Archive - Sep 2012

SOLON– Red Cedar Chamber Music will hold a free “Rural Outreach” concert Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Community Center at 1165 Taft Ave., Solon. For information call 319-377-8028. Flutist Jan Boland, guitarist John Dowdall and cellist Carey Bostian will perform tuneful Czech-inspired chamber music by Iowa composers.

SOLON– The Solon High School graduating classes of 1962 and 1963 are holding a joint class reunion on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Lake Macbride Golf Course. The class of 1963 is still looking for addresses for classmates Lillian Brown, Charlotte Brown, Betty Hook, Carol Leeper and William Scheetz. Reunion contacts are Marianne Harney, 319-624-2630, or Jean Harney, 319-351-1954.

SOLON– Our Lord’s Church, 131 N. Market St., will have its eighth Annual Fall Festival Saturday, Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. A soup luncheon will start at 10:30 a.m., serving homemade chili, chicken noodle, and ham and bean soups, along with hot dogs and chilidogs. The bake sale includes Kolaches, pies, cakes, cookies, bars, some candy, fresh farm eggs, bread from the Sykora Bakery and other member specialties. The festival will again be selling Dutch Letters, a pastry from Pella and (new this year) fresh cheese curds from the Kalona Cheese Factory.

I’d like to take some time to explain why and how Solon plans to overhaul the way it assesses its students.
The Solon Community School District (SCSD) chose to look at its grading practices during the 2011-2012 school year. What we discovered was that teachers held wildly different policies for grading student work. We also discovered that some of our district’s college freshmen were reporting difficulty in retaining information for their first set of collegiate finals.

SOLON– Solon’s Post Prom Party committee will be holding an “All Solon” used clothing and sporting goods sale at the Solon Middle School (date to be determined). Please donate any used Solon Spartan apparel as well as any sporting goods equipment such as cleats, gloves, athletic apparel, etc. Please make sure donations are clean and in good condition. Donations can be dropped off at any of the three schools in labeled boxes and will be collected Oct. 1 through 19. All proceeds for this fundraiser will be used for the 2013 Post Prom Party.