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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 28, 2016

PLANTING ON EARTH DAY. Panorama student council member, Jeramy Randol, helps Avery Sebern (left) and Dane Kemble (right) during a planting activity on Earth Day at the school last week.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 26, 2006

THE SPRUCE UP BEGINS. Flower planters, benches and trash receptacles ordered by the Guthrie Center Visioning Committee arrived Tuesday and were placed downtown by volunteers. Scooping dirt from a city end loader, Ralph and Barb Schramm wait for Donna Benton to place potting soil in a planter. In the background, Darwin Hughes, Gary Rees and Ron Benton assemble a bench.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 24, 1996

TOP JUNIOR BOWLERS. The junior bowling program at All-Star Lanes in Guthrie Center Saturday recognized top bowlers in a season ending ceremony. Back, from left, winning team members Nadine Rutherford, Tara Gilson and Brandi Rutherford. Front, Wade Hambleton, boys high handicap game, and Jessica Glade, girls high handicap series. Brandi Rutherford had the girls high handicap game, and Christopher Hopes had the boys high handicap series.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 24, 1986

THEY’RE PALS. For his birthday last week, Howard Fell, a resident of Craft Care Center in Panora, requested a meeting with his P-L elementary pen pal, Kara Herrick of Panora. Because of Howard’s request, 60 other P-L elementary students met their pen pals at Craft Care Center Thursday afternoon. Kara presented Howard with a birthday gift while other students and residents also exchanged gifts. Correspondence between the kids and their pen pals began in January.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 28, 1976

COUNTY FLIES FLAG. Courthouse custodian Oliver Nickel displays the county’s new Bicentennial flag being flown at the courthouse. The flag was given to the county in ceremonies at the Panora-Linden school Thursday night.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 21, 2016

CATAPULT! Fourth-graders Maddox Nunn (left) and Weston Ploeger place finishing touches on a catapult they built during an activity April 12 at the Panora Public Library.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 19, 2006

THE NEW KING. GCHS senior Kyle Cheney authored two new school records this week. “It was exciting,” said Cheney, who broke a 37-year-old mark in the shot put Monday and a nine-year-old record in the discus Tuesday. Cheney threw 50’0″ to place third at the Class 1A state meet last spring. So how did he add nearly 4.5 feet this spring? “No technique change. I’m just stronger and quicker,” he stated. Cheney said after throwing 53’9″ Monday, he thought he had a shot at the shot put record, which he bettered on his next throw. Coach Steve Brand noted the lefty increased by 5 feet in each of his first three years.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 17, 1996

STUPENDOUS STUDENTS. The Guthrie Center High Schoolers selected at March Students of the Month were: freshman Kirsten Ehm, junior Abby Snyder, senior Jenni Wedemeyer and (not pictured) sophomore Brie Wetzel.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 17, 1986

THE WINNER. Panora-Linden sophomore Cheryl Ostby crosses the finish line at the conclusion of the two-mile run at the Tigerette Invitational in Guthrie Center Friday.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 14, 1976

GIRLS STATE CANDIDATE. Sheri Sorensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Sorensen, was selected by the Legion Auxiliary to represent Guthrie Center at Girls State this summer. Selection is based on leadership, citizenship and scholastic accomplishments.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 14, 2016

GIDDY UP! Four-year-old Cian McAlister works on his speech with Cindy McCarty, a speech and language pathologist, while riding Bell, the horse, at Timber Creek Therapies. Speech and language therapy services at Timber Creek Therapies includes many tools found in the treatment room, hippotherapy on horseback and a cognitive treatment area designed to address functional skills needed for independence.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 12, 2006

ON THE PODIUM. Payden Willms, right, placed third at the Iowa AAU Folk Style Wrestling Tournament.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 10, 1996

“WE RIDE, SO THAT CRIPPLED CHILDREN CAN WALK.” Members of the Pony Express Riders of Iowa came trotting through Guthrie Center Friday afternoon in an effort to raise money for crippled children and handicapped adults.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 10, 1986

BOYS STATE PICKS. Representing Panora and Linden at Hawkeye Boys State in June will be Jeff Hafner, left, and Mark Knapp.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 14, 1976

EASTER’S HERE. Part of the Easter time ritual in many households with children is the coloring of Easter Eggs. Here, Deena and Danny Laughery, children of the Larry Laugherys, prepare a basketful of colored eggs for Easter weekend.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 7, 2016

NO FOOLING. Linda Wendl, president of Women For Panora’s Future, welcomes guests to the club’s April Fool’s Day dinner.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 5, 2006

ACTING UP. Standing on a chair, Jared Calvert acts the part of a harpy eagle during state Odyssey of the Mind competition at Guthrie Center Saturday. Other elementary team members who resolved the problem, The Jungle Bloke, are, from left, Ryan Black, who was a black jaguar; Therese Frels; Eddie Halbur; and Madison Crowder.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 3, 1996

SING ALONG. An elementary version of karaoke kept things lively in the gymnasium. Elementary marshal Jolene Sheeder (school secretary) harmonizes with Julie Larson, left, April Buttler, center, and Bethany Benton.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, April 3, 1986

THIS PICTURE TELLS THE STORY. It’s the second story at Panora’s newest business, Brill’s Country Inn, where carpenters are replacing windows.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, April 7, 1976

IT’S SPRING. Birds aren’t the only ones that build in trees in the spring. Craig Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schultz, sits atop his roost in a favorite tree.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 31, 2016

THERE IT IS! Dave Arganbright gives a little help to grandson Hank Harney during Saturday’s Easter egg hunt in Panora.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 29, 2006

REEL IT IN. DNR Conservation officer George Hemmen provided individual instruction to Guthrie Center elementary students during a CastingKids competition. Here, he’s shown with Leigan Laughery.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 27, 1996

RAFFLE BUCKS. Rosie Barrett, Guthrie Center Chamber of Commerce president, hands two $50 chamber bucks certificates to Libby Benton, elementary student council president. The chamber bucks will be raffled off 5-8 p.m. Saturday at the Elementary Carnival.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 27, 1986

THEY ‘OTTER’ BE IN PICTURES. A couple of playful otters perform on the banks of the Middle Raccoon River for several of the hundreds of spectators who were on hand Wednesday morning when 20 otters were released by the Iowa Conservation Commission near the boat launch at Springbrook State Park. School kids from Bayard, Guthrie Center, Panora-Linden and YJB were on hand to see the otters introduced to their new Iowa habitat. The Conservation Commission initially announced the otters would be released south of Panora. The otters were obtained from Kentucky, which buys them from Louisiana and then trades them to Iowa for wild turkeys. The otters are described as nomadic.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 31, 1976

PREPARING TO MOVE. Casey third-grader Theresa Foster was one of several hundred school children at the Casey and Adair grade centers who spent part of the week preparing to move to the new A-C elementary building.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 24, 2016

MARCH MATH MADNESS. Tyme Boettcher (left) and Brady Wells (right) look over their brackets in their fourth-grade class this week. Kyler Kudart has incorporated the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, providing some March Madness in his classroom, by using the event to teach his students math.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 22, 2006

FUTURE FARMERS? Gage Buttler, Guthrie Center, and Heidi Kipp, Yale, provided lots of entertainment at Buttler Agronomy’s Open House last week.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 27, 1996

WRESTLERS CITED. Recipients of top wrestling awards were from left, Russ Love, state qualifier at 189 pounds, Kaleb McCarty, fourth place 103 pounds at state, and Troy Steensen. Love and McCarty shared the most valuable wrestler award while Steensen was judged most improved.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 20, 1986

SCIENCE WINNERS. David Andresen and Travis Burchfield, left, and Brett Hodges captured first-place awards at the West Central 8 Conference Science Fair at Stuart last week. Andresen and Burchfield, sophomores, and Hodges, a seventh grader, will take their winning projects to West Des Moines next month for the state Hawkeye Science Fair.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 24, 1976

CONTEST WINNER. Joe Sheeder, a seventh grader, accepts a check from Valerie Vant Hoff, president of the Guthrie Center Education Association, in recognition of his winning effort in the GCEA sponsored creative Bicentennial contest. A poem submitted by Sheeder was judged the overall winner and was forwarded for state competition.