Pella Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 29, 2004, Pella, Iowa The January 29, 2004 Pell a's Hometown Newspaper Since 1866 Two Sections - 20 Pages Lion's Club members give the gift of sight to people worldwide Dr. Ralph De Bob and Ed Kooi work at sorting eyeglasses donated through the CHRONICLE PHOTO BY VAN DONSELAAR By CINDY VAN DONSELAAR Pella Chronicle Two hundred and fifty That's approximately the number of donated eyeglasses Bob Grandia and Ed Kooi have and processed for the Lion's ' Grandia and members of School board the Pella since the club's their days in the basement of Eyecare Partners going through box after box of glasses donated to Lions Club chapters across the spend hours upon hours doing says Justin president of the Pella Lions are Their dedication is really an Bui Grandia and Kooi don't really think themselves that For both simply a matter of using their time so I have time for says who for years owned and operated Grandia Meat now known as Meat way I can say I'm really doing something with my Grandia starts working on the boxes of glasses in the After lunch Kooi joins They have a they wash glasses in a dry and sort Men's glasses form one women's and children's glasses still Grandia then uses a called an that reads the prescription of the Kooi takes sliding the glasses into a plastic bag and labeling them according to the know how to work says goes by We don't even have to say much to each Once eyeglasses are bagged and they are They are made available to by the Lions Club to eye doctors who distribute them around the Dr. Ralph De an eye doctor practicing at Eyecare recently returned from a trip to He and some local high school students were part of a team formed by Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity that set up a free eye clinic in The Pella group took over 3,000 LION'S CLUB Continued on page 8 Supervisors leash loose dogs with new ordinance By HAL HATFIELD Marion County authorities arc ready to crack down on dog owners in the county's unincorporated areas who allow their animals to run The Board of Supervisors on Monday adopted an ordinance that prohibits dogs running at large in the unincorporated prolonged barking or howling by dogs attacking or injuring humans or domestic damaging real personal properly or vegetation and an owner permitting his dog to deposit excrement on property other than on his owner's The new ordinance is similar to one adopted earlier by the Knoxville City Council that requires dogs to be leashed when not confined on their owner's Knoxville dog owners are also responsible for picking up their outside of the owner's The ordinance's penalties include of loose destruction of licensed dogs lhal are not retrieved by their owners within five days and of unlicensed dogs if they are not retrieved by their owners or by another person within five days and fines of $ 100 for the first and for each repeat The supervisors also named the Pella the Marion County News and the Knoxville as the county's official newspapers for the publication of legal The Hometown News did not receive the According to County Attorney Terry slate law provides that the three newspapers in a county with the highest bona fide paid circulation be designated for publication of legal He said over-the-counter and rack sales cannot be considered in the circulation In content of the designated newspapers must be at least 90 percent SUPERVISORS Continued on page 8 members get a lesson in the lives of third grade students By BRIAN SCHMARJE Pella Chronicle Monday night's school board meeting began with a presentation by the third grade teachers of Between have a combined experience of 150 years of Jim Hardin gave a presentation on personal There fire five areas of issues third grader intellectual and The four chapters of the textbook from which Hardin is teaching address the food guide the dangers of drugs and injury and violence Cindy a third grade science gave a video presentation on what her children like about She said her class did fun things like make simple Her students calculated how much she would weigh on She said she would rather be weighed on Janice Vander a language arts talked about how she integrated science and math with Her class made a model of Pompeii at the time of the volcano They also do weather watch which incorporates many The six traits of writing are introduced in the third Vander Streek reads to tlie She emphasizes ideas and She talks abut the middle and end of a Word choice and sentence fluency are other topics her class might Social studies teacher Jim Alder finds that children stay interested in the topics covered in the textbook for his This is the first time his students have had to read for SCHOOL BOARD Continued on page 8 A lone person treks across the bridge on Central College's campus Bitterly cold temperatures and snow blew in earlier this causing people to outdoors only when CHRONICLE PHOTO BY CINDY VAN Volunteers make a difference in tlie lives of local youth Mentors form kinship with Pella youth BY BRUN SCHMARJE Pella Chronicle Denise Van a Kinship volunteer has watched a young grow up before her She has met with Page for the last four years since Page was January is National News 2-3, 8 Obituaries Volunteering Kinship is a volunteer program where adults spend an hour of their week mentoring a child from the ages five to 13. Page and it's been Van Zee only do we meet just the two of but I have a good relationship with her mom and Sometimes the four of us go out to Another Kinship Volunteer Mark Phillips was approached through Kinship three years He had a busy schedule at the time and wasn't sure he could mentor a Kinship people told him it would only be an hour a There are KINSHIP Continued on page 3 Rietveld serves the youth of his community By SCHMARJE Pella Chronicle In National Volunteers Serve Our which empowers more than 200 volunteers has shown it plays a crucial part in Marion based in serves Pella and Marion On Jan. 16 Bruce 7 Page 2... PC Homecoming 14-15 16 Community 17 War on 20 Page 3... Severidt to close medica practice in Pella Rietveld received an award from the Governor of the State of Iowa for volunteering and mentoring thing I've tried to do is set up a network to involve other people to work with he formerly of works with nearly 200 youth in Knoxville through the Page Take a trip back in time with Murt Kooi Crosswalk Youth The Celebrate Church started with six children three years Rietveld has been involved with Crosswalk for a year and a are a lot of kids that benefit from adult influence in their Some of them come SERVE OUR YOUTH Continued on page 8 Pella weather Highs will struggle to reach the 20-degree while evening lows dip below 0697113570218
