St. James School is celebrating the homecoming festivities this week to coincide with Washington High School.Many Disney characters arrived at St. James Tuesday including "Walt Disney" himself.
University of Iowa College of Pharmacy students, from left, Robert Nichols, Jennifer Ross, Ashley Beckman, Dan Widman, Ben Urick, Washington police officer Ron See, and Jenette Hunger, pharmacy student at Creighton University, accepted unused medications Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the United Presbyterian Church.The event was part of the Drug Enforcement Agency?s National Take Back Day. The group ...
Washington County Historical Society Executive Board met at 9 a.m., Sept. 25, at Conger House in Washington. Eight members and one guest were present.Ferd Marie was presiding officer. Pat Johnson was elected as a board member. It was reported that a stoop had been built on Red Brick School and that work is being done on the windowsills. Conger House will be open on Oct. 19 with a fall festival theme. Preliminary ...
HARMONY ? Seth Dickinson and Unity Daugherty both finished runner-up on the Indian Lake course to lead the Van Buren cross country teams to a pair of meet victories Tuesday.Van Buren scored 32 points in the boys race to finish 26 ahead of second-place Central Lee. The Warrior girls tallied 41 points to top Cardinal?s 45.Dickinson finished with a time of 16:38, and Dalton Haynes was fourth in 17:15. Tyler Runyon ...
WASHINGTON, Iowa ? The band was mostly back together for the Fairfield cross country teams at Tuesday?s Washington Invitational at Washington Country Club.Though down one runner, the Trojan girls unrolled their most complete lineup in nearly two weeks and took second in the final team standings behind Fort Madison. The Fairfield boys had their top seven back and finished fourth behind Marion, Fort Madison and ...
Ryker Norman is pleased to announce the birth of his brother, Xander Reid, born on Aug. 22, 2014. Parents are Matt and Kendra Norman of Granger. He weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces.Grandparents are Wanda Taylor of Bouton, and Steve and Sue Norman of Washington.Great-grandparents are Marvin and Pat McClure of Washington.
Adventures in Living Department of Fortnightly Club met for a potluck dinner on Sept. 25 at the home of Jan Crawford. Eight members and one guest were present.The afternoon program was given by Virginia Reighard. She had brought many antique kitchen utensils, which most members remembered using.The roll call was to bring an unusual kitchen utensil. Dues were paid for the coming year.The next meeting will be on ...
Sunday, Oct. 5, Washington County Right to Life is sponsoring its sixth annual Life Chain along Highway 92 in Washington from 2 to 3 p.m. in cooperation with the national Life Chain day. All are invited to join in this quiet, prayerful witness for life. Participants will meet at 1:30 p.m. at the swimming pool parking lot in Sunset Park. Those gathered will stand along the highway with uplifting signs (signs are ...
Theresa Hora was hostess to Fleur de Lis Club members on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. A short business meeting was led by President Nancy Kimmel. Roll call was answered by seven members telling of a pumpkin memory or story. Several humorous stories were shared. Minutes of the last meeting in June were read by Secretary-Treasurer Linda Birney. It was noted that former member, Jeanette Pearson, had died ...
In 1986, the Masonic Lodge in Washington moved to the current location on the west end of the north side of the square. In 1930 that building burned and the present building was built. Bob Kennedy will give a presentation, ?The Masonic History,? at the meeting of the Washington County Genealogical Society, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Washington Public Library. The public is welcome to attend.
The Washington High School Class of 1957 will meet for lunch at 11:30 Friday, Oct. 3, at Pizza Ranch.
Two dances and a lunch, with bingo games, are planned in October at Polishville Community Center.The first dance is set for Sunday, with Lyle Beaver of Iowa City providing the music. Food will be for sale at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6 to 9 p.m.Lunch and bingo is planned Oct. 8. Lunch will be 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with bingo starting at 12:30 p.m. A lunch, with bingo, is planned for the second ...
Upper Iowa University announces the Dean's List for the Summer term 2014. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade point average for the semester and be enrolled as a full-time student. The following students earned a spot on the list.Cody Duwa of Washington, majors in business administration.Jennifer Duwa of Washington, majors in health services administration.
Looking back and looking forwardEvery year around this time I write and present the library?s annual report. The purpose of the report is to tell library trustees, elected officials and, most importantly, you, what we?ve been up to this last year. It?s mostly statistics, but as library trustee Rachel Nicola said when we presented the report to the Washington City Council, there is a lot of heart behind those ...
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