Bits and Pieces

     To all Korner viewers, please have a happy and safe New Years Eve, New Years Day and 2015.
     To keep this funfest going, we need all of you.
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     Thanks to Lou and Roger Oxenford for the New Years greeting.
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     It took John Kueck, up  there in Minnesota, to inform us of the fact that a Boone event has hit You Tube. Some 1200 viewers so far.
     At 502 South State Street, there's been a very nice Christmas display featuring radio music that the lights "dance too."Viewers can sit in their car, enjoy the music and watch the lights relate to the beat of the music."
     Cool!
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     Who remembers John Buntsma? A Boone native and, I assume, BHS grad, John is a former Orange City newspaper editor hoping to become a politician.
     State Representative Dwayne Alons passed away recently and an election has been set for January 6 to replace him in the Iowa House. The candidates seeking the position are Democrat Buntsma and Republican John Kooiker, a farmer and retired postal service employee from rural Boyden.
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     More info from Boone native Jerry Manriquez who tells us that Gus LeMaster, BHS-52, has provided some more ammunition for his terrific website.
     Gus has sent Jerry a 1932 Scroll which includes Boone Junior College info for that year.
     Although his site continues to grow, Jerry is still seeking additional scrolls to add to it........1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1931, all of the 1970's except the year 1970, and all the 1980's and 1990's.
     http://boonesacheart.manriquez.net
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     Before that time slips away from us a timely and interesting tidbit provided by Larry Kelley.
     The question is, "What song was originally written for the Thanksgiving holiday but, for some reason, became viable at Christmas time?" It was "Jingle Bells" which has become one of the most popular Christmas songs ever written.
     In 1850, James Lord Pierpont was hanging out in a tavern in Medford, MA, when he was inspired by Medford's famous sleigh races to write a tune called, "One Horse Open Sleigh" for a children's Thanksgiving play. Everyone loved it so much that it became incorporated into Christmas.
     P.S. Mr Pierpont was the uncle of John Pierpont Morgan, better known as J.P.Morgan. "Jingle Bells"  was also the first song broadcast from space, in a Christmas-themed prank by Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra.
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     Boone Area Deaths: Tracy Knoblauch, 48, Urbandale. Boone area survivor is a brother, David Marvin of Boone..........Jim Nordholm, 89, Pilot Mound. Boxholm High-43. Farmed near Boxholm and then near Pilot............Bill Erickson, 79, Pilot Mound. Pilot High-57. Worked at the Boone County Hospital from 1967-87...........Leila Hokel, 93, Boone. Worked in Boone at J.C. Penny's and the Fareway store. One daughter, Ardonna, and two sons, Gary and Tom,  survive but no Boone area survivors.
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