Clarion-Goldfield-Dows

‘As normal as possible:’ WC school districts look forward to new year

Published by editor on Wed, 08/18/2021 - 6:27am

Busses are ready, backpacks are loaded, and the doors will soon be open. School around the county starts next week already. All three Wright County districts, Clarion-Goldfield-Dows, Eagle Grove and Belmond-Klemme will be getting back to school on August 23. Ahead of that date, the superintendents of all three schools sat down to discuss what back-to-school looks like this year versus last and how COVID is still an ever-present concern.

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CGD School District and Dows Food pantry receive pork loins

Published by editor on Wed, 08/18/2021 - 6:11am

Over the past two weeks, the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation kicked embarked on their annual effort to Haul Out Hunger across rural Iowa. Iowa Select Farms employees delivered more than 50,000 pounds of fresh, boneless pork loins to 94 rural food pantries. The Clarion-Goldfield-Dows School District received 144 pork loins. Additionally, the Dows Food Pantry received 336 pork loins. Along with the fresh protein, 200 Henry’s Heroes boxes brought basic childhood needs to the food pantries.

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Mason Allen has great time at AAU event

Published by editor on Wed, 08/18/2021 - 6:08am

CGD incoming sophomore Mason Allen just recently returned from the AAU Junior Olympics held in Humble, Texas. The event features thousands of athletes from all over the country. He competed in the discus and javelin events.

“You have to qualify to get there,” said Allen. “I went to Des Moines first, and then qualified for the regional in Minnesota. I placed well enough there to move on. I wasn’t really expecting to go, but I also knew I had a chance.” August 2 and 4 were his actual competition days for the two events.

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CGD School Board accepts ball complex bid

Published by editor on Wed, 08/11/2021 - 7:11am

The Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Board of Education revisited the baseball/softball complex project during their Monday meeting. Last month, bids came in significantly over the engineers estimate of $2.6 million. The low bid was from Dean Snyder Construction for $5,071,000. The board ultimately decided to rebid the project without the concession stand, restroom, press box building of the project, which had proven to be an expensive part of the bids.

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In his sixth year as an umpire, Jason Berning works first state tournament

Published by editor on Wed, 08/11/2021 - 7:00am

Over the several years that Jason Berning was head baseball coach for the Cowboys, he had the idea in the back of his mind that he would like to be an umpire someday when his coaching days were over. Now he fulfilled another goal by working his first state tournament.

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Cowboy stats show Cael Chase, Jackson among leaders

Published by editor on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 7:20am

The 2021 Cowboy baseball team finished at 1-21 overall, with a 1-13 conference mark. Webster City was the NCC champ with a 14-0 record, followed by Humboldt at 10-4 and Algona at 9-5. Cael Chase earned a spot on the All-Conference second team, while Mateo Martinez received a nod to the third team in balloting of league coaches.

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Bids for ball complex ‘astronomically high’

Published by editor on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 8:29am

At the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Board of Education meeting Monday night, the school board faced some difficult decisions. The group had hoped to approve bids for the baseball/softball complex and the middle school gym at this meeting. Bids were opened on July 8. Both projects came in substantially over the engineers’ estimates.

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Cowboy baseball needs a win badly

Published by editor on Wed, 07/14/2021 - 6:57am

In summarizing two previous games that were not yet reported on, the Cowboys lost to Iowa Falls-Alden 12-3 as Preston Gardner, Thane Jackson and Damien Bjorklund came up with the only hits. Nevan Foss, Cael Chase and Gardner scored the runs, with Gardner also credited with an RBI. Bjorklund took the loss, allowing two earned on 12 hits while striking out five batters. C. Chase also saw pitching duties, striking out two.

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Summer learning = summer fun at CGD

Published by editor on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 8:21am

If you’ve traveled around the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows schools in the last few weeks, you might have noticed some conspicuous activity. Dozens of students still at school! Buses and vehicles dropping off! Kids flying kites, throwing balls, playing beanbags! This is all part of CGD’s system for summer learning and by all accounts, it is going very well.

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Cowgirls get first win in exciting fashion 24-23!

Published by editor on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 6:54am

While we all believed the Cowgirls first win was coming soon, I don’t think anyone could have seen this kind of game coming. It was truly a game of who could score the most, and thankfully it turned out to be our ladies in red & black.