September 2019

CONRAD – Friday night felt familiar for the BCLUW boys basketball team.
 
Grundy Center appeared poised for another second-half rally, like the one that pushed the Spartans to a win in Grundy Center on Dec. 8.
 
Still in search of an NICL West conference win and facing a 37-30 halftime deficit to the Spartans, BCLUW head coach Luke Higgins laid it out for the Comets.
 
"I told them we can either be the team that we have been, or we can turn it around in the second half and play with intensity like we know how to play," Higgins said.
 

The Felix Grundy Days committee has booked one of the most popular cover bands in Iowa for this year’s festival, and according to chairwoman Mindy Greany, the Cedar Falls-based Pork Tornadoes are indicative of a larger push to attract more patrons to the downtown area in early July.
           
“In order for us to keep having great festivals, we have to keep bringing in bigger, better bands for Saturday night,” she said. “If we keep improving our Saturday night entertainment, we can keep making Felix better each year.”
           

“That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”- Joan Didion
           
A few months back, I wrote a column about the death of literacy in America and how the President of the United States, who can’t be bothered to decipher one page briefs and has probably never made it through a whole book other than his own, sets an example for the rest of us with his willful ignorance. Well, sometimes, you’ve got to give credit where credit is due, and today, it’s time for me to eat crow. Donald Trump has made reading Great Again.