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Become a new blood donor. Your blood donation can save up to nine lives. Thirty eight percent of the population are eligible to donate blood, but only 10 percent do so. Consider becoming a donor as your personal community service project. Contact Don Pfeiffer, blood drive coordinator with the Optimist Club of Washington, to learn more about giving blood to save the lives of others . Contact Don Pfeiffer at ...

Kristal Chalupa and Lucas Cookman are excited to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.Chalupa is a graduate of Highland High School. She completed her training in dental assisting at Kirkwood Community College in 2007 and her certification in dental hygiene in 2014.She is currently employed at Coral West Dental in Coralville. She is the daughter of Michael and Monika Chalupa of Riverside.Lucas is the ...

This year?s WACO CROP Drive will receive 25 percent of local donations. The monies will be channeled through the WACO Ministerial Association and used within the two WACO Community Funds.These funds from CROP. (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty), will be used to meet physical needs of people within the WACO area. The other 75 percent of donations will still go to those in the most desperate need who ...

Two dances and one lunch event are planned during October at the Polishville Community Center.The first dance will be Sunday, with Lyle Beaver of Iowa City providing the music. Food will be sold beginning at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6 to 9 p.m. This is a free dance in honor of Wilbur Seindler of Ottumwa, who is turning 92 years old.The lunch, with bingo, is planned Oct. 14. Lunch will be served from ...

Beginning Oct. 3 through Oct. 10, the Washington Public Library is excited to be hosting their second annual Festival of Pumpkins!With nearly 50 very creative entries last fall, the Library staff would like to see if they can break last year?s record this year. Without carving your pumpkins, the library is asking patrons to decorate and/or paint them after your favorite book character or just simply use your ...

Bows and Bullets 4-H shooting Sports Club members participated at the State 4-H Shooting Match at the Brownell?s Big Springs Shooting Range near Montezuma on Saturday. It is a time for them to showcase their skills against other 4-H members from around the state. One hundred and forty-eight 4-H members from 30 counties participated in this annual State competition in Air Rifle, Smallbore, Archery, Muzzleloader ...

Fourteen members of Wednesday Study Club met at the United Church of Crawfordsville at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, for their annual salad supper. Members who were on the losing side of the reading contest held the previous club year each brought a salad to serve and co-hostesses Debbie Lowe, Rachel Koehler and Marie Dare provided main dishes and desserts.Following a short business meeting led by Cathy ...

The Washington County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the courthouse.Items on the agenda include: designation of Washington County Hospital and Clinics urban renewal area, re-subdivision of Lot 10 - Cedar Bay subdivision - Iowa Township, resolution 15-45 to declare necessity and establish an urban renewal area, pursuant to Iowa Code and to approve urban renewal plan and project ...

Representatives from the Washington Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors Club, the City of Washington and Airport Commision members were at the ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the new runway earlier this month.

Members of the 1952 Washington High School football team pose at their banquet that year.Pictured from left is Tom English, WHS athletic director and teacher, Ralph Martin, Ray Tweeton, who played center, Bob Kennedy who played tight end and coach Carl Paetze.

The Washington Soil and Water Conservation District will hold their meeting on Sept. 30, at 7:30 a.m. at the USDA office. The tentative agenda items for the meeting include cover crop applications, loans, cost share applications, conservation plans, financial statements, and bills for payment. The meeting is open to the public. If you need accommodations, please notify Washington SWCD as soon as possible.

The Mid-Prairie School Board will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 28, in the high school library in Wellman.Items on the agenda include: honoring retiree, technology report, affirmative action plan, elementary study group, Shive-Hattery fees, WCRF grant applications resolution and loan - sales tax fund (SAVE) to nutrition fund.