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Weather
Pleasant temperatures will start to dip and a few
showers are possible this week.
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CALENDAR
Saturday
Watercolor
workshop
Award winning Clear Lake
artist, Delores ‘Dee’ Frederick,
will teach a Watercolor work-
shop at the Clear Lake Arts
Center on Saturday, Oct. 24
from 10 a.m. -noon and 1 – 4
p.m. This workshop is for be-
ginner, intermediate and expe-
rienced painters and will focus
on painting fall leaves. Cost
for the workshop is $40, plus
supplies, for Arts Center mem-
bers and $45, plus supplies, for
non-members. A supply list
is provided at registration. To
register, call or email the Clear
Lake Arts Center at 357-1998
or clac@cltel.net.
Monday
Pumpkin party
A Pumpkin Party Family
Night will be held at the Clear
Lake Public Library Monday,
Oct. 26, from 5-6 p.m. as an
open house for Preschoolers
and their families. Children
ages three-years and older are
welcome. There will be games
and a pumpkin craft. Pumpkin
stories will be read by a guest
storyteller. There will also be a
drawing for a real pumpkin and
a book. Those planning to at-
tend are asked to register by
phoning 357-0315.
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Obituaries..............2-3
Opinion..................... 4
Weather.................... 5
Sports..................9-12
Legals................16-17
Classifieds.........18-19
News of Record......20
More windy and dry weather
is causing the level of Clear
Lake to continue to drop. The
Water Department reported
the level of the lake as an
even 0.0 at the weir Tuesday
morning. The new reading
means the level has dropped
1.08 inches from the previous
week. Last year the lake was
+.6 inches above the weir at
this time.
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Oct. 21, 2015
Kwik Star makes it official
Although it has been open for a little over a week, Kwik Trip/Kwik Star company leaders celebrated the convenience store’s opening Tuesday,
Oct. 20, with a ribbon cutting. The event also included $1,000 check presentations by Kwik Star to the Clear Lake Police Department and
Opportunity Village. Here, Police Chief Pete Roth accepts the gift. The 7,500-square-foot convenience store and truck center is located on a
19-acre parcel at the intersection of Highway 122 and North 32nd Street just east of Interstate 35.-Reporter photo.
Ssshh! City signs on to encourage quiet travel
Those traveling through Clear Lake
will hopefully take notice of new signage
being installed.
Peter Lagios first introduced the
Clear Lake City Council to the “Ride
Quietly” campaign two years ago and ran
as a candidate for City Council to pursue
the issue. His bid for election failed and
the issue faded away until this year, when
Lagios again considered a run for a Coun-
cil seat.
Although he ultimately decided not
to seek election, he continued to speak to
the Council about a problem he witnessed
in his neighborhood and elsewhere—
loud vehicles.
GHV school
leader finalist
for top honor
Tyler Williams, superintendent of
the Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Commu-
nity School District, was a finalist for
the 2015-16 Iowa Superintendent of the
Year award sponsored by the School Ad-
ministrators of Iowa.
“SAI is pleased to recognize leaders
who are dedicated to promoting student
achievement and committed to educa-
tion,” said Roark Horn, the association’s
executive director.
The GHV School District began the
current school year as one district after a for some showers this week.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.
successful reorganization vote, where 93
percent of voters approved the Garner-
Hayfield and Ventura school districts
becoming a single district.
Williams received his undergradu-
ate teaching degree at Central College,
a master’s degree in administration at
Drake University, where he also received
ing to a four-year stint in Mount Ayr
where he received his first superinten-
dent’s position. Williams is in his 13th
year representing Garner-Hayfield,
Ventura and now GHV.
Nominated for the award by his
peers, Williams will be recognized at
SAI’s awards reception Aug. 3, 2016,
along with Council Bluffs Superinten-
dent Martha Bruckner who was recently
selected as the recipient.
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Supervisors show
support for grant
application for
rail facility
The Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors has ap-
proved a grant application in support of the construction of a
trans-load rail facility in Emery between Mason City and Clear
Lake.
Tuesday, Oct. 13 Supervisors gave their support to a
$656,000 facility which would initially employ five persons.
Sanders Products, of Lawrence, Kan., serves biofuels manu-
facturing plants in north-central Iowa and southern Minnesota
with the transportation of sulfuric acid used in making ethanol.
Sanders is proposing to construct a facility that would help ship
more of the product through the rail system instead of having
it off-loaded from rail cars into tanks and then trucked to the
ethanol plants.
The project would include the construction of two tanks
with a loading tower, plumbing and flow meters, and a contain-
ment area.
A majority of the facility’s cost would be paid for by the
Iowa Department of Transportation’s new “Linking Iowa’s
Freight Transportation System.” The program is intended
to find ways to ship more things by rail to decrease the number
of heavy-axle trucks on the roads.
A one-time grant through the LIFTS program would pro-
vide $520,000 for the project. Sanders will pay the difference
with matching funds. No county money would be used for the
grant.
Lagios urged the city to take action “It seemed like a reasonable approach to
which would help to bring noisy vehicles promote awareness and be responsive to
into compliance with Iowa and Federal those citizens that have expressed their
law. “Clear Lake is a very nice com- concerns over the issue,” said.
munity and I want to ensure that it only Lagios worked with the Council to
gets better by asking motorists to install place signs at busy thoroughfares.
proper mufflers on their vehicles,” he The first areas to receive the “Please
said in an earlier statement to media. “I Ride Quietly” signs are: on the grade go-
believe most Iowans are decent and law ing up the hill on South Shore Drive by
abiding, but there are still a few who insist the Outing Club, in the 12th Avenue
on making loud aggravating noise at the South vicinity; at the intersection of 4th
expense of the public good.” Avenue South and South 8th Street; at
City Administrator Scott Flory said 27th Avenue South and South Shore
Lagios’ approach to address the issue Drive; and in the North Shore Drive and
through signage was a good idea. Clark Road area.
Watch for signs like these in Clear Lake neighorhoods.-Submitted photo.
-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s
unsolved homicides in the hopes that it will lead to new
Dry conditions spark field fires, tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a
red flag warnings partnership between this newspaper and other members of
the Iowa Newspaper Association.
Extremely dry conditions, coupled with wind, have resulted in a number of field fires in
North Iowa, like this blaze which broke out Wednesday, Oct. 14, between Clear Lake JORGE “LOUIE” GUTIERREZ, SR | AGE: 47 | DIED: OCT. 19, 2004
and Mason City. A Red Flag Warning has been posted statewide for all but a few counties
in northwest Iowa. The National Weather Service says the risk of wildfires is high due to Location: Davenport
strong winds, low humidity and dry vegetation. Farmers need to be especially cautious
as they harvest dry crops. Farmers are urged to be very careful about bearings give their Louie Gutierrez, of East Moline, Ill., was found
equipment frequent breaks to cool off and for clean up. Forecasters say there’s a chance wrapped in a sleeping bag in the bed of his
maroon 1983 Chevrolet pick-up truck in the
early afternoon of October 19, 2004. The truck,
which was covered in Dallas Cowboys stickers,
was parked along the Mississippi River in the 3400 block
of South Concorde Street in Davenport. Gutierrez was
believed to have been killed two days earlier, on Oct. 17,
2004, as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.
Because his body was left to make it look like he died in his
sleep, coupled with other evidence in the case, his family
believes the people responsible for his death must have
known him. Family members also believe that more than one
person is responsible for his death because he was a burly
man, and it would take more than one person to carry him.
If you have any information regarding Louie Gutierrez’s unsolved
murder, please contact the Davenport Police Department at (563)
326-7979 or the Davenport Crime Stoppers tip line at (309) 762-
9500 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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