September 2019

When it's time, it's time

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As strange as it sounds, I thought of my late grandmother while I was watching and live streaming the demolition of the former First Baptist Church in Grundy Center on Monday afternoon.
           
Geraldine Heller lived to be 89 before she passed away in 2011, but anyone who knew her, including her three daughters (one of whom is my mother) would tell you that the last few years were painful, to say the least. You see, like Ronald Reagan, Norman Rockwell, Glenn Campbell and millions of other Americans, Grandma Gerry had Alzheimer’s disease.
           

Bangasser, Spartans win big at home sectional meet

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Jake Bangasser never lets a bad swing or two get him down. Fresh off of a triple bogey on hole five of the back nine at a Class 1A sectional meet Friday afternoon, the Grundy Center junior took a deep breath, relaxed and played one over golf the rest of the way on his home course en route to a score of 81 and a team title that will allow the Spartans to advance to districts in Mason City.
           

BCLUW's Dolphin named NICL West Meet MVP

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   STATE CENTER – Troy Dolphin of the BCLUW boys’ track and field team received Most Valuable Performer honors after the North Iowa Cedar League West Meet at West Marshall High School on Thursday.
   BCLUW finished fourth as a team with 94 points, three points behind Grundy Center with 97 in third. AGWSR scored 114 points as the best area team finish of the night, while Gladbrook-Reinbeck was sixth in the team standings with 43 points.

Ex-employees allege culture of negligence at Wolf Creek Child Care

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 Amidst an ongoing criminal investigation into former director Dana Brown, at least five former employees of Wolf Creek Child Care and Preschool in Conrad have charged that Brown routinely neglected her duties and that the facility’s board of directors failed to adequately address complaints.
           

A day in the life: a Dietitian at GCMH

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I’m not sure how many people know this, but my mom is a dietitian, which probably leads you to your next question: shouldn’t you be skinnier? You’re right, I should be, and I was once. I also shouldn’t drink two or three Mountain Dews a day, but I do because I’ve never been a coffee guy—and this is America, after all.
           

Altmayer pleads not guilty, trial set for July

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The Ankeny man charged in connection with a pair of attempted child enticements in the Dike area last summer has entered a written plea of not guilty, and his Grundy County trial is tentatively set for July.
           

Childers opens new salon in Wellsburg

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Ashley Childers has lived in Wellsburg since she was eight years old, and now she can say that she works here, too: last week, she opened Ashley’s, a new hair salon located at 403 North Adams Street.
           
Prior to embarking on her latest endeavor, Childers, who attended Timothy Christian School, was dual-enrolled at Grundy Center High School and graduated from the Iowa School of Beauty, was commuting to Marshalltown, where she was a stylist at Headliner.
           

BCLUW, Hawkeye partner for STEM week

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Virtual reality pretty much allows students to do anything these days: dissect a cat, tear down an engine, learn about wiring or perform a medical procedure, to name a few. Students at BCLUW, in partnership with Hawkeye Community College, worked in a “STEMi” truck that sat outside of the middle school in Union last week and got a taste of the future of technology in the process.
           

April 13, 2017

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