Under wartime conditions, when new home construction has been sharply curtailed by material shortages and when war housing is necessarily reserved for occupancy by the most essential war workers, the maintenance of a sound financing system for older home properties has become increasingly important, W.T. Pate, state director of the Federal Housing Administration, said today.
A look at Saturday’s Class 1A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling finals. Alburnett’s Rowdy Neighbor scored two takedowns against Akron-Westfield’s Cael Morrow, avenging a loss from a year ago and capturing the 120-pound title
Just three years after placing 46th at the Class 1A state tournament, Alburnett is back among the top 1A programs. The Pirates are ranked second in dual and tournament rankings with seven ranked wrestlers to start the second half of the boys’ wrestling season.
Each of his first two seasons, Alburnett’s Preston Klostermannwas forced to settle for second the opening weekend of the season. Not this time. Klostermann tallied four pins in the two-day competition, including a third-period fall over Clear Creek Amana’s Ryker Jones, to claim the 144-pound title Saturday at the Cliff Keen Independence Invitational.
About 45 people gathered in the Soldotna High School commons last week to celebrate the latest group of students to complete a summer work program offered by the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. That program, which places students with disabilities in local businesses to gain supported work experience and professional development skills, served 25 students this year.