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(From The Washington Evening Journal, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004)10 YEARS AGOThe Washington School Board members did not choose a junior high-high school building option last night, nor did they discuss how the Bow-Tie and Renovate options fit the Facilities-Decision-Making Rubric they designed. Instead, they set four public meeting dates in which the Bow-Tie and Renovate options will be presented to the public, to ...

Indian Hills Community College has released the names of the students who were on the college?s academic Honor Roll for the 2014 Fall Term. To be included on the Honor Roll an IHCC student must be enrolled full time and have a grade point average for the term of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.AINSWORTH: Michael R. WideBRIGHTON: Torrent Decker, Jonathan E. McArtorKEOTA: Kayla E. Baker, Jade N. RedlingerRICHLAND: ...

The glow of the full moon, the crisp winter air, the crunch below your feet. Join Louisa County Conservation at Langwood Education Center on Monday, Jan. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. for a snowshoe adventure.Experience the beauty of Iowa winter and celebrate the final night of the holiday season with a moonlit snowshoe hike along the trails. Warm up in the lodge around the wood-burning stove with hot cocoa in hand as you ...

NFL teams have no fear of playing in the wild-card round.Recent history shows the playoff bye isn?t such a big deal anymore. In six of the last seven years, one of the Super Bowl participants didn?t get a bye to begin the postseason. And five of those teams wound up winning the NFL title.So Green Bay?s blowing the bye by losing to Minnesota last Sunday might not be such a setback. Same for Houston, which had an ...

Eight members of Fleur-de-Lis Club met on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 at 12:30 p.m in the home of Linda Birney for their annual salad luncheon.Members enjoyed a variety of tasty salads, chicken casserole and lively conversation around the dining room table with candy-filled Christmas shopping-bag favors.Following the luncheon, Nancy Kimmel, president, conducted a short business meeting. Roll call was answered with ...

Twenty members of United Presbyterian Women attended the Christmas Tea at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in the Fellowship Hall. Circle V served an assortment of Christmas cookies. Co-moderator Jane Fehr opened the meeting with a welcome and the purpose of UPW as June Asper lit the Christ Candle.Circle IV was in charge of the program, which used the theme ?The Magi.? Butch Zwicki sang ?O Holy Night? accompanied by Virginia ...

At the conclusion of the Washington County Beef Weigh-in on Dec. 13, 98 Washington County 4-H?ers and FFA members have enrolled and weighed in 180 market beef animals for the 2014-15 year. According to Amy Green, 4-H/Youth Coordinator, others will continue to enroll through surrounding county weigh-ins held later this month and next.4-H?ers and FFA members had the option of nominating market beef for State Fair ...

Faye Henry will observe her 90th birthday on Dec. 31 and is being honored with a card shower. Faye is the mother of Marcus (Diana) Henry of Washington, Beverly (Don) Goodwin of rural Columbus Junction, and Bonnie of Washington. She has five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.Cards may be mailed to: 1401 N. 4th Ave., Washington, IA 52353.

Only you can prevent weeded books.Recently the library has been going through a process of book removal we call ?weeding.? Staff members go through and find all the books that haven?t been checked out in five years or more and get rid of them. They go to either our book store run by the Teen Advisory Board called ?Re-Book? or we ship them off to Better World Books, where they find homes for these abandoned ...

Rachel Pierce of Riverside gained practical experience while making a difference around the world through an international internship. Pierce spent the summer in Nicaragua. While there, Pierce supported a local non-governmental organization in their efforts to prevent human trafficking and domestic violence in Nicaragua.The internship was coordinated through the Global Resource Systems (GRS) program in Iowa ...

The regular meeting of the Chapter L of the National T.T.T. Society met on Nov. 24, 2014 at the United Church of Crawfordsville with Tammy Erwin and Leah Woline as hostesses. Twenty members answered roll call by sharing their favorite or most memorable holiday.Cathy Williams presented a meditation which was a poem of the Nativity titled, "Mothers at the Manger." She also shared a passage called "Smiles."The ...

Betty Flynn was hostess to 14 members and one guest for Tuesday Coffee Club held on Dec. 2. Lunch was enjoyed at Xtreme Smokehouse Grill. A variety of sandwiches and side dishes were enjoyed. This was the club's first visit as a group, so it was interesting and tasty for the first-timers and those that had dined there before.A lot of fun Thanksgiving stories were exchanged, having just celebrated Thanksgiving ...