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*Five Years ago
*Bob Wedo has retired as the maintenance supervisor at the Good Samaritan Center where he has been employed since 1983.
*Frances Harnack of Postville will be celebrating her 80th birthday on Feb. 6 with an open house at St. Paul Lutheran Church.
*Postville was the winner of the Upper Iowa Conference Wrestling Meet. Placing first for the Pirates were Hector Salinas, Jordan Schlee, Lee Rowland, Mark Mueller, Brad Snitker, Tony Stumbo, Jarrod Olson.
*Ten Years Ago

Minnesota West Community and Technical College is pleased to announce that Heath Dougherty of Postville, Iowa, will be attending college at the Jackson Campus this fall in the Powerline Technology program.
Heath is the son of Pat and Darcy Dougherty of Postville.
Minnesota West Community and Technical College offers more than 60 majors in technical and liberal arts areas and has campuses in Canby, Granite Falls, Jackson, Pipestone, and Worthington, MN.

NICC
A total of 642 students have made the Dean's List for the fall term at Northeast Iowa Community College's Calmar and Peosta Campuses. Full-time students who meet or exceed a 3.5 grade point average for the fall term are named to the Dean's List. Part-time students are considered when they have accumulated an additional 12 or more semester credits and continue to be eligible for honors status each time they accumulate an additional 12 or more semester credits.
Students from Postville include:

DES MOINES -- State Sen. Mark Zieman (R-Postville) met this week with students from Northeast Iowa Community College. The students were at the Capitol with other students from Iowa's community college system to discuss various funding and policy issues that impact community colleges in Iowa.

What a great review - to a fourth grader the band may look old and certainly some of the music they play is old, but they surely don't sound old. It doesn't get any better.
      

      The Iowa Artists Art Show for Region 3 will be held March 19, 2005, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Union Gallery of Luther College in Decorah. The eight counties comprising the northeast Iowa region are Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, and Winneshiek.

      The following excerpts are exactly as published in that particular issue of the Lansing papers.
 
January 29, 1930
 
Harpers Ferry
      The ice harvest here is now completed. Boardman Bros. put theirs up Wednesday, John Quillin on Thursday and John Weidner Friday.
 

by Teela Hammell

      The Lady Hawks triumphed over the Clayton Ridge Eagles Thursday, Jan. 27 by a final score of 72-55. The competition was extreme, as both teams attempted to surpass one another.
      Throughout the first quarter the battle was close, however, by the end of the first half Kee led, 35-29.
      The war remained consistent from then on, and although the score stayed close, Kee never lost sight of victory. By the end of the fourth quarter, Kee had a significant 17-point lead.

Kruse Construction, 74
Milty's, 47
Leading Scorers:
      Kruse Construction: Dan Roach, 18 and Perry Hesse, 14. Milty's: Ben Mettille, 16 and Bob Mettille, 10.

Skyline Landscaping, 70
United Coop, 58
Leading Scorers:
      Skyline Landscaping: Matt Farley, 22 and Chad Curtin, 28. United Coop: Al Klema, 14 and Pete Berns, 13.

L & M Gas, 71
New Albin Const., 60
Leading Scorers:

      Kee High/Lansing Middle School is making plans to host a one day 3 on 3 basketball tournament for boys and girls on Saturday, March 12.
      The tournament is open to girls and boys in 4th grades through high school. Players in grades 4-8 will report at 8:45 am with games to begin at 9:00 am.
      Teams will play in round robin format or consolation games depending on number of teams. Medals will be awarded to the championship teams. Each team may have a maximum of 4 players. Participants can compete on only one team.
      Entry deadline is March 7th.