Mt. Pleasant News

? Dustin Forquer of New London reported a car accident involving a deer on June 26 at approximately 3:31 a.m.The collision happened in the 1600 grid of 235th Street, west of Mt. Pleasant. Moderate damage was done to the car and no injuries were reported.? A pickup truck hit a deer at approximately 6:17 a.m., June 26, according to a report from the Henry County Sheriff?s office.Theodore Moravec of New London ...

Last Thursday was the final day of summer enrichment in Mt. Pleasant. Nearly 200 students attended the 43 classes, which were held at Iowa Wesleyan College. Great Prairie AEA sponsored the two week program. In the photo, from left, Molly McLaughlin a fourth-grader from WACO and Blake Bentler a fifth-grader from Salem play a game they made in Monie Hayes?s ?Build Your Own Board Game? class.

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday morning, June 23, in Wapello. Sixteen members and guests gathered at the Louisa County Heritage Center, which once housed a car dealership.Wapello resident, Valeen Ziegenhorn, shared the history of the Louisa County Heritage Center and led the group on a room by room tour of their extensive and well displayed collections.A country church ...

Early Head StartMONDAY: July 2: Breakfast: Life cereal, grape juice; a.m. snack: cottage cheese, round crackers; lunch: pasta/meat sauce, green beans, diced pears, bread stick; p.m. snack: turkey and cheese, wheat crackerTUESDAY: July 3: Breakfast: Raisin bread, diced peaches; a.m. snack: cereal mix (Chex, Cheerios, Goldfish); lunch: baked chicken breast, broccoli and rice, sliced oranges, wheat bread; p.m. ...

The Mt. Pleasant Public Library?s Youth Services Department will host Teen Creature Feature Movie Days on Mondays at 2 p.m. in the Civic Center Meeting Room on the second floor.This program is free and is only for teens ages 13 and over. No registration is required.All of the movies are Rated PG-13.These are the following Teen Creature Feature films that that will be shown are:? Monday, July 2: ?Signs? ...

SALEM ? Congressman Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, will visit Salem Monday, July 2.Loebsack will be at the Salem Crew Library at 4:30 p.m. and at approximately 5:15 p.m. will tour the Lewelling Museum.

Editor?s note: As part of the nation?s 150-year anniversary of the Civil War, the Henry County Civil War Sesquicentennial Task Force will be publishing a monthly column, written by Henry County historians. The research for the articles comes from Henry County newspapers published between 1861-1865, as well as diaries, journals and letters written by Henry County Civil War soldiers and their families.By Joy Lynn ...

Jordan Crooks, 7, left, and Sophie Beenken, 6, right, are pictured with Bill Riley, Jr., after placing first in the Bill Riley Talent Show at Kalona Fun Days with their jazz/acro duet to ?Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.? The next week, they placed first again at Center Pointe?s Pork Days. Both events qualify them to compete in the Bill Riley Talent Show at the Iowa State Fair in August.Crooks is the daughter of James ...

DEAR ABBY: My sister has decided to let her 14-year-old son have a girlfriend. This is contrary to every value we grew up with as kids into adulthood.She has met the girl?s parents and says they ?immediately clicked? and she knew right away that they share the same morals. The parents now set up situations where the two kids can get together. Not only have my nephew and the girl bonded, but the parents have ...

Rudyard Dyer of Mt. Pleasant, graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. He was a mathematics and economics major.

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsRecent denial of Iowa?s waiver request from certain provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation will have little impact on the Mt. Pleasant Community School District, Superintendent Dr. John Roederer said Thursday.?It shouldn?t impact us in any negative way,? he remarked. ?While I am a little surprised that the state?s waiver was denied, I am not surprised.?Mt. ...

By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsThe Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting turned into a small auction Thursday morning, as the county auctioned off six tracts of former railroad property for a total of $14,750.These properties were all abandoned Burlington Northern Railroad right-of-ways in sections eight, nine and 22 of Scott Township, many of them landlocked. The county began discussing selling the ...