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The Sioux City Journal. Thursday. May 20. 1999 A Siouxland igbt young vjomen compste-for Truckers Pay crown The 1999 Truckers' Dav will fv Friday at the Sioux Citv Convention V- demic Volleyball and Golf teams, FHA, Sports Club, basketball, soft-ball, choir, yearbook staff and -i i Center. The event will feature one of thft Jessi Moss, daughter of Terry and AAV finest displays of trucking equipment in the Midwest, all inside the Convention Center, and the crowning of the 1999 Truckers Day Queen.

Activities will get under way with early bird coffee and registration at 8:30 a.m. The equipment display will open at a.m. and continue until 4 In Pinniup it Angela Mary Schroeder Jodi MicheaU Jessi Berg McCiU Huster Moss Jessica Wolff Madonna Moss of Sergeant Bluff. Her sponsor is Specialized Hauling Inc. of Sioux City.

Jessi has attended Sergeant Bluff-Luton High School for four years where she has been active in volleyball, track, basketball golf and bowling. She also served as manager of the boys basketball team for three years. She plans to major in landscape architecture this fall at Iowa State University. Jessica Wolff, daughter of Bruce and Sue Wollf of West Point, Neb. Her sponsor is Aloys Transfer of West Point, a livestock hauling business which has been in her father's family for three generations.

Jessica has attended West Point Central Catholic School from 1995 until May of this year. Her extracurricular activities have included volleyball and basketball, student council, school musical, Spanish Club and National Honor Society. She was president of her junior class, co-captain of the football and basketball cheerleading squads and co-captain of the school's forensics team. She ranks third in her class of 34. Jin D.

Tiffany Harmes Schroeder Day Queen title are: Jill Danielle Harmes, daughter of Danny and Annette Harmes of Moville, Iowa. Her sponsor is Mike Hannah of Trucking of Moville. Jill is a junior at Woodbury Central High School at Moville where she plays basketball, volleyball and Softball and participates in track, drill team and choir. Tiffany Schroeder, daughter of Tom and Diane Schroeder of Wall Lake, Iowa. Her sponsor is Lakeside Express of Wall Lake.

Tiffany will graduate this month from Wall Lake View Auburn High School at Lake View, Iowa. Her high school activities have included volleyball, cheerleading for basketball and foot- luiiwi aiuirtti awoiui wiu uc (presented at the noon luncheon vhich also will feature the preliminaries of the queen contest. social hour at 5:30 p.m. will P'rejede the evening banquet at 6:30 p.m. Finals of the queen contest will be 'at 7:30 p.m.

followed by enter-to inment and dancing at 8:30 p.m. iKorah Taylor of Ponca, the 1998 Truckers Day Queen, will reign over the day's activities. Jimmy Travis will provide the entertain-mont, a combination of comedy and music. Rich Bren, vice president of marketing for Great West Casualty Company, will be the master of ceremonies. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door; the price is $30 per person for the entire event.

Candidates for the 1999 Truckers' volleyball, student council, Homecoming Club, Peer Helping Club and Tutoring Club. She was named homecoming queen in the fall of 1997 and also served as captain of the football cheerleading squad. Scholastically she ranked third in a class of 75. Michaela Maria Huster, daughter of Roger and Sandi Huster of Sac City, Iowa. Her sponsor is Ellcrbrock Trucking of Sac City.

Michaela is a freshman at Briar Cliff College where she is majoring in elementary education. She ranked third in her Sac City High School class and maintains a 3.5 grade point average at Briar Cliff. She was named homecoming queen at Sac City High in 1997. During her high school career, she was involved in All Aca of Randy Berg Trucking. Jodi attended Akron-Westfield High School for all four years of her high school career and was graduated third in her class as salutatorian.

She was a member of the dance squad and flag team for four years and captain of both for two years. She also paricipated in concert band, pep band and FHA and played volleyball and basketball for three years and cheerleading for one. Kelll McGill, daughter of Vince and Sherry McGill of Sergeant Bluff. Her sponsor is Transportation Inc. of South Sioux City.

Kclli has just completed her freshman year at Morningside College. She is a 1998 graduate of Sergeant Bluff-Luton High School where she participated in band, basketball, Softball, track, ball, choir, band, Thespians, student council, drill team, FHA and golf. Angela Mary Schroeder, daughter of Mark and Mary Schroeder of Odebolt, Iowa. Her sponsor is her father who owns and operates Schroeder Truckline and Odebolt Farm and Home. Angela is a senior at Odebolt-Arthur High School where she is editor of both the school newspaper and yearbook, co-captain of the volleyball team and member of the track team, National Honor Society, Quiz Bowl and JETS Teams and participant in individual and large group speech contests.

She was designated a State of Iowa Scholar in April and ranks first in a class of 46. Jodi Berg, daughter of Randy and Bonnie Berg of rural Sioux City. Her sponsor is her father, owner-operator More development planned at Dunes Siouxland's townhome demand is strongly supported by Conhaim Associates Minneapolis-based consultants who found that "moderately priced" townhomes would "meet an under-supplied, regional Conhaim made a similar assessment about the tri-state area's single-family home marketplace which led Dakota Dunes Development Company to establish its new "family friendly" neighborhood, the Prairie, also being developed by the Dunham Company. Both the Prairie and the townhomes are located on the periphery of Dakota Dunes' new community park which is also under ceilings, formal dining rooms, fireplaces, attached two-car garages and concrete patios. Exteriors will be a combination of brick and lap siding, according to Don Dunham chairman of the Dunham Company, i The foot one-story units will have two bedrooms, two baths and a breakfast nook.

The foot two-story units will have two baths and three bedrooms one of which is on the main floor a breakfast bar and a main floor laundry. In addition to being privately gated, the townhome development will be covered by covenants and design guidelines consistent with those in the other neighborhoods at Dakota Dunes. Residents will have their own homeowners association DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. The Dunham Company, a Sioux Falls-based developer, has purchased ground at Dakota Dunes to build 32 townhomes with 64 units, it was announced Wednesday by Dennis Melstad, executive vice president of Dakota Dunes Development Co. Available later this summer, the townhomes will be located in an 11-acre gated area on the east side of the Dakota Dunes residential community, according to Melstad.

"Beginning at $135,000, the townhomes are at a price point that will be attractive to a significant number of buyers seeking new family-friendly housing opportunities in our master-planned community," Melstad said. Each unit will feature vaulted and will be members of Dakota Dunes Country Club with use of all tennis, swimming, fitness, dining and social facilities, according to Dunham. Dunham expects sales of the townhomes at Dakota Dunes will match the performance of Sertoma Place, a 30-building, 84-unit townhome community the Dunham Company has built in Sioux Falls. Dunham says his decision to build townhomes at Dakota Dunes was based on a void in the Siouxland housing marketplace. "We saw a pent-up demand that isn't being served, especially for single men and women who want to own a home at a more affordable price," Dunham explained.

Dunham's own perception of 3 ii i j. qjiir 1 flu 1 jy ffn I "rlZ- jZmJ V'. 1 1 Logan tornadoes labeled F-3 around Logan. Smith told the Omaha World-Hcrald that most of the damage was done south of Logan, where a tornado killed two people, injured 16 and destroyed five homes. Harrison County Emergency Management Director Jim' Unruh estimated damage at $1.5 million from the storms.

With damage of that type, the storm normally would be considered an F-4, or devastating tornado, Smith said. But he said the homes that were destroyed were older and therefore easily removed from their Some homes that survived the storm probably would not have made it through an F-4, he said. "That's not to say it couldn't have registered as an F-4, but I couldn't see the evidence," Smith said. A second tornado struck two homes west of Logan and also is considered an F-3, Smith said. It did less damage because there was less property on its 7-mile route.

Gov. Tom Vilsack on Tuesday issued a disaster declaration for Harrison County in addition to counties in eastern Iowa hit by floods. Storms also hit Pottawattamie, Mills and Crawford counties. LOGAN, Iowa (AP) A tornado that tore through western Iowa and killed two people has been classified as an F-3 and is being blamed for an estimated 1 .5 million in damage. Brian Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley, toured the damage from the Sunday storms to determine the severity.

On the Fujita Scale, an F-5 tornado is considered the most powerful. An F-3 is considered severe, with winds between 158 mph and 206 mph. The tornado tore a path about '4-mile wide and seven miles long Charitable gambling continues decline LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Casino gambling competition from neighboring states is taking a toll on bingo, pickle cards, keno and raffles for charity in Nebraska. State Tax Commissioner Mary Jane Egr said Wednesday the amount spent on the games fell $14 million or about 5 percent to $269 million during the 12-month period ending March 31.

Taxes on such gambling activities fell to $5.9 million, only the second time in the past 10 years they dropped below $6 million, she said. Kenneth Winston, legal counsel to the Legislature's General Affairs Committee, said earlier this year that charitable gambling proceeds peaked at $408 million in 1994 and have declined ever since. Pickle card wagering has declined nearly 50 percent from its peak in 1994, when Nebraskans wagered $177 million. Winston said the opening of river boat casinos in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had a major impact on city-county lottery revenues in the Omaha metropolitan area. Iowa, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri have casinos.

South Dakota has tribal casinos and slot machines. Changing times are also a factor in the decline, he said. Ride 'em Clint Reeves, 7, goes for a wild ride on Lester the sheep during the Mutton Busting kids rodeo at the Ottumwa (Iowa) Saddle Club Arena. (AP photo) Friday car washes benefit 0U For the third consecutive year, Hamilton Touchless Car Wash, 2229 Hamilton will sponsor Opportunities Unlimited (OU) Benefit Day. Proceeds from each car washed Friday at Hamilton Touchless will be donated to OU.

Hours for OU Benefit Day will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. In case of rain, OU Benefit Day will be Saturday. OU Benefit Day is also sponsored by local businesses that have donated items to be given to customers free of charge. They include Chesterman Bottling TCBY and Little Chicago Deli.

Advertising support has been provided by Avery Bros. Sign Co. and KG95 Radio. Hamilton Touchless has donated a "Diamond Card" to be raffled that entitles the winner to unlimited free car washes for a full year. A Sioux City non-profit agency, OU was founded in 1993 by a group of local families who recognized the need to provide specialized rehabilitation for people recovering from brain injuries.

Since 1993, OU has expanded to provide rehabilitation for people with disabilities resulting from spina bifida, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injuries. Bilingual education, INS office planned in Grand Island GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) Immigration and Naturalization Service officials are targeting the opening of a branch office in Grand Island for late summer or early fall, and educators are near an agreement that would train more bilingual teachers in the city as well. The Nebraska State Patrol, which now has to contact Omaha or Chicago when it arrests illegal immigrants, said it applauded the idea of a regional INS of fice. Ten federal agents are expected to occupy the future Grand Island office, the patrol said.

Patrol Sergeant Bill Keeling said the extra manpower will help both patrol and INS operations. INS officials said they are expecting to select agents for the assignment within the next two weeks. Meanwhile, Grand Island's large Hispanic population has led Grand Island School District officials to enter into an agreement with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to train bilingual teachers. The agreement will provide more qualified personnel for teaching English to the district's growing number of Spanish-speaking students. School officials said the program should be in effect at elementary, middle and secondary schools.

USD fraternity pleads guilty in beer bust VERMILLION, S.D. A University of South Dakota fraternity has pleaded guilty in place of two members who were charged in connection with a beer bust at the fraternity house. r. Sigma Nu assumed creating a common nuisance charges from Darren Johnson, 22, and Dustin Pullman, 23, in Clay County Court. The charges against Johnson and Pullman were dismissed.

The fraternity was fined $1,000 and must reimburse the city of Vermillion for overtime costs logged by police officers who participated in the bust. On Nov. 20, police issued 54 citations for underage drinking when they broke up a party at the house. About 150 people were at the party. Computer firm recognized for help with relief efforts The Siouxland Area Chapter of the American Red Cross presented Gateway Country a certificate of appreciation Wednesday for their assistance in the Oklahoma and Kansas tornado relief.

Steve Harrington, executive director of the Siouxland Red Cross, presented the award to John Mlynski, president of Gateway Country at their headquarters in North Sioux City. uf Gateway computers will help the Red Cross process damage assessment data, family services information and logistics material. Relief efforts continue for victims of the May 3 tornadoes that hit the region. Area volunteers will assist Iowa storm victims Three volunteers from the Siouxland Area Chapter of the American Red Cross will travel to assist Iowa storm and flood victims. Molly Langley, a disaster health services worker from Akron, Iowa, and Dorothy Porter, a Red Cross nurse from Sioux City, will travel to Waterloo, and Clayton Hodgson, family services coordinator from Le Mars, Iowa, will be assigned to Dubuque.

Preliminary damage estimates indicate that 74 homes in Dubuque County were affected, 48 destroyed in Clayton County, 141 affected in Fayette County, 54 in Buchanan County and 12 in Butler County. ill If http:empIoyment.siouxcityjournal.com The Sioux City Journal Seat belt enforcement stepped up in Woodbuiy County Children between 3 and 6 years old in a vehicle must be secured in a child restraint system or with a seat belt "The Woodbury County Sheriffs Office can no longer tolerate so many preventable tragedies hurt children and despairing families," a spokesman for the sheriffs office said. "Many of the child deaths and injuries can be prevented if only the adults would do their job to protect vulnerable children." drivers with unbuckled children, according to the sheriffs office. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for American children. It is the law in all 50 states that children must be restrained, but because adults are breaking the law, children are being crippled and killed in car crashes every day.

Iowa child passenger laws require that a child younger than 3 years old who is being transported in a motor vehicle be secured in transit by an approved child restraint system. The Woodbury County Sheriffs Office will step up seat belt enforcement during Buckle Up America Week starting Monday. The effort is part of Operation ABC Mobilization in which the sheriffs office will join thousands of law enforcement agencies in all 50 states. Throughout the week leading up to Memorial Day, drivers who don't buckle up children will be stopped and enforcement action will be taken. There will be zero tolerance for Point your browser at 1 1 :www.SI ouxCityJournal.com for online, and resources THE BEST IN BOTH WORLDS..