Stories from Thursday, June 14, 2007

The Spencer RAGBRAI® Housing Committee is seeking local residents who are willing to host RAGBRAI riders for the overnight stay on Sunday, July 22. Requests are coming in daily from riders who will be rolling into town and wish to stay with a host family rather than at the fairgrounds. ...

Lance Armstrong to chat with RAGBRAI's young riders

Tigers youth football camp Spencer Head Coach Jim Tighe and the Tigers coaching staff will be holding a pair of instructional, youth football camps from 8-10:30 a.m. on Monday, July 30 through Friday, Aug. 3 at the Spencer High School Practice Complex for students in grades 3-8. ...

Rebels pick up 11th win in 12-0 rout

Hogrefe allows four hits, fans six in victory

Brooke Scharn drives in three, strikes out eight in win

The Clay County Fairgrounds will serve as the hub location for riders and their hosts in Spencer. The site is accustomed to large crowds as an estimated 300,000 visitors pass through the fairgrounds gates over nine days each September. n Learn more about the upcoming RAGBRAI stop in Spencer on Sunday, July 22 at www.spencerragbrai.com...

Dickinson County Issues Forum The Dickinson County Issues Forum will meet 7-8:30 p.m. tonight in the Maritime Museum at the Arnolds Park Amusement Park. The Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Kim Bogenschutz, will discuss how Eurasian milfoil, zebra mussels, and other invasive species pose a threat to the Iowa Great Lakes and what we can do to prevent the invasive species from gaining a foothold here...

Marlyn "Bud" Brueggeman, 82, of Lake Park, formerly of Harris, passed away Saturday, June 9, 2007, at Lake Park Care Center in Lake Park. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at Concordia Lutheran Church in Lake Park. Rev. Gerald Gauthier officiated the 10:30 a.m. service. Burial was in Union Cemetery in Harris...

Marvin F. Lecher, 85, of Janesville, Wis., formerly of Spencer and Sanborn, passed away Monday, June 4, 2007, at Mercy Hospital in Janesville. A visitation was held Thursday evening, June 7, 2007, at the Whitcomb-Lynch-Albrecht Funeral Home in Janesville. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Primghar...

Funeral services for Donald Steffen, 80, of Spencer, will be held Saturday, June 16, at the First Congregational Church in Spencer. The Rev. Wendy Van Tassell will officiate the 11 a.m. service. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer at a later date. Mr. Steffen passed away Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at his home in Spencer...

Funding to go to Quasquicentennial celebration in '09

By Elliott Fifer Daily Staff Reporter Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey will be visiting six counties in north-central Iowa on Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15, 2007, to listen to Iowans and discuss the tremendous opportunities and significant changes facing agriculture in the state...

By Anitra Wolf Special to the Daily Reporter Iowa Governor Chet Culver was surrounded by supporters for a plan to grow Iowa's workforce at a joint meeting Wednesday afternoon at Arrowwood Resort in Okoboji. Culver was the featured speaker at an event which combined four of Iowa's most powerful workforce influences: the Iowa Association of Business and Industry, Iowa Department of Economic Development, Iowa Department of Education and Iowa Workforce Development...

By Russ Mitchell Daily Reporter Staff Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, the Public Affairs Officer for the Iowa Army National Guard, said a solider from Spencer, a soldier from Milford and a soldier from the Peterson area will be among 35 Iowa Army National Guard members mobilized as part of the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo...