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The Ruthven ZipcodeThe Ruthven Zipcode is published weekly by Palo Alto County Publications, 104 West Robins Street, Graettinger, Iowa 51342

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Help WantedPart Time Job Opening – City of SpencerThe City of Spencer is now accepting applications for a Part Time Employee at the Northern Plains Regional Landfill near Graettinger. Hourly rate is $15.00. Duties include yard maintenance and operating light equipment. Requires Class A CDL or the ability to obtain one. Ap-plications are available on the City of Spencer Website www.spenceriowacity.com Questions may be directed to Mark White, Public Works Director at 712-580-7200 or e-mailed to mwhite@spenceriowacity.com Successful candidate will be required to pass drug screening prior to employment. Application Deadline is May 13, 2019. EOE

Ten Years Ago, May 6, 2009 Maurice Conlon has been named the 2009 Citizen of the Year and will

be honored during Bully Bullhead Week. Maurice and his brother owned and operated Conlon Brothers Tavern for 23 years and he drove school bus for 15 years.

Two teachers at Ruthven/Ayrshire with a combined 60 years of experi-ence is retiring after this year. Mary Ellen Jones is retiring Home Econom-ics teacher with 31 years teaching, 10 at R/A. Mike Feldman is retiring P.E. teacher and coach after 26 years at R/A.

Becca, age 8; Luke, age 3; and James, age 5 Sampson of Ruthven took their stringer of 1.5 to 2 pound bass they caught to Murphy’s Bait Shop to have their picture taken.

There will be a come and go bridal shower honoring Amy Berry, bride elect of Kyle Orwig, this Saturday at the Ruthven Social Center.

History Day exhibits; ‘Hitler’s Origin of Hate’ by Mark Geelan, Calvin Pomeroy and Zach Loring – and ‘Rosalind Franklin’ by Megan Alexander, Hannah Cacek, Chelsea Teague and Logan Fischer both advanced to the state show in Des Moines.

Eighteen Years Ago, May 2, 2001 The Iowa Lakes Community College choir and jazz band performed at

Ruthven/Ayrshire school on Thursday. 2000 R/A graduates Brandon Han-sen is a member of the choir and Matt Kenny and member of the jazz band.

The board of directors of the Iowa State Bank has approved a major remodeling to the interior and the front entrance of the bank with Ver Steeg Construction of Spencer getting the contract.

Michael W. Brookshire, son of Kathy and Randy Holt of Ayrshire, received three $500 scholarships to attend North Iowa Area Community College this fall in pre-engineering.

Meredith Allen and Brian Hersom, both seniors at Ruthven/Ayrshire, took first place honors at the Corn Belt Conference Art Show in West Bend.

Forty Eight Years Ago, May 14, 1970 Ed Marxen and Iver Holgren will be heading up the Avenue of Flags on

Memorial Day at Crown Hill Cemetery to honor our deceased Veterans. It looks like there will be 50 flags in the avenue this year.

Miss Martha Ellen Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnson of Ruthven, will receive special recognition as an Honors Student at the University of Northern Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith of Ruthven are the proud parents of a new baby daughter born April 30th and she was named Melissa Rose.

Miss Marjorie McMillan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester McMillan, has been honored as Dimmitt Scholar at Morningside College in Sioux City.

Dennis Molitor, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Molitor of Ruthven took first place and won $15 in the Palo Alto Soil Conservation Contest while David Kassel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kassel of Ayrshire took second place for a $10 prize.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lee are being honored this Sunday at an open house in the Ruthven school gym as Homer is retiring after 19 years as school custodian.

With the exception of a 4 run outburst in the sixth inning, Rams pitcher Bill Hoben kept the Rembrandt tea, under control as the Rams defeated Rembrandt in the sectional baseball opener 9 to 4. Ted Brown led the Rams attack with 3 straight hits including a home run in the fourth with Kevin Grange on base. Tom Barber and Bill Campney came up with some fine defensive plays.

Janis McMillin, Roxie Miller and Gary Grange, all students at Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, spent their weekend at home in Ruthven.

Sixty Eight Years Ago, May 2, 1951 Jess Schmidt, who owns a boat line on Lost Island Lake, has repealed

a decision by the State Tax Authority to place a tax of 2% on boat rentals. Two high school girls have received scholarships to attend nursing

schools. Jeannie M. Stewart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart and

Ruthven Rain ReportDate/ Amt / Total For Year April 30 .34 7.87May 2 .03 7.90May 3 Tr. 7.90

Ruthven Public Library Begins Summer Hours

by Jay Schoning The Ruthven Public Library is

celebrating summer! Well, summer hours that is. The library has changed their hours to their new summer hour schedule and is now open Mondays from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The library is closed on Tuesdays and Sundays.

UnapprovedRuthven-Ayrshire Board of EducationSpecial Meeting MinutesMonday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.Ruthven-Ayrshire Board RoomThe Ruthven-Ayrshire Board of Edu-

cation held a special meeting with the following in attendance: Larry

Conlon, Tracy Enderson, Stephanie Fay, Bruce Long, Darin Malm, Heather Ruehle, Susan Sikora, Alyssa

Enderson, SBO and Andrew Woi-wood, Superintendent.

I. Call to Order - President Long at 7:00 p.m.

II. Approve Agenda- Enderson moved to approve the Agenda. Second by Fay. Motion carried.

III. Business & Action ItemsA. Approve the 2019-2020 Master

Contract- Memorandum of Understand-ing-

Motion was made by Conlon to ap-prove the 2019-2020 Master Contract-Memorandum of

Understanding. Second by Fay. Mo-tion carried.

B. Student/Board Notes - Enderson presented the notes from the Student and Board

Meeting.IV. Adjourn - Conlon moved to ad-

journ the meeting at 7:55 p.m. Second by Enderson.

Motion carried.Kelli Harmon, Board Secretarypublished May 8, 2019

a senior at Ruthven School – and Bertha Hanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hanson and a senior at Lake Center; received scholarships from the Iowa division of the Ameri-can Cancer Society. Jeannie will be attending St. Josephs in Mason City and Bertha will be attending Iowa Methodist in Des Moines.

The Ruthven American Legion has purchased the Nolan buildings west of Osterhus Garage and will re-model them for their own use.

Dairy farmers throughout the na-tion and especially in Iowa are wor-ried about the decline in consump-tion of butter. Since 1940, butter consumption has dropped from 16.9 pounds to 10.5 pounds per person per year while margarine has increased from 2.4 pounds to 5.1 pounds. This has local creamery’s in Ruthven and Graettinger worried – and the Fallow creamery has recently closed.

The ice went out of Lost Island Lake last Thursday, April 26.

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Proceeding of the Ruthven-Ayrshire School Board

“Thank You to Our Children and their Families for the 50th Anniversary Celebration. We would like to Thank Our Family and Friends Who Attended, along with all the Congratulations, Cards, Gifts, Phone Calls and Text Messages We Received on Our Special Day”

Farrell and Mary Lou Sirovy

Lost Island Ditch Clean-Up DaySaturday May 18

at 7:30 a.m.Meet at the Corner Store for Coffee & Rolls

Kandi’s Flower Market3930 300th Street (just off Hwy 4) Graettinger

859-3597/298-2676 kandisflowers.com

Open for the season Hours 8:30-7 Mon-Fri

8:30-5:00 Sat11:00-5:00 Sunday

Beautiful Combo Hanging Baskets

Vegetables of all kinds plus strawberries,

asparagus, rhubarb and raspberries

Succulents Galore!

Geraniums, petunias and so many more beauties for your garden or front step

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Mackenzie Berkland Awarded $1,000 Farm Bureau Scholarship

Mackenzie Berkland is Awarded a Farm Bureau Scholarship

A hypnotic bunch of after prom partiers – but can one really be hypnotized? Medical science says it is easy to hypnotize a person who wants to be hypnotized because all hypnosis is, in the end, self-hypnosis. Contrary to popular misconceptions, hypnotism is not mind-control or mystical powers. You, as the hypnotist, are mostly a guide to help the person relax and fall into a trance-state, or waking sleep.

The Iowa Farm Bureau awarded $180,000 to current and future col-lege students as agriculture drives Iowa’s economy and employment, with more than one in five jobs in the state tied to agriculture, and students from around the state see a bright future with countless agri-cultural-based career opportunities. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) this year is awarding $1,000 scholarships for tuition to 180 stu-dents who plan to study agriculture at their chosen colleges and univer-sities. Receiving the scholarship lo-cally was Mackenzie Berkland of Ruthven, the daughter of Curt and Lisa Berkland, who plans to attend Black Hawk College in Moline,

Illinois and who will be on the col-lege’s horse judging team. This next generation of leaders in agriculture will study a variety of ar-eas ranging from animal science and genetics to agriculture business and agriculture education. “Throughout our 100-year history of supporting Iowa farm families and their commu-nities, Farm Bureau has always been a strong supporter of Iowa youth, and by supporting these students, we are investing in the future of Iowa,” says IFBF Community Resources Man-ager Ronnette Vondrak. “Since 1997 we’ve awarded more than 1,200 scholarships to help students pur-sue their dreams in the ag field, and we’re honored to help these young leaders start their college studies and help put them on a path to achieving their career goals.” First-time Farm Bureau scholarship recipients include 54 graduating high school seniors or students currently enrolled in their chosen college or university. Students are eligible to renew the scholarships for up to four years by maintaining a minimum grade point average of 2.5 and by be-ing a student in good standing with the college or university. First-time applicants were asked to write an essay indicating the con-tributions they expect to make to agriculture and the rural commu-nity. They also were selected based on their academic achievement, financial need, community and ex-tracurricular involvement and let-ters of recommendation. Mackenzie Berkland will be a 2019 graduate of Emmetsburg High School.

was one letter signed by 123 peo-ple of our community nominating Larry – the other letter of nomina-tion was from Alan Oppedal.

In the letter signed by many, it read: “We would like to nominate Larry Coleman as Citizen of the Year. He donates long hours and lots of fuel after every snow to ensure that countless in our com-munity are able to get into and out of their homes. He has spent many hours helping to prepare Freedom Rock Park doing groundwork and serving on the committee”

“He is very supportive of local businesses and the Ruthven com-munity. He purchases rolls of Life-savers every week to handout to children at church. Our community is truly blessed to have such a gen-erous, thoughtful, considerate, and supportive ‘Lifesaver’ as one of our own and would love to have him recognized as this year’s Citizen of the Year.”

In the letter from Alan Oppedal, Alan writes “I would like to nomi-nate Larry Coleman for Citizen of the Year. Larry is an individual who has lived in the community all of his life. He is a person who recognizes the good in people and is always willing to help someone in need. He is an authority on com-munity history and is a person with genuine qualities of empathy and compassion.”

Larry was certainly surprised as he received several congratulations from those at the café. Larry will be officially honored and recognized at the Bully Bullhead Weekend Cit-izen of the Year presentation at the Iowa State Bank on July 5th. Con-gratulations and thanks for all you do for this community Larry.

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Arts On Grand Welcomes Long Time Local Artist

Arts On Grand will be welcoming long-time local artist Dennis Dykema back to the gallery this May. His new exhibition, “Since We Last Met” will be on display from May 14th until June 22nd. There will be a reception with the artist and a brief talk on Thursday, May 16th from 5:30 to 7:30. Dennis Dykema is a native of Worthington, Minnesota. He studied art at Morningside College and then received a master’s degree in painting from University of Northern Iowa in 1970. He began teaching art at Buena Vista University immediately after graduating from UNI and continued until retir-ing in 2001. Since 2006, he has lived in Spirit Lake. Dykema established himself as one of Iowa’s most passionate painters of Iowa’s landscapes. This recent body of work began in 2014, a year after viewing a large exhibition of early paintings by Richard Diebenkorn. Much of this work by Diebenkorn was more intensely colored and expressively painted than his famed Ocean Park series, which he began immediately after the paintings viewed by Dykema. The oil paintings on canvas and paper that Dykema has created in response are vivid and passionate interpretations of our region's land.

Kayley Ruehle is learning the correct way to throw an atlatl at the Lost Island Nature Center as Isabella Magana is next in line.

Gavin Dodd pulls back and gives it his all with throwing the atlatl at the Lost Island Nature Center; which is a spear like stick used in primitive times to hunt food.

Ruthven Zipcode 712-346-

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