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Sandy (Rich) Hasler of Craig, Colo., left Wednesday after spending two weeks with her mother, Mary Rich, and visiting friends and relatives. While here, she and her sister, Joan, cleaned cupboards and washed windows for their mother.On Thursday, April 17, a classmate, June and husband Earl Hamilton of Urbana, Ill., spent the afternoon with Mary Rich. The Hamiltons' daughter and her husband accompanied June and ...

A Grandview Consolidated School reunion will be held on Saturday, May 24, at Grandview Community Bible Church Fellowship Center. Doors will open at 11 a.m. The meal will be served at 12:30 p.m. All former students are invited. There will be a cost to attend. Please make reservations by May 21 to: Sharon Beik, 12200 130th St. Wapello, IA 52653 or 319-729-5331 or 563-299-7348.

Mid-Prairie High School was selected again this year to receive one of 30 $1000 prizes for their participation in the 2013-14 Iowa Financial Know-How Challenge. This prize was given to the school on behalf of Iowa Student Loan, the Iowa Department of Education, the Iowa Jump$tart Coalition, Junior Achievement of Central Iowa, and the Iowa College Access Network.More than 80 Iowa high schools participated in this ...

The newly formed Area Coalition Against Human Trafficking will present a film about human trafficking, "Not My Life," on Tuesday, April 22, at the Washington Public Library. A session from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. has been filled. A second showing begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Light refreshments will be provided.Deb Bodensteiner and Cindy Kraft of Washington organized the coalition to raise awareness and to try to ...

The Friends of Bunker Mill Bridge invites the community to celebrate the restoration of the bridge, on April 22 at the bridge.From 12 to 5 p.m. the group and volunteers will clean up the bridge area. Volunteers can bring rakes, chain saws, gloves, trash cans, etc. A potluck dinner is planned to begin at 5 p.m.

Washington Middle School parent/teacher conferences will be held from 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 23.Parents are asked to enter through the south gym doors, as teachers will be conferencing with parents in the gym. Final SMI and SRI test results will be available along with students? current grades. Parents are encouraged to take the time to visit with all of their child?s teachers.Any questions regarding ...

The Washington Community High School teachers and administration welcome all parents/guardians to parent/teacher conferences from 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Conferences will be held in the high school commons area.Student schedules and midterm grades will be made available at that time. Parents/guardians are encouraged to visit with each teacher listed on the student?s schedule, as well as other ...

(From The Washington Evening Journal, Friday, April 16, 2004)10 YEARS AGOCounty payments to impoverished residents for rent assistance have doubled, and utility assistance has nearly tripled in the third quarter of fiscal 2003, the Washington County General Assistance quarterly report shows.Sue Rich of Washington Community Services says the dramatic increase in rent and utility assistance is due to the closure ...

On Saturday April 5, 2014, the following Mid-Prairie Middle School students attended the Mount Pleasant Honor Band. The sixth-grade honor band was guest conducted by Jim DePreist of Mount Pleasant and the seventh- and eighth-grade honor band was guest conducted by Kevin Brown of Iowa City. The bands were treated to a performance by the ?Fossils? Jazz Band, which was made up of all the participating schools? band ...

Victory Fellowship Church is having an Easter breakfast on April 20 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Church Service will start at 10 a.m. There is no charge.

The Week of the Young Child is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world's largest early childhood education association.The purpose of the Week of the Young Child is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. The library ...

Students from Iowa City and Washington traveled to Xicotepec, Mexico, on a Rotary Club District 6000-sponsored service trip recently. Throughout the week, they helped with a variety of projects at local schools and orphanages. At the end of the week, they donated nine fans to a small rural school.