May 18, 2024

Throwback Thursday - Nov. 9, 2023

Seniors on the 2001 Creston/Orient-Macksburg football team honored at Sunday's banquet are, front row from left: Kevin Mellinger, Curtis Travis, Adam Downing, Ryan Hoyt, Matt Buck and Jason Hyde; back row: Andrew Jensen, Jason Merboth, coach Dick Bergstrom, Jamie Bradley and Blair Taylor. Seniors not pictured: Nathan Rigsby, Cody Downing and Ronnie Mullin.

Seniors on the 2001 Creston/Orient-Macksburg football team honored at Sunday's banquet are, front row from left: Kevin Mellinger, Curtis Travis, Adam Downing, Ryan Hoyt, Matt Buck and Jason Hyde; back row: Andrew Jensen, Jason Merboth, coach Dick Bergstrom, Jamie Bradley and Blair Taylor. Seniors not pictured: Nathan Rigsby, Cody Downing and Ronnie Mullin. (CNA 2001 archived photo )

Today is Thursday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of the year. There are 52 days remaining in 2023. Below are news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.

12 years ago (2011)

Prairie View Assisted Living of Creston was recently purchased from Park Lane Development by Midwest Health Management, a company who owns more than 40 facilities in four states. The direction of the new ownership will bring inevitable changes, but according to Prairie View Administrator Amy Edmonson, the changes will be minimal and strictly positive in nature.

For 30 straight mornings, Denny Abel of Creston awoke in South Vietnam with butterflies in his stomach — the type of nervousness Abel said “you get just before a first football game.” Except, excitement was not the creator of his butterflies. It was September 1969. Abel, 20, was serving as a tank driver for the U.S. Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade in the middle of the Vietnam War, performing high-risk missions in the jungles of Long Binh. Since retiring from Creston Feed and Grain in 2004, he’s dedicated his retired life to helping fellow veterans, “doing whatever is needed, whether it be mental or physical assistance or helping them find a job.” Abel held the title of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) district commander from 2008-2011.

22 years ago (2001)

A year ago Union County’s Youth Plus initiative was recipient of a Josten Rising Star. This year the group was honored with Josten’s top award, the 2001 Josten Our Town Award. The award was presented to the community, more specifically, to its children, during the “Celebrating Community Character” banquet Thursday at SWCC, with a message from Youth Plus coordinator Susan Johnston, “You are the future. You are Union County.”

In Dick Bergstrom’s 25 years as football coach in Creston, two teams in particular have left behind a legacy for those to follow. The first - the 1985 squad that broke into the playoffs for the first time in school history. The 2001 team honored at Sunday night’s award banquet is the second. The 2001 team finished with a 9-0 regular season, last accomplished in Creston in 1902

32 years ago (1991)

The Creston Power Plant Antique Mall, located at East Adams and Walnut streets, will host a holiday open house Friday, Nov. 15 through Sunday, Nov. 17. Enjoy refreshments as you shop for the holidays and on Saturday you can visit with their dealers.

Fox Broadcasting Co. will become the first, and so far only, TV network in the nation to accept condom commercials. A Fox spokeswoman said paid advertising will only be accepted if condoms are promoted solely as a method of preventing the spread of AIDS. References to contraception will be accepted. The announcement comes less than a week after Los Angles Lakers star Magic Johnson stunned the nation by disclosing he was infected with the AIDS virus.

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