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Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
WAPELLO The updated five-year plan for Louisa County’s Secondary Roads Department was approved Tuesday by the county board of supervisors during its regular weekly meeting.
County engineer Adam Shutt initially presented the plan during the supervisors’ meeting last week, but there was no formal approval. With the most recent action, the plan now will be submitted to the state.
More than 20 projects the secondary roads department is projected to complete during Fiscal Years 2022-26 are outlined in the plan. The estimated total cost of the projects is about $3.14 million, which will be covered by local, state and federal funding.
The first-ever Riverside Volunteer Fire Department calendar is now available for purchase.
Fire Chief Chad Smothers says the calendar will not feature firefighters in “hunky” poses, but it does have images of their member volunteers, firefighting equipment, and other organizations they partner with on fire calls including the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Communications Center and Ambulance Service. Smothers says they’ve considered producing a calendar in the past, but this year it finally came out of necessity, “Obviously, with the way things have been in 2020, our normal fundraisers that we did were cancelled for not being able to have events in person. So, we’re just trying to come up with ways to raise some funds (and) help offset some of our yearly budget from the city and the townships to help supply funds for equipment. What better year to try to see if it works.”
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By Mary Zielinski
The Washington County Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8 opened with the submission of an approximate 250-signature petition from Washington County nursing facilities asking the board to institute a county mask mandate immediately.
Presented during the public comment segment, the package given to the board contained the petitions as well as letters from the facilities’ administrators, including from Kalona’s Pleasantview Home, asking for help to protect the most vulnerable populations in the county.
The letters outline all precautions taken that include no outside visitors, keeping residents in their rooms, no communal dining, no group gatherings and no family visitors. Even with all precautions observed, there have been deaths at the facilities, the board was told.