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Junior High Catholic Religious Educaiton Food Drive Nov. 17 Junior High Catholic Religious Education class will have a food drive for the Harrison County Food Pantry on from 6:30-7:15 p.m. Nov. 17.
The Woodbine Twiner The Official Newspaper of Woodbine, Harrison County, Iowa
www.woodbinetwiner.com November 10, 2010
Volume 132, Issue 46
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2010 ELECTION RESULTS MARY DARLING For The Twiner Election results began trickling into the Harrison County Courthouse Nov. 2 just after 9 p.m., along with candidates and area residents. Absentee ballots, the first results to be posted, gave incumbent Robert Smith and Walter Utman the edge in the Harrison County Supervisors race and Renee King the lead in the Harrison County Treasurer race. Those results wouldn’t change
as precinct results were added throughout the evening. In the final tally, Smith had 2,862 votes and Utman 2,848. Russ Kurth followed with 2,348 and Norma Coret, 1,272. King won the three-way race for treasurer with 2,171 votes, followed by Heather Edney with 1,677 and Sandy Royer, 1,457. “I’m overwhelmed,” an emotional King said, following being congratulated by Auditor Susan Bonham. “It’s been a long haul since January.”
Utman agreed and said, “It’s been quite a race. A lot of work.” “I’m looking forward to working with Bob and Gaylord. I think we can work well together,” Utman said. “I’m ready to go home and take a breather.” Incumbent Lorie Thompson, unopposed for Harrison County Recorder, received 4,546 votes and Harrison County Attorney, Jennifer Mumm, also unopposed, 3,578 votes. In Harrison County in the race for Senate,
Chuck Grassley was the run-a-way winner with 3,870 votes to Roxanne Conlin’s 1,236. Sen. Steve King easily won in Harrison County with 3,420 votes to Matt Campbell’s 1,638. Incumbent State Representative Matt Windschitl, also unopposed, had 4,098 votes. Terry Branstad, who won the Governor’s race in Iowa, also won in Harrison County over incumbent Chet Culver with a total of 3,365 votes to Culver’s 1,767. See ELECTION Page 6
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Caring Rose Week
TAKES WCS Veteran’s Day Program VETERANS: The Woodbine Community School will host a Veteran’s Day Program Nov. 11 in the old high school gym. The program begins at 10 a.m. followed by lunch for the veterans. If you plan to attend, please call the school at 6472440 and provide your name, branch of service, rank and names of current students attending WCS that are your relatives (if applicable) and if you plan on attending lunch. All veterans and the public is invited to attend.
Golden Age Center birthday party
American Legion to meet Nov. 18 The American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at Rose Court. Hostesses will be Mary Lou Brammer and Debbie Holmes with a program on education.
Open house Main Street will host an Open House/ Coffee to recognize five facade improvements at 10 a.m. Feb. 12 at The Golden Age Center. All are invited.
Red Hats to meet Red Hats will meet at noon Nov. 15 at Rose Court. Reservations needed by Nov. 10 by calling Mary Lou Brammer at 647-2229 or Vivian Ohl, 6473404.
NIKKI DAVIS Editor
NIKKI DAVIS Editor
If you ask him, Duane Mann will tell you his time in the service is not that interesting. And while he never saw action on the front lines, he was enlisted throughout the entirety of the Korean War. Mann’s enlistment date is forever recorded as Sept. 27, 1950. “I enlisted because there weren’t a lot of jobs out there after high school,” he said. “At least no jobs with any future. And I just didn’t know what I wanted.” He joined with a fellow Woodbine classmate, Dave Massie and they trained in Great Lakes, Ill. for See MANN Page 6
Woodbine residents Donald “Don: Kelley, Donald “Don” Clark and William “Bill” Harris knew the Korean War was unavoidable when they joined the Army on Oct. 23, 1950. They were 21, 19 and 20 at the time. What they did not know is where and how they would be able to serve their country. There was no one reason they joined together. Actually, there were six of them who enlisted together in the Corps of Army Engineers: Charles Adams, Max Sorey, Vernon Golden and Kelley, Clark and Harris. And there may have been one reason they joined together. “Because those guys did,” Clark said, smiling. Kelley and Harris laughed in agreement. Harris added jokingly, “It just grew when we were together at the pool hall.” “I was actually up for the draft next month and they were already recalling fellows from WWII that were in the reserves. They had just got home and gotten established and then got called back again,” Kelley elaborated. “If I chose to go in, I only had to serve for three years with no reserve time. If I was drafted, I had to serve for two years unless it got extended and then serve in the reserves.” Whatever the reason, the three, Woodbine natives experienced a luxury very few joining the service do: hometown company. Kelley, Clark and Harris were all lumped into See ALASKA Page 7
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Phil Lubbers will “sing for his supper” at the Golden Age Center, leading attendees in a birthday party celebration on Nov. 11. Call 647-3011 for more information, or to reserve a dinner.
NIKKI DAVIS Editor It’s pretty simple math. 2+10=12. That’s the math Everything Ellen and the Harrison County Food Pantry are counting on. Nov. 15-20 marks Everything Ellen’s annual celebration of Caring Rose Week. The program takes place each year the week prior to Thanksgiving. The National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness cosponsor the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. In order to help, Everything Ellen offers a great deal. Customers can bring in two cans of food, pay $10 plus tax ($10.70 total) and walk away with a dozen roses. “It’s been a success,” co-owner Juli Cox said. “That’s why we continue to do it. We don’t do this because it’s a money maker. The $10 only covers the cost and shipping of the roses.” See ROSES Page 6
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