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A Chance Of Support medical LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Madness In cannabis
have up to 100 seizures a day. That sentative introduced a new bill in that deserve to be helped.
March To the Editor: was in 2014. The result of their blood, the house commerce committee that Don’t you think we should leave
Over the last two years I have sweat and tears that year was a puny actually strongly passed out of com- that to the patient and the doctor do-
By Guest Columnist Dorothy Rosby learned a whole lot more than I ever bill signed into totally ineffective and mittee and will go to the house floor ing the prescribing? Crohn’s Disease is
expected or wanted to know about worthless law by Gov. Terry Branstad. for a vote, if Mrs. Upmeyer will al- one illness that I am intimately famil-
I’m always been a day late and a ball. And I can see how that would be medical cannabis. I became involved In 2015 the Iowa Senate Demo- low it. But first it was sliced, diced iar with and it is treated successfully
dollar short—or in this case, two years exciting if your psyche is gripped by in advocacy for this issue when I crats passed a comprehensive bill that and mutilated, resulting in a bill that with cannabis in many states. My hus-
late and a billion dollars short. You that sort of thing. learned about the mothers of kids would have helped people with many limits the medical conditions to just band suffered with Crohn’s for many
probably heard that in 2014, Warren But if I’m going to go mad in with epilepsy who were down at the more medical conditions to access three that can benefit. Apparently years, took the full battery of danger-
Buffet offered a billion dollar March March, and there’s a better than one statehouse every day talking to our medicine that they need, a medi- these butchers think they are qualified ous and ineffective drugs, had several
Madness prize to anyone who could in 9.2 quintillion chance that I will, I representatives on behalf of their sick cine that is legal in 23 states, but our medical doctors because in their infi- surgeries and finally the last one which
successfully pick all 64 team brackets can think of plenty of other reasons to babies and children many of whom House Republicans refused to allow it nite wisdom they have declared that resulted in him living the last 16 years
in the NCAA men’s basketball tourna- do it. to go to the floor for a vote. epilepsy, MS and the final year of ter- of his life with no colon.
ment. You can’t win if you don’t play, How about getting pinched be- 25 Years Ago Last week a Republican repre- minal cancer are the only conditions
and I didn’t play…or win. Of course, cause you don’t wear green on St. Pat- February 1991 See LETTER on page 5
sometimes you can’t win even if you rick’s Day, or dying your beer green or A new classroom addition is be-
do play, as everyone who played found calling something corned beef when ing proposed at Lincoln Elementary REMEMBER WHEN
out. there’s no corn involved? That’s mad- School. Superintendent Steve Voelz
Estimates vary, but some math- ness if you ask me. said preliminary plans will be made CLHS 1966 Boys Basketball Team
ematicians say your chance of pick- What about Pi Day on March 14, for a two-room and four-room addi-
ing all the tournament brackets cor- so named because the ratio of a pie’s tion. The board will then determine The 1965-66 Clear Lake Boys Basketball team was named the North Central Conference Champions. Pictured is front
rectly is one in 9.2 quintillion. That’s a circumference to its diameter is 3.14 which plan to go ahead with based on row (L-R): Coach Gary Boeyink, Kent Opheim, Mark Schoneman, Jim MacDonald and Bruce Evenrud. Back row (L-
nine with 18 zeroes. Put another way, and Greek mathematicians couldn’t bids received. The additional class- R): Don Anderson, Tim Sill, Doug Floy, Bill Moresby, Ken Grabinski and Jim Elting.
Warren Buffet had nothing to worry spell worth a dang. rooms are needed to accommodate
about. The Ides of March, March 15, increasing numbers of students in spe- shore at the Fish Hatchery. The pipe 75 Years Ago farm up on the southwest shore of the
March Madness “grips the na- corresponds to the date on the Roman cial education and first grade. will lay four feet under the sand. The February 1941 lake to August Hollatz. We under-
tional sports psyche from the second calendar on which Julius Caesar was Team scores are in and tallied ice is two foot thick at the present The Reporter has been under a stand the consideration was $150 per
week of March through the first week assassinated in 44 BC. I think that was for the Clear Lake Area Chamber of time. The water will be pumped from difficult time due to the illness of the acre.
of April,” or so I read on a sports web- followed by a bit of madness, but I Commerce Membership Blitz Day the lake into a rapid-flow filter and linotype operator. This necessitated For four days only the Etzel Drug
site. No offense sports fans, but many haven’t read Shakespeare’s Julius Cae- and, according to Chamber President into a metal tank. This will assure the having considerable type set at Mason Store will give away free gold fish to
things grip my psyche during March, sar since I was forced to in college and Terry Peterson (Budget Inn), “it was a hatchery of ample, filtered water dur- City on press day. Much late news has every customer who buys Rexall Liver
and basketball isn’t one of them. I my memory of 44 BC is a little rusty, huge success.” There were 113 mem- ing the hatch period, which begins as been omitted for this reason. Salts at 25¢ a package.
sure wouldn’t spend a lot of time as anything from 44 BC would be by bers before the Blitz, and now mem- soon as the ice goes out of the lake. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Duesenberg The Des Moines Register printed
guessing tournament brackets when I now. bership stands at 161, this means a 42 Louis Schuler, Clear Lake attor- are the parents of a daughter named a picture of the large silo on A.N.
have a better chance of winning the There’s national If Pets Had percent growth in Chamber member- ney, was named 1965 “Boss of the Dana Sue. The Duesenbergs have two Grimm’s farm and claimed it is the
lottery—or of getting struck by light- Thumbs Day on March 3, Extrater- ship. Year,” by the Clear Lake Jaycees. other children. largest silo in Iowa. It is 24 ft. in di-
ning, which would really take the fun restrial Abductions Day on March 20 Friends are invited to an Open The “T-Bones” will appear at the Eat at Kuns Kitchen for plate ameter and 67 feet in height and holds
out of winning the lottery. and National Goof-Off Day on March House to celebrate the marriage of Surf Ballroom for Collegiate Night. lunches, 35¢. Stop and meet Jack and 600 tons of silage.
My chances of choosing all the 22. If anything could grip a psyche, I Dan and Denise Ouverson. The T-Bones recorded the tune, “No Blanch. There are no cases of scarlet fever
brackets would probably be even think it would be a space alien or a Paul Carew, 23, the son of Joyce Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s More than 1,000 persons attend- here, but there is south of town. One
worse since I don’t follow basketball. poodle with thumbs. and Jim Carew, Clear Lake, was re- In).” ed the President’s Ball at the Surf. man became impatient of the law’s de-
I’m not even sure what tournament Finally, we get to March 30 and cently promoted from senior airman Licensed Iowa hunters bagged lay and lifted his own quarantine.
fans mean by “bracket.” In my world, “I Am in Control Day” which will be to sergeant in the United States Air 7,205 deer during the 1965 shotgun 100 Years Ago National Pay Up Week is Feb. 21-
it’s a seldom-used punctuation mark refreshing after a month of madness. Force. Carew has been serving with and bow and arrow seasons. February 1916 28. Let’s everyone get out there and
or the doohickey that holds your shelf We non-sports fans will have a slight his crash rescue unit in the Persian Stewart Bros. have sold their fine pay all our obligations this week.
on the wall, either of which can drive relapse on April Fools’ Day, but then Gulf since August. Carew has served
me mad in the right circumstances. we’ll return to sanity. Meanwhile the in the service for four years. He is a
Let me tell you what I do know, pysches of basketball fans will still be 1986 graduate of Clear Lake High
or rather what I picked up on the In- gripped for a few more days. School.
ternet: March Madness refers to the Dorothy Rosby is the author of the The Clear Lake wrestling team
National Collegiate Athletic Asso- humor book, I Used to Think I Was Not clinched the Regional team meet in
ciation Men’s and Women’s Basketball That Bad and Then I Got to Know Me Eagle Grove. The win gave Clear
Tournaments which determine the Better. Contact drosby@vastbb.net. Lake its first ever berth in the State
national champions of college basket- meet for teams. Also, seniors Chad
Whitecotton and Shawn Zimmerman
Amanda Ragan both won District wrestling titles to
advance to the State Tournament in
State Senator Des Moines.
Tenth ranked Osage put an end
515-281-3371 or 641-424-0874 to the Clear Lake girls tournament ac-
amanda.ragan@legis.state.ia.us tion by beating them 72-55. Kathy
Walls led the Lions offensively with
Making progress for Iowa’s working families 23-points, and Mindy Day was good
for 22.
As the 2016 session continues, •Ensuring affordable higher edu- In a dramatic come from behind
the Senate is making progress on sev- cation – Senate Democrats are work- effort, the Ventura boys overcame a
eral initiatives for working families, ing on a state budget that increases 13-point deficit to beat Dows, 66-
including: support for our colleges and universi- 62. Tim Bray led the Vikings with
•Supporting local schools - Great ties so that Iowans can afford the edu- 16-points and Troy Meier contrib-
local schools are key to expanding job cation and training that leads to great uted 14 and Brett Luscomb added
opportunities and boosting Iowa’s jobs. This is important to keeping 11-points.
economy. The Senate approved a 4 more young Iowans in our state after Kristin Keefe, of Clear Lake,
percent increase in basic aid to local graduation. swam her way to five first place fin-
schools for the 2016-17 academic year •Providing better access to quality ishes while competing for the Mason
(SF 174 and SF 175) and by 4 percent preschool - The Senate unanimously City Swim Club against Waterloo.
for the 2017-18 academic year (SF approved SF 2009 to expand Iowa’s Keefe competed in the eight and un-
2092 and SF 2093). successful preschool program. der division. Also competing from
•Protecting health care – As •Encouraging apprenticeships Clear Lake were David Baker, age
Governor Branstad’s chaotic push to - More Iowans will be able to learn 11, Megan McDermott, age 8, Lashel
privatize Medicaid nears implementa- while they earn if SF 2179 becomes Whitehurst, 8, Jessica Whitehurst, 8,
tion, the legislature must ensure Iowa’s law. The legislation provides incen- and Dean Walston, 10.
health care safety net. SF 2213 will tives to businesses to create well-pay- Specials for the week at Ben
provide tough oversight to safeguard ing jobs and use apprenticeship train- Franklin include: Kodacolor Film,
Medicaid members, health care pro- ing programs. 24-exp., $2.99; 1991 Baseball Cards,
viders and Iowa taxpayers. 2 pkgs., 88¢; Clairol Final Net Hair-
spray, 8 oz., $1.97; Comfort Top
Spring break is just around Knee Hi Panty Hose, 99¢; and Beer
the corner, don’t forget Nuts, 14.5 oz. can, $1.99.
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February 1966
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