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Clarke County Republicans will have Matt Whitaker and David Young, U.S. Senate candidates, at the event starting 5 p.m. Rep. Joel Fry, R-Osceola, and Sen. Amy Sinclair, R-Allerton, will also be there.
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White wins in Clarke’s school-board election
What’s with the water?
There was a contested race in the school-board election for Clarke Community School District. These are the unofficial results of Tuesday’s school-board elections from Clarke County Auditor’s Office. For Clarke’s District 2 school-board seat, candidate Dena White had 152 votes. Her opponent James N. Lane had 31 votes. Joseph Deutsch ran unopposed for Clarke’s District 3 school-board seat.
Is the drought causing the problem?
He had 148 votes. Gerard Linskens, Clarke’s current schoolboard president, ran unopposed for the at-large seat. He had 163 votes. Jerry Smith, who ran for Area XIV Community College Director District 3, had 130 votes. Zach Gunsolley, who ran for Area XIV Community College Director District 6, had 13
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Board denies reinstating chiropractor’s license OST photo by AMY HANSEN
Pictured is West Lake.
By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor • ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
Water superintendent explains odd taste, odor coming from drinking water By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
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ave you noticed there’s been an odd taste and odor coming from the drinking water in Osceola lately? Apparently, you aren’t the only one. Osceola Water Superintendent Brandon Patterson addressed Osceola City Council during a Sept. 3 meeting to discuss the water issues. First off, Patterson reported West Lake, the water source for Osceola and Clarke County, is 17 inches below the spillway. The rainfall that occurred in late August didn’t even change the water level at West Lake. “Considering the weather we’ve had, I think we’re sitting pretty good, really,” Patterson said. Unusual Then, Patterson addressed the public’s concern about the unusual taste and odor of the water that has been experienced off and on during the past couple of
An Osceola chiropractor isn’t going to have his license reinstated — for now. In documents released Monday from the Iowa Board of Chiropractic, the board denied reinstating the license of Dr. StuHoven art Hoven, with Clarke County Chiropractic and Winterset Family Chiropractic. According to the Iowa Board of Chiropractic, Hoven engaged in unethical conduct or practiced harmful or detrimental to the public. It was determined Hoven had improp-
months. He reminded the council there was a severe drought last summer, and by March, West Lake was 63.5 inches below the spillway. By April, the rains came, and continued to come for the next few months. “Part of the problem with that was, whenever you have a lot of runoff, it fills the lake with nutrients — phosphorous, nitrogen,” Patterson said. “And, then, the algae feed off of that … with a lot of rainfall, we’ve had a lot of algae bloom.” Patterson said the process of “changing carbon out” of the lake occurs every two years. However, the process didn’t seem to be working and needed to be changed after a year. “It expired before the two years, so it kind of nipped us in the rear, and then we had severe taste and odor issues,” Patterson said. Please see WATER, Page 4
er sexual conduct with, or made suggestive, lewd, lascivious or improper remarks or advances to a patient numerous times in 2005, 2009 and 2012. Hoven isn’t allowed to file for reinstatement again until he has met all of the board’s conditions concerning the future safety and welfare of patients. First complaint Hoven was issued a license to practice as a chiropractor in the state of Iowa in 2001. According to court documents, in April 2005, the board found Hoven had engaged in unethical conduct when he improperly touched the breasts of two female patients and made suggestive remarks to them. According to the board, before Hoven’s current
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‘Change is coming’ Waste collection with Jim’s Sanitation begins in October Do you know what items go into a recycling tote? Check out a guide on page 4.
By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
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he color is going from green to brown. That’s the new color the garbage and single-stream recycling receptacles residents of Osceola are going to be receiving by the end of the month. Waste Management will do their final collection pickup and haul its receptacles away the week of Sept. 23. During this time period, Jim’s Sanitation will be delivering and distributing new receptacles for its waste-collection contract with the city. “The change is coming, and we just want everybody to be ready for that, and be prepared, especially when the receptacle changeout occurs,” said Osceola City Administrator/Clerk Ty Wheeler. Bins — plural Jim’s Sanitation has brown bins. The brown bin with a brown top will be for garbage, and the brown bill with a yellow top will be for recyclables. Wheeler said Waste Management will most likely follow its regular waste-pickup route during its last contract week, and then, quickly follow that up with the pickup of the receptacles. “There might be a possibility where folks have a new set of receptacles from Jim’s and the old stuff from Waste Management, but it will be just for the week,” Wheeler said. If problems should arise with the changes, Wheeler said for people to contact city hall. The contract for Jim’s Sanitation begins the first week of October.
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Staying the same The waste pickup days will remain the same for everybody, even with the change of different providers. Everything regarding bulk item pickups, garbage tags for additional garbage and appliance-sticker program will remain the same. “It’s just really going to be with a different color bin,” Wheeler said. Recycling pickup will occur every other week. All the single-stream recycling information will be shown on top of the brown bin with the yellow lid. “It’s everything that we’ve been able to recycle before, plus cardboard and glass bottles, and then, of course, the aluminums and paper and plastics.” The first week of recycling pickup will be the week of Oct. 7-11. Wheeler said it would make more sense to give people time to fill up their recyclables bin. One size There will only be one size of garbage and recycling bins — 95 gallons. This is comparable to Waste Management’s large-size bin. For the garbage and recycling bins, there will be only one rate — $16.78 per month. This also includes a semi-annual, clean-up day add on.
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10th annual Latino Festival
The event is scheduled 1-7 p.m. Sunday on the courthouse lawn in Osceola.
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