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CL vs. GHV Basketball
Weather More weather on page 5.
Chance of snow Wednesday-Saturday. Cold on
Sunday with a high of 10 degrees.
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CALENDAR
Wednesday
School Board
The Clear Lake School
Board is slated to interview
three firms tonight (Wednesday,
Jan. 6) interested in helping the
district search for a new super-
intendent for the 2016-2017
school year. The Board will re-
ceive 30-minute presentations
from McPherson & Jacobson
LLC, of Omaha, Neb., Ray and
Associates, from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa and Grundmeyer Leader-
ship Firm, of Des Moines. Pre-
sentations begin at 5 p.m., with
one hour allotted for each.
Saturday
Trump in town
This week Republican pres-
idential hopeful Donald Trump
has scheduled a stop at the Surf
Ballroom, 460 North Shore
Drive, Saturday, Jan. 9, at 4
p.m. Doors will open at 2 p.m.
Art FUNdamentals
On Saturday, Jan. 9, chil-
dren ages five-years-old and up
have the opportunity to explore
the fundamentals of Pointil-
lism at an Art FUNdamentals
program at the Clear Lake Arts
Center. Pointillism is a painting
technique in which small, dis-
tinct dots of color are applied in
patterns to form an image. Art
FUNdamentals is offered on the
second Saturday of every month
for 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Arts
Center.
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Opinion..................... 4
Weather.................... 5
Sports....................8-9
Classifieds.........12-13
Road Reports
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Illinois 1-800-865-5394
Kansas 1-800-585-7623
Minnesota1-800-542-0220
Missouri 1-800-222-6400
Nebraska 1-800-906-9069
S. Dakato 1-866-697-3511
Wisconsin 1-800-762-3947
Forecasts
Des Moines 1-515-270-2614
Sioux Falls 1-605-330-4444
Waterloo 1-319-234-6600
Call 511 for Iowa, Minnesota
and South Dakota
non-emergency weather
and road conditions.
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Board begins interviews
with superintendent
search firms tonight
The streetscape has turned to white as snow and frost have persisted in the past week.-Reporter photo by Chris Barragy. The Clear Lake School Board ership at Drake University.
is slated to interview three firms to- The Board will receive 30-min-
Lake aerators now in use night (Wednesday, Jan. 6) interested ute presentations from each search
With the onset of ice cover, officials with the Iowa Depart- ice in the vicinity of the aerators will vary depending upon the in helping the district search for a firm. The presentations will be fol-
ment of Natural Resources remind lake users that the winter weather. The open water will be marked with reflective thin new superintendent for the 2016- lowed by 15-minutes for questions
aeration system is now operating. ice signs once the ice becomes safe enough to travel on. 2017 school year. from the Board of Education.
The aerators are located on the east shore in front of the The aerators are designed to reduce the probability of win- At 5 p.m. the Board will listen
Water Treatment Plant and the north shore near the pump ter fish kill in an attempt to maintain a high quality fishery. to a presentation from McPherson & Do you know this man?
station west of Venetian Village. Individuals using the lake The other aeration systems in North Central Iowa are located Jacobson LLC, of Omaha, Neb. For-
this winter should stay completely away from these open water on Crystal Lake, Rice Lake, Silver Lake and Little Wall Lake. mer Clear Lake Schools Superinten- Police ask
areas. Clear Lake officially froze Dec. 19. The average ice-in dent Dr. Michael Teigland is a con- public for help
According to Scott Grummer, of the Iowa DNR, unsafe date for Clear Lake is Nov. 28. sultant with the national search firm. identifying man
McPherson & Jacobson, L.L.C. has suspected of
been conducting national searches crime
for boards of education since 1991
and has placed over 500 superinten- Police in Clear Lake are asking
dents and other officials in public the public’s help identifying a man
and non-profit organizations across pictured in surveillance footage from
the United States. a city store.
At 6 p.m. Ray and Associates, The man captured on video
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa will make is suspected of writing counterfeit
a presentation. Ray and Associates, checks multiple times at a Clear Lake
Inc. has been in the school executive business on Christmas week, accord-
search business since 1975. The firm ing to the CLPD. Police released still
has been recognized by “The School photos taken from the footage on the
Administrator” journal as one of the department’s Facebook Page on Sun-
top search firms in the country. day, Jan. 3. The Facebook post also
The final presentation will take included photos of three others and
place at 7 p.m. by Trent Grund- an older red Chevrolet pickup with
meyer, former Hampton-Dumont wooden sides above the bed.
School District superintendent, now Only the man is suspected of
residing in Des Moines and operat- theft. He allegedly wrote more than
ing Grundmeyer Leadership Firm. $500 in counterfeit checks on mul-
Since June 2013 he has served as as- tiple visits to the same business.
sistant professor of educational lead- The name of the business was
not released.
Luker fuels Anyone with information can
weather forecasting call Clear Lake Police Officer Bran-
fire by attending don Trapp at 641-357-2186, refer-
national conference ence case #15-10492.
Probably every student celebrates the possibility Henry Luker keeps a close eye on weather trends from a growing technology center in his Clear Lake home.
of a winter storm. For 16-year-old Henry Luker, it’s a -Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.
work day. But make no mistake, it’s exciting for him,
too.
Luker, a high school sophomore, is the lead fore-
caster and founder of the Iowa Weather Network, a
non-profit alliance of weather afficionados which has
grown from a small operation to a network of skilled
forecasters.
Henry says he has had an interest in weather his
entire life, dating back to the formation of “Henry’s
Severe Weather Center” while he was in the first grade,
to his “Iowa Severe Weather Center” back in 2008. In
2012 he teamed with mentors and friends Jeff Wilcox,
owner of the successful Iowa Weather Blog, and Dan
Herrstrom, owner of veteran storm chasing website
See WEATHER WATCHER on page 2
This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s unsolved homicides separate ways, Patricia discov- to make one of his own with his counted by police was that Gal-
in the hopes that it will lead to new tips and potentially help solve cases. ered she was pregnant with Gal- new family. lagher knew his murderer.
The project is a partnership between this newspaper and other members lagher’s child. He never got the chance Clark Company officials
of the Iowa Newspaper Association. Melvin and Gloria became to marry his girl. Never got the said their employees had been
engaged, and were to marry opportunity to meet his unborn told never to resist hold-up at-
by Jody Ewing Gloria and Patricia — and the following year on Jan. 10, children. Never got the time to tempts. When talking casually Melvin James (Regan)
His young adult life had wanted to settle down with a 1959. Some time during their fulfill any of his dreams. with customers or friends, Gal- Gallagher
started out with a few uncer- good job and start raising a engagement, Gloria also be- Gallagher Likely Knew His lagher frequently stood with his
tainties, but 22-year-old Melvin family. He’d first been engaged came pregnant. Killer. left hand in his pocket, which daughters.
James Gallagher was finding to Patricia, but after much soul In the interim, Gallagher, He’d been working at the led investigators to believe the Police steadily followed up
his footing and making plans searching, realized it was Gloria who’d recently been discharged service station just six months Army vet had been visiting with
for what he hoped would be a with whom he wanted to spend after serving with the Army, when, on a bitterly cold Satur- someone he knew. See GONE COLD
bright future. his life. He and Patricia broke started working at the Clark day morning about 5:15 a.m., And, although $179 was on page 5
He’d been deeply in love off their engagement, and a Super 100 service station lo- he was killed by a shotgun blast missing from the station, an
with two different women — short time after they went their cated at 210 Falls Ave. in Wa- to the head as he prepared to undisclosed amount was left be-
terloo. He submitted an appli- end his night-shift. On January hind — either not seen or not
cation for employment with the 3, 1959, exactly one week before wanted by the killer. Money, of-
Waterloo Police Department, his wedding day, he lay dying ficials said, may not have been
and also applied for entry to a on a filling station floor behind the objective.
chiropractic school. Now that frost-covered windows — his On Feb. 19, Patricia gave
the Army vet would have a wife left hand still in his pocket — as birth to the couple’s son, Mi-
and child, there would be ex- his life and all he’d ever hoped chael.
penses and he’d be leaving his for ebbed away and vanished. Later that year, Gloria
mother and step-father’s home One theory never fully dis- gave birth to the couple’s twin
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