Mt. Pleasant News

Twenty-eight members of Original A PEO met on Wednesday, Sept. 13, in the memory rooms at Iowa Wesleyan University at 7 p.m.Special guest was Iowa State Organizer Bev Templeton, who visited with officers before the meeting and sharing ideas and goals the group can work on. Mindy Creager was welcomed as a new member to the group.President Pat Bensmiller thanked everyone who had helped at the fundraiser at Pizza ...

Apple Blossom Alpaca Ranch honored veterans from Sunnybrook Assisted Living during a tour on Sept. 8. (Left to right) Ron, 93, is a Marine; Frank, 96, is Navy; and Jack, 96, is Navy. The ?Greatest Generation? enjoyed the alpaca tour with other members of Sunnybrook Men's Club.

Seven independent family farms are opening their doors on Oct. 1 for the annual South Marion County and North Lucas County farm crawl.Participants can enjoy a leisurely fall day viewing individual family farm operations including a sampling of goodies, visiting animals and discovering locally grown and produced products. At several of the host farms will be guest area businesses and farmers that produce fiber ...

MARION ? One year ago, Marion police officer Jason Schamberger and his K-9 partner, Lingo, paid a visit to the Walker Pickle Days celebration.There, Schamberger and Lingo showcased the dog's article searching skills ? finding items, such as a wallet, that have a human scent on them. One woman in the crowd thought the whole demonstration was a set up, Schamberger recalls. So, Schamberger had the woman go hide her ...

CEDAR RAPIDS (The Gazette) ? An Eastern Iowa Honor Flight that was canceled last week because of heavy fog has been rescheduled for Oct. 3.The flight will transport 89 veterans and chaperones to Washington, D.C., to visit war memorials and Arlington National Cemetery.On this flight, the group also will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, George Rickey, an Honor Flight board member, and public ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Great River Health Systems is one of the best places to work in Iowa, according the Des Moines Register's 2017 Top Workplaces survey. The survey ranked 150 employers in small, midsized and large categories. Great River Health Systems ranked 21st and is the only hospital or health system named in the large-company category.This is the fifth consecutive year that Great River Health Systems has ...

AMES ? Practical Farmers of Iowa is seeking to enroll row crop farmers in Iowa, Minnesota or Wisconsin in a small grains cost-share program that runs for up to two years. The program is intended to support conventional farmers or those transitioning to organic who add a year of crops like barley, oats, rye, triticale or wheat followed by a summer cover crop or planted with a legume cover crop like red clover.Part...

Susan Glaspell isn't a household name in her home state, despite writing more than 50 short stories, nine novels, a biography and 14 plays, including the 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, ?Alison's House.?Born in Davenport in 1876, she bucked the trend to marry right out of school, and instead, went to Drake University in Des Moines, graduated in 1899, then worked as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Brandy Parker, ARNP, will discuss female incontinence at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. The Red Hot Mamas program will be in the Blackhawk Room on the lower level of Great River Wellness Plaza, 1401 W. Agency Road, West Burlington.Parker is a nurse practitioner at Great River Urology and Great River Medicine Specialists. Her presentation will include types of urinary incontinence, and non-surgica...

The Wayland High School class of 1948 held their 69th class reunion at the Bestro in Washington on Friday, Sept. 8.The table centerpiece had a bouquet of roses in memory of the nine classmates who have died. The bouquet was give to the attendee who had the most great-grandchildren, which was Mary Frances Graber, who has 27.A brick from the old high school building was spray-painted white with large purple ...

Smoking just one e-cigarette might expose users to enough nicotine to trigger an adrenaline surge in the heart that can contribute to high blood pressure and other health problems, a small experiment suggests.For the experiment, researchers asked 33 healthy nonsmokers to come to a lab on different days to try an e-cigarette with nicotine, a nicotine-free alternative, and a sham device that wasn't a real e-cigaret...

Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church participated in ?God's Work, Our Hands? on Sunday, Sept. 19, in Swedesburg.