ROCKWELL CITY (Sept. 14) -- The Harlan Community volleyball team worked its way back to the .500 mark Saturday with a strong showing at the South Central Calhoun “Master Blaster” Tournament in Rockwell City. Capped by an impressive 21-16, 23-21 sweep of seventh-ranked (3A) Kuemper Catholic, HCHS finished with a 4-2 match record (8-4 in sets) and placed second to the Knights (5-1) in the final round-robin team standings.

 COUNCIL BLUFFS (Sept. 14) -- The Harlan Community girls placed six runners in the top 12 and picked up their second team title of the season Saturday morning with a score of 33 at the Lewis Central Cross Country Invite. Also competing at Iowa Western Community College were the AHSTW girls (fifth place, 126) and the HCHS boys (ninth place, 180).

    HARLAN -- Alice Young, 88, Harlan, died September 23 at Elm Crest Retirement Community.    Services will be held Monday, Sept. 30 at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  Visitation is Monday from 9:30-10:30 a.m.

    WESTPHALIA -- William Holzer, 83, Westphalia, died September 23 at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital.    Services will be held Monday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m. at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia with burial in the St. Boniface Cemetery at Westphalia.  A rosary will be held Sunday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation is Sunday from 3-8 p.m. with family greeting friends at 7 p.m.

    ELK HORN -- Ruth Thompson, 94, Elk Horn, died August 25 at the Salem Lutheran Home.    A memorial service will be held Friday, Sept. 27 at 11 a.m. at Altamont Baptist Church in Harlan with private graveside services at Cuppy’s Grove Cemetery in Harlan.  Visitation is Friday from 10-11 a.m.

    HARLAN -- Unis Fae Schumacher, 94, Harlan, died September 21 at Elm Crest Retirement Community.    Services will be held Saturday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  A wake service will be held Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.  Visitation is Friday from 2-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-8 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Verlee Shupe, 100, Harlan, died September 18 at Elm Crest Assisted Living.    Services will be held Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church in Harlan with burial in the Merrill’s Grove Cemetery in Fiscus.  Visitation is Tuesday, Sept. 24 from 2-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    IOWA CITY -- Along with a telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell; a 1960 Greensboro, Alabama, lunch counter; Dorothy’s ruby slippers; and Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., last spring also may have seen a Hawkeye.    University of Iowa senior Emily Lefeber spent the spring 2019 semester as a daily programming intern at the famed museum.

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education will feature one challenged race as Allyson Bendorf has filed nomination papers to challenge incumbent Joni  Larsen for the District 5 board position.    Nomination papers were due to the school board secretary by 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19.