September 2019

DIKE – Over the last trimester, a group of Dike-New Hartford students have been hard at work on a unique project that aims to solve a variety of world issues through science; and next Tuesday, they will showcase their work to the public at a Science Social.
D-NH High School Science Teacher Chelsie Slaba tasked the freshmen in her Physical Science classes with picking a world issue of their choice, and proposing a solution.

For the better part of the last two years, BCLUW Middle School science teacher Evan Ascherl has been giving orders to students. For the next few months, however, he’ll get used to taking them upon returning to his other job as a mechanic in the Air National Guard and deploying in Afghanistan.
           
“Teaching has helped me out military wise. Things aren’t always going to go your way,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve got to say you know what, today’s just not the day. We’ll come back tomorrow and get it that way, and you can’t take yourself so seriously.”
           

It’s been said that the personal is political, and the line between the two became increasingly blurry during one of Republican State Representative Pat Grassley’s listening posts at the Dike City Hall on Friday morning.
           
Jane Close, a fellow New Hartford resident who lives near Mr. Grassley and his family, castigated the representative in an empty room amidst snowy roads and frigid temperatures, accusing him of attempting to “avoid” the public with the scheduling of his meetings.
           

After reading Rob Maharry’s recent editorial regarding Iowa’s water quality and the recent bill signed by Governor Reynolds, I was troubled by many things, including the title “It has to be somebody’s fault.”  That “somebody” he alludes to is Iowa’s farmers, despite farmers leading the way in Iowa’s conservation efforts.   Before this new law and funding mechanism, farmers began adopting practices outlined in Iowa’s Nutrient (fertilizer) Reduction Strategy.