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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 26, 2015

HIGH BID. Ron and Karla Bristle, Lake Panorama, consider their bid for an item in the silent auction during Saturday’s Pheasant Forever Banquet.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 23, 2005

WEATHER WATCHERS. Meteorologist from Channel 13 Jerriann Ritter visited the fourth-grade classes of Mrs. Priestley and Mrs. Mohning. While she was here, Jerriann told the class about her education to become a meteorologist, what a meteorologist does, and brought a video of weather conditions that can be found in Iowa and around the United States. Students in the photo with Jerriann are: Mason Murphy, Ryan Black, Matthew Schachtner, Austin Blass, Mikayla Hockenberry, Beth Grow and Nic Halsey.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 22, 1995

ALL-STATE SPEECH HONORS TO BECK. Christina Beck, a senior at Guthrie Center High School, was selected to participate in the All-State Individual Speech Festival to be held at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls April 10.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 28, 1985

THE WINNERS! Winners of the Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby Race held Sunday evening were, left to right, Mike Eastman, third; Tim Wilcoxson, first; and Scott Klacke, second.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 26, 1975

EASTER PAGEANTRY. Beth Pierce and Veronica Sloss admire one of the many store windows in Guthrie Center adorned with Easter drawings.

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10 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 19, 2015

BASKETBALL HONORS. Those recognized with honors at the Panorama boys basketball banquet for the 2014-15 season are (from left) Dakota Redfern, Aaron Klinge, Gavin Richey, Gabe Richey, Bryce Halterman, Luke Webner and Kole Steiner.

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20 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 16, 2005

FULL HOUSE FOR ADAIR TOY FAIR. Roger Richter, superintendent of the 16th annual Adair Toy Fair, said 23 vendors were on hand to display their wares of new, antique toys and treasures along with parts and antique mementos. Vendors were from four states, and buyers and visitors also came from all over Iowa and surrounding states. Richter described this year’s displays as larger than in the past.

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30 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 15, 1995

CARNIVAL HELPERS. Elementary student council members Jami Shackelford, Annah Dunbar, Cory Hall, Nathan Beck and Curt Sorensen.

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40 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie County Vedette, March 21, 1985

TIME CAPSULE? Dave Arganbright, who is remodeling the Panora Cooperative Telephone Office, holds in his right hand an Anacin tablet box he found while demolishing the store front. In his left hand is a band-aid box telephone manager Dale Grotjohn prepared for him to place in a new brick front. Information from the Anacin box indicated it was placed in the brick wall Sept. 13, 1951, when it was remodeled for Robinson’s Produce by Noble Vandeventer and Charlie Royer. It listed employees of Emory Robinson as Donald Richey, Art Long, Kenneth Canady and Helen Bates. Egg graders were Mabel Morgan, Pearl Clayton, Maxine Wells, Joe Kolbe, and Ethel Roseneau.

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50 years ago

From the archives of The Guthrie Center Times, March 19, 1975

 

TIMBER! David Rutledge and John Garrett pry loose, decaying brick from the rear of the Rowley Hardware building Tuesday. In the picture, a part of the wall falls to the pile of rubble below. The building will soon have a new exterior cover.

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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.