Mt. Pleasant News

Some of Iowa's leaders in automated vehicle research are seeking volunteers to help test the results of high-definition mapping and data collection in the Corridor.It's been about a year since the Iowa Department of Transportation entered into a roughly $2 million agreement with Chicago's HERE company to collect data and create the platform that would someday guide autonomous vehicles on Interstate 380 between ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Great River Athletic and Performance Center offers an eight-week program for 8- to 14-year-old athletes. FAST ? Fitness, Agility, Strength and Training ? will be from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Oct. 24, in Great River Wellness Plaza, 1401 W. Gear Ave., West Burlington.Workouts will include cardiovascular endurance, speed drills, lifting form and plyometric exercises.There ...

Kim Kacere didn't name his houses the Painted Ladies, but he acknowledges the nickname is appropriate.The homeowner and landlord's eight Oak Hill Jackson properties stand out; his houses boast red roofs and brightly colored exteriors, with multicolored paint schemes. A friend started calling them the Painted Ladies after similarly painted Victorian and Edwardian-era houses in San Francisco, and the name stuck.Th...

AMES ? First-year Iowa State University student Jack Pieper, of Donnellson, was invited by ISU Interim President Benjamin Allen to participate in the 2017-18 President's Leadership Class.Pieper is a Mt. Pleasant High School alum. He majors in agronomy.Each year, 30 students are selected for the class on the basis of high school leadership, academic achievement, activities and service. The class is a training ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Life Is Your Art: Create Peace in Your Masterpiece, an informational series hosted by Great River Hospice, wraps up Thursday, Oct. 12. The Garrett M. Brockway Foundation will present a program on organ donation from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Art Center of Burlington, 301 Jefferson St.?The goal of this series is to give people the tools they need to start making end-of-life plans, creating peace of ...

Mt. Pleasant High School graduating class of 1957 held their 60th reunion on Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, coinciding with MPHS homecoming. Thirty-four members of the class attended one or more of the scheduled events.

Erin Coffey, of Mt. Pleasant, and Nathan Wagler, of Burlington, will be married Nov. 18, at The Center Chapel in Mt. Pleasant.Parents of the couple are James and Paula Coffey, of rural Chariton, and Gary and Leanna Wagler, of Burlington.Erin is a graduate of Loras College and teaches Social Studies and Health at Mt. Pleasant Community High School.Nathan is a graduate of Southeastern Community College and works ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello said on Monday he ordered an investigation of water distribution on the hurricane-battered island and warned that there would be ?hell to pay? for mishandling of the supplies.In an interview with CNN, Rossello said drinking water supplies have been restored to roughly 60 percent of the island but some areas in the north remained at only 20 percent ...

COPENHAGEN - Denmark looks set to become the next European country to restrict the burqa and the niqab, worn by some Muslim women, after most parties in the Danish parliament backed some sort of ban on facial coverings.Full and partial face veils such as burqas and niqabs divide opinion across Europe, setting advocates of religious freedom against secularists and those who argue that such garments are culturally ...

(Reuters) Buildings in California's Napa and Sonoma counties were being evacuated early on Monday morning after multiple, fast-spreading wildfires engulfed the area with thick smoke and large flames, according to fire officials and local media.Firefighters were battling a 200-acre (80.9-hectare) wildfire in Napa County, an area nearly 70 miles north of San Francisco that is known for its vineyards, since late ...

The Mt. Pleasant Zone of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML) is hosting their annual Fall Rally on Saturday, Oct. 21. The theme of the rally this year is Abounding in Mercy. Registration for the event begins at 8:30 a.m. The meeting and program is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon, lunch included, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fairfield.The theme is taken from Psalm 86:5, which reads, ?You, Lord, are ...

Mt. Pleasant Middle- and elementary schools will be collecting school supplies from Oct. 9-13, to be shipped to areas affected by the hurricanes.School supplies can be dropped off in the shopping carts at the school offices. Suggested supplies are notebooks, crayons, markers, pencils, erasers and index cards.The Mt. Pleasant Education Association is opening up this opportunity for students to help other ...