Week in Review: Sept. 23-28
-Photo by Melissa Allison <BR> Fort Dodge Senior High drum majors, left to right, Chloe Balm, Manuela Rodriguez, Micah Flaherty and Drake Wertz start the Dodgers performance during a recent football game. Through the collaboration with Fort Dodge schools and St. Edmond, Gael band students joined Fort Dodge’s All-American Marching Band for the halftime performance of the St. Edmond Homecoming football game Friday night.
-Submitted photo <BR> Daniel Altman gives the sermon at Mission Community Church in Harcourt, where he has been pastor since September 2022. Altman was named president of the Fort Dodge Community School Board on Monday.
-Photo by Julie Vinsand <BR> The Webster County Fairgrounds hosted the Iowa Rodeo Roughstock (IRR) Rodeo Finals this weekend, along with the Figure 8 Nationals races. According to Kerrie Kuiper, executive director of Visit Fort Dodge, the two events were expected to bring in more than $120,000 to the local Fort Dodge economy.
-Photo by Julie Vinsand Southeast Valley High School senior Levi Collier places a flower at the memorial site for Michele “Luna” Jackson at the Farnhamville City Park. Collier was classmates with Jackson and said he plans to make a plaque with Luna’s name on it in welding class to honor her. Luna, 17, was a student at Southeast Valley High School who was murdered on Sunday night in Farnhamville. Nathaniel K. Bevers-McGivney, 21, of Gowrie, was arrested Sunday and on Tuesday was charged in Calhoun County court with first-degree murder in Jackson’s death.
-Submitted photo Randy Nelson, a Marine Corps veteran, stands next to the massive rock that was dedicated at a special ceremony Saturday at Veterans Memorial Park in Manson. Nelson painted the rock, which features the American and POW-MIA flags.
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> St. Edmond homecoming queen and king, Josie Harvey and Liam Shannon (right), wave to Josie's grandmother at the Marian Home on Friday afternoon in Fort Dodge.
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> St. Edmond students pick up candy during the Homecoming Parade Friday afternoon.
-Messenger photo by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby <BR> Homecoming pep rallies at the South Central Calhoun elementary school and middle school on Friday included the homecoming court, along with South Central Calhoun seniors in football, cross country, volleyball, and cheerleading.
-Photo by Melissa Allison <BR> Fort Dodge Senior High drum majors, left to right, Chloe Balm, Manuela Rodriguez, Micah Flaherty and Drake Wertz start the Dodgers performance during a recent football game. Through the collaboration with Fort Dodge schools and St. Edmond, Gael band students joined Fort Dodge’s All-American Marching Band for the halftime performance of the St. Edmond Homecoming football game Friday night.
-Submitted photo <BR> Daniel Altman gives the sermon at Mission Community Church in Harcourt, where he has been pastor since September 2022. Altman was named president of the Fort Dodge Community School Board on Monday.
-Photo by Julie Vinsand <BR> The Webster County Fairgrounds hosted the Iowa Rodeo Roughstock (IRR) Rodeo Finals this weekend, along with the Figure 8 Nationals races. According to Kerrie Kuiper, executive director of Visit Fort Dodge, the two events were expected to bring in more than $120,000 to the local Fort Dodge economy.
-Photo by Julie Vinsand Southeast Valley High School senior Levi Collier places a flower at the memorial site for Michele “Luna” Jackson at the Farnhamville City Park. Collier was classmates with Jackson and said he plans to make a plaque with Luna’s name on it in welding class to honor her. Luna, 17, was a student at Southeast Valley High School who was murdered on Sunday night in Farnhamville. Nathaniel K. Bevers-McGivney, 21, of Gowrie, was arrested Sunday and on Tuesday was charged in Calhoun County court with first-degree murder in Jackson’s death.
-Submitted photo Randy Nelson, a Marine Corps veteran, stands next to the massive rock that was dedicated at a special ceremony Saturday at Veterans Memorial Park in Manson. Nelson painted the rock, which features the American and POW-MIA flags.
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> St. Edmond homecoming queen and king, Josie Harvey and Liam Shannon (right), wave to Josie's grandmother at the Marian Home on Friday afternoon in Fort Dodge.
-Messenger photo by Britt Kudla <BR> St. Edmond students pick up candy during the Homecoming Parade Friday afternoon.
-Messenger photo by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby <BR> Homecoming pep rallies at the South Central Calhoun elementary school and middle school on Friday included the homecoming court, along with South Central Calhoun seniors in football, cross country, volleyball, and cheerleading.