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The unbreakable bond of friends
(01/04/10)
Before South Clay, there was Gillett Grove Consolidated School. Four students from the former school's class of 1939 remain steadfast comrades to this day. They've also stayed avid supporters of the northwest Iowa community they grew up in. ...
Holiday Family Adoption under way
(11/10/09)
The Holiday Family Adoption program kicks off today with the first listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Council sets bid date for Green Center
(04/21/09)
Work to establish an environmentally-friendly industrial park moved another step forward at Monday night's Spencer City Council meeting. Spencer City Manager Bob Fagen has been encouraged by interest in the project so far. Council members approved a 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, bid-letting date for sewer and water extensions to farmland owned by the city and Spencer Municipal Utilities...
Jaycees Egg Hunt ready to go
(04/10/09)
The great turnout last year and the area's always unpredictable weather is prompting the Spencer Jaycees to have the Easter Egg Hunt in the Indoor Soccer Complex once again. The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday. Children ages 12 and under should bring their own baskets or bags...
Board commits $1.5 million for capital projects
(04/07/09)
Spencer school board members committed $1.5 million in physical plant and equipment levy (PPEL), city and state sales tax revenues for 31 capital projects over fiscal year 2009, which ends June 30, and fiscal year 2010 Monday night. As Superintendent Greg Ebeling noted Spencer is one of a few districts in the state to have city sales tax revenues to draw funding from, he also indicated the district took out an approximately $2.4 million loan against this specific source of funding to pay for the Energy Service Group facility improvements it has undertaken districtwide over the last few years. ...
Spencer board alerted to district's 3.9 percent solvency ratio
(03/26/09)
Spencer school board members received a stern warning from a certified public accountant Tuesday regarding the district's current financial situation. After Bruce Frink of Clarion complimented Superintendent Greg Ebeling on his 2009-10 certified budget presentation, he questioned board members about the district's 3.9 percent solvency ratio as of June 30, 2008...
Dillard named a World Food Prize international intern
(03/05/09)
It's a good thing classes started two hours late on Wednesday. The delay gave Sarah Dillard the chance to check her mailbox for an important letter she'd been anticipating. As the 17-year-old daughter of Rod and Patricia "Trish" Dillard opened her family's mailbox at 9:30 a.m., she found a letter neatly tucked inside from the World Food Prize, which strives to advance human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. ...
Aerobatics competition coming to Spencer
(02/18/09)
An air show is fun. An aerobatics competition is seriousfun. The half-loops, rolls and spins are still in, but a panel of judges replaces the trails of smoke when the International Aerobatic Club (IAC) brings a sanctioned, major-regional event -- the Doug Yost Challenge -- to Spencer for the first time...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 11
(12/04/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 10
(12/03/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 5
(11/21/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 4
(11/20/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 3
(11/19/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program 2
(11/18/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program continues with a listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Holiday Family Adoption Program begins today
(11/12/08)
The Holiday Family Adoption Program kicks off today with the first listing of families in The Daily Reporter. The Holiday Family Adoption Program, a Spencer-area holiday staple, allows generous area families, businesses and service groups to share in the holiday spirit and bounty...
Ambassadors visit Iowa Lakes soccer coach
(09/03/08)
The Spencer Chamber Ambassadors paid a visit to new Iowa Lakes Community College soccer coach Kevin Farley on Tuesday. Farley, a Texas native, is charged with building the Iowa Lake soccer program from the ground up. The college's program, and Farley, will be based at the Spencer campus of Iowa Lakes. The program will officially begin its first season in the fall of 2009...
Board hears Spencer 'in need of improvements' and in a 'watch year'
(08/27/08)
As Spencer school board members learned that 2007-08 marked a second year specific groups of students have either placed the district's buildings "in need of improvement" or on a "watch year" list Tuesday night, Assistant Superintendent Kathy Elliott outlined part of an answer in a new professional development focus and a new monitoring and accountability plan, both of which have taken shape in 2008-09...
Celebrate and remember cancer survivors at the 5th annual Relay for Life
(07/10/08)
When a doctor mentions "cancer" the world seems to come to an abrupt halt. Cancer, the second leading cause of death in this country, affects individuals at all ages and has no remorse. On July 12-13, the fifth annual Dickinson County Relay for Life will join cancer survivors with supporters and community members at the Okoboji High School Track. ...
Health dangers for women who do not sleep well
(05/20/08)
Most Women know that nothing kills a good complexion like a bad night's slumber; there's a reason, after all, that it's called beauty sleep. If that's not motivation enough to keep up with your nightly shut-eye, here's another: doctors are learning that poor sleep habits may make women more vulnerable than men to heart disease and diabetes...
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