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Ed-Co Football Schedule Released
by Trevor Hunt, Special to the Echoes
The
football schedules for the 2010 and 2011 football seasons have
been released for the Ed-Co Viking football team. The
schedule
includes three non-district games, including a game at the UNI Dome in
the 2011 football season. “I
am pretty excited about this schedule. We
can probably have a very successful season this year which would be
cool since it’s my last football season,” said quarterback Mitch
Brady.
2010 Schedule:
at Maquoketa
Valley
vs. Starmont
at Central Elkader*
vs. East Buchanan*
vs. Northern University High
at Don
Bosco*
vs. Postville*
vs. North Tama*
at Valley Community*
2011 Schedule:
vs. Maquoketa
Valley
at Starmont
vs. Central Elkader*
at East Buchanan*
at Northern University High (UNI Dome)
vs. Don Bosco*
at Postville*
at North Tama*
vs. Valley Community*
* Denotes District 4 game
Ed-Co FFA Dodge Ball Tournament
by Trevor Hunt, Special to the Echoes
On
Saturday, March 6, the Ed-Co FFA hosted a district dodge ball
tournament in the high school gym in Edgewood. Schools
that
participated included Ed-Co, Starmont, Central Elkader, Clayton Ridge,
and Valley of Elgin.
There were ten teams that competed in the tournament: four from
Ed-Co, two from both Starmont and
Valley, and one each for Central and
Clayton Ridge. Each team had six members, or seven if they had a
substitute,
and they all played at least three games.
The Ed-Co team of Dakota Lueken, Payson Kerns,
Kevin Fischer, Trevor
Hunt, Ben Putz, Gina Fisher, and Angie Sperfslage, playing under the
team name “Fiscal
Jackhammers,” were the champions of the tournament.
Kevin Fischer, a senior at Ed-Co
and a member of the champion team
said, “It was a great time and I was very happy to win the tournament.
We are the first Ed-Co team to win it so I was part of history.”
Pi Day Celebration
by Rachel Clemen,
Special to the Echoes
Pi day was celebrated at Ed-Co High School on March 12th and
the 15th
in Mr. Hamann’s classroom in honor of the famous math symbol, π. March
14th is the actual day
pi is celebrated because the first three digits
of pi are 3.14 but since pi day is on a Sunday, the activities had to
be held the Friday before and the Monday after. In preparation of pi
day, students got to choose and participate
in various activities
including making a poster that involves pi, memorizing the digits of
pi, essay or poetry
contest on the topic “Numbers I Have Known”, pie
baking contest, researching and writing a historical report
about pi
and creating a game or song pertaining to pi. “I am excited for pi day
because I get to eat pie,”
Ashley Wegmann commented.
Ed-Co Track Season Just Beginning
by Rachel Clemen, Special to the Echoes
The track season is underway as high school athletes practice and
prepare for
their first indoor meet. This year, the high school track
team is boasting around 60 students in which eight are seniors.
The
boys’ head coach is Mr. Lutgen while the girls’ head coach is Mrs.
Putz. Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Nielsen,
Mr. Olind and Mrs. Lueken assist the
coaches. The boys’ first indoor meet will be held at Loras College on
March 8th while the girls’ first indoor meet will be held at Cornell
College March 26th for the Tri-Rivers
Conference indoor meet. Both
teams are currently practicing in the high school gym and occasionally
in the parking
lot or on the streets but once the snow melts off the
track, practice will be taking place there. The girls’ first
outdoor
meet will be held at West Delaware April 1st while the boys’ first
outdoor meet will be on April
6th at Edgewood. Later in the season,
both the boys’ and the girls’ team will run the district/regional
meet
at Edgewood on May 14th with state track the week after.
First Indoor Track meet a Success
by
Jenni Glawe, Special to the Echoes
Monday, March 8th, the Ed-Co boys’ track
team traveled to Loras
College for their first track meet of 2010. It was also the first
indoor meet they participated
in this year and they did very well. The
Ed-Co boys’ team was made up of about 30 athletes. The head coach, Mr.
Lutgen, was happy with the results, “ I think we did extremely well.
It helped us get the jitters out of the
way and especially gave the
freshman a taste of high school track.”
The Loras
track meet was attended by Dubuque Senior, Dubuque
Hempstead, Dubuque Wahlert, Waterloo West, DeWitt Central, Western
Dubuque, Tipton, Maquoketa, Bettendorf and, Ed-Co.
Ed-Co placed in nine events. In the
4x300 meter relay Trapper
Woodley, Cory Hansen, Dakota Lueken, and Willie Rhines placed second
with a time of
2:52.51. Also placing second was the 4x450 meter relay
including Payson Kerns, Dakota Lueken, Alex Fern, and Trapper
Woodley.
They had a time of 4:40.50. Fourth place was awarded to three athletes
in three events; Alex Fern in
the 400 meter with a time of 1:00.01,
Dakota Lueken in the 600 meter with a time of 1:40.28 and Austin Habel
in
the 1000 meter with a time of 3:13.95. Alex Fern got fifth in long
jump with a jump of 17 feet 7 inches. Also receiving
fifth was the
4x750 meter relay, which consisted of Alex Fern, Payson Kerns, Austin
Hess, and Austin Habel. The
had a time of 8:57.48. In high jump
Ed-Co’s Trapper Woodley placed sixth with a 5 foot 2 inch jump. Then
Ed-Co’s Willie Rhines, Michael Kelchen, Austin Hess and Tony McDowell
placed sixth in the 4x450 meter with a time
of 4:56.64.
No team scores were kept at this meet but it was a good start to the
Viking
track season.
Intro to Business Prepares Business Plans
by Tara Schwietert, Special to the Echoes
In the third quarter Intro to Business class, the 23 students are
hard at work
creating their own business plans to “help them gain a
realization as to what businesses have to go through to
start a
business” said Intro to Business teacher Mrs. Ehlers. Mrs. Ehlers
introduced the project by explaining
what really goes into creating a
business and making it work, such as partnering with someone or others
who have
similar interests and hobbies. By doing so this gave the
students an opportunity to create a business that met their
interests
but also made the creating process easier because the partners were
able to agree and work together
to create it.
The business students created a plan including the key elements of a
business plan; description of the business idea, description of their
competition, marketing plan, customer analysis,
operations plan, and a
financial plan. Each business plan was created based on the type of
business the students
chose to create; tanning salon, laser tag arena,
clothing store, psychiatric clinic, paintball arena, outdoor store,
drive-in movie, and a Honda franchise.
While creating the business plan, Mrs. Ehlers
informed the students
that their business plans will be taken to Community Savings Bank in
Edgewood where bank
personnel will look over the plans and evaluate
them. This is taken into consideration for their final grade on the
project. This has freshmen Rylee McDermott saying, “Taking them to the
bank is a good idea because it’s
helping us to try and make the plans
as realistic as possible.”
Intro to Business Literacy Groups
by Tara Schwietert, Special to the Echoes
Mrs. Ehlers’ Intro to Business
class is taking part in literacy
groups throughout the third quarter to help prepare for the amount of
reading
in college that won’t include just a textbook. The books are
nonfiction and have either been on the New York Times
Bestseller List
or recommended by a professional business person. These books include
Free the Children by Craig
Kielburger and Kevin Major, Nickel and
Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Geeks by Jon Katz, Katie,com by Katherine
Tarbox, Martha: on Jail, On Trial, and On a Comback by Robert Slater.
The books were assigned to the students based
on their reading level
In the groups, the students have different jobs; discussion director,
vocabulary finder, illustrator, and passage connector, that
participate in the book discussion. The discussion director
will open
the discussion by asking questions that they thought of while readinga
section of the book while the
vocabulary finder will review words and
their definitions. The illustrator creates or finds a picture that
illustrates
the section that is being discussed and the passage
connector will find passages in the reading and connect it with
things
in every day life.
After a book discussion is complete, the students will exchange
jobs
so everyone has the opportunity to have each of the jobs throughout
the quarter. At the end of the quarter,
each group will participate in
a sharing session. During the sharing session the students will give a
group presentation
on their book. This will include what the book was
about, what they learned from reading it, and their personal opinions
about the literacy. Freshmen Rachel Moser, who is reading Nickel and
Dimed, said, “I really like it because
if I miss something in the
reading, my group can help me understand it better.”
Retiring Staff Members
at Ed-Co
by Becca Thein and Natasha Vorwald
There are seven great staff members
who work for the
Edgewood-Colesburg school district that are retiring this year. We
decided to tell you about
what they have done for Ed-Co and give you a
little insight on what they are planning on doing after retirement.
The first person is Mr. Hansen. Mr. Hansen has been the high school
choir teacher for 32 years at Ed-Co. He has enjoyed
working with the
students at Ed-Co because he thinks they are friendly. “I plan to run
my computer business
full-time and to pursue my hobbies and to be
outside a lot,” said Mr. Hansen.
The
next person is Duane Culbertson. He has been the janitor at Ed-Co
for 19 years. The things he’s going to miss
most about working at
Ed-Co are all the great staff members and kids. After retiring he
plans on working on his
house and getting a job.
Diane Schilling has been the elementary secretary for 35 years.
“I am
going to miss the interactions with the students,” said Mrs.
Schilling. Schilling is already
working as a disaster volunteer for
the Red Cross and hopes to do more volunteer work after retiring. She
also
wants to spend more time with her grandkids.
For 33 years John Ross has been the elementary
janitor. He is going
to miss the kids at school. He’s not sure what he’s going to do after
retiring
but he would like to find small jobs. “I enjoyed my time
working here. The people are great to work with,”
said Ross.
Mrs. Gatto has worked at the elementary for 19 years as the physical
education
teacher. “I am going to miss all the students and the staff
people they were great to work with,” said Gatto.
She doesn’t know
what she’s going to do, but she plans on spending more time with her
grandchildren.
The next teacher is Mrs. Luker. Mrs. Luker has worked at the high
school for 16 years
as the special education specialist. She is going
to miss the interaction with the kids. She’s going to enjoy
life and
take care of herself. Luker said, “I’ve always been proud to work at
Ed-Co!”
The last person is Mr. Johnson. He has worked at Ed-Co for a total of
43 years. Ed-Co is
the only school he has ever worked at. In his time
at Ed-Co he has taught conceptual sciences and a few math classes.
“I’m getting near retirement age. I’ll be 64 this fall and it’s time.
I don’t want
to be teaching when I’m not doing the job…it isn’t good
for the kids and faculty,” stated Johnson.
These seven staff members have done a lot for Ed-Co and we appreciate
all of your hard
work over the years. You will be greatly missed!
Students of the Week
by Rachel Moser
There isn't
just one student of the week this week. Mrs. Lindauer has
been helping the junior class plan college activities and
three
students stuck out to her. Kristy Oldfather, Kayla Kluesner, and Tosha
Paul have been chosen as students
of the week. "All of these girls
have been very responsible. All three have set up college visits and
college
placement tests have been scheduled. The just all have a
really good start to achieving future goals," said Mrs.
Lindauer.
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