Mt. Pleasant News

The community meal this week will be a potluck. Bring a dish to share if possible.

IOWA CITY ? The University of Iowa Athletic Department increased its share of women participating on Hawkeye teams last year after a federal investigation.But large boosts to the rosters of rowing, women's cross country and women's track feed criticisms the UI may be padding women's teams when it should add a new sport.Women made up 50.8 percent of UI's student-athletes in 2016-2017, the university reported to ...

Editor's note: Gloria Yoder will return next week with more Amish Cook stories.I had never heard of Fasnachts until I was an adult.I think I first heard the term when an Amish Cook reader wrote in asking if she had a recipe for it. She didn't and she hadn't heard the term, which was one more early lesson for me as to how widely varied Amish culinary customs are from community to community.Amish in Ohio, ...

SEOUL - South Korea and the United States will announce plans before April for a postponed joint military drill, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday.Seoul and Washington had agreed to postpone the regular joint military exercise until after the Winter Olympics and Paralympics being hosted in South Korea, which end on March 18.After the decision to delay the joint exercise, North Korea agreed to hold ...

LONDON - There were no survivors among the 65 passengers and crew on an Iranian plane that ploughed into a mountain top, where most of the bodies lie buried under snow, the first rescue team to reach the wreckage said on Tuesday.The Aseman Airlines plane disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes into Sunday's flight from Tehran to the southwestern city of Yasuj. Iranian military located the wreckage in the ...

Ashley Vanorny's path to community service started with the Girl Scouts.Stacey Walker, Molly Hanson and Ryan Bruner grew up in families where public service and helping others was second nature.Simeon Talley worked for a presidential campaign in Iowa, but stayed to build communities in the state's art and political worlds.All are under 35, and each has made volunteering, government service, leading not-for-prof...

The four Henry County chapters of the P.E.O. Sisterhood will hold a ?Tip Night? fundraiser at the Mt. Pleasant Pizza Ranch Wednesday, Feb. 21, from 5 to 8 p.m.Members will be bussing tables and will earn a percentage of the evening's sales, plus all of the tips given. Friends, family and everyone else is encouraged to eat out that evening to help support the P.E.O. Sisterhood.The four chapters are Chapter ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? In recognition of Black History Month, Southeastern Community College (SCC) will host Dr. Hal Chase for two presentations of ?Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2018.?Chase will present on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at noon in the Industrial Technology Training Center on SCC's Keokuk campus and at 6:30 p.m. in room 123 on West Burlington's campus.The presentation is an audiovisual ...

Mt. Pleasant Community High School's show choir ?InMotion? came home Saturday night with the First Runner-Up trophy won at the Pella Dutch Masters Invitational.Keokuk placed first, followed by Mt. Pleasant, West Branch, Harlan, Central Lee and Van Meter. InMotion's Bea Fitten was chosen by the judges as Best Female Soloist among the 14 ensembles competing.Mt. Pleasant will next be competing Saturday, Feb. 24, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The wreckage of an Iranian plane that crashed with 65 people on board was found in central Iran, state media said on Monday, but aviation authorities could not confirm the report.The Aseman Airlines flight from Tehran disappeared from radar screens on Sunday 50 minutes into its journey to the southwestern city of Yasuj. It is believed to have gone down in a mountainous area near the town of ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Inside the Pyeongchang venues the world's finest winter sports athletes battle it out for medals, but outside the atmosphere is friendlier as athletes and collectors gather to trade the Olympic pins that are made as mementos of each Games.Every Olympics attracts enthusiasts like Bob Kalmuk from California who travel to watch the sports, meet people and trade the pins which are created by ...

VATICAN CITY - An unholy war of words has broken out among Vatican and Catholic officials over the Holy See's rapprochement with Communist China, with cardinals, archbishops and priests caught in an undiplomatic crossfire.In the past few days, one cardinal has accused another of spouting ?nonsense? and a priest accused an archbishop of being so naive about China that he was like Alice in Wonderland.The exchanges...