July 2015

I met Kellene Dunivan as I was strolling through the Hum-boldt Farmer’s Market one Sat-urday morning. The foods on her table looked like she had been a pretty busy baker so I asked her if she would like to be a Cook of the Week for the Humboldt Paper. To my sur-prise she immediately said “Yes.” Of course that is what I love to hear! I get way to many refusals with way to many ex-cuses!! “Only I’m from West Bend, she said.” I told her that didn’t matter. She was in Humboldt at the Farmer’s Market and West Bend wasn’t that far away from me anyway. When I went to visit Kellene we had such a nice visit. Her cousin, Marlene Banwart, was also there. And a cup of coffee and a few samples of their deli-cious baking were included with the visit. The samples were yummy! Marlene even agreed to be a Cook of the Week at a later date. Kellene was raised an Air Force child as her father was in the Air Force.

PHYLLIS A. GOOD, 85, formerly of Humboldt, died Thursday, July 9, 2015, while in hospice care at Good Samaritan Care Center, Indianola.

Humboldt's baseball team claimed the outright North Central Conference championship by shutting out Iowa Falls-Alden, 3-0 last Friday night (July 10) in Humboldt. The triumph gave the Wildcats a 21-6 overall record, 12-2 and alone in first in the league standings.Humboldt visits Fort Dodge tonight (July 13) and will host Storm Lake on July 14 to close out the regular season. They host Algona in a first round Class 3A district tournament game on Friday, July 17.See full story in the Humboldt Independent Newspaper. Subscribe for full access to the print and/or digital editions of the Independent.

The Humboldt County Public Safety Commission met early Monday morning, July 6, with the main item of business to act on quotes received for communications, electronics and security equipment for the new Law Enforcement Center remodel/addition. The bids for like pieces of equipment and installation were received from Electronic Engineering of Fort Dodge and Electronic Specialties of Algona. Electronic Engineering provided the low quote of $497,733.10. The equipment and charges from Electronic Specialties totaled $538,040. The commission unanimously agreed to approve the low quote from Electronic Engineering. The company has been providing equipment and installation of the county’s central point communications center for several years. The quote is about $100,000 below expected costs of the equipment. Read more about the upgrade and track the progress in The Humboldt Independent every week.