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Canning Season pg. 9
Weather More weather on page 5.
Sunny skies and mild for the weekend with highs
in the mid 70’s.
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Clear Lake
Mirror-Reporter
CALENDAR
Friday
Homecoming rally
Coronation of the Clear
Lake High School Homecom-
ing queen and king will take
place at 2:30 p.m. Friday in E.B.
Stillman Auditorium. A Home-
coming parade will then travel
from the auditorium at the Mid-
dle School, two blocks south to
Main Avenue and continue on
Main Avenue to City Park. The
parade is slated to begin at 3:30
p.m., followed by a community
Pep Rally at 4:15 in City Park.
Clear Lake’s freshman football
team will play Osage at 4:45
p.m. at Lion’s Field. Kickoff for
the varsity game is set for 7:30.
9/11 remembrance
The Clear Lake Volunteer
Fire Department will host an
open house at the fire station
throughout the day Friday,
starting at 7 a.m., for anyone
continued water, saving his life.
More CALENDAR
on page 2
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Opinion..................4-5
Weather.................... 5
Sports................13-15
Legals..................... 16
Classifieds.........16-17
Recent raised caused an
increase of 2.28” to the Lake
Level. The lake now measures
+5.52” above the weir. Last
year at this time the lake mea-
sured +0.96” above.
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Sept. 9, 2015
Clear Lake firefighters and ambulance crew members quickly transfer Jim Deau from the fire boat to a waiting ambulance for transport to Mercy Clear Lake School
Medical Center-North Iowa. By presstime, Duea had been released from the hospital.-Reporter photos by Chris Barragy.
New
fire boat
helps in
Lake
rescue
The Clear Lake Fire De-
partment successfully used its
new fire boat to rescue a man
injured on Clear Lake Tuesday,
Sept. 1.
Jim Duea, 77, of Ames,
Iowa was taken to the hospital
after being hurt while boating.
According to officials, the inci-
dent happened at about 12:50
p.m. about three-eights of a
mile southwest of the area off
the Seawall.
Authorities say Duea fell
and was impaled through the
upper left leg by a boat cleat on Sam Jones, Cooper Merrill, Lucas Kirchhoff and Spencer Orr. Coronation of the queen and king will
the edge of the boat. He was
suspended over the side of the
boat and partially was in the wa- ing on Main to City Park. The parade is slated to begin at 3:30 p.m. It will be followed by a community
ter. Karolyn Ellett, of Ames, was Pep Rally at 4:15 in City Park. Clear Lake’s freshman football team will play Osage at 4:45 p.m. at
also in the boat and was able to
call 9-1-1 while keeping Duea
from falling overboard with the
use of a rope to keep him above
The new fire boat respond-
ed with four CLFD personnel
and quickly located a boat with
a person in distress. Using the
drop down bow on the fire boat,
the boat crew was able to quick-
ly assist and load Duea into the
boat and provide medical care
while transporting the patient
to the main avenue boat ramp
to the waiting ambulance. Res-
cue workers noted the fire boat
is equipped with a drop down
bow that allows the whole front
of the boat to lower into the wa-
ter. This proved very valuable in
being able to quickly assist Duea
without having to put fire fight-
ers in the water and without
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Board changes meeting
date to Wednesdays
The Clear Lake School Board has announced a change in its
regular meeting schedule.
Effective today (Wednesday, Sept. 9), the Board of Education
will hold a monthly planning and regular meeting on the second
Wednesday of each month in the Clear Lake Administration Center
The Clear Lake Fire Boat and DNR officers responded to the boating emergency. Board Room, located at the Middle School building.
On the second Wednesday of each month the board will al-
having to try and load a patient also arrived on scene and assist- rescue boat. Duea was taken to locate time from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. for a planning/work session. No
from the water over the sides of ed Ellett in getting their boat to Mercy Medical Center-North action will be taken. That will be followed by a regular meeting of
the boat. The bow door was also shore. Iowa in Mason City for treat- the Board at 6:30 p.m. each month.
used in unloading the patient at Clear Lake firefighters and ment. For many years the Board has met twice monthly on Mondays,
the boat ramp off the front of a Cerro Gordo County deputy The new fire boat was a gift with one meeting being a planning session where no action was
the boat. helped to free Duea from the from Mark & Diane Holt and taken; the second was a regular business meeting. The change was
Officers from the Iowa De- cleat and transported him to was put into service on June necessitated by a scheduling conflict on Monday with members of
partment of Natural Resources shore on the Fire Department’s 19. the newly elected School Board.
Clear Lake Homecoming Court Time to clear the clutter!
City sets large item pickup
Clear Lake High School students have chosen their Homecoming candidates. They are: (front L-R)
Reagan Brackey, Megan Merfeld, Marissa Olk, Erin O’Tool and Morgan Sacia, (back L-R) Ryan Faught, The City of Clear Lake has scheduled its Fall Large Item Pick­up
for Monday through Thursday, Oct. 12-15, with appliance pick­up
take place at 2:30 p.m. Friday in E.B. Stillman Auditorium. A Homecoming parade will then travel being held on Oct. 15. Residents are encouraged to use this oppor-
from E.B. Stillman Auditorium at the Middle School, two blocks south to Main Avenue and continu- tunity to dispose of large items that cannot be discarded through
their weekly garbage service.
Residents are encouraged to use this opportunity to dispose of
Lion’s Field. Kickoff for the varsity game is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy. large items that cannot be discarded through their weekly garbage
service. The Large Item Pickup map will appear in the Clear Lake
Mirror-Reporter on Oct. 7, listing the dates the City will pick up in
your area and the items that will and will not be picked up.
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 North 6th Street. Stickers must be purchased by 5 p.m. on
Oct. 14. Items that require a sticker are: furnaces, air condition-
See LARGE ITEM PICKUP on page 2
This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s
unsolved homicides in the hopes that it will lead to new
tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a
partnership between this newspaper and other members of
the Iowa Newspaper Association.
BRIAN LEE SCHAPPERT | AGE: 22 | DIED: SEPT. 8, 1989
Location: Cedar Rapids
Brian Lee Schappert, a 22-year-old Coe
College senior, was killed in the early
morning hours of Friday, September 8, 1989,
while working the midnight shift alone at a
Cedar Rapids Kum & Go convenience store.
Schappert’s throat was slashed and he also sustained
numerous stab wounds to his back during a robbery at the
2743 Mount Vernon Road SE store.
Schappert’s body was found at 3:15 a.m. by a cab driver
stopping to buy gas. Witnesses told police they saw a white
male in his 20s, about 6 feet tall and 170 pounds, with
shoulder-length, dark brown hair in the area shortly before
Schappert’s body was found.
Cedar Rapids Police also had one crucial lead: a witness
placed a van at the store near the time the murder
occurred. Police checked on more than 400 such vans
registered in the area, but admitted the van driver could
simply have been making a delivery at the store.
Schappert’s father believes his son was acquainted with
his killer. Two weeks before the murder, Brian had been
promoted to assistant manager and given the combination
to the store’s safe, his father said. His body was found near
the convenience store’s open, emptied safe.
Anyone with any information about Brian Schappert’s unsolved
murder is asked to contact either Capt. Mellgren or Special Agent
Smith at (319) 286-5619, Linn County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-CS-
CRIME (319) 272-7463 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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