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Today is Thursday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of the year. There are 348 days remaining in 2024. Below are news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
1 year ago (2023)
In October, the Creston Waterworks Board unanimously voted to stop the North Maple Street improvement plan after bids for the work were $270,000 more than the original budget. Three months later, Waterworks has a new improvement plan focusing on updating the piping infrastructure in Uptown Creston.
A balanced Creston effort overcame the inside dominance of Lewis Central 6-7 center Colby Souther in a 57-56 home victory Friday night.
About 20 schools from southwest Iowa will be coming to Creston Community High School on Saturday to compete at the District Large Group Speech Contest. The contest will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with performances happening all day.
6 year ago (2018)
With four weights remaining and a six-point lead in the final dual of the night against Lewis Central, Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestling needed a leader to step up. Luckily for the Panthers, they were able to call on seniors Kelby Luther and Cade Vicker to get the job done to win their 12th Hawkeye 10 regular season title (outright/and or shared).
Men and women in blue have a job that is constantly changing. That’s the aspect of Orient product Mitch Pashek’s job that he likes so much. Pashek is now a police officer in Creston but was introduced last week at the Fontanelle City Council meeting as one of the town’s new part-time officers who will fill in while Pat Henry, who usually is the town’s officer, is out on medical leave following shoulder surgery.
The Creston/O-M boys and girls bowling teams split their respectively contests against Shenandoah Saturday. The boys fell 2,822 pins to 2,252 pins while the girls just barely snuck out a victory by 51 pins, 2,238 to 2,187. The Panther girls trailed heading into bakers, but outscored Shenandoah in every baker round except the final one. The girls got another impressive individual performance from Casey Batten who bowled an individual high score in the girls contest.
11 years ago (2013)
A large part of southwest Iowa lost power Thursday because of an issue with Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). A switch was being performed when the southwestern area lost power, the reason is currently under investigation. Afton, Creston, Diagonal and Lenox were among towns without power for up to 46 minutes.
Coming into Saturday’s matchup between 2A top-ranked Nodaway Valley and Class 3A No. 9 ranked Creston, Wolverine head coach Darrell Burmiester said the two players he was most worried about were Luke Neitzel and Colby Taylor. But it was a pair of Panther senior reserves who came up with arguably two of the biggest plays in the 59-49 win in front of a capacity crowd.
Creston junior post player Zaidy Frank had a career night in Creston’s most impressive victory of the season Friday. Frank had 13 points in the first half and 21 for the game in the 54-31 win over Shenandoah.
The foundation for Creston/Orient-Macksburg’s dominating title run at the 58th annual John J. Harris Invitational was laid in the quarterfinal round. The Panthers had nine wrestlers reaching the semi-final round including upset victories by Jacob Johnston at 145 pounds and Gavin Leith at 152.
16 years ago (2008)
Hip hop around the block, or in this case to the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Leslie’s Dance Emporium students and staff will be halftime entertainment during Saturday’s game between Iowa Energy, the new D-league men’s basketball team and Fort Wayne, Ind., Mad Ants. During a dance competition at Veteran’s Auditorium in June, an NBA representative saw the group tap dance “Get cha head in the game,” a basketball routine, said Leslie Tyler, owner/instructor at LDE, and asked if the troupe would be interested in performing during a game at Wells Fargo.
Creston boys rallied from a nine-point deficit in the first half to overtake Clarinda on the Cardinals’ home court Tuesday, 75-65. The victory was important for Creston’s district seeding position, ending the period with an 8-3 record. Atlantic fell to 7-3 in seeding games with a 64-54 loss to Lewis Central, with the Trojans visiting the Creston High School gym Friday night for their final seeding contest. Also with three seeding losses to date is Glenwood (7-3) with only a game left against Shenandoah, which upset Denison-Schleswig Tuesday, 55-46. However, Creston owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over Glenwood.