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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 12, 2015

TOURNAMENT CHAMPS. The Panorama Panthers eighth-grade girls won the Coon Rapids Lions Club Tournament Saturday. They beat Guthrie Center, 25-18, and Adair Casey, 38-26, to get first place. Point totals for the two games were Morgan Johnk with 26 points, Jamy Randol, 20, Olivia Richey, 8, Brooke Halterman, 6, Kennedy Kuta, 2, and Tasha Kirk, 1. The Panthers finished their tournament season with an impressive 13-5 record playing a lot of larger schools and AAU teams.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 9, 2005

BASKETBALL CHEERLEADERS. Front row, Jessica Slater, Brittney Gilge and Mindi Callison. Back row, Ashley Moreland, Stacy Henson and Christina Murphy.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 8, 1995

GCHS BOWLERS TO MUSCATINE. The Guthrie Center High School girls and boys bowling teams advanced to state competition in Muscatine April 22 due to their finishes in districts at Manning Sunday. The girls were first with 2,104 pins in a three-game scratch series, and the boys placed second with 2,460 pins in a three-game scratch series. Front row, from left, sponsor Dave Litterer, Gary Albaugh, Tina Schnetter, Carrie Albaugh and Wanda Michaelson. Back row: Stacy Harwood, Travis Heckman, David Sheeder, Kyle Chance, Jenni Wedemeyer and Kris Stringham.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 14, 1985

WING IT, HAWKS. Panora-Linden cheerleaders yelled their best, but it wasn’t enough to bring P-L a state tournament berth Saturday night. From left, Jill Wooldridge, Stephanie Coleman, Debbie Wolfe, Amy Dove, Michelle Berkley and Judy Maben.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 12, 1975

ALL BUSINESS. It appears to be a business lunch at kindergarten round-up as Mike Thomas is interrupted by an important phone call. Meanwhile, Kahlea Kelsey tries to take the order of an undecided Tina Scott.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 5, 2015

IN SUPPORT OF MARCH OF DIMES. Gavin Pote, a bubbly 11-year-old and a fifth-grader at Panorama, poses on his living floor with his March of Dimes T-shirts. Pote, who was born premature and spent his first 111 days of life in the hospital, walks every year in support of March of Dimes, an organization that helped save his life.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 2, 2005

LONG SHOT. After pulling down a rebound with time nearly gone in the second period, Justin Rumple of Adair-Casey prepares to fire a shot the length of the court. Tigers pictured are Matt Booth, left, and Cory Hall. Rumple’s teammates are Bret Gettler (12) and Chris Bireline (14).

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 1, 1995

BEEF SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS. The Guthrie County Cattlemen awarded three $300 scholarships in 1994. Cattlemen president Gary Richter of Guthrie Center is pictured with two of the winners, Chad Leighty and Shelia Garreau, both of Guthrie Center. The other scholarship winner, Eric Van Meter, also of Guthrie Center, is not pictured.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 7, 1985

FACES IN THE CROWD. Tim Hawley, left, and David Lowe are just your average Panora-Linden basketball fans. They’re crazy about the No. 1-rated Hawks but go to more extreme to show their school spirit. Hawley points to the scoreboard as P-L broke out to a 16-point lead in the third quarter.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 5, 1975

EYEING A REBOUND. Panora-Linden’s Steve Richey and C-M’s Kerry Hensley have the inside position over C-M’s Russ Euken (behind Richey) and P-L’s Mark Wernli.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 26, 2015

COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST. FFA members held a complimentary breakfast on Tuesday during FFA Week. Pictured are Panorama FFA members Madi Fear and Emilie Prince serving Mr. Brian Barhrenfuss eggs, french toast and sausage.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 23, 2005

THE TOPIC IS TOURISM. Bike trails advocate and former Des Moines Register columnist Chuck Offenburger was the guest speaker last week at a meeting of the Panora Development Group PRIDE. He encouraged the organization to focus economic development efforts on the Raccoon River Valley Trail, which runs through the town and is used by some 60,000-100,000 persons annually.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 22, 1995

STATE BOUND. Four seniors will represent Guthrie Center High School at the state Class 1A wrestling tournament at Vets Auditorium in Des Moines this week. From left, Ryan Steensen, T.J. Redfern, Wes Love and Darin Sloss. First round action begins Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 21, 1985

CONCENTRATION. Katie England zeroes in on the basket for one of her 12 fourth-quarter points.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 6, 1975

LIONS PORTION. Wayne Clark of Guthrie Center, district governor of the Iowa Lions Club, displays a portion of more than 200 eyeglasses collected in a week by Guthrie Center Lions. The glasses will be given to preserve eyesight of deprived persons in the U. S. and around the world. Glasses can be deposited at the bank, Iowa Electric or the newspapers.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 19, 2015

SAXOPHONE. James Hodges demonstrates how to care for his saxophone.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 16, 2005

PORK AMBASSADORS. Whitney Glade, left, was crowned 2005 Pork Queen at the Guthrie County Pork Producers’ 41st annual banquet Sunday. With her is 2004 queen Jinny Millhollin. Both girls are from Guthrie Center.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 15, 1995

THE TALK IS ROBOTICS. Steve Brubaker, left, and Jay Sherwood, second from right, explain to Steve Sorensen one of several computer driven machines they have developed in conjunction with projects for Guthrie Center Assembly. Their display was at the Guthrie Center Area Development Corporation meeting last week.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 21, 1985

TOP ORATORS. These four P-L students, competing in two ensemble acting groups, earned two division I ratings at the recent state, large group speech contests. From left, Toni Tollefson, Linda Hummel, Heather Burnham and Jeff Burchfield. Tollefson and Burchfield were one acting team and Hummel and Burnham the other.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 12, 1975

THE POST OFFICE. Mrs. Goodlaxon’s second-grade class at Guthrie Center has a post office to handle the Valentine mail rush at the grade school. David Buttler is shown buying a stamp from postmaster Michelle Bradford so he can mail his letter.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 12, 2015

60 YEARS OF MARRIAGE. Jim and Beverly Arganbright were married on June 21, 1954. The Panora couple raised eight children — six boys and two girls — and joke they’ve stayed together all these years because there “just wasn’t a time to get loose.”

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 9, 2005

HE’S A REAL CUT UP. Guthrie Center first-grader Matthew Vannatta (George and Karen) shows off a Valentine heart he made using his scissors and a piece of paper.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 8, 1995

$50,000 AWARDED. Proceeds from the estate of Miss Elizabeth Hudson, Panora, were distributed last week by trustee Bill Bump, left front. The Turn of the Century Museum Foundation in Panora and the Panorama School District both received $19,165 while the Guthrie County Hospital was given $10,000. Money to the school and hospital were designated to assist in capital expenditures to link them with the Iowa Fiber Optic Communication Network. Money to the museum foundation is for capital improvement projects. Accepting the checks were Kay Campbell for the hospital, Alex Krueger of Bagley and Hugh Teale of Panora for the museum foundation, back left and center, and superintendent Bill Weddingfeld for the school. Miss Hudson was a former school teacher who operated the Panora Hotel from 1926 until its closing in 1984. She died in December 1985 at the age of 100.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 14, 1985

 

WON’T YOU BE MINE? Tricia Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Turner, sifts through a rack of cards at Panora Pharmacy for the perfect Valentine.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 5 1975

HOW COLD IS IT? Ask any letter carrier who has to be out for hours at a time, trudging miles from one end of town to the other. Above, Don Reeves of Guthrie Center is prepared for his trek across town.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 5, 2015

BOOK FAIR. The Panorama Elementary P.T.O. will host a Scholastic Book Fair on Wednesday, February 11 and Thursday, Feb. 12 from 3 to 6:30 pm. Funds raised will help purchase books for the library, classroom libraries and other children’s programs. Helping promote the Book Fair are (from left) Dane Kemble, Kiera Simmons, Timothy Putney and Ethan Olsen.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 2, 2005

YOUNG FRIENDS at Guthrie Center Elementary don’t mind at all having their photo taken for the newspaper. The group of second graders are Shelby Brusman, Elizabeth Woods, Claire Thompson, Jazlyn Nelson, Dylan Black and Cheinie Case. It would be nice if adults would be so anxious for a fun photo op!

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Feb. 1, 1995

BRING ON THE WORK. GCA president Doug Hambleton, left, and manager Andy Derry are shown at a training station for tumble lock assembly.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, Feb. 7, 1985

 

THINKING MAN’S SPORT. What to do next? Boyd Burnham tries to get an advantage on a Jefferson opponent while at the same time trying to keep off his back at the Tiger Invitational wrestling tournament at Guthrie Center Saturday.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, Jan. 29, 1975

CRASH COURSE. For the first time at Guthrie Center a semester course, Bachelor Survival, is being offered to senior boys. Taught by Mrs. Karen Sampers, the course will teach bachelors the basics in cooking, washing and sewing they’ll need to get by on their own. Above, Mark Imerman, left, and Steve Jordan slave over a hot stove.