10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 18, 2016

STATE QUALIFIERS. Panorama wrestlers advancing to the state tournament are (from left) Gunnar Grunsted, Tyler Van Houten, Daniel Jensen and George Appleseth. The Panthers will compete Thursday in the first round at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 15, 2006

AND THE WINNER IS… Mr. Tail Twister, Cole Stetzel, looks for the winner of a door prize during the annual Pork Producers banquet. At left are president Keith Stetzel and queen Jodi Calvert. Vice-president Scott Benton holds a glass pig while Miss Pig-tail, Genevieve Hoover, waits to draw again.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 7, 1996

BEEF ROYALTY. Rachel McDermott of Jamaica, second from left, was crowned

1996 Guthrie County Beef Queen at Saturday’s cattlemen’s banquet in Guthrie Center.

Treva Richter of Guthrie Center, left, and Tara Carney of Adair, right, will serve as beef princesses. Also pictured is 1995 queen Tania Sheeder of Guthrie Center.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 13, 1986

SPELLING BEES. Nicole Klinkefus and Troy Downing placed first and fifth among fifth graders at the Knights of Columbus spelling bee in Guthrie Center Saturday. As a first-place winner, Klinkefus qualified for the regional contest to be held in April.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 18, 1976

TIGER ROUNDBALLERS. Front row, from left, assistant coach Phil Przychodzin, Mark Eischeid, Chris Walters, Mike Andresen, Rick Gilson, Jeff Booth, Clayton Black, Ron Durst, Bill McCool and coach Denny Jones. Second row, Scott Cahail, Jim Glassell, Tom Langgaard, Jeff Blass, Mick Kesselring, Roger Middleton, Paul May and Bill Hayes. Third row, manager Mark Hunt, Dan Hick, Rich Monthei, Doug Short, Ed Hanson, and manager Mike Monthei. Absent is Terry Barrett.

10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 11, 2016

PULLING OUTLAW. Richard Clark wins races and trophies each year on a truck-pulling circuit. He is shown with an unusual first place trophy received at Rock Valley in 2012. It is a uniquely designed case holding a fine BBQ set.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 8, 2006

REAL CUT-UPS. Guthrie Center first-graders Peyton Busse and Morgan Vaughan stretch a paper Valentine cut out across the front doorway of the elementary school.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 7, 1996

SCULPTING WITH MORE POWER! Frank Teale of Panora uses a chainsaw to sculpt a gnome during Winterfest.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 6, 1986

CHALK UP TWO. Shannon Kindred is almost automatic for the Hawkettes when she gets this close to the basket against an opposing defense. She scored 42 points.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 11, 1976

PLATES ON SALE. Commemorative Bicentennial plates featuring the official Guthrie Center Bicentennial logo arrived Tuesday and are being sold at various Chamber of Commerce stores. Above, Chamber president Jim Vandevanter accepts a check for the first plates from Rosiene Barnes at the Shoe Box as logo designer Rick Rice displays the plates.

10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 4, 2016

FEELIN’ GROOVY. Panorama students in Mrs. Heffernan’s first grade class (from left) Parker McGuire, Zander Lopez, Alex Padilla and Maci Bauer promote the school’s Spring Book Fair with the theme “Peace. Love. Books — Feelin’ Groovy Book Fair.” The Scholastic Book Fair is Wednesday, Feb. 10 and Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Panorama Elementary Library. Families, faculty and the community are invited to attend this fun reading event that helps inspire children to become lifelong readers.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 1, 2006

SPECIALLY SEASONED PIZZA SAUCE AND DOUGH. Nicole Hansen of Breadeaux Pizza explained pizza-making when Mrs. Pittman’s kindergarten class toured the local business.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 31, 1996

COMING THROUGH. With 12 inches of snow and drifts nearly as high as an elephant’s eye, county snow plows were kept busy all weekend, including Sunday afternoon.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 30, 1986

ICE FOLLIES. Dennis Duke, right, and Bill Boyle of Guthrie Center, holding the pin, watch as Gary Morrow of Guthrie Center sinks a putt on the ninth hole during the Fin and Feather Association’s first annual golf tournament on Lake Panorama last Saturday. Chairman Steve Keith said $100 each will be presented to the Panora boy scouts and cub scouts. The team of Leland, Bill and Randy Schuhardt of Perry and Alan Gilmore won first place with a score of 25, 11 under par. The second place team (26) was Dave Deardorff of Yale, Bob Hill of Adel and Steve Keith and Paul Wendl. Tying for third place (27) were the teams of Jay Hemphill, Steve Meacham, Doug Burgess and Red Lowe, Panora, and Bill Boyle, Scott Gonzales, Barry Monaghan and Dave Reinhart, Guthrie Center. Prizes were $120 for first, $80 for second and $40 for third, which was split.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 4, 1976

ON THIN ICE? What a difference a day makes, as this sparrow found out Wednesday morning when he found his bird bath frozen. Temperatures were in the 40’s Tuesday and near zero Wednesday.

10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 28, 2016

BIG BUCK. Dillon Bennett displays a buck he shot while hunting with his father, Jeremy Bennett.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 25, 2006

BRING HOME GOLD, SILVER. Four young wrestlers from Guthrie Center earned first place at the Elk Horn Kids’ Wrestling Tournament, and two others finished second. First-place winners were, front row, from left, Cole Stetzel, Blake Faucher, Clay Stetzel and Brick Imerman. Second-place winners were, back row, Gunner Imerman, left, and Trey Imerman.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 24, 1996

PORK QUEEN, COURT. Erin McAndrew of Stuart, second from left, was crowned Guthrie County Pork Queen Saturday. From left, Tawnia Sheeder, McAndrew, 1995 Queen Norma Leo, princess Sandy Laughery and Tonya Kuster.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 23, 1986

HAWK TATTOO. Daffnie Kemble applies a Hawk decal to the cheek of Judy Maben as the Panora-Linden cheerleaders flashed their school spirit for Tuesday night’s double-header basketball win over Stuart-Menlo.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 8, 1976

SANDWICHED. Scranton’s Kevin Rasmussen is sandwiched by Guthrie players Jeff Booth, Clayton Black and Mike Andresen (12).

10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 21, 2016

STEP ASIDE. Senior Aaron Klinge drives past Nodaway Valley’s Ryan Jensen on the way to the basket Saturday night in Greenfield. Klinge poured in 33 points and the Panthers won the non-conference game, 88-73.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 18, 2006

WIN TOURNAMENT. This group of fifth-grade boys won a gold medal at the Adair-Casey tournament Jan. 7 with victories over Anita and Adair-Casey. Back row, from left, Coach Dave Osen, Caleb Courtney, Brandon Tharp and Coach Bob Bolton. Front row, Patrick Ahrens, Nic Halsey, Matthew Schacherer, Gavin McGivney, Adam Courtney and Trey Imerman.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 17, 1996

HONORED BAND MEMBERS. Guthrie Center Junior High Students Lizzie Mower (left) and Jill Millhollin will be participating in an honor band festival Tuesday.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 16, 1986

P-L REPRESENTATIVES. Musicians from Panora-Linden who have been selected to participate in the Southwest Iowa Honor Band Festival next week are Brad Wallace, Mark Hennick, Ryan Wasson and Kris Ostby.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 21, 1976

PIE WINNER. Mrs. Marvel Kenney, Bagley, was the pie-baking winner in the senior division. Her double crusted pineapple pie sold to Formax Feeds, Guthrie Center, for $100.

10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 14, 2016

STUDENTS RECEIVE LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS. Page Arganbright, a paraeducator at Panorama elementary school, reads a letter delivered to Will Knapp (left) and Anna Nelson (right) at the school Monday in response to letters the students sent to soldiers in Germany. Also pictured right is Noah Poldberg.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 11, 2006

NO AIR. It appears Christopher Reil’s opponent believes if Reil can’t breathe, he can’t win. He was proved wrong.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 10, 1996

SURFING THE NET. Technology Coordinator Randy Ruth shows GCHS frosh Teresa Wessling (near) and Mandy Bennington some tricks of the trade on the World Wide Web.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Jan. 9, 1986

KICK BALL. Earlham’s Mark Yontz is faked out by the Hawks’ Mark Knapp but temporarily detains Knapp by getting a foot on the ball. Knapp took advantage of Yontz’s predicament to score for P-L.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 4, 1976

SALUTATIONS! Nicole Lynn Bosier, the first baby of 1976, waves a friendly hello at her first public appearance Wednesday morning. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norm Bosier, Nicole was born Tuesday evening at the Guthrie County Hospital.