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Saturday con’t
Opportunity Village Children’s Au-
tism Center to celebrate autism ad-
vocacy at the third annual J. Brooks
Walk-A-Block fundraiser on April
2. This year’s walk will be held from
9-11 a.m. at Clear Lake City Park. In
honor of Autism Awareness Month,
participants will join other friends and
supporters to walk a block around the
park. Registration starts at 9 a.m. and
the walk starts at 10 a.m. A balloon
release from the Clear Lake Sea Wall
will follow the walk. From 9-10 a.m.,
a resource reception will take place in
the Lakeview Room directly behind
the City Park bandshell. Individuals
wishing to participate should register
at www.jbrookswalkablock.org. Cost
is $20 for adults and $5 for children
12 and under. Participants can register
at the event.
Sunday
Potato bar
Join Open Bible Church, 609 S.
8th St., Clear Lake, on Sunday, April
3, for a Potato Bar and Auction. The
Potato Bar will be served from 11:45
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with the auction
immediately after lunch. The meal
includes baked potato with topping
choices, salad, dessert and drink. Cost
is $5 for adults and $3 for children
eight and under. The auction will
support mission work.
Concert
The public is invited to a cel-
ebration at the Clear Lake United
Methodist Church Sunday, April 3,
at 3 p.m. The church will mark the
40th anniversary of its Holtkamp
pipe organ, installed in 1976. Hec-
tor Olivera will offer a concert on
the organ. Tickets are available at a
cost of $10 for adults 19 and over by
contacting Cyndy Johnson at 641-
430-3845/ cyndyj@wctatel.net or
Mary Jane Crail at 641-357-3060/lar-
marnc@cltel.net; at Rieman Music or
at the church. The United Methodist
Church is located at 508 2nd Ave. N.
A handicap entrance and elevator are
available. “He walked out the door and the
Workers to begin
clearing decorations
at cemetery April 4
The Clear Lake Public Works
Department will begin picking up
and disposing of winter decorations,
wreaths, shepherd hooks, etc. on April
4 and continuing through April 18.
All decorations that are to be salvaged
must be removed by April 3, 2016.
Grave decorations placed after
April 22 must abide by the following
regulations:
Fresh flowers, plants, artificial
wreaths or flower and plant hold-
ers may be used for decorating the
graves, but must be placed within the
concrete foundation or on the monu-
ment or marker, except for Memorial
Day. Ten days before and 10 days af-
ter Memorial Day, arrangements may
be placed on the graves, provided they
are in containers other than glass or
pottery. They must also be placed
close to the monument or marker.
Public Works employees will re-
move all items after this period. The
Cemetery shall not be held account-
able or responsible for these items.
Deteriorated flowers and ar-
rangements will be removed through-
out the year.
Anyone with questions is asked
to call the Clear Lake Public Works
Department at 357-6135.
Open house set for
retiring principal
Mike Barkley, long-time Clear
Creek Elementary School principal,
will be retiring this year after 22 years
in the Clear Lake Community School
District. Clear Creek staff will host
a retirement party for Barkley on
Wednesday, April 6, from 4 to 6 p.m.
with a short program from 4:30 to 5
p.m. at Clear Creek Elementary. The
party is open to the public.
Snowblowers and shovels were put back into action last week, as a snowstorm dumped five-inches on the area.
GONE COLD
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confirmed Allen was not a paperboy
in Des Moines. Three decades later,
however, all three boys’ cases remain
unsolved.
Teen was ‘handful’
Marc’s mother, Nancy Allen, ad-
mitted her son had been a handful;
the teen had been shifted back and
forth between her Iowa residence and
his father’s Minnesota home most
of his young life and he’d often get
into trouble.
“It was hard because he had been
living with [his] dad for a while and
then came back and lived with me,”
Nancy Allen said in a WHO-TV story
broadcast Nov. 25, 2010. “His young-
er brother and older sister were real
close and he wanted to be in there, in
tight.”
They never got the chance for
that to happen.
The night before Easter in 1986,
the teen left his southwest Emma Av-
enue home to hang out with friends
and perhaps take in a movie just as his
siblings prepared for a pizza dinner.
kids were getting ready to have pizza
and I’ll never forget it as long as I live,”
Allen told Brilbeck. “The last thing he
said to me as he walked out the door
was ‘Save me some pizza, Mom. I’ll be
hungry when I get home.’”
Nancy watched her son walk
down the sidewalk, past the bushes,
and then he was gone.
“He waved when he got to the
bushes and I waved at him and that
was that and I never saw him again,”
his mother said.
The next morning when Nancy
realized Marc hadn’t come home the
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Winter refuses
to give up
(Left) “Maybe laying eggs before all
the rest of the geese wasn’t such a good
idea after all.” That could be what this
female Canada goose was thinking as
she attempted to warm her eggs fol-
lowing the late season snowstorm that
swept across North Iowa late Wednes-
day and early Thursday morning. maine salad, orange wedges, double
The goose is currently nesting in an
over water basket on a pond located
at Clear Lake’s Apple Valley Assisted
Living. -Photo by Lowell Washburn.
night before, she knew immediately feeling that they did not want parents
something wasn’t right but hoped to be frightened to let their children
against hope he’d prove her wrong. sell newspapers or do different things,”
“It was Easter Sunday so I thought she said.
maybe he went to Grandma’s know- The Des Moines Police Depart-
ing Grandma would have an Easter ment’s Sgt. Jeff Edwards disagrees.
basket there for each of the kids. So I “I know detectives followed up
asked my mom but he wasn’t there,” on leads that did not pan out,” Ed-
she said. “I had phone numbers for wards told Brilbeck in a separate in-
his friends. Called all of them. No one terview for the story WHO-TV aired
had seen him.” Thanksgiving Day 2010. “They were
Allen said she called police, but not able to locate him. He’s still listed
they told her they couldn’t do any- as a missing person.”
thing for 48 hours. Days turned into Marc’s mother said she doesn’t
months. Police checked in Minne- know whether her son is alive or dead,
sota where Marc’s father lived, and in but that after 25 years she’d like to
Connecticut where the boy’s paternal know for sure so she — and her son
grandmother lived. Nothing. — can find peace.
Allen told Brilbeck she didn’t Marc Allen was last seen wearing
know whether her son’s disappearance a light blue T-shirt, blue jean shorts,
was linked to the disappearances of white socks and gray tennis shoes with
Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin, velcro tabs. He has a small scar on the
but said police seemed reluctant to top of his head, and his first name
help her because of the other missing might be spelled “Mark” by some
teens. agencies involving missing children
“I just feel like, at this time, they and persons.
were just afraid of …afraid of what Contact Des Moines Police Depart-
would happen with the Eugene Mar- ment Detective Larry Penland at 515-
tin and Gosch thing. I got the distinct 283-4811 with any information.
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First confirmed case of flu
The Cerro Gordo County De- taking measures to stay healthy.”
partment of Public Health has their Influenza is an infection of the
first confirmed case of influenza in nose, throat, and lungs caused by
the county. The department has had influenza viruses. Symptoms of in-
many reports of rapid tests coming fluenza include: fever (usually high),
back positive for influenza, however headache, cough, sore throat, runny
this is the first confirmed case by the or stuffy nose, chills, fatigue, body
State Hygienic Lab. aches, and sometimes vomiting and
“Fortunately, this year’s flu vac- diarrhea. Symptoms typically appear
cine covers the confirmed strain,” said within 24-72 hours from exposure,
Jeni Stiles, Disease Prevention special- with the illness lasting two to five
ist, Cerro Gordo County Department days. People with the flu may be able
of Public Health. “Despite warmer to infect others by spreading the virus
temperatures and spring on the ap- one day before getting sick to five to
proach, the influenza virus is still cir- seven days after.
culating and people need to continue
SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS
Clear Lake Garner-Hayfield-Ventura
THURSDAY - Breakfast: Mini THURSDAY - Breakfast: Break-
pancakes, sausage link or cereal, cin- fast pizza, fresh fruit, juice. Lunch:
namon toast or yogurt cup. Lunch: Hamburger on a bun, fruit cocktail, fruit
Mini corn dogs, spirals and cheese, cup, sweet potato puffs, broccoli salad.
broccoli, Raisels. Alt.: Sub-stacker, ro- FRIDAY - Breakfast: Breakfast
maine salad. wrap, fresh fruit, juice. Lunch: Baked
FRIDAY - Breakfast: Breakfast potato with ham and cheese, grapes,
sandwich or cereal, cinnamon toast or fruit cup, tossed salad, whole green
yogurt cup. Lunch: Cheese pizza, ro- bread stick, graham crackers.
MONDAY: Breakfast: Western
chip cookie. Alt.: Sub-stacker, cherry omelet quesadilla, fresh fruit, juice.
tomatoes and baby carrots. Lunch: Pancakes, sausage patty,
MONDAY - Breakfast: Waffles, applesauce, fruit cup, Dragon punch,
sausage link or cereal, cinnamon toast hash brown.
or yogurt cup. Lunch: Hamburger on TUESDAY: Breakfast: Waffle
a bun, fries, green beans, applesauce. sticks with syrup, fresh fruit, juice.
Alt.: Sub-stacker, veggies with dip. Lunch: Chicken a la king over bread
TUESDAY - Breakfast: Scram- bowl, mandarin oranges, fruit cup, veg-
bled eggs and toast or cereal, cinna- gie sticks and hummus, whole grain
mon toast or yogurt cup. Lunch: Na- cookie.
chos, Mexican rice, corn, banana. Alt.: WEDNESDAY: Breakfast: Egg
Sub-stacker, romaine salad. biscuit, fresh fruit, juice. Lunch: Taco,
WEDNESDAY: Breakfast: Break- salsa, lettuce, tomato, apple wedges,
fast bites or cereal, cinnamon toast or fruit cup, bean and corn salad, tortilla
yogurt cup. Lunch: Chicken nuggets, chips.
roll, mashed potatoes, peas, apple
slices, banana bar. Alt.: Sub-stacker,
fresh veggies with dip.
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