Partnership joins public and private

Written by Don Ratzlaff Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:14

Tabor.jpg The dotted line around the colored areas indicate the boundaries of the property that will be jointly owned by USD 410 and Tabor College if the bond election passes in June. Click on photo to enlarge.
Schools propose shared facility for football and track.

The most unconventional portion of the USD 410 bond proposal involves a partnership with Tabor College to build a football and track facility on the college campus.

The partnership involves not only a high school and college athletic program, also a public and private institution.

“To us, it just doesn’t make sense to have two facilities in Hillsboro,” Superintendent Gordon Mohn said about the partnership.

The total cost of this project is $4.033 million...

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Second snow socks wheat crop

Written by Jerry Engler Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:50

This wheat field, like many in Marion County, depicts the severe impact of this month’s record snow fall and cold temperatures. “Everybody is interested in what happens next,” said Jeff Cady, crop insurance agent and partner in the National Farmers Union agency in Marion. Several state sources have called the crop at least 45 percent gone.

(Click photo to enlarge.) Flattened and discoloring wheat fields, like this one near Hillsboro, were a common sight around Marion County on Sunday as a late snowstorm hit Marion County on Friday for the second week in a row. The first storm, which was accompanied by three nights of freezing temperatures, was thought to damage a potential bumper crop...

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Most changes at high school would address athletic needs

Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:18

The floor plan of Hillsboro Middle School and Hillsboro HIgh School show where the building additions would take place if the district’s bond election is passed. The pink area is the renovated science room and the blue areas indicate the location of the new locker rooms, rest rooms and weight-training area.
The most obvious structural changes proposed by the USD 410 Board ofEducation at the high school and middle school campus will enhance theenvironment for athletics.<p>This portion of the district’s$6.625 million total project, estimated to cost just over $2.44million, will include new dressing rooms, office space for coaches, atraining room and a new weight room for strengthconditioning.<p>But it...

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Two Hillsboro manufacturers join forces

Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:38

hillsindteamp4131184.jpg The recently enlarged brain trust at Hillsboro Industries shares a mutual vision for the potential value of the core technology behind Kintec Inc.’s groundbreaking hitch. From left are Phil Wyssenbach, company president, Merle Friesen, national sales manager, Tom Kaufman, Kintec founder and now an engineering manager at HI, and Mike Gerken, chief operating officer. (Click photo to enlarge) Sometimes you can go home again.

After an absence of a little more than 21⁄2 years, Tom Kaufman is back at Hillsboro Industries as an engineering manager.

And he’s brought with him the key reason he left the local trailermanufacturing company in summer 2004: an innovative braking system...

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