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February 20, 2008 What's Happening? Park Board to meet The Akron Park Board will meet Thursday, Feb. 21, 5 p.m., at City Hall. Congratulatory reception The Akron Hometowner is hosting a congratulatory reception for reporter Julie Ann Madden Thursday, Feb. 21, 9-11 a.m., at the office. The reception is in honor the reporting award she received at the newspaper convention. Farm & Home Show The Farm & Home Show sponsored by The Akron Area Chamber of Commerce is March 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and March 2 , 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at the school. Council meetings The Akron City Council has returned to the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month to hold their meeting. The next meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 26, followed by March 11 and 25. The meetings are held at City Hall at 7 p.m. and are open to the public. Fish Supper The Westfield United Church of Christ is holding a Fish/Chicken Supper Feb. 22, 29, and March 7, 5-7:30 p.m. at the church. FFA Week FFA Week is Feb. 16-23 with many celebrations happening at Akron-Westfield.
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Commissioners set Hyperion public hearing for March 3
By Julie Ann Madden On Feb. 12, it wasn’t a surprise that the Union County Commissioners set a public hearing on the Hyperion rezoning application and ordinance for Monday, March 3. The surprise came when Commissioner Ross Jordan asked the other three commissioners present to table setting a public hearing for two weeks. Commissioner Marvin Schempp was absent. “I would like to defer this motion again,” said Jordan, explaining he’d asked Hyperion officials four questions on Feb. 8 and requested an answer by Feb.11. [full article]
Three A-W wrestlers stand on podium at state John Sievert wins No. 150
by Hank Krause The
Akron-Westfield wrestlers ended up in tenth place out of 86 teams in the
Iowa State Wrestling Tournament held in Des Moines on Feb. 14-16. A-W had
three wrestlers in the meet. Brody Verschoor, Joe Sievert and John Sievert
were all competitors. Brody Verschoor placed seventh at 145 lbs. while Joe
Sievert place third at 160. Joe wrestled under a handicap with a broken
nose,
A-W boys’ season halted by Hank Krause The 2007-08
Akron-Westfield boys basketball season came to an end at Cherokee on
Tuesday, Feb. 12. South O’Brien defeated A-W 48-34 during District action
in Class 2A. The boys finished their year with a fine 16-6 record. Sixteen
wins is a new A-W record plus the majority of the kids return for next
year. A-W jumped out to a 10-2 lead as they shot well and rebounded well
to start the quarter. SOS responded well and tied it at the end of one
14-14 as they went on a 12-2 run. SOS got thei |
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suffered in the semi’s. John Sievert placed third at 189, plus John won
match number 150. Verschoor started with Clay Welter of Don Bosco. Welter
won by decision over Verschoor 3-1. For all practical purposes this was
the championship match. Welter went on to be the 145 pound champion. Joe
Sievert at 160 won his first match by a pin. In the second round Sievert
pinned his opponent in the third period. Sievert then lost 6-5 to Brian
Kooiker of CMB plus breaking Joe’s nose. The coach from Waterloo East
asked Joe if he wrestled with a broken nose, and Joe said yes. The coach
from Waterloo East then said, “Joe was one tough #*#*#*#!! Sievert then
pinned Mark Benning in the first period. Sievert then won 10-3 over Logan
Faucher of Guthrie Center to win third place. John Sievert was also a
third place winner. John won a major decision 14-2 over Kass Lester of
Pleasantville. Sievert then tangled with Jake Hoffman of Graettinger-
Terrill. Sievert had lost to the number one ranked Hoffman in the Battle
Creek-Ida Grove tourney. Sievert won 11-6 at state. Sievert then lost to
John Lerdal of New London, the eventual champion, 8-1. Sievert then beat
Matt Ferlich of Highland by pin. John then won 9-2 over Andrew Roberts of
AGSR. Roberts was ranked third in the state. John Sievert placed third and
also won match number 150. 
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second lead as Ryan Brasser hit a three to make it 17-16. A-W responded as
Chris Carlson hit a short jump shot following Mike Oetken’s shot from
underneath. Oetken hit another jump shot and A-W led 24-17. SOS came right
back by the hands of Jarod Syndergaard. That’s “Sin Der Gaard.”
Syndergaard, who had 15 in the first half ended with a game high of 25.
For a sophomore he is one great player. In the second half SOS didn’t do
anything different but really tightened things up on A-W. The Wolverines
denied passing the ball inside and really cut down dribbling to get in a
better shooting position. SOS held A-W to three points in the third and
two in the last quarter. They really played excellent defense. A-W, on the
other hand, played a good first half and played pretty good defense in the
second half. The Westerners just couldn’t put the ball in the bucket. It
was still a good season as A-W beat the conference champion Hinton, beat
the runner-up Unity Christian and beat the number one seed in our district
Westwood of Sloan. It’s just that SOS is playing about as well as they can
play. What makes me ill is that both Syndergaard and Brasser are both
sophomores. A-W and SOS should have some great battles the next couple of
years.