The CAM School District’s Board of Education will hold a Public Hearing this evening on the proposed 2019-2020 Certified Budget. The Board’s regular meeting and the hearing, are set to begin at 6:30-p.m. in the CAM High School Media Center, and will be preceded at 6:15-p.m. by a Board visit to Mrs. Shelly Miller’s classroom for a brief presentation from the Digital Media Class.

During the Board meeting, and soon after the public hearing on the budget, the CAM School Board will act on adopting a Budget Resolution, and the 2019-20 Certified Budget. They’ll also consider and/or act on:

• Approval of continued operation sharing agreements with the Nodaway Valley Community School District.
• Approval of an Art teacher sharing agreement with the Griswold CSD
• Reviewing and acting on the purchase of a school vehicle.
• Approval of an AEA purchasing agreement
• Approval of the 2017-district audit report.

and other matters.

A public hearing will be held during this evening’s meeting of the Exira-EHK School Board. The hearing, which will take place shortly after the start of the meeting at 6-p.m. in the Conference Room at the Elk Horn Building, is with regard to the 2019-2020 District Budget. Separately, a Habitat Trip Presentation will take place in the Cafeteria. In other business, the Exira-EHK School Board will discuss and/or act on several administrative matters, including (but not limited to):

• Approval of the 2019-20 Budget
• Approval of a 6th through 12th grade Principal candidate.
• Approval of Certified Teachers’ salaries.
• Approval of Staff and Administration salaries.
• Approval of the Wrestling Program for 2019-20.
• And approval of an Outfield fence for the Baseball field.

(Radio Iowa) — The Canadian comedian known globally for his role as the quirky handyman “Red Green” is planning to visit five Iowa cities for performances this month. Steve Smith, who created the character and the T-V program that ran for 15 seasons, says his one-man show isn’t a stand-up act, but follows the familiar antics of members of the fictional Possum Lodge in the deep woods of northwestern Ontario. “It’s supposedly a lodge meeting so it starts with the salute and the oath,” Smith says. “I like telling stories and giving advice and some news. I don’t consider it in the standup field at all, especially this one. I’ve actually shot some new video and stuff for it which I refer to, so it’s more of an audio-visual presentation.”

Steve Smith as Red Green

Smith calls this his “This Could Be It!” tour, hinting it’s likely his last. The 73-year-old says he’s made a lot of mistakes in his long life, but adds, he knows when it’s time to go. “I ended my TV series when I felt that it would only get worse if I kept doing it and I’ve made several changes like that,” Smith says. “My sense now is that it’s time to hang up the touring hat. Ticket sales are the best they’ve ever been. People are excited to come say me, so I think that’s the time to say, ‘Thank you and adios!'”

Smith says he feels very at home in Iowa and has a kinship with Midwesterners, our feet-on-the-ground attitude and our rock-solid morals. After 300 episodes of the television show, a feature-length movie, several books and four comedy tours, Smith recognizes he’s incredibly fortunate his brand of humor became so popular. “You’ve gotta’ admit, my program is very odd and I’m doing a very odd kind of comedy. Maybe it’s a throwback to the ’50s,” Smith says. “The thing is, if you like it, there’s almost nowhere you can find it. Everybody seems to be either angry or obscene or both and I’m not any of those things and people that enjoy that don’t have too many stores to go to.”

While the finale episode of “The Red Green Show” aired in 2006, it’s lived long in reruns on P-B-S. In an interview with Radio Iowa, Smith was asked if he still runs across people who don’t realize the T-V show is no longer being produced. “Yes, I do,” Smith says, laughing. “I also find, this is my fourth tour and the average age of our audience has gotten younger with every tour, which is really odd, but what it is, it’s YouTube. There are kids who come out and they don’t know the show was ever on television. They only know it from the internet, so it’s a new world.”

This U-S tour has 35 dates scheduled and promoters say 11 are already sold out. Smith will play the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday (April 13th), Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on Sunday the 14th, Five Flags Center in Dubuque on the 15th, the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa on the 16th, and Stevens Auditorium in Ames on the 17th.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 65-year-old woman whose body was found inside an Iowa City home was a homicide victim. Police released the woman’s name Sunday: Joellen Browning. Emergency responders who were called to the house Friday morning found Browning dead inside. Police haven’t released other details about the case. No arrests have been reported.

Red Oak Police, Sunday, arrested 31-year old Nicholas John Henry Strait, of Red Oak. Strait was taken into custody at around 6:12-p.m. on a Carroll County warrant for Failure to Appear on an original Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 2nd offense, charge. Strait was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) — This past weekend Iowa Democratic Party leaders ratified their new plan for conducting and tabulating the results of the 2020 Iowa Caucuses — and two of the party’s high-profile presidential candidates made a dozen campaign appearances in the state.

About 300 people gathered on the William Penn University campus in Oskaloosa to see Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders said Americans were swayed by Donald Trump’s false promises in 2016. “I understand that people in their frustration, in their pain, voted for Donald Trump,” Sanders said. “I would just ask people to check the record and see what if he did what he said he would do.” Later Sunday afternoon in Malcolm, Sanders joked he was nervous about coming back to Iowa because Trump said the noise from wind turbines causes cancer.

“I think it is not a healthy thing for this country that we have a president who is a pathological liar,” Sanders said, “who lies all of the time.” Former Texas Senator Beto O’Rourke told an audience in Iowa City there’s a basic fix to the nation’s thorny disagreements. “Resist the temptation to be divided by our differences by a president who excels at doing just that,” O’Rourke said, “who seeks to make us angry, keep us apart and make us afraid of one another.” O’Rourke says the nation’s democratic institutions need to be revived and he called for passage of a new Voting Rights Act.

“In every county in every state, without exception, same-day voter registration and automatic voter registration,” O’Rourke said, “so that when you turn 18, you are ready to vote.” O’Rourke and Sanders are raising millions from tens of thousands of donors, putting them at the top of the campaigning fundraising leaderboard with California Senator Kamala Harris. As for who’ll be the leader next February on Caucus Night, Iowa Democratic Party officials for the first time will release a raw vote total and have “virtual” Caucuses beforehand for people who can’t attend the Caucus Night precinct meetings. The Iowa Democratic Party state central committee approved those details during its meeting on Saturday.