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June 14, 2016
Steamboat recalls the homefront
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF HARDIN COUNTY
When voting was a thrill by Rick Patrie News Editor HARDIN COUNTY – One more election in the books. And, if you think politics has stepped off the deep end and then found a deeper end yet...and stepped off it... You are not alone. Someone with the perspective of 100 years agrees with you. Listen to Rachel Anderson, 100 years old last November, a true blue American who cast her first ballot on election day – her birthday – at the age of 21. And she has not missed a vote since. Not one. What’s her thoughts for younger (continued on page 4)
Fair open classes recruiting
HARDIN COUINTY – Have you taken some great photos this year, created scrapbook pages, painted or drawn, knitted, crocheted or crafted? Do you enjoy baking or canning? Is your garden bursting with beautiful flowers or growing vegetables? If so, please share your talents at the Hardin County Fair Open Class and allow others to enjoy your skills while also competing for prize money. The Hardin County Fair is July 6-10, 2016; open class is for individuals of all ages. The three age divisions are Junior – ages 10 and under; Teen – ages 11 – 18; Adult – 19 and over. Ribbons and prize money are awarded to the first three places in (continued on page 4)
Newsbriefs Vacation Bible School June 20-24
Eldora United Methodist Church and St. Mary Catholic Church are teaming up for a Cave Quest Vacation Bible School on June 20-24 from 8:15-11:30 a.m. with registration opening at 7:45 a.m. on June 20 at Eldora United Methodist Church. Cost is $10 a child or $20 per family. We hope everyone can join us for a fun week of learning about Jesus!!
Walter Sayer Post 182 mtg. June 15
Walter Sayer Post 182, American Legion meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Legion Post at 1215 Washington St., Eldora.
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This has been a great summer, if you like the history of the Thirties and Forties here in Iowa. Two weeks ago a chronicler of the Civilian Conservation Corps told his story, and now a researcher into Depression era farm life and World War years is coming next.
By Rick Patrie News Editor STEAMBOAT ROCK – Dr, Lisa Ossian wrote the book on Iowa in the Thirties and Forties. In fact she has written three of them and is well into writing a fourth. Her story is Iowa in the Depression, Iowa on the home front for World War II, children growing up in the war years, and the impact of some of Iowa’s more memorable personalities on the early post war rebuilding years. The Des Moines Area Community College professor of history will be bringing the Iowa on the Home Front story to Steamboat Rock in a presentation set at the old City Hall Building on June 18 at 10 a.m. Ossian comes under the auspices of Humanities Iowa, and its speaker’s bureau, which any given year engages upwards of 50 presenters, specialists in Iowa Humanities subjects. She has been with Humanities
Dr, Lisa Ossian has written three books and has a fourth coming out on the subject of rural Iowa in the Thirties and Forties. She is sharing her stories, of Iowa on the homefront in Iowa during WWII at a stop in Steamboat Rock.
Iowa for roughly 10 years. Her contributions from the home front divided into four historical sections: the farm front, the production front, the community front, and the kitchen front. Food for Freedom directed American farmers in the all-out production needed for the war effort and the Allies’ relief, and Iowa farmers led the nation in crop and livestock production. Iowa’s small businesses and industries such as Maytag added to the “Arsenal of Democracy” by filling many military sub-contract orders while the two newly constructed ordnance plants in Burlington and Ankeny produced thousands of bombs and millions of machine gun bullets. Iowa’s small towns and cities matched and exceeded records in the eight War Bond Drives as well as the numerous scrap drives for iron, paper, rubber, and tin, and Iowa’s women met the rationing and production requirements demanded from the federal government in all
home kitchens. Ossian earned her master’s degree in women’s studies at Eastern Michigan University and her doctorate at Iowa State University in agricultural history and rural studies. Her three books– (1) The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945; (2) The Forgotten Generation: American Children and World War II; and (3) The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929-1933–were published by the University of Missouri Press. She is currently researching and writing her next book tentatively titled ‘The Grimmest Spectre’: The World Famine Emergency, Herbert Hoover’s Mission, She says this is her first stop in the Eldora Steamboat Rock area. Ossian says she found her historical niche back in 1998 when she was looking for a topic for her doctoral dissertation at Iowa State University. Her professor was the late Dorothy Schwieder, at the time considered the dean of Iowa
historians. Schwieder suggested the period and since that time Ossian has completed the three volumes drawn from it. She is working on a fourth book now about some Iowans’ out of the oridinary impact on world wide relief efforts in the wake of the second war and all the refugee problems it caused. “Iowa’s Maurice Pate probably saved more children’s lives than anyone you have heard of.” UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II and Maurice Pate, American humanitarian and businessman, co-founded the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) with Herbert Hoover, (continued on page 6)
Hardin 4-H spurs veterinary careers by Rick Patrie News Editor HARDIN COUNTY – It seems the world of veterinary medicine need look no further than Hardin County and its 4-H program when it comes to ensuring as steady stream of vets. You could ask the Iowa State University’s School of veterinary medicine. Among the pre=eminent veterinary schools in the country, it currently has two Hardin County young women working toward a doctor of veterinary medicine degree. And while 4-H gave both an early outlet for their interest in animals, it has now given each of them a major boost in covering the cost of their education.
Recent recipients of Iowa 4-H Foundation awards were Megan Pieters of Steamboat Rock and Rachael Ostrem of Radcliffe. Pieters was awarded the $3,500 Mahr Family Veterinary Medicine 4-H Scholarship through the Iowa 4-H Foundation at the recognition event Sunday, June 5 in Ames. The Iowa 4-H Foundation had announced the recipients of over 70 Iowa 4-H college scholarships valued at almost $70,000. Recipients accepted their awards at the Foundation’s Scholarship Reception held in the Scheman Building at Iowa State University. Over 500 applications were submitted and scholarships were (continued on page 4) Rachel Ostrem is pictured to the left and below are Albert Grunenwald, Executive Director of the Iowa 4-H Foundation, Loren Mahr, Megan Pieters and Carol Mahr, left to right, pose after Pieters is awarded the $3,500 Mahr Family Veterinary Medicine 4-H Scholarship at the June 5 recognition event. Both Ostrem and Pieters are currently studying in the veterinary medicine school at Iowa State University and recently won substantial scholarships from the Iowa 4-H Foundation.
Great launch
Great start to the swim season. The first two days alone brought in 350 kids and adults for the Eldora Aquatic Center. The weather, of course, cooperated ushering in mid 90 temperatures. Those that came out found the pool freshened up, a whole new paint job for this season.
Relay for Life The 2016 American Cancer Society Relay for Life in Hardin County came back to the South Hardin High School track. No one need go hungry during the 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. event which brought in teams and individual walkers who accumulated laps around the athletics grounds in exchange for donations toward the Cancer Society. The night was full of ceremony remembering those lost to cancer and celebrating those who have battled it successfully. Check Friday’s Index for pictures from the evening.