The Holstein City Council conducted its regular meeting at City Hall on Monday, Feb. 6.
Council members in attendance were Regennitter, Schimmer, Stevenson, Wiese, and Voss, as well as Mayor Breyfogle. Breyfogle reported on meetings attended in December.
Director Niemeier updated the Council on public works. Much of their work has been plowing and moving snow. He also reported that the pump and well pipe were replaced in Well #1.
Danna Larson of Rural Revival is helping Odebolt rise up. Larson grew up in Odebolt and her family are long-time community members. Larson gave a presentation at the Odebolt library on Feb. 10. Larson says,
Julie Childers says she fell in love with academic learning and how we gather the research tools to discern facts from those things that are not true. And academic learning surely has been her life. Childers has a bachelor's degree in English from Morningside University in Sioux City and a Master’s Degree in English Literature and Research Methodology from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. She has taught at DMACC in Carroll for 25 years.
Prosecution and defense are duking it out simultaneously on amending the bond of a defendant accused of witness intimidation.
Trial is set for April 4 at 9 a.m. for Edwin Diaz, 34, of Odebolt, who has entered a plea of not guilty to multiple felony charges after he was arrested on a drug charge and subsequently is accused of allegedly getting a witness into a vehicle with him another defendant, Amy Hartwig, and then refusing to let the witness go until she signed a statement taking the blame for the drug offense with Hartwig videotaping the witness.
The Farmacy in Ida Grove is a new business opened up by young aspiring owners, Brian and Lisa Lundell. It has the look of the 50’s and 60’s with decor Brian’s parents, Jim and Julie Lundell have helped to decorate the place with. Jim has traveled many miles to find just the right fit for this new hang-out. Brian and Lisa manage the place along with one full time employee and five part-time high schoolers.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Robby Holmes, originally from Ida Grove. In the last several years, Robby has embarked on a few outreach projects in Zanzibar, an Island in Tanzania. Tanzania is a beautiful country found on the east coast of the continent of Africa, just to the south of the equator.
“Zanzibar is sort of the Hawaii of Tanzania,” explained Holmes.
An Ida Grove woman is accused of attacking her husband in the face with a hammer. Sara Blanche Shupe, 36, was arrested Jan. 29 after law enforcement responded to a home in the 2000 block of Keystone Avenue for a domestic incident.
“I arrived on scene and spoke with Austin Shupe,” said Deputy Jared Clausen. “Austin advised that he was struck in the nose with a hammer by his wife Sara Shupe. I observed his nose as bloody and swollen. I spoke with one of his daughters and she advised that her mother, Sara hit her dad two times in the face.”
The Odebolt-Arthur Battle Creek-Ida Grove (OABCIG) School Board conducted a Special Meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at noon in the boardroom at the OABCIG High School in Ida Grove.
In attendance were board members Konradi, Rasmussen, Loger, Petersen, and Jacobson.
Also attending the meeting were Matt Alexander, Superintendent, and Julia Mogensen, Board Secretary. The board approved Early Retirement Applications from Linda Warnke, Carol Sadler, Renae Brookbank, Darla Ludvigson, Tina Krager, Patrick Miller, Kurt Hofmeister, and Deanna Thies.
The Ida County Board of Supervisors met on Feb. 1 at the courthouse. Board members in attendance were Chair Creston Schubert and Devlun Whiteing.
The board decided to allow all elected officials except for Supervisors to optionally have county-paid family health insurance benefits, effective July 1.
The supervisors authorized the Chair to sign the Wellness PTO Policy for 2023.
Bret Warnke was approved as a member of the Compensation Commission for Eminent Domain Proceedings until Jan. 3, 2024.
