Sioux Center News (Newspaper) - May 21, 2003, Sioux Center, Iowa Tulip Festival See Section 17 Page 14 FOR ADC STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY 600 E LOCUST ST MOINES IA 503190290 May 2003 Sioux Iowa Our One Hundred Tenth Year Single Issue Price 750 State qualifiers See Section 2 Page 2 Citizens express concerns about rezoning Kinsey kindergarten students graduate The Sioux Center School District hosted its annual kinder The EIGHT God Bless and the Alphabet garten graduation last Friday night at the high school Above The students also sang The Iowa The um with the theme Our Precious A total of 80 teachers for the kindergarten classes are Bonita Lindi pal Bob The students sang songs like teacher for Kinsey By Steve Hoogland The Sioux Center City Council hosted a public hearing and heard a number of comments during a spe cial noon meeting last The hearing concerned a rezon ing issue along the east side of High way 75 in Sioux Center from Ninth Street SE to 16th Street The Sioux Center Planning and Zoning Commission proposed the At a May 5 the council moved forward calling the public hearing for Most of the members of the pub lic who spoke during the public hearing spoke against the In all about 20 members attended and about 12 spoke up citing safety lack of flexibility for property size of present and children traffic in the areas Under the proposal property along the east side of Highway 75 in the affected area would be changed to office district Presently property along Highway 75 between Ninth Street SE and 16th Street SE is designated either single family residential medium density residential district or multifamily In an area of First Avenue SE between 14th Street SE to 16th Street SE would be rezoned from It was noted that the change along First Avenue SE would put that area in line with the other existing area along First Avenue Paul the assistant city said that the idea of rezoning that area came up this year when another proposal was before the Planning and The Board of Adjust ment eventually denied that appli but said that it sparked dis cussion among the Planning and Zoning That led to the recommendation of making the areas along Highway 75 into an office Clousing said areas can be changed from the resi to office designation if they go through special exceptions hear I think that part of the rationale is that the area is already changing said There is already a a funeral home and about four other There seems to be the move in that direction Clousing noted that more exceptions to the existing zoning are possible in the The issue that Planning and Zoning is looking at is the longterm said see Section 1 9 Termaat pleads guilty Philip Dean of Rock Valley pleaded guilty to tary manslaughter and attempt to commit murder in Sioux County District Court May Termaat was originally charged with murder in the July alleged death by lation of his Persons The case was set to go to trial on May According to the Sioux County Attorneys the crimes to which Termaat pleaded guilty carry mandatory prison The attempted murder charge carries a 25year and the voluntary manslaughter charge carries a 10 year A plea agreement signed by the defendant provides that the two prison terms 35 years see Section 1 Page 9 Memorial Day program slated for Monday By Steve Hoogland Memorial Day services next week will give the Sioux Center community an opportunity to honor war veterans and people who have lost their lives in ser vice to the United A community church service will take place at the Dordt Col lege Haan Auditorium on May at 7 The Tom Smith of Rock Val ley provide the Smith is one of the pastors at Faith Reformed Church in Rock Special music will be pro vided by the local musical The Veterans of Foreign Wars American Legion and New Life Reformed Church are organizing the Veterans are invited to gather in the lobby of the Haan Auditorium 15 minutes before the service begins so they can walk in as a Monday activities On May the annual Memorial Day parade is slated to begin at but people who will be participating in the parade should assemble downtown at 9 The parade will begin downtown and con clude at Memory Gardens Ceme A Memorial Day program will begin at the cemetery at The Sioux Center High School band will perform as part of a salute to World War II veter The Charles Louvau of the Lebanon Christian Reformed Church will give the address at Mondays program at the Memo ry Gardens Cemetery following the Louvau has served in the past MESSAGE see Section 1 Page 6 Mentoring program undergoes changes By Amanda Vande Brake As the 20022003 Pals mentoring program draws to a close with the end of the academic officials involved with the 20 yearold organization are working closely with Big Brothers Big Sisters of representatives to strengthen the relationship between the two A strong working relationship involving Pals and Big Brothers Big Sisters will be necessary when begins assuming the Pals programs operations at the beginning of the 20032004 school year in Amy case man ager based in Sioux will be the new face of the program when she begins facilitating matches and organizing scheduled I would say programs like this are extremely Harnack In the past three espe mentoring has become a big topic in communities everywhere because through kids improve in a lot of TRANSITION see Section 1 Page 13 Amy case worker with Big Brothers Big Sisters of will be the new face of the local mentoring Churches plan combined service Lebanon Christian Reformed Church and Hawarden Christian Reformed Church will be hosting a combined community worship and fellowship service at Oak Grove Park on May 25 at The service will take place at the enclosure by the The worship time will include a time of praise team music and a mes sage from Gods Word presented by Pastor Charlie People are asked to bring their own pop or and also lawn chairs for their All are warmly Poppies to be distributed This week members of the American Legion Auxiliary will be distrib uting Memorial Poppies to citizens of the which are worn to pay tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of The poppies are made by disabled veterans and purchased by Ameri can Legion Auxiliaries across the country for local and the money is often the only income the disabled veterans The primary is to give people an opportunity to pay tribute to the war dead by wearing a poppy and to remind them of the real meaning of Memorial but donations are welcome and all money received is used to serve and aid veterans and their Some of the donated money will be used to purchase poppies for the following the remainder will be used for various veteran pro In the past years veteran projects have included making and donating lap tray favors and cookies to the Sioux Falls Veterans hospital sending money to the Sioux Falls Veterans Hospital for their Christmas gift shop project purchasing and wrapping large poppies around the flags placed on veterans graves for Memorial Day assisting the American Legion in presenting Blue Star Banners to local families who have a fami ly member in active duty and packaging care packages to people from the community serving in active Environmental regulation meetings slated A series of meetings in midJune will provide the latest information on new Iowa regulations for livestock The meetings are spon sored by Iowa Pork Producers Association Iowa Pork Industry Center State University ISU and will be held at five locations across the The site for northwest Iowa is at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon on June 11 at 7 IPPA Environmental Committee Chairman Steve Kerns said farmers with pork production operations would be especially interested in the pro gram Speakers include Wendy Powers and Jeff Lorimor of ISU and Eldon attorney with Swanson and ISU Extension field specialists also will present sessions on additional topics at each Producers are invited to attend the meeting which will last about two The meeting is free and no is For more information on the meeting producers can contact IPPA at 800 Prevention is key for dental health It has estimated that for every dollar spent on preventive dental to is saved in restorative and emergency Early detection and treatment are estimated to save the United States billion SOURCE The American Dental Hygienists Associa tion
