Newsletter for Thursday, April 18, 2019 Week 14 of the session is done. The first year of a General Assembly is officially scheduled for 110 calendar days counting all 7 days of the week. Therefore our 110 days comes out to 15 weeks and 5 days which falls on Friday, May 3. Of course the ...
According to the National Mental Health Institute, approximately twenty percent of all Americans will suffer from a mental illness or disorder at some point in their life. Despite this high frequency, there are a lot of negative misconceptions, stigmas, and just plain lack of common knowledge ...
Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. It’s May already, and do I have a bad case of astronomy cabin fever! I think I could count the number of clear nights last month on one hand. I managed to get out to my observatory just ...
10 YEARS AGO MAY 7, 2009 Elliott Diehm and Nichole Johnson plan a May 16 wedding at Orchard Hill in Cedar Falls. Greg Kauffman & Kay Smith plan wedding for Sept. 26 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church. Molly Mummelthie & Mitch Bredow are parents of a daughter born April 14. 20 YEARS AGO ...
Fourteenth Week of Session 2019 We just completed the fourteen week of this legislative session, which leaves us only two weeks until the scheduled end of session. This deadline prompted discussion on a number of substantive topics and many hours debating on the Senate ?oor. On Tuesday the ...
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from my sister. I have just one sister. A “little” sister. She is two years and five days younger than me. When we were girls, it felt like a big gap. Eons of time separated us. She was always the little sister; I was the big one. She was ...
Toss and turn. Turn and toss. I’m willing to bet we’ve all done our fair share of both. Wakefulness when wakefulness is unwanted. Wakefulness when others are sleeping. Wakefulness when we are supposed to be sleeping, when we will ourselves to sleep, but to no avail. Wakefulness when we ...
10 YEARS AGO APRIL 30, 2009 Janice Eckhoff is celebrating her 20th year in business at the Corner Cafe. Chantel Witt & Luke Kramme will be married May 30 in Ankeny. Dawn Bolin & Aaron Frost, both of LaPorte City, will be married on May 2 in LaPorte. Nicole Johnson & Elliott ...
In search of a topic for the news column, I stumbled on some notes that I had gathered long ago called fun facts. I went searching on the internet and found more fun facts than I could share in a 500 word news column! Here are some: The ostrich eye is bigger than its brain. Elephants are the ...
I was inspired to write this article during a recent foot patrol through Mericle Woods State Preserve three miles northwest of Toledo. This preserve is a 132-acre public area of mature oak forest. A study revealed that trees exceeding 200 years of age are found in Mericle Woods. Eight such ...