Mid-America Publishing and the Ida County Courier helped fight hunger in the community while hosting a booth in the commercial building at the Ida County Fair.
The booth, open Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, held a raffle for $400 worth of chamber bucks. These can be spent at participating businesses in Ida Grove. Winners will be announced in two weeks.
With RAGBRAI coming in a matter of days, the Ida County Conservation Board turned its attention to plans for the arrival of the event and thousands of visitors. With Ida Grove planned as an overnight stop for RAGBRAI this year, Moorehead Park will see its north playground closed for the public over the course of the event. The park will host reserved primitive campers. Additionally, some parts of the park will be off limits to the general public. This is being done in the interests of safety and crowd management. The public will be able to visit the Conservation Center from 2 to 6 p.m.
A Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) will go before Galva-Holstein voters. During the regular July meeting, the Galva-Holstein board voted to go ahead with a PPEL vote. If passed, the levy issue will generate up $1.34 per each $1,000 of assessed value and is a continuing levy. The levy issue would be in place for 10 years. Board members unanimously approved the resolution. After the meeting, Superintendent Adam Bisenius said the district currently has a levy for 67 cents per $1,000 of valuation. This would generate double that levy and is necessitated by a number of areas.
The University of Iowa College of Nursing brought its recently released mobile unit to Ida Grove on Wednesday to host education sessions for first responders, EMTs, Paramedics, nurses and physicians. The clinical scenarios focused on traumas and medical conditions that may occur during RAGBRAI. The simulator is able to recreate scenarios and minic various conditions, such as heart rate and pulse.
The Ida County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday, July 12 at 9 a.m. in the courthouse. Board members in attendance were Chair Raymond Drey, Creston Schubert, and Rhett Leonard. County Engineer Jeff Williams discussed ATV laws, and the board decided to follow state regulations. The supervisors asked Williams to apply a cold mix patch to areas of the Moorehead Park road prior to RAGBRAI. Williams then presented the Fiscal Year 2023 County Assistant Engineer Employment Agreement with Colin Ryan, annual salary of $110,000, to begin August 22.
Kansas Petersen, 17, of Ida Grove is the daughter of Saffire Petersen and is the yearbook editor and has served as track manager as well as previously with KEY Club.
She has been recognized as youth session member her freshman and sophomore years, and her hobbies include photography, reading, spending time with friends and family and spending time with animals.
Petersen plans to attend college with possible majors in Early Education or Political Science.
This year’s Ida County Fair will kick off July 19 and run through July 24.
The horseshow is in store for opening day at 5:30 p.m. at the grandstand with Wednesday seeing the start of open class judging at 8 a.m. with the Clover Kids Pet Show at noon and the 4-H Dog & Pet Show at 12:30 p.m.
The Little Miss & Mr. Contest is at 7 p.m. while the Queen Contest will be at 7:30 p.m.
With everyone from farmers to truckers to commuters on the way to work already feeling the pinch at the pump, the senior member of Iowa’s Congressional Delegation is worried that further trouble might be looming ahead.
Recent release by the White House of extremely tight plans for new leases in both the Atlantic and Pacific has many crying foul for the prospects for fuel.
Additionally, burdensome fracking regulations, a tight lending policy for any oil producer and a pipeline shutdown for the industry have all had deleterious effects on oil production.
Crawford Creek will benefit from a major land acquisition designed to help to ensure the future vitality of the area.
Property adjoining the Crawford Creek Recreation Area has been acquired.
“Recently, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation purchased 105 acres of land adjacent to Crawford Creek Recreation Area,” said Zachary Hall, the director of the Ida County Conservation Board.
Hall cited the work of seven area agencies in working together.
