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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The board of adjustment will meet on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. at the Akron City Hall. The Board will meet at the request of Andy Jurgensen to dis-cuss placing a shed on an existing cement slab on his property. Andy is requesting an eight-foot variance to allow the distance between the two buildings to be two feet.

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September 29, 2020Le Mars, Iowa

The Plymouth County Board of Supervisors met in Courthouse Boardroom on September 29, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. All members were present; except Mark Loutsch. All votes following are aye unless oth-erwise indicated. Board Chairman Don Kass called the meeting to order and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Meis to approve the 9/29/20 agenda. Motion Carried. Motion by Horton, seconded by Meis, to approve the minutes of the 9/15/20 meeting. Motion Car-ried. There was no meeting on 9/22/2020. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Horton, to approve the 9/18/20 and 9/30/20 payroll. Motion Carried. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Meis, to approve the certification of $566,609.54 of Ethanol Urban Renewal debt for FY 2019-20. Motion Carried. Motion by Horton, sec-onded by Meis, to approve the UR Renewal Annual Report for FY 2019-20 with the Iowa Department of Management. Motion Carried. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Horton, to hire Dave

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Wilberding to survey the Plymouth County property where the current RCF and LEC are located. Motion Carried. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Meis, to approve a permit for a tile crossing in Section 19/20 of Elgin Township on Lake Ave. Motion Carried. Motion by Meis, seconded by Horton, to approve a permit for Cherokee Rural Water of 1 ½ inch service line in Section 17/18 of Stanton Township and a 2-inch crossing in Section 17/20 of Stan-ton Township on 250th St. and Polk Ave. Motion Carried. Motion by Horton, seconded by Meis, to approve a permit to Northwest REC in Section 17/20 of Fredonia Township on C16; on Section 4/5 of Marion Township on K64; Section 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 of Marion Township on Polk Ave. & 180th St. and Section 25, 26, 34, 35 & 36 of Fredonia Town-ship on L12, 150th St. & Polk Ave. Motion Carried. Motion by Meis, seconded by Horton, to approve the Iowa Department of Transportation Agreement #2021-C-031 on US Hwy 75. Motion Carried. Motion by Anderson, sec-onded by Meis, to approve the Iowa Department of Transporta-tion Agreement #2021-C-034 on IA Highway 3 west of K42 with the exception that the IDOT works with the County Engineer to obtain access from resident Dan Ransom. Motion Carried. Motion by Meis, seconded by Anderson, to approve entering

CLOSED SESSION of 21.5 (c) to discuss pending litigation at 11:00 am. Motion Carried. Motion by Horton, seconded by Meis, to enter open session at 11:15 am. Motion Carried. Motion by Meis, seconded by Horton, to reject the settle-ment offer from Country Grain of $30,000 for the outstanding taxes, penalty and interest due of $148,489.00. Motion Carried. The Board of Supervisors adjourned the meeting at 11:16 am.Stacey Feldman, Plymouth County AuditorDon Kass, Chairman

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Joni hasn’t gone Washington... she’s gone Plymouth County.

Joni Ernst campaigned in Plymouth County in 2014 and promised to keep in touch if elected.

And has she ever!

2015 Le Mars Blue Bunny Tour

2016 Remsen Mid-Sioux Opportunity Meeting

2017 Le Mars Town Hall Meeting

2018 Le Mars Schuster Co. Tour & Discussion

2019 Le Mars Good Samaritan Society Roundtable

2020 Le Mars Brown’s Century Theater TourJoni knows she can’t speak for Iowa in Washington without first listening to Iowans at home. No wonder she has done so much to help rural Iowa.If you think you haven’t seen her opponent in your community you are probably right. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley visited all 99 counties in 8 months this year. Joni’s opponent still hasn’t been to over 40 counties after 16 months.

If a candidate doesn’t come to see you before the election, do you think you will ever see them after?

Great books from the Akron Library

by Deanna Boe

THE GIFTED SCHOOLBy Bruce Holsinger

This is a book that will make all you parents and grandparents who have chil-dren going to Akron-West-field’s school that much happier you live in a small town! Reading it you might even wonder if this could really happen. I can assure you this is what really hap-pens in your big cities when it comes to parents and their children’s schools. You can accurately tell how desir-able a school is by the price of the homes that feed into that school. You can literally have the same exact home in two different locations but the home that “feeds into” the desirable school will cost many thousands more than the home that goes to a school not quite as sought after. This book doesn’t “center” on that point although it is a prestigious area of a community in Col-orado, probably compared to Boulder. The author focuses on what parents

will do to make sure their child gets accepted at a new school for “gifted” children. That is why you are lucky living in Akron. You have only one school and all students are more or less treated the same and have the same opportuni-ties to excel or not. I should know since I graduated from Akron (many years ago) and have taught in many vari-ous and unusual situations since, so I can look back and appreciate having the one school choice and the opportunities it presented. Sorry, I am off the track a little here, but just can’t help myself after reading this book. The author I feel has done an excellent job of presenting us with four dif-ferent families and their children who now have an opportunity to be accepted into this “free” school that is designed for students who are considered gifted in some area. All four fami-lies are at the present time sending their children to an expensive private school

that is supposed to be much better than the local schools. The four families are con-nected because the moth-ers happened to become friends 10 years ago when their children were babies. All four families have had their ups and downs but the friendship has remained. For instance: in one family the husband died, the next one the husband had an affair with their baby’s maid and they divorced, the third one the wife had an excel-lent job and the husband did not, and finally the last couple, the husband was from an extremely wealthy family and she didn’t have to work. First, their children had to take a difficult test and rank at a certain percentage point in order to be consid-ered for this school; more or less like college today. If they achieved this, they then had to design or show some-thing proving they are gifted in an area that makes them unique. It is supposed to be completed by the child, by themselves, but naturally all of the parents become involved with scandalous results. You absolutely don’t see the end result coming, even though there are enough hints along the way for you to somewhat wonder about. I enjoyed the author’s writing.