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Wed
16
Mar

Central girls’ track off to running start

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 10:56

Central’s Emily Asche gets ready to lead off the 4x400 relay.

By Pat McTaggart

Freelance Writer

 

Wed
16
Mar

Club celebrates centennial

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 10:53

Members of the Grand Meadow Country Club celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the group earlier this month. They are: top row—Lillian Schutte and Gwen Rekow; middle—Nancy Engelhardt, Karla Miene and Marge Stansberry; and front—Brenda Rekow. Not pictured: Emily Heying and Tina Meyer.

By Pat McTaggart

Freelance Writer

 

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Grand Meadow Country Club (GMCC). However, the Country Club is not what one would normally associate with the name.

Wed
16
Mar

Central Green Team: Students digging into compost effort

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 10:45

Central senior Jacob Jansen dumps food waste from the cafeteria into a bucket that will be later hauled to the school’s composting pile.

By Pam Reinig

Register Editor

 

Believing that actions speak louder than words, a group of Central students is making much-needed changes to the school’s composting project.

Wed
09
Mar

Sons and Daughters - Tara Follon building on the future

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 09:34

Central graduate Tara Follon has been admitted to Iowa State University’s elite and prestigious architecture program.

Kim Hurley

Register Freelance Writer

Dreams do come true…with scrutiny and hard work. Not only being invited to step into almost any house, but actually being welcome to explore the whole edifice, has always been a dream come true for Tara Follon. As more and more people observed this vivid interest in the daughter of Craig and Tracy Follon of Volga, someone suggested that she should become an architect. “I remember only being in fourth grade at the time,” Tara recalls, “but that was when I decided I wanted to be an architect.”

Wed
09
Mar

ON A MISSION

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 09:31

Mylee Wingert

By Pam Reinig

Register Editor

 

Jamie Wingert made a solo trip to Africa last August but she hopes to have a traveling companion when she returns there in July. Wingert’s 12-year-old daughter, Mylee, might accompany her mom if the Central sixth grader can raise the necessary funds.

Wed
09
Mar

Ruby Mary Matt

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 09:28

Ruby Mary Matt, age 81, of Des Moines formerly of Garnavillo, IA, died Friday, March 4, 2016, at Mercy Medical Center West Lakes in West Des Moines, IA.  She was born on December 30, 1934, in Springdale Arkansas, the daughter of Victor and Flossie (Toy) Barron.

Wed
09
Mar

Donald Robert Kann

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/09/2016 - 09:27

Donald Robert Kann, age 90, of Guttenberg, died Saturday, February 27, 2016, at Guttenberg Care Center.  He was born the fifth child of Gregory and Anna (Miller) Kann, January 12, 1926, on the family farm near Guttenberg.

He attended St. Mary’s Elementary School till eighth grade.  At the age of 17 he enlisted into the US Navy during World War II, served on a destroyer escort and was honorable discharged in May of 1946.  He then worked at the John Deere Works in Dubuque for 1 year.

Tue
01
Mar

St. Patrick’s Day Festivities - Still time to get involved in parade

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/01/2016 - 16:10

The late Pat Finley, far left, and Pat Keleher, far right, organized Elkader’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Also pictured are Joan Wangen, Gerry Gundacker and Bob Mangen.

FreedomBank employees dressed as leprechauns for the 2015 parade.

Events for youngsters, including the coloring contest pictured above, were added by Jean Marie Hall when she took over as organizer of Elkader’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

By Pam Reinig

Register Editor

There will be a hint of somberness to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Elkader as the event moves forward without its remaining co-founder. Pat Keleher, who launched the parade in 1992 with his good friend, Pat Finley, died February 19 at the age of 77. 

Tue
01
Mar

LONG-AWAITED PROJECT NEARS COMPLETION

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/01/2016 - 16:05

By Pam Reinig

Register Editor

 

For the first time ever, space in the Elkader City Hall is being remodeled to meet the specific law enforcement needs of the town’s police department.

Tue
01
Mar

Annette Hird

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/01/2016 - 16:02

Annette Marie Hird, 51, of Volga, died February 16, 2016, at North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea, Hawaii, due to complications of a near drowning accident.

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