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Sunny skies for the week, but cool, with a low of
29 degrees Friday night.
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Clear Lake
Mirror-Reporter
CALENDAR
Wednesday
Harvest dinner
Galilean Lutheran Church,
Highway 18 West, Clear Lake,
will hold its annual Fall Harvest
Festival Dinner on Wednesday,
Oct. 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. The
menu is creamed chicken and
biscuits, assorted vegetables
and assorted desserts. Proceeds
from the free will donation for
the meal will support the ELCA
World Hunger Appeal and to
the Youth Ministries of the
Church. year included her diagnosis of breast cancer, a double
Wed. - Thurs.
Citywide pickup
The City of Clear Lake be-
gan its Fall Large Item Picku­p
Monday, Oct. 12 and it con-
tinues through Thursday, Oct.
15. Residents are encouraged to
use this opportunity to dispose
of large items that cannot be
discarded through their weekly
garbage service. City residents
can have old appliances and/
or electronic items picked up
during Large Item Cleanup for
a cost of $15 an item. Stickers
can be purchased for $15 each
at Clear Lake City Hall, 15 N.
6th Street. Stickers must be
purchased by 5 p.m. on Oct. 14.
Pickup of appliances in all areas
will be on Oct. 15. The City will
not pickup any items that may
be recycled through the Land-
fill of North Iowa’s electronic
waste-recycling program.
Saturday
Farmers Market
The final Clear Lake Farm-
ers Market of the season will be
held from 9 a.m. to noon Satur-
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Sports..................9-12
Legals..................... 15
Classifieds.........16-17
Heat and high winds last week
caused the lake level to drop
1.08” to its new reading of
+1.08” above the weir. Last
year at this time the lake mea-
sured +.6” above the weir.
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Oct. 14, 2015 Serving Clear Lake and Ventura since 1869 • Hometown newspaper of Jason & Stacy Heitland $1.50
October is Patriots
Breast Cancer for Pets
Awareness Month leader
ordered to
Did you know.... return
Approximately one in eight U.S. adopted dog
women will develop invasive breast can-
cer over the course of their lifetime. Owner accused
of abuse sues
Tiffani Ward is now optimistic about her future. - Photo courtesy of John Manning.
One chapter of a bizarre pet
‘I have an all new outlook on life’ adoption case has ended, but another
has opened.
Clear Lake woman spends an Last week a Cerro Gordo Coun-
‘amazing year’ battling breast cancer ty magistrate judge ruled in favor of
a Jewell, Iowa man whose dog was
by Marianne Morf coincidence. Admittedly, she was frightened. She de- “He was incredibly knowledgable and answered confiscated by Patriots for Pets Coor-
Tiffani Ward calls 2014 an amazing year. It’s scribed her daughters as “deer in the headlights.” so many questions for me,” she added. “I could feel dinator Debbie Kern, of Clear Lake.
a superlative that seems contradictory. After all, the Biopsies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), his passion for the work and it comforted me.” This week Kern and the Patriots for
and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan Allgood leads a Breast Cancer Review Confer- Pets organization were sued by Justin
mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. showed her cancer in two lymph nodes. Fortunately, ence, a comprehensive group of medical specialists Deppe, seeking attorney fees and an
As a medical assistant at Mercy Medical Center’s it was contained to the breast and had not spread. from the Mason City Clinic and Mercy Medical unspecified amount in punitive dam-
Regency Clinic in Mason City, Ward, 37, recognized Within a week Tiffani met with Mason City Clin- Center-North Iowa who meet regularly and discuss ages for pain and suffering.
a potential health problem while checking herself. ic surgeon Dr. Steven Allgood. the best course of treatment for their breast cancer pa- Last month Kern, 57, refused to
“I found a lump and I asked a doctor here about “I didn’t know what to expect. I had never had tients. The conference includes primary care provid- turn over Deppe’s nine-month-old
it. I went for my first-ever mammogram and the ra- surgery,” said Tiffani. “He sat me down, gave me a ers, radiologists, pathologists, general surgeons, plastic shepherd mix dog and was ordered
diologist knew it was cancer. You hear that “C” word hug and said ‘We will get through this together.’ It was surgeons, medical oncologists, and radiation oncolo- into custody under no bond until a
and you get scared. You think, I have two kids— 17 exactly what I needed to hear. I was not a number. He gists dedicated to delivering a full range of services on judge’s order to release the dog was
and 10. I’m a single mom. What is going to happen made me feel like a friend. We talked about family; he one campus in Mason City as the Mercy Breast Center fulfilled.
to me?— to them? It’s scary no matter what age you asked about my school. I felt like it was going to be of North Iowa. After a three-hour hearing
are.” okay and I didn’t have to go through this alone.” “We are dedicated to providing each person with Wednesday, Oct. 7, Magistrate Judge
Tiffani had no family history of breast cancer. Her During their conversation Tiffani learned Dr. All- exceptional care from the initial evaluation through Patrick Byrne ruled that Kern had
father, Chris, had brain cancer, but she was told there good’s wife had died three years ago from breast can- been misled by Deppe’s ex-wife, the
was no connection between the cancers, just a cruel cer. See BREAST CANCER on page 7 ex-wife’s spouse and one of their
friends and allowed Deppe to keep
the dog.
Kern had picked up the dog from
Deppe’s ex-wife’s home, claiming
that Deppe had violated the terms of
his April 2015 adoption contract by
abandoning the dog. Kern brought
the dog back to the shelter and re-
fused to give it back to Deppe.
Deppe is now accusing Patriots
for Pets of violating a pet adoption
contract by unlawfully taking away
his dog. He is seeking attorney fees
and an unspecified amount in puni-
tive damages for pain and suffering.
These Clear Creek Elementary students (left) and Sunset School preschoolers (right) were the first to receive recognition for their acts of kindness dur- This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s
ing the week. They received gift certificates from the Half Moon Inn for their actions and are helping to reach a goal of 2,000 acts of kindness by unsolved homicides in the hopes that it will lead to new
World Kindness Day on Nov. 13.-Submitted photos. tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a
partnership between this newspaper and other members of
Acts of kindness add up for students the Iowa Newspaper Association.
Students at Clear Creek Elementary and and I both used to teach at Clear Creek,” ex- (preschool) will receive gift certificates to the COREY LEE WIENEKE | AGE: 22 | DIED: OCTOBER 13, 1992
Sunset Schools are being rewarded for their plained VanHorn. Half Moon.
good deeds by a local restaurant. The students have been issued a chal- “It will be amazing to see 2,000 colored Hometown: West Liberty
Sara VanHorn, a former elementary lenge to be “caught” doing 2,000 acts of notes forming a rainbow at the schools,” said
school teacher who works at the Half Moon kindness by World Kindness Day on Nov. VanHorn. “I know they can do it. It’s time Corey Wieneke was found bludgeoned to death
Inn in Clear Lake, said she and others didn’t 13. If the goal is reached, their principal, the kids get recognized for all the kindness on the bedroom oor of his rural West Liberty
think kids were getting enough credit for the Mike Barkley, will be duct taped to a wall. they show others.” home on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1992. The cause of
good things they do everyday. That’s why To reach the goal, students have to be The Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter is pleased death was blunt trauma to the body. A blood-
she asked her employer to partner with Clear caught by school staff demonstrating an act to feature these students who have been “caught stained aluminum softball bat found one mile
Lake Schools to promote kindness. of kindness at school. They will be given a being kind” each week leading up to World from his home was conrmed to be the murder weapon.
“Some of us at the Half Moon— Deb- colored note to place on a rainbow displayed Kindness Day Nov. 13.
bie Heine, Cathy Bancroft and I, were talk- at their school. Each Monday, 18 students Wieneke was the late shift bartender at Wink’s Tap, a
ing about promoting kindness, and the from Clear Creek (kindergarten through downtown West Liberty tavern.
school seemed a great place to start. Cathy fifth grade) and three from Sunset School
Authorities believed Wieneke knew his killer and said
there was no evidence to suggest it was a random killing,
and that they believed the person responsible was not from
West Liberty but possibly from Iowa City. Investigators
also said they did not believe the murder was drug-related
and that it could be connected to a relationship he had with
a woman. Wieneke was returning home from Iowa City
around 7 a.m. the day of the murder.
Anyone with information about Corey Wieneke’s unsolved
murder is encouraged to call the Muscatine County Sheriff’s
Office at (319) 263-6055 or (800) 369-9635 or the Iowa DCI at
515-725-6010.
Find out more about this and other unsolved homicides at
www.IowaColdCases.org.
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