September 2019

Downtown street lights to be replaced this summer

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GRUNDY CENTER —Downtown Grundy Center will receive a face lift this summer with new street and traffic signal lights replacing aging structures along G Avenue and some side streets.
    Public Works Director Dan Bangasser said the work will begin early in June and will include replacement of the lights as well as relocation of  overhead power lines under the streets.

Superintendent search takes turn

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GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center School Board had high hopes of knowing who the District’s new superintendent would be last week. Instead the Board is reassessing its options after neither of the two finalists it interviewed last Tuesday took the position.
    Board President Bob Johanns said the Board made an offer to one of the two finalists. That individual opted not to accept the Board’s offer, while the other finalist withdrew his name from consideration. Johanns declined to name the individual the Board offered the job to.

D-NH High School first in Iowa to earn Safe School recognition

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    DIKE — Students and teachers at Dike-New Hartford High School have something extra to celebrate as they near the end of the 2013-14 school year. The school learned late last week that it has become the first school in the state to be awarded  certification as a safe school through the Safe School Certification Program.
    The program recognizes work over the past two years by the school to proactively address bullying.

GCHS alumnus turned golf pro to lead new Grundy Center Golf Academy

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GRUNDY CENTER — Kyle Olson has great memories of junior golf in Grundy Center. He has memories of making the varsity team as a freshman … of traveling the state with his coach, Dennis Dirks, to compete in junior golf tournaments throughout the state … and of falling in love with the sport.
    That love of golf became a career for Olson, who has gone on to become the first assistant golf professional at Highland Woods Golf & Country Club in Bonita Springs, Fla.
    And he also never forgot his roots.

Frank E. Geiken

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Ruth A. Freeburg

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Ruth A. Freeburg, 61, of Marshalltown, formerly of Traer, passed away May 15, 2014, at the Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown. Funeral services will be held Sunday, May 25, at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown at 12:30 p.m. with refreshments to be served after the service. Burial will be at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Grundy Center with Military Rites being conducted. Memorials may be directed to the family. Condolences may be left at www.overtonservice.com.
 

Darla Dekker Noble

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Darla Dekker Noble, age 74, of Aplington  Darla went to be with her Lord and Savior on May 3, 2014, at Unity Point Health – Allen Hospital in Waterloo, from natural causes.

Walter Johnson Stock

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Walter Stock passed away April 17, 2014, in Waterloo at the age of 87. No memorial service is planned at this time. Interment will be at the Morrison Cemetery at a later date.
 

Faith Engelkes

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Faith Engelkes, formerly of Grundy Center and Cedar Falls, passed away March 22, 2014, in Albuquerque, NM. There was be a memorial service for both Faith and Jim Engelkes at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Grundy Center on May 14.

Sandra Steingrabe

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Sandra Steingrabe, 71, of Indianola, also lovingly referred to as “The Tomato Lady” by her many farmers’ market customers passed way at home on April 26, 2014. A memorial service was held May 4 at Caldwell Raddatz Funeral Home & Crematory, Urbandale.
 

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