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Today is Thursday, April 18, the 109th day of the year. There are 257 days remaining in 2024. Below are news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
6 years ago (2018)
Creston’s Jacob Cook and Jaden Driskell put together a top notch performance on their way to a doubles title at the Saydel Tennis Tournament on Saturday. In a field formatted like the district tournament, Cook and Driskell bested units from Ballard, Chariton, North Polk, Fort Dodge St. Edmund and Saydel, including a 10-6 win over Ballard’s Caleb Hamerlinck and Max Olsan to win the doubles title.
An Evan Jacobson free kick late in the first overtime period found the back of the net as the Creston boys soccer team picked up its first conference win since 2015 with a 1-0 decision over Atlantic Monday. The last time Creston had won a conference game, the three Panther seniors were freshmen, adding even more emphasis to the team’s victory.
Creston’s girls basketball team filled its coaching vacancy Friday with the hiring of Tony Neubauer, formerly the head coach at Nevada High School in Nevada. Neubauer, a Cresco native, announced the move via Twitter. Neubauer coached Nevada to a 40-8 record in two seasons at the helm, including a first round exit at the state tournament in 2017.
16 years ago (2008)
A 5.2 earthquake centered in Illinois early this morning was felt in Iowa. The earthquake, which appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region, was centered six miles from West Salem, Illinois.
The number of postponements continue to increase as the spring sports season tried to avoid the weather. Through Thursday, a total of 102 high school postponements have been made from the Creston News Advertiser’s nine high schools.
A total of three events from area schools have unofficially qualified for the Drake Relays, starting Thursday. On Friday, Creston’s Meghin Krambeck will start the day with the 100 hurdles; Corning’s 4x100 meter relay team of Morgan Davenport, Melyssa Longfellow, Rachel Peterson and Lara West will compete Friday evening and on Saturday Creston’s shuttle hurdle relay of Krambeck, Jill Johnson, Megan Birchard and Nicole Hunter qualified for the preliminaries.
Commander Peggy Whitson, a Mount Ayr High School graduate, has broken the record for time in space for a U.S. astronaut. She also has more time on spacewalks than any other woman. Whitson is set to come home, according to her mother who lives in Beaconsfield.
26 years ago (1998)
After passing two previous readings, zoning and subdivision ordinances failed to gain final approval at this morning’s Union County Board of Supervisor’s meeting. “I’m shocked and disappointed that after all this work that has been done, and all of the public hearings. Now a half-dozen people are in here stopping something that has been worked on for 10 years?” said supervisor JoAnn Bradley.
Everything was bigger –– the players, the crowd, the stadium, the band. But Kyle McCann played as if he were on the green grass of Creston’s Townline field as Iowa concluded spring football drills with its annual spring game Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. The 6-foot-6 redshirt from Creston showed the poise of an upperclassman, not a freshman, playing for the first time in front of a crowd.
Mike Mansour broke a meet record and Creston took fourth Friday in the Panther Relays. Mansour broke Doug Lang’s 200-meter dash record with a blistering time of 22.66. Lang set the previous record of 22.8 in 1977.
The Creston Chamber of Commerce Ambassador’s held a ribbon cutting Friday at the new Garden Gate Greenhouse on Highway 34 West, owned by Joyce and Tim Kinkade.
Community and business representatives broke ground Friday morning at the site of the planned Premier Estates independent and assisted living retirement complex and Crest Haven Care Centre, owned by the Boyle Companies on North Lincoln Street in Creston.
36 years ago (1988)
Sherry James of Orient will serve as gardening and food preservation program assistant with the Union County Extension Service this summer. James is available to help residents learn more about planning the garden, planting and pest control.
Sean Dunphy of Creston set a new personal record Friday at the Panther Relays in the shot put with a heave that measured 48-11. Dunphy placed third in the event and Glenwood’s Scott Davis set a new meet standard of 59-11 ½.
The final tally was Iowa Seniors 115, Over-the-Hill Gang 89. But most of the 1,400 fans didn’t bother looking at the scoreboard. The real winners were the East Union High School Boosters, who split gate receipts estimated at $5,600 with the senior players from the University of Iowa basketball team in an entertaining exhibition game Sunday evening.