9-14-11 Ida County Courier / Odebolt news

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O-A/BC-IG makes homecoming plans

     Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek- Ida Grove students are gearing up for homecoming activities Sept. 19-23. This year’s theme is “The Boys of Fall.”
     The homecoming parade will be Thursday, Sept. 22, beginning at 6 p.m., and runs east on Second Street, then south on Main Street to Fourth Street. Parade staging will begin at 5:30 p.m.  Parking will be prohibited along the route from 5-7 p.m.
     Coronation will be Thursday at 7 p.m. in the high school gym, followed by super class night activities at 8 p.m. Games will include frozen t-shirt contest, inner tube race, Paul Revere race, football throw and class pyramids, followed by a pep rally.
     Dress-up days will be: Monday–nerd day; Tuesday– action figure/Barbie doll day; Wednesday–college game day; Thursday–animal safari day; and Friday–spirit day.
      Friday activities include powderpuff football at 2 p.m., the homecoming game versus South Central Calhoun at 7 p.m. and homecoming dance with DJ Eric Wells from 9 p.m. to midnight. Cost for the dance is $3 a person or $5 a couple. Students will be voting on homecoming royalty candidates this week.

School museum: Greg Neville Construction crews have dug the footings and poured the foundation for the Rural Legacy Project’s plan to move the Richland #1 school building to the vacant lot on Second Street in Odebolt adjacent to the Greenspace Park. Tentative plans are to move the building this fall, install electricity and begin the interior work this winter. Sac County Endowment and the Gil and Barbara Renze Foundation Grants are funding part of the work. The building will be a museum dedicated to the rural development of Iowa and its communities, which centered round the many rural school districts. (Photo submitted)