Catch Up Fast: Last Week on Urbandale Patch

Friday: The lawyer for a mentally-disabled man says she's "cautiously optimistic" about Hy-Vee's offer to rehire Kyle Dowie after a week of negative publicity over his firing.

Thursday: Urbandale High School Activities Director William Watson is a finalist for the executive director position at the Nebraska High School Activities Association.

Police were summoned more than 1,000 times to the Motel Relax in Urbandale over the past three years. Two men died of drug overdoses at the extended-stay motel last year and police say they want to work with the owner to clean it up.

Wednesday: Polk County Supervisor E.J. Giovannetti announces he won't run for re-election. The former Urbandale mayor was thrown into the same district as fellow Republican Bob Brownell of Clive in new political boundaries set last year.

A 79-year-old regular library patron is identified by a library security camera as the person who stole a iPad from another library user's bag, according to Urbandale Police.

Patch readers say they think the Urbandale Library should keep Chapter's coffee shop as a service to patrons and weigh in with suggestions on how to make it better.

Tuesday: The Urbandale Library may have to increase fines and fees and cut hours to trim its budget.

Monday: One woman is behind the annual National Day of Service event every year at the Urbandale Library on Martin Luther King Day. Find out who.