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NM Board Hears Building Project Update
By RD KEEP
The Sun
Members of the North Mahaska
School Board heard an update on the
building project from Estes Construction representative Pete Perez at their
monthly meeting June 20. While no
physical work has begun or contracts
awarded, Estes and Invision Architects continue to update the board as
the project moves forward.
Perez told board members if the
project bids come in at the highest
projected levels, it is $28,000 over
budget. The renovations at the high
school include a new track, which
was not in the original project assessment. Perez also said there are
$280,000 in contingencies and they
already know of savings to cover the
overage.
It is expected that bids will go out
in July and work could begin in August. The entire project is expected
to be completed by the end of the calendar year. Superintendent Angela
Livezey confirmed with Perez that
background checks would be done
on each project worker.
“That will be part of the bid process,” said Perez. “Each worker will
be subject to a background check.
We will assign them a number that
will be on their helmet and if there is
a concern or if a worker is acting in a
way that us unsafe when students are
around, it will be addressed.”
Some work that would be more
intrusive on instruction time may be
completed over the weekend or on
other days when school is not in session.
Bus Purchase
The Board approved the purchase of a new International school
bus from Hoglumd Bus Company
in Marshalltown. The 2016 65-passenger bus will be purchased for
$79,500 including a trade-in of an
older bus. Thomas Bus Company
of Des Moines had given a bid of
$81,359.
Personnel
The board accepted the resignations of Staci Blanke as a paraeducator and Caleb Gipple from
maintenance. They agreed to offer
contracts to Nik Kacy as a paraeducator and Casey Kaldenberg for
maintenance.
Lunch Price Increases
The board set lunch and breakfast prices for the 2016-17 school
year. Day care breakfast price will
be $1.25, 1-2 year old lunch will be
$1.60 and 3-5 year old will be $2.10
Adult breakfast will be $1.75 and
lunch will rise to $3.50. Guest breakfast will be $3.50 and lunch will be
$3.50.
Students breakfast price increases
40 cents to $1.50 and lunch is up nine
cents to $2.60
Milk prices will increase a nickel
to 35 cents.
In other routine business, the
board approved The Sun as the official newspaper. Set US Bank and
PMA as school depositories.
NS Councils Hears Financing Options
By RD KEEP
The Sun
New Sharon Councilors heard from
Travis Squires, senior vice president
with PiperJaffrey, regarding possible
financing options for the city’s sewer
project. The city is investigating options to pay for upgrades required by
Iowa DNR to meet current regulations and new standards.
For more than a year the City of
New Sharon has been studying the
issue, applying for grants and looking at options. Squires told the city
that financially the city is in a good
position, but would need financial
assistance in paying for the project.
The project, depending on the total
scope, would cost between $1.3 million for water and $1.6 million for
sewer. The city would have a construction debt limit of $2.9 million.
Squires told councilors that his
firm could serve the city in a variety
of manners. They could be financial
consultants, financial advisors or
a placement agent. The firm is currently serving as the placement agent
for North Mahaska School District.
Options available besides the obvious assessments to property taxes
and raising water and sewer fees,
would be leverage of the 1-cent sales
tax, grant applications and combinations of all of those options.
No decision was made. The meeting with Squires was simply to dis-
play options and the abilities of his
firm to meet the project needs.
Councilors held two public hearing
for building permits. One was for Larry
Miller at 603 W. Market, and Les and
Mary VerSteegh, 509 E. Market St.
Neither received any public written or
verbal comments and was approved.
Jim and May Woods appeared before the city requesting to purchase
the south half of South Elm Street
from East Oak south. The land in
question is a grassy area that has
been maintained by the Woods’ for
many years. They own property on
both sides and would like to keep
their land together.
Councilors will place it on the next
meeting to begin the process and
receive public input. Does not appear that there are utilities running
through the property.
At the July 6 meeting two public
hearings will be conducted. Elvin
Fisk who wishes to build a fence.
Charles Richardson wishes to move
a portable shed onto his property at
108 E. Court. Richardson and Fisk
each asked permission to proceed
with their respective projects. Councilors granted the requests, but emphasized if for some reason the permits did not go through they would
have to remove any work done.
Councilors approved tobacco licenses 4-1 for East Market Grocery
and Pronto Market. Councilor Ken
Ward voted against the licenses.
NS Book Club
Changes Name
The New Sharon Library Book
Club is now the Stilwell Library
Book Club. It’s just as interesting
to hear people discuss books under
the new name. Everyone is welcome to join the members of this
new/old group to talk about books.
The name change has come
when voters approved in November
to allow the City of New Sharon to
take ownership of the facility. The
move allows the library board to
apply for more grants to enhance
the reading experience of the library patrons.
The June meeting was a change
of pace; favorite poems were read
and enjoyed. For July, the group
selected a novel, “River Jordan” by
Augusta Troubaugh.
Amazon.com says this about the
novel, “The South blooms again in
River Jordan. Sometimes a family
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Barnes City Mayor Barbara Davis and councilor husband Gene reigned over festivities at the Barnes City Fun Days Saturday. The day
kicked off with a parade with events held at the city arena provided kids an opportunity to play and enjoy the day.
County Committee Nomination Period Begins
OSKALOOSA – Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural producers may begin nominating eligible
candidates to serve on local Farm
Service Agency county committees,
announced Wendi Denham, County
Executive Director of the Mahaska
County Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Office.
“County committees play a vital
role in the administration of federal
farm programs and have a positive
effect on rural communities,” said
Denham.
FSA county committees make decisions on commodity price support
loans, conservation programs, disaster programs, employing County Executive Directors and other significant agricultural issues. This year,
Local Administrative Area 2 (LAA
2), which consists of Black Oak,
Pleasant Grove, Prairie, Richland,
and Union Townships will be selecting a representative for the Mahaska
County Committee.
To hold office as a county committee member, a person must participate or cooperate in a program
administered by FSA, be eligible to
vote in a county committee election
and be eligible to represent the LAA
in which the person is a candidate,
among other requirements.
Individuals may nominate themselves or others as candidates. Additionally, organizations representing
minorities and women may nominate candidates.
All nominees must sign a nomination form, FSA-669A, which includes a statement that the nominee
agrees to serve if elected. Form
FSA-669A is available at USDA
Service Centers and online at: http://
www.fsa.usda.gov/elections. All
nomination forms for the 2016 election must be postmarked or received
in the local USDA Service Center by
close of business on Aug. 1, 2017.
Voting for the County Committee
election takes place in the fall, and
newly elected county committee
members take office on Jan. 1, 2017.
Become involved by nominating and
voting in the local County Committee election. For more information
on the County Committee election
process, eligibility requirements,
or other programs administered by
FSA, contact your local county office or visit FSA online at: www.fsa.
usda.gov.
This Week’s Color In The Sun Is Brought To You By
Movie Night
At Eveland
Access
Campground
Want to do something fun
with the whole family on the 4th
of July weekend? The Mahaska
County Conservation Board invites campers, campground visitors and the public to watch a free
family-friendly movie at the Eveland Access Campground on Saturday, July 2 at 9 p.m. (at dark).
Bring your family, a lawn chair
or blanket to sit on and enjoy the
show. Free popcorn will be provided. The movie for this event
will be “Where the Red Fern
Grows” (Rated G, 1974).
Eveland Access Campground
is located next to the Des Moines
River at 2890 Galeston Ave.,
which is 4 miles south of Beacon
on Hwy. T39.
Slumberland Furniture in Oskaloosa
grows from the most unlikely of
friends. A lonely little girl living
with a strict stepfather and mother. A woman just released from
prison, seeking a job and a new
purpose for her life. An aging matriarch with a sense of humor and
a compassionate heart. Sit a spell
by the gentle river of their merged
lives. By the acclaimed author of
Sophie and the Rising and other
Southern novels. Her next novel
is Music From Beyond The Moon.
Augusta Trobaugh has been nominated for Georgia Author of the
Year, among many other honors.”
Anyone who would like to read
this southern treasure can request
it at the library. Or, anyone at all is
welcome to enjoy the discussion on
July 12 at 1:30 p.m. at the Stilwell
Public Library in New Sharon.
INDEX
Opinion Pg. 4, 5
Church Pg. 5
Legals Pg. 6
Local News Pg. 3
Classified Pg. 6
Sports Pg. 8, 9
Spring Festival Pg. 10
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FSA Acreage Reporting
Clean-Up Day Success In May
Deadline Quickly Approaches
OSKALOOSA – The crop reporting
deadline for all spring seeded crops
and CRP in Iowa is July 15, 2016.
FSA must charge a measurement fee
per FSA farm number for any crop
report filed after the deadline.
Additionally, producers who did
not timely report forage and fall
seeded crops by the December
15, 2015 deadline will be charged
a late-filed measurement fee. Unlike in the past few years, this service fee is not being waived. Please
be aware that late-filed reports can
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Reporting Prevented and Failed
Acres- FSA also reminds producers to report prevented planted and
failed acres in order to establish or
retain program eligibility for some
FSA programs. Producers should
report crop acreage as they intended
to plant, but due to natural disaster,
were prevented from planting. Prevented planting must be reported
on a CCC-576, Notice of Loss, no
later than 15 calendar days after the
final planting date as established by
FSA and Risk Management Agency
(RMA).
The final planting date for Corn
is May 31, 2016.-The final planting
date for Soybeans is June 15, 2016.
Producers with failed acres should
also file form CCC-576, Notice of
Loss. This must be filed within the
15 calendar days of the occurrence
of the loss or when losses become
apparent.
Producers may either walk-in to
the Mahaska County FSA office
to report their crops, or they may
schedule an appointment to do so
for convenience. To schedule an appointment, please contact the Mahaska FSA office at 641-673-3476,
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FFA REPORTERS
RANDIE RICHMOND,
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ADLYNN EVELAND
T’was the day after Monday and
all through the school, not a student
was stirring, not even a few. Where
were all the students you may ask?
They were busy doing community
service, including the Agri-Power
FFA Chapter.
Mr. Powers took some of his chapter members to the Muchakinock
Cemetery and told his students the
story of Muchakinock, an old mining town. The mines became empty
and the African Americans living
there left to move to Buxton, leaving
the town deserted, except the spirits buried there years ago. The FFA
members cleaned up the cemetery by
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Pictured are Lex Judy and Wyatt Brinegar painting a fence at the
cemetery.
pulling weeds, painting, and restoring the fences around the cemetery.
Each year Mr. Powers and his members visit the cemetery and try to restore the past year’s damage.
Rylie Lathen stated “It felt good
to come and restore a final resting
place for some. I felt like I was doing
a good deed.”
The day was a big success for the
chapter, and they were helping the community as well as getting a little history
lesson. “It was really neat to see the old
stones and learn about the town that
was once here,” said Dakota Boyer.
The chapter hopes to go back
there next year and keeping bringing
peace to the spirits of Muchakinock.
Twyla Murphy celebrates
100 years
The Heartbreakers softball team from Eddyville won the Minor Girls’ Little League title and celebrated.
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The Mahaska County Little League
wrapped up the season with a championship tournament on Monday
evening at the Lacey Recreation
Complex in Oskaloosa. Season ending winners from all over the county
took home trophies as near 500 spectators came to watch the competition
and cheer their favorites.
“The crowd was excited, the games
were well matched, the hot dogs
were good, fun night in Oskaloosa!”
said one mom to another as trophies
were being handed out.
The teams ended with division winners as follows: Major Boys 1st - Pella
Motors, 2nd - Kinetic Edge (Oskaloosa); Major girl’s 1st - Katy-Dids
(Bussey), 2nd - Leighton State Bank;
Minor Boys 1st - Sports Page Team,
2nd - Garden & Associates (Oskaloosa) and Minor girls 1st - Heartbreak-
Gatton Realty Inc.
Cara Ferguson, Realtor Associate
ers (Eddyville), 2nd - Pepsi (Pella). For
more pictures visit MCRF’s Facebook page at mcrf.laceyrecreation.
Twyla (Arganbright) Murphy of
Silvis, Ill., will celebrate her 100 th
birthday on July 1. Twyla was born
on July 1, 1916 to Ed and Lona Arganbright in Ottumwa. She graduated from Fremont High School in
1934 where she loved playing softball and basketball. She continues to
watch her basketball today, favoring
the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Chicago
Bulls, especially Michael Jordan,
whom she had the opportunity to see
play in person. She married William
Murphy on August 5, 1936 in Lancaster, Mo. He passed away in 1957.
She worked in the food industry,
retiring from Lutheran Hospital in
1985. She stays busy monitoring her
many bird feeders, while watching
the squirrels and other critters in her
backyard.
Her children are William “Bill”
(Karen) Murphy, Janice (Bob) Seys,
Sandra (John) Walgrave (both deceased), and Shirley King. She has
10 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren and one very blessed family, all
because of her!
A family gathering is planned to
help her celebrate her day. Happy
Birthday to this most amazing woman in our lives. 100 Years of Love
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FREMONT ELEMENTARY
EDDYVILLE-BLAKESBURG-FREMONT
FCCLA Attends State Conference
Submitted by FCCLA
ADVISOR LISA STRAUSSER
The Iowa FCCLA State Leadership Conference was held April 3rd
– April 5th in Des Moines. Several
members of EBF’s chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders
of American attended.
During state, the members participated in many activities, including
listening to guest speaker Michael
Cuestas. He spoke to the students
about it never being too late to become a leader and choices never diminishing their own worth.
Many members were recognized for
their projects during the program:
Nevaeh Cavin, Lainey Krusemark,
Mary McKee, Devon Severson, and
Tessa Puffinbarger were recognized
for Peer Education; Alexandria Adams, Kaleb Adamson, Zach Edgren,
Austin Johnson, Taylor Keegel, Addisyn McCrea, Mary McKee, Felicity Reddy, Gabriel Strausser, Alicen Tomlin, and Aidan Yates were
recognized for Student Body; Lane
Morrison, MaKenna Yates, and Carson Burrell were recognized for their
projects in Family First; Mary McKee, Jade Johnson, Devon Severson,
Sage Goodwin, Jayda Groves, Lis
Glosser, Emma Mock, and Sophia
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FCCLA Attendees included, (Front l-r):Addisyn McCrea, Emma Mock, Payton Scharff, Gabby Strausser, Felicity Reddy; Back: McKenna Yates, Allie Adams, Devon Severson, Alicen Tomlin, Mary McKee,
Taylor Keegel, and Kaleb Adamson.
Venator were recognized for Public tion and Hydration of a Basketball a silver medal; Devon Severson preRelations.
Player” and received a silver medal; sented her STAR event on “AdvocaAt FCCLA’s State Leadership con- Payton Scharff presented her STAR cy for Teen Pregnancy” and received
ference, STAR events were present- event on “Galactosemia” and re- a gold medal and qualified for The
ed: Mary McKee and Kaleb Adam- ceived a silver medal; Allie Adams National Leadership Conference in
son presented their STAR event on presented her STAR event on her San Diego, California in July.
“The Importance of Proper Nutri- chapter service project, and received
Awards Presented at EBF Music Banquet
On Tuesday May 10 th the Music
Department at Eddyville Blakesburg
Fremont High School had its annual
Music Banquet. The music students
were presented with their letters and
participation awards, as well as other
honors.
The following music award winners were: The John Phillip Sousa
Award (pictured at right), Mika
Farnum; The Louis Armstrong Jazz
Award - Mika Farnum & Andrew
Hart; The Iowa Bandmasters Association Senior Award of Merit Kayla Fox, Madison Giltner, Logan
Street, & Luke Sutton; The Fred
Waring Director’s Award - Madison Giltner; South East Iowa Honor
Band Award - Brandon Dicks; Patrick Gilmore Award - Delanee Van
Zante; Woody Herman Award Maggie Voyles; The National School
Choral Award - Mika Farnum; The
Iowa Choral Director’s Association
Award (pictured at right) - Carter
Roose; Choir Council Awards - Mashayla Lobberecht, Jessie Eveland,
Madison Giltner, Mika Farnum;
I Solo Contest Vocal Solo - Jessie
Eveland; II Solo Contest Vocal Solo
-Mika Farnum; Chorister of the Year
- 9 th Katie Fisher/Jacob Fisher, 10 th
Wynter Baugher/Harrison Mock,
11th Marina Rupprecht, 12th William
Fisher/Victoria Vannoni; Outstanding Overall Freshman Musician
Award - Delanee Van Zante.
Outstanding Overall Sophomore
Musician Award - Adlynn Eveland;
Outstanding Overall Junior Musician Award - Jessie Eveland; Outstanding Overall Senior Musician
Award - Mika Farnum; The Golden
Fork Award for Waiterial Excellence
(pictured below) - Devon Severson, Andrew Hart, Kayla Fox, Luke
Sutton and Logan Street; The Iowa
Bandmasters Association Junior
Award of Merit - Brandon Dicks,
Claire Jager, Teri Jo Lane, & Sara
Senior music students celebrate their four years of accomplishments. Seated - Andrew Hart and Luke
Sutton; Standing - William Fisher, Victoria Vannoni, Payton Scharff, Tayler Jones, Madison Giltner,
Devon Severson, Kayla Fox, Carter Roose, Mika Farnum, and Logan Street.
Loving. The Tammy Schroeder Me- Strausser, Connor VanDerVeer, Eli- Allie Adams, Brandon Dicks, Jessie
morial Director’s Choice Award was jah Woods, Riley Bayliss. 1st Year Eveland, Claire Jager, Teri Jo Lane,
presented to Mashayla Lobberecht Letter in Choir: William Fisher, Sara Loving, Marina Rupprecht,
(This award is presented annually Wynter Baugher, Samantha Carroll, Zach Thomas, Briana VerSteegh,
to a deserving student that excels Jake Fisher, Michael Garrett, Mazzi Peyton Walker, Sage Webster. 3rd
in marching band as well as being a Hanson, Madison Keegel, Nolan Year Letter in Choir: Mika Farnum,
dedicated, hardworking band mem- Stetter, Delanee VanZante, Hannah Carter Roose, Payton Scharff, Jesber. Mashayla has been an inspira- VanSteenwyk. 2nd Year Letter Band: sie Eveland, Morgan Reddy, Marina
tion for us all during her years in Wynter Baugher, Emma Bunnell, Rupprecht. 4th Year Letter in Band:
band); The Marvin M. Ferdig Me- Carson Burrell, Gracie DeLaCruz, Mika Farnum, Kayla Fox, Madison
morial Spirit Award for leadership Adlynn Eveland, Payton Fry, Kath- Giltner, Andrew Hart, Mashayla
in marching band was presented to ryn Gutch, Dillon Howard, Caleb Jo- Lobberecht, Logan Street, Luke
(pictured below) - Madison Giltner, hannes, Rylee Lobberecht, Harrison Sutton. 4th Year Letter in Marching
Andrew Hart, Claire Jager, & Tayler Mock, Lane Morrison, Cyrus Rog- Band – Tayler Jones. 4th Year Letter
Jones.
ers, Noah Strausser, Jacob Sutton, in Choir: Madison Giltner, Mashayla
1st Year letter in Band: Deserae Joey Voyles, Derek Walker, Morgan Lobberecht.
Simmons, Jaydin Abernathy, Char- Wells, Makenna Yates, Sam Zimlie Borger, Bryce Dalbey, Blake merman, Kendal Durst, Tony Lane,
Deevers, Brandon Drew, Julia Grace Manternach, Delanee VanZFairchild, Jenny Faybik, Katelyn ante, Maggie Voyles.
Fisher, Jake Fisher, Mazzi Hanson,
2nd Year Letter in Choir: VictoHannah Koellner, Rylie Lathen, ria Vannoni, Sage Webster, Adlynn
Shelby Seddon, Nolan Stetter, Levi Eveland. 3rd Year Letter in Band:
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SECRETARY MOLLY JUDY
Many children were recognized for
outstanding accomplishments, acts of
character, and attendance records on
May 26 at Fremont Elementary.
6th Grade MATH BEE Team members: Out of 53 teams and 272 individuals, Emily Dicks placed 19th and
Lute Judy placed 168th. This year in
the SPELLING BEE competition,
Iowa State Fair Finalists - 1st Brieana
Kleine, 3rd Miah Bowen, 5th Emily
Lynch; and Iowa State Fair Representatives; 1st /2nd-2nd grade student Silas Shotten, 3rd /4th-4th grade
student Nevaya Vandello, 5th /6th-6th
grade student Makayla Stuff lebeem. STEM Participant-Emily
Dicks Completed 96 hours outside
of school working on advanced math
and science skills.
CITIZENSHIP AWARDS- (voted
on by the students of each grade, a
boy and girl are chosen) 1st GradeTreyton Cavin and Genni Belger; 2nd
Grade-Bryton McIntosh and Savannah Chaffin; 3rd Grade-Landen Blad
and Elaina Johnson; 4th Grade-Cael
Lenox and MacKinzie Vannoy; 5th
Grade-Wiatt McGachey and Emily
Lynch; 6th Grade-Sean Carroll and
Shyla VanSteenwyk.
SOAR Student of the Year (chosen by teacher): 1st-Carly Rupprecht,
2nd-Gabby Wade, 3rd-Zoey Dyches,
4 th -Nevaya Vandello, 5th Vanessa
Blad, 6th Finley Norgaila.
GOOD ATTENDANCE (3 or
less days missed): Logan Boggs,
Zayden Crosby, Larry Feldmann,
Asia Houk, Lute Judy, Brody Lynch,
Emily Lynch, Faith Manley, Mikel
Matusick, Maxwell Scharff, Maysha
Seeley. PERFECT ATTENDANCE
(having missed no school and no tardiness) - Lydia Judy.
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ASSESSMENT
ACHIEVEMENT (having improved 10 or more points from
the previous year): In the area of
Reading - Mackayla Garrett, Em-
ily Lynch, Aleandra Horn; In the
area of Math - Jack Bunnell, Lydia
Judy, Wiatt McGachey, Jerrick Middlesworth, and Masha Seeley; In the
area of Both Reading and Math; Jimena Avianeda, Alijah Francisco,
Miranda Hotchkiss, Cael Lenox,
Mikel Mat usick, Nevaya Vandello, Vanessa Blad, James Call,
Hayley McDonald, Bryce Roquet,
Logan Boggs, Emily Dicks, Lute
Judy, Hunter McFadden, Hatcher
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Emily Dicks, and Shyla VanSteenwyk; In the area of Both Reading
and Math - Miranda Hotchkiss, Jack
Bunnell, Vanessa Blad, and Bryce
Roquet.
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Grade Band Participants - Sean Carroll, Emily Dicks, Lute Judy, Finley
Norgaila, Alyse Shotten, Ephriam
VanZante; Establishing the school
Record for Longest Sustained Note
- Lute Judy (35 seconds). ART: 4th
Grade Alijah Francisco, 5th Vanessa
Blad, 6th Lute Judy. PE: Presidential Physical Fitness Award - Jack
Bunnell, Mackinzie Vannoy; National Physical Fitness Award - Emily Dicks, Hunter McFadden, James
Call, Amber Moore, Nevaya Vandello, Cael Lenox, Kayden Sines,
Landon Blad, Miah Bowen, Cadence
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Andrew Brouwer of Oskaloosa participated in the Oral History and
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Lindsey Richardson of Oskaloosa
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Australia.”
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Opinion, Editorial
Thursday, June 30, 2016
TALES OF THE ANCIENT SPORTSMAN
By BURDELL HENSLEY
The sizzling, scorching heat continues and our crops really need a
drink. With every bank of clouds
that come up in the west, my hopes
rise. Then the hopes get def lated
when the clouds drift on by. Hopefully this will be the week that the
rains come.
Cooler weather is forecast and that
will be a blessing. I might even get
back to the golf course. I do not handle the heat well, so I have not gone
out for a while.
My lawn is suffering and I told
Logan to not mow again until we get
some significant rain. If we don’t get
rain for a while, I may have to have
him go over it just to knock down
weeds. It is amazing how weeds can
grow without rain.
The Ancient-ess and I hosted a
tour to Mr. Lincoln’s Springfield
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of last week. It was extremely hot in
Springfield, but we survived and it
was a super tour.
We visited the Lincoln Museum
and Library Tuesday afternoon.
While there one of the volunteers
suggested to me that I should take
my group out to the Lincoln Tomb
that evening at 7:00 p.m. for a Civil
War reenactment of a flag retirement
ceremony.
Since I had nothing on the evening
schedule except dinner at the Cracker Barrel, I agreed to do so. It was a
beautiful and educational ceremony
done in full uniform with rifles firing and drums and bugles playing.
It was very warm, but we were able
to get into the shade. The ceremony
lasted only 20 minutes, so we were
able to get back to our hotel and cool
off.
On Wednesday we had our guide,
Garret, with us all day and he was so
full of great information. We started the day at the military memorials in the city cemetery. That was
a good time to do the tour as it was
still reasonably cool. The memorials
contained the names of all Illinois
soldiers killed in the various wars. It
was kind of like the Washington DC
monuments but on a much smaller
scale.
After a tour of the city and some
neat stops, Garret suggested that we
do lunch on Route 66. We went to
the Cozy Dog Drive In and the place
just oozed with 50’s and 60’s memorabilia. This place is where the Corn
Dog was born, but they call it the
Cozy Dog. The menu was limited
to cozy dogs, hamburgers, cheese
burgers, tenderloins, fries, cole slaw
and potato salad. It didn’t take long
to get through the line and the food
was good. But even better than the
food was all of the history of the
“Mother Road” that filled the walls
and display areas.
The afternoon was filled with
more interesting stops and then
we had dinner with Mr. and Mrs.
Lincoln at Maldanner’s Restaurant. Max and Donna Daniels from
Wheaton, Illinois are known nationally for their impersonations of Abe
and Mary Lincoln and they were just
great.
Thursday we made a stop at Lincoln’s New Salem on the way home.
This is a nice venue, but it was so
hot that it was difficult to enjoy the
outdoor trail through New Salem.
Several of our people took the three
quarter mile trek down to Lincoln’s
Store. I started down the trail, but
turned back. Heat and humidity
make breathing a little difficult.
The tour departed from Newton
so I rode the bus all the way back to
Newton where my car was. We were
back in time for me to stop in Pella
on the way home for the OskaloosaPella softball game. What a game it
was as the two teams were tied 0-0
after seven innings of play. A single
by Anna Jones and a double by Aubrey Miller in the eighth inning gave
the Indians a 1-0 win.
On Monday before we left I covered the Osky-Pella Christian game
in Oskaloosa and it was a 1-0 game
as well. Oskaloosa won this one behind the no-hit pitching of Kylee Silliman.
Friday night I had the rare privilege of being able to work while
watching my grandsons play. Pella
was playing in Ottumwa and I was
working for the Pella Chronicle. Ottumwa jumped out to an 4-0 lead
and then Pella took over to post an
8-4 win. Both boys had good games
so that made it a fun evening.
Saturday I took in the inaugural
Pella Christian Softball Classic at
the new Pella Sports Complex just
east of Pella. It was a good day of
softball for the Eagles as they beat a
22-3 Humboldt team 6-0 and a 13-6
Belle Plaine team 10-0.
I can’t believe that the 4th of July
is upon us already and the softball
regional tournaments begin on the
fifth. The season has flown by.
It is time again to see what happened in our yesterdays.
100 years ago: July 6, 1916 – The
women may vote in the New Sharon
water works election. July 8 – The
Oskaloosa Blues beat Bidwell 9-7
with Shoemaker pitching and V. Siders collecting three hits.
75 years ago: July 5, 1941 –
Sigourney topped Oskaloosa 10-8
in a 4th of July feature American
Legion game. Doubles by Ken DeWitt and Squirt Andrews along with
a pair of singles by Smith led Osky.
Middlekauf led Sigourney with a
pair of doubles and Shaffer, Hartzell
and Ridenour each poked a double
and a single. July 9 – The Oskaloosa
Merchantettes nipped Albia 11-10
as Marjorie Van Arkel starred both
on the mound and at bat. Van Arkel
slugged a double and two singles
while Golden of Albia had a double
and three singles.
50 years ago: July 5, 1966 – TriCounty raised its record to 9-2 with
a 3-1 win over North Mahaska. Ross
Wilhite tossed a one-hitter for the
win and he belted an RBI double.
Marv Lamb also had a two bagger
for T-C. Ken LaRue’s double was the
only NM hit. July 7- North Mahaska
surprises Osky 8-5 in a nine inning
Sectional Tourney thriller. Emory
Stewart blasted a three run homer
and a single and Ron Whitehead
poked three hits to lead NM. Butch
Hewitt ripped two doubles and a
single to lead Osky. July 11- English
Valleys erupted for six runs in the
first inning to upset Williamsburg
8-5 and advance to the Sectional final. Denny Deaton went the distance
for the win and Bob Dillon had two
hits. July 11- Oskaloosa’s Brent Slay
won the 440 dash at the State JC
Track Meet in a record time of 48.7.
Slay will advance to the National JC
Meet.
25 years ago: July 5, 1991- Osky
wins the Eddyville 4th of July Tourney by beating Wayne 6-5 and Pella
Christian 11-5. David Crouse was
5-for-6 with a home run to lead
Osky. July 6- Oskaloosa’s Rick
Hensley was one pitch from a perfect
game in a 4-0 win over Albia. Hensley was cruising along when a bank
of lights went out. After a 30 minute delay, Albia’s Jay Curran lined
a triple off the centerfield wall to be
the only Albia base runner. July 10Sigourney sweeps North Mahaska
4-2 and 4-3. Sigourney was led by a
home run and two singles by Chad
Menster and a home run, double
and a single by Chris Coffman. Josh
Boughton homered for NM.
Have a great week and let’s cool
things off a little. I will leave you
with this jewel. Life is like a bath.
The longer you are in it the more
wrinkled you get.
BARNES CITY NEWS
By MOLLIE LOVING
The Sun Correspondent
Last week we had some hot and
humid days. I might even add miserable to that description. I grew up in
a house with no air conditioning, and
we got along just fine. Now I’m so
used to my cool, comfortable house
that I can’t imagine not having it.
Thoughts and prayers go out to
the family of Nancy Doonan, who
passed away last week. A few years
ago Nancy and I found ourselves at
Hy-Vee in Oskaloosa on the same
day at the same time for several
weeks in a row. I enjoyed our chats
in the grocery aisle.
The Barnes City card makers got
together on June 20 at Jen Henry’s
house. Making cards that day were
Doris Freeborn, Phyllis Rauch, and
I.
Barnes City Fun Days were last
weekend. A supper and ice cream
social was held on Friday evening,
June 24. Then on Saturday there was
a parade and many fun activities,
with figure 8 races in the evening.
Nick and Nate Robertson celebrated their birthdays on June 25. Marvin Freeborn’s birthday was June 26.
Don’t forget to take your recyclables to the recycle bin. It is located
on the north side of City Hall.
July 4th, Independence Day, is next
Monday. Hope you have a fun and
safe celebration.
LOWER GROVE NEWS
By ROSEMARY SCHMIDT
The Sun Correspondent
Last week I helped Carrie pick
cherries off of their tree. It was just
loaded with the old time tart red
cherries. It was a small tree and a
medium size ladder was all that was
needed to pick the fruit. Neighbor
Cindy Blom also came and picked.
She is younger and could use the ladder.
I can remember my grandmother
Vina Boyd and my mother picking
cherries from grandmother’s cherry
trees. There were two trees and that
was a big job. As I remember they
were quite tall and a tall ladder was
required to be able to pick the cherries. You know that when you are
small, things look a lot bigger when
you have to look up so far and I was
not very old, so maybe the trees were
not quite as tall as I thought. Anyway it was a big day of picking and
then pitting the cherries. But, the rewards were great…yummy cherry
pie.
Did you know that the old fashioned tart cherries are good for body
aches such as arthritis? The old timers ate a lot of cherries and they did
not have quite as much problems
with their bones as we have now.
None of my grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins ever had knee or hip
surgery when I was growing up. Nor
do I remember anyone using a cane.
Now it seems as everyone is getting
a bone replacement.
On Saturday I went to breakfast at
Happy Joes and then to two garage
sales and home to pick more cherries. Carrie and Kalvin said to take
whatever cherries I wanted, so I pitted enough to make four pies. Pitting
cherries is a tedious job, but I turned
on the TV and that helped to pass
the time. I think they had enough for
10 pies the last time I asked them.
They used a cherry pitter, but I just
did it the old fashioned way with my
thumbnail. I am baking a pie to take
to breakfast for the group next Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
If you are
reading
this . . .
On July 16 the Lower Grove Park
and Sorghum mill is having a 35year celebration. At 4 p.m. there will
be old-fashioned games and a time
of visiting. Then supper is provided
at 6 p.m. with a campfire/hymn sing
at 8 p.m. Be sure to bring your lawn
chairs and have a good time. If you
have any questions, please call 641780-1094.
Sunday my son Kalvin and Carrie
and I went to the United Methodist
Church in Eddyville. Nelson and
Rhonda Hoskins had asked Kalvin
to play guitar with them as they were
playing a program for the service
that day. I had not been there before,
but it is a nice brick church up the
hill to the east as you are driving
through Eddyville. Afterwards, Nelson and Rhonda treated us to lunch
at the Riverside Restaurant in Oskaloosa.
Monday was a day of cleaning
things up around here. Seems as
if one person should not get things
dirty, but the dust settles anyway on
things even if there is only one person stirring around. So, out came the
vacuum cleaner and dust rag to clean
the bathroom, bedroom and utility
room. The rest will have to wait a
few days.
Tuesday I went to Pella to the
eye doctor. In 2010 I had cataract
surgery and now after six years my
right eye was starting to cloud over.
So Dr. Johnson came down from
Wolfe Clinic and did a laser treatment on it. Now it is clear again. It is
wonderful what modern technology
has done for the eyes. Charlene came
to get me and took me to her house
until my vision got less blurry. Then
we went to the Comfort house to visit Florence Verrips. Florence goes
to the First Baptist Church where
I attend and has been ill for quite
awhile. Then I treated Charlene to
supper at Subway because she was
so kind to drive me around. Afterwards she dropped me off at my car
and I drove home.
Thursday I drove around the
neighborhood delivering the invita-
. . . so are
your
customers!
tions to the Lower Grove Park Celebration. Of course that takes awhile,
because I like to visit and I visited
with Vicky and Stacy Boyd. Had not
seen them for ages, only just to wave
while going past.
There are two young rabbits in my
yard that think they own the place.
I walk out the door about three feet
from them and yell. They just look
at me and don’t move a muscle. So
I lunge at them and they still don’t
move and then I throw something
at them and finally they move. But,
the next day they are right back
out there. My neighbor’s black cat
comes over and then they run from
him. He has kept them out of the garden because he has chased them out
of there and I think he has gotten rid
of some of the rabbits for me. There
used to be a big old rabbit, but is no
longer around. I have a feeling that
the cat also gets rid of the mice.
WHY CATS ARE BETTER
THAN CHILDREN
1. They eat less
2. Usually come when called.
3. Are easier to train.
4. Don’t ask for money all the time.
5. Don’t drink alcohol or smoke.
6. Don’t hang out with friends who
use drugs.
7. Never ask to drive the car.
8. Don’t have to have the latest fashions.
9. Don’t want to wear your clothes.
10. Don’t need a gazillion dollars for
college.
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell
their children.
CAT PRAYER
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray
this cushy life to keep. I pray for toys
that look like mice. For sofa cushions, soft and nice. I pray for gourmet kitty snacks, and someone nice
to scratch my back. For windowsills
all warm and bright, for shadows to
explore the night. I pray I’ll always
stay real cool and keep the secret feline rule to never tell a human that
the world is really ruled by cats!
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This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa’s unsolved homicides in the hopes that it
will lead to new tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a partnership between this
newspaper and other members of the Iowa Newspaper Association.
Diane Marie Schofield
A young woman’s badly decomposed body
was found in the trunk of a tan 1966 Rambler
in a parking lot at Southwest 20th and Porter
near the Des Moines airport on Thursday, July
10, 1975. The body was later determined to be
21-year-old Diane Marie Schofield.
An autopsy indicated Schofield died of strangulation. Her body was found fully clothed in
a green halter top and blue jeans, but with no
shoes. Her hands were tied behind her back
and her feet bound with twine near the ankles.
She’d been strangled with a strip of knotted
cloth. The body showed no other apparent
signs of violence. Based on evidence and witness accounts, investigators believe she was
killed sometime after 9 p.m. Monday, July 7.
Police said robbery didn’t appear to be a motive because Schofield still wore her $200 watch
and several turquoise rings. The 1966 Rambler
in which her body was found, was registered
to the victim.
She was last seen alive shortly after 9 p.m.
Monday, July 7 at the Apco Service Station,
2324 Forest Ave. An attendant at the station
said Schofield bought cigarettes and mentioned she was going to be late for work. Schofield had been employed as a waitress and as
a masseuse at several massage parlors in Des
Moines. Her last place of employment was the
tavern Dave Salem’s Foozin’ ‘n’ Boozin’.
Police records showed Schofield, a divorced
mother of a five-year-old daughter, was sentenced in January 1975 to five years in the
Women’s Reformatory for carrying a concealed
.22-caliber pistol but was placed on probation.
She’d been arrested on the charge the previous
April. The attorney who represented Schofield
in her concealed weapon charge said she told
him that she’d been asked to be some type of
informant relating to drugs. Officers connected with Schofield’s investigation said they’d
had no knowledge of her being an informant.
Diane Marie Schofield
| Age: 21 |
Died: July 4, 1975
Location: Des Moines
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Opinion, Faith, Local
Thursday, June 30, 2016
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TAINTOR-GRANVILLE-LYNNVILLE
By ADA KAY VAN MAANEN
The Sun Correpsondent
Anniversary wishes to Marvin
and Ellen Wehrle on June 24.
Sympathy to Lois and John Klyn
on the loss of their loved one, Alma
Witzenberg, sister of Lois Klyn.
Dot Zylstra attended Lily’s softball Friday night and Teryn and Jax
returned home with her and stayed
overnight with Dot and Denny. Saturday, they went to Urbandale for
Camden’s baseball game and later in
the day to Altoona for Lily’s softball
game with Teryn staying overnight.
Volunteers run the Bibles for Mission thrift centers. Volunteers are
valuable, O- organized, L- loyal, Uunselfish, N- necessary, T- toilers,
E- enthused, E- efficient, R- reliable,
and S- successful. What would we
do with volunteers?
June birthdays to granddaughter Alyssa Torra on the 21st, Shirley
Hoksbergen and Ellen Wehrle on the
both on the 23rd , Lois Klyn, Trudy
Wehrle and Noah Zylstra all on the
25th.
Fathers Day we celebrated at Tom
and Theresa Anderson’s home with
his family.
I attended the Bible League musical on Saturday evening at Calvary
Christian Reformed Church in Pella.
Offering for Bibles for Africa was
over $2,000.
Last Sunday after morning worship services at the Taintor Church,
Lowell and Linda Goemaat drove to
Monroe to help celebrate the birthday of two great grandkids Abbi and
Blake Gomez.
Saturday, Joyce Smith and her
grandson Jerry Purshall of Colfax,
Ill., visited Lyn Kinney staying at
her home arriving on Friday. Saturday, they all went to Winterset. They
at the North Café, drove to the bridges and toured the John Wayne Museum. Lyn’s guests returned home to
Illinois on Sunday.
Dale and Bev Flander met their
friends, Carl and Wilma Vander
Wal of Nevada and they went to the
flea market held at the Iowa State
Fair grounds. They ate out together
at Bonanza before returning home.
This was the last flea market till fall.
The Taintor Community Church
held a church camp over at Diamond
Lake June 24-26. This morning worship was held at the lake.
Those having Sunday dinner at
Montana Mikes in Newton to celebrate Pam Crocham’s Birthday were
Lyn Kinney, Betty Spangenburg,
Judy Morehouse, Margie Broefel,
and Eric Jones.
Performing at the New Sharon
Festival was the band from the Heart
of Worship Church band were band
members Tom Anderson, Tom and
Ronda Pool, Heather James, Jason
Pool, Tom Babist, and Dennis the
drummer.
Last Sunday Tom and Theresa
Anderson provided their music at
Kenny Brook in Grimes. Tom at the
Scottish Rite Park in Des Moines
and Thursday, Tom and Theresa
were at the Linn Manor in Marion
and at Brickford.
Keep Cool!
COUNTRY GIRL’S CORNER
Famous Vacations—or ones we never took
By SHERYL L. CARTER
The Country Girl
(It’s been a very full week and today my brain is fried, so am sharing
a story I wrote 13 years ago. I hope
you enjoy it.)
When we were kids at home
on our farm in the rolling hills of
Southern Iowa, vacations were not
something we did too often. With all
those chores, you couldn’t go off and
leave everything to fend for themselves. Also, another little sister had
come into our family. “We can’t do
that,” Mama would say, “because
of the baby.” I always thought that
was rather strange as the baby would
probably have enjoyed herself.
Back to the vacations…the ones
we never took. We did take one once.
I think we had to get Presidential
clearance to do this. My parents had
some good friends from the past
that lived in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Plans were made and Mama began
to prepare. I can still see her intent
face as she packed. She even cleaned
out the entire refrigerator to ensure
the food’s safety while we would be
gone---which was three days. We finally got there and my parents and
their friends had a nice reunion.
Sadly, I don’t think it was quite what
my parents expected as people do
change over time. It was the only vacation I ever remember us taking.
On the other hand, when my husband and I were married, we had a
little more freedom to take off and
go. It was much easier for us to get
away than it had been for my parents, because although we lived, and
my husband worked, on a farm, we
didn’t own it. And every year we had
a week’s vacation.
The first year after our marriage, my sister married one of Loren’s brothers and they moved out
to the mountains of Colorado. A
place I had always deeply longed to
see. “You have to come out!” they
begged us. So we did.
I would prepare for days in advance and on the day of, would fix
food to take, do all the packing, and
make sure the car was clean and
ready to go. Loren would make sure
it had a fresh oil change and a full
fuel tank. He would get off work and
by 5 p.m., we were loaded and headed down Interstate 80.
All our kids were great travel-
ers. After a good supper, the kids
changed into their PJs, I read them
stories and prayed with them, then
tucked them into the back seat in
the beds Loren had devised. He was
pretty inventive and with quilts for
padding, they had nice little beds.
The kids slept like a top as we sped
through the night.
Loren was a great all-day, allnight driver. I don’t know how he
did it, as for me, it was like being in
a sweet hammock somewhere—I
would be asleep in minutes. I’m sure
there are parts of the country that
we’ve driven through that I’ve never
even seen.
By 7 a.m. the next morning, we
were in Cheyenne, Wyo. “Wake
up, Kids!” we hollered and we piled
out of the car to eat our traditional
breakfast at the Thunderbird restaurant—delicious pancakes with seven
kinds of syrup.
Soon, we were headed for Laramie, the Snowy Range, and some
mountain driving in northern Colorado. We came off Rabbit Ears Pass
with the vista of the wide, beautiful
Yampa Valley spread out below—an
awesome and welcoming sight.
Then we were at Bob and Sherry’s
house in Steamboat Springs, and
the fun week began. We always had
a day trip or two up into the mountains complete with a picnic and Bob
always treated us to a great meal at
an equally fantastic restaurant. We,
and all of our kids have super memories of those trips. For a time, one
was actually living there and at least
one other has long wished she were
there, too.
Some years, we couldn’t go very
far so one year I got inventive and
arranged for us to go to Pine Lake
in northern Iowa which had camping facilities. We had a topper on our
pickup. It seemed an uncomplicated
task to pack up and go for a few
days, but we had no sleeping bags.
Hey, just “bring some bedding
along . . .” For five people you need
a lot of bedding. Then I put the kids’
little play cupboard and stove in the
truck topper and filled them with
groceries.
Finally, we were weighted down
and ready to go.
The trip up was uneventful. I
should say that this had been a very
rainy July. We arrived at the campgrounds and found a pleasant spot
over by the trees. After a nice walk
around the lake, we fixed supper
back at our site. About this time, Susan, 14, who was always very helpful, just sat and said, “I don’t feel
very good.” Also about that time,
a fellow camper walked up and
warned us about the raccoons that
inhabited the area. “You better tie
your food up in the tree out of their
reach,” he advised, which we did.
We bundled down for sleep, with
Loren and I under the topper on a
mattress and the kids in Grandpa’s
musty old green tent. All was quiet
until I heard something ripping and a
curious ‘whirring’ sound. “Loren!”
I shook him awake. “Something is
out there!” We peered out the topper
window and in the pole lights illumination saw coons hanging from our
food bag in the tree and bunches of
them waddling down the camp area
on their nightly haunt. Loren sat up
the rest of the night in a lawn chair to
keep the little beasts away.
Dawn came and I mixed up a nice
batch of pancakes for my hungry
family. The gas camp stove we had
borrowed from friends had a flame
that was a long way from the griddle,
so the pancake batter just sat there
for some time, without ever getting
really cooked. Then it began to rain.
We all scrambled under cover, trying
to eat. The rain stopped, so we took
another walk.
The rain began again, this time in
earnest. “Time to go home!” we said,
so we packed up.
Thirty-five miles from home, Loren, who was exhausted from fending off raccoons from his family,
asked me to drive the rest of the way
home. This was a big pickup with no
power steering with a loaded topper
on it.
“Kids,” I said, “we had better
pray, because there is no way I am
going to get us home without help.”
Those poor kids sat pretty quiet on
the big front seat the rest of the way,
but the Lord was watching over us,
as we made it home safely.
When we finally pulled in our
drive way and as I was pulling tons
of damp bedding out of the truck,
another downpour hit. We had been
gone a total of 24 hours. I took Susan
to the doctor the next day. She had
mononucleosis and was very sick for
several weeks. We called it the “raccoon vacation”. So how was yours?
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Barnes City
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2083 Hwy. 102
Richard Smith, Pastor
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1804 Burlington Road
Oskaloosa, IA 52577
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Pastor Don Job
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Of Christ
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The Pledge of Allengence was recited and the table blessing was by
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Hamilton, Mary Quillin. Serving
committee was Faye Knowler and
Debby VanderHart.
The program was Alice Gospel
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EBF Rockets Soar Past Cardinal
ELDON – The Rocket ship continues to soar high. No. 8 EddyvilleBlakesburg-Fremont flew into Eldon
to face Cardinal and used just two
innings to get the job done and win,
13-1 Friday.
Thirteen was a lucky number for
the Rockets.
Cardinal’s Lexi Fullenkamp faced
seven EBF batters without recording an out. The Rockets recorded
13 runs on 13 hits in the first two
innings, rolling to their 13th straight
win with a 13-3 victory in five innings.
EBF junior third baseman Payton
Hynick hit a single and a double to
drive in three runs. Fellow junior
Haegen Boyer ripped a pair of singles to drive in three runs as well.
Juniors Claire Jager and Teri Lane
each hit in two runners.
EBF led 13-2 and gave up just a
single run in the fourth inning to se-
BGM Downs
NM in Five
BROOKLYN – BGM scored six
runs in the bottom of the first inning and added another three in the
bottom of the fifth to shutout North
Mahaska 10-0. North Mahaska was
limited to two baserunners, juniors
Jacob Sherburne and Ryan VanDonselaar, who walked.
BGM hurler Kaiden Fiebelkorn
tossed the no-hitter for the Bears. He
walked two batters and struck out
four. The Bears pounded out 10 hits
off North Mahaska pitching.
Senior Clay Gleason took the
mound loss. He worked three innings allowing five hits and seven
runs, two earned. He walked three.
Junior Dylan Comstock finished the
game giving up five hits, walking
two and striking out one.
cure the win in five innings.
Sophomore Randie Richmond
took the win for the Rockets. The
pitching ace scattered six hits to allow three runs. She fanned a pair of
Comet batters.
EBF (24-4) will close out the season as the Rockets head to Bloomfield to face SCC rival Davis County
on Monday before single games with
No. 4 in Class 4A Oskaloosa, and
No. 9 in Class 3A Clarke. The Clarke
game will likely be for the South
Central Conference crown. They
will close out the regular season with
a non-conference doubleheader at
Burlington Friday. The Rockets will
open Class 2A tourney play July 6
when they host North Mahaska at 7
p.m.
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No. 7 EBF Shuts out
Centerville
Big First Lifts NM Past Hawks, 8-2
By RD KEEP
The Sun
North Mahaska scored four runs
in the first inning and limited Lynnville-Sully to single runs in the
final two frames to score an 8-2
South Iowa Cedar League victory
on Red Out Night Friday.
North Mahaska was able to get
the bats rolling early in the bottom
of the first inning and was able to
keep the pressure on the visiting Hawks. North Mahaska
clubbed three doubles in
the game. Sophomore
Dylan Shipley had the
hot bat and opportunity
driving in four runs on a
pair of singles. Junior Jacob
Sherburne had a single
and a double with an
RBI. Junior catcher
KC Walker had an RBI single.
Seniors Clay Gleason had a double and Jakob Bortell hit a single.
Junior Dylan Comstock hit a double.
Sherburne picked up the mound
win going 5 1/3 innings. He gave
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Junior Milan DeJong finished the
game allowing one hit, walking two
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EDDYVILLE — Freshman Reina Taylor ripped a solo homerun and junior Claire Jager hit a single and a double to drive in two runs to aid a
10-0 shutout of Centerville by the Class 2A No. 7 Eddyville-BlakesburgFremont Rocket softball team Thursday. The victory pushed their win
streak to 12 in a row.
EBF used a 15-hit attack and sophomore pitcher Randie Richmond
limited the Redettes to four hits to earn the victory. Richmond struck out
five and issued one base on balls.
EBF plated four runs in the first inning, added two in the second on junior Haegen Boyer’s RBI single. They would add four more in the bottom
of the fourth. After holding Centerville in the top of the fifth, the game
was halted by the 10-run rule.
Taylor’s solo shot was part of the fourth inning onslaught. She currently leads EBF in extra base hits with 15.
EBF will meet Clarke on Thursday in a contest slated to be for the
South Central Conference title. Clarke is ranked 13th in Class 3A in the
latest ranking.
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Chariton
SPORTS EDITOR
CHARITON — Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont began a busy week of
softball Monday with a South Central Conference game at Chariton. The
seventh-ranked Rockets had their work cut out for them with the hosts
hoping for an upset. EBF used 10 hits to get by Chariton, 8-4.
Junior Haegen Boyer delivered the biggest hit of the night for EBF,
coming to the plate in the top of the sixth with the bases loaded, two outs
and the score tied. Boyer cleared the bases with a double down the line in
left field, bringing in freshman Darian Johnson, junior Taryn Swartz and
freshman Reina Taylor to give the Rockets the lead for good.
EBF scored four runs to take a lead in the top of third. Chariton tied the
game with a pair in the third and fourth innings.
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EBF Softball Wins, 13-7
EDDYVILLE — Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont’s softball team does
not find themselves behind in games often. When they do, they seem to
find a way to come out on top. The Rockets found themselves in that position June 21 before rallying to defeat Colfax-Mingo, 13-7.
The visiting Tigerhawks got the wild affair started with four runs right
out of the box. Tigerhawk leadoff hitter Ries Wilson reached on an error to open the game and Rocket ace Randie Richmond allowed three
straight hits. Amy Russell ripped a two-run double to give Colfax-Mingo
a 4-0 lead.
EBF answered with five runs to take the lead, which they would not
relinquish. EBF built a 13-4 advantage before Russell and her team plated
three in the top of the sixth. Russell just missed hitting for the cycle, going 3-3 with a home run, four RBI and two runs scored.
Rocket sophomore Lexi Taylor opened the lead for the Rockets out to
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NM Girls Win on Senior Night, 3-2
By RD KEEP
The Sun
A win over Lynnville-Sully is
often times tough to come by. For
North Mahaska senior it has never
occurred in softball. In her final
meeting with the Hawks she scored
the winning run on senior night to
pick up a 3-2 victory.
“I have never beat them,” said an
elated Ehret just before being honored by her team as the only senior.
“She is 1-7 against them so this is
fun,” said her mother Polly Ehret.
The victory was just the third
one-run game out of nine that the
Warhawks have won. The singlerun games have not been kind to the
team.
“We didn’t have an inning tonight,” said NM coach Chris Sampson. “We usually have an inning
where we give up runs.”
Sampson and his team took chances and was aggressive on the basepaths. North Mahaska scored 25
percent of the time they were on base
(3-of-12).
Sophomore Mallor y Klin ker
continued her strong hitting with a
leadoff single in the bottom of the
second. She stole second and was
moved to third on sophomore Haley
Pinkerton’s sacrifice. With one out
sophomore Tessa Fuller singled to
bring in Klinker to tie the game at
1-1.
North Mahaska got the bats moving again in the third inning with
eighth grader Paige Layman’s single.
She was caught stealing second for
the first out. Junior Katie Koehler
drilled a double to centerfield then
scored on freshman Emma Deucore’s RBI-double.
Once agai n Ly n nville-Sully
managed to tie the game in top of
the fifth after McKinley Conover
opened the inning with a triple. A
pass ball allowed the run to score.
In North Mahaska’s half of the
inning Koehler flew out and Ehret
beat out an infield hit. A groundout
moved Ehret around and Klinker
doubled to bring home the winning
run.
“Mallory is on fire right now,”
said Sampson. “She is really hitting
the ball.”
Deucore picked up the victory
scattering six hits, walking one and
hitting on batter. She struck out
two. Carson Fisk took the loss for
the Hawks. She gave up nine hits,
walked a batter and hit one.
Ehret, Klinker and Fuller each had
two hits.
North Mahaska will close out the
regular season with a road game at
HLV Monday, home against Pella
on Tuesday, and at Colfax-Mingo
Wednesday. The Warhawks will
open Class 2A Region 3 tourney
play at No. 7 Eddyville-BlakesburgFremont on July 6.
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NM Girls Earn Split at Own Tourney
North Mahaska softball hosted
Thor own tourney June 18 and
earned a split. They fell to Pleasantville, 5-3, then toppled Twin Cedars
12-0in four innings.
North Mahaska matched Pleasantville’s first inning two runs with
two of their own runs in the bottom
of the inning. NM added another in
the bottom of the third to lead 3-2.
The Warhawks were three outs away
from victory when pitcher Emma
Deucore missed with a pitch and
Pleasantville’s Corinne Thomas delivered a ball over the right centerfield fence for a three-run homer.
The Trojans held the Warhawks in
the bottom of the inning for the win.
The second game was more favorable for the home team. North Mahaska pounded out 17 hits with three
Warhawks collecting three hits.
Junior Katie Koehler stroked a
double and two singles, sophomore
Mallory Klinker rapped a double and
two singles with five RBI, and freshman Kobi Evans hit three singles.
Deucore and senior Carly Ehret
each hit two singles. Katie Goemaat
hit an RBI-single.
Deucore picked up the win from
the circle. She gave up just one hit,
a single by Jordyn Sanders in the
third inning. Deucore stuck out six,
walked one and hit two batters.
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SIGOURNEY – North Mahaska scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning then held off a surge by the Sigourney Savages June 17 to
score a 7-4 victory. North Mahaska led 7-2 when Sigourney came to bat
in the final inning.
Senior Troy Roose hit a single and a double to drive in a run and junior
Jacob Sherburne hit a single and a double to drive three runs to propel
North Mahaska. Junior KC Walker added a pair of singles with an RBI.
Junior Milan DeJong allowed four hits to Sigourney batters. He struck
out eight and walked one to earn the victory.
Sigourney was led at the plate by junior Tanner Bos with a double to
drive in two runs. Freshmen Brett Striegel and Nick Goad had the other
two hits for the Savages.
NM Girls Edge Monte, 4-2
MONTEZUMA – Coming off a split at its own tournament June 18,
North Mahaska was looking to keep momentum going in the closing days
of the South Iowa Cedar League softball race. After a loss to Pleasantville the Warhawks rolled Twin Cedars 12-0 and was waiting for a shot at
nemesis Montezuma, a team they lost to open the season.
North Mahaska methodically dismantled Monte’s pitcher, but managed
only four runs. More importantly they held Monte to 2 and won the encounter 4-2.
Emma Deucore helped her team from the circle and the plate. She just
missed hitting the cycle. She had a single, double and a triple. Sophomore
Haley Pinkerton hit a solo homerun and two singles. Olivia Boender returned to the lineup following a mission trip and hit a single and triple to
drive in a run. Sophomore Kobi Evans hit two singles.
Deucore struck out nine and walked four batters and yielded four hits.
Monte pitcher Hanna Jones walked one and struck out four. Shelby
Helm had the leading bat for the Braves hitting two singles with an RBI.
NM Boys Split at
North Tama Tourney
TRAER – North Mahaska’s baseball team made the trip north to Traer
Saturday and earned a split on the day. The defeated BCLUW 8-3, then
fell to the hosts15-9.
North Mahaska used 10 hits, three of them doubles to drive in three
of the runs. Senior Troy Roose hit two singles and drove in runs. Juniors
Milan DeJong, Jacob Sherburne and KC Walker each hit doubles with an
RBI. DeJong and Sherburne also hit singles.
Junior Dylan Comstock picked up the mound win going the distance.
He allowed three runs on four hits, all singles. He walked two batters and
struck out one.
In the second game, North Tama scored six runs in the bottom of the
sixth and two more in the seventh for the win.
North Mahaska tied the game at 5-5 after four innings. In the fifth,
North Tama scored twice. North Mahaska retook the lead 8-7 in the sixth,
but North Tama had the two big innings to win.
DeJong hit three singles and drove in three runs and Sherburne had
two singles with two RBI to lead the North Mahaska hitting. Roose and
Shipley also had a pair of hits in the game.
Shipley took the loss tossing the middle three innings in relief of
Roose. Shipley gave up eight runs on seven hits and five walks. He struck
out one. Roose gave up seven hits and two walks. He struck out two.
Freshman Luke Groves tossed the last inning.
NM Girls Fall at BGM, 4-3
BROOKLYN – It was another one of those nights that North Mahaska
coach Chris Sampson has had to shake his following the completion of
the game. For the eighth time this season the Warhawks played another
one-run game and for the sixth time lost it falling to BGM 4-3.
“If we win those games we have the kind of season I expected,” said
Sampson. “We just seam to have one inning.”
Tessa Fuller’s single drove in two runs in the top of the sixth to account for two-thirds of the team’s runs. North Mahaska was limited to
five singles. Katie Koehler, Emma Deucore, Olivia Boender and Paige
Layman had the others.
BGM led from the start scoring twice in the first inning then adding
singletons in the third and fourth innings. Aimee Hochstetler led BGM
with a single and two RBI.
Deucore took the loss. She allowed eight hits, walked two and struck
out three.
RD Keep Photo
Carly Ehret, North Mahaska’s lone senior, was honored by teammates following their victory over
Lynnville-Sully. Ehret, center, scored the winning run. Pictured is Ehret’s mother, Polly, coach Chris
Sampson, right, and her father Steve.
NM Boys Split at Grinnell
GR I N NELL – Nor th Mahaska
stepped up the ladder in classes
to face a pair of Class 3A baseball
teams Saturday. The Warhawks fell
to Grinnell 13-5 then edged Nevada
4-3.
In the Grinnell contest North Mahaska held the early lead scoring
three times in their first at bat. Grinnell came back with a single run in
the bottom of the first. The Tigers
scored four runs in each of the third,
fourth and sixth innings.
North Mahaska picked up 10 hits
in the game, but gave up 14 hits and
13 earned runs.
Junior Jacob Sherburne had the
hot bat hitting a single and a double
to drive in two runs. Sophomore
Dylan Shipley ripped an RBI single.
Junior Milan DeJong hit three singles and scored twice.
Junior Dylan Comstock took the
mound loss. He gave up nine runs on
10 hits with three walks and a pair
of strikeouts. Junior Ryan VanDonselaar tossed the final two innings
giving up four runs on four hits with
a walk.
North Mahaska took the lead
quickly in game two scoring again
in the first at bat. The Warhawks
scored one then added a run in the
top of the fifth and two more in the
sixth. Nevada tied the game in the
second and tried to rally in the seventh scoring twice before the War-
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hawks closed the door.
Bortell hit an RBI triple and a
single. Sherburne hit two singles
and DeJong and senior Troy Roose
added singles.
Roose and DeJong limited the
Cubs to four hits. Roose was the
starter allowing three runs on three
hits and three walks. He struck out
two. DeJong yielded a hit and a
walk.
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