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Grundy Center, BCLUW team up to
raise money for stricken GCHS Senior
By ROB MAHARRY
The Conrad Record
CONRAD — As neighboring districts that are similarly sized, Grundy Center and BCLUW may not
have much love for each other on the
playing field. But the schools came
together for a much more important
cause in the lead-up to their football
matchup on Friday night. A friendly
competition between the districts
raised more than $4,000 for cancerstricken Grundy Center senior Hillary Samo, and Grundy Center high
school principal Steve VanderPol
got to experience the joy of kissing
a pig as the result.
BCLUW elementary teacher
Mary Ascher, whose husband is on
the Grundy Center school board,
played a key role in bringing the
idea to fruition, serving as a liaison
between the two districts. According
to BCLUW High School principal
Cari Teske, several students in her
district are friends with Samo and
wanted to do something to help her
in her time of need. The school had
raised money for charitable causes in
the past during homecoming week,
but this situation hit especially close
to home for those who knew Samo.
The National Honor Society
decided that a competition between
the two schools would be a fun way
to get involved, and BCLUW senior
Kayla Benjamin proposed the idea
of kissing a pig to Teske.
“Raising money at homecoming
made sense,” Vanderpol said.
The concept was simple: students
at the elementary and high schools
dropped change in a bucket for the
coin drive, and the principal of the
high school that raised the money
would be the one to kiss a pig
at halftime of the Grundy CenterBCLUW football game in Conrad
on Friday night.
In the end, Grundy Center High
School won by an extremely slim
margin, raising $431.03 to BCLUW’s
$430.15. The BCLUW and Grundy
Center elementary schools raised
$1,668.03 and $1,394.65, respectively, and the BCLUW Middle
School raised $397.79 for Samo.
“When we know that there are
individuals who are going through a
difficult time, we want to find support for them,” Teske said.
Due to the lightning delay during the football game, the event was
moved inside, but VanderPol still
carried out his promise.
“I don’t mind kissing a pig for the
cause,” he said. “Both communities
were doing it, and it was fun to see.
That’s what small towns are about helping out.”
Teske said that several of her
students were adamant about raising enough money to force her to
kiss the pig, but that she would have
been more than willing to do it for
such an important cause. Samo was
in attendance to watch her high
school principal smooch the swine.
“What a neat thing,” VanderPol
said.
Grundy Register editor John Jensen contributed to this story.
World explorer
reschedules Grundy County
appearances
Grundy Center Secondary principal Steve VanderPol places a
big smooch on a small pig, fulfilling his part of a bet between
the Grundy Center and BCLUW school districts. The districts
combined to raise $4,000 for the Samo family. (Photo courtesy
Gayle Vanhoose)
Renowned explorer Charlie Wittmack has rescheduled his appearances in
Grundy County.
Wittmack is the only man to attempt the World Triathlon, which consists
of a 275-mile swim down the River Thames and then across the English
Channel, an 8,875-mile bike ride from France to India, a 950-mile run from
India to the base of Mt. Everest and then a climb to the top of Mt. Everest.
Wittmack was originally scheduled to speak in Grundy Center last
spring, but had to cancel the appearance due to illness.
He is scheduled to speak to students from AGWSR, AplingtonParkersburg and Dike-New Hartford Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 8:45 to 9:45
a.m. and then to students from Grundy Center, Gladbrook-Reinbeck and
BCLUW from 10:15 to 11:15 in Grundy Center. A public appearance for
Wittmack is still being arranged.
The event is paid for with County Government Day funds. No public
funding is used to pay for the event.
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soon. “l enjoy and love doing
this.” said Titus. “I’ve covered
every corner of the state because I’m an expert, and
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has been his best advertising, and that the personal attention he can offer gets the
sales. “I do all the work myself,” saidTitus.“I don’t even
charge for estimates when I
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know what the future holds
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someone wants to control
us, they could cut off the
electricity, food supply, or
disrupt our fuel. Everyone
should have a way to heat
their home without electricity.”
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The varsity boys lead pack takes off from the finish line during Hampton-Dumont’s home meet on Thursday, Oct. 3. Pictured from
left, are: West Fork’s Peyton Twedt (588), Drew Engebretson (579), Austin Steil (585), Jacob Hansen and Hampton-Dumont’s Grant
Lehmann. (Kristi Nixon/Hampton Chronicle)
BRITT: Hancock County’s
“Freedom Rock” was delivered to
Britt. This Freedom Rock will represent Hancock County in the Freedom Rock Tour across Iowa. The
tour was inspired by the Freedom
Rock located in Greenfield, Iowa.
Artist, Ray “Bubba” Sorenson of
Greenfield, every year paints a 60+
ton boulder known as the Freedom
Rock with a new Thank You for our
nations Veterans to honor their service to the country.
Sorenson will paint Hancock
County’s Freedom Rock next spring.
iams, superintendent said. “Tonight
is about what direction do we take
from here.”
GARNER: The Garner-Hayfield
and Ventura Boards of Education
met with the chief administrator for
Area Education Agency 267 to initiate discussions on possible consolidation of the two districts.
Garner-Hayfield and Ventura are
in the second year of a two-year
whole grade sharing agreement. Seventh and 8th graders attend school at
Ventura and high school students attend classes at Garner. Both districts
maintain elementary buildings.
Both boards reviewed the current
whole grade sharing arrangement
at a joint meeting, Oct. 2 in Garner.
Board members agreed whole grade
sharing has gone well.
“Everyone has made a conscious
effort to put kids first,” Tyler Wil-
TITONKA: Titonka Savings
Bank and Boyken Insurance Agency
hosted a grand opening celebration
at their newly built facility on Main
Street Titonka last Saturday, Oct. 12.
The original structure was destroyed
by a fire on April 15, 2012. The bank
has been operating from a temporary
facility north of the new building,
and Boyken Insurance was housed
in the basement of Titonka Consolidated School for the past seventeen
months.
BUFFALO CENTER: Bethlehem Lutheran Church has called a
new pastor to the pulpit after a yearlong search. Pastor Mark Brickzin
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Goldfield, EG fire departments receive rescue tubes
By: Clae Goater
The Goldfield and Eagle Grove
Fire Departments recently received
grain rescue tubes through the GoldEagle Cooperative. Gold-Eagle donated the tubes to fire departments in
towns where they have an office.
The tubes are designed to help
rescue people who have been
trapped in grain bins. The tubes are
metal cylinders, broken into different interlocking panels. When a person is trapped in a grain bin, rescue
personnel can build the tube around
them to separate them from the bulk
of the grain.
“After you get it built around
them, you give them a bucket so
they can start digging the corn out.
Or you can use an auger to get some
of the corn out,” said Goldfield Fire
Chief Jeff Slaikeu. “Once you get it
up so far, there are handholds that
you can actually start pulling yourself up with. “
Grain bin accidents have been a
serious problem for rural communities for years. The forces involved
are staggering.
“At any of the elevators anymore,
they have to be tethered or on a harness. But that doesn’t stop them from
getting sucked in,” Slaikeu said. “I
don’t know the exact figures, but if
you go in (chest deep) they will pull
your arms out of your sockets if they
pull you out of there.”
Slaikeu has been with the Goldfield Fire Department for 30 years,
and he can only remember responding to two grain bin accidents. Both
were fatalities. Slaikeu said that the
new grain rescue tube is a vast improvement over the equipment they
were working with in the past.
“The second time … we were trying to get sheets of plywood in there
to basically do what (the rescue tube)
does, to block the corn. They don’t
lock together, so as you try to make
this circle, it’s leaking in between
them,” Slaikeu said. “Plywood is
4x8, and most of the access tubes to
these bins are pretty small. You had
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The fire department received the
equipment about two months ago.
Slaikeu wasn’t sure how much the
equipment cost, but he estimated it
was between $2,200 and $2,400.
“On these small departments,
budget’s a big thing. $2,400 is a
pretty good chunk of my budget.
It really helped, and I just hope we
never have to use it. It’s here if we
need it,” Slaikeu said. “It was nice
of Gold-Eagle to donate it to us and
all the departments. They made a
pretty substantial purchase here. “
On Sept. 1, the Goldfield Fire
Department received free training on
how to use the rescue tube through
the state. Slaikeu says that around
eight volunteer firemen were trained
to use the tube.
“I don’t think people realize how
much time volunteer firemen put in.
We gave up pretty much a whole
Sunday afternoon. It was for a good
cause,” Slaikeu said. “There’s more
and more training required every
year. It’s hard to get guys to give up
that much time. So hats off to anyone on the fire department.“
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German students return to Grundy Center
By JOHN JENSEN
The Grundy Register
GRUNDY CENTER — For the
second straight year, Grundy Center
is playing host to a group of students
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High School language arts teacher Betsy Kuecker, who is helping to
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