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Delta collector candidate profiles
Age: 44 Spouse: Donna Children: Five adult children in his blended family Employment: A CPL Do It Best driver Education: Oak Ridge High School, 1981 Memberships: Delta Community Center Reason for running: I ran against Kay last year, and she beat me by 14 votes. I’m just trying to get things going down here. I want to see Delta grow and progress. I’d like to see more houses built down there and people take pride in their town — and run for collector, mayor, alderman...
Dale Hobeck
Age: 44
Spouse: Donna
Children: Five adult children in his blended family
Employment: A CPL Do It Best driver
Education: Oak Ridge High School, 1981
Memberships: Delta Community Center
Reason for running: I ran against Kay last year, and she beat me by 14 votes. I’m just trying to get things going down here. I want to see Delta grow and progress. I’d like to see more houses built down there and people take pride in their town — and run for collector, mayor, alderman.
Other experience: I would try to be there for the people. Be at the office so they could contact me there. I’m home Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Main challenges: Improving our water system.
Main assets: It’s a small community. Everybody knows each other, their neighbors. It’s a friendly little town. Everybody helps each other out.
Communication: People can contact me at home and I’ll set up regular hours at city hall. I’d like to be up there during the week in the afternoons, maybe 5 to 7 p.m.
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Kay Keesee (incumbent)
Age: 56
Spouse: Curtis
Children: Two adult sons
Employment: Supply technician for Saint Francis Medical Center for 11 years
Education: I took a small business course and attended beauty school.
Memberships: N/A
Reason for running: I like living a small town. I like living here and I need the extra income. Every little bit helps. (The collector gets paid $500 a month.)
Other experience: I’ve been doing this for over 10 years.
Main challenges: It’s time to paint the water tower.
Main assets: living in a small community and everybody gets along and works together.
Communication:? We have our town board meetings once a month.
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