Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
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• May 31, 1945 Mrs. L.G. Newel, president of the American Legion Auxiliary, announced that gross receipts of the poppy sale totaled $230.83, the largest amount taken in for poppy sales in the history of the organization. Proceeds aided World War I and II veterans and their families. The new super market for the Council Oak store was going up nicely. The front was being put on and the plate glass windows had been installed. The new Bartelson building, on Highway 18 at the end of Main Street, was also rapidly taking shape. Mrs. Irene Meier and M...
The Iowa high school spring sports seasons may have been casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, but summer baseball and softball have survived to play again. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced May 20 that summer sports may be conducted following a two-month activities suspension due to COVID-19. The governing boards of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union and Iowa High School Athletic Association then voted to approve resuming the summer seasons under Iowa Department of Education guidelines. Reopeni...
High school summer sports seasons will be held this year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic there will be many changes affecting how they are conducted. Reopening guidance issued by the Iowa Department of Education to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 will impact schools, coaches, athletes and fans. Everyone will see signage at each facility indicating that no one should attend or participate in practices or games if they currently have symptoms or have been in contact with anyone with a...
Question: What do you do with school buses that aren't needed to transport students? Answer: Use them as moving vans. Since buses are not being used for their original purpose, they are now holding materials and equipment removed from Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's elementary building until they can be moved into the new facility later this year. Staff had been preparing for the move to the new building, but when onsite learning ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the process was accelerated. The...
• May 17, 1945 A very novel and important experiment was being carried out at the Fairmont Creamery Co., where Mr. Mohr and his employees were demonstrating the value of proper egg care from the time the eggs were laid until they arrived at the Hartley plant. Good news came to three Hartley families who received word that Lt. Kermit Hansen, Corp. William J. Byers and Staff Sgt. Ernest Nonneman were liberated from the German prison camps in which they were interred since their respective captures. An organization known as the Veterans I...
