Charles City Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 2007, Charles City, Iowa SINGLE COPY ISSN 10497242 50075 8 02723000029 WEDNESDAY January 31 2007 Charles City Press Vol 111 No One section 12 pages Official Newspaper of Floyd County IN BRIEF Snow sculpting contest offered The Charles City Arts Center has announced the First Annual Snow Sculpting Contest The contest is open to all ages and the deadline is Feb 28 Take advantage of the piles of snow in and into works of art A cash prize will be awarded to the most creative and sculpture Send a photo of your snow sculpture with your address name and phone number to The Charles City Arts Center 301 N Jackson St Charles City IA 50616 or email to Pavement advisory board The Charles City Pavement Managemen Advisory Board will meet at pm on Thursday Feb 1 2007 at City Hall Discussion will include the 2007 and 2008 Street Improvement Programs Open to public Pie Soup Coffee sales The Charles City High School Band and Orchestra students are conducting their annual Pie Soup ane Gourmet Coffee Fundraiser now through Friday Feb 2 Money raised from these sales will assist in fhe pufchase of needed equipment in the department as well as offset the cost of the anticipated 2008 Tour Contact any band or orchestra student to order or call Chris Sauke at 2576510 Brought to you by City la 1501 S Grand Ave Charles City 2287220 YESTERDAYS TEMPS Local weather readings were unavailable Normal temp 26 Sunrise am Sunset pm Today Area Forecast Partly sunny in the morn cloudy with a chance of snow in the after noon Highs near 20 SW winds 10 to 15 mph Chance of snow 50 percent Lowest wind chill readings 5 below to 15 below zero in the morning cloudy fiance of snow in the evening Lows near 5 above West winds 10 to 15 Chance of snow 40 percent sunny Highs 15 to 20 Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph Thursday with of snow Lows near 5 above Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph owest wind chill readings 5 Delow to 15 below zero after midnight cloudy with a slight chance of snow Highs to 10 above Friday cloudy Lows near 5 below cloudy Highs 5 to 10 above COMICS COMMUNITY CCHS actors offer free performance Thursday OPINION SPORTS Viewpoints Is Obama father of our country Upset special NP boys run away with win over NK Cambrex gets OK for million addition Cambrex Charles City Inc has received the green light for the addition of a million laboratory facility The construction recently approved by the Cambrex Board of Directors includes 11500 square feet of laboratory space accommodating up to 40 scientists and engineers This new building will provide additional labo and research facilities to bolster the competitive position in todays pharmaceutical manufacturing market and enhance the lead role in the high potency active pharmaceutical ingredients API mar ket In September 2006 with assistance from the City of Charles City and the Charles City Area Development Corporation Cambrex was approved for financial assistance for this project from the Iowa Department of Economic Development within the Community Economic Betterment Account and Enterprise Zone programs We believe this is an excellent proj ect for Iowa Charles City and Cambrex stated Joe Nettleton vice president of operations and site director in Charles City We are happy with the quality of our workforce and the cal expertise we have built over the years and see this as an opportunity to provide professional challenge as well as new Too cold to play outside Cambrex Charles City facility business opportunities for the site provide additional resources needed to For Cambrex Charles City to per increase Cambrex Charles Citys ability form optimally within this very to take on additional development proj tive and increasingly globalized market ects resulting in a solid pipeline of we need additional research and manu opportunities for the sites kilo lab and capabilities to meet customer Cambrex needs in the high potency market The expansion project is expected to Press photo by Staci Schwickerath Indoor recess With temperatures lingering under 10 degrees on Tuesday local students spent their recess time indoors Immaculate Conception kindergartners Kelsey Vsetecka from Madisen Huffmann Norma Hernandez and Banjo Banes spent their free time looking through a book together Lincoln Elementary Principal Doug Bengston said students at Lincoln gen stay inside if the temperatures or wind chills dip below zero Culver seeks 75 percent budget hike based on cigarette tax Continued on page 2 Investigators Millions in Iraq reconstruction aid wasted WASHINGTON AP The US government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq recon struction aid including scores of weapons and a camp for housing police trainers with an swimming pool investigators say The quarterly audit by Stuart Bowen Jr the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction is the latest to paint a grim picture of waste fraud and frustration in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has cost taxpayers more than billion and left the region near civil war The security situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate hindering progress in all reconstruction sec tors and threatening the overall reconstruction effort according to the report which was being released Wednesday Calling sectarian violence the greatest Challenge Bowen said in a telephone interview that bil lions in US aid spent on strength ening security has had limited effect Reconstruction now will fall largely on Iraqis to manage and theyre nowhere ready for the task Iraq Continued on page 3 DES MOINES AP Gov Chet Culver asked the Legislature on Tuesday to boost state spending by more than 7 per cent to pay for what he called historic increases in teacher salary and expansion of health care programs In a speech to a joint session of the Legislature Culver acknowledged that his budget hinges on a proposed per pack increase in the cigarette tax that has met with resistance from some lawmakers who back a smaller hike But Culver warned half measures wont even produce half the results Culvers budget would raise teacher pay by million spend million expanding health care and make a mil lion down payment on an Iowa Power Fund to expand the renewable fuels indus try The fact is we have hundreds of mil lions of dollars in health care related needs said Culver I am not willing to ignore any of the important priorities House Speaker Pat Murphy D Dubuque pre stated that lawmakers wouldnt The fact approve the full is we cigarette tax have increase but on Tuesday he said Qf Culver made a lars in strong case I think hes health care done a am not pelling arguto ignore any of the ment for higher important priorities than what a lot Quiver of legislators feel especially when you look JJ at the fact that its expanding health care said Murphy It helps decrease young people from smoking and it saves lives Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal Bluffs also said Culver had made a strong case for the lowa increased tax Republicans warned that Culver is bas ing his spending plan on a longshot tax hike A good chunk of his speech was actu ally delivered to the Democratic leaders said House Minority Leader Chris Rants City Hes making it clear to Murphy and Gronstal that if he doesnt get that dollar this budget doesnt work Culvers budget calls for spending billion in the year beginning July 1 Thats a 75 percent increase from the billion in the current year Major elements of the budget include million to create an Iowa Power Fund that will eventually grow to million and be used to expand the renewable fuel industry an extra million on education programs including million to increase teacher pay and million for Budget Continued on page 3 Power outage leaves nearly 1400 in the dark By Mark Wicks Managing Editor A line left nearly 1400 Energy customers in Charles City without electricity for awhile Monday night According to spokesman Alan Urlis a jumper wire that lines to the circuit on a power pole dis lodged during high winds 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