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State wrestling page 11
Weather More weather on page 5.
Mostly sunny for the weekend with a high of 33
degrees on Saturday.
USPS 117-120 VOL. 146 Issue 8 Feb. 24, 2016 Serving Clear Lake and Ventura since 1869 • Hometown newspaper of Mike & Renae Joynt $1.50
Clear Lake School Board to
review superintendent
Mirror-Reporter candidates Monday
CALENDAR The consultants of McPherson & Jacobson L.L.C. have com-
pleted Phases I and II of the superintendent search process for the
Friday Clear Lake School District. Last month consultants met with the
Dance Team show district’s Board of Education to establish selection criteria for the
screening process.
The Clear Lake Dance On Thursday, Feb. 4, the consultants met with Clear Lake
Team invites the public to its School District students, employees, and community patrons to
Spring Show Friday, Feb. 26, solicit their input into the selection process. This input will be
at 7 p.m. at the CLHS Gym. used by the Clear Lake Board of Education, as they continue to
Admission is $5 for all ages (no establish the profile for the next superintendent.
activity passes). The show will The deadline for submitting application materials was Feb.
feature guest performances by 10. After that date the consultants began reviewing the completed
the Mason City Danz Team, files and rating the candidates against the established criteria. The
Newman Dance Team, Iowa consultants have been conducting extensive background checks
State Hip-Hop Club- Dub-H, on the candidates.
Dancin’ with Roxie Competi- On Monday, Feb. 29, the consultants will meet with the
tion Teams, and elementary and Board of Education to review candidates and assist the Board as it
middle school dance clinic par- selects final candidates to be interviewed. At that meeting, inter-
ticipants. There will be six state view dates and schedules will be established and the involvement
championship routines featured
Friday night. See SCHOOL BOARD on page 2
Fri. - Sat. Sky filled MC man arrested after
Love Letters with color high speed chase on
Highway 122, I-35
Clear Lake’s Blue Horizon Thousands of people turned out Saturday
Players will present “A. R. Gur- to enjoy Color the Wind in the unseason- A Mason City man is under arrest after leading authorities on
ney’s Love Letters” Friday and ably warm weather. Kite fliers donned a high-speed chase Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, in the their waterproof boots and ice cleats as According to the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department,
Lakeview Room in Clear Lake’s the sun had melted the snow cover on the at about 8:52 p.m., a deputy attempted to make a traffic stop
City Park. Tickets are now on lake, making it very wet and slippery, but on US Highway 18 near the intersection of Mallard Avenue. The
sale at the Clear Lake Chamber still safe for the venture. Organizers Larry driver of a 2000 Buick Regal, Dillon Rasmussen, fled the scene,
office and Lake Liquors. The and Kay Day declined to guess how many with additional deputies, along with Clear Lake police and an
cost is $10 in advance and $12 people made the trip out to see the kites, but Iowa State Patrol trooper assisting in the pursuit.
at the door. Doors open at 6:30 noted several local restaurants and snack The pursuit went west to Interstate 35, north on I-35 onto
p.m. with showtime at 7 p.m. shops reported huge crowds. State Highway 122, and then back onto I-35 southbound. Speeds
during the pursuit ranged from 45 mph to over 100 mph. The
Monday -Reporter photos by Chris Barragy chase ended after the driver drove off at the Thornton exit and
Leap concert crashed into the ditch.
Students bring history Rasmussen, 32, was arrested without further incident and
The Clear Lake Schools charged with eluding, OWI, driving under suspension, and nu-
Vocal Music Department will
present its 2016 “Leap Day” See CHASE on page 2
Vocal Concert at 7:30 p.m. on
Monday, Feb. 29, in E. B. Still-
continued
More CALENDAR
on page 2
Inside alive with radio dramas
Opinion..................... 6 Projects will air on KCMR Radio in March
Weather.................... 7
Sports................ 11-13 History has come alive for Clear Lake sented to schools by John Jaszewski, a volun- John Jaszewski, from KCMR in Mason City, meets with CLHS students to record their original radio dramas. The
Legals................14-15 High School students, and soon the public will teer announcer and special projects producer students’ projects will air on FM 97.7 beginning Tuesday, March 8.-Submitted photo.
Classifieds.........16-17 share in the experience. at KCMR. Jaszsewski recently went in to the
Juniors in an English class taught by Sar- classrooms to record the dramas for airing. Workshop helps businesses
Road Reports ah Raymond and an American History class Raymond and Richtsmeier explained the prepare for the unthinkable
taught by Kate Richtsmeier have combined the project spanned three weeks, allowing stu-
Iowa 1-800-288-1047 two fields of study to create Civil War radio dents time to work in small groups to develop
Illinois 1-800-865-5394 dramas. Their work will be aired on KCMR a storyline, characters and screen play about
Kansas 1-800-585-7623 97.7 FM starting Tuesday March 8, at 7 p.m. some aspect of the Civil War era. Twenty-
Minnesota1-800-542-0220 That program will be rebroadcast on Wednes- four students worked to bring stories based in
Missouri 1-800-222-6400 day, March 9, and one more time on Satur- Iowa, New York, Georgia or Alabama to life.
Nebraska 1-800-906-9069 day, March 12. The second program will then “They had to use their notes from our
S. Dakato 1-866-697-3511 air the following week on the same days and classes to build storylines. I think the most
Wisconsin 1-800-762-3947 times. Subsequent 15-minute programs will fun was seeing the information we shared
air on the same schedule. with them pop up in unusual ways,” said
Forecasts The idea to create radio dramas was pre-
See RADIO DRAMA on page 2
Des Moines 1-515-270-2614
Sioux Falls 1-605-330-4444
Waterloo 1-319-234-6600
Call 511 for Iowa, Minnesota
and South Dakota
non-emergency weather
and road conditions.
Mail: 12 N. 4th St., Clear Lake Police Officer Zach Hall facilitated an ALICE training for members of the Clear Lake Clear Lake business leaders received an introduc- barricade themselves improved their chances of sur-
Clear Lake, IA 50428 Area Chamber of Commerce.-Reporter photo. tion to training they never hope they need. vival, while those who fled increased their odds of sur-
Telephone: 641-357-2131 “Someone enters your workplace with a weapon vival the most,
Fax: 641-357-2133 and starts firing. A horrible thought,” the Chamber “You have a choice to be proactive, or just sit
Email: office@clreporter.com of Commerce stated in its invitation for members to there,” said Hall. “Ninety-seven percent of workplace
Website: www.clreporter.com attend Friday’s ALICE training. violence is non-fatal, but you have to be ready to re-
ALICE stands for Alert, Location, Inform, spond.”
@CLReporter Counter and Evacuate. According to Clear Lake Po- The need for ALICE training has been on the rise
lice Officer Zach Hall, who led the training for about as attacks against schools, courthouses and places of
35 people, ALICE is a proven technique that prepares business have grown over the past decade.
staff for an unthinkable act. While the majority of media attention given to
“ALICE teaches what to do,” Hall told the group. active shooter events involve school shootings, Hall
He shared statistics showing that those who sat pas- said 76 percent of active shooter events do not hap-
sively as an armed intruder approached were almost pen at a school. Most active shooters are a single male
always killed. Those who had time to react and could
See ALICE on page 2
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