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NFV girls knock off No. 7 Bulldogs

Submitted by Clauer on Wed, 2019-12-04 13:39

NFV junior Abby Reichter drives past a Bulldog defender during Thursday night’s big win over No. 7-ranked MFL/MarMac. Reichter had a team-high 14 points to lead the TigerHawks to a 36-34 win and 1-0 record to start the season. (Emily Koch photo)

 

NFV girls knock off No. 7 Bulldogs

 

Zakary Kriener

News Writer
zkriener@fayettepublishing.com

 

 

What better way to start the 2019-2020 season than with an upset of the No. 7-ranked team in Class 2A? That’s exactly what North Fayette Valley was able to do Tuesday night (Nov. 26) as the TigerHawks took down MFL/MarMac, 36-34.

“(It was a) great team win!” said coach Jim Calkins after the victory. “I really feel good for the ladies. Jocelyn Kuker came up Clutch!”

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Rosetta and Gerald Schmitt

Submitted by Clauer on Wed, 2019-12-04 13:35

Rosetta and Gerald Schmitt

 

Gerald and Rosetta (Rothmeyer) Schmitt of St Lucas where married November 28, 1959 in Festina Iowa.  Their two daughters Lisa (Sam) Hageman and Sandy (Ingvald) Sunde hosted a dinner for the couple along with their 6 grandchildren plus spouses and 17 great grandchildren in Forest City Iowa. Greetings can be sent to them at 29437 Quail Road West Union Iowa 52175.

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Dec

Monroe's inviting public to experience a Victorian Holiday first hand

Submitted by Clauer on Wed, 2019-12-04 09:51

The parlor in the Ziegler Mansion looks like something that Ebenezer Scrooge could have came home to. It is decorated in the Victorian style and even has a full-size open sleigh in the room.

 

Monroes inviting public to experience a Victorian Holiday first hand

 

By Jack Swanson
jswanson@fayettecountynewspapers.com

 

Christmas as we know it today is steeped in the Victorian era. 

The Victorians are credited with most of the traditions we practice today, including gift giving, singing carols, having a Christmas feast, Christmas trees and evergreen decorations, even exchanging Christmas cards.

Of course one of the most famous Christmas stories of all, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, is set in Victorian England. 

Now LeVirgil and Marie Monroe are inviting the public to get a first hand glimpse of what one of the grand homes of that era would have looked and felt like during the grandest celebration of the year.

The Monroe’s are the owners of the S. B. Zeigler historic mansion at 116 Adams St., in West Union. They have made the mansion, which was completed in 1883, into a bed and breakfast. On Saturday Dec. 7 and Sunday Dec. 8, from 3 to 6 p.m., they will be inviting the public to take a step back in time and see Christmas the way Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim might have. Their open house will feature tours of the mansion, which is decorated in full Victorian style with over a dozen Christmas trees, five mantels where stockings can be hung with care and even a Santa’s sleigh. Holiday treats will even be part of the open house. 

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Local artisans create window to the world

Submitted by Clauer on Wed, 2019-12-04 09:38

Steve and Peggy Kittelson have spent untold hours crafting the “Hometown To The World” art piece for the City of Postville. (Jack Swanson photo)

 

Local artisans create window to the world

 

 

By Jack Swanson
jswanson@fayettecountynewspapers.com

 

How could someone capture the beauty of the whole world in one piece of art?

Of course the answer is, you couldn’t, but that doesn’t mean that Steve and Peggy Kittelson didn’t try….and most who see what they created would have to say they came close.

Their “world” is a three-foot diameter globe covered with thousands of pieces of glass in more colors than you can count. And like a “real” globe, all the continents and oceans are represented, complete with topography, showing terrain, elevations and climate, all through the use of different colors and textures. But the colors aren’t painted or lines drawn. It’s all pieces of glass that swirl together in a mix of dazzling shapes that actually comes together to form a whole. 

Although the globe alone is a sight to behold, it’s only the beginning of an art experience that will probably leave the viewer breathless. The intensity of all these glass objects and shapes is multiplied a hundred or more times over into a series of faceted, symmetrical patterns almost more than the eye can register all at once. This is done by viewing it through a teleidoscope, which creates a kaleidoscopic image.

Soon the world is going to be able to see the Kittelson created world.

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