Archive - Oct 29, 2013

SOLON– Solon Middle School’s annual Veteran’s Day program will be held at the middle school auditorium on Monday, Nov. 11, starting at 1 p.m. All veterans, families and friends, and community members are invited. We are honored to have the presence of guest speaker Sergeant Leland Chandler, a World War II veteran and a former prisoner of war, at this event. The American legion will be in attendance and the eighth grade band will perform. Refreshments will be served following the event, provided by the Solon Middle School PTO.

By Eric Hawkinson
Solon Economist

SOLON– You might want to think about replacing that middle school.
The Solon school board discussed its options for the district’s facility plan on Monday, Oct. 21. While the board did not finalize any course of action, members appeared in agreement about a consultant’s recommendations and the overall phasing of significant projects, including the addition of a large-enough auditorium at the high school.

By Don Lund
Sports Writer

There is only one senior on the Hawkeye women’s basketball team and only 10 scholarship players, so the bench might be thin, but the talent is there.
You start with All-Big Ten point guard Samantha Logic, who not only led the Big Ten in assists (6.4) but set an Iowa record for most assists in a season with 217.
“She has worked very hard on her 3-point shooting and it shows,” said head coach Lisa Bluder on Samantha. “She’s becoming more of a scoring threat and we needed her to be so.”
Theairra Taylor is the only senior but she is a good one.

Dolores M. Kopaitich, 81, of Swisher died at her home on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, after a long illness. Services and visitation were held Oct. 21 at the Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories. Burial was at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Survivors include her husband Tony, her children Linda (Ernie) Bena, Larry (Carol) Gabrielson, Robin Zach and Gina Kopaitich; brothers Joseph (Pat) Rizzio, David (Sandy) Rizzio and Daniel Rizzio; 13 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, three great, great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

When asked if I had any photos of my old friend Norma who died, I thought, with dismay, about the jumble of snapshots that clutter up my desk, the bottom drawer of my dresser, a box under my bed, that small wooden chest on the bookshelf, and an old suitcase in the furnace room. There are a few more places that might yield something, too, that tin box on the top shelf of the linen closet, and a fat envelope of assorted precious junk I once slipped under the place mats and tablecloths in the dining room hutch. It’d take me weeks to go through all that.