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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Southeast Iowa¡¯s Best Newspaper

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Freshmen learn the high school way

Suit says

pipeline

attacks

were ecoterrorism

Investor is

eyeing new

concept

for old

St. Joe¡¯s

Blackbird

concept involves

taking down

structure

By MATT MILNER

Managing Editor

OTTUMWA ¡ª Attacks on

the Dakota Access Pipeline

in Mahaska and Wapello

counties are being used as

evidence in a federal lawsuit

filed Tuesday by the company that built the pipeline.

Energy Transfer Partners,

the owner of the pipeline,

accuses Greenpeace and

other organizations of ecoterrorism and racketeering,

among other crimes. The

suit is being filed under the

Racketeer Influenced and

Corrupt Organizations Act

(RICO) which the federal

government has used to

target organized crime.

Much of the suit¡¯s complaint focuses on organized

protest efforts to block

the pipeline, including the

well-known protests at the

Standing Rock reservation

last year. But vandalism of

the pipeline in Mahaska and

Wapello counties brings the

issue to southeast Iowa.

Please see PIPELINE Page A4

Winona Whitaker/The Courier

Associate Principal Aaron Ruff acquaints high school freshmen with Ottumwa High School¡¯s rules of dining at Tuesday¡¯s orientation. Students

also heard from Principal Cory Johnson concerning expected conduct and the school¡¯s dress code. Students found their classrooms, met

their teachers and received free T-shirts. Ottumwa Community School District classes begin Thursday.

Wapello County invests in sobriety

Treatment facility will

soon add female patients

By MARK NEWMAN

will benefit residents.

First Resources and

others

supportive of Oak

OTTUMWA ¡ª It takes

Meadow

Residential

more than good intentions

Substance

Abuse Treatand professional training to

ment Center asked various

open a healthcare facility;

entities to assist with varigovernment requirements

ous costs to renovate the

nearly always have a cost.

facility. It wasn¡¯t just going

On Tuesday, Wapello

to look newer, it will begin

County supervisors saw

how the county¡¯s donation serving female patients in

Courier staff writer

addition to males.

The county was asked if

they¡¯d cover a specific cost:

the fire prevention sprinkler

needed an upgrade.

Wapello County¡¯s Board

of Supervisors pledged to

provide $25,000 to keep

the project on track. During Tuesday¡¯s tour of the

construction site, they got

to see the progress being

made out by Ottumwa¡¯s

industrial park.

¡°Where is the next clos-

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est substance abuse treatment option for Wapello

County residents?¡± asked

Supervisor Jerry Parker.

¡°About 70 miles,¡± said

Cathy Pringle-Maletta, the

facility program director. ¡°But Iowa City, Des

Moines, Burlington ¡ª all

have a three-week waiting

period.¡±

¡°This is something that¡¯s

very needed here,¡± said

Please see SOBRIETY Page A4

By MARK NEWMAN

Courier staff writer

OTTUMWA ¡ª An investor¡¯s original idea to turn

the old St. Joseph¡¯s Hospital

into high quality apartments

turns out to be impractical.

He says a new concept, with

the St. Joe¡¯s building gone,

is more realistic.

Justin Doyle, president of

Blackbird Investments, said

he knows how important it

is to preserve a community¡¯s

historic buildings. But the

numbers don¡¯t add up; what

it would cost to renovate the

place followed by what the

place would earn just don¡¯t

match.

Some facts he thinks the

community should know:

¡°St. Joseph¡¯s is unique

in our portfolio as the

Please see HOSPITAL Page A4

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One off the bucket list

By JEFFREY LECHNER

Courier staff writer

OTTUMWA ¡ª For Clark Yeager, owning a Century Farm has been a longtime

goal, a goal he was able to finally realize at

the Iowa State Fair this year. ¡°Well I just

thought that having a Century Farm was

one of the last things on my bucket list,¡±

said Yeager.

On Thursday, Yeager was able to cross

it off his list when he and 14 members of

his family were officially recognized during

TWO-DAY

FORECAST

the Century Farms Ceremony at the Iowa

State Fair. Yeager himself only owns 80

acres of the original Century Farm, and his

children, Alison Smith, Aaron Yeager and

Brad Yeager, own the remaining 160 acres.

Yeager¡¯s son Brad lives and farms just ¡°up

the road.¡± Alison and Aaron are bit farther

away in West Des Moines and Mansfield,

Texas, respectively.

Yeager¡¯s family has been farming in the

area since 1865 but not on the same farm.

Photo provided

Clark Yeager (back row, third from left) and his family were recognized at the Iowa State Fair¡¯s

Please see YEAGER Page A6 Century Farm Ceremony this Year.

Today ... Sunny with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming northwest

around 6 mph in the morning. Tonight ... Mostly clear with a low

around 55. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Thursday ... Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming

east 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Thursday night ... Partly cloudy with

a low around 56. East southeast wind around 6 mph.

Weather, Page A6

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A4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Obituaries

A5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opinions

A6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weather

B1-B3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sports

B4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comics

B5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Business

B6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Features

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Weather

A6, Wednesday, August 23, 2017

10-DAY FORECAST

Forecast for Wednesday, August 23, 2017

LOCAL

Bands separate high temperature zones for the day.

Records

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Sunny

High: 80

Low: 55

Mostly sunny

High: 80

Low: 56

Partly sunny

High: 80

Low: 58

Partly sunny

High: 81

Low: 58

Partly sunny

High: 81

Low: 57

High: 78

Low: 52

Record high: 104 in 1936

Record low: 44 in 1923

Today

Record high: 102 in 1948

Record low: 44 in 1923

Precipitation

Tuesday: 0.00

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