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Legion Post gets facelift
by Brian Cook |
It may look like a construction zone, but American Legion Post 45 in Manchester remains open while expanding and getting a facelift.
Last fall, Jim Hill donated the building next door at 204 North Franklin Street to the Legion. F&G Realty moved one building to the south and work began this spring on the Legion expansion.
Iowa Wall Sawing of Quasqueton opened a doorway between the two buildings making work easier.
Seedorff Masonry is bricking the fronts of both buildings at 204 and 206 North Franklin Street. The Legion continues to be open during construction, because SMI agreed to work between 6 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. before the Post opens at 3 p.m.
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Larry Beaman, Ron Struble and Dick Cook work last week to get the American Legion Post 45 ready for SMI to face the building with bricks the next day. SMI’s work on 204 and 206 North Franklin should be completed this week. SMI starts work each day at 6 a.m. to allow the Legion to remain open. |
Legion member Ron Struble said SMI has been great to work with, noting that they also tore the brick off and are making a new sign for the building. The sign will be two feet high and four feet wide and be etched in stone.
Struble said SMI could be finished with their work as early as this week. SMI is the only contractor hired by the Legion, with members doing the rest of the improvements. There will be new lighting and wiring in both buildings. Struble said they also plan to finish, texture and paint the walls in both buildings.
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There will also be new wall coverings and flooring. The south building will have two main rooms with carpet. One will be a game room and he other a meeting room, with the entire area available for overflow during a steak fry.
Struble commented that even though SMI has almost completed its work, the members are just getting started on the inside.
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Police equipped with ‘Hog’ for third year
by Latisha Sand |
For the third year in a row the Manchester Police Department is leasing a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
“The Harley Davidson corporation has a promotional program to outfit police departments with the motorcycle,” said Manchester Police Chief Bruce Trapp. “They provide it at a very minimal lease rate and then it’s turned back over to the dealership to be sold to the public.”
And tax payers need not to worry – the motorcycle’s lease is paid for.
“We use drug forfeiture funds to pay for any expenses for this,” said Trapp. He explained that drug forfeiture funds are monies that the police department has seized from drug busts.
Several of the Manchester officers are certified to ride the motorcycle, which is fully equipped with sirens, lights and other police gear.
But the department will use the motorcycle mostly for public relations.
“It’s a public relations tool,” said Trapp, “for children’s groups, parades, park patrols and regular residential patrols.
And with the price of gasoline, Trapp said it’s also a gas saving tool.
The department will keep the motorcycle for one year and then turn it over to the dealership before receiving another one for next summer. |
| $46,700 in grants awarded to non-profit groups |
The Foundation for the Future of Delaware County granted $46,746.74 to 24 Delaware County non-profit groups on May 16.
The Foundation for the Future of Delaware County received a distribution of approximately $63,000 from the State of Iowa. This is part of a total of $5.4 million allocated through the County Endowment Fund Program providing for distributions to qualified community foundations representing each of the 85 Iowa counties that do not currently hold a gambling license. The Legislature has allocated one-half of one percent of the state’s total gambling revenues to the program to enable community representatives to fund high priority needs and build countywide endowments in community foundations.
Under the County Endowment Fund Program guidelines, 75 percent of the funds are to be granted to projects and programs in Delaware County and the remaining 25 percent of the funds received are used to build a permanent endowment fund for the county that will help to meet future charitable needs.
A total of 46 grant applications were received by the Foundation for the Future of Delaware County requesting a total of $118,189.43. Grants are awarded in the areas of: Health & Human Services; Education; Neighborhood and Community Development; the Environment; Children, Youth and Families; and Arts and Culture including historic preservation.
The Foundation for the Future of Delaware County, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque was created by and for the people of Delaware County to support charitable projects and programs in the county. The Foundation provides resources for a broad range of existing and future charitable needs throughout Delaware County and will assist donors in creating lasting legacies through a variety of giving options.
Board members are Marilyn Schnittjer, Cindy Vorwald, Jerry Burke, Jill Buschman, Jim Fisher, Carl Steffen, Larry Swanson, Jackie Johnson, and Larry Gritton
The following were awarded grants for 2006:
• $4,130 – Backbone Lake Friends for educational presentations of the Historic Education for Iowa First State Park.
• $1,500 – Big Brothers Big Sister of Delaware County for Delaware County School-Based Mentoring assistance in providing screened adult mentors for youth in need of support.
• $5,000 — City of Dundee City Park improvement project playground equipment.
• $4,500 – City of Earlville for Earlville Park, safe playground equipment
• $1,698 – City of Hopkinton for Hopkinton Memorial Park upgrade of play equipment and benches.
• $1,699 – City of Manchester Parks and Recreation computer equipment to implement senior recreation programming
• $500 – Colesburg Public Library to expand children’s books on tape and begin collection of children’s books on CD’s.
• $5,000 – Delaware County Historical Society for handicapped accessible restroom Lenox College Gym.
• $2,400.00 – Delaware County Master Gardeners handicap walkways to Tirrill Park gardens.
• $1,481.47 – Edgewood Community Childcare and Learning Center – purchase materials to increase quality of services and awareness of diversity in programs
• $2,906.06 – Foundation for the Future of Delaware County promotion of philanthropy in Delaware County.
• $2,000 – GFWC/Iowa Delhi Woman’s Club building handicap accessible gazebo in Historic Hobbs addition of Delhi.
• $300 – Hazel Green Hawks 4-H Club for purchase of perennials for planters established along Main Street in Ryan.
• $1,000 – Hopkinton Public Library for one new computer to replace outdated ones for public use.
• $977 - Manchester Kids League Inc. to purchase safety equipment for area youth to use.
• $2,500 – McGee Brick School Foundation funding of materials for interior restoration of school.
• $2,000 – Lutheran Services in Iowa for necessity Pantry for less fortunate in Delaware County.
• $1,500 – Penn Center/Milo 4-H to construct a shade arbor with benches for residents and guests at Penn Center.
• $1,307.21 – St. Joseph’s Childcare Center Lunch Program equipment and supplies to establish their own lunch program.
• $1,250 – St. Mary’s School, Manchester, one new computer to improve technology in computer lab for student and teacher.
• $1,250 – New Life Assembly of God Church, Franklin Street Underground program one new computer to provide educational programming for at-risk youth.
• $977 – Manchester Kids League, Inc. to purchase safety equipment for area youth to use.
• $420 – Operation: New View/Delaware County Head Start to provide Delaware County Head Start funds for field trips.
• $530 – Regional Medical Center “Parents as Teachers” program for informational material to families for developmental and parental strategies to enhance pre literacy skills.
• $900 – Scenic Valley Area VIII Agency on Aging for caregiver informational videos, books/pamphlets to be located in Delaware County libraries.
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All sorts of tractors
by Brian Cook |
| The Fourth Annual Dyersville Tractor Ride made its way to Hopkinton on Friday. The tractor riders stopped and ate lunch at the Delaware County Historical Society on the old Lenox College Campus. Perfect weather greeted the 105 tractor riders who made the trip from Dyersville to Delaware, Delhi and Hopkinton. |
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