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2016
145th Year
No. 24
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Sac City, Iowa, 50583
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Chamber-Main Street plans
The Chamber Coffee for June 16 is hosted by Frank & Mignon Strain
and Rod & Karen Sorensen at the Sac Community Center, 9:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend for coffee, conversation and community news.
City Council to meet
The city council for Sac City will meet on Tuesday, June 14, at 5 p.m.
in the City Municipal Utility Building. Tentative agenda items include:
The following is a tentative agenda for the June 14, 2016 council meeting
scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at the City Municipal Utility Building. The tentative agenda may not represent the full agenda and is subject to change
with additions or deletions. The tentative agenda as of June 2, 2016 is:
Public Hearing on the Possible Vacation and Sale of the East-West Alley Lying Within Block 11 Between Lot 5 and Lot 6 in Platt’s Addition,
Sac City, Inc, Sac City; Introduction and 1st Reading of Ordinance No.
2016-279 entitled, “An Ordinance Authorizing the Vacation and Sale of
the East-West Alley Lying Within Block 11 Between Lot 5 and Lot 6
in Platt’s Addition, Sac City, Inc, Sac City, Iowa”; Consideration of Approving CDBG Draw Down #21 in the Amount of $63,656.00 for the Sac
City Façade Project; Consideration of Amendment to the Fire Department Bylaws; 3rd Reading of Ordinance No. 2016-277 entitled, “An Ordinance Amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Sac City, Iowa,
by Amending Provisions Pertaining to Collection of Solid Waste”; 2nd
Reading of Ordinance No. 2016-278 entitled, “An Ordinance Amending
the Code of Ordinances of the City of Sac City, Iowa, by Amending Provisions Pertaining to Chapter 76, Bicycle Regulations”; Consideration
of Ann Pugh’s Request to Close Williams Street from the Alley to the
Stop Sign on North 5th Street on June 18, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30
p.m; Consideration of Amending 28E Agreement with East Sac County Schools Regarding the Sac Community Center; Public Input on Solid
Waste Matters.
Newell Cafe Car Show
Newell Cafe will hold their 2nd Annual Car Show on Saturday, June
18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be trophies and prizes awarded.
Sac City After 5 to meet
Sac City After 5 invites you to our "Prescription for Life" Supper at
the First Christian Church in Sac City on June 20, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Our
speaker is Jackie Kehm. She'll share her prescription for life. Please call
Cathy Staton at 660-8629 or Micki Quail at 662-7953. All reservations
must be honored.
ESC Board agenda announced
The ESC Regular Board Meeting will meet on Monday, June 20, 2016,
at 5:30 pm at the ESC High School in Lake View. Tentative agenda items
include: Reports, Unfinished Business, Discuss and/or Approve 201617 Administrator Contracts, Discuss and/or Approve 2016-17 Classified
Contracts, Discuss and/or Approve 2016-17 TLC Contracts, Discuss and/
or Approve FY 2015 Audit, Discuss and/or Approve Requests for Early
Graduation, Discuss and/or Approve 2016-17 Handbooks, Discuss and/
or Approve 2016-17 Fees, Discuss and/or Approve 2016-17 Music Trip,
Resignations, Contracts, Discuss Future Agenda Items and Set Dates, Adjourn.
Home improvement contest planned
It's time for the Third Annual Sac City Planning and Zoning Property
Improvement Contest! Are you improving the appearance of your property
this summer? Would you like to have a chance to win cash or prizes for
improving your property? Here's how: 1. Call Curtis Bloes, (712) 830
- 7373, to take a "BEFORE" photo of your property before the planned
improvement begins. 2. Improve the appearance of your property. 3. Call
Curtis again when the project is complete to take an "AFTER" photo of
the improvement. That's all you have to do! Projects must be complete by
September 30, 2016. Judging will be held at the October Sac City Planning
and Zoning Commission Meeting.
P and Z Paint Giveaway set
The Sac City Planning and Zoning Commission is conducting another
exterior paint giveaway! All you have to do is to apply at the city office.
The deadline is June 30, 2016, so don't delay! Call 712 830 7373 for more
information. This program was made possible by grants from Keep Iowa
Beautiful, the Iowa State Bank, Citizen's Bank, United Bank of Iowa, Mayor Scott Bundt, Food Pride, Counseling Services, L.L.C., Details Flowers,
Park View Rehabilitation Center, Oak Terrace Estates, Sac Liquor, MGM
Plumbing, TheSacNews.com and the Sac City Motel.
Help patients in need of blood
LifeServe Blood Center is asking donors to step up and donate blood
this summer to prevent a shortage in the community blood supply. Sac
City Community Blood Drive, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 from 1:00 PM
- 6:00 PM at Sac Community Center, 1015 Main Street. To schedule a
blood donation appointment, go online to lifeservebloodcenter.org or call
800.287.4903.
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Primary election results
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East Sac County High School
Honor Rolls released
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Popcorn Ball building going up
One wall was constructed on Saturday morning, June 11, for the new home of the World's Largest Popcorn Ball. A group of volunteers constructed the wall, and placed it, with more work to be done by the time
the popcorn ball is built on Saturday, June 18. Help is needed for the construction of the building tonight
(Tuesday) and Wednesday night, starting at 6 p.m. (Photo by Dale Wegner, The Sac Sun)
Organizers ready to make record popcorn ball
We're just days away from making history for the fourth time, as
Sac City gets ready to make a collasal popcorn ball.
Organizers from the Popcorn
Ball Committee have been busy for
weeks now, coordinating efforts to
make a popcorn ball that could tip
the scales at over 10,000 pounds!
In recent days, news articles
have appeared in newspapers and
websites across Iowa, including
The Des Moines Register, as word
spreads of this effort to reclaim the
world record. Word continues to
spread across television and radio
stations as well. The World's Largest Popcorn Ball page on Facebook
has seen a lot of activity over the last
few weeks as well.
Work began on building the building that will house the popcorn ball
at the Sac City Museum on Saturday. They plan to continue building
tonight (Tuesday) and Wednesday,
and have the building finished in
time for the arrival of the popcorn
ball. More help is needed to make
sure it gets done in time. If you'd
like to help, show up at the Sac City
Museum those nights, a little before
6 p.m.
Lundell Plastics put the finishing
touches on the mold that will hold
the popcorn ball last week. It will
be at Noble Popcorn in time for the
making of the popcorn ball.
The making of the popcorn ball
itself is scheduled to get started at
about 6 a.m. on Saturday, June 18.
Noble Popcorn personnel will start
popping the corn, and getting all
the ingredients ready. They will be
ready for volunteers after 8 a.m. to
start putting the popcorn ball together.
Noble Popcorn staff estimate that
more than 2,300 pounds of popcorn,
along with 2,500 pounds of dried
corn syrup, 4,900 pounds of sugar,
and lecithin additive plus some water weight will push the popcorn ball
over 10,000 pounds.
The mold from Lundell Plastics is
too wide to fit inside the Noble Popcorn building, so it will be placed
outside. Those helping to make the
popcorn ball will carry the sticky
popcorn from inside the building to
the mold outside, and add it to the
popcorn ball. A tent has been ordered to keep the sun and rain off
the popcorn ball while it is being
Sac County Republicans and
Democrats made their choices for
their party's candidates during the
primary election on June 7. Local
voters had few races in which to
make a choice.
Republican Party
Incumbent U.S. Senatory Chuck
Grassley was unopposed in his bid
to receive his party's nomination. He
got 565 votes in Sac County.
In the only contested race for Sac
County Republicans, incumbent
U.S. Representative Steve King, a
Sac County resident, easily won his
party's nomination in his re-election
bid for the U.S. House District 4
seat. He received 471 votes in Sac
County, while his opponent, State
Senator Rick Bertrand of Sioux City,
received 199 votes. King received
65 percent of the support from Republicans in the entire District 4,
while Bertrand received 35 percent.
State Senator Mark Segebert of
rural Vail was unopposed in his bid
for the party's nomination for his
seat in District 6. He received 571
votes. The Democrats do not have
an opponent for him in November.
State Representative Gary Worthan of Storm Lake was also unopposed in his re-election bid, and
received the party's nomination with
565 votes. He will be challenged by
a Democrat in November.
Sac County Supervisor Ranell
Drake of Odebolt, representing District 1, was unopposed for the Republican nomination, and received
206 votes from Republican voters
in his district. The Democrats do not
have an opponent for him in November.
Sac County Auditor James W.
Dowling was unopposed for the
Republican nomination in his reelection bid. He received 587 votes.
Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure
was also unopposed for his party's
nomination in his re-election bid.
He received 602 votes. Neither
Dowling or McClure will have an
opponent from the Democratic Party in the November election.
Democratic Party
Democrats had four candidates
hoping to face Sen. Grassley in the
November election. Former Iowa
Lt. Governor and Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge was favored
by the Democrats to face Grassley. Judge received 73 votes in Sac
County, while Thomas Fiegen had
5, Robert Hogg had 31, and Bob
Krause had 14.
Kim Weaver was unopposed for
the Democrats' nomination for U.S.
House District 4. She received 96
votes. She'll face Steve King in the
November election.
Sara Huddleston of Storm Lake
was unopposed for the Democrats'
nomination for Iowa House District
11. She received 95 votes. She'll
face Gary Worthan in the November election.
The Democrats put up no candidates for the State Senate District 6
seat, or for any of the Sac County
seats up for election this November.
The November elections are on
November 8.
Feauto accepts plea deal in
deaths of 2 East Sac students
Pictured above is the mold that the new World's Largest Popcorn Ball
will be put inside. This was donated by Lundell Plastics of Odebolt. As
you can see, it is very large. (Photo courtesy of Lundell Plastics)
built.
It's expected to be an all day
event at Noble Popcorn, located
on North 13th Street. If you would
like to help with the making of the
popcorn ball, stop in any time during the day. Organizers suggest that
you wear clothes and shoes that you
don't mind getting sticky and gooey,
as there will most likely be a sticky
mess to work with throughout the
day.
There will be concessions on
hand throughout the day at Noble
Popcorn so that workers and those
onlookers watching the process can
eat and drink during a warm summer's day.
Throughout the day, organizers
are hoping that a parade of dignitaries will show up to help in the process. They've invited everyone from
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill
Northey to Governor Branstad, Senators Grassley and Ernst, Rep. Steve
King, and others to join in the fun.
They expect that there will be
news media from radio, newspapers,
television and others on hand to
watch as this popcorn ball is made.
It's even possible that a late night
television show might come and join
in the fun, though that has not been
confirmed.
The popcorn ball has been a great
attraction for Sac City in the past,
and organizers are hoping this new
one will continue to bring in the people to see what Sac City has to offer. They encourage everyone to join
in the fun this Saturday as Sac City
tries to set a new world record in the
stickiest, most fun way possible.
Sac County Secondary Roads received the Award of Excellence for Iowa's Best PC Overlay Project, for county road D-59 from the west corporate line of Wall Lake to the Ida County line. Presenting the award
was John Cunningham of the Iowa Concrete Paving Association (2nd
from right). Accepting the award were Supervisors Ranell Drake, Rick
Hecht, and Dean Stock, and Calhoun-Sac County Engineer Zac Anderson. (Photo by Dale Wegner, The Sac Sun)
A Cedar Rapids man received probation for his part in the traffic accident deaths of two East Sac County
students in 2014.
Trevor Feauto, who said he now
lives in Cedar Rapids, was at the
wheel of a pickup when it collided at
an intersection with a car driven by
Bailey Jacobsen on August 23, 2014.
Jacobsen and her passenger, Lindsey Quirk, were killed in the accident, which occurred in southern Sac
County on the Carroll County line.
Feauto was originally charged
with two counts of homicide by vehicle (intoxicated) and two counts of
homicide by vehicle - reckless driving.
In the plea deal, one charge of homicide by vehicle - intoxicated was
dropped. The second charge was
amended to operating while under
the influence - 1st offense. Feauto
pled guilty to that charge, and received a $1,250 fine plus surcharges
and court costs. According to statements during the sentencing, Feauto
had a blood alcohol content of .137;
the legal limit in Iowa while driving
is .08. At the time of the accident, Feauto was 17 years old.
Feauto pled guilty also to the two
charges of homicide by vehicle reckless driving. Judge William Ostlund, who presided over the case,
sentenced Feauto to 10 years in jail
on both counts, to run consecutively.
The jail sentence was suspended, and
Feauto was placed on five years probation for each count. He received
a civil penalty of $150,000 on each
count. Feauto was also ordered to tell
his story at three high schools in the
area that he lives.
Sac County Attorney Ben Smith
said it was no easy decision to come
to a plea agreement in this case, a
sentiment that Judge Ostlund had
stated earlier.
"Of all the cases I’ve had in Sac
County in six years I’ve been here,
and the court knows I’ve had some
doozies, this one above all others
has weighed more heavily on my
mind," said Smith. "It’s not about
me though. What I do, and the reason why I do this is for the families, and for the victims. There are
times I have to make decisions, that
aren’t necessarily popular or understood. But after every turn, after every glance at the papers in this file,
I saw two things, two outcomes.
Either the defendant left here in
handcuffs, and was sentenced to
a minimum 17 years, minimum,
mandatory minimum 17 if they ran
consecutive, 35, or the defendant
walked away free."
Smith said the State's burden of
proof beyond a reasonable doubt
led to the plea agreement. "Considering the facts of the case, that
the intersection was uncontrolled,
and that arguably, and likely defendant had the right of way, and the
evidence showed, or at least to my
satisfaction or dismay, however you
want to look at it, that the nature
of the intersection, of itself, posed
some difficulties as far as visibility," said Smith. "So in reviewing
the case file, and talking to the parents, and trying to figure out what
is justice in this case, I know justice in this case is not a "not guilty."
That to me would be an aberration
of justice, that the defendant would
walk out of here. But on the other
end, knowing that I would present
this case to a jury, and I would have
to convince 12 people, probably
not from Sac County. I would have
to get 12 people to agree, beyond
a reasonable doubt, that given all
those facts, the nature of the intersection, that it was the defendant’s
intoxication, that caused the death.
That had the defendant been sober,
or not drinking, those girls would
be alive. That’s a very, very difficult
place to get to in my mind, considering everything."
Feauto's attorney, David Richter,
agreed that this would have been a
very difficult case to try. "I spent
many more (hours), researching
what did I think you (Judge Ostlund) would do faced with this set
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