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Horizons change
The social service agency
providing counseling for
Jones County residents is
being bought out by a Mar-
shalltown company.
Page A3
Visions
Jones County has estab-
lished training programs to
meet the needs of employ-
ers who have trouble find-
ing skilled workers.
Page A10-11
Student safety
An Olin community meeting
discusses ways to improve
student safety following a
pair of incidents earlier this
month.
Page A9
Contract impasse
Anamosa teachers and
school district officials are
at an impasse over contract
negotiations. The hangup –
salary increases
Page A3
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY................A8-9
CLASSIFIEDS............................. B7-9
HELP WANTED............................ B7-9
LIFESTYLES.................................A5-8
NEWS............................. A1-4,A9-12
OBITUARIES...................................A6
OPINION........................................A4
PUBLIC NOTICES............................B6
REAL ESTATE.............................. B7-9
SPORTS..................................... B1-6
THE BACK PAGE...........................B10
INDEX
Hometown newspaper
of Patricia McPherson
of Anamosa
Fair queen
Mackenzie Dietiker urges girls
to apply for the Great Jones
County Fair queen. “No matter
what the outcome, running for
fair queen is something every
girl should try once.”
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hunt at Strawberry Hill Elementary School on Saturday,April 12. For more photos from the event, see Page A2.
By Robert Crozier
Staff Writer
ANAMOSA
Anamosa resident Chris Boni-
fazi said he intends to work with
City Council members on writ-
ing an ordinance regulating urban
chickens after the council de-
clined granting him permission to
keep his hens under current law.
Bonifazi appeared before the
council at its April 14 meeting
to appeal a nuisance abatement
notice police officials issued him
April 9, ordering him to get rid of
the birds.
Bonifazi said he thought the
City Council had the authority to
grant residents an exemption to
keep chickens in town on a case-
by-case basis under the current
ordinance.
Council member Mike Dear-
born said the ordinance contra-
dicts itself. It disallows poultry
in one paragraph and allows it by
written consent in another.
And the ordinance says coops
City: Chickens must go
Anamosa orders resident to get rid
of the chickens he keeps in his yard
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Chris Bonifazi and Lindsey Wegener
sit next to their five hens, Ruby, Crown,
Lilly, Lotus and Dawn.
By Robert Crozier
Staff Writer
MAQUOKETA
Wyoming resident Aaron
Scott was heavily armed April 1
when he exchanged bullets with
a police officer in Maquoketa be-
fore shooting himself near Lost
Nation, police officials said.
He had an SKS assault rifle, a
.308, a shotgun, a handgun and a
lot of ammunition, Iowa Division
of Criminal Investigation Special
Agent Matt George said. Scott
had a valid permit to purchase
and carry concealed weapons is-
sued in Jones County, he said.
Jackson County Attorney Sara
Davenport said Scott had a falling
out with his girlfriend an hour be-
fore the shootout, and he told his
estranged wife to come supervise
their son at his house because he
had “a score to settle.”
He was gone before she ar-
rived.
In his place, she found their
son, ammo boxes and a suicide
note, according to a news release
from Davenport’s office.
Scott went to Maquoketa and
got in a gunfight with police Sgt.
Brendan Zeimet.
Zeimet stopped to check on
Scott’s truck, which was parked
on the wrong side of the road.
Scott was inside. Zeimet believed
he was drunk, Jackson County At-
torney Sara Davenport said.
Scott’s toxicology report isn’t
back yet, George said.
Zeimet heard Scott mumble,
“Get out of here,” Davenport said.
Davenport showed video foot-
age of the gunfight that ensued
to members of the news media at
an April 14 press conference. The
video was shot from the police
car’s dash camera.
A squad car and a blue 2005
Dodge Ram were about 20 feet
apart, facing each other.
A man – police officials identi-
fied him as Scott – emerged from
the truck, but he stood behind the
door.
As Zeimet approached the
truck, Scott stepped from behind
the door brandishing an assault
rifle.
He raised the barrel toward
Zeimet.
Zeimet retreated in a flurry of
gunfire as he returned fire.
Scott jumped into the pickup
and sped off.
Wyoming man
heavily armed
in shootout
By Robert Crozier
Staff Writer
SPRINGVILLE
The congregate senior dining
program in Springville will serve
its last meal April 30, but only a
few of the town’s seniors took ad-
vantage of the program in recent
years.
The decision to close the site
followed funding cuts.
The nonprofit agency that ad-
ministrates Linn County’s senior
dining program, Horizons, closed
five sites in Ely, Hiawatha, Marion,
Springville and St. Mark’s United
Methodist Church in Cedar Rap-
ids following a $200,000 budget
cut.
Horizons will continue to de-
liver meals to homebound se-
niors.
“As much as it hurts us to close
our congregate sites, it still allows
us to deliver meals,” Horizons
CEO Karl Cassell said.
“The ones that are frail and
at home have to be our prior-
ity,” Jones County Senior Dining
Director Lisa Tallman said, add-
ing that the home deliveries keep
people out of nursing homes.
“A congregate is great for
people to socialize and have good
nutrition,” she said, but people
mobile enough to get to a con-
gregate are mobile enough to go
elsewhere for food.
The cuts came from the Heri-
tage Area Agency on Aging, which
Springville dining program cut
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years,” he said.
The town of Spring-
ville, in rural Linn County,
saw three houses built in
2010, one house built in
2011, three houses built in
2012, and six houses built
in 2013, according to data
provided by Springville’s
city clerk.
“Commercial has prob-
ably been pretty consistent
also,” Andreesen said.
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saw five new commercial
constructions, accord-
ing to the data. The two
years prior to that, 2011
and 2012, saw two new
constructions each. There
were seven in 2010 and
only three in 2009.
Andreesen said his of-
fice counts new commer-
cial enterprises that build
a new building, but it does
not count existing enter-
prises that build addition-
al buildings near existing
ones.
Tubbs said the com-
mercial construction rate
in Jones County is small.
He said the commercial
parks near Anamosa and
Monticello – “some pretty
prime commercial real es-
tate” – is sitting stagnant.
Tubbs said the commer-
cial property is stagnant
because of uncertainty.
Potential investors
don’t know what’s going to
happen with the economy,
regulations or the nation’s
new health insurance sys-
tem, he said.
“All of those things
have slowed the ability of
a business to make deci-
sions,” he said.
PERMITS/CONTINUED FROM PAGE A10
By Robert Crozier
Staff Writer
ANAMOSA
After a solid week of
interviews, Anamosa Su-
perintendent Lisa Beames
said she has selected the
high school’s new princi-
pal and athletic director.
Jacqueline Lahey will
replace Chris Basinger as
the high school principal,
and Brett Jones will re-
place Derek Roberts as the
athletic director.
Both appointments
are pending approval by
the school board, which
was expected to approve
the new hires at a special
board meeting Tuesday,
April 15, Beames said.
Lahey is currently an
assistant administrator
at College Community
School District in Ce-
dar Rapids, and she has a
background as a special
education teacher, Beames
said.
“She has a strong in-
structional background,”
Beames said.
Jones has held princi-
pal positions at Iowa City
Regina and Lone Tree, and
he has been an athletic di-
rector in Cascade, Beames
said. He has a coaching
background, she said.
Jones worked as an art
teacher in Anamosa more
than a decade ago, Beames
said.
“We were looking to
create a team that can ac-
celerate the high school
forward,” Beames said.
“These two combined are
a really strong team.”
Superintendent picks new principal, athletic director
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SPRINGVILLE/CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE
must be kept clean in yet
another paragraph, Boni-
fazi said.
Council member Bill
Feldmann said farm ani-
mals belong on the farm,
and he made a motion to
deny Bonifazi the excep-
tion.
Brady Reynolds sec-
onded the motion before
voting against it. Chuck
Smith and Dick Stivers
voted no.
Feldmann, Dearborn
and Cody Shaffer voted
yes to deny the exception.
The mayor normally
breaks ties, but not on
matters of city ordinance,
so the measure died. The
council didn’t deny Boni-
fazi his exception, but it
didn’t grant it either. The
order to abate the nuisance
within 72 hours stands,
City Administrator Alan
Johnson said.
It was unclear when the
birds had to go.
Bonifazi said he needed
time to find a home for the
birds.
“We’ll work with you,
Chris,” Johnson replied.
Johnson said the police
department was respond-
ing to complaints about
Bonifazi’s chickens.
Bonifazi said his coop
was clean and his birds
were quiet. He promised
to build a privacy fence so
the chickens wouldn’t en-
courage local dogs to bark.
He said he does not and
will not keep roosters.
Bonifazi said he got
written consent to keep
chickens from each of
his neighbors, including
Dearborn.
“I didn’t even know he
had chickens until a week
ago,” Dearborn said.
The five hens – Ruby,
Crown, Lilly, Lotus and
Dawn – give Bonifazi and
his partner Lindsey We-
gener eggs every day, he
said.
“This is life sustenance
for Lindsey and myself,” he
said.
Dearborn told Bonifazi
to work toward changing
the ordinance to allow ur-
ban chickens.
“I have no problem
with what you’re doing, my
problem is that it’s against
the ordinance,” he said.
Johnson said changing
the rules won’t be easy for
Bonifazi.
“I fully expect a lot of
opposition,” Johnson said.
Davenport said Scott
fired between 14 and 19
rounds from his rifle, and
Zeimet fired seven rounds
from his service pistol. The
squad car took five bullets
and was disabled, she said.
Zeimet shot Scott in
the left leg, but that’s not
what killed him.
He rolled his pickup
near Lost Nation and
shot himself in the head,
George said.
Scott shot Zeimet in
the forearm, but he is do-
ing well, Maquoketa Police
Chief Brad Koranda said.
Zeimet is scheduled to re-
turn to duty this week.
“I’m very grateful that
he’s back,” Koranda said.
Davenport said Zei-
met’s use of deadly force
was “justified and reason-
able.”
George said Zeimet
thinks he fired first, but it’s
hard to tell for sure.
Zeimet had a pis-
tol, and Scott had a rifle.
George said Zeimet knew
he was outgunned, and he
did what he had to do.
“Officers are permitted
to use whatever force is
reasonable given the situ-
ation,” George said.
George said it was clear
from all the guns that
Scott planned some sort of
violent action, and it was
clear from the suicide note
that he planned to die.
“The Scott family also
had a tragedy that night,”
Koranda said.
Scott had a history of
mental health and alcohol
abuse issues, George said.
Police officials aren’t
surewhatvendettabrought
Scott to Maquoketa that
night, but Scott’s family
told them he did not like
the city of Maquoketa or
its police department,
George said. The grudge
may have stemmed from
Scott’s 30-day stint in the
Jackson County Jail follow-
ing a 2003 drunken driving
conviction, he said.
He also accidently shot
one of his friends in a 2007
suicide attempt.
Scott’s friends Brock
Bowman and Justin Mohr
had rushed to him after
Scott told Bowman on
the phone that he loved
him and would see him in
the next life in November
2007, according to a police
report.
“Justleave,”AaronScott
told his friends crying, the
report said. He was drunk
and waving a .40 caliber
Glock pistol around. “You
can’t stop it anyway,” he
said.
There was a struggle
for the gun when Bowman
tried to take it from Scott.
The gun went off, and
Mohr was shot, the report
said.
Mohr was paralyzed
from the shooting.
is a department of Kirk-
woodCommunityCollege.
Tallman said the agency
acts as a conduit through
which federal funds are
transferred to local senior
dining programs.
The Heritage Agency
asks senior diners to con-
tribute whatever they feel
comfortable with giving
when they accept meals,
and the amount of volun-
tary contributions have
declined while the client
base has grown in recent
years, according to a press
release.
The Heritage agency
cut about $23,000 from
the Jones County senior
dining program’s budget
for the coming fiscal year,
but Jones County Senior
Dining Director Lisa Tall-
man said the program
wouldn’t have to immedi-
ately cut services because
of local fundraising efforts,
including the Dining Dol-
lars contributions from
Journal-Eureka readers.
Tallman said Spring-
ville’s seniors may start
coming to Anamosa to eat,
and she welcomes them.
While Tallman said
seniors from Springville
can come eat in Anamosa,
the Jones County program
won’t receive any addi-
tional money for serving
them.
“We’re coming down to
make tough choices,” Tall-
man said. “It’s a bad deal.”
Springville Senior Din-
ing program volunteer
Arlys Huff said only a few
people came to senior din-
ing in Springville recently,
and there had been com-
plaints about the quality
and quantity of the food
since Horizons started ad-
ministrating the program.
“Everybody died or
went to nursing homes,”
she said. “Horizons took
over, and people weren’t
satisfied with the food.”
Cassell said he cannot
speak to food quality be-
fore Horizons took over
the program, but he is
“committed at this point
to continue the quality of
the meals and incorporate
local fruits and vegetables
into our meals.”
Horizons’ plan is to de-
liver to the homes weekly
“if they have room in their
little freezers for seven
meals,” Huff said.