April 6, 2016 e-edition

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the ogden VOLUME 140

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Our Town, Make it Yours!

Sesquicentennial

1866-2016 NUMBER 49

A scare on mainstreet

Officer Tony Jones said the smoke detected inside of Clark’s Food Mart was most likely the result of a small fire deliberately set behind the building. Ogden Fire Department was called to the downtown business last Wednesday early afternoon when employees detected a smoke smell and noticed a slight haze in the store. After a thorough investigation of the building, officers located the smoldering pile of debris. They suspect fumes had been drawn into the store’s ventilation system. A gray Iowa sweatshirt found among the burned sticks was taken into evidence.

by BECKY BLAIR

REPORTER STAFF WRITER

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“Tenderness” an oil painting by Graham emphasizing human touch - both cold and empathetic.

Iowa

OGDEN, IOWA 50212 - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016

The student becomes the teacher

Cayli Graham, a 2013 OHS graduate, is a junior at the University of Northern Iowa majoring in fine arts.

Ogden

o many things in life move full circle. Just like the youth we work with grow and change, leave and learn, then come back to teach those who once taught them. That’s Cayli Graham in my world. I first knew her as a second grader. I now know her as an accomplished artist. I marveled at her perception at seven years old. I now look at the pieces she draws or paints and I marvel at her talent, wondering how she takes the ordinary tools of art and turns them into something absolutely spectacular! I was privileged to visit my almamater, UNI, earlier this week and see Cayli’s work firsthand. It’s hanging in the Kamerick Art Building with the works of other students on display. Cayli received a $200 Merit Award from the UNI Department of Art for her body of work entitled: “Mesmerized and Tenderness.” “Mesmerized” Graham completed last semester “while I was exploring more layered psychological concepts within human emotion and experience. Sort of like - even in clarity there’s so much ambiguity and abstraction.” “Tenderness” was finished this semester and “reflects the work I have been making currently about the complex human relationship to nature and animals. I’m interested in how our world is deemed anthropocentric with a perceived hierarchy of nature within our culture. I really want to emphasize the human touch and how it can be both cold and empathetic.” As far as her goals, she says they are a little unclear. Right now she is a junior at UNI obtaining her Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts. She hopes to attend grad school. Becoming a painting professor is an option, and she is also interested in illustration.

Easter egg hunt winners VisionBank’s Easter Egg Hunt Saturday morning, March 26 drew children from zero to 10 years of age. Following are winners of the six prize baskets: 0-3 Years Madden Namovicz Olivia Stahr 4-6 Years Macy Bristle Rory Schuttler 7-10 Years Reagan Conley Jude Klith

Next week . . .

Mesmerized oil painting by Cayli Graham. This is part of her award winning body of work at the University of Northern Iowa. -Reporter photos by Becky Blair

Ogden Bulldog track and golf teams kick off their seasons. Middle school students named to the honor roll. “Sharing the road less traveled,” the Jill and Adam Meeker story.

Another successful Bulldog Ball Ogden Alumni Association’s Third Annual Bulldog Ball last Saturday paid tribute to Ogden’s impressive music program through the years and recognized current music directors Dave Larsen, Jeremy Britton and Bradley Sexe, and former music teacher Tom Nugent. Inviting former band director Jerry Kinney proved to be the most challenging. The night’s Master of Ceremonies Matt Van Sickle had no phone number or email, just his address . . . in Des Moines. So on New Year’s Eve day, a determined Van Sickle made a short road trip. “I walked into his assisted living residence, looked around, then one of the workers asked if they could help me. “I’m looking for my former band teacher,” he told her. “Oh . . . Jerry Kinney,” she said. “He’s giving a music lesson.” The crowd gathered at TK’s Event Center broke out in laughter. He’s still teaching after all these years. Kinney fondly recalled his years as the Ogden High School band director, and shared vivid memories of marching band performances and his experience driving a specific group of all-state performers around Des Moines. Another intriguing story. Alumni both young and old, and many other newcomers who just came BULLDOG BALL -please turn to page four.

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Former band director Jerry Kinney. -Ogden Reporter photo

Finding its way back home Wow! They sure made things to last back then. And when long-time postal employee Donna Christensen heard that the old Ogden postmaster’s desk was going to either be s sold in Arizona or thrown away, she had to do something. “I just couldn’t let them do that,” she said.” So, for the cost of freight ($300) she had the 6’ long and 3 1/2’ wide desk transported all the way from its most recent home in Arizona, back to the town where it belongs - in Ogden. Christensen tells the story as she had heard: A postmaster in the late 1870s sat at this desk when the post office was located on the north side of main street (within what is now considered the 300 block) in the Treloar Furniture and Funeral Home building. A few years later the post office was relocated across the street. Included in the move was POSTMASTER DESK -please turn to page five.

A vintage OHS band uniform was one of the many Vocal director Dave Larsen and wife silent auction items. Micki checking out an old photo.

Ruth Mantz celebrates 100th birthday On March 11, 2016 Ruth Mantz turned 100 years old and to celebrate, her family threw a birthday party for her Saturday, March 12. Her family gathered from Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Colorado and Iowa to be able to celebrate the event with her. The party was held in the dining room in the Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone, Iowa where numerous friends and family members stopped by with cards and flowers during the afternoon celebration of cake and ice cream. Ruth had a wonderful time and wants to thank everyone for coming and for all the nice cards she received for her birthday. She said it was so nice to see everyone.

Donna Christensen can only explain her acquisition of this old desk now sitting in her basement as “sentimental.” She retired from the postal service in 2000 after 27 years as a mail carrier and clerk. -Reporter photo by Kathy Pierce

From left to right Richard Mantz (son), Amanda Lass (granddaughter), holding Macy Lass (great-granddaughter), Samantha Lass (great-granddaughter), Brook Summerville (great granddaughter), Karla Bolt (granddaughter), Danielle Moore (granddaughter), Nadean Lamle (daughter), Clinton Mantz (son), Jade Byrd (great granddaughter), Kalene Summerville (granddaughter) and Ruth Mantz in the center celebrating her 100th birthday with her family. -Story and hoto provided

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