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Gay, Jimmerson seek 1st ward seat in November election
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on mayor/ city council candidates in the November election. Two new candidates are vying for the chance to sit in Osceola City Council’s 1st ward seat. Current Osceola City Councilman Chris Dorsey is not seeking re-election. All candidates were given the same questionnaire from the office of the Osceola Sentinel-Tribune. The election is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. Douglas Gay Q: What made you decide to run in the election? A: I am running for city council, ward 1. I chose to run in this election to help this city move into the right direction toward the future. My wife is a teacher at Clarke Elementary, my children will grow up here and I would like to make a positive impact on this city allowing us to keep the small-town feel while accommodating for a healthier economy. Q: What are the main issues you think the city is facing right now? A: Our city infrastructure needs to be updated, which would include sewer, water, light poles, electrical and more. Osceola is in need of a new waste water treatment facility to keep up with DNR and EPA regulations.
Another issue is our streets and sidewalks, which are in a continuing stage of degradation, although the city has done a great job at working on them. Another one is building our tax base by getting new industry to move to Osceola. Lastly, we need a rental code to keep the occupants of this city safe. Q: What would be the best ways to solve these problems? A: Our city infrastructure will be a hard one to determine total project costs, and the time frame for the job completion on this will be extensive. State and federal funds to help us move forward with the project are going to be an anchor as this project will cost the city a sizeable amount. There have been many issues moving forward with this project like the extension to sidewalks and the loss of the center parking to the square. Currently, there isn’t a solution to this project as far as this goes. My suggestion moving forward is approving a subcommittee with some of our business owners who are opposed to aid in the process of the cityscape project. Our new waste water treatment facility will cost in excess of $15 to 20 million, and this cost will continue to rise the longer it is put off. The DNR has not yet issued a permit for the project, which Please see CANDIDATES, Page 5
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Dustin Willke, left, Kooper Brimm, center, and Jake Manternach, right, work on building a Sukup grain bin home in Haiti this summer.
Here to help Students share stories from serving in Haiti By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor • ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
There’s just something that draws Clarke students to volunteering in Haiti every summer. “The impact it made the first time was something I wanted to feel again,” said Jake Manternach. “It kind of has a gravitational pull that keeps you coming back.” In late June, Manternach, 18, Kooper Brimm, 17, and Dustin Willke, traveled to Haiti with a group of nine people through Global Compassion Network. This
included Brimm’s mother Sue, as well. It was the third time in Haiti for Brimm, the second for Manternach and first for Willke. They worked in Les Cayes and Torbeck areas. While there, the group built a Sukup safety grain bin home and worked at the Consolation Center Orphanage. Inspired Willke said Brimm was his inspiration to travel to Haiti for the first time, especially after seeing pictures of him working with little children at the orphanage. “My passion is just to
serve other people down there, and seeing what it brings to them. What happens to them after you’re done down there,” Brimm said. “Yeah, it makes a big impact not only on our lives, but on theirs. It really does,” Willke added. Haiti was devastated by a major earthquake in January 2010. As for the struggles the boys from Iowa encountered, it was the heat, as well as the emotional toll of leaving the Haitian people at the end of the trip. The three young men recalled stories of asking
girls at the orphanage how old they were, and one girl didn’t know when her birthday was. Five years later Even though it’s been more than five years since the earthquake devastated the island nation, Mother Nature is still wreaking havoc on the Haitian people. “Right now, there’s a major drought going on,” Willke said. “They’re digging wells just to find water all the time for the orphanage.” But, there is progress Please see HAITI, Page 10
Lynch takes the reins at Southern Hills Specialty Care By AMY HANSEN
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There’s a new face in charge at Southern Hills Specialty Care. Diane Lynch became the new administrator July 27 at the facility run by Care Initiatives. She took over for Casey Stephens, who was promoted to a corporate position. Lynch said team building and business problem solving are her strengths in the business. “I have been an administrator for almost 16 years, and prior to that worked in this environment as a department head,” she said. “So, my whole career has been spent in senior care, nursing homes, assisted livings and hospitals. I like the business function of making sure that the machine works.” Experience/goals Lynch worked for Care
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Diane Lynch, administrator at Southern Hills Specialty Care, is pictured in her office.
Initiatives at their Panora facility for three months, and prior to that she worked in Minnesota. “It’s unusual in that most nursing homes are old … It’s a nice, pretty new modern building, which is nice,” she
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said. “It keeps you from having all the challenges of old buildings.” Some of Lynch’s goals are to streamline some of the processes of the workplace, and improve what is already in place.
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One of her main goals is to increase community involvement with the facility. She said it’s special to have a community facility in a rural Please see LYNCH, Page 10
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