September 2019

Big plays power D-NH football past A-P (PHOTOS)

PARKERSBURG – Dike-New Hartford has the pieces in place right now to make the big play happen and take opponents out of the game at critical moments.
  
Aplington-Parkersburg doesn't have those big playmakers solidified just yet.
  
But both teams saw steps forward in the 27-7 win for the Wolverines at Ed Thomas Field last Friday night, and both teams will also be looking for ways to improve as non-district play continues in Class 1A.
  

GC/G-R boys 2nd in Eldora (PHOTOS)

ELDORA – The Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys cross country team finished second in the team standings at the Pine Lake Invitational at Pine Lake Country Club in Eldora on Thursday, Sept. 6.
  
GC/G-R scored 63 points, finishing 19 points behind team champion South Hardin, which was led by the winning time of 18:14 from Kolby Winter. BCLUW ran 5th with 142 points and Dike-New Hartford was ninth with 220 points.
  

Spartan football runs through South Hamilton, 40-6

GRUNDY CENTER – The Grundy Center football team brought physicality to the line of scrimmage against South Hamilton last Friday.
  
The Spartans clamped down on the Hawks' run-first offense and put up 415 yards of total offense in a 40-6 rout of South Hamilton at Grundy Center High School.
  
Grundy Center improves to 2-0, entering district play at home against on Friday. Several football polls in the state have taken notice and put the Spartans in their top 10 rankings in Class A as a result of Friday's dominant win.
  

73 years strong: Charter member still active in Conrad Legion Auxiliary

Darlene Reece was just 23 years old when she attended the inaugural meeting of the Conrad American Legion Auxiliary Unit 681 in 1946, and her husband Vern had recently returned from Navy service during World War II. Over seven decades later, she’s still an active member.
           
“They do things a little different (now), and there aren’t as many of us now as there were. We had quite a group before, and we could do a lot of things because there were that many,” she said. “Now, there’s just a few, and we’re all getting old. We don’t have any real young ones.”

American Lutheran Church receives mental health advocate award

GRUNDY CENTER - Recently, the American Lutheran Church in Grundy Center received a mental health advocate award for their work in helping reduce the stigma on mental health, and raise awareness of and support for mental health topics in the congregation and community.
 

D-NH student hopes to raise money for service dog

DIKE-NEW HARTFORD - One local D-NH High School student, junior Tessa Smith, is on a mission to get herself a service dog, with a little help from friends, family, classmates and the community.
 
At just 18-months old, Tessa was diagnosed with a rare disease called Ataxia-telangiectasia, or AT. AT is a progressive, degenerative disease that affects part of the brain that controls muscles and movement, leaving many who are diagnosed - including Tessa - in a wheelchair.
 

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