2011, 2013 2014, 2015 The Grundy Register Thursday, July 30, 2015 Serving Grundy County since 1928 Grundy Center, Iowa Volume 91 – Number 31 www.TheGrundyRegister.com $1.00 Newsstand Price Wellsburg native to lead Kling Library By JOHN JENSEN The Grundy Register GRUNDY CENTER — Lindsey Engelkes had her dream job ... only to let it go for something she feels will be even better. Last week the Wellsburg native took over as director of the Kling Me- morial Library, replacing Molly Mau- er who was named assistant director at the library in Johnston earlier this summer. “I was really uncertain about tak- ing this job, not because I didn’t want it, but because I loved my position in Steamboat,” she said. “I had invested my heart and soul into that little li- brary over there and I wasn’t sure if I was ready to move on from that or not. “Once I really thought about it — I sat in the library one day and just Former Grundy Center library assistant and Steamboat Rock library director Lindsey Engelkes began her thought —I realized that this is what duties last week, succeeding Molly Mauer. (John Jensen/The Grundy Register photo) I really want to do as a career and I Ashley Moore, left, was crowned Grundy County Fair Queen while thought this is the next step that I has an English degree from North- Engelkes said her years at the “That was a really big transition,” Conrad’s Clark Stevens was crowned king. They are pictured with 2014 should take,” she said. western College. Kling Library doing youth services she said. “I had to learn how to do ev- Queen Megan Andersen. (Crystal Huisman/The Grundy Register pho- Engelkes comes to Grundy Cen- Engelkes said she has always loved was very rewarding. Working under ery role and every position. Whatev- to) ter after serving as director of the li- being in the library. When health is- Mauer she learned all she could. er it was I had to learn how to do it brary in Steamboat Rock, where she sues prevented her from participating “It was great working under her and the knowledge I learned over that has been for the past nearly two years. in P.E. in school, she would hang out leadership, and then when the job year and a half has just been leaps and Grundy County Fair She called the Steamboat position her in the library and help the school li- opened up in Steamboat I just couldn’t bounds.” dream position, though she feels like brarian. pass up working in the town that I live Engelkes has been splitting her there will be even more of an opportu- “When the rest of the class was do- in.” time between Grundy Center and wraps up five-day run nity in Grundy Center, where she be- ing P.E. I would go up to the library At Steamboat Rock Engelkes was Steamboat Rock since July 20. She we’ve had for the last five or six years gan her career as a library assistant in and help anywhere I could, whether it a one-person show, in charge of all as- takes over full time at the Kling Me- Strong attendance for that event,” Flater said. “We had charge of youth services in 2012. She was to catalog cards ...,” she said. pects of the library. morial Library Aug. 1. reported at annual to postpone the start because we had people lined up all the way from the summer event ticket booth to the beer garden.” Cougars take state softball title! By JOHN JENSEN One grandstand event that did not The Grundy Register fulfill its usual attendance, Flater GRUNDY CENTER — said, was the truck and tractor pull, Comfortable temperatures and which came just hours after nearly the return of a popular grandstand three inches of rain threatened to show led to a year of growth for the cancel the event. Flater said Logan Grundy County Fair. Clark and his crew were helped by The Fair dodged a Friday a Grundy County Roads Department downpour to record what Fair Board grader that pushed a layer of mud off President Ron Flater described as the top to reveal a surface that was increased attendance for a second slightly dusty by midway through straight year. the pull. “I think our number of attendees “It seems like the rain came off so during the week was up,” he said. fast that it ran off instead of soaking “Some of our events were very into the surface,” he said. successful.” One event the rain did affect, Spurring the improvement was the however, was Saturday’s horse return of the once-popular figure-8 show. The heavy rain, which came races. Flater said the Fair Board around 9:30 Friday morning, made elected to return the races to the the horse arena muddy enough that way they had been before Grundy the horses were moved into the County became part of a circuit of Wheelock Building following the specialized figure-8 drivers who beef show. Flater said the Wheelock attended various venues and put Building, which has had problems large amounts of money into their with pooling water in the past, was cars. He said the goal this year was to dry this year thanks in large part to create a rules package where drivers a swale dug around the building by could participate in the figure-8 races Mark Eilers. Thursday night and then come back “He built a swale so water would two nights later with the same car go around the building instead of AGWSR’s softball seniors, Morgan Kappel, Megan Marlette, Maddie Deters, Jami Johnson, Ashley Sicard and Jodi Johnson celebrate one last and be part of the demolition derby. through it and it worked,” he said. time together on the field with the championship trophy. Details of the Cougars’ title run are in today’s sports pages. (Kristi Nixon/Mid-America “We wanted to take it back to Livestock numbers at this year’s Publishing photo) where they could knock out the fair varied, according to Flater. windows, move the gas tank forward While he said the beef and hog and run,” he said. shows had increased numbers, as did New Hartford welcomes RAGBRAI® riders Another well-attended event was the non-livestock and open shows, the annual demolition derby and some shows such as the sheep show By JOHN JENSEN commented that while we may think fireworks show that wrapped up were down. The Grundy Register America and American values are in Saturday’s final full day of the fair. With the avian flu causing a NEW HARTFORD — More trouble, the RAGBRAI® experience “We had the stands fuller than than 10,000 visitors made tiny New proves that small town/Midwest See FAIR page 2 Hartford one of the biggest small USA values are strong. He was towns in America last Wednesday, assured and refreshed in the promise as the community served as a pass- of our country and it’s people.” What’s Happening through town for the Register’s Wednesday’s route was the Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across shortest of the seven-day ride, Thursday, July 30 Monday, August 3 Iowa, better known as RAGBRAI@. running north from Eldora through Grundy Center Farmer’s Market Grundy County Supervisors The community of just over Steamboat Rock, Ackley and 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. County Courthouse • 9 a.m. 500 people located just across the Aplington before the meeting stop Saturday, August 1 Kaffe Klatch Grundy County line in southern in Parkersburg. The route followed Community Night of Prayer Kling Memorial Library Butler County pulled out all the Highway 57 from Parkersburg to 305 Lincoln Road, Holland 10 a.m. stops while serving as the final pass- New Hartford where it went through Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Movie Monday through town on Wednesday’s 58.4- downtown before turning north out Sunday, August 2 Kling Memorial Library mile route from Eldora to Cedar of town on Broadway Street and Stout Church in the Park 11:30 a.m. Falls. Downtown featured a beer then west on C67. Konken Park, Stout • 10 a.m. garden and band as well as several In a letter to volunteers, City Grundy Center City Council food vendors and bicycle repair Clerk Shawna Hagen talked of the Grundy Center City Hall • 6:30 p. m. facilities. team that put New Hartford put Vacation Bible School Thursday, August 6 “RAGBRAI® can be such an together to host the riders. Grundy County Fairgrounds Grundy Center Farmer’s Market awesome experience,” Volunteer “The excitement of being a 6 p.m. 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Jean Loger said. “As I volunteered passthrough town overpowered Details on Bulletin Board Grundy Center Bike Rodeo with my friends in New Hartford I the overwhelming thought of Courthouse Square visited with several riders. One man RAGBRAI® riders pedal past vendors in downtown New Hartford See RAGBRAI® page 3 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. from South Carolina, in particular, Wednesday. (John Jensen/The Grundy Register photo) The Grundy Register, P.O. Box 245, Grundy Center, IA 50638 Phone: (319) 824-6958 • Fax: (319) 824-6288 • E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2 Thursday, July 30, 2015 Grundy NEWS Register www.thegrundyregister.com W Daily high and low temperature readings and precipitation amounts at E the National Weather Service Station in Grundy Center for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m.