Le Mars Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - September 11, 2007, Le Mars, Iowa Daily Sentinel 3ttg^r5jj^hibw11.2007 C 0 UNTY ' S N PER 75 cents Zoning boards agree to work together on fringe area BY MAGDALENE BIESANZ Staff writer The city planning and zoning board was gathering Monday to talk with the county zoning board about jurisdiction in the two-mile around Le but even before the two boards talked about they went ahead and did just The situation was Virgil Van Beek of Le Mars had requested approval from the county board of the addition of four lots to Heights Subdivision just north of Le outside city limits but within the fringe the lot sizes were smaller than county standards but acceptable according to city Acting in the developer's the county board agreed to waive their jurisdiction on the request and hand it to the city planning and zoning who were already at the county waiting to talk about the fringe The city board approved the request - with a few stipulations - saving Van engineer from extra trips to extra worked out pretty well said county planning and zoning chairman Melvin He shared the county group's proposal for collaborating on which would involve the county yielding zoning authority to the city for specific development plans in the fringe especially those contiguous to the They also proposed that the city and county boards meeting together to help streamline the process for developers in special and that the two groups review zoning ordinances side-by-side to help eliminate any conflicting if something comes we're willing to meet with to call a special Brown think we should be willing to do that at any Both the zoning boards are subordinate to other boards - the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 LCS board awards construction contract BY BEVERLY VAN BUSKIRK Lifestyles editor Construction on a middle school gymnasium and high school classroom addition at Le Mars Community Schools moved forward Monday evening with the opening of bids and awarding of construction The board awarded the contract to Holtze Construction of Sioux which came in with the low base bid of Four other Haugen Hoogendoorn L & L Builders and Wiltgen also bid on the Phase I with base bids ranging from to Jim Ruble of Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates told board members they received very competitive On Ruble's the board voted to award the base contract to Holtze Construction and to meet with engineers at the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 World Wrap An update on news from nation ana Egypt - A new Osama bin Laden videotape released Tuesday on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks shows one of the suicide hijackers speaking his last will and testament into the camera as his image is superimposed upon an image of a burning World Trade The videotape had not yet been posted on extremist web The a monitoring group in suburban said it had obtained the videotape privately and provided it to Associated Press Television The video began with a still photo of bin Laden in front of a brown The terror in a is heard talk of mine consists of some reflections on the will of a young man who personally penetrated the most extreme degrees of danger and is a rarity among one of the 19 champions Allah have mercy on them the videotape appears Of Sept. 11 hijacker Walid who was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the World Trade shall come at you from your front and your right and said in the asserting that America would suffer the same fate as the Soviet FROM PIG PEN TO PARTY PLACE Le Mars couple convert barn into clubhouse Editor When others merely saw an abandoned pig Larry Hanno saw a party gave up pig farming about six years says the rural Le Mars about four years I got sick and tired of seeing our old barn sit Hanno had a He and his family converted their porcine removed the hay and replaced it with hardwood They installed picnic tables and decks for the first and built a small stage and a dance floor for the wanted to retained the integrity of the Hanno we wanted to create a fun atmosphere Glancing over at the result of all of his hard he think we've Taking note of the good time his own seven grandchildren always had whenever they visited the Hanno decided to expand upon his clubhouse and invite the photo by Earl Converting their old pig barn into a party place was originally something Larry and Bev Hanno wanted to do for their they've decided to open it up for public gatherings as The rural Le Mars couple has scheduled a public open house for Sept. and Sept. 16, from 1 to 5 p.m. public to join in on the when we came up with the concept of our Fun he says with a Hanno and his wife Bev have opened up their farm to be a place for birthday company family and much have the space and we have the Hanno why wouldn't we want to share was all Larry's Bev remarks with a resigned Hanno thought I was crazy for trying Bev shakes her she our grandkids had a they wanted it in the I why wouldn't We put up a CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Sheriff's office takes on the road photo by Sergeant Lynn Steckelberg installs one of the new computers into a Plymouth County Sheriff's Office Soon four vehicles will be equipped with the computers that can handle electronic traffic citations and accident able to connect with a statewide BY MAGDALENE BIESANZ Staff writer When you hand over your driver's license to the sheriff's deputy that pulled you over for an he won't have to spend much time copying down all your All he'll have to do is swipe the barcode on the Within a that violation will show up if any officer in the state types in your you're in Waterloo tomorrow night - boom - it shows up that you were arrested last said Sergeant Lynn Steckelberg of the Plymouth County Sheriff's Meet the These are the four computers the Plymouth County Sheriffs Office bought to use in their thanks to a grant from the Iowa Department of The sheriff's office matched the grant 50-50. The computers will allow the sheriff's crew to issue electronically filed traffic citations and create accident reports while never having to leave the With a scanner and printer right in the they can whip out a paper copy of the accident report for the drivers These are no ordinary Dubbed by their they are extremely babies are Steckelberg company that makes them was CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Today's Toolbox Clean up days this weekend The city of Le Mars is offering a three-day amnesty this week at the county landfill to encourage city residents to clean up their From Sept. 13 to 15, the landfill will accept up to 1,000 pounds per household of throw-away construction demolition material and The cost of that waste will be paid by the city and not billed to the Commercial and industrial properties are not included in the The city won't do a pickup for the and residents must make their own arrangements to bring them to the Landfill hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on the first and third 8 a.m. to 12 4th annual Big Sioux River Canoe Outing set for Saturday BY BEVERLY VAN BUSKIRK Lifestyles editor The fourth annual Canoe Outing on the Big Sioux River will be held this Sept. 15, starting at 8 a.m. and concluding at about 1 p.m. The outing is sponsored by the Big Sioux River Corridor There is no charge to participate in the canoe outing and a free picnic lunch will be served after the ride at the Akron City skills are not you can learn as you said Victoria Plymouth County Conservation who will be assisting at the Participants should wear quick drying are always a great she CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Getting R-U Rockets fall to HMS 24-Hour Weather Mostly with a high near 68. Mostly with a low around 41. Page 9 Find on 2 and at Index State & For the Lighter Classifieds 11-13 Volume 136 Issue 177
