Short notice: The Boone County Historical Society has planned a soup supper for Thursday (tommorrow) night with funds earned designed to help refurbish the top floor of their building in hopes of getting it open next year.
The cost is $6.00 for your choice of chili, chicken noodle or potato soup plus a sugar cookie.
This will be a "take out" meal and there was pre-ordering, but that deadline has passed.
Good news though, you can still attend and pay on arrival.
BCHS board member John Stephenson reports that membership renewal forms have been sent and "your support has helped us not only rebound this year, but flourish.." Some goals include opening the top floor, getting some things done at Kate Shelley and instituting a rotation system with displays in the museum.
Meeting minutes indicate that (1) the Fareway Day was a big success with some 300 people in attendance. (2) New things are being added to the gift shop all the time. (3) the lower level was rented for Thanksgiving and will be for Christmas Eve.
A recommendation has been made that the education room be turned into a research room to help process requests for genealogy, photographs, Kate Shelley, Daniel Boone Trail and multiple other items. A request system and filing system for the research room has been developed and will be filled by volunteers. Hopefully, a computer and copier/scanner will eventually be available.
Regarding the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace, its reported that the site has had lots of visitors with a new board installed now. Nate Nerem is the Director, Craig Downs a member of the advisory board and Judy Russell is the site treasurer.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sure seems like lots of positive news. This great group of volunteers have certainly come a long way in the last couple years to diminish some dreadful past events and move to a much more positive future.
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Its December and extra special annual activities are starting to prevail. Saturday, alone, will feature three big events that many look forward too.
Anyone desiring some wonderful waffles for breakfast can find them at the Iowa Arboretum from 9 a.m. to 11:30 at a cost of $9.00. This is an open event, open to all.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Boone High School commons will be the scene of the annual Hope Festival with bidding on various items and refreshments available too.
Then, from 4 to 8 p.m., Boone people will be taking a tour of four or five Boone homes.
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In our most recent edition, we told the story of two Boone friends, Tanner Schminke and Tanner Frost, who have played football, both as Toreador teammates and college opponents through the years.
Just a few days after that, Schmimke had quite a successful football day. He's a receiver for the unbeaten Central College Dutch team that is still alive, as they won a second round Division III playoff game against previously unbeaten and number nine rated Wheaton College, 30-28.
The Dutch take their 12-0 record into their next game at unbeaten Wisconsin, Whitewater Saturday at noon.
The 6-0, 180 pound former Toreador standout was a Central standout in that win over Wheaton.
Trailing in the fourth quarter, 21-10, Schminke caught a touchdown pass to close the gap to 21-16. Wheaton took a 28-24 lead with just 2:41 left but on the game's very last play, it was Schminke again who caught a three-yard pass for the winning touchdown.
Tanner leads his team in pass receiving this season with 84 catches for 1,421 yards gained and 19 touchdowns. As mentioned in our previous edition, he has received many conference and district honors.
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Tom Peterson, BHS-67, remembers that Lindy's also had strawberry flavored pop. He said, "we'd make floats.....Boyd's vanilla ice cream and Lindy's strawberry pop."
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Have you noticed the neat, new sidewalks all around the railroad engine at our community entrance? It certainly enhances the area. Thanks to the Boone Rotary club for its dedication and hard work to get the huge engine to its new "home" and for adding more "good looks" to that area.
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BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS
Dollie Eileen Phillips Allen, 62, Boone. Attended Boone schools.
Arthur Lestina, 85, Ogden. Born in Boone. Luther HS-54. Hog farmer and very involved in riding and training horses. Married Marcella (Marcy) Gilliam in 1956. Survivors include two sons, including Todd Lestina of Stratford, a daughter and a sister, Lila Kruse, of Boone.
Roxane Vinchattle Smith, 63, Boone. Stratford HS-77. Married Brian Smith. They divorced. Worked in food service for the Boone schools and area nursing homes. Survivors include her sons, Jerad and Josh Smith, both of Boone. Also surviving are her partner, two brothers, including Nile Richey of Stratford and a sister, Judy Ferguson of Stratford.
Laura Fey Taylor, 95, Boone. Born in Boone. Attended the State University of Iowa. Married Frederick Taylor in 1945. Survivors include a daughter, LeAnn, and two sons, Fred and Lauren.
Georgia Hubby Taylor Robertson, 67, Des Moines. Formerly of Boone. Born in Boone. BHS-72. Married Rick Robertson in 1994. Worked at Redekers, the Boone schools and retired in 2015. Very active in the Democratic party. Survivors include her husband, Rick, three daughters, a son, two step-daughters, a sister, two sisters-in-law, including Colleen Smith of Boone and Lauren Taylor, her former spouse and the father of her son and daughter.
Vera Ruth Bougher, 86, Stratford Care/Boone.
Charlotte Knight Elsberry, 85, Story City/Stratford Care/Boone. Born in Madrid. Married Darold Elsberry. Was a foster grandparent for 18 years. Worked at the Boone and Scenic Valley, for RSVP and as a dispatcher for the Boone Police Department. Survivors include a daughter, Elsie Holmes, of Boone, a half-brother and a granddaughter, Cheryl Holmes, of Boone.
Betsy Lorentzen Bellhassen Arendall, 81, Phoenix, AZ. BHS-58. In early years, lived in Wichita, St. Joe, Mo. and in Tunisia for five years. After a divorce, she married Fred Arendall and the couple raised 28 foster children. She worked for a company in Belgium for 25 years, retiring in 2000. After retirement, she opened a shelter for teen-age girls.
Dr. Don L. Kriens, 73, Oakdale, MN. Formerly of Boone. BHS-66. The son of Darrell and Alice Kriens, he passed away in October. Earned two degrees from the State University of Iowa, one from the University of Minnesota and did additional work at Harvard. Most of his work involved making environmentally safe waters. Survivors include his partner, two sons and a sister, Vicki Kriens Miller, BHS-67.
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