Anglers net 1,004 carp in #LakeViewIa - by @SCJTimG

"LAKE VIEW, Iowa -- The carp were caught, 1,004 of them, over the weekend on Black Hawk Lake in Lake View..."

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How 4-H Took Big Ag Money Without Selling Out by @kieraevebutler

"Until recently, I had never really given 4-H Club a whole lot of thought. This was kind of intentional; I put 4-H in the same category in my mind as books like Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, in which kids grow to love an animal only to learn that eventually (spoiler alert!) it's going to..."

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Lake View Man Accused of Theft in the 5th

Lake View Man Accused of Theft in the 5th

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Sac County Supervisors discuss holding a road vacation hearing for Quincey Avenue

In this video, the engineer and the supervisors discuss how a possible road vacation of Quincey Avenue between 230th and 240th street may affect current line construction, and what they would like to accomplish generally with a vacation of that road.

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August 16, 2011 Highway 20 Update

In this video the county engineer talks about which roads and for how long they will be closed due to the construction of the bypass. the supervisors express concern about Otter Avenue. the engineer also informs the board that a cement plant will soon be moving to the vicinity of Lytton for the paving.

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Sac County loses 911 briefly

In this video, the supervisors discuss the loss of Sac County Courthouse phone lines. Follow up with the Sheriff’s department confirmed that the 911 system went down for roughly 5 minutes at the same time as the regular phone lines.

This conversation also leads into a conversation about the counties upcoming narrow banding radio switch over.


In this video, the Sac County Supervisors learn that an attempt to get a second quote on an updated fire alarm system was attempted by the county auditor. So far, he has not had any success.

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August 16, 2011 County Crew Report and Project update

In this video, the county engineer discusses the pain of the cost replacing machinery with the Sac County Supervisors.


In this video the county engineer discusses the various project that the county crews are working on. he also discusses the status of two bridge projects. The supervisors remind the engineer that the cold fill on N14 is coming out.

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Minutes of the August 1, 2011 Lytton City Council Meeting

Minutes of the August 1, 2011 Lytton City Council Meeting

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Sac County Supervisors compare Sac County’s possible voter precinct reduction to other counties

In this video the Sac County Supervisors discuss the various citizen input they’ve received regarding the possible reduction of voter precincts from 9 to as few as 3 districts. They also approve a memorandum of agreement with the City of Sac City for the current voter precincts.


In this video, the Sac County Supervisors discuss the public hearings to take comments about possible reduction of voter precincts.

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Liquor Licenses Approved by the Sac County Supervisors on August 16, 2011

Liquor Licenses Approved by the Sac County Supervisors on August 16, 2011

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Sac County Supervisors approve drainage and regular claims

In the video the Sac County Supervisors approve the drainage and regular claims. Two of the proposed drainage claims were repaired before the supervisors authorized the repair. The supervisors approved the repair and paying the bills simultaneously on these two bills. They also approved the applications for construction through two separate drainage districts.

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Memorandum of Agreement Between City of Sac City and County of Sac County for a Combined Voting Precinct

Memorandum of Agreement Between City of Sac City and County of Sac County for Combine Voting Precinct

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72 new photos have been added to - July 30, 2011 Sac County Fair Rodeo

72 new photos have been added to the SN Facebook collection: July 30, 2011 Sac County Fair Rodeo.

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Sac County Supervisors approve native wine permits for two rural businesses

In this video the Sac County Supervisors approve native wine permits for the Homestead Farmer’s Market on M54 south of Sac City, Iowa and a new place called Midnight Sun outside of Schaller, Iowa.

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Sac County Supervisors approve unforeseen expense with Schultz property clean-up

In this video, the Sac County Supervisors discuss a problem that the clean-up company, ran into while trying to get the Iowa DNR to sign off on the Schultz property tank in downtown Sac City, Iowa. It was indicated that one of the monitoring wells that measured how much contaminate was leaching out into the ground from that old gas tank disappeared…

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Sac County Supervisors add a discussion about the Schultz property to the agenda

In this video, the Sac County Supervisors call the meeting to order, approve the minutes of the previous meeting, ad a liquor license and a discussion about the Schultz property to the agenda, and then approve that amended agenda.

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FIRST LOOK: August 16, 2011 Sac County Supervisors Meeting

- Call to Order

- Amendment of Agenda
-- Liquor licensee
-- Proposal from Tri-leaf

- Approval of proposed agenda

- Approval of replacement of lost monitoring well at Schultz property for $ *****.

-Approval of native wine permits for Homestead Farmers Market in Sac City and Midnight Sun in Schaller.

- Approval of drainage claims

- Approval of claims
- Approval of DD65 sec 32 Douglas Township for $300. Work was complete before approval.

- Approval of DD52 sec 22 Delaware Township $300. Work was complete before approval.



- Construction across a drainage districts 55 and 72.
Breda Telephone Co.
Approved by the drainage watchman.
DD55 and DD72
-- Approval of construction across Drainage Districts 55
-- Approval of construction across Drainage Districts 72

- citizen input about voter precincts
-- Most counties are doing some form of reduction in precinct reduction.

-Approval of the memorandums of agreement between Sac City and Sac County establishing voter precincts.

- Discussion about replacement of machinery for secondary roads.

- Discussion of county crew report

- County engineer's projects update
-- Bridge replacement on M35
-- Bridge replacement in Wheeler Township 22/27
-- PCC patching on M27, M35, and N14
--- N14 patching is coming out as fast as it goes in.

- Highway 20 update
-- 220th street by highway 71 is closed but will reopen when rock is replaced
-- Yankee is closed for a couple of weeks
-- Quincey is closed but may reopen for awhile
-- Otter is closed but should be open the week of Aug. 21 sometime.
-- Concrete plant will be placed north of Lytton on the west side of N28. Paving is set to begin in September, 2011.

- Discussion of road vacation hearing for Quincey Ave. between 230th and 240th streets.
-- No time frame yet.

- Discussion of the proposed September 6, 2011 notices of public hearings regarding possible reduction of voter precincts.

- Discussion about phone problems at the courthouse.

-Discussion about narrow banding county radios
-- Plan on doing it in September ot October.
--- The deadline is January 2013.

- Discussion about fire alarm system.

- Adjournment.

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Passed Away - Earleene "Pat" Hammond

Earleene "Pat" Hammond

August 02, 1938 - August 14, 2011

Wall Lake, Iowa

Visitation: 6-8pm Tuesday August 16, 2011 at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home, Wall Lake
Funeral Service: 10:30 am Wednesday August 17, 2011 at Peace Lutheran Church, Wall Lake
Earleene Eugeena “Pat” Hammond, age 73, of Wall Lake, IA, passed away on Sunday, August 14, 2011, at Twilight Acres Nursing Home in Wall Lake.

Born in Sioux City, IA, to Beulah (Parker) Koster and Henry Koster, on August 2, 1938, and baptized in 1952 in Anthon, IA, at the Lutheran Church. She attended school in Anthon and was a member of Peace Lutheran Church in Wall Lake.

Pat was united in marriage to Norman William Hammond on December 13, 1954, in South Sioux City, NE. They were blessed with two daughters, Rebecca Mohr and Carol Allen. Pat worked in several restaurants and at Twilight Acres for 17 years as a cook. She retired in August of 2000. She enjoyed garage sales, cooking, birds and country music, watching Oprah and Tom Brokaw, and spoke often of President Kennedy, but most of all she loved spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She spent many years babysitting with her grandkids. Generations of grandkids fondly remember grandma sitting outside and playing in the sandbox with them. They were her life.

Survivors include her husband, Norman Hammond; daughters: Rebecca (Bob) Mohr of Wall Lake and Carol Allen of Storm Lake; grandchildren: Kris Miller and Jeremy Mason of Ida Grove, IA, Andrea (Nat) Halterman of Atlantic, IA, Ben (Amber) Allen of Ankeny, IA, Casey Allen of Storm Lake, IA, Cassidy Allen of Storm Lake, IA, Blake Mohr of Wall Lake, IA, and Jake Allen of Cedar Rapids, IA; great-grandchildren: Anthony Allen, Ethan and Edyn Halterman, Avery and Ayden Mason, and Manning and Rhett Allen. Other survivors include her sisters: Shirley (Ralph) Delambert of Eden, WY and Lois Koster of Storm Lake, IA; brothers: Fred (Rita) Koster of Monroe, WI and Henry “Sonny” Koster, Jr. of Storm Lake, IA; many extended family members and friends.

She was preceded in death by her father, Henry Koster; mother Beulah Koster; father-in-law William Hammond and mother-in-law Kathryn Hammond Chinn.

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Passed Away - Leona Louise Charlotte Belt

Leona Louise Charlotte Belt

February 25, 1916 - August 09, 2011

Wall Lake, IA

Visitation: 4:00 - 8:00 P.M. Thursday, August 11, 2011 at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home, Wall Lake, IA
Funeral Service: 10:30 A.M. Friday, August 12, 2011 at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Wall Lake, IA
Interment: August 12, 2011 at Wall Lake Cemetery, Wall Lake, IA

Leona Louise Charlotte Belt, age 95, of Wall Lake died Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at Twilight Acres Nursing Home in Wall Lake, IA. Leona was born February 25, 1916, on the family farm near Yetter, the youngest child of John G. and Louisa (Brugger) Batz. She was baptized at the Presbyterian Church in Lake City. She attended school through the 11th grade in a four-room building in Yetter. Leona began high school in Lake City, graduating in 1932 at the age of 16. During her junior and senior years she earned a normal training teacher certificate, as teaching certificates were not issued until the age of 18. While waiting for her teacher training certificate to be issued, she cleaned houses for $0.60 a day and most of which was spent on music lessons taught by a local teacher. She taught school at Wild Cat School Elm Gove #8 in Yetter and schools in the Sac and Calhoun counties for 13 years. Leona furthered her education taking night and summer classes at Cedar Falls State Teachers College and Buena Vista College. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Buena Vista College, graduating with honors. She studied piano in Cedar Falls for two summers, eventually playing the piano for two operettas in Wall Lake, while the elementary music teacher position was vacant. She gave many piano lessons over the years and cherished playing the piano until her eyes began to fail. In July of 1968, she was awarded a Lifetime Teacher’s Certificate from the State Department of Education, no longer having to attend classes to renew her certificate. In 1945, Leona joined the Wall Lake Community School, teaching the 5th grade for 23 years and the 1st grade for 9 years. She retired in 1980 having taught for over 45 years. She was a devoted teacher and accomplished piano player.

On February 27, 1943 in Rockport, MO, she was united in marriage to Ray E. Belt of Lake View. They lived their entire married life in Wall Lake. In 1990, Ray passed away after a lengthy illness. Leona continued to live in the house they designed and built until November of 2008 when she entered the assisted living at Twilight Acres in Wall Lake.

She was a member of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Wall Lake. Her hobbies included working in her yard and flower gardens, watching the birds with Ray, and traveling, especially to Estes Park in Colorado. Leona and Ray had visited almost every national park west of the Missouri River.

She is survived by Nette -Adopted daughter in heart- (Tom) Orness and sons from Highland Park, CO; step daughter-in-law Caroline Belt of Wall Lake, IA; cousin John Hutton from Shady Oaks in Lake City, IA; nephews: Dale Gronemeyer of Odebolt, IA, Daryl Batz of Jefferson, IA, Kenneth (Jeanne) Batz Lake City, IA, Steven (Elaine) Batz of Carroll, IA, Nolan (JoAnn) Schnuckel of Odebolt, IA, Dr. Ronald (Nancy) Batz of Spirit Lake, IA, and Verle Batz of Yetter, IA; nieces: Marlene (Leroy) Miller of Churdan, IA, Juanita Schleisman of Apache Junction, AZ, Arla (Russ) Fricke of Bemidgi, MN, and Sharon (Dave) McCaulley of Iowa Falls, IA; Ray’s youngest daughter, Irene (Robert) Crampton of Kiron, IA; step-grandchildren: William (Marsha) Belt of Aurora, CO, Wanita (Virgene) Friedrichsen of Odebolt, IA, Wanda Hawks of Sac City, IA; Wynona (Brent) Becker of Wall Lake, IA, Robert (Bridget) Belt of Carnarvon, IA, Dennis (Sandy) Meyer of Lake View, IA, David Meyer of Lake View, IA, Dr. Randy (Cheryl) Crampton of Storm Lake, IA, Rick (Carol) Crampton of Kiron, IA; and extended family members. Many friends and other survivors include Nancy (Mark) Kasubuski from Fremont, NE, special young friends include Kevin (Cindy) Fullmer of Thorton, CO, Don (Sue) Schroeder of Thorton, CO and Denny (Gae) Schroeder of Wall Lake, IA.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Ray E. Belt of 47 years; brothers John T., and Paul, Richard, who died in infancy; sister Marie Schnuckel; brothers-in-law: John Schnuckel, Roy Hoxie, and Floyd Belt; sisters-in-law: Elva Batz, Daisy Batz, Dorothy Hoxie and Ethel Belt; niece Marge Gronemeyer, Donita Fricke, who died in infancy, Alice Schnuckel and twin sons Todd and Brent Schnuckel who died at birth; great nephew Neil Schnuckel who died at birth; stepsons Raymond Lee Belt and Donald Belt; stepdaughter Ruth Meyer; step son-in-law Henry Meyer; step grandson Daryl Meyer and two great step grandsons Timothy (TJ) and Michael Friedrichsen.

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