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The Wright County Board of Supervisors agreed Monday to take charge of a shared drainage project in Drainage District 111, which lies along the Franklin County line six miles southeast of Belmond (or one mile west of Alexander).

The supervisors made a conference call to their counterparts in Franklin County because the work, which involves Lateral 5, is totally in Wright County, according to Wright County Drainage Clerk Deb Loux.

The main work being planned is enlarging and extending the tile in Wright County. Once completed, there will be a reclassification so Lateral 5 will no longer be considered a joint district with Franklin County.

Lukes said Franklin County landowners will not have to help pay for the project in any way. Instead, affected property owners in Wright County will be assessed for it.

In other news, the supervisors received two quotes for re-roofing the courthouse. Neither quote was accepted, since the board is waiting for a few more bids and wants to consult with the countys insurance company. This matter will be discussed again next week.

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CLEAR LAKE | Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials met with eight area residents on Tuesday to discuss Iowa water-quality regulations.

The event at the Clear Lake Lakeview Room was part of the three-year review cycle for standards imposed under the federal Clean Water Act.

Were here to listen to the public, what concerns they have, what changes theyd like to see and what impacts they might anticipate coming from those changes, said Roger Bruner, supervisor of the DNR water-quality monitoring and assessment section.

DNR Water Quality Standards Coordinator Rochelle Weiss outlined the types of regulations and water bodies covered under this review.

She noted the focus was measurable pollutant discharges from individual facilities with specific points of entry into a river or stream, known as point-source discharges.

Facilities producing such discharges, she said, must obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits stipulating the type and amount.

Increases are normally permitted only if determined to be in keeping with public safety and water-quality goals and after establishing there is no reasonable alternative.

Accepted levels vary by substance and by water body, with bodies classified based on such variables as size, flow characteristics, water temperature, aquatic life supported and types of human recreational usage.

Specific changes being contemplated are primarily technical, Bruner noted, involving adjustments to methods for allocating waste loads and to techniques used in monitoring levels of metals and other chemicals.

During public comments, some participants voiced questions and concerns regarding other water-quality issues.

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ALBANY, N.Y. Twenty stories above ground zero, its existence and whereabouts known only to those who needed it, the Family Room served for a dozen years as a most private sanctuary from a most public horror.

It was spartan office space at a 54-story tower at 1 Liberty Plaza for families to be by themselves, a temporary haven where they could find respite from bad weather and the curious stares of passers-by. Piece by piece, without any planning, it was transformed into an elaborate shrine known only to them.

Unconstrained and undesigned, a profusion of intimate expressions of love and loss filled the walls of the room, the tabletops, the floors and, even, the windows, obscuring views of the World Trade Center site below, as if to say: Jim and John and Jonathan and Harvey and Gary and Jean and Welles and Isaias and Katherine and Christian and Judy are all here, with us, not down there in the ruins.

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What tower? What floor? That was the way other people saw our loved ones, said Nikki Stern, whose husband, James E. Potorti, was among those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. It was adamantly not how we wanted to define our loved ones. The Family Room was the beginning of the storytelling that was controlled by the families.

And it was that rare thing at ground zero, a secret refuge hidden in plain sight of the workers, shoppers, neighbors and visitors who streamed past the building every day. It was not meant to be a public memorial and was little known until today.

This week, 150 miles north of ground zero, the Family Room with its thousand stories of love and loss has opened to the public for the first time, in an exhibition at the New York State Museum in Albany. The display speaks of the personal communion between the victims relatives and those who were killed 13 years ago, when terrorists took down the twin towers.

The Family Room opened in April 2002 in space donated by Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of 1 Liberty Plaza, across Church Street from the trade center site. By presenting what was known as a medical examiners family identification card, victims relatives were admitted during regular workdays and at night, on weekends and on holidays.

On the 20th floor, behind a door marked The Family Room, relatives could settle into ample leather couches or stand at windows 15 and 20 feet wide. The room was intended for quiet contemplation, said a 2002 notice from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which created and maintained the space, just a few doors down from its own headquarters and those of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation.

A childrens play area was provided, as were boxes of tissues. Photos, poems, cards, artwork and personal effects from the first family viewing area, an outdoor platform at Liberty and West Streets, were brought indoors.

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By Ian Bauer, Milpitas Post

Bay 101 Casino, the San Jose card room that sought to relocate to neighboring Milpitas but saw state-level lawmakers fail to advance that plan last month, will attempt to reenergize efforts to make the move. This time around, the gambling operator wants Milpitas voters to plead its case in November by passing Measure E, which calls for a card room here and paves the way for new legislation to be advanced in Sacramento.

"We are fully engaged," said Ed McGovern, a lobbyist for Bay 101, now promoting Measure E. "All of the traditional types of activities you do for an election year campaign we're doing."

The "Yes on E" campaign, financed by Bay 101 owners the Bumb Family and in part guided by former Milpitas mayor Bob Livengood, who is a paid consultant to that family, includes canvassing the city, knocking on doors, creating lawn signs, gaining critical endorsements including ones from public safety unions, phone banking, conducting a survey of voters, and holding a rally Saturday.

"We don't need Sacramento legislation to let the voters approve Measure E," McGovern said.

The lobbyist alluded to the Aug. 30 non-vote that killed Assembly Bill 2549, which would have allowed the card room at San Jose's 1801 Bering Drive to potentially relocate to 15 acres on the western edge of the city near North McCarthy Boulevard and generally between state Route 237 and the Newby Island landfill, west of Interstate 880.

If Measure E is passed by a simple majority of voters, McGovern said City of Milpitas will have additional arguments to make to state lawmakers to push forward with re-introducing a new bill in the Assembly by December. He added Bay 101's Sacramento team -- led by lobbyist David Kim -- will chart its course depending on how the vote goes.

"We're not just waiting, we're obviously engaged in the campaign," McGovern said.

Bay 101 says City of San Jose's high cost of taxation -- with at least $7 million in table tax revenues from the operator going to that city annually -- and limits on the number of card room tables gambling operators can utilize there in part prompted the desire to move.

According to city reports, a one-time election cost per the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters to place Measure E on the Nov. 4, 2014 election ballot is estimated to be $274,000. Bay 101 is expected to pay for the cost of the ballot measure.

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