AMES – Former Harlan Community High School students Sarah Lucke and Megan Euchner have been instrumental in fundraising for scholarship dollars in memory of a friend and fellow Iowa State University student who lost her life in a hit-and-run accident on campus last December.    Lucke (formerly Sarah Olson, Harlan) said this month that the Emmalee Jacobs Memorial Scholarship through the College of Business officially hit its goal of $25,000

    HARLAN -- Services are pending for Sonja Thraen, 69, Harlan.  Contact Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan for more details.

    LUBBOCK, TX -- Sylvester P. “Wes” Hodapp, 95, Lubbock, TX, died Monday, Aug. 22.    Cremation is in the care of Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers in Lubbock, with inurnment in Council Bluffs.    Hodapp is originally from Harlan.  He is survived by brothers Laverne, Ralph, Ronald and Dennis Hodapp; and two sisters, Benita Woody and Mary Crushshon. 

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community football team enters the 2016 season with a veteran-laden offense, a brand new defensive cast and high hopes to build on last year’s 8-2 campaign and return to the playoffs after a rare one-year absence in 2014. Armed with good team speed and adequate size, the Cyclones’ quest to secure a 33rd postseason berth in 35 years won’t be easy as they face a difficult front-loaded schedule and the fact that once again o

 MANNING -- The goals of the IKM-Manning football team don’t change all that much from year to year, and that’s the mark of a good program. A: Improve each week. B: Make the playoffs. C: Advance as far as possible. Through the first eight years of their consolidation, IKM-Manning been remarkably consistent in achieving those goals.

 HARLAN -- The weapons are in place. A starting quarterback will be named any day now. With only a few preseason practices left, Harlan Community offensive coordinator Mark Kohorst is excited to unveil this year’s Cyclone ‘O.’ Kohorst’s goal in 2016 is to develop a balanced, diversified and dangerous unit that utilitzes speed and unpredictability while making opposing defenses cover sideline to sideline.

 HARLAN -- From the first-year coordinator to the player personnel, Harlan Community’s defense has a brand new look in 2016. HCHS graduated its top 13 tacklers from a year ago and the top returnee - Josh Cheek with 16 stops - isn’t even listed on the current defensive two-deep by new coordinator John Murtaugh. “For all intents and purposes, we have no returning starters,” Murtaugh said.

 HARLAN -- The Harlan Community and IKM-Manning volleyball teams, along with Treynor and Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, prepped for the upcoming season on Tuesday by holding a scrimmage at the HCHS gymnasium. Each team scrimmaged against the other three for approximately 20 minutes. HCHS, last year’s Class 4-A state runner-up, will open the season on Saturday, Aug.

 OMAHA, NEB. -- The Iowa Western Baseball League season will come to a close on Saturday when the IWL All-Star team faces the Dodge County All-Stars in a 1:00 p.m. game at Omaha’s Brown Field (15th & Q). The IWL roster includes 17 players, with Josh Weis of Persia serving as the head coach and Mike Brownlee of Council Bluffs as the assistant coach.