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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1972
Page
1
The Wildwood group impressed locals with a free Saturday night street dance during the Fall Festival. Mostly local youth provided some of the festival’s finest entertainment and will play other engagements in the area. Members include Bob Van Dorin, Steve Matkovich, Dennis Bolin, and Jeff Paxton.
The Union reports subscription renewals and listener notes from Mrs. Harold Hoffman of Marion Indiana and Mrs. Lloyd Rose of Longmont Colorado. Hoffmans praise Alaska trip. Roses urge continued hometown news and note Longmont’s population growth from 16 000 in 1966 to 27 000. Also mentions pleasant weather, fall colors, and new snow. Clarence Stauber of Hoxie Kansas shares surgery and wheelchair life. Local farming shows corn chopping and soybean combines progressing. Mt Pleasant area reports fields being harvested. Whister and Davis Construction nears completion of sewer lagoons at town edge. fencing and seeding to follow with control gates pending.
Dale Caris, longtime Sioux City music director, leads 80 Special Education students in the Music Makers Brass Band across Iowa and beyond. The group, built from eight schools, performs locally and at state conventions, with recent trips to Minneapolis and national attention from educators and Rotary. He emphasizes learning by ear, trumpet focus, and gradual instrument advancement, earning statewide honors as a changing, celebrated educator.
The record lists winners across age groups 14 to 16 and under 14 in categories from dress to baked goods. Names include Becky Horn Pamela Gladfelder Diana Kelley Marsha Koffman Lori Horn Vicki Horn Cindy Rogers Elaine Rogers Rhonda Dowd Danette Rogers Jane Zajec Peggy Pettibone Pam Murphy and others with first and second places noted in diverse crafts and desserts.
Dale, a trumpet player, works with his own classroom groups, guiding practice with enthusiasm. He tells students to slow down and repeat. As he leaves, many students, band members and hopefuls, offer to carry his horn case and talk about the band’s growing respect.
Sunday callers with Zola Saum included Mrs. Zelma Cushman and Mrs. Irma Winan of Centerville. Mrs. Alice Spring and Mrs. Chas Coe dined at the Golden Eagle in Bloomfield then went to Drakesville. Margaret Whisler hosted Zola Saum for dinner. Mike and Randy Bronson spent the weekend with grandparents Mickie Bronson and Winston Pace. Alice Simms joined the 18 & 80 Club excursion touring the Ozarks Silver Dollar City Eureka Springs Passion Play in Arkansas.
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