2016 – 5 YEARS AGO The St. Ansgar Saints closed

the 2016 season at the UNI Dome and fell to unbeaten Glad-brook-Reinbeck, 28-14 in the semifinals.

Area veterans put on a parade of uniforms at Riceville Com-munity School on Nov. 11. They represented five military divi-sions: Marines, Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force and Army worn by Lewis Houser, Judge Losee, Joseph Harris, John Miller and Brian Lewis.

The annual benefit breakfast at the Stacyville Community Home was held to offset new flooring for the lobby and dining room areas. The breakfast was held on Nov. 13 from 8:30 to noon serving pancakes, sausage, assorted egg bakes, fresh fruit, coffee, milk and orange juice.

The Catholic United Financial #371 volunteer team sponsored Christmas caroling in Stacyville on Nov. 25 for “Christmas in the City.” A route starting at the Le-gion, public library and nursing home was planned.

The Stacyville museum fea-tured collection of Depression Glass from Ken Wendt and Mary Blake for “Christmas in the City.”

The St. Ansgar Drama De-partment performed “South Pa-cific” on Nov. 12 and 13. French planter Emile was played by Mitchell Smith, and Nellie, the spunky nurse from Arkansas was played by Maggie Steele. 2011 – 10 YEARS AGO

The Haiti Medical Mission Trip on Nov. 4-11 had the team take along over 50 baby quilts made and collected by by South-land senior Kelli Smith to give to families. The team saw over 1,500 patients during the week. The team consisted of Adams Clinic Physcian Assistant Mary Fargan (her 14th medical mis-sion trip) Kelli Smith and nurse team members Steve Weis of Stacyville and Denise Blake of Johnsburg.

Father Jack McClure, pastor of St. Isidore Cluster parishes, Sacred Heart, Osage and Visita-tion, Stacyville, celebrated his 35th anniversary of the priest-hood on Nov. 13. Father Mc-Clure became involved in the agricultural community, includ-

ing driving a tractor in the Meyer Memorial Tractor Ride.

On Nov. 26, Sister Vera Klinkhammer of Rochester cele-brated 100 years of life, a Rochester Franciscan, a regis-tered nurse for almost 70 years who served thousands over the years. Her two sisters, Sister Gildas and Loretta, also nuns in themedical profession, had passed away. Sister Vera was a sister of Ceal (Alfred) Hacken-miller.

New members joining the Stacyville Shooting Stars 4-H Club in November 2011 were Steven Merten, Caleb Brumm, Brecken Hackenmiller, Emma Retterath, Sam Juenger, Emily Hemann, Sawyer Brumm and Shelby Heimer. 1996 – 25 YEARS AGO

Airman Scott J. Klapperich graduated from six weeks of basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Oct. 4. He then was sta-tioned at Presidio of Monterey in California. He underwent studies to learn the Chinese language to become a crypto linguist.

Visitation School scheduled it Fall Benefit Supper for Sunday, Nov. 17 in the school cafeteria from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The menu was roast pork sandwiches, salad bar and pies.

The Annual Bazaar and Bake Sale was scheduled on Friday, Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Ed’s Floral had two Christmas open houses planned: In Sta-

cyville on Nov. 29-30 and in LeRoy on Dec. 7.

Stacyville Co-op scheduled a Grain Marketing Meeting on Nov. 21 at the Stacyville Legion Hall. The guest speaker was Dave Smoltz, who was to speak at 10 a.m. 1971 – 50 YEARS AGO

Airman Michael A. Meek completed basic training at Lack-land Air Force Base, Texas. He had been assigned to Plattsburg AFB, N.Y. for training in the ad-ministrative field.

Hatten Hardware in Stacyville was offering holiday shopping.

The president of the Iowa Turkey Federation presented Governor Robert Ray and Mrs. Ray with their Thanksgiving Day turkey. The turkey and two other turkeys the Rays chose would be served to a group of less-privi-leged senior citizens in the Gov-ernor’s Mansion on Thanksgiving Day.

A hunter safety training course was scheduled at the American Legion Hall in Sta-cyville for kids (10 and up), adults, men or women on Nov. 22 and 23 at 7 p.m. Both sessions and a passed test were required to receive the N.R.A. certificate.

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cyville City Council convened on Monday night, Nov. 8, 2021 for its monthly meeting. Present were Mayor Paul Halbach; City Clerk Harlan Bisbee; and Coun-cilmen Allyn Brumm, Roger Brumm and Roger Hemann. Ab-sent councilmen were Alex Emerson and Jake Gerbig. Hal-bach called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m., welcoming five guests. Approval of the agenda was gained by a motion made by Hemann and received a second from Roger Brumm. The min-utes of the previous meeting, Oct. 11, 2021 were approved by Roger Brumm and a second by Allyn Brumm.

The first item on the agenda was to conduct a public hearing. To understand the selling of the Stacyville City Green Street right-of-way means that the por-tion of the street west of the cor-ner of Green and North Jefferson corner is owned half-and-half by homeowners Kenneth Adams and Jerry Koenigs. Hence the city has not put asphalt on that part of Green Street. The home-owners are responsible for the legal fees. Koenigs was in atten-dance, acknowledging his por-tion of the city sale.

The public hearing closed with a motion made by Hemann and a second from Roger Brumm. Action on the sale of Green Street was approved by a motion made by Roger Brumm

and a second from Allyn Brumm. Rustin Dingbeck, represent-

ing the SEH Street Project was in attendance and questioned the council whether the seeding had been done, and council con-firmed that it had. Dingbeck would prefer a partial punch list of some areas that have not been deemed with satisfaction as big rocks, especially on the western end along Spring Street and other streets that remain rugged with different sized rocks. Broad Street and Green Street have large numbers of the bright or-ange cones still standing. One was flattened by truckers taking the corners too short. Others that truckers took too short were on the corner of Green and Jeffer-son, damaging a new culvert, and the Spring and Albion Streets in-tersection was also taken the cor-ner too short.

Homeowner Jim Grimes has concern about his ditch and the edge of the road. Also of some concern is the concrete poured for sidewalks as well as the final shoulders on the streets. There was a damaged mailbox at Allyn Brumm’s residence. Koenigs ex-pressed his overall satisfaction with the street project.

The street project pay request was approved with a motion made by Hemann and a second coming from Allyn Brumm.

Shannon Adams, Marketing Director for the City of Sta-cyville, reported on Stacyville community events. Two different adult groups are wanting the Sta-cyville Gym for an “open gym” on two different nights of the week. The time span would be from November to April, about five months of the fall and winter months. Someone from each group would be responsible for keys, and Brad Mayer and Brian Wagner would be put in charge.

There would be a fee of $60.00 per month for each group, which would help to pay for the heat and cleaning costs.

Adams has been reached countless times for using the Sta-cyville Community Center for baby and bridal showers, birth-day parties, wedding receptions, Thankgiving and Christmas fam-ily gatherings. She is working on an acceptable monetary fee for each.

Colleen, the hired cleaner for the Stacyville Community Cen-ter, receives a salary of $100 per month. She prefers to buy her own cleaning supplies and asked to be reimbursed for them. She must present a receipt for her purchases.

A motion was made by He-mann and seconded by Allyn Brumm to approve of the fee set for the open gym.

The Annual State Financial Report was approved with a mo-tion made by Hemann and sec-onded by Roger Brumm.

The Annual State TIF Report was approved of with a motion made by Allyn Brumm and sec-onded by Hemann.

Adjournment occurred at 8:22 p.m.

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