Archive for: July 2010

Tri-County South 12U Babe Ruth softball team, consisting of girls from Wellman and Riverside, played in the Mid-West Plains regional tournament in Newton, Kansas, last week earning fourth place.
Tri-County South played in the game opener versus the host team Newton. …

Mid-Prairie faced Hinton in the final game. Olivia Lugar threw a no-hitter to topple Hinton 4-0 and earn a fifth place finish at state.
Leinen scored on an error in the third inning to take the lead 1-0. …

The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks proved why they belonged at the state tournament following an opening game loss to Fort Dodge St. Edmond Wednesday, July 21.
The young unranked team took down IKM-Manning (24-14) 7-6 and Hinton (23-17) 4-0 in the …

By Mary Zielinski
Iowa Mennonite School (IMS) expects to cut its energy costs by at least $465 annually, thanks to cooperative assistance from three sources. An $11,850 Iowa Power Fund Community Grant from the Iowa Office of Energy (OEI), aid from Farmers Electric Cooperative in nearby Frytown and expertise from Central Plains Solar brought the recent installation of solar array at the rural high school.
Monday, members of the Kalona Chamber of Commerce learned more about the IMS project and the state’s goal to reduce energy use in Iowa by 30 percent in the next 15 years.
The IMS solar power is very similar to the one installed more than a year ago at Washington Township Elementary School (financed in part by a Washington County Riverboat Foundation (WCRF) grant). The IMS project is an example of the type of community grant the OEI is very interested in providing, explained Roya Stanley, OEI executive director, who was a guest speaker at the meeting.
The IMS project, though, also became an on-going learning experience for the IMS students, especially in physics, chemistry and economics classes. In fact, it was IMS physics teacher, Dick Yoder-Short, who was instrumental in obtaining the OEI grant for the school. Farmers Electric provided rebates ($23,000) and donations of time an labor. The labor from the array assembly to digging in the underground wire was a school project.
Yoder, who also spoke at the meeting, noted that Principal Tony Miller also worked in finding if it was feasible for IMS to do a solar panel.

September 30, 1920 – July 22, 2010
Alice M. Goodwin, 89, of Kalona, Iowa, died Thursday, July 22, 2010, at Pleasantview Home in Kalona.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. at the Kalona United Methodist …

May 28, 2002 – July 16, 2010
Funeral services for Gabriel Graham, 8, son of Steve Graham and Michael and Andrea Frantz, were Tuesday in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Hills, Iowa, with graveside services in St. Stanislaus Cemetery, rural Hills.
Graham died …

IMS placed team members of the baseball team on first team and three players on second team. Two players were given honorable mention.
Catcher junior Riley Hochstedler, Outfielder sophomore Christopher Perez, and Utility junior Jackson Brokaw were named to first …

June 18, 1915 – July 22, 2010
Pauline Dill, 95, of Keota, Iowa, died Thursday, July 22, 2010, at the Washington County Hospital in Washington, Iowa.
Funeral services were held Saturday, July 24, 2010, at the United Church of Faith in Keota, …

The Mid Prairie girl’s golf team completed their 2010 season with an outstanding 4th place finish at the State Meet. This year’s event was held at the River Valley Golf Club in Adel. The 8 teams competing were Cascade, Clarinda, …

By Mary Zielinski
For Galen Graber of Wellman rooting for the home team at the World Cup soccer tournament meant alternating between Brazil and the United States. Born in Indiana, Graber spent a decade, starting at age 10, in Brazil with his siblings and missionary parents. He not only learned the languages (Portuguese and Spanish), but also became a soccer fanatic, both as a player and a fan.
“I grew up with it,” he said, noting he played in high school and college (Goshen College in Indiana where he met his future wife, Ruth Brenneman of Wellman). He stressed that “It is a very nuanced game with considerable complexity.”
This year, the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa marked the fourth time Graber has been at the games and was a trip that proved the most difficult “in logistics and costs.”
Aside from “being expensive to get there,” he found that prices for lodging in Johannesburg had skyrocketed (a guest house room went from $51 during the normal season to $730) and figuring out public transportation to the stadium proved elusive.
But none of that took away from the joy of seeing 14 top flight soccer games in 18 days, encountering a multiplicity of languages and cultures, and adding one more continent to his goal of visiting all seven (he has three to go).
His first tournament was in 1994 with the USA as host and Brazil the first place winner. In 1998 he went to France where the French won, followed by Brazil in second place, and 2006 saw him in Germany where Italy won. While he did not see the final matches in South Africa where Spain won, Graber was not disappointed in any of it, even if it took six hours by car to get there.
When it came to tickets, he had bought well ahead, going through the United States Soccer Federation, of which he is a member. As expected, tickets for the first games tend to be far more reasonable, like $80 versus as much as $800 for the finals.

January 25, 1938 – July 16, 2010
Linda Lee Dawson, 72, of Iowa City, Iowa, passed away Friday, July 16, 2010, at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics,
Iowa City. Funeral service was Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Lemke Funeral …

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