THE CITY'S PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS ARE PREPARING TO OPEN FOR THE SUMMER. RIVERSIDE POOL OFFICALLY OPENS THIS SATURDAY AND WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH MONDAY FROM 1PM UNTIL 7PM FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

RIVERSIDE WILL RUN THOSE HOURS THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND AND OPEN FOR DAILY USE ON JUNE 9TH.

LEIF, LEWIS, LEEDS AND COOK PARK POOLS WILL OPEN ON MONDAY, JUNE 11TH.

A NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAY BE COMING TO MORNINGSIDE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. THE SIOUX CITY SCHOOL BOARD RECCOMENDED AT A WEDNESDAY WORK SESSION TO BEGIN PLANS FOR A REPLACEMENT FOR WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ON THE EXISTING SITE.

SUPERINTENDENT DR. PAUL GAUSMAN SAYS WASHINGTON IS ONE OF THE CITY'S OLDER SCHOOLS. IT OPENED IN 1921.

THIS PROPOSAL WOULD NOT INCLUDE CLOSING WHITTIER SCHOOL, WHICH HAD BEEN CONSIDERED AT PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

FOUR HOMES NEAR WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY WOULD HAVE TO BE REMOVED FOR THAT PROJECT TO BECOME A REALITY.

THE BOARD WILL LIKELY VOTE ON THE WASHINGTON PROJECT AT THEIR JUNE 11TH BOARD MEETING.

 THE SIOUX CITY SCHOOL BOARD HOPES TO STILL BUILD A REPLACEMENT FOR BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT LEIF ERICSON PARK.

THE BOARD CONDUCTED A NEARLY TWO HOUR WORK SESSION WEDNESDAY MORNING WHERE MEMBERS INCLUDING BOARD PRESIDENT DOUG BATCHELLER SAID THEY WANTED TO GET PUBLIC OPINION ON BUILDING AT LEIF ERICSON:

THE BOARD DECIDED TO DELAY UNTIL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER A RECCOMENDATION BY SUPERINTENDENT DR. PAUL GAUSMAN TO DEMOLISH THE HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL SITE TO BE USED FOR A NEW NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY FACILITY.

THE CITY COUNCIL UNANAMOUSLY REJECTED LEIF ERICSON AS A POSSIBLE SCHOOL SITE IN MARCH.

THE SCHOOL BOARD ALSO DECIDED TO MOVE TO BEGIN PLANS FOR A NEW WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT WOULD NOT INCLUDE WHITTIER STUDENTS.

FOUR HOMES NEAR WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY WOULD HAVE TO BE REMOVED FOR THAT PROJECT.

THE BOARD ALSO WILL PROCEED WITH PLANS TO ACQUIRE THE FROMER ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL SITE CURRENTLY USED BY THE BOYS AND GIRLS HOME AS A FUTURE REPLACEMENT SITE FOR HUNT ELEMENTARY.

AND BECAUSE SALES TAX FUNDS WOULD BE USED FOR THE NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THE IDEA OF A NEW SCHOOL TAX....A PHYSICAL PLANT LEVY TO PAY FOR RENOVATIONS TO THE THREE 40 YEAR OLD PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS....WAS ALSO FLOATED.

NONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS WERE OFFICIALLY VOTED ON, AS THE MEETING WAS A WORK SESSION AND NOT A FORMAL BOARD HEARING. 

THE IOWA STATE PATROL HAS IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM OF MONDAY'S FATAL CRASH NEAR SLOAN.

57 YEAR OLD RANDALL HAVEMAN OF WHITING DIED WHEN HIS PICK UP TRUCK COLLIDED NEARLY HEAD ON WITH A STRAIGHT TRUCK MONDAY AFTERNOON ON COUNTY ROAD K-45.

THE STATE PATROL SAYS HAVEMAN'S TRUCK CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND WAS STRUCK BY THE ONCOMING STRAIGHT TRUCK DRIVEN BY   23 YEAR OLD BOE JENKINS OF SLOAN.

JENKINS SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES AND WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM MERCY MEDICAL CENTER.

A THRID VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 22 YEAR OLD CHAD CARLSON OF SLOAN SWERVED OFF THE ROAD TO AVOID THE ACCIDENT AND ENDED UP IN A FIELD. CARLSON WAS NOT INJURED.