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Pastor Jason W. Collier with the Churches of Ainsworth and Crawfordsville led our weekly service on Sunday. The sermon was titled ?The Highlight of Heaven? and included Scripture readings from Matthew 5:14-16. Linda McNiel provided piano music for the service.Avalon House residents have been celebrating the month of July and the Independence and birth of the United States of America as an independent nation by ...

AMES ? Garden phlox is a beautiful way to add color to the garden in perennial fashion. The flowers, when healthy, are lovely to look at and can provide visual appeal for years to come.Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists can help answer questions regarding garden phlox and keep it a valuable part of the garden landscape. To have additional questions answered, contact the ISU Hortline at ...

The Washington County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Washington Public Library.The program will be given by John Brinning, who will discuss his 29 years employed as a border agent.The public is invited to attend.

DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today reminded Iowa farmers that funds are available to help install practices focused on protecting water quality. Practices eligible for this funding are cover crops, no-till or strip-till, or using a nitrification inhibitor when applying fertilizer.The cost share rate for first-time users of cover crops is $25 per acre, no-till or strip-till are eligible ...

With the heat index at 100 plus degrees, Activities Director, Carol Enfield and Phyllis Doggett attempted to fry an egg on the sun-soaked concrete. To everyone?s surprise and disappointment it did not work. The egg remained in liquid form.Getting Hitched is this the current theme at Conger House with displays noting 130 years of wedding trends and also attire from 1840 ? 1970. The 1955 wedding dress of Ella May ...

Lorene "Todd" Snider will celebrate her 100th. birthday, Aug. 1.Her family invites you to attend an "Open House" in her honor from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, July 31, at the Goodwin Senior Center 223 Eighth Avenue in Wellman.Please help us celebrate her lifetime of loving and giving to her family and friends. No gifts, please!

Join the Washington Municipal Band for two band concerts this week. They are both inside at the Methodist church in the air conditioning.The regular Thursday concert is inside as the central park stage is getting ready for the RAGBRAI festivities. It's at the same time just inside at the United Methodist Church at 206 West Second Street. Friday night, the concert will be held at 6 p.m. for all RAGBRAIers also at ...

Shelby Emry returned home July 16. She had spent a week traveling with her son Tony, of Knoxville, in his motor home. They went to Omaha, enjoyed Lake Okoboji, camped at Emerson Bay, and traveled to the eastern part of the state. On July 15 they went to Marshalltown. They attended the stock car races to watch Tony?s son Austin in the IMCA Modified Class.Ruth Schadt spent three weeks visiting her daughter Tedra ...

Kevin and Traci Vonnahme of Ainsworth would like to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Taylor Jo, to Tyler Kibbee, son of Randy and Ferresa Kibbee of Mason City.Taylor is a 2011 graduate of Highland Community School and a 2016 graduate of Buena Vista University. Taylor is currently employed for the University of Iowa Department of Public Safety.Tyler is a 2009 graduate of Mason ...

Washington County Clover Kids had their time in the show ring Monday, July 19 at the 4-H Pet Show. Washington County 4-H Clover Kids had the opportunity to learn more about the pet project through a program which then gives them their very own County Fair Pet Class.During the Washington County Fair pet show, the Clover Kids had the opportunity to show one of their pets. The Clover Kids prior to the show completed...

Washington County Clover Kid second-and third-graders had their time in the show ring Wednesday, July 20, at the Clover Kids Rabbit Show. Washington County 4-H Clover Kids had the opportunity to learn more about the rabbit project through a special mentoring program which then gives them their very own County Fair Rabbit Class.Interested second-and third-grade Clover Kids were paired with older 4-H rabbit ...

Floyd and Pauline Richardson attended the wedding of their grandson, James Arthur, to Jessica Loan on Saturday, July 16, at the Chaumette Vineyard and Winery at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. James is the son of John and Regina Arthur of Iowa City.Ryan and Carman Davis of Wayland became the parents of a son, Paxton Scott Davis on Monday, July 18, at Henry County Health Center in Mt. Pleasant. He weighed 8 pounds, 6 ...