West Bend Journal (Newspaper) - April 13, 2000, West Bend, Iowa VOLUME cxxxi Aprit 2OOO NUMBER 15 WEST ARD STUDENTS SCIENCE AT EXPO Pictured above Front row Luke Robert Back row Nick Valerie Some of Iowas best and bright est students will be filling the Scheman Building in at the Adventures in Supercomputing exposition on April This expo sition showcases student projects that explore scientific issues using tech Over and high school students from 13 Iowa schools will participate in the of the planned projects in clude Shark Population Antibiotic The For mation of a and tic Ozone Adventures in Supercomputing AiS is an innovative national pro gram aimed at integrating technology YOU CANT RUN AWAY FROM THE LORD On April fifteen el school and middle school youth will present the musical play You Cant Run Away From the Lord during the worship service at the West Bend United Methodist This play is based on the story of Jonah from the Sue Bogue and Donna Bonstetter are di recting the The public is invited to into middle and high school class The program provides cur and support establishing unique computing AiS classes challenge to choose a problem and solve it using advanced computer Students work in research their program math models to solve the prob and present their work via a technical display and presen tation at the Other schools participating be sides West Bend Mallard are Cedar Davenport Fort Madi North North Postville High Schools and Wood bine Middle Luke project is ChiPs 99 Studying the Thermal Ex in Modern Ballistics The Analysis of a Projectile is being shown Nessen and Robert Valerie Jergens is the The exposition 2 and is open to the The awards ceremony begins at 2 and is highlighted by a presentation by Mike former AiS student and current ISU computer engineer ing Dorman discuss ISUs solar BOGUE APPOINTED PASTOR OF DYSART UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Iowa United Methodist Bishop Charles Jordan has announced the appointment of the Donald Bogue of West Bend as pastor of the Dysart United Methodist Church ef July He will follow the Donald who will be pas tor of Union Park United Methodist Des Bogue is currently pastor of the United Methodist churches of West 4TH AT STATE Bend and Mallard where he has been for the past eight he has served United Methodist churches in the Iowa communities of Sioux and A native of South Bogue is a graduate of Grinnell and the Union Theological Seminary in New Bogue and his have two grown PONY EXPRESS TO BE IN TOWN April 21st Pony Express Riders will be coming through West Bend ap proximately 10 Good April 21st Cans have been placed in various places in town please give Remember the Pony Express Riders We Ride So Crippled Children Can SCHOOL SPRING Sarah 4th place winner in Free Throw contest is pic tured with Ed representative of the Knights of The Knights of Columbus is ex cited to announce that Sarah Eoriatti of West Bend has placed 4th at State KC Free Throw contest held March Sarah had won the district and regional and contest to place her self at the State Competition were she finished Our congratulations go out to Sarah for her accomplish FOR MAY 3RD The High School Music Depart ment will present a Spring Concert on Wednesday May 3rd at in the high school Groups performing will be con cert concert jazz band and selected Featured in the program will be large group con test to be performed on May WEST BEND ECONOMIC DEW LOOKS TO THE FUTUI SEE IOWA STATE BANK AD ON PAGE The West Bend Economic Devel group has been spending a considerable amount of time recently examining the economic situation in West Bend and surrounding It is a goal of Economic Development to form a committee of interested par ties who are willing to put forth the time and effort to not only serve ex isting businesses but to assist in the development of new This com will meet periodically to brain storm research grants and fund and begin forming a network to promote West The revitalization committee was recently approached by the Board of the Mallory House in The board is looking for a place to move the Mallory collection and thought that West Bend might be interested in purchasing After much discus sion and the revitalization committee presented a proposal to the Mallory House The board has decided to sell the collection rather than try to keep it in While that decision was the committee had come up with some other ideas during their discussion of the Mallory House At this we are planning to do a bility study regarding the construc tion of new We also have an other business idea related to tech nology that we will be working on in the next several The com will be making a trip to Iowa this com munity built a motel which running successfully for three Because of the similarities between the two the committee felt the trip would be worthwhile and answer many questions about build ing a The committee is very excited about these new business possibilities and plan to use the study to investigate additional opportuni ties for grants and Watch the Journal for additional information on these We are facing declining population in Northwest Iowa conse are looking at declining en in our area The re vitalization committee believes that the answer to this growing problem will be in seeing the possibilities for economic growth already existing in our community and in being open to and aware of business opportunities in the larger Please feel free to contact a member of Economic De velopment if you have suggestions or ideas that will help ou in this pro Please see Iowa State Bank ad on page S about the Town Please plan to See page c INDUCTED INTO HONOR SOCIETY Jeremy Leman son of Dale and Lezlee Leman was recently inducted into the National Honor Pictured above is Lindsey Jeremey and Robert WEST BEND ELEVATOR COMPANY AWARDS TWO QUALITY SERVICE SCHOLARSHIPS and is currently a junior at Iowa State He is enrolled in the Ag Business program This year West Bend Elevator Company had several candidates from all across their trade area provide essays Why I selected agriculture as my Finalists were then interviewed by the Scholarship which consisted of two location managers and the marketing man The Board of Directors Presi dent was also a member of the com Prospective scholarship candidates must be a high school se or college student whose family resides within the trade Recipients must enroll or be enrolled in an agricultural curriculum at an accredited university or trade Our congratulations go out to Pamela and Kyle and we wish them the best of success in their future en Pamela Kramer West Bend Elevator Company is pleased to announce the recipients of our scholarship program for the year Pamela Kramer from Algona is the daughter of Alan and Jean Pamela will graduate from Bishop Garrigan High School in May Kyle Patrick Auten and will attend Ellsworth Community College this She will enroll in the 2 year transfer program Kyle Patrick Auten from Mallard is the son of Val Dean and Karen Kyle graduated from West Bend Mallard High School in 1997
