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K.C.'s here to contribute to Mexican fund
The quote of members of the local Knights of Columbus for the Mexican fund of a million dollars being raised by the order in the United States, has been fixed at $1.50 per member.
This fund is to be used to educate people in this country regarding the Mexican situation to help the Mexican people where possible and tender aid to the priests, nuns and others who have been driven from Mexico by religious laws. The fund is to be spent as directed by the supreme board of directors.
1941
City booklet is published
Commercial club boosts community; Evans is secretary
A booklet continuing innumerable pictures and descriptive matter about Webster City has been published by the Commercial club. It is being distributed to various business houses Wednesday, David B. Evans, secretary, announced.
Part of the booklet is given over to the non-commercial advantages offered in Webster City, while the rest pertains to leading industrial and commercial firms of the community.
The center double page layout shows an aerial view of the residential and business sections, while other views show the county hospital and the fairgrounds and sewage disposal plant.
1966
Belmond funds will be spent in relief work
Every cent of funds collected for the Belmond Disaster Relief funds will go directly to Belmond for use in rehabilitation and relief work in that community, it was reiterated today by Mrs. Florence Ades, executive secretary of the Hamilton County Red Cross Chapter.
There have been some erroneous reports, some of which have claimed that the American Red Cross would be taking 75 percent of the funds," Mrs. Ades said. "These are absolutely untrue as every penny contributed to the Belmond relief fund will be utilized in that community."
"In addition, the American Red Cross will be spending many times that amount to speed rehabilitation and recovery of the tornado-hit community."
1971
Archbishop to lead in observance
Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its formation Sunday, Oct. 31 with a 4 o'clock Mass in the church and a two hour reception in the church hall.
Archbishop James J. Bryne will be the principal celebrant of the mass, along with former pastors, former associate pastors and priests of the immediate area. These will include Monsignor Daniel A. Gorman of Peosta, Monsignor A.A. Halback of Delhi, Father Bernard G. Collins of Mason City and Father Linus Rasing of Saint Ansgar
1991
Conservationist earns award
Jean Eells, Environmental Education coordinator for the Hamilton County Conservation Board, was recently named "Conservation Educator of the Year" by the Iowa Wildlife Federation. She was nominated by colleagues in the state and by local teachers.
Eells received the award for her leadership in environmental education in Iowa as she has served on various state boards and committees during recent years. The award also recognizes her accomplishments locally of designing a program which reaches a higher percentage of students annually than other county environmental education programs in Iowa. Eells has also instigated a recycling education program which serves as a model for the rest of the state.
Currently, Eells serves on the Executive Board of the Iowa ASsociation of Naturalists, as Vice President of Education for the Iowa Recycling Association on the REAP (Resource Enhancement and Protection) Conservation Education Program board and is a member of a committee for the Department of Education to develop an environmental education curriculum framework for Iowa.
SH students go to weather school
Pam Daale, meteorologist at WOI-TV in Ames, spent the morning at South Hamilton Elementary School Thursday where she spoke about weather with the first and third graders. That school has received a "Weather School" computer program the station is giving away and Daale visited the school as a preface to the classes working with that at the elementary computer lab.
1996
School board ponders ponders value of basic tests
The testing and grading system used to monitor students progress in the Webster City schools is an issue that the Webster City School Board has recently begun to address.
On Monday evening, the board held it's first forum to discuss the many issues that arise when dealing with the topic of monitoring student progress.
To give insight on the issue, Superintendent Dennis Bahr said, "One of the things on the Professional Growth Plan that the board wanted me to look into was that of testing. How do we know we have a good school? Everybody says we have a good school, but how do we know? It's a hell of a question and I think we, as an educational family, have avoided the questions for a long time.