Archive - Apr 2012

SOLON– The Solon Community School District’s revenues totaled $16,095,906 for the year ended June 30, 2011, an eight percent increase over the prior year. Revenues included $7,108,861 in local tax, charges for services and sales of $2,193,362, operating grants of $1,945,702, unrestricted state grants of $4,546,169, contributions and donations of $123,061, unrestricted interest of $129,775, other general revenues of $64,229 and loss on disposal of capital assets of $16,253.

SOLON– Finding the right coffee to put in the bag– that’s been the challenge for Jeff Kral and Larry Erenberger in creating their own brand of bean drip for college sports fans.
Kral and Erenberger, who graduated from Solon just a year apart in the late 1970s, have just begun a new company, Mascot Coffee, which matches their Hawkeye pride with their love of the java juice.
Both were college athletes and developed the company for a few years before making a deal to sell Hawkeye Gold in 2011.

SOLON– The first reading of new restrictions for the open burning of landscape waste has been approved by the Solon City Council.
But some residents are still questioning the limits, and one avid gardener is seeking some modifications.
In March, council members endorsed a proposal limiting the burning of yard and garden waste to three days a week between April 1 and May 25 and Oct. 1 through Nov. 25. If adopted by the council, residents would be allowed to burn plant material generated on their property on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. during those periods.

DEFENSE

The last couple of weeks I’ve talked about the Hawkeye offense. This week I’ll look at the defensive line and linebackers.

The defensive line could be the most important position as far as how successful the Hawkeyes will be. Iowa will be young and inexperienced, but I believe they have the coach that can make them a solid unit by the end of the year.
Reece Morgan, who has been the offensive line coach since 2003, will coach the d-line this year and in my opinion, might be the best pure coach on the staff.

Marilyn M. Obermier, 81, of Clarence, died March 30, 2012, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha. Funeral services were held April 5 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Stanwood, by the Rev. Victor Young. Burial was at Dayton Valley Cemetery, Clarence.
Born March 8, 1931, in Lowden, the daughter of Forest and Myrtle (Straub) Ford, she married Wallace Obermier on June 4, 1950. He died Dec. 8, 2000.