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The Wayland Lions Club met Tuesday, March 17, at the Washington Pizza Ranch after touring the Kirkwood Regional Center.The Kirkwood Regional Center Tour was given by Kierstan Peck, who showed members the various classrooms, equipment and computer technology available for the students to use during their classes to prepare them for rewarding careers. The 13 attending Wayland Lions and two guests found the tour to ...

The Fairfield girls? tennis team advanced to the regional final of Class 1A team tennis with dual wins over Oskaloosa and Albia Saturday in Fairfield.The Trojans girls rallied past Oskaloosa 5-4 in the opening round of regional play on the Fairfield Middle School courts. Later in the day, the host team cruised to a 5-1 victory over Albia in the second round.The Trojans are now headed to Fort Madison to play ...

Chapter J, P.E.O. met in Cafe' Dodici Thursday, April 2. Seventeen members were in attendance for the Dutch-treat lunch or dessert.President Sara Bartlett conducted the business meeting. Plans for the P.E.O. State Convention in June were discussed. Members were encouraged to attend.Mary Carol Fish was installed as Guard.There is a change of date for the May meeting. Mary Chmelar will host Chapter J on May14, ...

Today as I take a moment to pause and look back at the previous week and the things that we thought about as we celebrated Easter and the hope and the blessings that we can have today because of what the Lord Jesus Christ came for and suffered as He went to the cross where He was crucified and died to pay the penalty for the sins of mankind that through Him we might be brought back into a right relationship with ...

This picture was taken during an Ambassadors? visit to The Travel Design business on the north side of the square. In the front row, from left, are Marv Tweeton and Tim Klopfenstein. The Ambassadors pictured are Charlotte Pencil, Eleanor Wolf, Ralph Marshall, Norm Schoonover, Gary McCurdy, Taunce Mathiasen, Ray Minick, John Prochaska, Walt Farell Jr., Evelyn Eash, Dave Jennings (head only), Bill Steele, Jerry ...

The family of Betty Knupp of Columbus Junction is requesting a card shower in honor of her 90th birthday on April 25. Her family includes children, Linda and Dan Crawford of Lawrence, Kan., Keith and Barb Cutkomp of Ainsworth, and Cindy and Jim Scott of Hiawatha, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 1222 Ridge Rd., Columbus Junction, IA 52738.

Highland Community Schools Board of Directors will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, April 13, in the high school board room.Items on the agenda include: a public hearing on the 2015-16 budget; a public hearing to authorize the purchase of transportation equipment over $50,000; bus bids; consent agenda; receive visitors and read miscellaneous communications; 2014-15 budget amendment estimate; data from community meetings; ...

The Rev. Kitch Shatzer organized a Seder meal on Thursday evening of Holy Week with approximately 20 residents in attendance. The service began with portions of the Jewish Passover rituals and explanations of the various symbolic foods used at the meal. They then shared a simple meal together before moving on to a celebration of the Lord?s Supper much as Jesus did with His disciples in the Upper Room. Many who ...

Kirkwood Community College honored more than 75 top-performing students in its annual Outstanding Student Recognition program. The April 3 event was an opportunity to salute the students for their superior achievements in the past year.Award recipients were credited by faculty for cooperation, campus citizenship and leadership, in addition to their top grades in classes. The honorees represented the top echelon ...

There was a group of ladies in the Marshall Game Room playing some sort of game called canasta with six players divided into two teams. It was reported that Ione Burham, Audrey Stark, Sybil Thornton, Jean Rietz, Phyllis Lyle and Reta Beemblossom thoroughly enjoyed themselves with the ?when, what and wild bunch.?Wanita and Ed Zieglowsky had the best time on Tuesday when her sister, Joyce Campbell of Cedar Falls, ...

The Mid-Prairie School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, April 13, in the high school library.Items on the tentative agenda include: consent items, high school addition schematic design - Shive-Hattery, science curriculum update, Secondary English/Language Arts instructional materials adoption, 2015-16 school calendar, public hearing on Kalona and Wellman elementary schools additions plans and specification - 8 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Records, the saying goes, are meant to be broken. No one ever said they were meant to be shattered.But that?s exactly what Fairfield Middle School?s Michael Fritz did in the discus throw during Monday?s conference track and field meet in Mount Pleasant. The eighth-grader?s throw of 145-feet, 4-inches broke the 18-year-old conference record by six feet and accounted for the Trojan eighth-graders? ...