New at the library this week:Nonfiction: Filthy Rich: the shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein by James Patterson.Fiction: When Love Arrives by Johnnie Alexander, Waves of Mercy by Lynn Austin, Broken Promise and Far From True both by Linwood Barclay, The Christmas Secret and The Hawaiian ...
Pumpkin Recycling Last fall, we tried an experiment with our kids. When we carved our pumpkin, we left some seeds inside. After we displayed it, we added some potting soil (a couple of inches will do). Then we placed it in the garden and watched it grow! Our kids learned a lot about how plants ...
I spent the weekend over in East Peoria, Illinois. We have made this trip for the last several years always near the end of October. There is a stretch of highway that I look forward to seeing because of the numerous Osage-orange trees that I get to see. The leaves are beginning to fall ...
Life is a series of events, and they seem to be multiplying. I’m not referring to events like loading the dishwasher or combing your hair or walking the dog. I’m talking Events - the ones with a capital E that are cause for celebration. Exclamation point. This category of Events used to ...
Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. I hope you were able to get out and see some Orionid meteors last month. I joined a group on Friday night, Oct. 21st with hopes of seeing a few. The sky was a clear blue all day long so I was ...
Today I want us to think a bit about the two persons in Luke's scripture in chapter 18 about the Pharisee and the tax collector. First it might help to know a little about these two types of citizens. I'm sure most of us know about all we want to know about a tax collector in our present day ...
10 YEARS AGOOCT. 26,2006Alexa Krull & Andrew Billerbeck were crowned King & Queen at Homecoming.Two persons-Luis Gutzman-Perez, 21, and Salvador Cruz, Jr., 19, both of Marshalltown have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a Garwin man Joshua Wohlman, ...
Last week's column got me thinking more about migration. Migrators seem to have two basic strategies do a mass movement or go it solo.Mass movements are not uncommon. I have read about flocks of northern mallards leaving Canada in such huge numbers that they can be tracked by radar to Mexico. ...
New at the library this week:Nonfiction: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohleben, I'll Take my Disease RARE Please by Rebecca Lalk.DVD: Captain America: Civil War.Children's books, The Very Fairy Princess: Attitude of Gratitude by Julie Andrews, A Night of Great Joy by Mary Engelbreit. ...
Q: What do you tell Iowans who worry about student debt? A: Paying for college ranks high among the concerns of Iowa families, no doubt about it. I tell college-bound students and their parents to start saving as early as possible and to start their college search with their eyes wide open. In ...