Community Meeting and Club Events Schedule
June calendar lists American Legion Auxiliary meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday June 6, Tulip City Saddle Club Fun Night at 7:30 p.m. at De Jong Lumber, and Lynnville Saddle Club rain date. On Wednesday June 7 Garden Club picnic at 6:30 p.m. and TTT meeting at Helene Dock endorff's home, plus Tulip City Saddle Club fun show at 7:30 a.m. at De Jong Lumber Yard. Thursday June 8 Newcomers coffee at Kiwanis Park at 10 a.m. with rain postponement to June 15. Tuesday June 13 Chapter BU PEO at Peggy Pierson's home at 7:30.
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de Jong Lumber Yard
Kiwanis Park
Peggy Pierson
Pella Chamber To Elect Three Board Members
The Pella Chamber of Commerce will hold an annual meeting at 6:30 tonight at Pella Golf and Country Club. Members will elect three directors by written ballot from six candidates Al De Wild Marvin Engbers Claire Gifford Earl Grandin John Harmeling and Bill Vanders Berg. The three-year terms directors are Dr. Frank Overman Gary Vermeer and Don Van Gorp.
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Pella
Smorgas Board
Chamber
Committee On Industrial Development
Brodigan to Present at Iowa Retarded Workshop
Pel la recreation director Paul Brodigan will take part in a workshop at the 15th annual Iowa Association for Retarded Children convention in Marshalltown June 10 and 11. He and two others will present Recreation and Camp Programs with six workshops featured and tours of local facilities in the Marshalltown area.
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Paul Brodigan
Pella
Iowa Association For
Marshalltown
Robert G. Shade
Mar- Salltowe
Pella fishing contest expanded to three month run
The Catch of the Month Contest in Pella extends to June July and August with prizes from local merchants Veenstra Coast to Coast Voogelaars Hardware West Bend 66 Service and the Gamble Store. Phases run June 1 to June 30 July 30 and August 31 with five dollar prizes for each division Catfish and Bullhead and Bass based on weight. Catches logged at the Pella Chronicle Advertiser office 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. The first entry was a 30 inch large mouth bass over five pounds by Keith Vriezelaar June 1. Paul Marion Nollen earned a PhD in biological sciences from Purdue University at Commencement on Sunday.
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Pella
Veenstra’s
Coast To Coast
Voogelaar’s Hardware
West Bend ‘66’ Service
Gamble Store
Pella Chronicle
Pella Chronicle-Advertiser
Keith Vriezelaar
East First St
Paul Marion Nollen
Broadway
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
No Affront To Pella Martins Watchers The Birds Weather
Pella residents with vacant purple martin houses relax as birds appear unsettled by cold turning warm late May. Griggsville Ill claims the nation’s happiest martins after a slow start and a civic effort to supply nests, twigs and mud puddles amid shifts in spring weather.
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Pella
Martin
the Chronicle
Harold den Besten
Elm St
Griggsville
Ill
Tourist Trade Planning Urged At Red Rock Lake Meeting
Red Rock Lake Association members were urged to plan for increased commercial activity as tourists are drawn to the Lake Red Rock area. The meeting at Knoxville High School featured a showing of What Wonder There Is by the Iowa Development Commission and slides of proposed park developments by the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers and state officials. Ken Freeman of Knoxville presided, with individual presentations and a Q and A session.
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Red Rock Lake Association
Lake Red Rock
Knoxville High School
Iowa Development Commission
Iowa
Rock Island District
Corps of Engineers
State Conservation Commission
Ken Freeman
Knoxville
Association
Summer Band Concerts Open Friday at Central Park
The city band, about 60 musicians from Pella and nearby areas, performs eight free concerts starting Friday night June 9 at 8 15 in Central Park. The program features stage and theater music pop tunes marches semi classical pieces with special numbers from Pella High groups The Young Folk and a dixieland band among others.
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Central Park
Pella
Pella High
the Young Folk
Darrell Dobernecker
Pella Welcomes Tulip Time Visitors and Notables
The Pella Chamber of Commerce hosts Tulip Time visitors with cheerful hospitality as Miss Lucile Spicer of Rochester, Minnesota, plans a reunion. She travels with 50 Iowa and Nebraska friends, enjoys meals from local churches, and notes the town’s excellent food. Visitors praise the gardens, flower show, street scenes, and Vesper services, with thanks from Osceola Garden Club and Muscatine sisters promising to return.
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Pella
Lamson
Miss Spicer
the Historical Society
Chamber
Minnesota
Rochester
Mayo Clinic
Chamber of Commerce
The
Ceola
Lorraine Lewis
Stahr Pope
Lee's Summit
Pellz
Youth's Round Three Level Cardboard Dwelling Wins $750 Design Scholarship
Charles Vander Linden of Leighton won a $750 Home of Tomorrow design scholarship from a Des Moines realty firm for a three level cardboard mock up of a model home. He is a Southeast Polk High School graduate who will attend Central College. The model is on display at Stanbrough Realty in Des Moines.
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Ty Firm
Charles
Southeast Polk High School
Central College
van der Linden
Leighton
Polk High School
Pella
Polk County
Stanbrough Realty
Douglas Ave
Des Moines
Gene Stanbrough
Van de Voort Receives Wisconsin M.S. Degree
G. W. Van de Voort of Route 2 Pella earned a Master of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin Madison June commencement held Monday.
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G. W. van de Voort
Pella
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Keith Wells Wins Fourth National Rug Design Honor
Sibley, Keith Wells, a former resident, received a top United States rug design award. This marked his fourth national accolade in the field.
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Ww. A
Sibley, Man
Keith Wells
United States
Mr. Wells
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Brodigan
Art van Polen
Maytag Company
van Polen
Maytag
Oskaloosa
Marion County
Dromen Zijn Bedrog
Purdue
Pella Community High School
Edward Wesselink
Board of Education
Jack Shelley
Department of Technical Journalism
Iowa State
Air Force Band Nee Creates
Erickson
Miller
Tee
Eve Eae
Ewersegy
Westside Story
Cacavas
Tulip
Charles D. Lilly
First Reformed Church
Wapello County
Senior Citizens Civic Center
Ottumwa
Paul S. Tinsley
Houser
Paul Bradigan
Muscatine
Violet Cass
Fern Jones
Irene Bowman
Charles Vander Linden
Hadd Vander Linden
Route 1
Des Moines Real
Wisconsin
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