I love my family. We all do. Or most of us at least – on most days, at least. Loving your family is a given. You anticipate loving your spouse even before you meet him or her. This is exponentiated with your children. You love them fully and completely well before they are born. There is ...
10 YEARS AGO MAY 28, 2009 Shop class made trash cans and flower boxes to place on Main St. Students planted flowers in the boxes making Main St. looking very nice & homey. Danielle Dobbins and Jeremy Johnson plan to be married on June 13 in Morrison, IL. Sara Luehring & Chad Lenz ...
Yesterday I woke up tired. I got up anyway and tried to complete the morning routine. I thought about making coffee. The idea was exhausting. I looked at my husband. “I’m still tired,” I said. “Me too,” he answered. “I think I’m going back to bed.” It was Saturday, so this ...
I am going to start a column about Cuckoos talking about insects. Not so strange when you think that insects are an important food source for so many birds. So to begin let’s think about tent caterpillars. I have written about them before. These caterpillars are the larva of a small moth ...
“Worry” “He (God) who watches over you…will neither slumber nor sleep.” -Psalm 121:3,4- Do you worry a lot? What do you worry about? Is worrying wrong? Who would deny that there is plenty to worry about-economically, politically, our health, the domestic problems including feeding ...
30 Years Ago May 19, 1989 Commencement for the 70 Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School graduates will be Sunday, May 21, beginning at 2 p.m. in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School gymnasium. Sunday, May 21, at 4:00 p.m. at the GMG High School, Seniors will participate in Commencement Exercises at ...
Yesterday I woke up tired. I got up anyway and tried to complete the morning routine. I thought about making coffee. The idea was exhausting. I looked at my husband. “I’m still tired,” I said. “Me too,” he answered. “I think I’m going back to bed.” It was Saturday, so this ...
I am going to start a column about Cuckoos talking about insects. Not so strange when you think that insects are an important food source for so many birds. So to begin let’s think about tent caterpillars. I have written about them before. These caterpillars are the larva of a small moth ...
In the Old Testament book of Isaiah, the author speaks of seven gifts of the Spirit. In the ever-hopeful desire for a Messiah, Isaiah is identifying the qualities that Messiah will have – wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord. These gifts are the ...
30 Years Ago May 12, 1989 Mrs. Gretchen Fulster, Gladbrook, will celebrate her 90th birthday. Daniel J. Kearney, 51, Tama, was killed May 7, by a train in Tama. 40 Years Ago May 18, 1979 The last day of school is coming up next week for Garwin and Gladbrook students. Garwin Community ...