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Today is June 25, the 176th day of the year. There are 189 days left in 2015. Below are news items from the Creston News Advertiser for this week (June 22-28) in history.
5 years ago
Creston Mayor Warren Woods was appointed a representative for the Rural Iowans for Obama campaign. The campaign contacted Woods and asked if he would be interested in being a representative for them. As a representative, Woods acted as a spokesperson, and spread the word about President Obama. Woods main duty was to point out President Obama’s values are much like those of rural Iowans.
Hoover Angus Farm, in Shannon City, hosted 23 Brazilian cattle ranchers at the farm. The Brazilian cattle ranchers were taking a tour, hosted by Genex Cooperative, one of the largest marketers of bull semen in the world, through Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, to look at top bulls in Genex Cooperative’s AI bull stud line-up. Hoover Angus Farms was home to four of those top bulls. According to Landi McFarland, part-owner of Hoover Angus Farms, the Brazilian cattle ranchers were interested in United States genetics and the purpose of the visit was to find sires that they wanted to use in their beef herds.
In the last week of June, Creston residents had already endured excessive heat in spring and early summer as high temperatures climbed above 87 degrees 13 times in 2010. On June 27, a heat advisory consumed the state of Iowa. Temperatures in Creston rose to 96 degrees with a heat-index rating ranging from 104 to 110 degrees.
10 years ago
Alumni of Platte County No. 9 school – the last rural school to close in Platte Township – gathered for an old-fashioned reunion. After dinner at McKinley Park, the alumni, who attended the Union County country school from 1923-59, traveled by Trolley to the site of the school located in the farthest southwest corner of the county. The school building, still standing in 2005, replaced the original Prairie Star School destroyed by a fire. A Presbyterian Church was organized in the old school building May 10, 1888, indicating the original school was built sometime before that date. After the school closed in 1959, it was never used for other township activities.
Remodeling had begun on the former Irving Elementary and Burton R. Jones Middle School. Renamed Creston Early Childhood Center, plans were to turn the building into a site for preschool, kindergarten and alternative school – High Lakes Country Academy. District administration offices also eventually moved into the building.
In the datebook, on June 28, 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service.
20 years ago
Creston News Advertiser reporters Rita Miller and Larry Peterson, and managing editor Jeff Young won awards at the 1995 Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors newswriting contest. Miller won third place, in-depth category, for a series on domestic abuse, and honorable mention in the nondeadline category for a story on a Vietnam veteran. Peterson won honorable mention, nondeadline, for a followup story about the life and death of longtime Creston banker Joe Knock. Young won first place in headline writing for stories on a variety of topics.
University of Iowa pitcher Kurt Belger of Creston was selected by Iowa City Press-Citizen writer Pat Harty as one of the top University of Iowa athletes of the 1994-95 school year. He was named fifth of a top 11. Belger’s accomplishments included first-team all Big Ten and set a school record with 12 saves, nine in the Big Ten.
Three Creston residences were raided June 28 by approximately 30 state, federal and local officers as part of an ongoing investigation of a suspected narcotics operation. Search warrants were served at the residences approximately 8:15 a.m. Agents from the Iowa Department of Narcotics Enforcement, Department of Criminal Investigation, federal Drug Enforcement Agency, Iowa State Patrol and Creston police participated in the execution of search warrants. Similar to a series of raids March 2 in Creston, warrants were issued to search for controlled substances, records and cash affiliated with drug transactions and drug paraphernalia and packaging materials.