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May 9, 1998
NEWS: The Country Good Timers Band was honored with the Governor’s Volunteer award for performing 116 times in 1997 for residents of rest homes.
SPORTS: The National Kidney Foundation of Iowa, in partnership with Toyota and Toshiba Industrial Products, sponsored a 16-race, 14-city racing series for modified and hobby stock drivers and the second race was at the Hamilton County Speedway.
May 9, 1983
NEWS: The Veterans of Foreign Wars were given permission by the Gowrie City Council to put a plaque in memory of Danny Johnson in Scenic View Park. Johnson was killed during the Vietnam War.
SPORTS: Iowa Central’s softball season game to a close with a 1-0 loss to Ellsworth in the loser’s bracket of the junior college regional tournament.
May 9, 1958
NEWS: J. Wendall Schar was elected president of the Eagle Grove Lions club for the 1958-59 year.
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May 8, 1998
NEWS: Deleina Gordon, who for 29 years arranged housing for needy families in Fort Dodge, was honored as Citizen of the Year, honorary Colonel in the Dragoon Corps. and 1998 Frontier Days parade marshal.
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May 7, 1998 NEWS: One by one, 20 Fair Oaks Middle School students slipped into a state of hypnosis under the spell of Kevin Wharem’s “magic light” and deep voice.
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May 6, 1998
NEWS: Angela Taylor, of Fort Dodge, and her rabbit Halo Hercules, won first place at the Youth National Dwarf Rabbit Show in Osage Beach, Mo.
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10 years ago... Friends of St. Edmond Ball had another successful fund-raiser and raised an all-time high of $171,000 at the Starlite Village Best Western.
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May 4, 1998
NEWS: Lifelong Webster County residents Vince and Lee Wilson donated $5,000 worth of playground equipment to Reynolds Park.


