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Today's News

  • Unconditional Love

    March 15 was supposed to be a joyful day for Tim and Melissa Lorang.

    Yes, it was a Monday, the first day of a long work week, but it was also the day of Melissa’s 20-week ultrasound - the day the expecting parents were going to learn the gender of their baby.

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  • Gina Gets On With Her Life

    Her routine is rigorous. Physically exhausting. Emotionally draining. Some days, it's outright overwhelming.

    Gina Giaffoglione would have it no other way.

    One year removed from an auto accident that has left her with full paralysis in the lower half of her body, the 22-year-old Wayne State College student is determined as ever to return to a lifestyle of total independence.

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  • Dealing With The Pain

    As far as Renee Coffey is concerned, she will always have eight children.

    Renee and husband Charles lost their daughter Amanda Grace a little over six year ago to complications from anencephaly, a neural tube defect that prevented their daughter’s skull and brain from developing properly.

    Amanda Grace Coffey was delivered by cesarean at Creighton University Medical Center on April 23, 2004. She lived just over 27 hours and died surrounded by her mother, father and seven brothers and sisters.

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  • The Anencephaly Diagnosis

    Anencephaly occurs in just three of every 10,000 live births in the United States.

    There is no cure nor medical intervention for the neural tube birth defect.

    Treatment for babies born with the fatal disorder is supportive; parents are instructed to keep the baby warm and protect the baby’s exposed tissue.

    Half of babies born with anencephaly die within 10 days of birth. In very rare cases anencephalic babies live more than a month.

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  • Rams hang 6-3 loss on Tri-Center

    Michaela Moore scored four goals and Mallory Hoyt and Ali Bowden added one each for the Glenwood girls soccer team in a 6-3 victory over Tri-Center on Thursday.

    After a slow start and a 2-0 lead at halftime the Rams (7-2 overall, 4-0 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference) made the necessary adjustments and exploded for four second-half goals.

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  • Glenwood second, third at Atlantic Co-Ed

    The Glenwood boys track team rested some of its top runners and shuffled lineups in some other events while placing second at the Atlantic Co-Ed Track Invitational on Friday.

    The Rams finished with 86 points. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln and Harlan tied for first at the meet with 108 points.

    “We purposely went into this meet trying to get our athletes a good workout while resting a a few others,” said Glenwood coach Mark Starner. “Our goal wasn't to necessarily win the meet, but to compete and be in the top three at the end of the meet.

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  • East Mills sweeps Wolverine Relays

    The East Mills boys and girls track team swept the team titles at their own Wolverine Co-Ed Relay last Tuesday in Malvern.

    The East Mills boys dominated the field with 164.5 points to runner up Nishnabotna's 117 points. The Wolverines won five events and place second in eight more.

    The girls wrapped up five golds of their own and added five more runner-up finishes.

    The East Mills boys got gold medals from Jake Bolton (100-meter dash) and its 4x800, 4x200, 4x400 and distance medley relay teams.

    Jake Doyle was second in the 1,600 and 3,200-meters.

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  • Fiesta Bus Fiasco

    They were all dressed up with a place to go. They just didn’t have the transportation to get there.

    Approximately 50 Glenwood Community High School students and their prom dates were forced to spend nearly two hours in the GCHS parking lot Saturday night waiting for an “Omaha Fiesta” bus to take them to Council Bluffs so they could join their classmates at the junior-senior prom.

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  • Sweeping to History

    “A phenomenal weekend.”

    That's how Glenwood track coach Mark Starner would describe the performance of long distance runner Johnny Fuller at the 101st Drake Relays in Des Moines last weekend.

    Fuller used a sprinter’s kick in the final 300-meters of both the 3,200 and 1,600-meter runs at the high school portion of the meet to best the state’s top distance runners in all classes for a pair of gold medals.

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  • Rams 2-1 at A-D-M touney

    The Glenwood girls soccer team went 2-1 at the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Invitational Tournament on Saturday.

    The Rams opened up the tournament with a 6-2 loss to Class 2A No. 3 ranked Sioux City Heelan before bouncing back to win the final two games over Pella Christian and Bondurant.

    Against Heelan, the score was tied at 2-2 with just over 15 minutes remaining when the Crusaders exploded for four unanswered goals. The offensive onslaught came virtue of several key defensive and goalkeeper breakdowns.

    Michaela Moore had both Glenwood goals against Heelan.

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