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The Washington County Fair Swine Committee will again offer a production barrow division for the 2017 Washington County Fair. Participation in the production barrow division is optional for all exhibitors. Those wanting to participate must contact the Extension office by March 15 for their exact weigh-in time.Production Barrow Division Guidelines for 2017 Washington County Fair are as follows:A) Exhibitors may ...

After Thursday night?s Fairfield Trojan 74-52 stomping of Burlington Notre Dame, Trojan head coach Mick Flattery talked with The Ledger sports editor Allan Mandell. Flattery?s Trojans are currently 12-4 and ranked No. 14 in Iowa. Coach, you stress defense so much. You had to be pleased tonight, correct? Correct. They?ve got kids 6-feet-2. We?re a bunch of 5-8 kids. Mikaela Lunsford, Kara Jeffrey were tough. ...

The regular meeting of Chapter OC, P.E.O., met February 9 at the home of Margi Jarrard with Kate Glinsmann and Linda Soukup serving as co-hostesses.Chapter OC has recently recommended a student for $15,000 for the Educational Loan Fund, a low-interest loan program, and two local women have been recently recommended for Sarah Porter Beckwith Friendship Funds to help women in financially challenging situations.The...

The Highland School Board will have a special meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the high school boardroom.The only item on the agenda is discussion/action on renewed consideration of attendance center action presented at the Feb. 13 meeting.

The Crawfordsville Lions Club met Monday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the Crawfordsville Community Room with 16 members present. Lion President Billie Jo Rose called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance. Lion Larry Love offered the invocation.After a delicious meal prepared and served by Alice Hochstetler, the meeting reconvened.The minutes of the Jan. 23 meeting were approved as read. There was ...

The 4-H STEM Club started their February session ?Put a Lid on It? Feb. 14 after school, filling every chair in the Lincoln Library. This month they are learning and working as biomedical engineers to design helmets. This first evening they learned the important terms of criteria and constraints and how those impact what engineers do. In small groups they designed towers with very specific constraints and ...

Residents gathered in the Town Center on Friday morning to wish Julia Gamon a happy birthday and celebrate the occasion with coffee and treats provided by Julia.West Branch Elementary School third grade students dropped off a large box of valentines especially created for veterans of our community. They included notes of thanks for bravery, service and sacrifice, sometimes spelled differently, with wishes for a ...

Lindsay Crawford is the daughter of Roger and Lisa Crawford.She attends Washington High School and participates in the Washington Hustlers 4-H Club.Her projects included: sheep, beef, photography and communication in the working exhibit.Lindsay's 4-H activities included: Iowa State 4-H conference and being a Clover Kids sheep mentor."My greatest memory is meeting new people and becoming closer with the ...

The Sunday School students at Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church made valentines on Sunday, Feb. 12.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Jeffrey Hall, of Riverside, graduated with his bachelor of business degree from Mount Mercy University in February 2017. A commencement ceremony will be held Sunday, May 21, at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids.

4-H?ers involved in the Single Source Commercial Swine Class and any 4-H?ers beginning in the Swine Project area are encouraged to attend the ?Know Your Swine? workshop Monday, March 13, at 5:45 p.m. at the Washington County Extension office.This is an introductory meeting to the Swine Project. Department superintendents, Washington County Pork Producers and 4-H senior swine showmen will discuss early care ...

Eighty couples enjoyed the special Enchanted Ball Father-Daughter dance held Saturday night by the 4-H County Council.The event was open to the public for any kindergarten-to fourth-grade girl and the special man in her life. Beautiful young ladies and their fathers, grandfathers, uncles, older brothers, neighbors, filled the basement of Dallmeyer Hall. Each couple posed at the photo booth and were able to take ...