The NIACC Alumni Association hosts Pathways to Success annually to honor accomplished alumni and to recognize a select group of students for their scholarship, leadership and character.
Kevin Pals, a Mason City native and 1999 graduate of NIACC, will be honored for his accomplishments with the Outstanding Alumnus award. Pals serves as the Sheriff of Cerro Gordo County, a position he has held since 2001. He will serve as the keynote speaker.
Other awards presented at the luncheon will include long time Forest City instructor, Scott Bertelsen, a 1979 NIACC graduate who will be honored with the Distinguished Alumnus and numerous current students who will be recognized with the NIACC Student Leadership award.
Tickets are available for $16.00 through the NIACC Business office (1-888-GO NIACC, ext 4180). Sponsors include the Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors, NIACC Student Senate, and Tony and Sue Coloff.
Pals/Hepperly: kinda like the cartoon cat/dog.
Excuse me but didn’t the sheriff’s department and county attorney’s office JUSt get sued over illegal warrant practices? Like 260 k worth and LOST. Why would this activity be honored?
cerro gordo county jail is the joke of n iowa. Ask sheriffs in surrounding counties what they think of him
He keeps getting re-elected because nobody run against him.
This is some funny shit:)
He won a popularity contest for Sheriff, whoopee!. Notice he became sheriff in 2001, but only got his tiny AA degree in 1999. How does his time at NIACC attribute to his “success”? A position like that should at the very least have a master’s degree. MC Police Chiefs have to have one. He’s definitely nothing special.
He is the good part of the problem. That is why he keeps getting re-elected, time after time.
…he’s part of the problem.
Why him? I thought they wanted success stories.