FIFTY YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 17, 1973
Brenda Krikke’s name was drawn Saturday as the winner of the Sanborn Pioneer’s Favorite Worker contest….Miss Krikke is employed as a Candy Striper at Prairie View.
There will be 17 students graduating at 8th grade graduation exercises of the Sanborn Christian School on May 22.
Repair work was started on West 1st Street this week. O.T. Childers Construction was awarded the contract earlier in the year.
An accident occurred Tuesday morning on Main Street involving two unoccupied passenger cars. Roy Brown parked his 1973 Pontiac in front of Sanborn Foods. Donovan Enger parked his 1971 Ford in front of the post office. The Enger car had the engine running and the shift lever dropped from park to reverse causing it to back around and hit the driver’s side of the Brown car.
Thursday, May 24, 1973
At a meeting Thursday evening contracts were awarded in the amount of $235,859.00 for the construction of a new church building by the First Reformed Church. Anticipated ground breaking is in early June.
Workmen began Tuesday tearing down the old building just south of the Ace, formerly occupied by the Ace Cafe on Main Street.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 14, 1998
Stacey Vander Velde, 8th grade tuba student, will represent HMS Middle School in the Bandmaster Association Middle School Honor Band May 14 in Des Moines.
Brad Smith, funeral director, has earned National Certification as a Bereavement Facilitator through the American Academy of Bereavement of Tucson, AZ.
Thursday, May 21, 1998
At the end of this year Mr. Gary Bohnet will be turning in his keys after 37 years of teaching.
The HMS Community School District bond issue has been approved with a total of 1167 yes votes and 774 no votes….The approval authorizes the school district to remodel the high school building and build and furnish addition and issue school bonds in the amount not to exceed $2,990,000 for that purpose.