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 ...
My husband and I recently adopted the exciting habit of team grocery shopping - together. We don’t go for many items at one time; I think that would be too much for our relationship to bear. Our usual list might contain a handful of entries - milk, eggs, bread, pickles. That’s about our ...
Matthew 25: 34 Then the king will say to the people on his right, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation if the world. I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October. "Iowa's corn and soybean harvest is moving forward, but ...
10 YEARS AGOOCT. 2006Jason Appel, 31, Grundy Center, was arrested after he struck and killed Barbara Dellit, 57, in a hit and run incident on Oct. 16 in Grundy Center.A shooting incident is being investigated when Joshua Wohlman,19, a sophomore at Wm. Penn University of Oskaloosa, died at a ...
Every year is different. Would you agree that we can make that statement given the weather we've experienced? The stream flooding that we generally experience in June was absent but flooding in fall? That doesn't happen often thankfully.I don't think that I can ever remember a year where I ...
The library has recently undergone two projects. We have a new roof, and handicapped accessible power doors. The door project was helped to be made possible with a grant from LSB Foundation, and donations from Moeller and Walter, Caseys General Stores, Tom and Vicki Bicket, and Jerry and Sue ...
10 YEARS AGOOCT. 12, 2006October is AIDS awareness month.Julie Versluis completes School of Trust & Financial Services courses.Anna M. Burdick, 87, Reinbeck, died Oct. 5 at her home.Mr. & Mrs. Claus Wrage celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Oct. 9 in Hemet, Calif.Mr. ...
A necessary part of work today involves trainings. Workplace safety trainings, certifications, re-certifications, and continuing education. A lot has changed in these requirements during my thirty-six years with Grundy County Conservation. But a lot has changed in this world during that time, ...
The Reinbeck Library is sponsoring a program, World War II Women of the Heartland at Westview Estates on Friday, October 14 at 1:00. This is a talk by Iowa author Gail Kittlesen. She wrote In Times Like These, a fiction book set in Cedar Falls during the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ...