Jeanine Thurston, left, management for Park View Apartments in West Point, and Harold Neuweg, board president, display an award from USDA Rural Development for providing quality housing services to their residents since 1981.Park View Apartments, managed by Liberty Realty, opened in 1981 and provides housing for the elderly, persons with disabilities and their families.USDA Rural Development currently ...
Mt. Pleasant?s Community Band will offer a benefit concert at 7 p.m. tonight in Central Park.During the final two concerts (June 30 and July 7), a collection will be taken to support and rebuild the music and band programs in the Joplin, Mo., School District. The band?s hope is to provide some assistance to the students, teachers and community members of Joplin so they can continue to have the opportunity for ...
The Mt. Pleasant Police Department investigated a two-vehicle accident on Washington Street yesterday morning.Kim Brumbaugh, age and address unknown, was attempting a left turn from the eastbound lanes of Washington into Shottenkirk?s business driveway in her 2010 GMC Terrain. She failed to see the westbound 2000 Jeep Wrangler Sport, owned and operated by Lisa Erlewine, and the vehicles collided.No injuries ...
Church services were held here at our house on Sunday. Our church district has around 175 people, with over 100 being children under the age of 16. We had very nice weather on Sunday and now today it is rainy.The rain took laundry off of our list. It is a relief to have all of the cleaning done for now. Our garden is doing very well so far. Corn has really grown and is pretty tall already. I had enough lettuce ...
Jesse Aynes of Mt. Pleasant has been named to the 2011 spring semester dean's list at Loyola University Chicago. Aynes is majoring in communication and marketing. He is the son of Shari Phipps and the grandson of Peggy Aynes and Raymond Aynes.
Tickets are now on sale for the Des Moines County Heritage Society?s next series of cabaret performances in the Bart Howard Room, Burlington. Mary Carrick and Todd Brooks will bring their Broadway-infused show, ?Songs with a Twist of Lime? to the cabaret room for a two-night engagement, Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16. Both shows are at 8 p.m.Carrick, now based in Omaha, Neb., is the daughter of Dave and ...
The University of Iowa has announced its dean?s list for the 2011 spring semester. All students named to the dean's list carried at least 12 graded hours during the semester.A minimum 3.5 grade-point average (based on a 4.0 scale) for current work is required for inclusion on the dean's list in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Business Administration and Engineering. College of Pharmacy ...
DEAR ABBY: My wife had an unhappy five-year marriage to her high school boyfriend. They divorced when their son, "Noah," was 20 months old. Then she met me, and we have been married for 34 happy years.I adopted Noah with the consent of his birth father, who also remarried and had a family. My wife and I added a daughter to ours.I was aware that Noah had re-established contact with his birth father and ...
By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsBefore the managed services contract with Solutions Inc., expires on July 1, the board of supervisors will need to decide whether or not to renew the contract, potentially saving the county $21,000.?I don?t see the benefit of paying them to do the managed services,? said Derek Wellington, who spoke to the board of supervisors about the contract on Thursday. The cost of ...
By ASHLEE STALLINGAMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant Christian School and FCOC will be taking a group of about 30 volunteers down to Joplin to aid in the relief efforts in the aftermath of the tornados that devastated the area.The group, made up of MPCS high school students, alumni, and faculty as well as members of FCOC and its pastor, leaves Sunday afternoon, June 26, and returns on June 29.According to ...
Absentee ballots for the Aug. 2 supervisor districting referendum will be available Monday, June 27, according to the Henry County Auditor?s Office.Those wishing to vote absentee may do so at the county auditor?s office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Members of the Mt. Pleasant High School class of 1942 met for their 69th reunion on June 10 and 11.The class last met in June 2009. Eighty-one were in the graduating class. Fifty-seven members are deceased.Eleven members were present for the "Dutch treat" dinner held at the Pizza Ranch in Mt. Pleasant on Friday, June 10. Fourteen attended the dinner at Jerry's on Saturday, June 11.Those attending one or ...
Iowa State University has released its dean?s list for the 2011 spring semester. Students on the dean?s list have a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work. the following area students are on the list:Hillsboro: Ashley Marie Hoaglin.Mt. Pleasant: Lauren Janelle Chorpening; Andrew Donald Schmitz; Jason Anthony Schmitz; Hannah E. ...
Administrative salaries and a report on Iowa Tests of Basic Skills tops the agenda for the regular monthly meeting of the WACO School Board Monday, June 20, at 6 p.m. in the media center at the Crawfordsville Elementary School.Other agenda items include approval of the WACO teacher/student handbook, discussion of IASB legislative priorities and a social networking policy.
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