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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1971
Page
2
A citizen writes about winter storms causing extended power and water outages. He notes utility workers toiled long hours restoring electric and telephone service while communities faced hardships for families, farms, and daily life.
Officials and clergy thank responders who restored services after a period of outage. The report notes plans for March 25 meetings with Congressman Wiley Mayne's staff, youth projects, Good Turn bags for the handicapped, and a March 29 TOPS club talk by Eleanor Ladd on diet and food values.
The list covers petit jurors drawn for the second Discler session across multiple towns including Orange City Hawarden SIOUX CENTER and GRANVILLE. Names span many residents in the region with several omissions and garbled spellings from the damaged text. The storm hazard on March 28 affected Northwest Lawn area and a later visit to Sioux County by Milo is noted.
The Iowa Law Enforcement Regional Narcotics Seminar will be held in Sioux City on April 8 9 and 1 1971. Ernest Turek legal coordinator releases details and notes registration is limited to 100 peace officers first come first served with no charge.
Four youths from the First Christian Reformed Church of Rock Valley were chosen for summer volunteer programs. Celia Cleveringa will join a SWIM team at Creston in Grand Rapids Michigan. Linda De Boer serves on a SWIM team in Rockford Illinois. Douglas Vander Schaaf will work at Bellevue Washington. The fourth member is Althea Grevengoed.
The 34th Infantry Division also known as the Red Bull Division will hold its annual reunion at the Romevel Hotel Cedar Rapids Iowa in September 2011 12. Membership open to all who ever served in the 34th or attached to the 44th Division. Contact Chuck Sweeney Cedar Rapids for details. Also reports on tourism contests in McAllen Texas and surrounding areas March 11 31 with many travelers visiting Mexico and Port Isabel. Winter produce prices and orange sales noted. Probate notices list Maggie Brunsting Winnie Ver Stegg and Carl Ver Steeg estates closed. A Sioux Center resident Larry Vander Weide faced OMVI charges. bond set and hearing scheduled. March 15 1971 Junior Van Beek of George Iowa appeared in district court charged by Iowa.
Van Heek pleaded guilty to unlawfully engaging in business of buying for resale and selling swine in Iowa without state licensing. Judge Kelley imposed a $200 fine plus costs. The court logged related criminal and civil action notes including a motor vehicle DUI case and a large open account suit by Herb’s Skelly Dist. against Ed Scholten Truching.
Sixth grader Jean Welt daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Webr of Mural Keola won second place in a national essay contest. She attends St Marys grade school which received several reading listening programs and an 80 boola plus a camette player for her essay Happiness.
The Plato Combined Appeal collected 1453 dollars to be shared by 12 health and welfare groups. Solicitors include Henry Wyola Henry Rateboom Walter C Moore John Miller William R Halstein Ascher Bogart Warten Valentine Gonie Brock Jack Dibbet and Harold De Graaff. Gerald Mouw chairs with John Vande Kieft as vice chair and Marvic Atouw as secretary.
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