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C16EASTGIobe-Gazette Neighbors East WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989 sagje coaupDe sCiiace Metz Osage To serve Heifer Project lilP I W'' Iff vj -ll 4-ry;) 'Jyj fi Sj sVfo 'Wi I ili "Jf Jk i If you have news items or ideas for June, call her at 732-4452. By June Metz Correspondent Osage There is a bit of mystery involved when visiting with Bob and Adeline Schroeder about the volunteer duties they have accepted for the months of July, August and September. "We are not for sure what they will be," said Bob Schroeder. The Osage ocuple have been accepted to be volunteers for Heifer Project International for the three months. They will be serving as host and hostess at Northeast Learning and Livestock Center at Rutland, which is 50 miles northwest of Boston.

The Heifer Project International is an interdenominational missionorganization which sends various types of animals around the United States and the world. Heifers are just one tour hosts and will supervise work groups. There is a farm manager at the 384-acre site where animals are raised for project. According to the Schroeders, there are thousands of visitors to the farm during the summer months. The Schroeders will have their own living quarters and a small food allowance.

They will travel to the site at their own expense, and their duties are strictly volunteer with no salary. For years the Schroeders have supported the Heifer Project as well as the Self-Help tractor project. A couple of years ago Bob Schroeder arranged for the manufacture of a Featherlite double decker livestock trailer made to order at Cresco for the project. Photo by JUNE METZ Sohroeder of Osage will serve Heifer Project International Bob Schroeder said they hope sometime to assist with an overseas project, perhaps in Africa, and that assignment would be at least a year in length. She's Mitchell's top senior citizen Volunteers: Bob and Adeline three months as volunteers for When asked why they were going the Schroeders said "God has given us much to be thankful for and in our own way we can do something for others." Society; a regent of Lucretia Deering Chapter of DAR; member of the First Osage Naturlist Club; and the Mitchell County Hospital Auxiliary.

Haines is the mother of a daughter, Fran, and sons Jerry and Ted, all of California. She also has three grandsons. Haines was director of Mitchell County Welfare from 1943 until her retirement in 1974. Most of all she is always "there" for her many friends and always ready to reach out a helping hand. iiW'Sfciiiiiii By June Metz Correspondent OSAGE Therese Haines of Osage has been selected as Mitchell County's Senior Citizen of the Year.

Haines was nominated for the honor by her peers and will represent Mitchell County at Senior Citizens Day, June 1, at North Iowa Community College, Mason City. Haines also received the honor in 1977. She has served as a Mitchell congregate meals served to approximately 100 senior citizens at the center Monday through Friday. She was also instrumental in establishing the services of the senior buses, one of which has a chair lift. Haines always seems to have time and energy for all areas of service.

She is a member of the United Church of Christ and an active member of the Reading Group, women's division of the church. She is a member of the Mitchell County Historical Teen's hobby rather exotic Sons of Norway celebrate heritage type of animal issued by the project. Others include goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens and bees. The animals are given to those in need to help them meet food needs. The first animal born from the given stock goes to another family to raise as their own, and they, in turn, share with another.

The families receiving animals are trained to care for them before receiving them. The original stock is purchased by contributions to the project. A number of churches in the Osage area are taking part in the Heifer Project. The Schroeders will be living at Overlook Ranch which is a part of the center. They will be serving as greeters to visitors and giving educational presentations.

They will also be County senior advocate for Elderbridge Agency on Aging for the past 10 years and also has served Osage Senior Citizen as tourism chairman for 10 years. That job includes making plans for the many senior citizen-sponsored tours. Haines is a member of the Mitchell County Advisory Board. She is also involved in a wide variety of community activities, many of which are related to senior citizens. She helped organize the noon 6 6 I think the main thing is that we're all of the same nationality.

A lot of us speak Norwegian. We like to get in on the good stories about Norway. Carl Solberg, Clear Lake 99 In addition to Syttendi Mai, special programs include a fall Torsk Supper, featuring steamed codfish with boiled potatoes and carrots; a summer picnic in Clear Lake; and a Christmas party, in which members "pig out" on Norwegian pastries, Thompson said. Two of the meetings are also held in Belmond, where Thompson said a number of members reside. Programs throughout the year focus on Norwegian themes, he said.

Topics can include anything from famous Norwegians and Norwegian history to genealogy, Norwegian names, music and travel. Over the years, the group has sponsored field trips, including excursions to Minneapolis to see a Vikings display at the Institute of Art and a presentation of "Peer Gynt" at the Guthrie Theater, as well as to Decorah to visit the Nordic Fest. Dues are $24 annually, in addition to a one-time $10 initiation fee. In addition to supporting charitable causes, such as the Globe-Gazette Christmas Cheer Fund and Handicap Village, the lodge also sponsors scholarships for members' children and grandchildren to attend the summer Skogf jorden Language Camp at Bemidii, Minn. Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m.

the second Tuesday of the month at the Knights of Columbus Hall, U.S. 18 West. Thompson estimated the membership at about 150. Anyone wishing further information may call Thompson at 423-0487. nb tab Hairstylist gets tips at clinic in Hollywood By June Metz Correspondent OSAGE Lea Ann Jones returned to Osage after spending a week in Hollywood, this spring and is now sharing a "bit of Hollywood" with her tnends, customers and coworkers.

Jones and her husband, Brian, own and manage LeaBrian's Hairstyling, located on Main Street in Osage. Jones went to Hollywood to attend a five-day Gerda Spillman Skin Congress, a Swiss skin care program. She met several people in the field of beauty, including Harry Blake, head of NBC-TV makeup division. He has worked in the network makeup division 40 years. He told the group the trends in television and "street" makeup are away from the pancake-type makeup to the more natural look.

This type of makeup holds better under the hot lights, Blake said. Theatrical makeup was one of the accents during the clinic and Jones saw Estelle Getty transform to "Sophia" of "The Golden Girls," adding more than 20 years to her "look" for the part. The makeover took about 45 minutes. The people who took part in the skin clinic also traveled to the NBC Studios and the network makeup rooms. Jones said the rooms are much smaller than she believed they would be and that Johnny Carson's makeup room is also used by other TV personalities such as Vanna White of "Wheel of Fortune." Clinic participants also were admitted to the makeup area of Walt Disney Studios, which is not open to the general public for tours.

Other study groups enjoyed high fashion makeup, makeup for weddings and makeup for prom night and other special occasions. The new look from Hollywood for the coming season, said Jones, is light makeup, away from the tanning trend, with accent on eyes and lips. Hair style accents the long blunt look, especially for younger women. Happy retirement It was no secret in the neighborhood of Roger Schnell, 319 South Fifth that Schnell was retiring from employment as assistant superintendent at Osage Municipal Utilities. Alaree flashing sign saying "Happy Retirement, Roger" was in place on the lawn at the Schnell home when he came home from his last day of work on April 17 Schnell Schnell had worked at Osaee Municipal Utilities for 27 years, and is looking forward to a summer of fishing and using his pontoon boat on the Cedar River.

He and his wife, Mary Ann, also have a cabin along the river. Many changes have taken place in the area of electric service to the city of Osage and surrounding areas since Schnell first began his employment with Municipal utilities. All secondary lines have been replaced and copper lines changed to aluminum triplex. Another change was the establishment of loop lines on the outskirts of town for higher voltage. Schnell said one of the things he will not miss is the non-stop work needed when storms damage electrical lines.

1 A 'S-mhi 22.: CP 7 Second time: Therese Haines was also named Mitchell County's Senior Citizen of the Year in 1977 Photo by JOANNE CARPENTER after one year when they lost half their birds to disease. He doesn't seem to mind spending Vh to 2 hours a day feeding his livestock in addition to going to school and other activities. He earns a little money from his birds sometimes selling breeding pairs for $20. Some of the rare breeds raised by master breeders may bring as much as $175 each, Jason said. The money, however, isn't the reason Jason likes to raise chickens and from looking at the beautiful birds with their multicolored feathers and unusual markings, it's not hard to understand why.

"I just like animals, I guess," Jason said. "And I want to be a vet someday." GAZETTE By Kristin Buehner Staff Writer MASON CITY Velkommen! read a brightly-painted wooden sign. In the background could be heard the light-hearted strains of a prerecorded Norwegian folk song. Throughout the hall, long tables beset with tiny Norwegian and American flags and decorative wooden candelabras with traditional rosemaling (flower-painting) designs beckoned. The scene was the monthly meeting of the Sons of Norway, Midnatsol Land Lodge 1-535 of North Iowa.

Tonight was the group's annual celebration of Syttendi Mai, (17th of May), Norwegian Independence Day. As President Carlos Thompson of Mason City sounded the gavel, the group of about 50 North Iowans, some wearing clogs or traditional Norwegian bunad costumes, assembled. Soon they were all joining in a spirited round of "Fedrelandssang," the Norwegian national anthem, and snacking on traditional Norwegian open-faced sandwiches and coffee. As Carl Solberg of Clear Lake observed, "There are a lot of Norwegians in North Iowa." Solberg, the first president of the Midnatsol Land Lodge (in 1974), said the Sons of Norway exists primarily to promote friendship among people of Norwegian descent, while also preserving Norwegian culture. "I think the main thing is that we're all of the same nationality," he said.

"A lot of us speak Norwegian. We like to get in on the good stories about Norway." Originally established primarily to provide insurance benefits and other help to transplanted Norwegians, the Sons of Norway today serves more of a social function, said Thompson. Membership is open to anyone who is Norwegian by birth, descent or affiliation (e.g, marriage). Charles Cityan real bird lover By Joanne Carpenter Correspondent CHARLES CITY Cochins, wyanndotes, silkies, salmon faverolles the words roll off his 14- year old tongue like rain off a roof. The words are names for various breeds of bantam chickens raised and shown by Jason Springer of rural Charles City.

Jason, 14, and his mother, Ardith, have the buildings on their acreage filled not only with the bantams, but goats, ducks, exotic breeds of pheasants, doves, quail, peacocks, wild turkeys, rabbits, miniature horses and a few regular-sized ones. Inside their new farm home is an incubator or two for hatching eggs and keeping the young chicks warm. Jason has had a long interest in raising small animals. He got his first bird a cochin seven or eight years ago. Since then, his parents and grandfather, the late Art Stille of Nashua, took him to "swaps" which are really places for breeders to buy and sell birds or similar small animals.

These swaps have given Jason a chance to expand his inventory and to collect different breeds and varieties of birds. In the last year or two, Jason has shown some of his poultry, collecting a drawerful of ribbons and a couple of plaques. "I guess that's pretty good," Jason said. "Some people show 15- 20 years before they get anything." Jason has shown at various places in Iowa, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri. Each time, it seems, he has come away with more knowledge about his small animals.

"One man showed me a lot about Japs (a breed of chicken) that I didn't know," Jason said. "People who have chickens are really nice. They usually want to help you as much as they can." Exotic Chicken: Jason Springer holds one of the chickens he has raised Raising and showing the poultry in an interest genuinely shared by Jason and his mother, but the long drives to the shows are important for another reason. "It's time that we can spend together," she said. Much of the knowledge he has acquired about raising his animals has come from daily experience, though Jason said there are usually enough older people around who will offer advice.

Through the years, he has acquired tips for showing the animals, learning what judges look for, what's rare and desirable, what will disqualify a bird, the importance of eye color and so forth. He's also learned the importance of vaccinating the young chicks Is horribly funny dally in the GLOBE.