September 2021

The Fort Dodge High girls’ swimming team fell at home to Ankeny Centennial, 128-42 in a meet at the Dodger pool on Sept. 14.

Humboldt High athlete Maria Elizondo competed in several events for Fort Dodge. She swam in the second leg of the fifth-place varsity 200-yard medley relay which clocked 2:19.38.

Elizondo was also third in the JV 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:28.51. She also swam the first leg of the sixth-place varsity 200-yard freestyle relay which timed 2:19.65.

In the varsity 200-yard breaststroke, Elizondo was sixth in 1:25.60.

Sophomore Emma Winter is also a member of the Dodger swim team. Winter returned to the lineup in Dodger meets on Sept. 21 and 23.

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By Jeff Gargano
Not wanting to go through the building process, Dayton and Chassidy Ruby were very happy to find an already finished new home available. As a bonus, the new home was in a neighborhood with lots of kids, which was appealing to Rubys, who have three children.
They moved into their new home in the Eagle Ridge housing development last October. It’s a four-bedroom, three bath 2,000 square foot home.
“We had our third child and wanted a little more space. Our house only had three bedrooms. We liked the Eagle Ridge area because we knew there were a ton of kids. We didn’t want to go through the building process so we were very happy when this home became available,” Dayton said.
Read about things the Rubys did to the home and things they like about it in this week's Humboldt Independent Home Edition. Three sections and 28 pages of news your can use with important advertisements and stories on your friends and neighbors.

By Phil Monson
In order to better serve students’ social and emotional learning, staff in the Humboldt School District have begun training through the Trauma Informed Online Academy.
Abby Horbach, director of safety and mental health and high school assistant principal, was on hand to give a report at the regular monthly meeting of the Humboldt School Board Monday night, Sept. 20.
She was joined by instructors Megan Douglas and Jennifer Savery, who presented videos on staff training, which began over the past month and will continue throughout the school year.
“Our teachers and associates are taking the training sessions. We have gotten really good feedback after our first session. It teaches about trauma and how it impacts our kids,” Horbach said.
“Our goal is to use trauma informed practices to help build our culture and build relationships in all of our buildings,” Savery said.

The Humboldt girls' volleyball team took sole possession of first-place in the North Central Conference standings by sweeping the Webster City Lynx in three straight sets Tuesday night (Sept. 21) in Webster City.

Humboldt defeated the Lynx by scores of 25-20, 25-14 and 26-24 to move to 3-0 in the NCC. Webster City dropped to 3-1.

Humboldt, now 20-4 overall on the season, will be off until Sept. 28 when they travel to Clear Lake.

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