by Joseph Back Submitted prior to the November 1st council meeting report by Stanley Police Chief Lance Weiland lists several updates to the Council, including a reminder for citizens to keep their car or truck off city streets from November 15th thru April 1st—“no matter the weather.” Those who fail to obey the snow ordinance, stand to win quasi-free parking ticket fees, dispensed between 3a.m. to 6 a.m. during emergency snow plow hours by Stanley’s finest. First though, the good news.

“As I am sure you are all already aware, last week we spent the better part of three days working on a case involving two missing juveniles, one of which was a resident of the city,” Chief Weiland said of the partially snowbound search for 15-year-old Zachary Haas and 13-year-old Rose Sprinkle, with frantic parents involved. There was a happy ending though.

“I am elated that we ultimately received the ending we had all been working feverishly for and that was the safe return of the children to their families,” Chief Weiland went on. With eight hours of police overtime logged as a result of the search as well as help from approximately 180 volunteers together with city personnel, the outcome of the search for the two missing young people had a happy ending Going on in his bi-monthly chief’s report to say that he had submitted the proposed police budget to the city clerk as of Friday, October 23 “as requested,” Chief Weiland said that he had included “multiple additional pages of information” explaining where proposed expenses would go.

Saying that he had not been able to find out any additional information regarding stop sign options for the Emery Street intersection with Fourth Avenue, Weiland did say that he had made Stanley public works director John Hoel aware of the council’s approval of the sign installation— and then it was into the “Back the Blue” update.

“Our initial allotment of 50 ‘Back the Blue’ yard signs that I purchased were all sold out in about two weeks,” Chief Weiland reported to the council. “Since we are still fielding inquiries on them, I placed a second order of 25 and have those on hand now,” he went on. For just $15 a sign, area residents can show their support for the local police force and help fund the purchase of metal detectors by the police department, to be used for detecting concealed weapons “once a person is taken into custody and before they are placed in our squad car,” per the chief’s report.

Moving next into the snow update, Weiland said that those residents failing to meet city ordinance requirements regarding snow and ice removal this winter would be getting charged for removal of same by the city, and that he felt public awareness was the best way to meet this challenge.

“With the new fee schedule that was adopted recently I feel it is vital we are all on the same page to avoid additional unnecessary grief that is likely to come once property owners start to receive invoices for these services,” he said.

Weiland said that the local Stanley depart-