Malvern MCS Final Month Calendar of Year End Activities
Malvern Community Schools publish a calendar of year end events. Activities span May 6 to May 29 including senior tests, district and state track meetings, drama, music concerts, assemblies, graduations, a baccalaureate, commencement, athletic banquets, and awards. Some events require admission fees at various venues.
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Malvern Community Schools
Nishna Valley
Old Creamery Theatre
Blackhawkette
Minneapolis
Omaha
Myrick the Magician
Stanton
FFA
Waterloo
Weather Ups and Downs From Happy Hill Forecast
The local forecast shows a capricious week with alternating warmth and cool spells and some unexpected winds. A touch of frost appeared in low areas Monday morning, but little precipitation is expected overall. The Happy Hill record notes these fluctuations and the mild overall dry trend.
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Happy Hill
Nishna Valley Class of 1976 Graduation and Baccalaureate
The Nishna Valley High School plans a sixteenth annual commencement for 38 seniors next Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the gym auditorium complex with Rev. Robert Bartlett giving the invocation and benediction. Principal Donald Lee will announce valedictorian and salutatorian, five seniors will give addresses, and diplomas will be presented by Board President Russell Smith. The high school band under Maestro Jim Bawden will play processional and recessional. The Class of 1976 names include Jerry R Adams and Michael D Bienfait among others. Baccalaureate services are set for Sunday May 9 at 8 p.m. with cantatas and sermons by Rev. James Kunce.
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Nishna Valley Community High School
Robert Bartlett
Gary Smith
Donald Lee
Norman Lawin
Debra 5. Sandquist
Julie A. Lawin
Bret A. Schroeder
Roger A. Shaw
Gary F. Smith
Connie D. Sobbing
Stephen M. Sowers
Michael L. Stille
Tim L. Angry
Peggy Hastings
Dennis Brechbill
Pitoni
Butler
James Kunce
Butterflies Are Free to Entertain Malvern Audience Friday
Malvern sees Old Creamery Theatre Company present Butterflies Are Free at 8 p.m. Friday in the high school gym with Rich Burk as Don Baker and Kathryn Drury as Jill Tanner. The show is part of a three show community series. other Friday events include a 10 a.m. performance of A Dandy Yankee Doodly Do and a mime workshop Saturday morning. Hosts include local residents Allen O'Dell Wortman Jessie Wearing Bill Baer and Steven Palmquist families.
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Steve Palmquist
MCS
Creamery Theatre Company
Drama Club
Leonard Gershe
Don Baker
New York City
Jill Tanner
Jill
Don
Rich Burk
Kathryn Drury
Rita Davies Berendes
Daryl Johnson
Ralph Austin
Creamery
Malvern Community School
Old Creamery Theatre Company
OCTC
Malvern
Allen O'Dell
Allen Wortman
Jessie Wearing
Bill Baer
Steven Palmquist
Audubon
Bernie Saggan to speak at Malvern booster athletic fete
Bernie Saggan executive secretary of the Town High School Athletic Association will headline the Malvern booster club event at the school gym. A 7 p.m pollock supper opens the evening with rolls and beverages provided. The banquet honors seventh through twelfth graders involved in football basketball track and summer baseball and softball for girls and boys and mentors. The Fan of the Year Award will be presented by Richard Henderson. Saggan, longtime Iowa high school athletics overseer since 1967, is a Buena Vista graduate with a Master’s from the University of Montana and current Big Eight basketball officials supervisor.
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Bernie Saggan
The
Town High School Athletic Association
Malvern
Booster Club
Richard Henderson
Saggan
Iowa
Buena Vista College
University of Montana
Mills County Joins Census Plan To Create Three Tracts
Mills County will be divided into three census tract districts under a MAPA plan approved May 3 by the county board. Eastern tract covers Anderson Silver Creek Indian Creek and White Cloud townships. western tract covers remaining townships east of US 275. Glenwood forms the third tract. Projections show population rise to about 15 300 by 2000 from 11 832 in 1970, with Glenwood expected to gain the most.
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Mills County
Metropolitan Areas Planning Agency
MAPA
Board of Supervisors
Anderson
Silver Creek
Indian Creek
White Cloud
Glenwood
Statistical Areas Committee
Malvern
Emerson
Hastings
Henderson
Silver City
Pacific Junction
Tabor
Henderson Bicentennial celebration honors leaders amid tragedy
A large Henderson crowd welcomed Minnie Allensworth and Mayor Bill Harbor as they received the Bicentennial flag and certificate. tragic tractor overturn killed Wagon Wheel Saddle Club head Jack Smith of Macedonia, canceling a pageant but future performances planned. Dinner supported Little League, and a new park with a flagpole was dedicated. Dorothy Buckingham represented the State Bicentennial Commission and memory flags were unveiled for Robert Allensworth.
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Henderson
Minnie Allensworth
Bill Harbor
Mills County
Jack Smith
Macedonia
Wagon Wheel Saddle Club
U.S
Art Fritcher
Allensworth
Senior Citizens Organization
Mayor Harbor
Dorothy Buckingham
Carson
Robert Allensworth
Howard Allensworth
Jim Campbell
Mmes
Arthur
Merriam Kadel
Denlinger Post
American Legion
Robert Byers
Neva Slump
Nishna Valley
Local thieves raid Malvern stores in early morning break-in
Malvern reports show break-in spree by unknown thieves Tuesday night at Bucky's Bar Erma's Worry and Waller Transfer. About $200 taken with minor damage. Waller Transfer shows rear window entry, office door jimmied, safe cracked with crowbar and sledge hammer, about $100 stolen, rest scattered. no mention of high-value radios.
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Malvern
Charles McClure
Bucky
Erma
Waller
Wallers
NV Musicians Shine With I Ratings At State Contest
The Nishna Valley School Music Department earned I ratings for the Boys Chorus Girls Chorus Mixed Chorus and Concert Band at the State Large Group Contest in Sidney. The band then traveled to Worlds of Fun in Kansas City for a national festival while fifth through seventh graders performed at Henderson’s Bicentennial flag ceremony. Separately burglaries at Waller Buckner and Erma’s yielded cash losses with police investigating and clues listed by Marshal McClure.
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Nishna Valley
Sidney
Highlands
Peg Hastings
James Bawden
Iowa
Kansas City
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Texas
Henderson
Tracy Ryan
George M. Cohan
Spring Fling Concert Delights Malvern High School Tonight
The Malvern Junior and Senior High School Music Department presents its annual Spring Fling at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym. The program features state contest groups including saxophone and clarinet quartets, mixed doubles, girls sextet, Joel Waymire and Tim Bedsworth duet, plus Junior High Band and Chorus and Senior High mixed chorus and band. Attire is informal with boys in leisure suits or sport coats and girls in dresses.
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Malvern
Joel Waymire
Tim Bedsworth
Malvern Bands Shine at Sidney Meet With Top Ratings
Malvern mixed chorus earned a Division I superior rating at the State Large Group Music contest, outshining earlier efforts despite 20 freshmen among 48 performers. The senior band received a Division II excellent rating, with “Quesada” and other pieces performed. near-term promise shown as 21 of 44 members are freshmen. Special thanks to accompanist Bill Gilbert.
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Tracy Ryan
MCS
Eugene Butler
Jerry Nowak
Richard Snoeck
Choralia
John Cacavas
Bill Gilbert
Henderson bicentennial ceremony marred by tragedy
Henderson marked its bicentennial with a noon ceremony led by the Nishna Valley junior band under Tracy Ryan and a community women's chorus. A 51 year time capsule was buried in a park vault containing Henderson's history, officials, donors, park plans, prices, the day’s program, and a Bicentennial token. Carroll Phillips read Henderson’s history while James Paul delivered the American Creed. Special guests included Larry Brandstetter of Red Oak and Ray Walton from Tom Harkin’s Council Bluffs office. Rev. Fred Coggburn gave the benediction.
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Nishna Valley
Tracy Ryan
Henderson
Carroll Phillips
James Paul
Mr. Harbor
Larry Brandstetter
Red Oak
Ray Walton
Tom Harkin
Council Bluffs
Fred Coggburn
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Brenda Finchem
Robin Jessen
Chantry
Booster Athletic
Oe Naa Eesti
Sidney I
Raymond Waller
Bucky's
Marlin Buckner
Erma’s
Marshal McClure
Mills County Sheriff's Office
McClure
Bill
State Bicentennial Commission
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