Today is Sept. 14, the 257th day of the year. So, there are 108 days left in 2017. Below are news items from the Creston News Advertiser for this week (Sept. 11-17) in history:
10 years ago
St. John’s Catholic Church in Greenfield celebrated 100 years of faith. The original building was built in 1907 and torn down in 1972 to make way for a new one that was dedicated the following year.
Fansteel/Wellman Dynamics agreed in a DNR consent order to pay a $10,000 penalty in regard to air-quality permitting violations. Although the plant had been working hard to address record keeping problems, they were disappointed the DNR chose to pursue enforcement action for record keeping violations, as there was no actual pollution violations.
Union County Landfill was poised to become a transfer station Oct. 1, which meant commercial and residential waste would be transported to the Metro Waste Authority of Des Moines landfill. They were required to install a transfer station building, complete with a hydraulic collection system comprised of three 53-cubic-yard bins positioned above transfer trucks.
Nearly 60 hot air balloon pilots took to the Creston skies with two successful flights over the weekend. Pilot Deb Miller of Ottumwa and passenger Pat Nixon, sponsor from Maple Street Memories, took a tumble due to unexpected winds and an electric fence. After hitting the fence during landing, Miller was thrown out and Nixon broke her wrist bracing for a hard landing.
20 years ago
The third annual Union County 4-Hour Relay for Life held Sept. 14, 1997, at Creston High School raised $9,800 for American Cancer Society programs, exceeding the 1996 total by $3,700.
Crest Area Theatre presented a two-person play “The Diaries of Adam & Eve.” The play featured Cindy Fargo as Eve and Terry Allard as Adam and depicted the early days of their developing relationship.
A Bedford bank, State Savings Bank, planned to soon occupy the former Hy-Vee building in Creston. Tad “Skip” Hammond, president and majority owner of both the bank and the building, said remodeling was progressing and the goal was to be open in October.
50 years ago
SWCC President Robert Beecher reported there was a need for about 70 more students at the college to meet minimum operational needs. The budget was set up on a projected enrollment of around 540 students, and to date the enrollment stood at 475.
The new Lenox high school building, under construction, was proceeding rapidly and was expected to be occupied for the second semester of the school year. The new building was south of the athletic field and southeast of the depot.
Richard Buck, a Creston excavating contractor, and Frank Ide, a farmer north of Shannon City, were elected as the new members of the Creston Community Board of Education. Voting in the election was very heavy Monday, Sept. 11, 1967, with a total of 1,745 votes cast at a single polling place in the basement of the Union County Courthouse. it was the heaviest school election voting except on reorganization of the district years before.
The 1968 sports Chrysler 500 series offered the first time headlamps which were concealed behind movable doors that matched the grill. This car along with the new line of Chrysler and Plymouth vehicles went on sale Sept.14 at Martin Bros. Garage, 206 N. Pine St., in Creston.