September 2019

    GRUNDY CENTER — Rick Schupach had one final thing he wanted to do as a physical education teacher in the Grundy Center Community School District. After 27 years, teaching at the long-gone Lower Elementary, recently-shuddered Upper Elementary and the current Grundy Center Elementary, Schupbach returned to his class one final time to teach what had become a highlight of his week ... one final SOS class with a group of fourth-graders.

    Thanks to the generous contributions of parents, alumni, friends and businesses during the Grundy Center Community School District Foundation’s fundraising campaign this past spring and generous memorial gifts in honor of TJ Heronimus, the Trustees were able to award thirteen grants to faculty members totaling $13,317.78 for the 2015-16 school year. The grant awarded were as follows:
    • Subscription to Upfront magazine for grades 9-12 which supplements nonfiction reading into the English curriculum covering all core areas of study;

GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy Center’s elected officials may soon be getting a raise.
    Monday the Grundy Center City Council passed the first reading of a measure that would raise compensative for both council members and the mayoral position for the first time in more than 25 years.
    Council members have received a base salary that equates to $1,000 per year and the mayor has received $2,700 per year since the last salary increase in 1989.

Jennifer L. Dittmer, 46, of Ackley died October 24, 2015, at the Hansen Family Hospital in Iowa Falls. Memorial services for Jen were held October 31 at the First Baptist Church in Grundy Center with Pastor Nathan Barkley officiating.  Visitation was held one hour prior to her memorial service at the church on Saturday.  Burial will be held at a later date.  Online condolences may be made to the Dittmer family at www.abelsfuneralhomes.com.