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Oklahoma State University student Sage Becker has been awarded a 2018 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious national honors recognizing highachievers who seek research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.Becker, who's been extremely active in research since she started at OSU, is a junior from Keota, majoring in animal science with a concentration in animal biotechnology ...

Washington County 4-H members weighed in production swine projects on Saturday, March 24, for the 2018 Washington County Fair marking the official state date of their project.A new production gilt class was added to the swine department this year, which nearly doubled the number of pigs involved. Ninety-one pigs were weighed in for the production classes and 45 additional barrows were weighed in for the single ...

Brooke Stout, of Washington, is the daughter of Tim and Julie Stout.Her siblings are Jordan, Emma and Wyatt.She attends Washington High School and is a member of the Jackson Jets.Her 4-H projects include: beef, goats, educational presentation, extemporaneous speech; past projects include poultry, photography and Bucket Bottle Calf.Brooke's 4-H Activities are being County Council president, club president, ...

Riverside ? ESO, the Highland Community School District Elementary Support Organization has partnered with the Washington County Extension Office to start two new programs for community betterment. STEM program will help encourage school-aged children to explore the sciences and technologies.The program is underway, and community volunteers have attended to help the kids with the STEM activities. Todd Chamberlain...

Friends are invited to join Dave and Janet Parcell Jones in celebration of their 50th anniversary. An open house will be held April 15 from 2-4 p.m. at Lake Darling Lodge. The two were wed at Fairfield Friends Church on Easter Sunday, 1968.They have enjoyed life on their farm near Pleasant Plain where they raised their children, Jim Jones of Fairfield and Judy Jones, of Iowa City. They also have two granddaughter...

All area high school students and their parents are invited to learn more about their college options at the Washington High School College Fair, Thursday, April 5, in the Washington High School Gymnasium. The college fair will be from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m., hosted by the Iowa Association for College Admission Counseling (Iowa ACAC) and the Counseling Department at Washington High School.Representatives from ...

The Limecreek Livewires spent their school vacation day on Friday with a great hands-on field trip to Wellman's Cabinet Works. The group built tool boxes and learned about the art of woodworking.?This is a great example of the variety of hands-on learning experiences that happen in the Washington County 4-H programs,? said Amy Green, 4-H and youth coordinator for Washington County Extension.Washington County ...

The Crawfordsville Wednesday Study Club met in the Washington Hills Bank Hospitality Room on Wednesday, March 21, at 2 p.m. Eleven members and two guests were present.President Pauline Richardson, program leader, began the afternoon meeting with the program on ?Safety Day? and introduced speakers, Chad Ellis, investigator from the Washington County Sheriff's Office and Deanna Hansen, the University of Iowa Rural ...

Enjoying the evening meal of March 25 at the home of Winifred Fritz were her children, Tony and Lynn Fritz, of Brighton, and Mary and Joel Boatright, of Fairfield. Also present were Mary's son, J.D. and Becky Hollingsworth, of Packwood. They were later joined by Winifred's son Joe Fritz.Jeff and Michelle Pacha with two of their sons and a friend, of Wichita, Kansas, visited his parents, Gerald and Rosemary ...

Everyone loves poetry, even if they are not a fan of the traditional poems like Shakespeare or T.S. Eliot. Poetry has moved from an art form based on meter and rhymes, restricted by stiff guidelines which have survived through the ages, to something more fluid and spontaneous. Free verse is incredibly popular as are concrete poems?words that form both a poem and an image on the paper. Readers and writers may ...

At the Rotary meeting Thursday, the club was excited to donate $650 to the 9/11 Memorial that will be coming to Washington this July at the same time as the Washington County Fair.Included in the picture from the left are: Becky Patterson, Carol Horning, Michelle Redlinger, Bob Kennedy, and Terry Engelken.

Avery Blauvelt, of Wellman, is the daughter of Andy and Kim Blauvelt.She attends Iowa Mennonite School and is a member of the Limecreek Limelights.Her projects are market and breeding beef, photography, food nutrition, home improvement and clothing events.Her 4-H Activities include being an officer in her 4-H club, 4-H retreats and Iowa State Fair Awardrobe clothing event.?A favorite memory of mine is when my ...