Editor’s note: The Board of Supervisors position is the only contested county election this year. Whiteing’s opponent, Todd Conover, will be featured next week.
Devlun Whiteing brings quite a bit of experience to the table in his campaign to be elected to the Ida County Board of Supervisors.
A frightening accident occurred in Ida Grove last Monday evening when a train collided with a pedestrian at the railway crossing of Washington Street.
A railway worker reported that a woman was walking across the tracks while the train was coming. The conductor pulled the emergency brake, but the train was going too fast to stop in time.
The woman was hit and dragged several feet. The railway worker relayed that while she was injured, the woman was still conscious after the crash. Emergency crews transported her to the hospital.
The story of Holstein’s CornerHaus 101 is, as co-owner Alyssa Dreeszen put it, one of “growing where you’re planted.”
The coffee house and cocktail bar was started in 2016 by Bobbi Jo Clausen and Jeff Neckhash, who were new to being baristas when they started. Adam and Alyssa Dreeszen, who bought CornerHaus in 2020, credit them with providing a solid foundation for both the individual business and the broader community downtown.
County Engineer Jeff Williams was a last-minute addition to the Ida County Board of Supervisors’ agenda Sept. 27, as he brought news from a meeting of county road workers the previous day. He relayed his employees’ requests for raises.
While doing work recently with crews from Woodbury County, Williams reported, the crews found that road workers in Woodbury make three dollars more per hour than in Ida. In the face of such a discrepancy, the Ida workers decided it would be reasonable to ask for a higher wage.
All is going smoothly so far for the certification of the PPEL votes for both Ida County school districts, though the same cannot be said for the county budget.
On the heels of a contentious meeting with Schaller-Crestland, the school board members of Ridge View’s Galva-Holstein district held an individual work session Sept. 18 for their constituent parents, to clear up questions and misconceptions about their plans around the school sharing agreement.
Facing a protracted absence of a county assessor with no hire in sight, the Ida County Conference Board called a meeting Sept. 20 to address the issue.
Some may not have noticed, but a new business G & H Welding has cropped up just outside of town at 5981 HWY 175 on the grounds of The Castle Town Inn recently purchased by Nathan Arbegast. Astute observers may have spotted the G & H Welding custom forged sign on the SW corner of the property which gives a hint of the versatility of this shop that offers welding repairs, custom fabricating and mobile welding services to Ida Grove and surroundings as well as motorcycle repairs and a little sculpturing to boot.
