Graettinger Christmas Honor Roll and Weekend Events
Thirty Graettinger residents visited the public library over two months and are named on the Christmas Honor Roll. The weekend features Paint Your Wagon at Graettinger Community Theatre starring Jean Seberg and Clint Eastwood, with Lerner and Loewe musical roots. The Graettinger American Legion hosts New Year’s Eve dance by Sherie Roe and the New Valley Troubadours. Coop Grain posts a new phone number effective January 2, 1971. Sunny holidays gave way to zero-degree cold with snow from nine inches on December 10, and 10 below early Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger
Alta Resh
Brenda Blinkmann
Jay Clasing
Kristin Duus
Rhonda Frerichs
Paulette Frick
Patty Guerdet
Robert Hankey
David Hankey
Jackie Hanson
Lee Marvin
Clint Eastwood
Jean Seberg
Lerner and Loewe
The
Graettinger American Legion
the Legion Hall
Sherie Roe
New Valley Troubadours
Graettinger Classes Begin and Senior Get-Together Planned
Graettinger high school announces adult education classes start January 7 with a senior and graduate gathering at the lunchroom on Thursday December 31 at 9 o clock. The event aims to let seniors learn from recent grads about college and post graduate paths. A New Year holiday shutdown will close Graettinger stores and the post office on Friday January 1. Vicki Johnson was released from Holy Family hospital after a gun accident at home involving a .22 rifle. the child suffered non fatal wounds to both legs with no broken bones per X rays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Brockmeyer
Graettinger High School
GHS
Graettinger
Vicki
Ray Johnson
Holy Family Hospital
Johnson
Terry
Mike Masters
Kmee
Local Christmas Seal drive ends with thanks and reminders
Christmas seal chairmen thank contributors and urge late donors to send letters with their gifts. Proceeds fund research into respiratory diseases. Also announced is an adult education program in Graettinger starting January 7, with courses in art, ceramics, painting, aerobics, bookkeeping, home wiring, typing, sewing, high school equivalency and more. Navy Officer Vance W. Jensen, Graettinger native, returns to Alameda after five month Wester Pacific deployment aboard USS White Plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Christianson
Graettinger
George Twait
Vernon
Andy Truelson
Walnut
Alfred Westergam
Lost Island
Graettinger Community School
Iowa Lakes Community College
Leland Stiles
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
Stiles
Uss
White Plains
Vance W. Jensen
Kenneth R. Jensen
Iowa
Alameda
Calif
Graettinger Community School Resumes Monday Classes
Classes will resume at the regular time Monday morning January 4 at the Graettinger Community School after two weeks of holiday vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger
Year in Review: Local Headlines From 1970
A retrospective of the past year in our community from the Times highlights notable events and obituaries. It lists deaths including Wm Soper Dr Norman Osher Jack Platter and Everett Osher, weather records, auto collision fatalities involving local residents, highway repair petitions, and church guest speaker Greg Hoekstra son of Ruthven residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Soper
Norman Osher
Phoenix
Jack Platter
Wilbur Schnell
Everett Osher
Pirate Cagers
Lake Park
Greg Hoekstra
GHS
Bethel Lutheran Church
Reitz
Messiah Lutheran
Congregational
Robert Carter
James Schoning
Bethel Lutheran
Greg
Jake Hoekstra
Ruthven
Central College
Pella
Chicago Theological Seminary
Chicago
Freshmen Cagers Win At Buffalo Center
Pirate freshmen toppled Buffalo Center 51 39 on the losers court Tuesday night Dec 22. Scoring: Dawson 13 Ennen 12 Kulow 11 Millea 6 Lundgren 3 and Nicol Ferrell Lammers 2. Next Saturday the prize in the three o clock drawing is $50 in participating stores. County Hospital Board officers reelected Emmetsburg officials. Garden of ASC committee chair comments on 1971 farm programs signup March 1 to April 9 with tentative set-asides 20 percent feed grain and 60 75 percent wheat. final percentages set by March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pirate
Buffalo Center
Holly Dawson
Dave Ennen
Tim Kulow
Tim Millea
Ted Lundgren
Randy Nicol
Dave Ferrell
Dean Lammers
Joe Lynch
Mallard
Palo Alto County
U. S. Department of Agriculture
ASC
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Library
Kelly Hanson
Todd Hanson
Craig Iverson
Sue Jacobsen
Lisa Janssen
Jane Kempf
Jackie Kulow
Julie Kulow
Kathy Kulow
Sandra Loder
Lisa Luhman
Mary Beth Millen
Michelle Neilson
Brian Neilson
Paula Peton
Rhonda Reutter
Renee Reutter
Lori Schacherer
Tommie Thomson
Dan Voigt
LeRoy Westfall
Legion Hall
Coop Grain
Graettinger Coop Grain Company
Bertha Boehmer
Norman Funk
Ed Zitterich
Merle Hanson
Ted Torreson
Lyle Westfall
Alvin Petersen
Bernard Twait
Pirette
Linda Olson
Karla Petersen
Jane Hoffman
Brenda Babcock
Pat Clipperton
Jaymee Potter
Jackie Duhn
Mary Potter
Debbie Torrence
Pam Stewart
Wayne Rand
Steve Kulow
David Ennen
Kevin Stiles
Mike Heller
Tim Millen
Steve Moran
Paul Clasing
Vance Jensen
California
Tom Hampson
Filer
Idaho
Bert
Carrie) Anderson
Aberdeen
S. Dak
Wallingford
Estherville JV
Estherville
Mike Guinn
Joe Ferrell
Dave Brobst
Steve Helmich
Pat Clarken
Ray Brinkman
Greg McDonald
John Anderson
Gary Dahl
Stan Westergard
Dave Breuer
Bill
Dick Clark
Pirates
Pirette Cagers
Betty Brown
Mary Rooney
Joan Wikert
Cecelia Thomsen
Vickie Stueve
Linda Clipperton
Jan Mitchell
Barb Petersen
Debbie Duus
Kathy Wikert
Connie Tuininga
Sue Frick
Pat Schang
Rhonda Jacobsen
John Ferrell
Dave Nelson
Joe Craven
Alvin Luke
Craig Gilbaugh
Neil Lundgren
Tom Rooney
Gary Andersen
Norman Nicol
Jim Reed
Thomas Thomson
County Hospital Board Officers
Palo Alto County Hospital
Lisa
Mrs
Roy Luhman
Julie Kay
Mos
Mr. and
Mr Vincent Heller
Danny, Jr
Debra
Danny Umbrell
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