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Official Newspaper of Anamosa, located in Jones County, Iowa
Anamosa News
Since 1855
 Thursday,
August 17, 2006 |
Hale Bridge Dedication Set for September
by Michelle Phillips |
ANAMOSA — After months of planning, grant writing and an air-lift by the National Guard, a dedication will be held for the Hale Bridge on September 13.
Project Manager Rose Rohr said the dedication is still in the planning process.
“We’re working on details, the approaches, fencing, seeding and kiosks. We’re planning for the day of the event and choosing photos,” Rohr said.
Rohr has worked closely with the DNR on the kiosk. She said the kiosk is designed to tell the history of the bridge, including the farm to market history. The bridge was essential in it’s original location because it gave farmers a spot to cross the Wapsipinicon River.
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The historic Hale Bridge, now sitting at the Wapsi State Park, will get it’s official dedication and be open for the public to use September 13. (Journal-Eureka Photo by Daryl Schepanski) |
Rohr said donors to the project would be honored at the site on stone or rock.
“The committee is looking at the best way to recognized the donors,” she included.
The committee is looking for volunteers to work the day of the event.
Rohr expects a large turn-out at the dedication and the committee is looking for volunteers to work that day. Rohr said all of the partners who worked on the project are hoping to return for the dedication.
“This is a tribute to the community, and to the county, to show how much you can accomplish when people work together,” Rohr concluded.
If you are interested in volunteering at the dedication, contact Rohr at 319-480-0221. |
Anamosa State Pen Host to Movie Scene
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| A film entitled, “The Season” being produced by Adam Brooks, an independent film maker originally from Iowa, was shot at the Anamosa State Penitentiary recently. At the beginning of the film a young man is released from prison and Brooks remembered how photogenic the Anamosa State Penitentiary is and thought it would be a great backdrop for the scene. |
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| A crew of nine and a cast of two were in Anamosa for several hours shooting. |
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School Supply Drive Grows
by Michelle Phillips |
ANAMOSA — The Third Annual Anamosa Publications School Supply Drive has come to an end.
The drive was a great success, with many more supplies donated this year. There was also a slight increase in the monetary donations that came in.
“I’m very happy that the school supply drive has increased in volume again this year,” said Michelle Phillips, Anamosa Journal-Eureka Editor. “We received several large donations, including a few dozen school boxes from one person.”
The items were taken to Jones County Family Resource Association at Strawberry Hill, and will be distributed from that location.
“The drive has become big enough that it isn’t feasible to take them to the individual schools, as we did in the past. This way more families from around the county will be able to receive supplies,” Phillips explained.
In addition to the hundreds of items received in the newspaper office, monetary donations of $525 were also received. Cash donations will be used for school fees and additional supplies as needed.
Those who donated to this year’s drive include the following individuals and businesses: Kay English, Bower, Dole and Riniker, LLP, Bob and Kathy Lander, Bettie Miller, Greta S. Pruitt, Bill Dietiker, Matt Menard, Lesley Puffer, Cecilia and Jon Hatcher, Lois Terrell, Duncan Chiropractic, Pat Jensen, Kristy Raine, The Dusheck Family, Margaret Stickley, Robert & Beverly Visser, Deb Lathrop, Terry and Loretta Brickley, Norwood Souvenir, Peggy Walker, Security State Bank, Anamosa, Ruth Switzer, Don and Jean Jennsen, Anamosa State Penitentiary, Sheryl Goodman, Judy Hahn, Sue Stamm and Robert & Elizabeth Byse.
There were also a few people who donated, but wish to remain anonymous.
Anamosa Publications would like to thank all those who took the time, effort and expense to donate and, once again, make the school supply drive a success.
Those who are in need of supplies may contact Jones County Family Resource Association at 319-462-5318. |
Ridgeway Running for School Board
by Michelle Phillips |
ANAMOSA — LeAnn Ridgeway is a prodigy of the Anamosa Community School District. Born and raised in Anamosa, she has seen several changes while raising her own children in the same district she grew up in. “The biggest change I’ve seen is the start of updating of the curriculum. We just approved $100,000.00 to update the Language Arts program, which is pretty exciting. We have a plan moving to update the rest of the programs.”
She and her husband, Tom, have four children. Two girls, Randi, a Junior at Drake University and Erin a Sophomore this year at Anamosa High School plus Kris who lives in Center Point and Duff out in Waverly. Ridgeway has worked for nineteen years at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids. She is currently Vice President of Material Operations. Her education background includes a B.S. in Business & Economics from Mt. Mercy and a MBA from St. Ambrose.
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LeAnn Ridgeway is looking for a second term. |
Ridgeway is currently the Chairperson for Jones County Empowerment/DECAT Board and the Legislative Representative for the Anamosa Community School District. Empowerment enables local citizens to lead collaborative efforts involving education, health and human services programs on behalf of children ages 0-5 and their families.
In the past LeAnn has served on the School Foundation Board for three years and as a soccer coach for five years. She retired from those duties to focus on school board and empowerment issues.
Ridgeway shares that the district has several noteworthy items in the Building Trades Program, the upcoming AP Biology Program. She is positive about the board trying to add something for all students. “A couple of examples of where we’ve raised the bar on education at Anamosa, this past year we raised the credits required for graduation from 54 to 57 and we’ve increased the language arts requirement from 3 years to 4 years. While the math requirement remains at 3 years, we’ve altered the curriculum here as well, by adding both transformational math and technical math.”
If Ridgeway fills her seat once again, she sees her major goals as updating school curriculum, securing a facility site and handling staff retirement with forward thinking. As to how she feels about the past three years on the board, “I’ve enjoyed it and I’ve learned a lot. There’s a lot left out there to learn. You barely get your feet wet after three years. Bottom line is I enjoy everything about kids and seeing the district move forward”.
Ridgeway foresees the biggest issue in the district is planning for a new facility and working with an updated technology server and getting to know new administrative staff. |
Springville Quasaquicentennial Celebrates
by Susan Yario |
Quasaquicentennial Celebration organizer, Michelle Nachazel shared about the weekend happenings, “We are really happy in the turnout for our celebration”. The weather has cooperated. We couldn’t ask for anything to be more perfect and we couldn’t have done it without the sponsorship”.
Nachazel agrees that success was achieved due to the team effort and commitment and hard work from volunteers and sponsors.
The three day celebration took a year and a half to plan and organize numerous events for kids and adults. |
Country Foursome Little Big Town at the Meet ‘n Greet: Kimberly Roads, Jimi Westbrook, Nicole Sander; Anamosa, Karen Fairchild, Brenda Taylor; Springville Q Member and Phillip Sweet |
Souvenir plate on display at The Springville Library |
This weekend, visitors to Springville enjoyed an evening tractor pull and live dance on Friday.
The main attraction on Saturday night was the Country Music foursome Little Big Town who has recently achieved notoriety after performing on Jay Leno in April 2006. The Q Committee from Springville worked with the band’s promoter for less than a year in securing the contract for Saturday night’s performance. Special guest THE 100’s opened for the featured country group and played for over an hour before LBT opened up with Good as Gone and played several of their favorites including Boondocks and Bring It On Home.
On Sunday, the final day of celebration began with a pancake breakfast and a BBQ cook-off. A fireworks display ended the day following an afternoon of fun. |
Judy Keizer cutting up pies entered into the pie baking contest. |
Upper Butler Park was the spot to be for entertainment and food. Folks enjoyed the Variety Show, Pie Baking Contest and a Quasquicentennial Meal in the Park. |
One Hundred years of historical memories on display at The Springville Library |
Variety Show entertainers (sisters), Madison and Nichole Wittenburg tap dancing to Singing In The Rain. |
Little Big Town performing Good As Gone onstage at Springville’s 125, August 12. |
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