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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Performing arts
support appreciated
To the Editor,
It is with sincere gratitude I ac-
knowledge the Clear Lake commu-
nity for your support over the last 12
years that I have been involved in the
Cup O Joe productions at the Clear
Lake Arts Center. I do not make my
decision lightly as I tell you I need to
step aside from directing for the Clear
Lake Arts Center and being associated
with their productions.
The expectation to work on a zero
budget was a challenge met by my-
self and others as we gave our time,
talents, and treasures on borrowed
equipment to make you laugh, make
you cry, and hopefully make you
think about life in a better spotlight.
The performing arts has grown from
one production once a year to almost
a live performance once a month this
last year.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “It
is important for people to know what
you stand for, and it is equally im-
portant for them to know what you
will not stand for.” As a volunteer I
stayed for years as Kim Larson and
Amy Palmer gave me constructive
feedback in positive communications.
They gave me policies and procedures
to follow and came to all productions
that were physically possible. Those
two ladies followed up with me and
showed me personal respect for my
ideas and background in theatre. I
am comfortable as I leave with others
that have my similar values and eth-
ics. Look for The Kitchen Sink Clear
Lake Community Theatre players, as a
group, would like to continue to per-
form here in Clear Lake.
Your unconditional support of
the performing arts and to myself over
the last 12 years has made me a better
person Clear Lake.
Laura Wilson, continue to charge monopoly prices,
Clear Lake and the generic company is paid to do
Operation LZ
mission completed
To the Editor,
“If we build it, he will come,” was
a popular line from the movie, “Field
of Dreams.” Eighteen months ago a
group of individuals including Riley
Lewis, Jack Caputo, Mark Frakes,
Leon Christianson, Dave Kingland
and Bob Havner were joined by 16
other North Iowans to build a “Wel-
come Home – Thank You” event for
Vietnam Veterans.
Operation LZ was the name se-
lected as a Landing Zone was com-
mon terminology during the war for
mission destinations. In the follow-
ing months over $260,000 from 120
individuals and businesses was raised
ranging from $5 from a widow, to
$30,000 from the Hanson Founda-
tion. The LZ Program Committee
“locked and loaded” a Vietnam venue
of static displays, speakers, aircraft,
entertainment, and activities from
across America.
Results show Operation LZ re-
corded over 25,000 people attending,
including 2,700 VN Vets. Over 1,900
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children from 10 schools attended
Education Days seeing and speaking
firsthand with the soldiers who lived
it. Those who witnessed The Wall
Honor Ride from the Boondocks saw
over 300 motorcycle riders and a Co-
bra Gunship Helicopter escort a me-
morial with over 58,000 names along
crowded highways into Forest City.
Operation LZ would not have
happened without the financial sup-
port of donors and especially the ef-
forts of over 300 volunteers who from
The Wall to the airport made LZ a
memorable event. Everyone was deep-
ly appreciated.
The Spirit of LZ continues today
as members of the committee present
LZ Medallions and coins to those vets
who physically or emotionally could
not attend. If you know of someone
deserving, LZ Committee members
would love to give those veterans their
Welcome Home – Thank You.
The final mission for any Ameri-
can Soldier should be to receive a
“Thank You –Welcome Home.” The
LZ Committee has completed that
mission for 2,700 Vietnam Veterans.
There are still over 70,000 Vietnam
Veterans in Iowa today. It’s never too
late to thank a vet –especially if they
served during the Vietnam War.
Operation LZ Committee
Keep heathcare
costs down
To the Editor,
In 2013 the Supreme Court
ruled that pharmaceutical compa-
nies’ strategy of “pay-to-delay” could
violate antitrust laws. Brand-name
pharmaceutical companies often de-
lay competition by paying a generic
competitor to hold its competing
product off the market for a period of
time. It’s win-win for the companies:
the brand-name manufacturer can
nothing for a while. But it’s obvious-
ly bad for consumers. I was relieved
to hear that the California Supreme
Court just ruled (in the first case to
come up since the US Supreme Court
decision) that Teva Pharmaceutical
violated state anti-trust laws by pay-
ing another company to delay manu-
facturing a generic version of its best-
selling antibiotic, Cipro. I suspect that
most people aren’t even aware that
such “pay-to-delay” agreements are
even possible.
If we are serious about keeping
healthcare costs in check we need to
continue to demand more competi-
tion between the insurance and phar-
maceutical companies.
Bob Burns, breakfast at a fast food restaurant
Mason City when a car alarm starts blasting in the
Precursors of
disaster
To the Editor,
About whom is this a description?
1. Advocating building up the
military to instill fear.
2. Advocating the deportation of
citizens.
3. Dehumanizing racially and
ethnically diverse persons.
4. Vilifying and demeaning those
perceived as critics or rivals.
5. Never acknowledging or recti-
fying erroneous judgement or actions.
6. Playing on public biases.
7. Playing on public fears.
8. Having a distinctive hairstyle.
9. Using patronizing verbiage.
10. Advocating world domi-
Apparently he’d locked the doors, be-
Answer: Adolf Hitler. THINK
about it…rhetoric of divisiveness and
hatred is a precursor of disaster.
Mary Margaret Morris,
Clear Lake
Serving Clear Lake & Ventura
communities since 1869
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25 Years Ago
September 1990
Clear Lake Mayor Lois Kotz was
slated to travel to Ames Tuesday to
visit with Iowa Department of Trans-
portation officials about the Avenue
of the Saints project. Kotz, along
with Mason City Mayor Bill Schickel
and DOT officials Tom Welsh and
Ian McGillvrey formed a Task Force
to study the I-380 link to I-35. The
group will make a recommendation
to the state concerning where the best
location for that hook-up would be
on the Avenue of the Saints.
Victims of heavy July rains got
some good news. U.S. Rep. Fred
Grandy’s office announced that Cerro
Gordo county was one of two North
Iowa counties to receive federal disas-
ter funds.
Paula Johnson, daughter of Dar-
win Johnson, of Story City, Iowa and
Lois Johnson, of Iowa Falls, Iowa,
would like to announce her engage-
ment to Greg Monson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dean Monson, of Clear
Lake. The couple will be married
in Oct. 27, at St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church, in Clear Lake.
Orlin J. and Margaret M. Kel-
ling, of Clear Lake, will observe their
50th wedding anniversary with a
family dinner at the Pheasant Run
Restaurant, in Mason City. The cou-
ple were married on Sept. 16, 1940.
Dr. Richard Calhoun, of Clear
Lake, will be seeing his last patient
after 44 years in the local dentistry
business.
The Clear Lake volleyball team
took it on the chin against Greene,
losing 11-15, 5-15 and 4-15.
A sluggish Ventura Viking foot-
ball team fell in their season opener,
18-8, to Nora Springs/Rock Falls.
Scott Hinrichs, Brett Luscomb and
Brad Olson made 11 solo tackles for
the team. Hornets scored the Vi-
king’s lone TD. Steve Wiley ran the
two point conversion.
With over 100 attack attempts
and serving at 89 percent, the Ventura
volleyball team beat Nora Springs/
Rock Falls, 3-1.
The Clear Lake Lions roared past
Forest City, 32-0, Friday night. Aar-
on Marken was the leading ground
gainer with 210-yards in 26 attempts.
50 Years Ago
September 1965
Honk If You
Hate
Car Alarms
By Guest Columnist Dorothy Rosby
My husband and I are having
parking lot. We do what everyone else
does when a car alarm goes off. Noth-
ing. It happens all the time. But when
the honking goes on for a few min-
utes, the diners start to take notice.
We all hope it’s not our car waking the
neighbors.
There’s a big picture window in
the restaurant and right in front of it
is a grey car with its lights flashing and in her honking car. She must not
its horn honking, and a very embar-
rassed woman sitting in the passenger
seat. I don’t think she’s a car thief, be- rescue her. Evidently that someone is
cause a car thief probably wouldn’t get
in the passenger side.
And I think I know what hap-
pened, because it happened to me a
few weeks ago. My husband and I had
stopped at the grocery store. I stayed
in the truck while he ran in. After a
few minutes, I decided to join him.
care of the problem, and peace is re-
cause when I tried to open mine, the
horn started up. Lucky for me, we
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REMEMBER WHEN
Miss North Iowa 1990
Clear Lake’s own Tammy Bullington (center) was crowned Miss North Iowa 1990 at the scholarship pageant held in Clear
Lake in 1990. Also pictured is second runner-up Stephanie Nicholson (front left) and first runner-up Didi Zahariades
(front right). Behind Bullington is the reigning Miss Iowa Kerri Lynne Rosenberg and 1989 Miss North Iowa Charlotte
Brekke. At left are contestants (L-R): Nicole Herman, Lynette Wells and Karen Christians. At right are contestants
(L-R): Jennel Poland, Robyn Bruns and Theresa Gilles. Bullington went on to represent North Iowa at the Miss Iowa
Pageant.
Enrollment at Clear Lake Com- Allen Hughes will lend his talent to brand new Ford Runabout.
munity Schools is at 1,987. A year the Carlton College team. Cora Wentworth and Clara Car-
ago the enrollment was about 2,000. lyon returned from Chicago where
The senior class this year is the largest 75 Years Ago they went to buy new stock for the
senior class on record with 140. The September 1940 Wentworth Hat Shot. The ladies in
incoming freshman class, however to- Freeman and Kenyon have a town will soon be sporting some fancy
tals 153. well built summer cottage for sale for hats.
Attorney Donald Goranson has only $1,000. This property can eas- The following prices on Fords
been elected president of the Clear ily be made into a year-around home. prevail at Scott and Leonard Auto
Lake Chamber of Commerce. Snatch up some property along Clear Co. F.O.B. Detroit - Ford Runabout,
The building of a new Clear Lake Lake’s lakeshore while the getting is $390; Ford Touring Car, $440; and
industry is under construction on the good. Ford Town Car, $640. No speedom-
east edge of town. The Fibraco firm of Give a woman an inch and she’ll eter included in this year’s equipment,
Mason City is scheduled to move into make a bathing suit out of it. The otherwise cars fully equipped.
the $57,000 building Nov. 1. The swimming styles are on the verge of Sheriff Marsh has been getting
building will have a manufacturing scandalous these days. some good work in capturing auto
area of 160 feet by 60 feet, office space Mrs. E.H. Rich was calling at the thieves. It is hoped the gang is now
and locker facilities. home of her sister, Mrs. E.B. Stilton broken up and that automobiles will
Several Clear Lake young men when a stray dog entered the yard and again become a safe thing for people
will be pursuing their athletic careers made a ferocious attack upon Still- to own.
on the college level. Melvin Ashland man’s dog, Jack. In some unaccount- CORRECTION:
will be a guard on the Luther College able manner Mrs. Rich in trying to Chris Cash was misidentified in
football team. Tom Berge will be a protect Jack, fell, crushing her hip. the Ventura Homecoming photo in
member of the Iowa State Univer- She is in Mercy Hospital. last week’s Remember When. Cash
sity football team. He will be play- went on to be crowned Ventura’s 1990
ing quarterback and is considered an 100 Years Ago Homecoming King. The Mirror-
excellent prospect. Bruce Perkins will August 1915 Reporter regrets the error.
be playing at Drake University and E.B. Stilton is now driving a
were parked in front of a brick wall An Alaskan visit
instead of a giant picture window.
Plus I have a spare key. Unfortu- Gary and Sandy Nyhus and Gene and Nancy Baker, all of Clear Lake, took a
nately, it took me twenty minutes to minute to catch up on local news under the watchful eyes of totem poles in
find it in the bowels of my purse. At Ketchikan, Alaska. -Submitted photo
least it seemed like that long; it may
have been only 20 seconds. I found
the key, stuck it in the ignition, and
the racket stopped. But by that time,
I didn’t feel like getting out of the car
anymore.
Back to the unfortunate woman
have a key. She appears to be waiting
for someone inside the restaurant to
hard of hearing. The horn blasts away.
Eventually, a man, presumably
her soon-to-be-ex-husband, ambles
out of the seemingly soundproof
restroom and looks around for his
once-loving wife. The honking gets
his attention. He looks out through
the picture window, hurries out, takes
stored. Then amazingly, the couple
See ROSBY on page 5
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