Love Central’s new Maker Space Special!
over 3 years ago, Mr. Trenkamp
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Picture retake day will be Wednesday, October 7th. If your student did not have their picture taken on the original day please plan on this date. Forms are still available in the school office. If your student would like to have their picture retaken please make sure and send the original packet on the 7th. If you have any questions, please call 245-1750.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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Central Stakeholders, This past week many Keystone AEA superintendents including myself wrote individual letters to Governor Reynolds requesting her to no longer require a 14-day quarantine. Our reasoning was simple, in our AEA alone we have sent home hundreds of healthy kids who want to be in school. The social emotional toll put on these kids and their families has been enormous. Today Governor Reynolds eliminated the 14-day quarantine as long as face covering are being worn correctly. This is a timely announcement as our Return to Learn Committee is meeting today. We will review our plan and propose any changes to the School Board for final approval. As stated throughout, this situation (and our plan) will remain fluid. Thank you for your continued patience and support.
over 3 years ago, Mr. Trenkamp
At Friday's game James Eberhardt and Abby Cummer were crowned as our 2020 Homecoming King & Queen. Due to a unique set of circumstances, this year Evan Pensel and James Eberhardt have been crowned as Co-Kings. This picture is from the second crowning which took place immediately after Friday's game. Both young men handled the situation with integrity. This situation has put their outstanding individual character on display as they did exactly what our Homecoming Court should do - represent Central in the best possible way. We apologize for the confusion, thank you James and Evan for modeling Central's Core Values and showing all of us how to navigate an uncomfortable situation.
over 3 years ago, Aaron Reinhart
Today’s goal was learn something new and have fun! Seven FFA members competed at the NE District Dairy Cattle Evaluation CDE today! Teams placed 13th and 20th out of 24 teams! First time for each of these members competing in this event! Congratulations!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Bond
NE District Dairy Cattle Evaluation
Hey Warrior Fans! If you would like the Zoom link for the 9:40-10:10 Hall of Famer and Grand Marshall speech please email awalch@central.k12.ia.us. Go Warriors!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
This week Preschool/JK learned all about apples! They learned all about the parts of an apple, the life cycle of an apple, investigated apples using their 5 senses, and taste tested red, green, & yellow apples.
over 3 years ago, Steph Burke
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Excited to announce that Central Community FFA placed 2nd out of 18 teams in the NE District Soils Evaluation CDE yesterday hosted by Hawkeye Community College! Congratulations!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Bond
Central Community FFA 2nd Place
Mrs. Wiley’s 1st graders started learning about air today. They built and experimented with parachutes. Stay tuned for where they are dropping them from tomorrow.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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Please complete the following survey if your child would like to participate in the free breakfast program at Central. https://forms.gle/2he51a621NfbKMCQ6
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
Central Community School would now like to Introduce our 2020 Hall of Famer, Micheal Osterloh. Mike attended 1 year at the Volga school and finished High School at Central. He Graduated in early February of 1980 and entered the Army in that same month. On the day that his class graduated from Central Mike was making his 2nd jump out of a “perfectly good airplane”. By the end of the week he had earned his army airborne wings, parachutist certification. In the army Mike was stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington and then in Fort Kobbe, Panama in the canal zone. It was in Panama where Mike met and married his wife, Teresa, who was active duty in the Air Force stationed at Howard Air Force Base in Panama. Mike left the army after a 4 yr career and moved with Teresa to FE Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Teresa remained active duty Air Force and was stationed at FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Mike joined the Wyoming Air National Guard and was the NCOIC, Non Commissioned Officer In Charge, of the Wyoming Air National Guard Combat Arms Training and Maintenance Group. Mike and Teresa also had their first daughter, Stephanie, in 1986 in Wyoming. That same year Mike started work with Boeing upgrading missile silos and control centers to the Peacekeeper missile, which was eventually decommissioned but not before being very useful as a deterrent during the final years of the cold war. From there Mike was offered a job with Boeing on the IUS, Inertial Upper Stage, program in Florida at Kennedy Space Center. The IUS was a solid fuel upper stage that was the only large upper stage allowed to be used by the Space Shuttle in the years after the Challenger disaster. With the IUS they not only flew off of the Space Shuttle but also flew on top of the Titan 4 rocket which is where Mike would next be working for Martin Marrietta, later to become Lockheed Martin. It was during this time when he learned just how good his education at Central truly was and how it was far above most other schools. Although Mike started algebra in his junior year in high school, he was not getting it and was put back into general Math class mid-year. This was important to Mike because in 1991, after being out of school for 11 years, he decided to go to college and get a degree. Since Mike had been out of school for so long he was required to take a placement test to determine where he could start his college classes. Mike scored well enough on the placement test so that he didn’t have to take any makeup classes and moved directly into college level curriculum. He later found out that he had scored better than 90 percent of the students that had just finished high school. A HUGE testament to the education Mike received at Central. He received his Associates degree 2 years later. It was during this time that their 2nd daughter, Michelle, was born in 1992. He worked with payloads on the Titan 4 program also. After 5 ½ years on the Titan program Mike was called back to Boeing on the IUS program and remained there until the program was ended in 2002. During this time he also spent time on loan to the ISSPF, International Space Station Processing Facility, working on future Space Station hardware before it was sent into space. Boeing asked Mike to work on the Delta 2/3 rocket program after IUS and later on the Delta 4 rocket program which he did until 2008. In April 2008, the director of a new startup rocket company in Florida asked him if he wanted to go to work with them on their team. Mike told him he needed to give ULA, which was a merger of the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 programs, a 2 week notice. He said great and 2 weeks later he was working for Spacex, Space Exploration Technologies. Mike took this job not knowing how far it would go or if it would even go. It seemed at the time that the owner, Elon Musk, had some very ambitious goals. He was at the time the 323rd employee of the company and he wanted to be able to go to Mars. Mike wasn’t sure what he was getting into, but really did like the business model and definitely could see this company going places if the drive and ambition was kept along with the general philosophy that everyone is asked to offer up ideas. In the end the person in charge of each project would make the final decision on the path forward and they were to move in that direction as a single team, It did and, in his opinion, it’s what made Spacex able to advance the aerospace industry at such a high rate of speed. If you would have told Mike when he hired on with Spacex that in 5 years they would build their own rocket, build their own capsule, launch and test both and have the capsule start taking provisions to the international space station and be the only capsule in the world to be able to return cargo and valuable experiments back to earth, He probably would have brushed them off. Guess what, they did! Unheard of in the rocket launching business since the initial phases of the rocket programs in the 60’s. The first Falcon 9 launch from launch complex 40 was June of 2010 just 2 ½ years from the old Titan 4 tower coming down on launch complex 40. Mike held positions at Spacex to include Technician, Lead Technician, Supervisor. Also served as LE, Lead Pad Engineer, responsible for rolling the rocket out to the pad and all preps up to launch. Immediately returning to the pad post launch, usually within 5 to 10 minutes, to ensure the condition of the pad and to reestablish security at the pad post launch. He has since held a position of Pad Lead responsible for day to day activities required to keep the pad operations moving forward safely and efficiently and implementing updates to accomplish that goal. Most Spacex launches and landings can be watched live on Spacex.com. These can be very interesting as the milestones leading up to launch and through launch are explained along with the milestones leading up to the landings. In total, he owes his success to his faith, family, friends and the education I received at Central.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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The PBIS reward trip was done at The trout hatchery. Thanks to Wayne Wingert and his two seasonal helpers for stocking the pond, cleaning weeds out of it, baiting hooks, and untangling lines. They were also generous to let the students feed the trout in the runways.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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This year's Homecoming schedule has some changes from recent years. The typical Thursday night activities have been incorporated into the Friday schedule. The community is invited to watch PowderPuff Football on Friday from 11:05-12:20. The games will be held on the practice football field at the school. The parade will begin at 1:00 on Friday. The parade will begin at Peace Church and travel down Main St. ending at Founders Park (the same as the Sweet Corn Days Parade). We will also have our traditional Friday pep rally but it has been moved to the morning and due to COVID-19 precautions the public will not be invited this year. Please call 245-1750 with any questions! Go Warriors!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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FFA members wishing to show at the 2021 Clayton County Fair, please see Mrs. Bond for an Enrollment/Re-enrollment form or print from here. Remember that you must be enrolled in a course by Mrs. Bond to be a member of FFA. This would be necessary to show at the county fair.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Bond
2021 Clayton County Fair Enrollment/Re-enrollment Form
Monday the JV football game against Central City will play two quarters at 4:30 and the JH game will start at approximately 5:30. Please call 245-1750 with any question.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
Homecoming Court!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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Join our K-6 CCS Assembly from home on Zoom! Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98800203009?pwd=a1hFdG1PN0t5elRDdHJ1MTIyQUNmZz09 Kahoot link: https://kahoot.it/ (Kahoot will be easiest to play on a separate device)
over 3 years ago, Steph Burke
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The football game at Don Bosco tomorrow night has been canceled. Please call 245-1750 with any questions.
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
It’s all about apples in kindergarten this week! We taste tested green, red and yellow apples to decide which we liked best!
over 3 years ago, Andrea Zittergruen
Homecoming Dress Up Days! GO WARRIORS!
over 3 years ago, Mrs. Walch
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