Thursday, November 7, 2013 Volume 148 • Number 45
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Early morning fire burns down Casey’s Petroelje wins this week’s Football Contest There were 4 entries missing 3 games on this week’s football contest - Jim Blockhus, Allison; Cindi Hoodjer, Clarksville; Dale E. Johnson, Greene; and Tim Petroelje of Byron Center, MN. Determined by the tie-breaker, Tim was the 1st place winner and will receive $35 in football bucks while Dale placed 2nd and will receive $15 in football bucks. Football bucks can be spent like cash at any of the locations listed on the football contest pages, and may be picked up at either newspaper office. Check inside for this week’s featured games and submit your picks for a chance to win!
Pork Winners announced The Clarksville Star and Butler County Tribune-Journal is announcing their “October is Pork Month” drawing for 3-4 lb. pork roasts. The winners are Don Heuer and Roberta Wiegmann, Allison; Lonnie Jans, Clarksville; and Vernon Rindels, Dumont. Winners may pick up their certificates at either newspaper office. Clarksville Freestyle Club Ribeye Supper Friday The Clarksville Freestyle Club will be holding their annual ribeye sandwich supper on Friday, November 8, from 5-7 p.m. at the Clarksville School multi-purpose room. On the menu is a ribeye sandwich, baked potato, side dish, bar and drink for $8.00; a hamburger meal with chips, side dish, bar and drink is $5.00. This annual fundraiser helps send the wrestlers to camps each summer. It also helps pay for singlets for the little Tribe wrestlers and equipment upkeep. For carry outs, call Brian Jacobs at 278-9075 or 319-239-1110.
Greene Jaycees to host Harlem Ambassadors Friday Get ready for dazzling ball-handling tricks; high-flying slam dunks and hilarious family comedy. Sponsored by the Greene Jaycees, the Harlem Ambassadors will have a basketball show at the North Butler High School gym Friday, Nov. 8, versus the Aircats at 7 p.m. There will be a full concession stand available. Tickets can be purchased in advance ($5) or at the door ($7). Children 3 years old and younger are free. Tickets can be purchased at the following businesses: Lincoln Savings Bank of both Allison and Greene, T&M Foods and J&C Foods; or online at brownpapertickets.com. For more information, contact Traci Bartels at 641-330-3853. The Harlem Ambassadors…It’s not your Grandfather’s basketball show.
New Hartford Craft Show set for Saturday The New Hartford Craft Show/ Sale will be held on Saturday, November 9, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the New Hartford school. Admission is $1. Food will be available for breakfast and lunch with homemade goodies. Proceeds will go to the Dike-New Hartford After Prom.
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Clarksville City Election Results Mayor: 2-year term – Vote for 1 Election Day David Kelm 114 WRITE-IN 18 Scatterings 0 Overvotes 0 Undervotes 5 TOTAL VOTES 137
Absentee 6 1 0 0 0 7
Total 120 19 0 0 5 144
% 83.33 13.19 0 0 3.47 100
Council: 4-year term – Vote for 3 Cathy Cummings 77 Diane Renning 108 Travis Sterken 104 Douglas Teeple 62 WRITE-IN 15 Scatterings 0 Overvotes 0 Undervotes 45 TOTAL VOTES 411
3 6 6 1 0 0 0 5 21
80 114 110 63 15 0 0 50 432
18.52 26.39 25.46 14.58 3.47 0 0 11.57 100
Clarksville Halloween
Trick-or-treaters hunted for candy in all kinds of different costumes in Clarksville last Friday.
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Clarksville fireman Jeff Kolb walks out with material salvaged later in the morning after the fire was extinguished. (Pat Racette Photo) By Pat Racette In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a fire broke loose at Casey’s General Store in Clarksville, destroying the interior and roof of the building. A motion detector was set off at 1:51 a.m. to alert authorities to the scene at 213 S. Main St. Police Chief Dan Cummings found the store up in smoke, as the Clarksville Fire Department showed up shortly after to get control of the blaze. However, the raging fire took five hours to extinguish, with smoke billowing over the building and moving over Main Street. Both Shell Rock and Allison fire departments helped CFD as well. Then at 7 a.m., firefighters drowned out the flames, leaving the inside of Casey’s mangled and gnarly with broken parts and loose black pieces scattered about. City Maintenance Superintendent
Matt Kampman arrived to the scene after 4 a.m. with a mini-loader, as the fire was stuck between the ceiling roof. He broke through the tin roof and rafters, pulling off large chunks. As of Tuesday, the investigation was still pending, as a Mason City Fire Marshall came in the afternoon to inspect the accident. Manager of Casey’s General Store Jolynn Sinram was first to the fire Tuesday, as she was notified by the alarm company. She scurried off to the store just before 2 a.m., thinking it was likely a false alarm that would be waking up the neighborhood. “I pulled up and noticed windows by the booth were fogged over, and then I saw the register had smoke coming down around it,” she said. Later that morning, firefighters came back to search for any salvageable materials left in Casey’s. The department did find the videotape that was later to be examined, as well as other small materials that
Sinram collected. Casey’s Chief Financial Officer Bill Walljasper said plans to clean up the area and rebuild are already in the works. “It’s a good store, and we have a good partnership with the community,” Walljasper said. “We’re anxious to get it up and running again.” With the winter coming soon, the rebuilding project likely won’t begin until spring. See future newspapers for more information about Casey’s General Store timeline to open again. NOTES No one was injured in the fire. The last fire to cause such havoc within the city occurred in the early 1980s, when the hardware store, post office and opera house on the south corner of Main Street and Superior Street were burnt down.
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Fire dept. hosts first grain bin training Images of Christmas By Pat Racette Over 50 firefighters came together at Schmadeke Feed Mill for grain bin training a couple Sundays ago. For the first time, Clarksville Fire Department hosted the event, after two Peosta instructors brought a miniature grain bin to help simulate a rescue situation. “I got buried and rescued,” said Clarksville Fire Chief Jon Myers, who taken the course four times. “Your lower body can’t move at all.” According to Myers, Iowa Department of Public Safety funds the event as long as at 12 people attend. Clarksville alone had over 20 members there, while six other departments brought members too, including Hampton, Allison, Greene, Aredale, Aplington and Shell Rock. “To have it within the county is fairly rare,” said Jon Myers, Clarksville Fire Chief. “It’s something we haven’t set up in a while, as we got to try out the new rescue tube Flint Hills [Resources] ethanol plant donated to us.” The objective of the rescue tube is to surround the victim, and then dig out the grain without the grain collapsing in on him/her. The tube works like a strongbox, creating an area where rescuers use a tool to remove grain within.
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By The Images of Christmas a weekly update the next five weeks. Committee Images of Christmas Committee Images of Christmas Committee send out greetings to those assisting in bringing back the popular event from yesteryears. Businesses are cooperating for Welcome to both on and off Main Street to welcome back Images of Christmas with a bang on Sunday, Dec. 8. Those included in making this event into a reality are: seven community churches; Clarksville library, fire and ambulance AMVETS and community school; and Clarksville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and West Side Assisted Living. Also, carolers have been invited seeks assistance in adding a festive to sing, and a 4-H Images of Christmas is coming look. Indigroup is volunteerviduals are back this year for the first time in asked to preing to help. Business places luminaryears. The event is set for Sun- pare on Main Street, and ies on curba few off, will be day, Dec. 8, from 4 to 6 p.m. side. Save filled with scenes to milk jugs or reflect a Christmas card image of the similar containers to fill with sand or winter season. dirt to later place a small candle to Tree lighting and an early peek light the way into Clarksville Sunof a nativity scene is planned, with day. Clarksville Star newspaper featuring
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Clarksville firemen Dylan Backer, Jesse Meyer [serving as victim] and Scott Holub listen for direction from inside the simulating bin. They learned proper techniques to use a new rescue tube. The training isn’t required, but highly recommended with several farmers in Clarksville and surrounding areas having bins. “It’s a good idea to have [training] with so many large bins getting put up…A lot of farmers store their own grain, and you never know what you’re going to get called out to do. It’s just good to have everybody on
the same page,” Myers said. Owner of Schmadeke Feed Mill, Trent Schmadeke, supplied the simulator with grain throughout the event; and Butler County Farm Bureau provided lunch for participants in the six-hour training.
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