Archive - Nov 18, 2015

SOLON– The Solon Athletic Booster Club is hosting its first annual Soup, Hoops and Wrestling soup dinner and winter kick-off on Friday, Nov. 20, at Solon High School. Come meet winter sports and activities participants. Ninth through 12th grade girls and boys basketball and wrestling teams will serve a soup dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m., team introductions and scrimmages to follow. The cost is $6 per person or $20 for a family of four. Bring a canned good donation and receive $2 off the admission price. The itinerary for the event will be as follows:
5-5:30 p.m. - Soup served to athletes;

SOLON– It’s easy to call Solon’s Bill Ginkens a Renaissance man. He’s been a photographer, painter, musician, horseman and short-order cook at the former Reggie’s Weenies in downtown Solon. Now, he adds actor to his list of accomplishments.
Ginkens landed a role in the independent movie Western Religion, written and produced by James O’Brien, without even trying.

Patrick Michael Murphy, 73, of Shueyville, passed away on Nov. 9, 2015, in his home. Funeral Mass was held Friday, Nov. 13, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Solon, with Fr. Tim Sheedy presiding.
Burial was in Shueyville Cemetery. Visitation was Thursday, Nov. 12, at Brosh Chapel in Cedar Rapids, where there was a 7 p.m. vigil.

Going to Riverview was a big deal.
In the late 1800s, the area was used as a shooting range by a group of German immigrants who fought in the Austro-Prussian War, AKA the Seven Weeks’ War. Germans fought on either side of that quick but brutal conflict over real estate. By the early 1900s, however, the old guard died off and the new guard decided to turn it into a park, and then an amusement park.