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A Year of Celebrations A smokin’ success By all accounts, the first ever Tri City BBQ Fest on Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20, in Denison was a success.

The BBQ Fest, organized by the Chamber & Development Council of Crawford County (CDC), featured 21 barbecue contestants competing for points, trophies and prize money in a Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) sanctioned event.

Concerts, games for children, an art show, tours of historical places and, of course, food, were other highlights.

Individuals of all ages, from infants in strollers to great-grandparents, could be found milling around the food vendors, sitting at the picnic tables on Broadway, enjoying the attractions located on Broadway, North Main and Center Street and attending the concerts in the Hy-Vee parking lot.

Michelle Ertz, Crawford County Tourism coordinator, said the at-

Back Road Bash in Vail

Brian Cable, one of the Tri City BBQ Fest judges, tears into a baby back rib during judging, which began at noon on September 20. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

tendance at the September 19 concert featuring Hairball was estimated at 3,500. An economic impact study conducted by the CDC said the festival attracted an estimated

Joe Diffie entertained the crowd at the Back Road Bash in Vail on September 6 in 2014. The Back Road Bash will return to Vail on September 5 in 2015, according to Tommy Bomstad with Alpha Adventures. The annual country concert will again be at the schoolyard of the old elementary school building in Vail. The Back Road Bash was started by Vail natives Ted Hawley and Rodney Bell II. The line-up for the 2015 concert will be announced in the future. Photo by Todd Danner

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7,000 to 10,000 individuals each day.

The 2015 edition of the Tri City BBQ Fest will remain on the third weekend of September, September 18 and 19.

Pat Fleshner, a board member of the Donna Reed Foundation, gives a tour on June 21 during an open house and rededication of the 100-year-old Germania Opera House, now called the Donna Reed Center.

The Germania Opera House was later named the Denison Opera House and The Ritz Theatre before becoming the Donna Reed Center. The Germania Opera House was formally dedicated on May 18, 1914. Photo by Gordon Wolf

DMU events celebrate anniversaries Huge crowds of people filled Broadway Friday evening, September 19, as they take in the activities at the Tri City BBQ Fest. Eating, drinking and a lot of socializing took place before, during and after the Hairball concert began. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

Freedom Rock Workers scurry to get the several-ton Crawford County Freedom Rock positioned in downtown Manilla in May as the belts holding the rock are removed one by one. City employees, firefighters, citizens and business people all contributed to the placing of the rock on the landscaped site. Photo by Bruce A Binning

Denison Municipal Utilities (DMU) conducted several events throughout the year to celebrate the 100th anniversaries of the electric and wastewater utilities and the 130th anniversary of the water utility.

On Saturday, June 14, DMU opened its facilities for tours, and on Saturday, August 2, DMU hosted an open house at its service center and business office. The open house featured a free picnic lunch, information about the electric and water services, information about rebates for energy efficient improvements and music. About 350 people attended the open house.

Mary Bilsten pedals to generate electricity to light a couple of bulbs as Rory Weis keeps tabs on her progress during an open house on August 2 to celebrate the 100th anniversaries of the electric and wastewater utilities and the 130th anniversary of the water utility. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

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Crime

McKinnon receives probation After serving three months of a 10-year prison sentence, Michael Todd McKinnon, 43, a former fire chief for the City of Denison, had his sentence and fine suspended and was released on three years’ probation after a hearing in Crawford County District Court on Friday, May 23.

McKinnon had been sentenced to prison on March 25, 2013, on the charge of theft in the first degree, a Class C felony, after a special audit and investigation accused him of making $95,896.01 worth of improper and unsupported disbursements from July 2, 2005, to March 31, 2010.

McKinnon served as Denison’s first paid fire chief from January 18, 1999, to January 3, 2010.

Authorities investigated the scene of a double homicide and a fire at 1872 Milford Road in Crawford County.

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Scrap metal theft turns into confrontation, double-homicide Hounding crime Bayou, Crawford County’s drug-detecting and tracking Belgian Malinois, is shown with her handling officer, Deputy Corey Utech, left, and Crawford County Sheriff Jim Steinkuehler, in this photo originally published on April 1. From April 1 through early August, Bayou had assisted in 38 arrests. Steinkuehler said Bayou is good about walking around a vehicle and telling if there are any narcotics, which then gives law enforcement the right to search the vehicle.

A scrap metal theft led to the double homicide of 80-year-old Marvin Huelsing and 81-year-old Alice Huisenga on Monday, March 10.

Their bodies were discovered when fire departments responded to a report of a burning trailer and pickup on Huelsing’s property at 1872 Milford Road, located northeast of Denison and southeast of Deloit.

On March 13, three suspects were arrested and each were charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of first degree arson: Michael D. Schenk, 26; Jayden R. Chapman, 19; and Erika Dains, 36, all of Denison.

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Ag in 2014 In agriculture, at least one headline was the same at the beginning of the year as the end: a decision about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

In January 2014, agriculture groups and agriculture leaders in Iowa were going to battle with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a proposed reduction in the volume of corn-based ethanol proposed to be blended in 2014.

In December, the issue was the EPA’s delay in announcing the final 2014 RFS rule until 2015, which elected officials said prolongs the uncertainty for the biofuels industry. By law, the EPA should have announced the 2015 RFS standard in November 2014.

The weather, of course, was a top news topic for producers in 2014. The planting season began with optimism about the 2014 crop season. Despite some delays due to weather, the season started well, according to comments from Iowa State University Extension field agronomists.

As the season progressed, rain, wind and hail became factors.

For the week ending July 6, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that only 2.6 days were suitable for field work, on a statewide average. It marked the third consecutive week with less than three suitable days for field work. And State Climatoloist Harry Hillaker, with the Iowa Department of Agriculture, reported that heavy rains fell across the state for the third consecutive week. He added that high winds and/or large

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A decision that faced many producers last fall was whether to allow their crops to dry naturally in the fields to avoid the cost of using liquid propane, or risk the lodging (bending) of plants due to deteriorating conditions.

Clarke McGrath, an Iowa State University Extension field agronomist who serves counties in western Iowa, said crops are supposed to deteriorate or mature, but the process was not as smooth as normal, due to the weather. The overabundance of moisture led to disease issues in both corn and soybean fields that were predicted to cause yield losses in some cases. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

hail was reported from 24 counties on June 29 and from 41 counties on June 30, and every county between Interstate 80 and Highway 20 reported severe weather on one or both of those days.

By August, crops in western Iowa were measuring up for a bountiful harvest, with the caveat that in the weeks until harvest, weather could still play an integral role.

In addition, Extension field agronomists warned of pockets of northern corn leaf blight, although this infestation didn’t spread as much as it might have, due to cooperative weather.

The crop situation became more variable by early September. Extension field agronomists reported that the overall condition of the corn and soybean crops depended a farm’s location in western Iowa, and that the distance of a few miles could mean the difference between a bumper crop, a significant yield

loss or no crop at all. In northwest and southwest Iowa, ISU Extension field agronomists said the crops were doing quite well.

The effects of diseases on the crops couldn’t be determined until harvest, they said. In west central Iowa, ISU Extension field agronomist Clarke McGrath used the word “deteriorating” to describe the crops in his area.

He said crops are supposed to deteriorate or mature, but the process was not progressing as smoothly as normal, due to the weather. He added an overabundance of moisture led to disease issues for both corn and soybeans.

A severe storm on Sunday, August 31, damaged only a small percentage of crops in the northwest Iowa counties, and crops in southwest Iowa received some wind damage in the August 31 and September 9 storms.

McGrath reported that tens of thousands of

Huelsing died from multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of Huisenga’s death was described as the result of homicidal violence.

Schenk and Chapman pleaded not guilty to the charges. Dains plead to lesser charges with the promise to testify as the prosecution’s witness against Schenk and Chapman, if called.

The trial for Schenk began on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, at the Crawford County Courthouse. Chapman’s trial was scheduled for April 28 and will be moved from Crawford County to a county yet to be determined.

acres were impacted moderately to severely in west central Iowa and thousands of acres of corn were flattened by both straight line and tornado-related winds on August 31.

As the harvest began in October, producers in west central Iowa were encouraged to weigh the benefits of a natural drydown of corn in the field versus the risk of losing some yield due to the health of the stalks.

In November, ISU Extension field agronomists reported highly variable yields.

In central Iowa, beans yielded from the 20s to the high 70s and corn yields were from 129 bushels per acre to more than 260 bushels per acre. Northwest Iowa saw good yields, with beans hitting 60 and 70 bushels per acre in well-drained fields. Corn yields varied greatly, from 150 to 220 bushels per acre. West central Iowa also saw wide swings in yields.

New and returning members of local boards were decided in the November 4 general election. Crawford County voters decided two hotly-contested local races.

In a five-way race for three board of supervisors seats, voters chose incumbents Eric Skoog and Steve Ulmer and newcomer Kyle R. Schultz.

Schultz, a Republican from Charter Oak, was the top vote-winner with 2,871 votes, followed by Skoog, of Denison, and Ulmer, of Arion, with 2,792 and 2,337 votes, respectively. Skoog and Ulmer are Republicans.

Dave Muhlbauer, a Democrat from Manilla, received 2,084 votes, and Jerry Buller, an incumbent from Kiron, received 1,821 votes.

Buller was nominated by petition for the general election after he was edged out in the June Republican primary for supervisor by one vote.

In a seven-way race for three seats on the Crawford County Memorial Hospital board, voters chose newcomers Thomas Gustafson and Linda Dreibelbis and incumbent Thomas Eller. Gustafson received 2,566 votes, followed by Eller, with 1,992, and Dreibelbis with 1,991. Rich Knowles received 1,252 votes and Mario Flores received 1,158 votes. Incumbents Virgie Deiber-Henningsen and Carol Swanson received 1,103 and 1,000 votes, respectively. Both DeiberHenningsen and Swanson had resigned from the hospital board, effective Friday, October 31.

One vote still counts

The lesson that one vote still counts was emphasized in the June 3 primary election for the Crawford County Board of Supervisors. When the supervisors canvassed the votes on June 10, they found that incumbents Jerry Buller and Steve Ulmer were locked in a 541-vote tie. Lots were drawn, and Ulmer was declared the winner when his name was drawn from a hat.

A recount, requested by Buller, was conducted on Thursday, June 19. The result of the recount was 541 votes for Ulmer and 540 votes for Buller.

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Weather

2014 starts Labor Day weekend storm will be with a blast remembered for its power, destruction of icy wind The year 2014 started with icy temperatures and dangerously low wind chill factors. On Monday, January 6, the temperature reached 17 degrees below zero. A wind chill of 39 degrees below zero was recorded at the Denison Municipal Airport, with a northwest wind of 16 miles per hour.

The cold caused the first day of school after the Christmas break to be cancelled.

Water restrictions removed in August All water restrictions for customers of Denison Municipal Utilities (DMU) were removed when the DMU board members voted unanimously on Monday, August 18, to lift the Water Watch. At that time, the water levels in the DMU’s wells were six to 12 feet higher than the same time in 2013.

The Water Watch, the first of three water conservation steps, which comprise the utilities’ water conservation plan, had been in effect from March 1 to June 10 in 2013 and from September 9, 2013, through June 1, 2014.

DMU implemented a more restrictive Water Warning on June 1. On July 22, the DMU board voted to release the Water Warning and scale back to the Water Watch, due to the improving water levels in the wells.

DMU continued its search for more sources of water in 2014, and late in 2014 and into 2015 was negotiating with the Reimers family for property just north of the Crawford County Fairgrounds where three wells are proposed.

Labor Day 2014 will be remembered for the massive clean-up effort that took place in Denison and Crawford County.

A storm that produced strong winds, upwards of six inches of rain and some hail battered the area shortly after 6:50 p.m. Sunday, August 30. The storm also produced a spectacular thunder and lightning show.

Crawford County was under a tornado warning until 7:40 p.m. on August 30.

Sirens sounded in Denison and residents were advised to take cover. The county was also under severe thunderstorm warning and a flash flood warning.

A downpour caused creeks to flood.

The Boyer River was bank full at 19 feet at the Avenue C bridge in Denison but did not flood. The Boyer River stayed at 19 feet for quite a while and then the water level started to drop. The East Boyer River did not approach flood stage. Staff at Farmland Foods took flood prevention steps in case the Boyer River went out of its banks. Highway 39 was closed after a dam for a farm pond was breached. Highway 141 by Charter Oak was closed off and on and water was up against the bottom of the bridge over the Soldier River in the community.

Branches were strewn throughout the area, and in many locations, large trees were uprooted. Lightning struck the ground near a storm chaser, who was taken to Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison and then transferred to a Sioux City hospital.

Five campers were overturned at Yellow Smoke Park east of Denison. Tree branches fell on the roofs of other campers. No one in the campgrounds was injured. However, Mike Curnyn, of Denison, ended up weathering the storm in his trailer. He thought the storm was going north of the campgrounds, and by the time he realized it wasn’t, it was too late to head for shelter in the park’s beach house. His camper rocked back and forth and then was pushed about five feet forward. “I thought I was going to die,” he said. Curnyn added he had never heard so much thunder or seen

A tractor lies on its side and a pair of pickups lie under a collapsed roof on the Terry and Leah Preul farm on Vernon Voss Road northwest of Denison. The home was surrounded by large trees that were blown over, one by the roots, in the August 30 storm. Miraculously, none of the fallen trees touched the home, but all five outbuildings, including two barns and others, were totally destroyed. Photo by Bruce A. Binning so much lightning in his life.

Some fields of corn and soybeans took a hit from the August 30 storm.

Clarke McGrath, an Iowa State University Extension field agronomist, said it was difficult to determine how many acres were damaged because the storm was so violent and widespread. He said tens of thousands of acres were affected moderately to severely and that thousands of acres of corn were flattened by straight-line winds and tornado-related winds.

Storms throughout the summer took a toll on the county’s roads. On September 2, County Engineer Paul Assman said a very preliminary estimate of damages from the August 30 storm was in the $500,000 to $750,000 range, and the total damage done to county roads during the summer was approaching $1 million.

In September, crews from the Crawford County Secondary Roads Department worked 10-hour days to repair the damage caused by the summer’s flash floods.

One storm, which occurred the night

The view above is typical of how streets appeared in Schleswig after a storm occurred the morning of Monday, June 30.

Volunteers by the score helped clean up the mess. Delbert Schmidt uses a chain saw to break down branches at Fourth Street and Elm Street. In the background, Troy Kluender takes a pickup load of branches to the dumping site. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

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Health

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Media day at new Manning hospital Amy Dawson, chief clinical officer, instructs visitors during the Wednesday, April 23, media tour about the benefits of the operating room at the new Manning Regional Healthcare Center facility, scheduled to begin serving patients May 19. Photo by Greg Forbes

CCMH services expanded Expanded services, an addition to the medical clinic, and dialysis study were among the events of 2014 at Crawford County Memorial Hospital.

At the May meeting of the CCMH board of directors, CEO and president Bill Bruce announced that the hospital had been successful in securing the services of a four-physician nephrology group, based in Sioux City, and that the group would begin to provide services in June.

At the same meeting, Bruce announced that Dr. Paul Matthews, who previously was a family practice provider at the hospital’s medical clinic, would return and begin offering services.

In 2014, CCMH added a 64-slice CT scanner, which is able to create detailed cross-sectional images. Three primary benefits of the new machine are vastly improved image quality and diagnostic value, the use of substantially less radiation and upgradeable diagnostics.

On September 22, a dialysis joint task force recommended asking the Crawford County Board of Supervisors to offer a general obligation bond to voters for approval, to fund a dialysis center. Dialysis center updates continue to be on the agenda for CCMH board meetings.

Don Luensmann, director of marketing and development at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, guides visitors on a tour through the Main Campus Clinic’s new addition on Friday morning, September 19.

The new addition houses the offices and exam rooms for orthopedics, OB/ GYN and general surgery. Construction on the 6,000 square-foot addition began in November 2013.

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Two years before, on March 1, 2012, Tyson reported that an improvement project at its Dakota City, Nebraska, beef complex might lead to the closure of the Denison plant in 2013.

In March, a spokesperson for Tyson Foods said the Dakota City project was taking longer than originally expected, and, in addition, the clos-

ing of beef plants by some of Tyson’s competitors, coupled with reduced feed prices for cattle, created more opportunities for keeping beef production viable at Denison.

The Denison plant, which employs more than 380 people, is the original Iowa Beef Packers plant.

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Denison’s ISO rating improves In May, Denison officials learned that the community’s fire suppression rating from the Insurance Services Office (ISO) improved to a Class 4 rating, based on a Public Protection Classification (PPC) survey conducted in the fall of 2013. The improved rating may mean lower insurance premiums for owners of commercial and residential property in the Denison Volunteer Fire Department District.

Denison had been at a Class 5 rating. Ratings range from Class 1 to Class

10. No Iowa communities have the top Class 1 rating. The Class 4 rating, which went into effect on August 1, moved Denison into the top four percent of Iowa communities in terms of ISO ratings. The majority of Iowa communities have a Class 9 rating.

Denison Fire Chief Cory Snowgren said many little things relating to the operation of the fire department resulted in the improved ISO rating. He added that some factors carry greater value than others in the survey.

A view of the live fire training facility Denison Fire Chief Cory Snowgren points to a feature of the live fire training facility and explains its use to a group of visitors during an open house on Sunday afternoon, June 29. A couple hundred people toured the new training facility and enjoyed s’mores.

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Hunger Fighters add 7th school Crawford County Hunger Fighters (CCHF) announced in February that Boyer Valley Elementary School in Dow City partnered with CCHF and became the seventh school in Crawford County to distribute the Backpack Program to qualified students in grades kindergarten through five.

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Government

City hall plans for temporary quarters City officials for Denison announced in late December that city hall would be closed from January 12 through 19, 2015, to prepare for the renovation of the 1895-era building.

During the six to seven months of major renovation, city hall offices will be in the lower level of the Broadway & Main Mall at 1231 Broadway.

Sioux Contractors, of Sioux City, was awarded the contract to do the renovation. The city hall renovation bids were about $230,000 more than the architect’s estimate.

City Clerk Lisa Koch estimated the cost of the project could be $970,000, including architect fees, asbestos abatement and the replacement of windows (other than the front windows that were part of the bid specifications). The city budgeted $700,000 for the project; that figure includes $600,000 from bond sales and the use of up to $100,000 from a capital improvement fund. The city proposes to fund the remaining costs with a general fund loan agreement, for which the city would seek bids from local banks.

Plans were approved and bids taken in 2014 on a project that will renovate the 1895-era Denison City Hall building to its historic appearance on the outside. The interior will be renovated for effective use of space and energy efficiency. The council chambers will move from the first floor to the second floor. Photo by Bruce A. Binning

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Denison-Schleswig head baseball coach Don Lyons picked up his 600th career victory during the 2014 season. IKM-Manning head softball coach Joy Gross also joined the 600-win club last summer.

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University of Iowa Hawkeye Brandon Scherff was named the 69th recipient of the 2014 Outland Trophy Award winner, honoring college football’s top interior lineman. Recognized as a consensus All-American, Scherff is now preparing for the NFL Draft that will take place at the end of April.

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Denison-Schleswig seniors Jorge Partida and Mitch Cam both competed in the Class 3A portion of the state wrestling tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Partida placed eighth overall for the Monarchs.

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The Ar-We-Va boys got to within one game of the state basketball tournament in Class 1A. The Rockets finished 24-1 overall with its only loss to Newell-Fonda in a substate title game at Denison.

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Denison-Schleswig senior Josef Rogers and freshman Ellie Mendlik qualified for the state cross country meet at Fort Dodge. Competing in Class 3A, Rogers placed 42nd and Mendlik ran 18th for the Monarchs.

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Ar-We-Va’s Paige Danner concluded her basketball career by becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,539 points.

IKM-Manning’s Margo Muhlbauer and Ar-WeVa’s Austin Stoelk also surpassed the 1,000-point plateau in basketball recently.

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Ar-We-Va and Boyer Valley in Eight-Man and IKM-Manning in Class 1A all qualified for the state football playoffs last fall.

Sarah Crampton, then a seventhgrader at Ar-WeVa, took first place in the Iowa State Trapshooting Championships as a member of the Denison Middle School squad.

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by Todd Danner The area sports scene in 2014 was again instrumental with outstanding team and individual success stories that created another banner year for area student-athletes and fans in the coverage area of the Denison Bulletin and Review.

I’ve had the pleasure of ranking the top 10 sports events for several years, and though it’s a daunting task, it’s simply amazing to look back and share with readers the hard work and tremendous achievements put in by all of those in competition at the local level.

With that, the top 10 sports stories of the year as determined by the DBR sports department are as follows:

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Iowa Hawkeye offensive left tackle Brandon Scherff claims the 2014 Outland Trophy and is recognized as a Consensus AllAmerican.

Scherff, a 2010 graduate of Denison High School, returned to the Hawkeyes for his senior season on the football field this past fall and enjoyed tremendous success in his fifth and final year.

Scherff made his 26th consecutive start at left tackle and 36th career start in Iowa’s TaxSlayer Bowl appearance against Tennessee on January 2.

Scherff was named the offensive lineman of the year in the Big 10, while also being recognized as the Hawkeyes’ most valuable player on offense for the second year in a row.

Winning the Outland Trophy as college football’s top interior lineman, Scherff is projected to be a top-10 selection in the National Football League (NFL) draft in April.

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Don Lyons of DenisonSchleswig in baseball and Joy Gross of IKM-Manning in softball both reach the 600-win plateau in their careers during the summer of 2014.

Lyons picked up his 600th career victory in style on June 10, as DenisonSchleswig picked up a thrilling 6-4 victory in 14 innings over Lewis Central at Denison. The Monarchs finished 20-13 overall in 2014 and Lyons, who guided Denison High to the Class 3A state title in 1994 and a runnerup spot in 2000, concluded his 26th season at Denison in 2014 and will take 614 career wins into the 2015 summer campaign.

Longtime IKM and IKM-Manning head softball coach Joy Gross notched career win No. 600 on June 4 in the Wolves’ 7-3 victory over Griswold at Irwin.

IKM-Manning finished 24-5 overall in 2014, while Gross wrapped up her 29th season on the field with 620 career victories against 391 losses.

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Denison-Schleswig girls place sixth in Class 1A at state bowling tournament in Des

Moines.

The D-S girls shot a team score of 2,607 pins to place sixth out of 10 schools at the state tournament in February at Plaza Lanes in Des Moines.

Keokuk won the state team title with a score of 2,926.

Freshman Peyton Brungardt led the way for D-S with a 412 series after shooting games of 215 and 197. That was good for ninth among the individual finishers.

Sophomore Nicole Dahleen bowled a 325 series. Junior Lexi Weltz fired a 312 series. Senior Alec Brungardt carded a 310 series. Junior RaShae Moeller and senior Casey Beam both shot two-game totals of 284.

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Denison-Schleswig seniors Jorge Partida and Mitch Cam both compete in the Class 3A portion of the state wrestling tournament in Des Moines.

Partida went 2-3 in his matches at 113 pounds to take home eighth place from Wells Fargo Arena. He became the first wrestler from Denison High in 14 years to place among the top eight individuals.

Partida won his opening-round match with a 8-3 win over Cody Batterson of Southeast Polk. He lost his quarterfinalround match to top-seeded Chase Lynn of Dubuque Senior.

After splitting a pair of consolation matches, Partida lost a 5-2 decision in the seventh-place match to Noah Ajram of Linn-Mar of Marion to finish the year with an outstanding record of 35-9.

Cam wrestled at 220 pounds and competed at the state tournament for the first time in his career.

In his first match, he was pinned by Max Erpelding of Bettendorf. He was

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The Denison-Schleswig girls placed sixth overall in the Class 1A portion of the state bowling tournament at Plaza Lanes in Des Moines at the end of February.

scheduled to wrestle Harrison Townsend in a consolation match, but the Monarch grappler lost by injury default after suffering a shoulder injury in his matchup with Erpelding.

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Denison-Schleswig senior Josef Rogers and freshman Ellie Mendlik both compete in the Class 3A portion of the state cross country meet at Fort Dodge.

Rogers participated at the state meet for the second year in row. After finishing 80th out of 128 runners in 17:49.3 as a junior, he bettered that finish by 38 spots as a senior, placing 42nd out of 122 competitors in a time of 17:16.2 in action at the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course at Fort Dodge.

In making her first appearance at the state meet, Mendlik capped off an outstanding first year of competition by placing 18th overall out of 123 runners in a personal-best time of 15:39.2.

Rogers and Mendlik were the top two runners for D-S all season.

D-S head coach Bryant Rasmussen said it best.

“Rogers did an excellent job this year and throughout his entire career. His leadership and work ethic will be missed, as he left the program in better shape than when he walked in and that is a testament to his leadership.”

“Mendlik competed very well with some of the best runners in 3A. This was a great start to her young career, and we are proud of her her effort and look forward to seeing her compete over the next three years.”

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Ar-We-Va boys finish 24-1 in basketball and get to within one game of the state tournament in Class 1A. Attempting to reach the state tournament for the first time in school history, Ar-We-Va fell just short in a 66-52 loss to Newell-Fonda in the Substate 8 title game on March 1 at Denison High School.

It was the only loss in 25 games during the 2013-14 season for Tim Bell’s Rocket squad, which captured the first Rolling Valley Conference regular season championship with a perfect 20-0 record.

Ar-We-Va advanced to the substate game with postseason victories over Woodbine, Boyer Valley and Underwood.

In the substate game, the No. 5 Rockets led Newell-Fonda 42-28 at halftime, but were outscored 38-10 in the second half by the No. 2 Mustangs.

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Ar-We-Va, Boyer Valley and IKM-Manning all advance to state playoffs in football.

Ar-We-Va and Boyer Valley both qualified for the playoffs in Eight-Man action out of District 1, while IKM-

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Nicole Dobernecker, a graduate of Charter Oak-Ute High School, was recognized as a NJCAA All-American as a member of the Iowa Central Community College softball team.

Mannng was a postseason participant in Class 1A out of District 1.

Ar-We-Va, which last qualified for the playoffs in 2011, finished the 2014 season at 5-5 overall after suffering a 56-20 loss to Glidden-Ralston in the opening round of the playoffs in Chris Petersen’s first-year as head coach of the Rockets.

Ar-We-Va qualified for the playoffs for the ninth time in school history last fall.

Boyer Valley won the District 1 title with a perfect 7-0 record and took a seven-game winning streak into the playoffs.

The Bulldogs, though, dropped a 29-26 decision to Harris-Lake Park in the opening round, as Jay Petersen’s squad finished 7-3 overall.

BV qualified for the playoffs for the second straight year and fifth time in school history.

IKM-Manning advanced to postseason play after capturing District 1 with a perfect 6-0 record and wrapping up an unbeaten 9-0 regular season.

The Wolves, making a trip to the playoffs for the sixth time as IKM-Manning, knocked off Madrid (56-26) in round one and Hinton (35-7) in round two, before falling 35-14 to a very good West Lyon squad in a quarterfinal contest at Inwood on November 7 to finish 11-1 overall.

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Ar-We-Va’s Paige Danner wraps up career on basketball court as school’s all-time leading scorer, while Austin Stoelk of Ar-We-Va and Morgan Muhlbauer of IKM-Manning both surpass 1,000-point totals in their basketball careers.

Danner, a three-time all-state performer who helped Ar-We-Va to three state tournament appearances in 2011, 2012 and 2013, concluded her Rocket career with a school-record 1,539

points. She now is a freshman on the Northwestern College (Orange City) women’s basketball team.

Stoelk, currently in his senior season at Ar-We-Va, went over 1,000 career points in his team’s 75-21 win over Woodbine on December 9 at Westside.

The all-stater Muhlbauer scored 15 points to surpass 1,000 career points in IKM-Manning’s 78-34 victory at Griswold on Dec. 16.

Muhlbauer has played on two state tournament teams for the Wolves as a freshman and sophomore.

Sarah Crampton of Vail, representing Denison Middle School, captures the individual title at the Iowa State Trapshooting Championships at Cedar Falls in June.

Crampton, then a seventh-grader at Ar-We-Va in Westside, bettered a group of 45 shooters to win the state title by hitting 86 of 100 targets, which was seven more than the second-place effort.

The Denison Middle School team finished in a tie for 13th in its division.

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Nicole Dobernecker of Iowa Central Community College is named a NJCAA Division II All-American firstteam selection for the Triton softball team.

Dobernecker broke Iowa Central’s single-season record for home runs last spring in her sophomore campaign with 20 and drove in 68 runs for the Triton squad that went 42-15 overall.

As a freshman, Dobernecker hit three home runs and drove in 12 runs for an ICCC squad that went 13-36 overall.

At Charter Oak-Ute, Dobernecker was one of the most feared hitters for opposing pitchers, as she slammed 42 home runs and drove in 147 runs during her outstanding high school career.

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January 30, 2015

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