dwayne alonz passed away saturday night after a short but brutal illness with cancer. his life meant so much to so any of us. he lived in sioux county and sioux county is if i fell asleep in a park and woke up i would feel like i had died and gone to heaven. it has the best faith and education and families and culture and work ethic and neighborly. it's got the best balance of anyplace i know and dwayne alonz contributed so much to that and almost all of my years i was in the state legislature i served in the senate while he served in the, when i needed a partner on a cause it was dwayne alons that i called upon. he was someone that helped on my side or if he needed help same we stood in the philosophical and ideological square year after year after year. when the six-year endeavor that i had embarked upon in 1996 and early 1997 to establish english as the official language as the state of iowa, that effort came up short in the general assembly. that was 1997 and 1998. then in 1999 and the year 2000, that effort came up short again. but in the next general assembly, i