10 YEARS AGO MAY 10, 2009 G-R students raise money for the Am. Cancer Society by doing a mini Relay for Life at the elementary school on May 15. Amanda Harrison will graduate on May 27 and has been accepted to Hawkeye College for the Correction Program. Laurene Knaack will celebrate her ...
The legend of Bigfoot lives on in American folklore, and although I don’t know for sure if the big and hairy creature actually exists in the wild, I do believe in big foot, or at least big feet. I live with a bunch of them. (Big and hairy big-footed creatures, that is.) My husband and sons ...
Q: Why celebrate Small Business Week? A: The locomotive for the U.S. economy – small businesses – continues to move full steam ahead during the first two years of the Trump administration. The roaring U.S. economy opened the first quarter of the year with 3.2 percent growth, signaling ...
30 Years Ago May 5, 1989 The Reinbeck Jaycees Honors Banquet was held Tuesday night, May 2, at the Reinbeck Memorial Building. Liz Mathes, KWWL-TV nightly news anchor woman was the guest speaker. Jodi Lynn Bruene of Gladbrook and Thomas Allen Day of Moline, Illinois, were united in marriage ...
Some time ago, I reprinted with permission a news column written by Steve Lekwa, the now retired Story County Conservation Board Director and a long-time friend whom I respect immensely. He continues with his news columns and one he wrote in April gave me inspiration. Rather than reprint his, I ...
James Dale Novotny, 41, addresses of LeShara and Fremont, Neb., was sentenced on April 23 to three, 30-day jail sentences to be served consecutively by Tama County Magistrate Richard Vander Mey and assessed fines and surcharges totaling $263. In handing down the sentences, the 30-day term for ...
I spotted the first one out of the corner of my eye, just outside the kitchen window. A bunny! And then there were two of them. Hopping in the yard and eating grass. They were brown with white tails. Nothing fancy, just common garden-variety bunnies, but I marveled at they way they blended in ...
District 72 Newsletter By the time you read this we may well not only be done with week 15, but done for the entire session. We are working hard to finish by Saturday, April 27. This was an intense week of debate with more to come after I submit this newsletter. We completed several more ...
Q: Why did you introduce the ACE Kids Act? A: Signed into law by President Trump in April, the Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act seeks to fix a hole in the delivery of care for children with complex medical needs. Most Iowans likely know of a family in their hometown communities who is ...
Sometimes I’ve just got to stretch, don’t you? In the middle of the night, when I’ve been sleeping in one position for a long time, it feels so good to just stretch and get the kinks out. Today we are going to consider how Lent stretches us, if we let it. When we enter the days of ...