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June 24, 2016 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF HARDIN COUNTY
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Cattlemen packed fairgrounds last weekend Angus cattlemen hold state competition here by Rick Patrie News Editor HARDIN COUNTY – Karli Hager, Alexiss Bradshaw, Kaci Bradshaw, Anistyn Rash and Thain Friest won’t be entered in the Angus breeder’s junior national exposition out in Nebraska this summer. But they are headed there, according to cattleman Terry Swenson of Radcliffe, and don’t be atall surprised to see any or all of them in next year’s event. They got a show tune-up and the next best experience showing cattle right here in Eldora at the local fairgrounds last weekend. Eldora hosted the 2016, Iowa Junior Angus and Iowa Angus Summer Show. About every four or five years it returns to the fairgrounds here. It is the state wide competition for the Angus breeders and growers, and according to local producer Swenson
Think bike safety By Rick Patrie News Editor ELDORA – It is a year after RAGBRAI and if you had pretty much forgotten about bicycles, the city would like to remind you – of a bicycle licensing project it has under way. Police have even set a free bike safety session and young rider’s rodeo to help spread word. The rodeo is Wednesday, July 6 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the south side of the elementary school parking lot. Police, the Eldora EMS and the Eldora Library, are conducting the project. Bike rodeos are designed to help educate kids about safe riding practices and all children who participate are encouraged to bring their own bikes and equipment. Kids should come having a basic bike riding skills. Meanwhile the city is pushing a new initiative, which would have all bike owners license and register their two wheelers with city hall. There is a nominal fee, one time per bike, and the purpose is not so much an enforcement system, as a way to establish a record of ownership. That way if bikes are misplaced or stolen and recovered by police, it is a simple matter of locating the owner and returning the bicycle expeditiously. As it stands now the city finds itself stockpiling bikes at the city shop because their loss is not reported and there is no way to identify the owners.
Newsbriefs Early deadline
Due to the Independence Holiday on Monday, July 4, the deadline for our Tuesday, July 5 edition of the Eldora Herald-Ledger will be Thursday, June 30 at 11 a.m. The Eldora Newspaper office will be closed on Monday, July 4 in observance of the holiday. (continued on page 2)
– who helped organize the event here – the fairgrounds facilities are a big part of the tradition. “The facilities are great,” and make for a great venue for the statewide cattle show. The only thing bigger in the breed is that show coming up in Grand Island. He says, the show held in Eldora is probably every bit as big and representative of the Angus breed as what you will find at the state fair in Des Moines this summer. Shows like the one here in Eldora help producers in number of ways, Swenson says. They are first and foremost a chance for cattle breeders it gets their stock lots of visibility. Sizeable crowds come out to watch, and he says if you doubt, you should have tried to get a motel room (continued on page 2)
Shown are John Rash of Union (l) and Terry Swenson of Radcliffe, local cattlemen who helped organize the state meet here in Eldora.
Pastor Baillie says thanks for the memories by Rick Patrie News Editor STEAMBOAT ROCK – Loyalty is a two way street, and there’s few better examples than the long, long tie established between members of the Steamboat Rock Presbyterian Church and they’re pastor Bruce Baillie. He has been with them for over forty years and they have been his for his entire pastoral life. He says the fidelity traced to the earliest days when he and his wife suffered a great personal loss, and the church membership was there to minister to them. Pastor Baillie came to his first and only call in the ministry, to Steamboat Rock, back in 1975. He and his wife Marcie had an infant son Michael. The child died at 22 months. He says a great deal of what kept him here was that early support from the church membership, and the fact Michael is resting in the community cemetery. In fact, it took more than a few Devine interventions to land him here at all. Pastor Baillie is a native of Canton, Ohio. He graduated from
high school in Ohio and then went, of all places, to Cal-Tech University to study physics and math – it remains one of the premier schools for the disciplines. But, he says, sometime during his junior year he listened to a man named Eric Fife speak at a retreat he was attending. The religious calling was seeded, even though he admits he did resist for a while. But things were simply destined to to be. He says that Cal-Tech was breaking with its long tradition and moving to expand its academic offerings beyond engineering and sciences, and this provided him an opportunity to investigate a turn in his studies. He took advantage. And it wasn’t too long into the new venture he met his wife to be. Both ended up in seminary studies. He would attend Fuller Theological in California, and embark on a couple of years of working and studying. He would finish in 1975. When he completed his ministerial studies he said he put his name out for consideration, and promptly – nothing happened.
BCLUW ok to single mascot
Transition timeline to be announced
By: ROB MAHARRY The Grundy Register CONRAD – It was an issue that could’ve been extremely contentious and emotional, but the BCLUW school board’s unanimous decision to compete as the Comets in all grades and discontinue the use of the “Cobra” mascot at the middle school was met with little resistance during Wednesday night’s regular meeting. And now, the transition period begins: Superintendent Ben Petty and board members warned, however, that it won’t all happen
Then nothing continued to happen. Until one day, out of the blue, Fuller Theological received an inquiry from some people in someplace called Steamboat Rock Iowa, looking for a new pastor. A gentleman named Herman Primus introduced the candidate to the church membership. The rest is the longest chapter of the story. It has been a diverse working life here. In addition to pastoring the church he has tended the cemetery. He has been involved in a number of faith inspired projects. He has taught computer science at Ellsworth Community College and was for 17 years also the church moderator at the East Friesland Church near Ackley, also part time chaplain at the Presbyterian Village there. Now 70 years old he is retiring and this brings to a close two long careers in church work for both he and wife Marcie. They have a daughter Becky whose husband is also a pastor, a daughter Katy who is a veterinarian, and a son Steven who is a violin instructor. Check the celebration invitation to the right.
Miss Owasa is fair bound
Lydia Rose is this year’s Miss Owasa. Lydia is from the community, and is the daughter of Don and Connie right away. After the board met in May, Rose. She recently graduated an online survey was sent out to from high school and will be residents of the BCLUW districts attending college at Emmaus in all five communities, and the in Dubuque this fall. she is now consensus was quite clear: almost vying for Hardin County Fair 87 percent of the 275 respondents Queen. Lydia has been active in the community, church, 4H, (continued on page 4) and South Hardin sports.
Church membership sets June 26 appreciation event On Sunday, June 26, the public is invited to share the memories that accumulated on the way to Pastor Bruce Baillie’s retirement. Pastor Baillie has made an over 40 year career in the Steamboat Rock Presbyterian Church. The celebration begins with worship at 9:30 a.m. at the church and then in the afternoon 1 to 5 p.m. there will be a fellowship time at the Steamboat Rock Boat Club, with a short program set for 2 p.m. There will be refreshments, and organizers plan to have a square dance caller teamed with fiddle music by the Baillie kids. “It is a great chance to celebrate all that God has done and look forward to all that God will do in the years to come. Grace and Peace to you, one and all.” the memorship says.