Here is a look at the Boys State Bowling results that completed on Thursday in Waterloo at Cadillac Lanes.
Class 1A
Class 3A
Class 2A
Here is a look at the Boys State Bowling results that completed on Thursday in Waterloo at Cadillac Lanes.
Class 1A
Class 3A
Class 2A
IAwrestle released their All-State selections on Thursday and Atlantic-CAM heavyweight and State Champion John McConkey was a First Team selection. Here’s a look at area wrestlers that were honored.
First Team
126- Alex Thomsen SR (Underwood)
285- John McConkey SR (Atlantic-CAM)
Second Team
285- Caleb Sanders SR (Glenwood)
Third Team
170- Gabe Pauley JR (AHSTW)
182- Anthony Sherry SR (Glenwood)
Underwood senior wrestler Alex Thomsen received a couple of different top honors on Thursday after picking up his 4th State Championship last weekend.
Thomsen was named the Co-Most Valuable Wresler for 2018 by IAwrestle along with Brody Teske of Fort Dodge. Thomsen also was name the Class 1A Dan Gable Wrestler of the Year by The Predicament.
Thomsen finished his career with a 190-1 record and four state titles. He won at 113 pounds his freshman season and then won the title at 126 the final 3 seasons.
Other honorees for the Dan Gable Wrestler of the Year Award were Michael Blockhus of New Hampton in Class 2A and Brody Teske of Fort Dodge in 3A.
More playoff boys basketball is on the way tonight. Here’s a look at the schedule for area teams. All games are set for 7:00pm tip-offs.
Class 1A District Finals
District 13 @ Clarinda: Nodaway Valley vs. Bedford
District 14 @ Riverside: Stanton vs. St. Albert
District 15 @ Kuemper Catholic: IKM-Manning vs. Tri-Center
Class 3A District Finals
Substate 8 @ Glenwood: Atlantic vs. Glenwood- ON KJAN
Substate 8 @ Harlan: Creston vs. Harlan
Class 4A District Finals
Substate 1: Lewis Central @ Sioux City East
Substate 1: Sioux City West @ CB Abraham Lincoln
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The campaign manager for Gov. Kim Reynolds has left her staff months before the contested Republican primary election. Reynolds confirmed Thursday that Phil Valenziano, one of the state’s top GOP organizers, has moved on and that she would name his replacement in coming weeks. Reynolds had kept Valenziano despite an incident last summer, when he was arrested for public intoxication after being seen urinating outside a West Des Moines bar.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Reynolds thanked Valenziano for helping build grassroots support for her campaign and predicted he would “continue to be a force in Republican politics.”
Valenziano says “now is the appropriate time for me to pursue other opportunities” after working for Reynolds and former Gov. Terry Branstad in different capacities for 8 years. Former Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett is challenging Reynolds in the June primary.
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — A famed Iowa bald eagle watched worldwide on the internet has laid its first egg of the year. The eagle named Mom Decorah laid the egg a little before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, as seen on the Raptor Resource Project eagle webcam . The nonprofit organization says it’s the 30th egg the eagle has dropped at a nest near the Decorah Trout Hatchery in northeast Iowa.
Today (Friday) marks a full decade for the annual Day of Service and Giving on what would have been the 24th birthday of an Eagle Grove boy. Aaron Eilerts was 14 when he was killed by a tornado that hit the Boy Scout camp in Harrison County in 2008. Beth Stephas, a counselor at Robert Blue Middle School, says students at Aaron’s old school are tackling a list of projects, several which were started by Aaron. “We will have students that will be sewing pillow cases like he used to do and donating those to hospitals and care centers,” Stephas says. “We’re going to be decorating pillow cases to send to soldiers. We’ll be making dolls to send to orphanages, pet blankets to send to different veterinary clinics.”
Students have branched off and launched their own community service projects which Stephas says are inspired by Aaron’s memory. “We’ve got some projects that are going to go out to some of our senior citizens and shut-ins, some painting of pots and planting of flowers and making baskets,” Stephas says, “just a variety of projects going on throughout the day.” Stephas says it’s such a treat for the students to be carrying on Aaron’s thoughtful volunteer efforts year after year. “We are honored that we are able to continue this legacy,” she says. “A proclamation was made ten years ago that every year on Aaron’s birthday, there would be a Day of Service and Giving.”
Former Iowa Governor Chet Culver signed a proclamation in 2008 marking February 24th as a statewide Day of Service and Giving in memory of Eilerts. The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center gives out an award each summer to an Iowan who follows the lead of Aaron Eilerts in giving back to their communities during the Iowa Character Counts Awards ceremony.
(Radio Iowa)
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Jim Field visits with Atlantic FFA members Emily Saeugling, Tyler Comes and Cale Pellett during National FFA Week.
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