Pella Christian High School celebrated homecoming last week, and their king and queen were chosen Friday afternoon.
Carson Breon and Adrienne Vander Molen were selected by their peers to represent the Eagles for the 2021 celebration. Both students were among the thousands in Iowa who lost the chance to participate in spring activities and were kept out of the classroom after spring break when COVID-19 was first spreading in Iowa. Breon and Vander Molen both look forward to continuing to participate until graduation; Breon will run track this spring and Vander Molen aims to play tennis.
Carson received his fourth consecutive All-State Music honor this fall, was the lead in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat musical, and is trying to qualify for state swimming with Oskaloosa this winter, while Vander Molen is currently the manager of the Eagles’ girls basketball team.
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Sustainability and international trade are top of mind for the American Dairy Coalition, which hosted a webinar with its members to share their vision for the dairy industry in 2021.
Jamie Vander Molen, vice president of sustainability initiatives for the manure management company Newtrient, said her organization is pursuing the Net Zero Initiative, which would make carbon neutrality a reality for dairy farmers. While many say those solutions are too expensive for the average producer, Vander Molen is confident they can find the way. This is a collective effort of all farms. This is not an effort to get every single farm in the US to reach net zero by 2050, Vander Molen said. There are some farms that will take one step, or a few steps, or have taken many over the last couple of years, and others might take more. This is really about how we as an industry can reach net zero by 2050, and this will not single out individual farms.