Mt. Pleasant News

IOWA CITY ? When almost a decade ago a group of friends from the Iowa City area realized their children were getting older, they began to imagine what their lives would be like once they became empty nesters.Instead of downsizing their homes or moving to a warmer climate, the friends discovered a concept started in Denmark called ?cohousing,? or community living with private homes built around a common space.The...

This month, several locations in the multicounty Big River Iowa Area Team will serve as drop-off sites for the Samaritan's Purse project, Operation Christmas Child, joining nearly 5,000 U.S. locations to collect gift-filled shoe boxes for children in need around the world.During the project's National Collection Week, Nov. 13?20, Mt. Pleasant residents will transform empty shoe boxes into gifts of hope filled ...

Grasshorse Character Animation Studio is holding a presentation by Steve Jennings at the Winfield Legion City Building on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m.The presentation features ?Past to Future Animation in Winfield.? It is a presentation by the Winfield Historical Society. There will be refreshments.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Regional directors from U.S. Senator Joni Ernst's office will hold traveling office hours throughout the month of November in all 99 counties in Iowa.These staff members will be available in counties throughout the state to assist Iowans with problems or questions about eligibility involving issues like Social Security, veterans' benefits, military affairs, passports, immigration issues and ...

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Veterans' Hall in Mt. Pleasant. Nineteen members were in attendance. Special ISDAR guests were Marla Suter, State Historian of the Henry Knox Chapter; Carla Huebler, Regent and Registrar of the Henry Knox Chapter; and Ethel Hegeman, of the Hannah Caldwell Chapter Regent in Davenport. Hostesses Carol Klopfenstein, Susan ...

IOWA CITY ? An Iowa City-based medical diagnostics company rooted in the University of Iowa research engine, founded by one of its faculty, and supported in part by its intellectual property resources, soon could make history.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration never before has cleared for front-line patient care an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic device like the one IDx has developed for diabetic ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Retired and living with mild dementia, Dave Krahling often spent long stretches of each day asleep on the couch.That changed six months ago when he met a new neighbor, Ridesh Basnet, 7. The high-energy second-grader gets Krahling off the couch and into the yard, where they play catch or tag and Krahling pushes Ridesh while the boy sits on a skateboard.?He's made quite a difference,? said Krahling,...

Twenty former students and descendants or friends of students shared a lot of memories, old country school entertainment, and refreshments at the 126th anniversary reunion of Lockridge Victory #8 School, east of Four Corners.President Thelma Smiddy conducted the business meeting, during which memorials were approved for former teacher Erma Hoeffer and former student Rollie Zihlman.Secretary Gloria Messer ...

Two neighboring downtown Cedar Rapids buildings are slated for demolition in the 200 block of Second Street SE.The first is a one-story structure at 209-211 Second St. SE built in 1967. For many years, it had two storefronts ? the Little King restaurant (?Where a Sandwich is a Complete Meal?); and Baker's Shoe and then Ford's Shoe in the 1970s and 1980s.Of more historic interest is the pending demolition of the ...

The city of Polishville will be hosting two dances during the month of November.The first is Sunday, Nov. 12. It is a dance with Lyle Beaver, of Iowa City.The second dance will take place Sunday, Nov. 19, with Larry Goodman, of North Liberty.At each dance, food will be available for purchase at 4:30 p.m. Dancing will be from 6 to 9 p.m.

CORALVILLE ? More than 50 percent of the LGBTQ community ? those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning ? do not disclose their identity at work.?If you don't have the ability to come out, then you lack that authenticity in your workforce,? Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel said Thursday at the LGBTQ Workplace Culture Summit, the first in Eastern Iowa.?Having that representation in the workforce brings ...

DETROIT ? Wall Street may love the shares of Silicon Valley electric carmaker Tesla Inc , but Americans love big, fuel-thirsty trucks like Ford Motor Co's bestselling F-Series pickups and are paying ever higher prices to buy them.The auto industry is at a crossroads, with the future of legacy automakers like Ford, General Motors Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV uncertain as governments float proposals to ban ...