September 2019

PARKERSBURG — Northwest Iowa group Preservation of Rural Iowa Alliance held a community meeting in efforts to stop the Rock Island Clean Line proposal last Monday (Nov. 25).
More than 120 area citizens gathered just three days after RICL’s informational meeting at the Grundy Center Community Center.
Residents from Ackley, Aplington, Alexander, Parkersburg, Grundy Center, Hudson and plenty more petitioned against the private company installing a 375-mile high voltage transmission line through northern Iowa.

    GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy Center residents will not be getting a holiday bonus from the city in January. Instead they’ll be getting higher water rates.
    Monday the Grundy Center City Council passed an ordinance to raise water rates 5 percent, passing on an increase in rates the city pays to Central Iowa Water.
    Public Works Director Dan Bangasser said the rates for minimum water usage would increase from $11.61 to $12.22.
    Bangasser added that Grundy Center’s last water rate increase came in 2009 and that it also had an increase in 2008.

DIKE — One of the most difficult things for families to talk about is the loss of a loved one. If that loved one took their own life, the subject becomes even more difficult.
Robin Plocher, an after-care specialist with Engelkes-Abels Funeral Homes, recently hosted an event to help those families learn how to cope with their grief.
Earlier this year, Plocher attended a class about suicide grief at the Center for Loss and Life Transition in Boulder, Colo., and came home wondering what she could do to help those who have been through such difficult times.

Former AGWSR standout Macy Ubben, a senior at the University of Northern Iowa, has been named the Missouri Valley Conference's (MVC's) Defensive Player of the Year. Ubben earned first-team All-MVC for the second time in her career. She finished the regular season eighth in the MVC in points per set with 3.50. She led the Panthers in kills with 2.97 per set and was second on the team in digs with 3.37 per set. Ubben was also named MVC Scholar-Athlete first team this season for the second time in her career.