Le Mars Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - September 13, 2007, Le Mars, Iowa County catches drug court wave rolling through U.S. BY MAGDALENE BIESANZ Staff writer Plymouth County's drug court will be only the fourth of its kind in but it's part of a trend that is sweeping the The county's drug which is in the start-up process will match up people convicted of drug charges or charges with a panel of 3-5 community The panel will meet with them monthly and applaud them for following the probation orders and crack down on them when they're out of This tem aims to involve the juvenile and adult offenders positively in the community and keep them out of a courts are spreading quickly across the said Gary Niles of Juvenile Court Services in Woodbury the rubber hits the road with this program is it's a long term better solution than just strict The concept started with a judge in Fla. in 1989, Niles explained on Tuesday to the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors in a presentation on what drug court could mean for the he courts sentence offenders and give them a list of probationary then review those terms in a year to see how the offender is Judge Pardon in Fla. did is it's important enough for me to give you these terms it's important enough for him to check on you on a regular basis to make sure these terms are being Niles what he found by continually calling them in and either praising them for the things they got right or sanctioning them for the things they did he found he was a lot more successful than the traditional Since Plymouth County doesn't have the judicial resources to assign a judge specifically to drug they decided to go with a panel version of drug calling on community volunteers to stand together in the checking in with offenders to see how they're sticking to the orders and process has worked very well in Woodbury and it's also in Marshalltown and in Mason City in Niles County would be the fourth panel court in the About 35 people already volunteered to serve on Plymouth County's While there wasn't enough room on the county's first people on the waiting list may be able to help as coaches or mentors for drug court had a tremendous response from this Niles testified in front of the ON PAGE 3 Le Mars United Way successfully launches campaign The fourth annual Le Mars United Way Golf Tournament netted a record to successfully launch the 2007 Le Mars United Way And once Luw the traveling trophy will be with the winning foursome of Jeff Joe Mark and Corey golf fundraiser has given us a running start and we are counting on the community to once again put us over the states 2007 campaign chair senior vice president at American year's campaign goal is to top last year's record amount of Young also noted a few companies and organizations have already made their contributions like Gehlen Catholic Schools and Printing CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 World Wrap An update on news from nation ana Indonesia - Three powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 sending panicked residents fleeing to high The death toll stood at nine regarded as low given the intensity of the The first two quakes in western Indonesia magnitudes 8.4 and 7.8 were followed by a 6.2-magnitude temblor in the according to the U.S. Geological The largest spawned nearly 10-foot-high waves on Sumatra island and the other two on Thursday triggered tsunami Indonesia's meteorological agency On an 8.4-magnitude earthquake spawned a small nondestructive tsunami off the Indonesian city of Padang on the island ravaged by the 2004 killer A tsunami warning Was issued across much of Asia and nations as far away as Thursday's first with a magnitude of 7.8, rattled the same area of Sumatra and caused least five large buildings including houses and a - said Surya who yras overseeing emergency jn Country school students invited to reunite BY BEVERLY VAN BUSKIRK Lifestyles editor A project to preserve the history of country schools and the teachers who taught in them will be highlighted at a reunion of rural school descendants of teachers and township directors and families on Sept. 22, at the Plymouth County Historical Museum in Le Country schools in Plymouth County touched the lives of countless rural citizens from about 1860 until the latest closings of the schools in the 1960s. The teachers and students attending school during that 100-year span would have experienced the death of Abraham the great influx of pioneers after the railroad went through in 1870, the grasshopper prairie two world the Great the blizzards of and much Because rural schools reflected so much of the county's rural two Plymouth County organizations are making an effort to capture that The Northwest Iowa This school was known as Remsen and was located in Remsen Township at the present day junction of Hwy. 140 and county road The teacher at that time was Raetz later married Merle and the year was between 1932 and 1934. cal Society and Plymouth County's web site are collaborating in this The has a research room at the Plymouth County Historical Museum ' and it is here that the society stores school information in 24 three-ring binders per There is also a large binder all about a binder on overall county educational history and a book containing an alphabetical listing of all teachers from about 1915 to the The other organization is the Plymouth County's web site located at Although this web site contains all kinds of Plymouth County including cemetery marriage military records and the web pages have been a big Other museums and historical societies in the county may share and share alike with these two The A-Z CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 State offers no assistance for roadwork near Akron BY MAGDALENE BIESANZ Staff writer The state isn't going to chip in for the engineering cost for possible roadwork south of County Engineer Tom Rohe shared the official word with the Plymouth County Supervisors this week that the state Department of Transportation is not willing to share the expense of the design work for road improvements that would be required by a 100-million gallon one mile south of Akron if it were to go Akron Riverview Corn Processors announced earlier this month that there would be a delay in their which originally anticipated beginning construction on the plant in the last quarter of this Total cost for the engineering plans will be to the tune of about Rohe said last ON PAGE 3 It's a Soybean mutant lacks male photo by Magdalene Masuen of Le Mars farmed for 50 years of his life but never saw a soybean plant like this which ha pulled out of his son Doug farm near While soybean plants usually only have 2-4 per this one has more than a dozen at An Iowa State plant expert said the cause is that this plant lacks the male or Today's Toolbox BY MAGDALENE BIESANZ Staff writer This is no ordinary soybean Something about this plant made Vince a man who spent 50 years of his life stop and pull it up so he could show it to other The plant is a mutant of Soybean plants usually have three at the four fuzzy at each one's got 18 in one cluster the Le Mars man pointed just full of now found the plant on his son Doug farm near It was the only one like it he parts saw in the Or for that never seen one like this he they would all the yield would be But these pods are And they won't according to a plant guru at the Iowa State University Plant Disease The cause of these large plant pathologist Christine Engelbrecht is that the plant is In other while most plants contain both male and female this one lacks the male the plant makes the male which is CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 New Fall latin spices warm up these new fall of 24-Hour Weather Mostly with a high near 72. Mostly with a low around 40. Noon 69� mmmmmm 6 p.m. 67� Midnight 50� 6 a.m. 42o * Noon 52� mathir on 2 mi at Index State & For the Lighter Volume 136 Issue 179
