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Local NewsPage 8 • Dec. 30, 2015
Grand prize winner!
Paula Lemke, of Clear Lake, was the winner of the Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter’s for one of 15 $2,000 scholarships of- diesel, or collision repair technician;
holiday subscription offer grand prize. Mirror-Reporter Owner/Publisher Mike
Finnegan presented Lemke with this 48-inch LED television.-Reporter photo.
County
health
department
wins U of I
grant
The University of Iowa College
of Public Health and its Business
Leadership Network announced six
award recipients under a new Com-
munity Grant Program, and Cerro
Gordo County Department of
Public Health was among the inau-
gural recipients. The organizations
received cash grant awards ranging
from $1,253 to 3,000.
The recipients of the first round
of funding are: Athletics for Educa-
tion and Success, Fort Dodge; Carry
on Bags, Fairfield; Cerro Gordo
County Department of Public
Health, Mason City; City of Storm
Lake, Storm Lake; Hamilton Coun-
ty Public Health, Webster City; and
Southern Prairie YMCA, Creston.
The grant program funds, in
conjunction with an equal cash
match from another organization
or business, will be used for public
health-related initiatives and proj-
ects in the recipient communities.
Cerro Gordo County Depart-
ment of Public Health seeks to
improve their ranking in the Rob-
ert Wood Johnson Foundation’s
County Health Ranking through
establishing a worksite wellness edu-
cation, recognition and reward pro-
gram.
To launch this first round of
the Community Grant Program,
the College of Public Health col-
laborated with a Steering Commit-
tee of the Business Leadership Net-
work, which includes Gerald Edgar
of Charles City and Maureen Elbert
of Algona.
“These grant awards underscore
the College of Public Health’s com-
mitment to collaborating with local
businesses, organizations, and lead-
ers throughout Iowa to improve the
health and well-being of our state’s
residents,” says Sue Curry, Dean of
the College of Public Health. “This
initiative provides resources that
will help to strengthen our college’s
ongoing partnerships with those in
Iowa’s business community.”
The College of Public Health
provided the grants as part of its
Business Leadership Network
(BLN) initiative. Some of the funds
for the grant program are provided
by the UI Provost’s Office of Out-
reach and Engagement. The BLN,
established in 2011, fosters ongo-
ing, mutually beneficial relation-
ships between the College of Public
Health and small and medium-sized
businesses and communities in
Iowa. Through these relationships,
the college engages and collaborates
with communities in development
of cutting-edge, high impact public
health research, enhances educa-
tional programs with service learn-
ing opportunities within businesses,
and promotes a culture of health
throughout communities.
Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter
Plea change hearing for CL
man charged with incest
A plea change hearing has been Russ pleaded not guilty to the
scheduled for a Clear Lake man charge last month and was scheduled
charged with incest. to be in Cerro Gordo County District
Forty-five year-old Todd Russ Court for a pre-trial conference Mon-
was charged on Nov. 1. He is accused day, but online court records show a
of performing a sex act with a person plea change hearing has been sched-
he knew was related to him in Decem- uled for Jan. 20.
ber 2014.
This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s
Scholarship opportunity announced unsolved homicides in the hopes that it will lead to new
tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a
Students interested in pursuing a bile dealership. Potential career paths partnership between this newspaper and other members of
career in the auto industry can apply include working as an automotive, the Iowa Newspaper Association.
fered by the Iowa Automobile Dealers salesperson; accountant; marketing BOYD GEORGE NOVINGER | AGE: 77 | DIED: DEC. 27, 1997
Foundation for Education. The schol- specialist; or in business administra- Hometown: Bedford
arship application and guidelines can tion. Boyd George Novinger, 77, was killed in his
be downloaded from IADA.com and Recipients of the scholarships Bedford home on Saturday, Dec. 27, 1997.
are due by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March will be announced in May 2016. Novinger’s son-in-law and business partner,
1, 2016. Since 1998, the Foundation has H. Keith Taylor, was rst on scene and told
Applicants must be committed to awarded more than 200 scholarships ofcials he found his father-in-law’s body
the pursuit of a career in an automo- to Iowans. the following Sunday afternoon. An autopsy
concluded Novinger died from gunshot wounds to the chest.
Novinger, a funeral director with the Novinger-Taylor
Funeral Home in Bedford, had worked in the family-
operated funeral home business for 50 years. He worked
with his daughter, Christy, and her husband, Keith.
In an email to Iowa Cold Cases dated June 8, 2012,
Quarters for Haiti Novinger’s daughter Christy said she still had many
questions. Four different death certicates, she said, were
The Clear Creek second graders made a special presentation of the money they collected for their December Service issued in the six months following her father’s murder.
Project, Quarters for Haiti. Megan Watson, a mission trip leader, was on hand to thank the students for their generous A $2,500 reward the family offered for information leading
contribution. Watson will be traveling to Haiti in February with a mission team where she will purchase 104 chickens in to an arrest and conviction in the case went unclaimed.
honor of each of the students. The chickens will be donated to a Haiti orphanage. Following the trip, she will give a pre-
sentation to all the second graders on how their money was spent and they will each get to name their chicken. Pictured If you have any information about Boyd Novinger’s unsolved
are front row (L-R): Kayden Daily, Nora Jennings, Isaac Smith, Dylan Plagge, Houston Paul, Brice Gayken and Lauren murder, please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investiga-
Chmileski. Back row (L-R): McKenna Powell, Watson, Charlotte Lollar and Jackson Eden. -Reporter photo tion at (515) 725-6010 or email [email protected].
20 S. 4th St., Clear Lake • 357-2167 • 7 am - 10 pm Every Day While Find out more about this and other unsolved homicides at
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