South Winneshiek Warrior girls hover around .500

Zakary Kriener

News Writer
zkriener@fayettepublishing.com

The South Winneshiek girls’ basketball team is now 6-8 on the season after a busy week that saw one win and two losses.

Central Elkader

The Warriors began the week with a Tuesday, Jan. 16, road matchup against Central Elkader.

A slow start plagued South Winn throughout the contest as it fell to the rival Warrior squad, 44-38.

Freshman guard Ali Hoffert led the SW scoring charge, tallying 13 points in the game. She was also responsible for a pair of rebounds, two steals, and two blocks.

The Warriors were led by Gracie Schmitt on the boards as she grabbed eight rebounds to go along with a team-high three assists and three steals.

Senior heavyweight Jackson Lukes maneuvers his opponent during last week’s Warrior wrestling dual against Postville. In a busy week, Lukes improved his season mark to 28-6, giving him the fourth-most wins on the team. (Kris Van Sickle photo)

South Winn Warriors reach 21 dual wins

Zakary Kriener

News Writer
zkriener@fayettepublishing.com

The Warriors brought 13 wrestlers to the Alburnett Invitational Saturday; they came home with three individual titles, three runners-up, three third-place finishers, 28 total pins, and one team title.

South Winneshiek was led by first-place finishes from Tanner Tollefsrud (152, Rodney Schwartzhoff (160, and Gabe Kipp (182. The three wrestlers accumulated 12 of the team’s pins, including five by Kipp.

Warriors to finish second in their weight brackets included Zach Taylor (132, Damon Meyer (220, and Jackson Lukes (285, while Toby Conway (113, Gabe Sadler (120, and No. 7-ranked Manning Kuboushek (195 each brought home bronze. Kuboushek’s day included a pair of wins via fall with both of his losses coming to top-two ranked individuals (No. 1 Tanner Sloan of Alburnett and No. 2 Garet Sims of Iowa Valley.

The team title was decided by an impressive 56 points as the Warriors (272 finished ahead of Dike-New Hartford (216, Monticello (204, Iowa Valley (160, and No. 8-ranked Alburnett (155. 

Edna Lindsey

Edna Belle Lindsey, 91, of Decorah, Iowa passed away Friday, January 12, 2018 at Wellington Place Nursing Home in Decorah.  Edna Belle, the daughter of Emory and Cleo (White) Hubbartt, was born August 12, 1926 at the family’s rural home in Skylar County, Missouri.  At the age of sixteen, Edna Belle graduated from high school in Lancaster, Missouri.

Rural Iowa Amateur Radio Club members (l-r) Hal Wilson of Elgin and Dan Bonjour of Fayette invite anyone interested in ham radio operations to join their club. The organization meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of every month at the Arlington Fire Station in Arlington. Small, but mighty, the group currently has four members.  Chris DeBack photo

Ham radio club ready for any disaster

By Chris Deback
cdeback@thefayettecountyunion.com

Did you know there is an amateur radio club in Fayette County?

The Rural Iowa Amateur Radio Club is made up of mostly people from Fayette County who want to improve their skill as amateur radio operators — also known as ham radio operators — and help with public safety, if called on.

When a person hears amatuer radio club, he or she might picture someone sitting in front of a radio, broadcasting his or her voice out to whomever is tuned in to the frequency. The person thinks of it as an amateur radio station, but that isn’t the case. The Rural Iowa Amateur Radio Club is comprised of ham radio operators, which have person-to-person interactions. Basically, the people involved with the group can use CB radios to talk to people around the country and sometimes the world.  

Hal Wilson of Elgin and Dan Bonjour of Fayette aren’t exactly sure when the radio club started, but noted that Chuck Rees, Eric Grams, and Joey Clark were founding members of the club some time ago. The club currently has four members and has two repeaters located near Fayette that are available for ham radio use.