Mt. Pleasant News

WEST BURLINGTON ? Great River Health Systems announced Matthew Wenzel will be the next president and chief executive officer starting Tuesday, Jan. 2. He will succeed Mark Richardson, who has held the position since 1997.Wenzel worked at Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City from 2006 to 2017. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Saint Luke's North Hospital, a two-campus hospital with a combined 159 ...

Screening exams to identify young athletes at risk for cardiac arrest might not be worthwhile, a new study suggests.Having your heart stop while playing a sport is very unusual, and fewer than 1 in 5 cases of sudden cardiac arrest among competitive amateur athletes would have been predicted by a screening examination, the authors of a study from Canada say.?Our results indicate that sudden cardiac death during ...

By Alison Gowans, The Gazette When Tyler Tiecke, Jerry Vasquez and his mother, Elsa de la Paz, wanted to expand their Iowa City restaurant, Mami's, they knew they wanted to keep one thing the same: They still wanted the name to be in honor of de la Paz's mother, Estela.?Everybody says their grandma is the nicest grandma in the world,? Vasquez said. ?Estela was.?So on Oct. 7, not long after closing Mami's, ...

By Vanessa Miller, The Gazette IOWA CITY ? During a University of Iowa workshop with an international leader in design and innovation thinking, Iowa City Area Development Group President Mark Nolte in October shared a quote on social media: ?When we fail to design, we design for failure.?That leader, Bruce Mau, has been on campus recently to help the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business and Iowa John ...

(The Gazette) Highly revered for his artistry that captured his beloved Iowa landscape, the late Grant Wood was not without his detractors.The University of Iowa archives often refer to the ?Grant Wood Problem,? which serves as the title of a documentary theater piece by Iowa Playwright Workshop's Scott Bradley.The Grant Wood Art Colony in Iowa City is presenting a free, staged reading of an excerpt at 6 p.m. ...

CHICAGO ? Monsanto Co and U.S. farm groups sued California on Wednesday to stop the state from requiring cancer warnings on products containing the widely used weed killer glyphosate, which the company sells to farmers to apply to its genetically engineered crops.The government of the most populous U.S. state added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, to its list of cancer-causing ...

BONN, Germany (Reuters) ? Global warming is likely to be slightly less severe than previously expected thanks to stronger climate policies by China and India that will offset less U.S. action under President Donald Trump, a study showed on Wednesday.But average world temperatures are still on track to rise far above the key goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to ?well below? two degrees ...

Blues musician Patrick Hazell will be performing a free concert on Thursday, Nov. 12, at noon at the Washington Public Library.An inductee in Halls of Fame for Iowa Blues, Iowa Rock N' Roll and Country Music Showcase International, Hazell will be improvising on the blues tunes that launched his career.This performance is sponsored by the Washington Free Public Library Foundation and Friends of the Library.

WEST BURLINGTON ? The holiday season is a time of remembrance, and Great River Friends offers an opportunity to help.Loved ones are remembered and honored each year through its Love Tree program. Their names will be placed on donors' choice of three trees at Great River Health Systems. With donations, name cards will be accompanied by ornaments.Love Trees are in Great River Hospice, Great River Klein Center and ...

(Reuters) - Police in Tampa, Florida, were investigating whether a fatal shooting on Tuesday could be linked to a possible serial killer who is feared to have murdered three victims in a string of night attacks terrorizing a city neighborhood.The 60-year-old victim, Ronald Felton, was shot from behind shortly before 5 a.m. as he was crossing a street in central Tampa's Seminole Heights area, interim Tampa Police ...

IOWA CITY ? Shelter House has found a new location for a low-barrier winter emergency shelter in a county building at 821 S. Clinton St.The Johnson County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement last week 4-0, with Mike Carberry absent, to allow use of the facility as a shelter from Dec. 1 through March 31.The space opened up after a new building was completed for Johnson County Ambulance Service and the ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain's current approach to Brexit talks is not compatible with finding solutions and its proposals on the Irish border to date are not comprehensive or credible, Ireland's foreign minister said on Tuesday.?The current approach the British government are taking is not compatible with the solutions that we need... Some of the ideas they published in their paper late in the summer hint toward ...