Author: Theresa Rose

The City of Mount Pleasant will hold annual Spring Clean Up during the week of April 25, 2022 – April 28, 2022. Spring Clean Up is a one-week opportunity for residents of Mount Pleasant to rid your home of those unusual or large items that are too big to fit into a garbage bag for your regular garbage collection day. The collection work is done by WEMIGA WASTE. Spring Clean Up will be picked up on your normal garbage day. Please do not place items curbside until the week before Spring Clean Up.

WHAT CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE PICKED UP:

• Tires, Waste Oil, Batteries, Roof Shingles, Ashes
• Liquids, such as Anti-freeze, Household Chemicals and Wet Paint
• Construction materials of any kind such as drywall, wood, etc.
• Televisions and Computer Monitors
• Yard Waste
• Appliances

THINGS THEY WATCH FOR:

Leave the lids off your paint cans. If you have old paint cans and the paint is dry, we can take them. No wet paint of any kind will be picked up.

All kinds of carpet will be picked up. Carpet must be tightly rolled and tied to be collected.

GARBAGE STICKERS:    

Please adhere stickers no earlier than the morning of your pickup date to ensure scavengers don’t take the adhered to item. Pile size limited to equivalent to unit 6′ wide x 8′ long x 4′ tall, excludes separated metal pile. You are required to use a minimum of six stickers for your entire pile.

QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION: If you have any questions about the 2017 Spring Clean Up, please contact Public Works at 385 1480 – Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

AGENDA

April 26, 2022

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9:00 Jake Hotchkiss, Engineer Weekly Update

9:30 Natel Broadband Presentation for High Speed Wireless

Internet in Rural Area and Request ARPA Funds

Other County Business as time allows

Supervisors Sub-Committee Updates

Wednesday, 4/20/2022, at about 3:15 pm numerous calls were coming into the LeeComm 911 Center reporting a two vehicle crash at the intersection of Hwy 218/27 and 200th Street also known as Franklin Road.  The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded along with Donnellson Fire and Rescue to find a passenger in one of the vehicles dead at the scene.  The passenger was identified as 69 year old Steven K. Brownlee of Warsaw, Illinois.  The investigation is ongoing and no further information has been released.

CLIVE, Iowa — A Jefferson County woman said she and her husband are planning a vacation after she won a $10,000 lottery prize.

Lori Luke, 62, of Fairfield, won the big prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “$100,000 Mega Crossword” scratch game. She purchased her winning ticket at BP, 302 E. School Ave. in Olds.

Luke scratched the ticket immediately after purchasing it and scanned it at the store’s self-checker, but didn’t believe her eyes when she saw the $10,000 prize.

“After a minute, I put it back in and it said $10,000,” Luke recalled with a laugh. “The cashiers came running over: ‘We want to see! We want to see!’ It was a pretty exciting time there.”

As her big win began to sink in, she called her husband, Rod, with the news.

“I got his voicemail so I had to sit and wait,” she said. “But then later, he calls: ‘You won me $10,000?’I said, ‘No, I won me $10,000!’”

Luke claimed her prize on Monday at the lottery’s Cedar Rapids regional office.

The $100,000 Mega Crossword is a $10 scratch game that features overall odds of 1 in 3.30, 38 top prizes of $100,000 and 76 prizes of $10,000. For more information about this game, and the number of prizes still available, visit ialottery.com.

Henry County Jail

In the interest of keeping Henry County residents informed, the Henry County Sheriff’s office has requested KILJ post the daily jail count. During the jail referendum campaign it was publicized that the jail would be able to house additional inmates from surrounding counties and this would generate revenue for Henry County.

Date:   04-21-2022______

   26       Henry County Inmates

   49       Out of County Contract Inmates              

  75       TOTAL

On Tuesday, the Iowa Department of Corrections announced the death of Anthony Steven Spurgeon. Spurgeon, who is from Ottumwa, was pronounced dead around 9 a.m. on Monday. Authorities say his death appears to be a suicide. The Iowa Department of Corrections will continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding Spurgeons death. Spurgeon was serving a 15-year maximum term at the Anamosa State Penitentiary for the crime of Habitual Offender and other charges out of Wapello County. He began serving his sentence August 27, 2018.