September 2019

Long time GC food service director set for retirement

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    GRUNDY CENTER — The winds of change are blowing in the Grundy Center Community School District. As the students say their goodbyes for the summer, they will be the final goodbyes to several teachers, their long-time high school principal and their superintendent.
    It will also be a final goodbye to somebody every student and most faculty members know well, even if they do not know who she is. Food Service Director Barb Rose announced earlier this year that she would be retiring at the end of the school year.

AGWSR seniors celebrate as a family

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    ACKLEY — Forty-seven AGWSR High School seniors were honored Sunday for accomplishing what, for many, has been a life-long goal; to graduate from high school. They looked to the future and the past, celebrating their triumphs and remembering their time together.
    Graduating senior Kary Doyle, speaking for the students, talked of being a family.

Murphy named Teacher of the Year

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    GRUNDY CENTER — It is an annual occurrence as graduating Grundy Center High School seniors fill out questionnaires about what they’ll remember most. As they reach the question about what teacher had the greatest influence on them through their high school career, one name comes up time and time again.
    Mrs. Vicki Murphy ... better known to her students as “Murph” was honored Monday by the local chapter of the Mason’s, Emerald Lodge 334, as the Grundy Center Teacher of the Year.
    “I was shocked, humbled ... it’s quite an honor,” Murphy said.
 

It's all about the martins

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    GRUNDY CENTER — During a quick drive around Grundy County, you are likely to see more birds than you can count. You’ll see sparrows, black birds, cardinals, robins, and possibly even a bald eagle or two if you are lucky. It is a lesser-known, though still abundant bird that has drawn the interest of a Grundy Center man.
    “(Martins) have a unique chatter, song ... they’re just awesome,” Rod Onnen said.

Grundy Council acts on several BIG requests

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    GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center City Council approved a series of Business Innovation Grants and denied one during its regular meeting Monday at City Hall.
    The Council approved grants of $6.345 for Dave Loftus to do tuck pointing, brick replacement and roof repairs at the Grundy Center Laundry Mat and $1,620 for Loftus to do roof repairs at Video Place but denied Loftus’ request for the forgivable matching loan funds of $1,138 for work at 604 8th Street.

Downtown street lights to be replaced this summer

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GRUNDY CENTER —Downtown Grundy Center will receive a face lift this summer with new street and traffic signal lights replacing aging structures along G Avenue and some side streets.
    Public Works Director Dan Bangasser said the work will begin early in June and will include replacement of the lights as well as relocation of  overhead power lines under the streets.

Superintendent search takes turn

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GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center School Board had high hopes of knowing who the District’s new superintendent would be last week. Instead the Board is reassessing its options after neither of the two finalists it interviewed last Tuesday took the position.
    Board President Bob Johanns said the Board made an offer to one of the two finalists. That individual opted not to accept the Board’s offer, while the other finalist withdrew his name from consideration. Johanns declined to name the individual the Board offered the job to.

D-NH High School first in Iowa to earn Safe School recognition

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    DIKE — Students and teachers at Dike-New Hartford High School have something extra to celebrate as they near the end of the 2013-14 school year. The school learned late last week that it has become the first school in the state to be awarded  certification as a safe school through the Safe School Certification Program.
    The program recognizes work over the past two years by the school to proactively address bullying.

GCHS alumnus turned golf pro to lead new Grundy Center Golf Academy

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GRUNDY CENTER — Kyle Olson has great memories of junior golf in Grundy Center. He has memories of making the varsity team as a freshman … of traveling the state with his coach, Dennis Dirks, to compete in junior golf tournaments throughout the state … and of falling in love with the sport.
    That love of golf became a career for Olson, who has gone on to become the first assistant golf professional at Highland Woods Golf & Country Club in Bonita Springs, Fla.
    And he also never forgot his roots.

Frank E. Geiken

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