old in an incident on April 22. The injury required a and are planning to ensure this doesn't happen again." Dr. Zink said in her opinion, having the dog muzzled feel this dog is vicious." number of stitches and because of this, the dog was im- He said they are planning to construct a fence on and the yard fenced in "is a good thing." pounded and declared to be a 'vicious dog.' their property, have the dog leashed and muzzled at all Mayor Ken Chamberlain said that while he sympa- Following discussion, council members voted to over- The dog was properly licensed and vaccinated. times when off the property and not allow anyone else thized with the dog's owners, he also wanted to project turn the police department's decision to declare the dog Following the incident, the owner appealed the de- to have control of the dog. children and did not agree with overturning the police vicious on a 6-2 vote with Council members Jon Haase cision of the police department and the matter was Dr. Lauri Zink, a veterinarian at the Wayne Veteri- decision in regard to the dog. See COUNCIL, Page 4A 2014 Hero Of Hope grateful to help of many in cancer fight On a Friday in October of 2012 Denny Spangler's daughter got married in Yankton, S.D. Denny took part in the event and "every- thing was wonderful." Four days later he woke up in the middle of the night and felt like he had some- thing caught in his throat. By noon that day he couldn't eat and made an appointment to see Dr. Melissa Dobbins at Wayne Mercy Medical Cen- ter. When there was no im- provement in his condition by Thursday of that week, and he couldn't even get wa- ter down, Dr. Dobbins sent Spangler to St. Luke's Hospi- tal in Sioux City, Iowa. The doctor there put a tube down his throat to try to get it open. However, the doctor told Spangler he had never seen (Courtesy photo) anything like his case, as Denny Spangler is this year's Hero Of Hope, something was pushing on and he will speak at the annual Relay For his esophagus from the out- (Photos by Michael Carnes) Life event this weekend. He is pictured here side. with his wife, Nina. Tests showed Spangler Tears of a champion had cancer, with two tennis ball-sized tumors attached to the back of form a biopsy to confirm that the tumor was What do you do when you set a personal best, im- his spine. The tumors were pushing on his lymphomia. prove your school record AND win a state title, esophagus from the outside. After a five-day stay in the hospital, all at the same time? The emotion of the moment "I had had no symptoms before this," Spangler returned to Wayne to wait 30 days before beginning chemotherapy. hit Wayne High senior Ashton Schweers after she Spangler said. He also noted that approxi- mately a year prior to that, he had had oth- During this waiting period, he contacted cleared 5 feet, 5 inches to win the Class B high jump different cancer institutions to determine at the state track meet on Saturday. She later shared er tests that didn't show anything. After the cancer diagnosis, Spangler met options available. the moment with her mom and dad, Amy and Corby, with Dr. Vohlquist, a surgeon who felt con- "I found that the best program for me becoming the first Wayne High girl in 17 years, and fident he could remove the tumor. was the Cancer Centers of America. I went only the fourth in school history, to win a state title. On Nov. 2, he had chest thoractomy sur- to Tulsa, Okla. where the best doctors for gery in Sioux City, Iowa. Dr. Vohlquist treating this type of cancer were located," could not remove the tumor, but did per- See HERO OF HOPE, Page 3A County ag land value making steep increase By MICHAEL CARNES and level out the valuation changes be- Of The Herald tween lower-quality soils, higher-quality soils and grassland rates. Bigger percent- If you own ag land in Wayne County, you age increases were noted in lower-quality might want to be sitting down when you get soil areas, while grassland rates were es- that valuation notice from the county later sentially unchanged because sales of grass- this week. land areas did not indicate a need for an Notices of ag land valuation have been increase. sent out by the Wayne County Assessor’s “We had raised grassland rates last year office, and some ag land owners are going and were looking into lowering them, this to see a rather significant increase in their year, but we weren’t able to do it,” Duffy land valuation. said. “The raises (in grassland rates) in oth- County Assessor Dawn Duffy told the er counties have brought our rates more in Wayne County Commissioners at last line.” week’s meeting that recent sales of ag land Duffy said that she hopes this year’s ad- have helped push the valuation up more justment will bring the county more in line than 40 percent over the old land values. with where they need to be according to A three-year study of 50 ag-related land state law, and that future changes may not sales found an increase in the average val- be so high. ue of an acre of land in the county, which “My hope is that what we did this year put the county’s previous valuation at 47.7 is bringing us to the point where we’re not percent of market value. going to have to raise it near as much next State law requires counties to have ag year,” she said. “We’ve tried to give land land values set between 69-75 percent, owners a heads up to be prepared, because and with adjustments made in about every they are going to see one heck of an increase type of land except grassland, the new rate, on ag land. But, if you look at the sales that which is 70 percent for 2014, falls within have taken place over the last three years, (Photo by Clara Osten) state requirements. most of the landowners who have seen those “There’s not a lot we can do,” Duffy said. numbers have been pretty understanding.” “We have to follow state law, and other Duffy said a map noting recent ag land Flyin' high on Memorial Day counties are having to do the same thing.” sales in the county is available for public The flags in Veterans Memorial Park at Greenwood Cemetery were flying full and free during Monday's Me- Duffy said the county did its best to try See COUNTY, Page 4A morial Day service. For photos from area Memorial Day services, turn to Page 6B. 2A Thursday, May 29, 2014 www.mywaynenews.com The Wayne Record Herald Obituaries A Quick Look Date High Low Precip Snow part-time as a Trolley Engineer with Silver Dollar City. In 2009, Harold May 22 76 54 — David Strate May 23 81 50 — moved back to Wakefield where he helped convert the town’s old Chicago May 24 83 49 — David Carl Strate, 69, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Sunday, May 4, 2014. & Northwestern railroad depot into a museum which is steeped in rail- May 25 81 62 — A service celebrating Dave's life was held Saturday, May 10, 2014 at road and Wakefield history. Harold loved fishing and taught his grand- We use newsprint with recycled fiber. May 26 83 63 T Bethany Bible Church.