Kari Hadden teaches Business and School-to-Career (Internship) at OABCIG High School. This is her ninth year at OABCIG, but 39 total years of teaching. She started out teaching in Scranton, then Carol Kuemper, then Galva-Holstein, then Western Iowa Tech and now here in Ida Grove. She will be retiring this year.
When asked what her challenges have been, Hadden said,
Clyde Brenner, owner of Brenner’s appliance and electronics store in downtown Ida Grove, has always had a knack for installing stereos. Clyde shared some personal history about his first experience in profiting from electronics know-how. “When I went to college, I was broke,” said Brenner. “I found out that electronics and putting in car stereos came easy for me. I would put in four speakers, head unit, and amplifier for 10 dollars. I became very popular at college by putting in car stereos.”
Linda Johnson currently works as the K-8 vocal and education teacher at the OABCIG school. She has taught all ages over the 33 years of working for the school. She graduated from Arnolds Park, Iowa (Go Wildcats!) in 1984 with honors. Her first year of attending Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota in 1989, she did not know what she wanted to do. She was not even keen on going to college, but was talked into it. Then, she took an inter-survey test and it came up with kids and music, so she pursued it.
Reverend Salcido of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ida Grove is looking upon retirement in July. Salcido’s parents are from El Paso, Texas. His father worked for Harvester, a large company. He was transferred to South Milwaukee where he met Reverend’s mother. She was the executive secretary for the company. She took care of all Salcido’s transfer accommodations and such, so they started dating. The rest is history.
The Galva-Holstein Board of Education met in joint session with the Schaller-Crestland Board of Education on Monday, April 10 in the Schaller Media Center. Board members in attendance were Grant Aschinger, Tyler Gebers, Don Kalin, Jamie Whitmer, Matthew Wittrock and Jeff Witzke, as well as Superintendent Bisenius.
Nettie (Jeanette) Wulf spoke at the Odebolt Library on organ donor awareness. She knows and has the wisdom of it all because she has gone through two transplants in her lifetime. Wulf handed out fliers that had these bullet points:
•106,000 men, women, and children are waiting for a life-saving transplant in the U.S.
•600+ Iowans are waiting for a life-saving transplant.
•17 people die each day waiting for a life-saving organ transplant.
•Every 9 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
Steve Vanderwel has been the manager for Cubby’s in Odebolt for 12 years. Vanderwel says he got out of farming after twenty years, and a friend of his said they were looking for a manager here, so he took it on. Vanderwel says, “The best thing is the people. It's all about the customers. I have a great crew.”
