The City of Kalona has contributed $2,500 to the Washington County Sheriffs’ K9 Unit.
Back in early December, the department’s K9 named Vasco, died of cancer after over five years of service helping the sheriff’s office detect drugs, track missing and wanted individuals and protect partners as well as handler, Deputy Nolan Burke. They recently added a new K9 named Dzamal.
At their meeting Monday night, the Kalona City Council voted to approve the financial assistance to the K9 program and City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh presented the check to the Washington County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, “Staff-wise we talked about how we could participate that would be acceptable to the public and we presented that to council and they were unanimous in their support of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department as well as providing the $2,500 to help defray some of the costs associated with bringing a dog on board and sending an officer to go train for four weeks.”
January 19, 2021 12:04 pm
Independent TD Carol Nolan has said the announcement by Bord na Móna that it will permanently cease all peat harvesting and production will be devastating for the horticulture sector.
Deputy Nolan was speaking after the chief executive Tom Donnellan confirmed last week that the move marked the formal end to the company’s association with peat harvesting, as it moves on “to tackle the critical challenges concerning climate change, energy supply, biodiversity and the circular economy”.
Deputy Carol Nolan Image source: Facebook
The Laois-Offaly TD said the decision is going to create a “real sense of dread for many thousands of workers especially those within the wider horticulture-based economy”.
Offaly TD Carol Nolan confirmed she has signed the online petition backing local pharmacists to deliver the Covid-19 vaccines to our communities. This week, the.