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Seasons change
Churches take faith to international level
By Annie Petersen
Summer is a busy time, especially
when it transitions to
the beginning of another
school year.
Boone First United
Methodist Church, 703 Arden
St., is getting ready for August, and
the Educational Merit Foundation
(EMF) is looking for families to host
European Christian students for
the upcoming school year. Students
from Germany, France and Norway
will be coming to Boone for the
2012 - 13 school year and will need
host families during their stay.
“I do believe that American
students benefit from meeting foreign
students,” says Marie-Claude
Dijoud, EMF Program Director.
“(The students) speak English, are
well-screened and eager to experience
life in America.”
For more information, contact
Dijoud at 1-800-467-8363, or
visit the program website at www.
emfusa.org.
In addition to welcoming
exchange students, Boone First
UMC welcomed Associate Pastor
Sarah Duffel after bidding farewell
to former Associate Pastor
Andrea Kraushaar, who moved to
the First UMC in Fort Dodge.
“I am reminded at times like
this, at times of parting and arrival,
that we are, as Christ’s disciples,
travelers upon this planet,” says
Boone First UMC Pastor Phil
Webb. “We are saying a warm
welcome to Sarah Duffel.”
Boone First United
Methodist Church encourages
local families to
consider being a host for
foreign exchange students
this year.
Two members of Grace
Community Church, 625 S.
Division St., are hosting a taco bar
on July 29 to fund an upcoming trip
to Latvia in August.
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Grace Community Church
has church planters located in
the Baltic country. Church planting
is the establishment of a new
church by an existing church, and
Grace Community Church has
set up some of these planters in
Latvia. Naomi Norris and Nelly
Kazmerchuk will visit Latvia for 10
days to travel the country interviewing,
photographing and videotaping
the progress of the planters.
The information and footage they
gather will be used in brochures
and presentations to help current
supporters understand the system
of church planting, as well as
encouraging potential supporters
to get involved.
Members of the congregation
are encouraged to come out on
July 29 to eat tacos and help
Norris and Kazmerchuk prepare
for their trip to Europe. For more
information, contact the church at
(515) 433-6133, or visit the website
at www.graceccboone.com. �
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Boone County’s
three courthouses
Construction on first building began in 1856
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Boone County was formed
in February of 1847 and
was named for Nathan
Boone, who was the captain of H
Company of the Dragoons which
marched through Boone County
in 1835.
For the next two-and-a-half
years, Boone County remained
for judicial, voting and revenue
purposes part of Polk County.
By 1849, residents wished to
vote, do business and pay taxes
in the county. To make this happen,
Iowa law required the county
sheriff to order the election of
county officers. There was no
Boone County sheriff, so the judge
of the Fifth Judicial District in Des
Moines appointed a county sheriff,
who ordered the election to be
held Aug. 6, 1849.
Court sessions were at first
held in Boonesboro houses. By
July of 1851, with the county seat
officially located at Boonesboro
(west Boone), court proceedings
were moved to a log schoolhouse,
located about a half mile south
of the present skating pond in
McHose Park.
On July 26, 1851, Boone
County Commissioners ordered
Wesley C. Hull “to furnish a suitable
room in... Boonesboro to
hold court at the October term...”
Hull built a double log cabin, across
from the public square. Then in
1853, the court moved to a new
log schoolhouse, located on the
site of the former Garfield School.
The first public Boone County
Courthouse was a two-story
frame building constructed in 1856
- 1857 on the corner of Third and
Fremont Streets. Then, in 1865,
Boonesboro and Montana (Boone)
became locked in a struggle for
political and economic control and
The second Boone County Courthouse,
which was dedicated on May 1, 1918.
the location of a railroad station.
Boonesboro residents, merchants
and officials agitated for
a new, larger courthouse to be
built on the town square in order
to preserve Boonesboro’s preeminence.
Boonesboro won the
courthouse location battle, but
Montana became the major economic
and political force after the
railroad station was built there.
A new brick courthouse building
was completed in 1868, and in
1887 the two towns merged into
a single municipality.
By 1915, the county government
had outgrown the building.
The cornerstone for a new courthouse
was laid on Oct. 1, 1916.
The old brick building was given
to the Boone Biblical Ministries,
and in June of 1916 the building
was moved across the street. It
functioned as the courthouse until
the new building was ready in 1918.
Employees continued to work in
the building during the move and
“not a drop of ink was spilled.” The
current building took nearly two
years to build. It was dedicated
on May 1, 1918. The building was
placed on the National Register of
Historic places in 1981. �