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Correction

Due to reporting and editing errors, an article in Friday’s edition about the GHEC school board meeting included incorrect information.

The district is anticipating a 4 percent increase in revenue. Projected expenses may increase 2.82 percent, as reported.

General revenues by source for GHEC are 66.75 percent from state sources and 22.41 percent from local property tax levies. Revenues generated from local property tax levies in 2015-16 actually decreased by 2.27 percent from the prior school year.

Teens can win trip to D.C.

JACKSON — An area teenager can win a free trip to Washington, D.C., from June 10-15. Federated Rural Electric, Jackson, will select the winner of the trip through its annual Youth Tour Contest.

High school students in Federated’s service area can enter. Pick up an application from the school counselor or contact Federated (info@federatedrea.coop or call 800-321-3520). The student writes a 300-word essay on an energy-related topic, which is due with the application by Feb.  28. The first 15 students to enter receive $20 gift certificates to Amazon.com

Five finalists will be selected for short interviews starting at 4 p.m. March 28. The combined scores from the essay, interview and application determine the trip winner, along with second and third place who receive $150 and $100, respectively.

The winner will travel with 40 other Minnesota teens sponsored by other rural electric co-ops. Federated’s delegate is one of 1,500 delegates nationally.

Federated is a Touchstone Energy cooperative serving 6,700 members in Jackson and Martin counties.

‘Field of Dreams’ complex cleared

DES MOINES (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn.

The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property from agricultural to commercial.

The ruling came on an appeal by some Dyersville residents who sought to block the development of the All-Star Ballpark Heaven youth baseball and softball complex, fearing the complex would cause disruptions to surrounding farm operations and traffic, among other things.

The complex is to be centered on the site were “Field of Dreams,” starring Costner, was shot. The movie was released in 1989 and has been embraced by people from throughout the country, who connected with its story of a farmer who carved a baseball field out of his corn crop. Thousands of people make the drive down to the small town about 140 miles northeast of Des Moines to run the bases at the baseball diamond and walk out to the cornfields that border the outfield.

An attorney for the residents, Susan Hess, had argued for the courts to overturn the rezoning, saying members of the City Council weren’t impartial and acted in a quasi-judicial manner rather than legislative in approving the rezoning.

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