North Iowa to award scholarships from Sloter Trust gift
North Iowa High School will fund annual scholarships from a $2 million gift by the Ben F. Sloter Trust. The district received a $750,000 check and 160 acres of farmland valued at over $1.2 million. Recipients must show good character, citizenship, community involvement, fellowship, and a 2.75 GPA or higher.
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Ben F. Sloter
Sloter
Buffalo Center High School
Constate Builders
North Iowa
Slater
Cory Myer
North Iowa High School Guidance
Ben
Supt
Myer
North
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North Iowa Community
Ben Slater
Brian Vander Wilt
Farmers Trust and Savings Bank
Slater Trust
Cities to elect mayors and council members this November
Multiple Iowa towns Buffalo Center Lakota Rake and Thompson schedule city elections for Tuesday November 8 with mayoral seats and three council seats per community up for election. Contested Lakota council race only. Buffalo Center incumbents Armstrong Schaefer West seek reelection and Jensvold runs for vacated seat. Lakota’s Price Janssen Good Kahler seek reelection. Deb Steven seeks a seat. Rake incumbents Hagedom Joynt James seek reelection. John Brading enters. Jerry Winter not running. Thompson Mayor Johnson and councilors Willett Chapman seek reelection. Jeff Hughes vies for open council seat.
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Lakota
Buffalo Center
Troy Armstrong
Marty Schaefer
Don West
Bill Jensvold
Alroy Krall
Doug Price
Royce Janssen
Gwen Good
Pat Kahler
Deb Steven
Rake
Louise Hagedom
Robert Joynt
Mary James
John Brading
Jerry Winter
Thompson
Robert Johnson
Stacy Willett
Dave Chapman
Jeff Hughes
Arin Anderson
Beenken Hosts Taiwan Buyers at Iowa Soybean Farm
Beenken and his Beenken Family Farms east of Buffalo Center hosted the Taiwan Preferred Crushing Customers Team ahead of a two year grain purchase decision. The visit highlighted U.S. soybeans exporting to Taiwan, with talks on production costs prices and grain quality. A Taiwan goodwill mission soon signed a letter of intent to buy 103 to 110 million bushels over two years. Gov. Branstad praised the trade link as Iowa’s fifth largest export market.
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U.S
Beenken
Buffalo Center
Taiwan
CBOT
American Soybean Association
Towa Soybean Association
Asia
Lowa
Seenken
Taiwan Agricultural Goodwill Mission
Des Moines
Iowa Agricultural
Iowa
Terry Branstad
ASA
Dan
Verlaine
Nate
Joel
Seth
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Selor
Anna Skarpohl-Ost
Reese Nelson
Anna
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Brian Wollas
Charles Ost
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Mark
Kathi Nelson
Jennis
Ben F. Slater Trust
The
Buffalo Center Historical Society
Buffalo Center Community Club
Buffalo Center Tribune
UMC of
United Methodist Church of
Dan Beenken
Anthony Thang
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