We did it Newhall! Two weeks tomorrow and we have come so far....
THANK YOU to Dan Lynch, Trent Claeys, Mike Gardemann, and Ken Vawter for working 11 straight days, coordinating the clean up, working with the DOT, eating lunch in their truck, and just working without a second thought to bring us back our town.
THANK YOU to all the AMAZING citizens, organizations and just neighboring citizens who contacted City Hall or the Fire Department ... Red Cross, Salvation Army, 2 families from Center Point, Benton football players, Iowa Emergency Management, Shelly's Sweets, Kurt's (dumpsters emptied almost daily), South Slope, Whiskey Tavern, Dubuque County (for the 3 loads of items brought to Newhall to help our residents. We easily had over 500 people come through our doors collecting free items to help them get by), Griddle Guy from Vinton, Blessed Hope Church, Tina Sierra, Alan Hartz, Coltyn Hartz (for water and misc food), Dollar General for storage containers, flash lights, and batteries, the 11 people that showed up to rake the entire park after Hupfeld cleaned out the trees in the main park (Mart Campbell, Mallory Campbell Daily, Jodi Benson, Doug Boddicker, Andrea Weber, sorry I didn't catch everyone's name), Wendy Refstie, Jane Elizabeth, April Stull, Jodi Benson, Melody Hartz, Skylar Childers for picking up, creating, and distributing meals to our elderly and homebound, Farmers and Friends Help Others, EZ Trash, Doug Rinderknecht for running samples for the city guys and stopping in City Hall daily and asking if we needed anything, and allllllll the citizens that walked over to their neighbors and lended a hand, a chainsaw or a rack. It truly was a group effort!!!!!!!
ALLIANT ENERGY workers THANK YOU for your late night work, and always informational updates, and just getting us our power back!
If you have any suggestions on anything that we should note for (GOD FORBID) any future disaster please email newhall@southslope.net and we can add it to the list.
Few Reminders:
There are still items at the City Hall... we rec'd some rakes, still have some tarps, water, food, rice, peanut butter, canned goods, a pile of old blankets and sheets if you need to cover any furniture, dog food, soap, toothpaste and brushes, and more. We will be open Monday 9-7 and Tuesday 9-5. Wednesday we will be boxing it up and taking it to Cedar Rapids. The leftover water will be going to the Benton Community High School.
Monday will be the last day that the city guys will be driving around picking up large branches and stumps - after that you will be responsible for the removal. Please take those items to the new burn pile west of town by the sewer plant.
Yard waste sacks are available at City Hall for brush and leaves and etc.
Also, because of the storm we were not able to read meters so you will be receiving a bill September 1st that is estimated from the previous billing period.
I'm sure I have forgotten someone and I am so sorry if so, we appreciate everyone involved in the last 2 weeks of recovery.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!!!!
THANK YOU to Dan Lynch, Trent Claeys, Mike Gardemann, and Ken Vawter for working 11 straight days, coordinating the clean up, working with the DOT, eating lunch in their truck, and just working without a second thought to bring us back our town.
THANK YOU to all the AMAZING citizens, organizations and just neighboring citizens who contacted City Hall or the Fire Department ... Red Cross, Salvation Army, 2 families from Center Point, Benton football players, Iowa Emergency Management, Shelly's Sweets, Kurt's (dumpsters emptied almost daily), South Slope, Whiskey Tavern, Dubuque County (for the 3 loads of items brought to Newhall to help our residents. We easily had over 500 people come through our doors collecting free items to help them get by), Griddle Guy from Vinton, Blessed Hope Church, Tina Sierra, Alan Hartz, Coltyn Hartz (for water and misc food), Dollar General for storage containers, flash lights, and batteries, the 11 people that showed up to rake the entire park after Hupfeld cleaned out the trees in the main park (Mart Campbell, Mallory Campbell Daily, Jodi Benson, Doug Boddicker, Andrea Weber, sorry I didn't catch everyone's name), Wendy Refstie, Jane Elizabeth, April Stull, Jodi Benson, Melody Hartz, Skylar Childers for picking up, creating, and distributing meals to our elderly and homebound, Farmers and Friends Help Others, EZ Trash, Doug Rinderknecht for running samples for the city guys and stopping in City Hall daily and asking if we needed anything, and allllllll the citizens that walked over to their neighbors and lended a hand, a chainsaw or a rack. It truly was a group effort!!!!!!!
ALLIANT ENERGY workers THANK YOU for your late night work, and always informational updates, and just getting us our power back!
If you have any suggestions on anything that we should note for (GOD FORBID) any future disaster please email newhall@southslope.net and we can add it to the list.
Few Reminders:
There are still items at the City Hall... we rec'd some rakes, still have some tarps, water, food, rice, peanut butter, canned goods, a pile of old blankets and sheets if you need to cover any furniture, dog food, soap, toothpaste and brushes, and more. We will be open Monday 9-7 and Tuesday 9-5. Wednesday we will be boxing it up and taking it to Cedar Rapids. The leftover water will be going to the Benton Community High School.
Monday will be the last day that the city guys will be driving around picking up large branches and stumps - after that you will be responsible for the removal. Please take those items to the new burn pile west of town by the sewer plant.
Yard waste sacks are available at City Hall for brush and leaves and etc.
Also, because of the storm we were not able to read meters so you will be receiving a bill September 1st that is estimated from the previous billing period.
I'm sure I have forgotten someone and I am so sorry if so, we appreciate everyone involved in the last 2 weeks of recovery.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!!!!
IF YOU ARE GRINDING, TEARING DOWN TREES - DON'T FORGET TO CONTACT "ONE CALL" (800-292-8989) FOR LOCATES PRIOR TO GRINDING STUMPS!!!
Newhall is a Smart Rural Community through our partnership with local telecommunications provider, South Slope Cooperative Communications<http://www.southslope.com/>. South Slope has deployed fiber optic technology throughout Newhall town, and rural, allowing residents up to 220 Mbps and businesses up to 1 GB of high speed internet service. The Smart Rural Community initiative fosters the development of smart communities, like Newhall, throughout rural America by encouraging innovative implementation of broadband solutions. To learn more about fiber optics contact South Slope at 319-626-2211 or info@southslope.com<mailto:info@southslope.com>.
