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“As a recruitment aid, we like to draw on potential candidates that could live up to 50 miles away,” Vande Vegte said. “We give them up to six months to move into Le Mars, give them up to a year if they have a hard time finding a home as they do sometimes. This includes the areas of South Sioux City, Nebraska and Dakota City and places outside of Iowa. We currently have a recruit who is living out of state.”
Vande Vegte said that the Iowa Law Enforce-ment Academy will not certify a candidate as a peace officer once they graduate if the city does not have an ordinance in place.
“We have a candi-date who is going to be graduating in five weeks and we’d certainly like him to be certified so he can work for us,” Vande Vegte said. “It’s really just formalizing a policy that we already have in place.”
Council member Clark Goodchild asked what the policy in place was. City administrator Jason Vacura answered, “What is written here was the policy, it’s just so it’s word for word that it will become an ordinance.”
The residency require-ments in the ordi-nance state a 15-minute response time to the police department, gen-erally a 10-mile radius, is required. New employees will be allowed to live outside of this radius while making a transi-tion to a new permanent residence within the area. This should generally not exceed six months but an extension may by granted by the Chief of Police which may not exceed 12 months in total.
Goodchild said in the past it was brought up that the city was unable to enact residency requirements for depart-ment heads.
Vande Vegte said this applies just for the police
department.“This is strictly police
department and a police department can set a reasonable distance to its headquarters, that is right in the Iowa code,” Vande Vegte said.
Council members Goodchild and Rex Knapp then asked if this could apply to other city departments.
“We can look into try-ing to make something more uniform for every-body,” Vacura said. “I know when I was hired, I was told that I had to live within two miles. That’s kind of gotten lax over the years. There’s some that don’t live within two miles and that’s if they’re a department head or just an employee. I think the water department, they have some require-ment where they have to be able to respond within a certain amount of time or get to the treatment plant within a certain amount of time. Whether or not we can have something more uniform, I don’t know.”
The council unani-mously approved the first reading of the ordinance. A motion to waive the second and third read-ings failed to gain the 3/4ths approval needed. Council members, Mike Donlin, Ken Nelson and Steve Wick voted yes to waive the additional readings while Good-child and Knapp voted no.
The readings will be brought up again at the council’s next meeting.
The council also heard the second reading of a proposed zoning change of KNS Fourth Addition from a rural to residential designation. The second reading was unanimously approved. A motion to waive the third reading was also approved on a 4-1 vote with Goodchild dissenting.
The council then unanimously approved to adopt the ordinance on its second reading.
Council: Hears on zoning change Incorporating faith
will be a major part of the day. Each student will get a cross to write a prayer intention on and then decorate. All the crosses will outline the track on the day of the walk to remind stu-dents what they should be praying for.
Students have also been working on col-lecting prayer intentions from family, friends and the community. The intentions collected will be remembered in a spe-
cial way on Jaywalk-a-thon day.
“Adding a faith ele-ment to the walk was an idea our 6th grade teacher Mrs. Mered-ith Clymer brought to our attention. Once she shared that, we deemed the tagline ‘Fueled by Faith. Paced by Prayer.’ Allowing our students to live out their faith through a fundraiser with fitness seemed like a great combination,” said Jungers.
Each student has been
encouraged to raise $75 and the entire school has a goal of $30,000. These funds will go toward art and teaching supplies, technology, field trips, PE equipment and more.
“Watching our entire school come together for this one fundraiser has been awesome. We hope Jaywalk-a-thon will be a powerful event for all students and staff,” explained Jungers.
Students are encour-aged to turn in cash/check donations
between now and Oct. 16.
Donors also have the chance to donate at donate.onecause.com/jaywalkathon. When donating online, donors can write in the name of the student(s) they’d like to sponsor so the stu-dent(s) can receive credit for online donations.
If interested in donat-ing, contact the Gehlen Catholic Development Office at 712-546-4181 or donate at donate.one-cause.com/jaywalkathon.
Gehlen: Donations are being accepted
SIOUX CITY — The public is invited to join and support Big Broth-ers Big Sisters of Sioux-land for the 2020 Tour of Homes at The Warrior Hotel.
Get into the holiday spirit by visiting five gor-geous, unique, and profes-sionally decorated suites at the newly renovated Warrior Hotel located at 525 Sixth St., downtown Sioux City.
Tours start on Thurs-day, Nov. 19 and go through Saturday, Nov. 21.
“We are so excited to partner with The Warrior Hotel. Due to COVID-19 we had to think outside the box how we could still host the annual Tour of Homes while keeping people safe. This year’s
tour will be very different but with this new concept, people will be amazed at what the designers will do in this stunning and newly renovated hotel. People won’t want to miss out,” said Kristie M. Arlt, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Siouxland.
Designers this year include Lisa Kalaher with MOD House Interiors, Dori Sexton of Dynasty Painting and Decorating, Marie Hofmeyer and team with Holland House, Jeni L. Davis with Designs by Davis and Erika Hansen with Re-Arranged Inte-rior and Redesign Ser-vices. Designers will be available at some of this year’s tours.
Tours will run every 30 minutes and last about an
hour. Tours will also be limited to 20 people per tour and masks will be required.
Free, convenient park-ing is available at the Martin Luther King Jr. Transportation Center parking ramp across the street from The Warrior Hotel and in the north parking lot. (No busses this year).
Due to limited space the Tour of Homes is expected to sell out. Tickets are first come first served and can be purchased for $45 each at bigbrothersbigsisters.com or by calling 712-204-4998.
The donation is tax deductible and all pro-ceeds from the Tour of Homes are used to sup-port the mentoring pro-gram at Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Siouxland.“We could not be more
excited to host Big Broth-ers Big Sisters of Sioux-land’s Tour of Homes this year. The cause is very meaningful to the com-munity and we are proud to support their work of helping hundreds of chil-dren in Siouxland,” said Lila Plambeck, manager of The Warrior Hotel.
Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Siouxland creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The agency has been helping children in the Siouxland community since 1978. The Tour of Homes provides substan-tial support for Big Broth-ers Big Sisters of Sioux-land.
Join BBBS of Siouxland for the Tour of Homes: At The Warrior
Wednesday, Oct. 7.According to a news
release issued by the Plymouth County Sher-iff ’s Office, at approx-imately 1:30 a.m., the sheriff ’s office was advised of a vehicle that had just fled the Sioux City Police Department and was last seen enter-ing Plymouth County going north on County Road K-22 from the C-80 area.
Plymouth County deputies responded to the general area and at around 1:35 a.m. a dep-uty met a vehicle match-ing the description. The deputy turned around to attempt to verify the description and the vehi-cle began to accelerate away before the emer-gency lights had been activated.
Once the emergency lights were active the vehicle failed to stop and a pursuit ensued with the vehicle continuing north on K-22 at speeds of 100-110 mph. At the south intersection of K-22 and Hwy 3 another deputy was able to successfully
deploy stop sticks and deflate the left front tire.
The vehicle continued to attempt to elude the deputies and ultimately drove into the ditch near Highway 10 and K-22 in Sioux County.
The driver, Russell Devarn Camp, 35, of Minnesota, was taken into custody without further incident. Camp was booked into the Plymouth County Jail on possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class C felony; felony eluding, a Class D felony; OWI drugged 1st, serious misdemeanor; speed-ing 100 in a 55, simple misdemeanor; no valid driver’s license, simple misdemeanor; and no insurance, simple mis-demeanor.
The Plymouth County Sheriff ’s Office was assisted by the Hawar-den Police Department, Sioux County Sheriff ’s Office, Ireton Ambu-lance and Ireton Fire/Rescue.
As of press time, Camp is being held on a $10,000 bond.
Chase: Camp is held on a $10,000 bond
WEST DES MOINES — Hy-Vee, Inc. has announced it has begun offering COVID-19 test-ing at 11 Hy-Vee pharmacy locations throughout its eight-state region.
The tests are free and are administered via a Hy-Vee pharmacy drive-thru test-ing process.
Individuals do not have to have COVID-19 symp-toms to be tested, but they must register online to receive a test voucher number, testing site and appointment time.
The COVID-19 tests are being coordinated by eTrueNorth and are offered at the following Hy-Vee pharmacy locations:
• Chariton Hy-Vee, 2001 Court Ave., Chariton, IA 50049
• Cherokee Hy-Vee, 1300 N. 2nd St., Cherokee, IA 51012
• Utica Ridge Hy-Vee,
4064 E. 53rd St., Daven-port, IA 52807
• Iowa City Hy-Vee Drugstore, 310 N. 1st Ave., Iowa City, IA 52245
• West Des Moines Hy-Vee HealthMarket, 375 S. Jordan Creek Parkway, West Des Moines, IA 50266
• West Circle Hy-Vee, 4221 W. Circle Drive, Rochester, MN 55901
• Maple Grove Hy-Vee, 18755 70th Way N., Maple Grove, MN 55311
• Barry Road Hy-Vee, 8301 N. St. Clair Ave., Kan-sas City, MO 64151
• Kiwanis Avenue Hy-Vee, 2700 W. 10th St., Sioux Falls, SD 57104
• Omaha Hy-Vee Drug-store, 8404 N. 30th St., Omaha, NE 68112
• O Street Hy-Vee, 5010 O St., Lincoln, NE 68510
Each location is offering testing windows from 7-9 a.m., Tuesdays and Thurs-days, and from 7-9 a.m. or
8-10 a.m., Saturdays.**Saturday testing hours
vary by location. Contact the pharmacy for details.
To register for a test voucher number, visit www.doineedacovid19test.com/ and answer the ques-tions/provide requested information to receive a test voucher number, test-ing site and appointment time.
The person will then arrive at the specified test site pharmacy drive thru and provide either a printed voucher number or show the voucher number on their phone before given a test kit.
The Hy-Vee pharmacy employee will provide the test kit and education on how to self-administer the test and will supervise the test. The individual will then drop off their com-pleted kit in a collection bin. The entire test process
takes about five minutes. From there, the Hy-Vee
pharmacy collects all tests, which are shipped to a lab via UPS. Results will then be sent to the individual via e-mail in three to five days.
Free COVID-19 testing offered at 11 Hy-Vee pharmacy locations in Midwest
LeMarsBackpack ProgramVolunteers Needed
Groupsof 8-10people needed,masks required.MondayandTuesdayafternoons.
Please call 546-8872if your groupwould like to volunteer.
For free on-line depression assessmentvisit our website at
www.plainsareamentalhealth.org
PlainsTalk
Call our office today at712-546-4624 or 800-325-1192.We are located at 180 10th St. SE,Suite 201, Le Mars. Helping peoplecope with everyday living.
Meg McKeon,LISW
WHENMENOPAUSEAFFECTSMENTAL HEALTH
Menopause can be a stressful timefor many women, but for those withcertain mental disorders, it can be morecomplicated than usual.While clinicaltrials have yet to find a connectionbetween depression and menopause,fluctuations in the levels of the hormoneestrogen during perimenopause cancause dramatic mood swings that mayinclude excessive emotional highsand lows. This is normal and shouldnot be confused with a mental healthissue. However, women previouslydiagnosed with conditions like bipolardisorder, schizophrenia, and otherpsychotic disorders may experienceexacerbations in their symptoms causedby low estrogen levels that can continueinto and after menopause. This mayrequire a change in the type or level ofmedications the patient is taking.
Research suggests that womenwho have severe PMS in their youngeryears or postpartum depressionmay have more severe mood swingsduring perimenopause.Women witha history of clinical depression alsoseem to be particularly vulnerable torecurrent clinical depression duringmenopause. Plains Area Mental Healthwelcome people of all ages and from allbackgrounds.
P.S. For women with pre-existingmental disorders, supplementingestrogen during perimenopausemay be advised.
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