Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

 Hundreds of persons took part in at least some of the many Earth Day activities

 happening community-wide last week.Students from Clear Creek Elementary School worked to pick up trash in the Outdoor Classroom and areas surrounding their school.

On Saturday, March 29, RAGBRAI is hosting a Pass Through Town meeting for the towns on the Forest City to Mason City route in July 2014.    At this meeting Clear Lake and Ventura will find out guidelines for their role as a pass through town on July 23.  

According to Dianne Thompson, chairperson for Clear Lake’s RAGBRAI activities, one obvious expectation for Clear Lake will be hundreds of volunteers to be a part of RAGBRAI XVII.    Volunteers will be asked to get involved with various tasks both prior to and on July 23, she said.

by Lowell Washburn

The woman at the opposite end of the phone line was -- well, she was hysterical.  Absolutely in a rage, and that’s putting it mildly.  Whenever she’d stop to take a breath, I’d seize the opportunity to try working in a few words of my own.  Didn’t work.  Before I’d get half way through the first sentence, off she’d go again.  At first I was confused, but eventually I began to connect the dots.  As near as I could tell, here’s what had happened.

Enrollment in the Clear Lake School District slipped 26.64 students in 2013-14, reports Superintendent Anita Micich.

The school leader shared enrollment numbers with the School Board during a November work session.  The current certified enrollment for 2013-2014,  as of Oct. 1, is 1,236.70, she reported. 

“We are down 26.65 students, however our open enrollment numbers are down 34.50 and we graduated a large class last year so this was anticipated,” said Micich.