Hawarden Independent (Newspaper) - July 22, 1999, Hawarden, Iowa nv July Iowa Volume 116 Issue 29 50 cents News Briefs Hawarden Chamber Coffee will be held at 10 this Friday at Car pet sponsored by Carpet Soap Box Derby A time honored American tradition needs local partici pants The Soap Box Derby will be held Labor Day week The Derby is open to those 7 to There are people willing to assist in building the race Call 5521734 or 5521190 for information and Derby As with any success depends on It can be a great family New County Jail open house to be held July 24 A reminder that the open house for the new Union County Jail will be held Sat July at the new facility at the Union County Courthouse in Elk The open house will be held from 9 to 3 The new jail was featured in a special section in the July 8 issue of the Copies of the issue are still available in Elk City Council The Hawarden City Coun cil Monday night hired Clarence of Kuehl and Payer Krepps will meet with the council to discuss the present city organization chart and also discuss the benefits of a city Krepps has been city man ager in Clarinda and Storm Lake and The council also heard that 570 lines are on the phone sys Kiwanis Farmers Market July 22 Hawarden Kiwanis Farmers Market will feature Gerrit Byker with his keyboard for This weeks contests are to guess the number of popcorn kernels in ajar and the vendor with the largest Last weeks winner was Marcella The vendor with the largest radish was Bart The Farmers Market is held each Thursday at the City Park for the balance of the summer from 6 to It will run through September Hawarden Community Fund update Dollars approach It has been since September when the announcement was made that a Hawarden Community Fund was being estab by a generous gift from the late Charles and Edna Since that the Foundation and a local board defined as fund have been working to establish a purpose and guidelines for the Hawarden Community The local fund advisors include four designated positions Mose Hendricks Chairperson of the West Sioux School Sue Gregg Postmistress Myra Schroedermeier and President of First State Don Also part of the board are two Horton family Merrilyn Schiefen and Charles and the donors Charles In organizations were sent a In individuals received a There were six categories and four The categories were Arts and and Human Within each cat egory a number of examples were given plus additional space where items could be Those surveyed then ranked each on a scale from 1 not at all to 4 very on how important they were to the Hawarden The complete tabulation is approaching completion and fur ther information will be provided in upcoming From the efforts of the Fund Advisors came a mission and a Mission The mission of the Hawarden Community Fund is to enhance the quality of promote unity community pride now and in the future by partnering with the Hawarden commu to identify and prioritize involvement and Purpose The purpose of the Hawarden Community Funds grant pro gram is to respond to present and emerging needs within Hawarden by making grants in the following areas Arts and Culture Provide or increase access to historical Civic Community city govern emergency citizen parks and rec Education Early childhood secondary and continuing Environment Pollution natural resource conserva Health Promotion and maintenance of dental and mental rehabilitative crisis Human Services public services for the economically disad minorities or other special The Hawarden Community Fund is one of the most important things to happen to the It was the wish of Charles and Edna Horton that their generosity would be a spark that other people in Hawarden would also This is the first of a series covering the Hawarden Community The next article will cover guidelines and qualifying History Fair trip to Crazy Days downtown Hawarden Future Falcon stars show their talent at the hoop The band warmed up for their concert that was enjoyed by Pictured in front of the capitol building in left to right Lance John Cari Sarah Hendricks Katie Burnight and Laura Van Story A fun evening for family members of all Relay honorary cochairs are named The two honorary cochairs for this years Sioux County Relay for Life were both caught by surprise at their diagnosis of cancer within the last two Kathy and Ryan will be recognized at the American Cancer Society event on August 67 at the Sioux Center Community More information and interviews with the two honorary co chairs will follow in next weeks edition of the Sharing the Responsibility Mobilizing Sioux County for Drug Prevention Action On July Sioux County will welcome Van a nationally acclaimed who will address the issue of drug prevention in a morning brought to Sioux County through Sioux County will speak to community leaders at New Life Reformed Church in Sioux He will be presenting Sharing the Responsibility Community Prevention The day will begin at 8 with a continental breakfast and Houser will present two one for county civic leaders from to and another for the faith community from to Sioux County Sheriffs Deputy Randy director of the County Drug Task will also present a drug education seminar for the faith community from to and for the county civic leaders from to Sioux County CARES is sponsoring this event as a precursor for when Milton Creagh comes to Sioux County in September of based out of Fort will address the issue of mobilizing the community in order to better combat the drug problem in Sioux A powerful motivational Houser has also authored numerous drug prevention programs For more information and to RSVP for this please contact Sue Didier at All law civic organization and faith com munity leaders are encouraged to