Mt. Pleasant News

A holiday appetizer tasting night, ?Stir It Up? will be held at the High School Commons on Thursday, Dec. 21, at 5:30 p.m.This event is ticketed, with proceeds going to support the Culinary Arts Department. Guest servers for the evening are Culinary Arts Department with Todd Leichty; Kat Zeglen from Midwest Old Threshers; John Kuhens and Teresa Rose from KILJ; Representative Dave Heaton; Hy-Vee; Lisa Oetkin and ...

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Parish Hall in Swedesburg. Twenty-one members were able to attend. Hostesses Judy Rawson, Dixie Klopfenstein and Vice-Regent Gayle Olson provided a wonderful assortment of refreshments.Before the meeting, the Swedesburg Lutheran Youth Group presented a program about their June mission trip to Nevada, New Mexico and ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? The History Center had a ceremonial ?wall-breaking? ceremony at the Douglas Mansion on Tuesday to mark the beginning of the 1897 home's rehabilitation as the new location for the center.The $3.9 million renovation was made possible through donations, grants and historic preservation tax credits.The home, built at 800 Second Ave. SE in what was then the ?Mansion Hill? district, was the home of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Plans for Alliant Energy's latest wind project would add another 170-megawatt wind farm to the state's growing population of turbines.On the back of Alliant's 2016 pledge to spend $1 billion on 500 megawatts of wind power, the Poweshiek County project is expected to receive final approval this week and be completed in 2020.?For a lot of reasons it's a good project that is going to be able to ...

(Reuters) A trio of U.S., Japanese and Russian astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, a NASA TV broadcast showed.Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Scott Tingle of NASA docked their Soyuz spacecraft at 0839 GMT.

The community meal at the Fellowship Cup this Wednesday will be a potluck lunch. Beefburgers will be served along with various salads and desserts.

The fatal derailment of an Amtrak train south of Seattle on Monday is likely to intensify scrutiny of the national passenger railroad company's safety record, which was already under the microscope following a series of fatal incidents.The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said late on Monday that a data recorder retrieved from the rear locomotive showed the train was traveling at 80 miles (130 ...

While the University of Iowa is eliminating its traditional full-time master's of business administration program, business academia is far from contracting at the state's public universities.The demand for advanced business degrees ? including ones that zero in on specialties or that meet the needs of professionals trying to get ahead while still holding down a job ? is growing, according to interviews and ...

DETROIT - Volkswagen AG unit Electrify America said on Monday that it plans to install 2,800 electric vehicle charging stations in 17 of the largest U.S. cities by June 2019.The charging stations will be located at roughly 500 sites, with around 75 percent of them at workplaces and the rest at multifamily dwellings such as apartment buildings.The German automaker has agreed to spend $800 million in California ...

Applications are being accepted for grant funding through the Specialty Crop Block Grant program by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. The grants are available to support projects that enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops grown in Iowa.The final funding level for the 2018 Iowa Specialty Crop Block Grant Program is yet to be announced by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter Inc said on Monday it would begin putting a warning in front of pictures that show Nazi swastikas and other items it determines are hateful imagery, as well as ban their use in any profile photos on the social media network.The step is one of several that Twitter said it would take to crack down on white nationalists and other violent or hateful groups, which have become unwelcome on a ...

What an eventful day! Mom invited my two sisters-in-law and myself to her house for the day. Plans were to bake pies and do whatever other projects we wanted to bring along. Pies sounded like an impressive option to me, especially since I just don't find as much time to work in the kitchen as I used to. But then, that's OK, my husband Daniel doesn't expect me to reach around to everything I would like to do.Mom ...