Archive - Jan 2012

A kindergarten student at Lakeview Elementary and his father were killed in a two-car collision just northwest of Solon Monday morning. According to reports from the Solon Community School District and the Iowa Highway Patrol, Greg Engrav of rural Solon and his son, Zach, were heading south on Ely Road near the intersection with 140th Street at approximately 8:02 a.m. when their vehicle crossed the center line and struck an oncoming sports utility vehicle head-on. Greg Engrav was pronounced dead at the scene.

By B. Adam Burke
Solon Economist
SOLON– Dorothy Jacobi is doing what she loves every day. She comes in early each day for Jazz I and II to lead, coach and play along in the Solon Middle School jazz scene.
Her favorite part? Watching the music take shape as students begin to command their instruments. She credits the concert ensemble for the high level of playing in the jazz program.

Here we go again
The great schedule makers had Nebraska playing the Hawkeye men in Iowa City last Thursday at 6 p.m. and the Iowa women playing Nebraska at Lincoln at 7 p.m. on the same night.
The men’s game was on TV, the women’s was on 1350 AM radio which might as well been from western Canada because it doesn’t come through in Johnson County after dark.
It’s tough enough to lose to Nebraska in football in their first season in the Big Ten but to lose to both the men’s and women’s basketball teams in the same night…

Joyce Ann Ritscher, 68, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Keystone, died of cancer on Jan. 18, 2012, at the home of her daughter in Chicago. A memorial service was held Jan. 23 at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone, with Pastor Richard Osslund officiating. Committal services were held at Holy Cross Cemetery near Keystone.
Joyce was born Sept. 20, 1943, in Vinton to Delbert and Lucille (Holst) Junge, and graduated from the Keystone High School in 1961. She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone and she sold real restate.
Local survivors include Doug (Jeanne) Junge of Swisher.

Edmund “Sunk” Jones, 86, of Ely, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, at his home. Funeral services were held Jan. 28, at Shueyville United Methodist Church in Shueyville. Burial followed in Rogers Grove Cemetery.
Edmund was born Feb. 22, 1925, in Williamsburg, to Ed and Polly (Lewis) Jones. He graduated from Ely High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Sunk married Ellen Klinsky on June 18, 1953, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ely. Sunk farmed for over 40 years around Ely. He was a former volunteer fireman for the Ely Fire Department.