Bid date set for Highway 18 project May 25
City Clerk Bill Van Maanen told the council that DOT officials from Des Moines set May 25 as the bid date for the Highway 18 resurfacing project within city limits. Work will begin at 420 feet east of Main Street and extend to 21st Avenue this summer, with an overlay replacing curbs. In other business, a preconstruction meeting on the Golf Course addition discussed a temporary road during construction.
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DOT
Des Moines
van Maanen
Thomas de Witt
Main
21St Avenue
Addi
17Th Street
Rock Valley Bee
Arson Case Probes See Slow Progress In Rock Valley
Officials pursue eleven Rock Valley fires dating between 1974 and 1975 tied to a former Hope Haven student. A confessed link from an earlier Sioux City fire is questioned without corroborating evidence, delaying formal charges.
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Rock Valley
Sioux County
Hope Haven
Jerry Corbett
Spencer
The
Bee
Sioux City
Sale of Development Tract Announced
Purchase of a thirty one acre tract adjoining Highway 18 in Rock Valley was announced. Judson Smith sold the land south of the highway to Charles Wynia, local realtor and developer. The site includes 380 feet of highway frontage used as a display lot by John R. Wallenburg. Wynia will take possession immediately and plans residential and commercial development.
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Rock Valley
Judson Smith
Charles Wynna
John R. Wallenburg
Wynia
Van Kley Tool and Die Set to Open in May
Arnold Van Kley of Rock Valley announced plans to open the Van Kley Tool and Die Company in a concrete block building west of Hiway Chevrolet Buick on Highway 18. The firm will provide precision tooling and die work, including jigs and fixtures, after Van Kley leaves Hayes Albion’s Kooima Division where he worked 16.5 years. The start of operations is expected in the second week of May.
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Arnold van Kley
Rock Valley
van Kley
Kooima
Hayes- Albion
Hiway
Chevrolet Buick Company
Highway 18
Var Kley
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Allen Kooima
Rock Valley Jaycees
Gerald Vermeer
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