The Loft

Corwith Iowa has gained a new business in the form of a juice bar. Dale Peterson is the owner of the so called "gentleman's club."  The club is under extreme scrutiny by the city, as well as many citizens.  The club has already had one run in with the city shutting off the utilities to the business. It is an alcohol free organization as to be regulatory for nude dancers.  When asked how he felt about the establishment Ethan Lines replied "Whether or not the business opens, it will not affect him because he wont take part in its activities, although it will bring the town money."

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Boys golf at Rudd Rockford Marble Rock is a great way to get out and see what beautiful landscapes there are in our district. Golf is a fun and relaxing game that only takes a couple of hours out of your day. All that you need is golf clubs and some tees and the right stance can have a huge effect on your game. You hit the ball off the tee and try to get it as close to the hole but staying in bounds. You have your choice on how many holes you want to play if your really good you can go for 18 holes but if you are a beginner you might want to start out a 9 holes. Sabrina Dow says that Jake Green might be the worst player on the planet and just needs to give it up.

Girls Golf

     The Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock high school girl's golf team consists of many talented athletes. The coach is Mrs. Carmen Staudt, who is the home economics teacher at RRMR. The golfers drive to Nora Springs each day to practice, where the team will also have one of the meets. Many of the meets will be in the months of April and May, when the girls will travel around the conference district to different towns to compete against other golfers from different schools. The girls hope to have many wins the season with their talent and skills. Dalton Stevens, a senior at RRMR says, "hopefully we will have a good girl's golf team this year, good luck!"

Hours or Days?

In the next year or two, the government has decided to make students go so many hours instead of so many days a year. They were talking about it and asking to do it starting next fall, but there is still a debate on it so it may be in the next 2 to 3 years. It will happen at schools all around, including RRMR. They want it because instead of going half days and counting it as a day, the feel the students don't get good hours of teaching in the full year that they have to go. They would have more contact time with students to make up all the hours that were missed and not have to cut short on lessons, and skip chapters that wouldn't be able to be made up in the amount of days that they get. I talked to a faculty member, Mr. Heimer and he said necessary? That's all he had to say about it, nothing more. Most students of RRMR are not happy about it. They do not want to go so many hours and not days. They like having half days and not having to make those up. The discussion of it is still going on, so next year will not be switched, but possibly the year after that.

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2 miles to 10 miles

This year, as of April 1st, the citizens of Rockford have been changing their routes because of the bridge that is being taken down and replaced, so your 5 minute ride could take up to a half hour ride from one side of town to the other. Since they didn't do a one lane bridge in this small town, people have been taking longer to get to school, to their bank, their churches, and even the only gas station in this town. Cathy Adams works at the gas station in Rockford, I went and asked her how the bridge being taken down and making routes longer has effected the customers in the store. She told me that, of course before and after school, it is the same with all the school kids getting breakfast, getting food and gas to go all the way back around to just get to the other side of town. She did say that during the night she misses seeing the nightly cruising kids that always go by and stop for a pop, food, chips, cigarettes, whatever they thought they needed. Around 6:00 7:00 there hasn't been very many people coming in for milk or bread before supper that they needed because it's not worth the drive. Most people are stopping at gas stations through their new route such as Nora Springs and Marble Rock. The bridge has affected the gas stations customers not in a huge way, but it's big enough for employees to notice.

Pennies for Patients

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This year Rudd Rockford Marble Rock has been chosen to earn money to help save lives. They ask for any spare change that you can donate. They started the event  Friday, April 5  and they gave us about three weeks. We also get to play games like dying a teachers hair green, or even taping one to the wall. All the donations go to Leukemia and Lymphoma patients. Tyler Burnett stated that this is a good charity thats proceeds go to a great cause.

21st Century Writing

           The students of 21st century writing are sad to hear that this is the last year that RRMR will be providing this class to their students. The Class is taught by Mrs. Huebsch, who has been teaching at Rockford Senior High for two years has been teaching this class for the same amount of time. The class has taken care of all of the senior spotlights in the previous years, and sent them to the Nora Springs Register to be published. At this point teachers and students are unknowing of who is going to write the senior spotlights. The class has been dropped due to changing class schedules and the lack of students that have been taking the course. I believe that the course should have been kept so that the following seniors could have a group to write the senior spotlights, but the spotlights might not make another appearance to the Nora Springs Register. Mrs. Huebsch has said that "I'm sorry to see this class discontinued, but I look forward to the new classes I will be receiving next year in the new course setup.