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Today is Thursday, June 5, the 156th day of the year. There are 209 days remaining in 2025. Below is a collection of news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.
20 years ago (2005)
Kendra Anthony triple plated the game’s only run as Creston’s softball team defeated the Earlham Cardinals 1-0 here Friday night.
Saturday was Teacher Feature night at the Adams County Speedway for the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series. Chris Spieker, Trenton Jackson and Les Helvie each picked up their second wins of the season, while Tony Hardisty picked up his first. Also, the Creston High School teachers won bragging rights as the fastest team in Southwest Iowa as Todd Jacobson piloted their golf cart to a victory following a fast pit stop by his students.
Natalie Bohling of Greenfield and Bailly Glynn of Creston participated in the 2005 Camera Corps educational photography workshop and training program at Iowa State University June 8.
Hits were fleeting for the Creston softball team Tuesday night - scoring opportunities weren’t. Creston used just three hits to surge past Clarinda 3-0. The Panthers took advantage of four walks and two costly errors in the victory over the Hawkeye 10 foe. The win snapped Creston’s three-game losing streak and pushed the team’s record back to .500.
40 years ago (1985)
Fifteen Union County 4-Hers have held two workshops to form the Union County 4-H Youth Crime Committee, Project I.D. The group is now planning to assist Union County residents in marking machinery, household items and lawn and small business equipment with the resident’s own identification number.
Creston’s Pantherettes came out in a soggy five innings Monday night to at least salvage one fame of a scheduled doubleheader with Shenandoah. The girls used a five-run third inning to drop the Fillies 5-2 and move their league mark to 3-0. Shen is now 0-2 in the Hawkeye Eight.
60 years ago (1965)
Congressman Bert Bandstra, D-Iowa, said in Washington that he will support the Three-Mile Creek watershed project in Union County. Bandstra, from Iowa’s fourth congressional district, said he will push for quick action on the project when plans are approved on the state level and reach Washington.
Donald E. Green was appointed as police judge for the Creston Police Court at a special meeting of the Creston City Council today. He was sworn in at once by Mayor Frank Boortz and will serve until Dec. 31.
Terry Beaumont of Creston was named today as “Man of the Month,” leading in paid-for business for May for the Council Bluffs District of the Prudential, which consists of 27 salesmen in Southwest Iowa.
Randy Long’s shut-out pitching and Mike Ulm’s two-run homer propelled the Creston Panthers to a 3-0 victory over Clarinda here Thursday night. It was the first win against two losses in Hawkeye Seven play for the Panthers and the fifth win eight games against all foes.
80 years ago (1945)
The Nebraska Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has launched a campaign to provide more jobs for returning veterans through voluntary return to the kitchen of married women now holding war jobs.
George L. Goodale, who has been secretary of the Lenox School Board for the last 48 years, has resigned because of ill health. Goodale, who will be 88 years old next Sept. 11, has operated a jewelry and optical store in Lenox since 1877.
Total bond sales for Union County as shown by issuing agents as of June 9 total $471,534 against a quota of $631,000 for the seventh war loan drive, leaving a balance of about $140,000.
Seven 18-year-old Union County selective service registrants all but one members of the 1945 Creston High School graduating class, went to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, last night for indiction into the armed forces.
Twelve beginning swimmers and eight junior life-saving students are enrolled in classes at McKinley Beach. This is the only place in Southwest with a qualified swimming instructor.