(Spirit Lake)– Meeting electronically, the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors approved a request from the Dickinson County Trails Board to purchase some property at the corner of Lake Street and Peoria Avenue in Spirit Lake, the former location of what was known as the shiny diner, for $230,000. Erin Reed, Executive Director of the Dickinson County Trails Board told the supervisors, they plan to build a shelter and restroom facility on the site, along with doing some landscaping. She says it will serve as an additional trail head…
“We’ve been looking at that property for a really long time. We figured it would be a really, really good spot for us to have a rail trail trail head because it’s kind of a junction of all four points of our trails in that corner, between the spine trail and the rail trail and all things come together at that point, so it’s a really neat spot.”
Most of the other business at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was related to COVID-19 related issues. The supervisors heard an update from Dickinson County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Ehret on the production of some informational videos…
“We’re getting teachers lined up at the schools, or someone at the schools, lined up to do that, so. We thought we’d do one toward the end of the week maybe with someone from the Ministerial Association since it’s Easter this weekend. Other topics we’ve got that we’re working on are geared toward snow birds and returning seasonal residents, so we’ve got a few ideas we’re working on for these and hope to see these rolling out here starting later this week.”
Ehret added the informational materials will also re-emphasize the need for seasonal residents returning to the area to self-isolate for 14 days, along with the importance of social distancing. Ehret is concerned some may be falling into complacency with nice weather returning and the fact that so far, the number of COVID-19 cases in the area has been very low…
“Part of the problem, you know, we have around here is maybe because we only have one case so people think it’s not here and it’s not a big deal. I don’t know if that’s some of the thought behind, you know, some of the people being out and about that maybe shouldn’t be or what.”
The supervisors also voted to apply for $8,000 in federal emergency funding to help supplement the Dickinson County Voluntary Action Center, to help offset additional expenses due to COVID-19, especially when it comes to the Meals On Wheels program.
