6/15/11 news items

News items from the 6-15-11 issue of the on-line Ida County Courier, www.idacountycourier.com

Odebolt PEO names scholars
     Each year, Chapter DS, P.E.O. of awards scholarships to one recipient from O-A/BC-IG and one from East Sac County High School. This year’s recipients of the $500 Achievement Awards were O-A/ BC-IG’s Kenzee Cranston, daughter of Lee and Mindee Cranston of Odebolt, and East Sac’s Courtney Bostwick, daughter of Lyle and Lorie Tegels of Lake View.
    The graduates and their mothers were honored guests at a P.E.O. meeting at the home of Kathy Larson on June 9.

Host to highlight country schools at O-A banquet
     Many members of the community have contributed time, stories, photos and memorabilia to a three-part Rural Legacy Project to preserve area rural schools and their histories.  During the Odebolt Creek Days celebration, the community will get a look at the first part of the project, which is the book, “Iowa’s Rural School System: A Lost Treasure.”
     Proceeds from the book and community contributions will help fund the next two steps of the project, which are to preserve and rebuild Richland #1 rural school into a first-class museum on rural schools that will feature memorabilia and histories of other rural schools from Cook, Richland and Wheeler Townships.
     The 286-page, colorillustrated book ($30) is based on five years of research and was written by Sandra Kessler Host. Host grew up on a farm north of Odebolt and attended Richland #1 School before it closed.
     The book documents how two-thirds of Iowa was settled and the key role that rural schools played that few know about. The settlement pattern is illustrated with photos and artifacts from Sac County, Richland Township and Richland #1 School as examples, but the same pattern was repeated thousands of time throughout central and western Iowa.
     Host is the featured speaker at the all-alumni banquet Friday, June 17, at Odebolt-Arthur Community School. She will tell about her journey that resulted in the book and working with so many dedicated people from the Odebolt area that share the dream.
     The book will be available for purchase after the banquet as well as Saturday at the pancake breakfast and later at the Odebolt Community Center.
     Additional contributions to the Rural Legacy Project will be accepted. Call Carol Raasch at 712-668-4285 for more information or questions

Help us celebrate
Shirley Hemer's 80th birhtday! 
Please send a card: 6313 Hwy175, Arthur, IA 51431. 
We love you, Mom/Grandma

NOTICE
     As different issues arise and changes to the Odebolt- Arthur School District occur, it is possible that questions come to mind that the citizens of Odebolt and Arthur may need answers to from a school board member.
     I would like to extend an invitation to any and all community members of the Odebolt-Arthur School District to join me as I will be in the conference room at the Odebolt school from 12 to 1 every weekday or any time by appointment to suit your schedule. Bring your questions and an open mind and I will be glad to have a conversation.  - Paul Neumann

Death Notice:
     Vincent Miller passed away June 12, 2011, in Southern Pines, N.C.  Vincent was born in Arthur Iowa, on April 4th 1922 to the late John and Clara Miller.
    Survivors include a son, Vincent Jr. and his wife, Gail; two granddaughters; one greatgranddaughter; a brother, Donald Miller of Odebolt; and three sisters: Frances Vaughan and Ruth Roeder, both of Arthur, and Florence Wunschel of Ida Grove.
OBITUARY

Odebolt Swimming Pool is open for the season.
This year’s lifeguards are: Cheyanne Marron, Anna Dewey, Jacob Olson, Jeff Marron, Whitney Simonson, Beth Stangl,Jessica Neumann, Kellyanne Gunderson, Kendra Wunschel, Courtney Schnuckel, Colton Hemer, Jack Pingle, Evan Salmon, Callie Schroeder and Rachelle Duff. Pool Manager is Tyler Schroeder.

News Items from other sources

Father Hemann releases new instrumental CD

Oasis is the title of a new CD recently released by Father David Hemann, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Ida Grove, Our Lady of Good Counsel in Holstein and St. Martin Church in Odebolt.  Read the story

Motorcycle Accident
   Jeffrey Roth, 38, a Wall Lake, Iowa, man received serious injuries Saturday evening after the motorcycle he was driving flipped into a ditch south of Odebolt. Roth was transported to Horn Memorial Hospital by Odebolt Ambulance, then airlifted to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City with serious injuries.  Story at Sioux City Journal