Mt. Pleasant News

NEW YORK ? Target Corp said on Monday it would start free shipping beginning in November and that most of its holiday assortment had been priced at under $15, as the retailer gets ready to take on Amazon.com and Wal-Mart in the most crucial shopping season of the year.Target, which has promised about 1,700 holiday products including ?Star Wars,? LEGO and Netflix merchandise and hundreds of $1 stocking stuffers, ...

Seven Mt. Pleasant Community High School music students have been chosen to the 2017 All-State Choir. Meagan Sutherland, Wyatt Carlston, Charles Greene, Paige Stater, Cara Canby, Callie DePriest and Lucas Lee were selected based on auditions held Saturday, Oct. 21, at Fairfield High School.They will join other selectees at the All-State Music Festival November 16-18 in Ames. The 71st All-State Festival Concert ...

The Henry County Retired School Personnel Association members met at the MD Orthopaedics in Wayland for a very educating video and tour of their business on Wednesday, Oct. 11.The group then traveled to Winfield for lunch and a meeting held at El Oasis. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, they will meet at Jumbo Buffet for a Veterans Day presentation by Pat Coen.

IOWA CITY ? On the second floor at the Iowa City Public Library, a laminated sign in the shape of a police badge shares the story of how a 29-year-old man died in 1996 after the woman he dated hired someone to shoot him.Two silhouettes, painted red, hold up other signs recounting how an Iowa City mother and her four children ? ages 3 to 10 ? were killed by the woman's husband, who died by suicide shortly after ...

Friends of Henry County Health Center invites the public to attend the Annual Fall Soup Supper on Friday, Nov. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant. The event is sponsored by Friends of HCHC, and proceeds from the Soup Supper benefit the Friends of HCHC Health Scholarship Fund.The evening's menu offers chili soup, cream of potato with bacon soup, or baked potato bar, relish, crackers, ...

Four Mt. Pleasant Community School District music students have been chosen for the 2017 Opus Honor Choir, with two others named as alternates.Andrew Rauenbuehler, an 8th-grader, was picked for the 7th-8th grade boys choir, and Natalie McCormick, a 6th-grader, was selected to the 5th-6th grade mixed choir. Named to the 9th grade choir were Katie McCormick and Evelyn Nygren, with Kionna Parrish and Drake Snavely ...

Thus far unable to get repeal and replace legislation through the U.S. Congress, President Donald Trump is using his executive powers to try to cripple the federal exchanges ? cutting the open enrollment time period in half, forgoing advertising and decreasing funding to navigator programs.But Eastern Iowa health care providers are doing their best to fill in some of those gaps.Navigators ? a job created under ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? A recent outbreak of parvovirus among dogs in Cedar Rapids temporarily shut down an animal shelter this month and led to the cancellation of a Halloween dog costume contest.Canine parvovirus is a highly contagious virus that affects dogs' gastrointestinal tracts and is spread through direct contact. Symptoms start with runny or bloody stools, lethargy and decreased appetite.Last week, the Cedar ...

DES MOINES ? Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa (VNS of Iowa) is hosting enrollment events to provide assistance to individuals enrolling in the health insurance marketplace, which is open through Dec. 15. Professionally trained and licensed health insurance marketplace navigators will serve as in-person resources for Iowans needing assistance with the health insurance marketplace. Additional events will be posted ...

Trenton Missionary Church will host Brad and Kristy Weinert, missionaries to Argentina, on Sunday Oct. 22.The Weinerts are missionaries with World Gospel Mission. The service is at 10:30 a.m.Trenton Missionary Church is located at 202 First Street, Mt. Pleasant.For more information, contact Pastor Dave Forrester at 319-986-2213.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis canonised 35 new Roman Catholic saints on Sunday, including three indigenous children martyred in 16th century Mexico and considered the first Christians killed for their faith in the New World.Francis used the occasion to announce that he had decided to call a meeting of bishops, or synod, from countries in the Pan-Amazon region for October, 2019, to discuss the condition of the ...

Jon and Brenda Rubey, owners of Rubey Lawn Care LLC, have donated a coffee tree to Wayland State Bank to celebrate a 63-year banking relationship between the Rubey family and the bank.Ralph and Evelyn Rubey established a relationship with Laurence Henss in 1954, and transitioned to Robert Meyer upon Henss' retirement in 1975. Jon and Brenda began their relationship with Wayland State Bank in 2002 with James ...